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We get it, you’re busy. So, the Convene editors have curated the latest tips and trends in the world of work for you. Take a look at what caught our eye this past week.
How Actually Taking a Lunch Break Can Boost Your Productivity
A new report by corporate foodservice provider ezCater found that one in 10 employees, whether working remotely or in the office, never take a break away from their desks for lunch, despite it later boosting productivity, writes WorkLife. “Working for more than 90 minutes without a break can lead to mental burnout,” said ezCater’s chief people and culture officer Janine Allo. “Our brains use a lot of energy to focus and need rest in between sprints to work most effectively.”
A Simple Way to Introduce Yourself
Many of us dread self-introductions, be it in an online meeting or at the boardroom table. Harvard Business Review offers a practical framework you can leverage to introduce yourself with confidence in any context, online or in-person: Present, past, and future.
Meet the Female Executives Who Bring to Life the World’s Largest Action Sports Festival
The Vans U.S. Open of Surfing is action sports’ largest event. And three female executives — Cherie Cohen, global chief revenue officer and advisor at WSL; Jen Lau, vice president of action sports events at IMG; and Carly Gomez, VP of marketing, Americas at Vans — are at the heart of the event’s success. Forbes has their story.
Gen Z Isn’t Looking for a ‘Dream Job.’ Here’s What They Want Instead
The CEO of Sanofi explains how leaders can adapt to encourage the career paths of digital natives with personal agency who are facing a labor shortage, record class stratification, and untenable living costs. Fast Company has more. | https://www.pcma.org/career-advice-news-ideas-20220812/ | 2022-08-12T04:32:53Z | pcma.org | control | https://www.pcma.org/career-advice-news-ideas-20220812/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Toni Gamez, executive director at Centro Citibanamex in Mexico City, runs one of the largest convention facilities in Latin America. Later this month, from Aug. 24-25, the center will once again host IBTM Americas, which has met there since 2015. But many other significant global events have come through its doors since opening 20 years ago — and Gamez, who has worked at the facility since its debut, has seen them all.
Of note is the XVII International AIDS Conference, which brought more than 22,000 attendees to Mexico City in 2008, as well as the joint 2016 Soccerex Americas Forum and 66th FIFA Congress. In 2025, the venue will host the world’s largest association conference, Lions Clubs International’s annual convention, LCICon, which is expected to bring more than 35,000 attendees. Below, Gamez shares her thoughts on making the best out of unexpected challenges, how they’re handling the talent crisis, and her best career advice.
In our August cover story, we explore how the talent shortage continues to affect the business events industry. Can you share what the recent experience has been for your team when it comes to attracting and keeping talent?
As most of us experienced, due to the pandemic, we had to let go of half of our staff. We had the opportunity to get back to business in June [2021]; since then, we have been working with the same reduced staff number. It has been challenging, but step by step we are recovering and beginning to hire new people. Our most difficult challenge right now is to hire people for catering since many of them changed their professional path and are no longer available. We have changed how we hire staff in order to give them better career opportunities at our venue.
The meetings and events industry has taken many twists and turns over the last two years. Can you talk a little bit about how you have weathered that personally and from a leadership perspective? Are there ways in which you find yourself thinking differently as a result of the ongoing challenges to the meetings industry?
For us, at Centro Citibanamex, the beginning [of the pandemic] was very odd as we were designated a [COVID hospital]. This was May 2020 and most people didn’t know anything about the virus, and our clients were not happy with the situation — even our team was a little bit shocked. We had to work on changing that [perception] to get them to think about the great opportunity we had to serve our country and help people in a way we never had the opportunity to do before. I will always try to make the best out of what we have. And now, looking back, we are all — staff and clients — very proud of how we supported our city and country during the pandemic.
What’s the best piece of advice you were given in your career journey?
I will say the best advice I have been given is … from my mom: When you do things right, things will always [fall into] place, you only have to be patient. Sometimes I forget that, but life always reminds me. Another great piece of advice that I have [to share] is from my own experience: Always follow your intuition. Most of the time we all know what’s best for us, we just don’t listen to ourselves. We all need to learn to listen to our inner thoughts, analyze them, and follow them.
If you had a chance to do it all over again, is there anything you would change in how you prepared for this career — chose a different major, applied for more internships, found a mentor earlier, etc.? And do you have any advice for young people facing those decisions right now?
I love this question because my answer may be different from many people in the industry. Just because you study a particular subject doesn’t mean that you must make a career out of it. I would choose to study industrial engineering again, and the only change I would make is studying one or two more languages.
So, to young people I say: Choose a career or a major that will help you open your mind, learn new languages, travel the world, and live in different cultures, if possible. Listen to elders, learn from them, and work in whatever you have a passion for. If you love what you do with an open mind, you will always find a way to make the best of it!
Jennifer N. Dienst is senior editor at Convene. This interview has been edited and condensed for brevity.
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Find more stories from Convene Senior Editor Jennifer N. Dienst’s continuing series on women leaders at convention centers. | https://www.pcma.org/centro-citibanamex-mexico-city-overcoming-obstacles/ | 2022-08-12T04:32:59Z | pcma.org | control | https://www.pcma.org/centro-citibanamex-mexico-city-overcoming-obstacles/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In recent weeks, new data has emerged showing that the meetings industry may be heading towards a full recovery. Simpleview — which provides CRM, CMS, and digital marketing solutions for destinations around the world — looked at group sales performance data for 215 DMOs throughout the U.S. and Canada, segmented by region and gross exhibit space. Encouraging findings include a bump in the number of leads — for example, between January and June of 2022, DMOs saw almost as many leads as they did in the first six months of 2019. And compared to 2021, leads are up nearly 3 percent, quarter-over-quarter. When it comes to actual bookings, according to Simpleview, it’s a similar story. Bookings are outpacing 2021 but still need time to catch up to 2019’s highs. From January to June 2022, the number of bookings jumped by 77 percent compared to 2021, but only averaged 70 percent of the 2019 index.
The most recent quarterly update to Knowland’s U.S. Meetings Recovery Forecast, released in July, also saw signs of improvement in actualized U.S. meetings as well. Knowland, which claims to have the industry’s largest historical database of actualized events, bases its forecasts on its own historical data culled from the top 25 group markets in the U.S.
“Even with ongoing concerns about the economy and COVID variants, the industry is rebounding in an unprecedented way,” said Kristi White, chief product officer at Knowland, which provides meetings market intelligence data to the hospitality industry. “In Q1, U.S. meetings and events volume was flat with the forecast while Q2 overperformed by 25.8 percent more actualized meetings and events. Corporate events are leading the charge in this recovery with several markets already recovered at more than 90 percent of 2019 levels in this segment.”
The pipeline for 2023 and beyond looks full as well — according to the forecast update, “meeting levels will recover to 106.3 percent of 2019 levels in 2023 and 115.7 percent in 2024.”
At a Glance
In August 2022, Simpleview released its first-ever Sales Quarterly report, which analyzed the sales performance of 215 DMOs in the U.S. and Canada. Here are the biggest takeaways from that report:
- 2022 bookings still lag 2019 bookings by 30 percent.
- Leads are within 6 percent of 2019 in the first half of 2022.
- June 2022 had 3 percent more leads than June 2019.
- There are 2,300-plus more hotel leads for July to December 2022 arrivals than for the same period in 2019.
- The No. 1 market is sports, and it has more leads in 2022 than 2019 had for both hotel meetings and convention center events combined. | https://www.pcma.org/meetings-industry-recovery-positive-reports/ | 2022-08-12T04:33:05Z | pcma.org | control | https://www.pcma.org/meetings-industry-recovery-positive-reports/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
You might have been in an online meeting recently — or led one yourself — where everyone was encouraged to turn their web cameras on in order to create a sense of community. But for some participants, being on camera may have the opposite effect, according to results of a study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
The research was conducted by Allison Gabriel, professor of management and organization at the University of Arizona, and Kristen Shockley, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Georgia, working with BroadPath, a business services company that has offered remote work to employees for more than a decade.
Before the pandemic, BroadPath had been experimenting with always-on video for remote employees as way to build community. But in the massive shift to virtual platforms in 2020, and as “Zoom fatigue” made headlines, they began to wonder if being on camera was detracting from — rather than adding to — employees’ experience. Working with Gabriel and Shockley, BroadPath designed an experiment to measure and compare how employees felt after participating in meetings with their cameras off and with their cameras on.
The results were “quite clear,” the researchers wrote in a story published in Harvard Business Review — the number of hours that employees spent on camera was what was associated with fatigue, not the number of hours spent in virtual meetings. It was notable, the researchers wrote, because it runs counter to many managers’ beliefs that being on-camera is crucial for creating engagement among employees.
The fatigue associated with being on camera affected all groups, resulting in people feeling less comfortable and cognitively engaged, the researchers wrote, but it was particularly true for women and employees who were newer to the organization. That’s likely because of the social pressures that women and newer employees face, they added. Women are judged more harshly in general, making being on camera more stressful, and that’s particularly true when they are at home, where family- or child-related interruptions might occur. And for new employees trying to establish themselves in a new workplace and figure out the social cues, being on camera all the time adds stress.
The obvious fix is for participants to turn off their cameras on their video calls, especially if they start feeling fatigued, the researchers wrote. Turning off the self-view on platforms is another option. Managers can help here, by establishing norms around using cameras that take fatigue into account and asking workers for their feedback on how often they would like to appear on camera.
Barbara Palmer is senior editor at Convene. | https://www.pcma.org/zoom-fatigue-causes-new-research/ | 2022-08-12T04:33:12Z | pcma.org | control | https://www.pcma.org/zoom-fatigue-causes-new-research/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Energy giant Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) recently revealed that the company’s renewable energy subsidiary, Chevron Renewable Energy Group, will provide biofuels for cooking solutions provider, Restaurant Technologies.
Following the news, shares of the company gained 2.66% in yesterday’s trading session to close at $159.97 in extended trade.
The Partnership Entails Carbon Footprint Reduction
The partnership is aimed at reducing the carbon footprint of Restaurant Technologies’ commercial vehicle fleet. Interestingly, the biofuels will be made from the millions of gallons of used cooking oil from Restaurant Technologies’ major restaurant chains across the U.S.
With the goal of creating a working circular economy, the used oil will act as a raw material to produce biodiesel and renewable diesel. The fuels, which are lower carbon alternatives to traditional petroleum diesel, are traditionally utilized as a blend. This may include the two fuels being blended with one another to produce a 100% renewable fuel.
Initially, Restaurant Technologies will use a B30-B50 blend, 30-50% InfiniD (biodiesel), with the remainder being petroleum diesel.
Is Chevron a Good Stock to Buy Now?
With a dividend yield of 3.55%, which is higher than the sector average of 3.095%, top investors remain bullish and are loading up on Chevron stock.
TipRanks’ Stock Investors tool shows that top investors currently have a Very Positive stance on CVX. Further, 8.1% of the top portfolios tracked by TipRanks, increased their exposure to CVX stock over the past 30 days.
Overall, the Wall Street community remains cautiously optimistic about the stock with a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on 10 Buys, five Holds, and one Sell. The CVX average price forecast of $178.94 implies the stock has an upside potential of 12.1% from current levels. Shares have gained 55.5% over the past year.
Key Takeaways
Chevron continues to benefit from a persistent rise in energy prices globally. However, renewable energy sources will ultimately prevail. In that regard, Chevron’s partnership with Restaurant Technologies will not only contribute to the objective of a reduced carbon footprint but will also enable the company to improve its renewable energy capabilities.
Read full Disclosure | https://www.tipranks.com/news/chevron-cvx-to-ramp-up-biofuel-supply-with-new-partnership/ | 2022-08-12T04:39:04Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/chevron-cvx-to-ramp-up-biofuel-supply-with-new-partnership/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tyler Huntley went 16 of 18 for 110 yards and a touchdown in the first half, and the Baltimore Ravens extended their record streak of preseason victories to 21 with a 23-10 win over the Tennessee Titans.
Rookie quarterback Malik Willis ran for a touchdown for the Titans, but Huntley put Baltimore ahead to stay with a 14-yard scoring strike to Shemar Bridges in the final minute of the second quarter.
Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry were among the standouts who didn’t play. | https://www.local3news.com/local-sports/titans-drop-preseason-opener-23-10-to-baltimore/article_c9b07788-19eb-11ed-af26-8f7d94195903.html | 2022-08-12T04:39:52Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-sports/titans-drop-preseason-opener-23-10-to-baltimore/article_c9b07788-19eb-11ed-af26-8f7d94195903.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(KTLA) – A fire tornado developed as firefighters battled a fast-moving brush fire in the hilly, open terrain of northwestern Los Angeles County Wednesday.
The “Sam Fire” had burned approximately 150 acres in Gorman, near Old Ridge Route and Lancaster Road.
KTLA’s helicopter captured dramatic footage of an impressive fire tornado that developed during the brush fire battle.
Fire tornadoes, sometimes called “fire devils,” “firenadoes” or “pyrogenetic tornadoes,” occur when extreme, rising heat is met with turbulent wind conditions. The vortex of the tornado sucks in combustible gases and burning debris.
The fire department’s Air Operations Division said several “fire whirls” were spotted in the grass fire. The whirls “tell the story of dry, receptive fuels and erratic winds from intense surface heating,” the division said.
Fire whirls can be as small as 1 foot wide or as large as 500 feet wide, according to the U.S. Forest Service. “Large fire whirls have the intensity of a small tornado,” the Service says.
The Sam Fire held at about 150 acres, the fire department said. No structures were damaged and no one was injured.
It was 60% contained Wednesday night and all hot spots had been put out. Fire crews remained on the scene throughout the night. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/intense-fire-tornado-seen-on-video-during-california-grass-fire/ | 2022-08-12T04:41:58Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/intense-fire-tornado-seen-on-video-during-california-grass-fire/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
An attorney for pop star Britney Spears has released a statement with sharp words directed at the singer's ex-husband, Kevin Federline, who also fathered multiple children with Spears.
Spears' ex-husband posted multiple videos to Instagram on Wednesday said to have been filmed by Spears' son years ago. In the videos, you can hear Spears using harsh language while verbally disagreeing with the child.
As CNN reported, the videos have been removed from the social media platform but were published by TMZ.
Spears' attorney said in a statement that Spears' team is “working with Instagram to ensure that Mr. Federline adheres to its rules, and we are exploring all appropriate relief against him.”
Mathew Rosengart, an attorney for Spears, said, “Whether he realizes it or not, Mr. Federline has not only violated the privacy and dignity of the mother of his children, he has undermined his own children, whose privacy he should protect.” He said, Mr. Federline’s ill-advised decision to post an old video of his 11 and 12-year-old children was cruel, bottom of the barrel stuff.”
“It has been my honor to work with Britney, to suspend her father as conservator, to help her gain her freedom and dignity, and to help protect her from the type of bullying she endured in the past - and we will not tolerate bullying in any area,” Rosengart said.
Federline said in his post that he was sharing the video to show why he and his family have recently distanced themselves from Spears. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/britney-spears-lawyer-tells-ex-husband-kevin-federline-that-bullying-will-not-be-tolerated | 2022-08-12T04:52:38Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/britney-spears-lawyer-tells-ex-husband-kevin-federline-that-bullying-will-not-be-tolerated | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DUNEDIN, Fla. — A preschool teacher near Tampa, Florida faces a charge of felony child abuse after the sheriff's office said she was seen punching a 4-year-old child in the head on Wednesday.
The sheriff's office said deputies were called to the Kindercare Learning Center in Dunedin.
The witness told authorities they heard screaming coming from the playground and saw Ashley Richards, 32, repeatedly punching the toddler "to the back and side of the head" with both an open and closed fist.
The sheriff's office said Richards was also seen pushing the child to the ground and yelling, "Do you want me to hit you?" The witness captured part of the incident on their cellphone, authorities said.
According to an arrest report, the witness video captured Richards pulling the toddler over her legs to lay him down on her lap before she punches what "appears to be the child's head with a closed first multiple times." The report said she then forcefully pushed the victim to the ground.
The toddler told authorities he got in trouble for fighting with his brother and he was hit by Richards in the back of his head and eye as punishment, according to the arrest report.
The report said Richards admitted to putting her hand over the victim's mouth when he laughed at her but denied hitting or punching him.
A parent picking up his kids from the preschool on Thursday told ABC Action News he was as shocked as anyone.
“I mean it’s unfortunate. I don’t know all the details. Thankfully, we live in a country where there is due process, and she’ll be able to stand trial and plead her case," the parent, who did not want to provide his name, said. "I had never had any negative interactions. She’d been nothing but respectful to me and my family, my children,"
Richards was hired at the learning center in March 2021. The sheriff's office said she's on administrative leave as a result of the alleged abuse.
Richards was arrested and taken to the Pinellas County Jail.
Kindercare Learning Companies provided the following statement on the arrest:
"Nothing is more important to us than the safety of the children in our care. The teacher’s alleged actions do not reflect who we are or the training we provide our teachers. We are working with the police to determine what may or may not have happened. In the meantime, the
teacher involved is on administrative leave until further notice."
This story was originally published by WFTS in Tampa, Florida. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/florida-preschool-teacher-caught-punching-4-year-old-in-head-sheriffs-office-says | 2022-08-12T04:52:44Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/florida-preschool-teacher-caught-punching-4-year-old-in-head-sheriffs-office-says | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BREAUX BRIDGE — The Breaux Bridge Tigers enter a new era in 2022.
They welcome in first-year head coach, Zach Lochard, who looks to mold the Tigers into a championship program. Although his first year with the team, Lochard is no stranger to the game as he has football playing experience, to high school staff and even college coaching.
His goal is to build the team "brick by brick" by trusting the process for and for veteran players like Antonio Alexander and Nigel Patt, things are trending in the right direction.
"It's been going pretty good. He's just helping guys out that got back on our field and just been motivating them to work harder", says linebacker Alexander. "He's been motivating everybody and helping us with all the defensive calls and trying to get everybody on the same page."
"Some of the coaches that I knew growing up and some of them I've been around for a long time", says defensive back Nigel Patt. "So, having to build trust with them and trusting the offense and defense with everything."
In 2021, Breaux Bridge fell in the first round of the playoffs with a 5-7 record, also forfeiting two games to Covid. In their 5 losses, they allowed over 100 points from their opponents but so far, Lochard is impressed with his defense. He says they're trying a new system and so far, it's been well received.
"We'll be very multiple as well. A lot of the similar concepts, just schematic wise, as they've done previously, but it will be a new system, and the kids, and our coaches have done a tremendous job adapting to it", says Lochard.
"They've been pretty easy, not too hard. Everybody been putting in a lot of time and a lot of work into it."
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The Lafayette Mighty Lions welcomed head coach Cedric Figaro back home in 2020 and since then the program has elevated.
Bringing a new culture to the team, his alma mater, it wouldn't take long before they would adapt to a new system.
Coming off a 7-2 record in 2020, 5-6 last season was a let down, but still promising for whats to come. The Mighty Lions return 10 starters so youth is on their side but for "Coach Fig", he's preaching "Triple A"; Alignment, Assignment and Adjustment. If all things come together throughout the season, under the lights, they have no choice but to show up.
"We need to show up and we need to give it our all because the second we start going halfway and really walking through what we're really supposed to be doing", says quarterback Grayson Saunier. "We need to go full speed and we can really put each other in the right direction."
"To be forward for the first year, we had a lot of that hadn't played before. Last year, once again we had some guys that didn't play and we had to catch up and this year is the same", says Figaro. "So once again we're getting into that routine. This is the third year for our program. Obviously our freshmen has been with us now and they're juniors now. They're gonna play quite a bit and just getting the younger kids ready."
Leading that promising future is quarterback Grayson Saunier, who's had a busy summer visiting numerous football camps at Lamar, the University of Houston and Northwestern State.
In his junior campaign, Saunier was named first-team all district in 3-5A, throwing for over 2,500 yards and 25 touchdowns.
Now that he's proven himself as THE guy, the bar is even higher in 2022.
"He has to grow and get better than he was last year. Grow exponentially because there's now colleges looking at him. They were looking before but now they really taking a keen look at him so he just needs to get better looking down the field. Obviously his legs are there and just managing the game."
"I just really expect him to improve on himself. That's something we talked about from time to time", says offensive lineman William Perry. "I'm really hoping that he's going to get more comfortable in the pocket get more comfortable with the O-line. Having some returning guys, he'll be a little bit more comfortable not being too excited or too worried or nervous or anything. Just being able to stay cool and keep that ball moving where we needed to be.
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Thirty years after A League of Their Own first swung into theaters (sorry, requisite baseball pun), a new Prime Video series of the same name is paying homage to the iconic film.
The series, which premieres on August 12, is also centered on a women's baseball team in 1943, with a widened “lens to tell the story of an entire generation of women who dreamed of playing professional baseball,” per the streamer’s official synopsis. The original movie is such a beloved classic that series star and co-creator Abbi Jacobson even approached Penny Marshall and Geena Davis for their “blessing,” as she worked on the reboot, she told People. As you watch the show, you may be wondering: Is A League of Their Own based on a true story? Let's get to it.
The True Story Behind A League of Their Own
Yes, the movie is, indeed, based on a true story—a pretty personal one, at that! Kelly Candaele, who shares a story credit on the original film, recently explained the inspiration behind A League of Their Own to MLB.com. His mother, Helen Candaele, and her sister, Margaret, were actually the first sisters to compete in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League—the real professional league, founded in 1943, that appears in both the film and TV versions of A League of Their Own.
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Helen’s son, Kelly, partnered with Kim Wilson to film a documentary about the historic league and the women who played in it—titled, you guessed it, A League of Their Own. The doc, which used real footage from the women’s league, eventually caught director Marshall’s attention.
The final product is more of a comedy and a “big Hollywood production” than Candaele had in mind at first, he told MLB.com—but he’s not complaining. In fact, Candaele praised the decision to showcase the spirit of the league, even if the entire story isn’t necessarily a beat-for-beat retelling of his mom’s experience.
“These women were characters, personalities, bigger than Madonna and Geena Davis and Rosie O'Donnell, though Rosie O'Donnell is a pretty big personality,” he said. “They were gregarious and loved the game, and were thoughtful and knew about baseball, loved talking about it. So that was the greatest thing about it, just finding all these women together, 100 women who played baseball, and just were great athletes. And loved to tell their story.”
But what about the new series? Though it shares its name and “joyful spirit” with the original film, per Prime Video, it also goes beyond the original scribe’s personal history and pulls from other players at the time—especially those who didn’t get the spotlight the first time around.
“A lot of our pitch stemmed from research and discovering Mamie Johnson, Toni Stone, and Connie Morgan, who were women who played in the Negro Leagues,” Jacobson recently told The Cut. “I often think people are going to see this poster and be like, They’re making a woke version. And it’s like, ‘No, we pitched what it was actually like.’”
Jacobson expanded on the research process in an interview with The Playlist, noting that she explored the Chicago Defender archives to ensure as “authentic” an approach as possible. “The Defender was such a huge news source for the Black community, and was such an important part of delivering information to Black America, that it felt like it had to be in the show, even if we just mention it,” she explained.
LGBTQ+ representation was another important consideration for Jacobson—and while, like in the film, the new characters don’t always translate directly to real people, they are based on the lives of women in the era. “We really focused on some of the stories that were untold.… We found a lot of different personal stories from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, and we also equated the experiences on the show to a lot of experiences around the country that we found.”
In addition to Jacobson, A League Of Their Own also stars Chanté Adams, D'Arcy Carden, and Roberta Colindrez. The show will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on Saturday, August 12.
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Trump calls for ‘immediate’ release of Mar-a-Lago warrant
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump called late Thursday for the “immediate” release of the federal warrant the FBI used to search his Florida estate, hours after the Justice Department had asked a court to unseal the warrant, with Attorney General Merrick Garland citing the “substantial public interest in this matter.”
In messages posted on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote, “Not only will I not oppose the release of documents ... I am going a step further by ENCOURAGING the immediate release of those documents.” He continued to assail the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago as “unAmerican, unwarranted and unnecessary.”
“Release the documents now!” he wrote.
The Justice Department request earlier Thursday is striking because such documents traditionally remain sealed during a pending investigation. But the department appeared to recognize that its silence since the search had created a vacuum for bitter verbal attacks by Trump and his allies, and that the public was entitled to the FBI’s side about what prompted Monday’s action at the former president’s home.
“The public’s clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred under these circumstances weighs heavily in favor of unsealing,” said a motion filed in federal court in Florida on Thursday.
Should the warrant be released — the request is now with the judge — it could disclose unflattering information about the former president and about FBI scrutiny of his handling of sensitive government documents right as he prepares for another run for the White House. During his successful 2016 campaign, he pointed frequently to an FBI investigation into his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, over whether she mishandled classified information.
It’s unclear at this point how much information would be included in the documents, if made public, or if they would encompass an FBI affidavit that would presumably lay out a detailed factual basis for the search. The department specifically requested the unsealing of the warrant as well as a property receipt listing the items that were seized, along with two unspecified attachments.
To obtain a search warrant, federal authorities must prove to a judge that probable cause exists to believe that a crime was committed. Garland said he personally approved the warrant, a decision he said the department did not take lightly given that standard practice where possible is to select less intrusive tactics than a search of one’s home.
In this case, according to a person familiar with the matter, there was substantial engagement with Trump and his representatives prior to the search warrant, including a subpoena for records and a visit to Mar-a-Lago a couple of months ago by FBI and Justice Department officials to assess how the documents were stored. The person was not authorized to discuss the matter by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Neither Trump nor the FBI has said anything about what documents the FBI might have recovered, or what precisely agents were looking for. But the former president complained anew Thursday about the search.
Trump, who for years has lambasted the FBI and sought to sow distrust among his supporters in its decisions, said the warrant was served and the search conducted despite his cooperation with the Justice Department over the search.
In a post to his Truth Social platform, Trump said that his “attorneys and representatives were cooperating fully” prior to the search, and that government officials “could have had whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, if we had it.”
The Justice Department has until Friday afternoon to alert the judge about whether Trump will object to the release.
FBI and Justice Department policy cautions against discussing ongoing investigations, both to protect the integrity of probes and to avoid unfairly maligning someone who is being scrutinized but winds up ultimately not being charged. That’s especially true in the case of search warrants, where supporting court papers are routinely kept secret as the investigation proceeds.
In this case, though, Garland cited the fact that Trump himself had provided the first public confirmation of the FBI search, “as is his right.” The Justice Department, in its new filing, also said that disclosing information about it now would not harm the court’s functions.
Even so, Garland, in a hastily scheduled public statement delivered from the Justice Department podium, appeared to acknowledge the unusual nature of the department’s request as he declined to take questions or provide any substantive details about the FBI’s investigation.
“Much of our work is by necessity conducted out of the public eye. We do that to protect the constitutional rights of all Americans and to protect the integrity of our investigations,” he said. “Federal law, longstanding department rules and our ethical obligations prevent me from providing further details as to the basis of the search at this time.”
The Justice Department under Garland has been leery of public statements about politically charged investigations, or of confirming to what extent it might be investigating Trump as part of a broader probe into the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The department has tried to avoid being seen as injecting itself into presidential politics, as happened in 2016 when then-FBI Director James Comey made an unusual public statement announcing that the FBI would not be recommending criminal charges against Clinton regarding her handling of email — and when he spoke up again just over a week before the election to notify Congress that the probe was being effectively reopened because of the discovery of new emails.
The Mar-a-Lago search warrant served Monday was part of an ongoing Justice Department investigation into the discovery of classified White House records recovered from Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, earlier this year. The National Archives had asked the department to investigate after saying 15 boxes of records it retrieved from the estate included classified records. Multiple federal laws govern the handling of classified information.
The attorney general also condemned verbal attacks on FBI and Justice Department personnel over the search. Some Republican allies of Trump have called for the FBI to be defunded. Large numbers of Trump supporters have called for the warrant to be released hoping they it will show that Trump was unfairly targeted.
“I will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked,” Garland said of federal law enforcement agents, calling them “dedicated, patriotic public servants.”
Earlier Thursday, an armed man wearing body armor tried to breach a security screening area at an FBI field office in Ohio, then fled and was later killed after a standoff with law enforcement. A law enforcement official briefed on the matter identified the man as Ricky Shiffer and said he is believed to have been in Washington in the days leading up to the attack on the Capitol and may have been there on the day it took place.
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Hispanic Heritage Month 2022 begins on Thursday, September 15, and ends on Saturday, October 15. While you never have to wait for an annual event to take pride in your ethnic background, for Hispanic Americans, the purpose of those four weeks is to honor their respective cultures and the histories behind them. And by “Hispanic Americans,” we mean those who self-identify as Hispanic. (The terms Hispanic and Latino are not quite interchangeable, though many people identify as both.) It’s a period meant for recognition, education, and celebration, similar to Black History Month in February, Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, or LGBTQ Pride Month in June.
You may choose to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with any number of activities, including enjoying food native to countries and territories such as Argentina, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico. If you’re a movie buff, you can seek out films that weave a culturally-rich story like In the Heights, based on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical. You can also check out these hilarious Hispanic comedians for some much-needed laughter.
Expect to see famous Hispanic people, such as Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, Maluma, Marc Anthony, Eva Longoria, and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor paying tribute to those who came before them, too. But what is Hispanic Heritage Month, and why is it celebrated? Here are some facts to know about how it came to be, and why it’s split across two months.
What does Hispanic Heritage Month mean?
The celebration was created to recognize the positive impact that Hispanic Americans have left on the country. "Each year, Americans observe National Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 to October 15, by celebrating the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America," according to the official government website.
According to the Census Bureau, the U.S. Hispanic population is 62.1 million as of 2020, "making people of Hispanic origin the nation’s largest ethnic or racial minority." What's more is that between 2010 and 2020, a little over half of the U.S. population growth stemmed from the increase in the Hispanic or Latino population. It's worth nothing that these estimates are largely based on the Census question that asks people to self-identify whether or not they are "of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin."
Who started Hispanic Heritage Month?
President Lyndon B. Johnson first introduced National Hispanic Heritage Week in 1968.
In Presidential Proclamation 3869, available via the Library of Congress, President Johnson wrote, “Wishing to pay special tribute to the Hispanic tradition, and having in mind the fact that our five Central American neighbors celebrate their Independence Day on the fifteenth of September and the Republic of Mexico on the sixteenth, the Congress by House Joint Resolution 1299, has requested the President to issue annually a proclamation designating the week including September 15 and 16 as National Hispanic Heritage Week.”
On August 17, 1988, Congress passed a law to extend it into a month-long holiday during Ronald Reagan's presidency. The first Hispanic Heritage Month was celebrated in 1989.
The following government institutions honor Hispanic Heritage Month: The Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Park Service.
Why is Hispanic Heritage Month split over two months, starting on September 15?
As cited in President Johnson's 1968 Proclamation, September 15 is the date when five Latin American countries—Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua—earned their independence from Spain in 1821. Mexico, Chile, and Belize became independent on September 16, 18, and 21from Spain and the United Kingdom, respectively.
Thus, the mid-September date held firm when it was extended from a week to a month.
What countries are involved in Hispanic Heritage Month?
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the month honors “the culture and traditions of those who trace their roots to Spain, Mexico and the Spanish-speaking nations of Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.” Those countries include Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
While Hispanic and Latino are used interchangeably by many, Hispanic is a term used to describe someone of Spanish-speaking origin, while Latino, Latina, and Latinx are used to describe a person of Latin American origin. The month, according to the official description, recognizes those whose roots are from a country that speaks Spanish as the primary language. For example, a person from the Latin American country of Brazil may consider themselves Latino but not Hispanic, since Brazilians speak Portuguese and not Spanish.
How do people celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month?
The official government website typically keeps a calendar of highlighted activities hosted throughout the U.S., from concerts to art festivals and parades. A majority of the festivities held throughout the U.S. are family-friendly and occur at the local level—and many are free.
The theme for 2022, as announced by the National Council of Hispanic Employment Program Managers (NCHEPM), is "Unidos: Inclusivity for a Stronger Nation." Last year's theme was "Esperanza: A Celebration of Hispanic Heritage and Hope."
More in-person celebrations are expected to be held this year, but if you're staying close to home, you can always relax with a good book by a Spanish-language author that takes you into someone else's experience. Make it a point to support Latina-owned businesses. You can even brush up on your own Spanish by listening to these great Spanish-language podcasts and watching these Spanish-language TV shows (La Casa de Papel/Money Heist and Elite will have you hooked!).
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EDCON, a non-profit annual global Ethereum conference and De University of Ethereum (UETH), a decentralized global educational platform initiated by the Ethereum community announced today that its interactive symposium, "Ethereum a New Era", will take place on August 28th at CHASE CENTER in San Francisco. This highly anticipated FREE event will be the first time Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin and Ethereum's core researchers and developers have come together in public to openly deliberate future plans of action and direction.
Ethereum: a New Era will bring attendees the opportunity to learn from and exchange ideas with the top minds of Ethereum. This event is open to blockchain enthusiasts as well as industry experts. The attendees will have unparalleled access to inspiring keynote speeches, panel discussions, Q&A sessions and networking opportunities.
Keynotes and panels at the event are set to address some of the most important questions from the community — from the process of PoS to consensus safety, layer 2 decentralization, blockchain regulation, and Ethereum's road to mass adoption.
"UETH is dedicated to helping all members of the community that are motivated to learn while also creating an environment that will foster the development of the future leaders of Ethereum," said Cy Li, the director of UETH. "We are thrilled to host this symposium in San Francisco and bring together the best and brightest of our community. With Ethereum entering the new proof of stake era and the amount of innovation it's channeling globally, there has never been a more important time for Ethereum and its core team members to come together and address the future of the blockchain."
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They may start promoting fall activities and putting the Halloween decorations on display as early as August, but with everything else the autumn brings, the true spooky season has a way of sneaking up on you.
So what do you do when you realize Halloween is right around the corner, you don't have a costume and your front porch is devoid of expertly-carved pumpkins? Do you have to abandon ship and settle for an array of uncarved pumpkins your plucked from the bin at the supermarket? That's an option (no judgement!). But as long as you have about 30 minutes to spare, there are plenty of easy pumpkin carving ideas you can pull off in a flash.
Have a couple of cookie cutters in your drawer? Those make excellent "hole punches" for instant cool designs—especially if you have bats, ghosts, and other Halloween shapes at your disposal. Even a little paint can take you most of the way, no artistic ability needed. For example, paint a pumpkin with a variety of mismatched shapes in different colors, then freehand a few additional cut-outs, and you have yourself a Terrazzo pumpkin. And if you'd like to try something a little more advanced, you could even use tools like a power drill, a lino cutter, or a dremel to make all kinds of perfectly uniform scores.
These unique (and cute!) ideas, which range from sweet and funny (hello, Disney characters!) to evil and downright scary, are simple enough for beginners or kids and quick enough to squeeze into even the busiest schedule.
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Paint will take you most of the way here. Then, all you have to do is cut out a few angular shapes of varying sizes to let the glowing light shine through.
For a trendy, yet Halloween-friendly centerpiece, carve a big hole into the front of your pumpkin, paint the edges, then fill it with cascading greenery.
If you're hosting a special event—a fall wedding or a large-scale harvest dinner, for example—carve numbers into small pumpkins. The result is a piece of decor that doubles as a guide to place settings and a centerpiece.
Don't live adjacent to the seashore? You can recreate this cute look in any shape you want. Simply trace the shape, then use a drill to make the dotted outline and paint the whole thing to cover any pen or pencil markings.
A mylar stencil makes it easy to precisely cut one of the most ubiquitous Halloween exclamations. Of course, you can opt for any short phrase or design your heart desires.
Make your jack-0-lantern right at home in your garden by filling it with soil and your favorite plants. It's a great option for any front porch steps, too.
For a fall harvest party or an autumn wedding, carve pumpkins into lanterns that serve as the perfect centerpieces for any tables. These also look beautiful lining your walkway, lighting the way for all of those trick-or-treaters.
Determined to create a pumpkin that's out of this world? A little paint, a drill, and holiday lights are all you need to bring the galaxy to life. (Pro tip: Use a sponge for a more realistic night sky effect.)
To create Halloween decor for your mantle, carve a big circle out of the front of a faux pumpkin, then assemble a spooky scene out of cardstock. Or, save time by adding store-bought props instead.
A pre-fabricated marquee sign makes quick work of this seemingly complex design. Simply cut out a space fit for the sign, then pop it in. (Pro tip: Make sure your sign is battery-operated, so you don't need to plug it in.)
If you're not much of a carver, you'll appreciate this DIY. It only requires a few simple cuts to make the facial features—the rest of the work is in painting and assembly.
Only have the skills (or the time) to carve a simple face? Make your jack-o-lantern look much more complex with a set of glow-in-the-dark teeth. They pop right in, like toothpicks.
To recreate the beloved Disney character, simply carve out his face, then add two clementines or two smaller pumpkins for ears. There's no glue required to affix them—just two toothpicks or bamboo skewers cut to size.
For a truly unique take on the jack-o-lantern, carve a larger pumpkin, then carve a smaller gourd to look like a cheeseburger and place it in the bigger one's "mouth."
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What is Body Positivity?
BodyPositivity or #Bopo is a popular phrase and movement that aims to help people accept and celebrate bodies of all shapes, sizes, skin color, ability, and gender.
Where did it start?
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“Body positivity started being used as a phrase in the 1990s,” says Tigress Obsborn, Chair of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA). In 1996, an organization called The Body Positive was founded by an author who suffered with an eating disorder in her teens and a psychotherapist who specialized in treating eating disorders.
“But when people talk about ‘body positivity,’ they are really talking about the social media movement that started in the early 2000’s on platforms like Facebook and Tumbler created by queer people, Black women and femmes, fat people, and disabled people who were building community spaces and social media campaigns around body positivity uplifting marginalized bodies and creating media that featured marginalized bodies,” says Osborn.
Body Positivity and its history in Fat Liberation and Fat Acceptance
“The fat liberation movement of the 1960’s is one of the grand elders of the ‘body positivity,’ movement,” says Osborn. “And so are any of the folks who were pushed to the edges of the mainstream beauty standard. But a lot of the language does come from things fat liberationists did in ‘70s, and ‘80s, especially fat feminists,” says Osborn.
The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) was founded in 1969 “dedicated to protecting the rights and improving the quality of life for fat people.” “For the first time an organization exists to make life better for fat people without them having to change their bodies,” says Osborn. And from there grew the Fat Underground, a more radical offshoot that published the seminal “Fat Liberation Manifesto,” which demanded ‘equal rights for fat people in all areas of life;’ highlighted the intersectionality of fat liberation with other oppressed groups; called to end fat discrimination in the workplace; and called out the diet and health industries, amongst other things.
“These founding principles of the Manifesto are the same things we see in the early body positivity movement,” says Osborn. “Including the idea that advertisers create beauty standards that aren’t realistic. That the medical world is not fair in their treatment of us. That the diet industry is a billion-dollar industry that wants you to think you’re terrible, so you’ll keep spending money.”
What is the difference between Body Positivity and Fat Liberation?
“Body positivity wants you to feel good about yourself. Fat liberation wants the system to change so you can actually live your life. It’s not about your personal self-esteem, it’s about access and equity. It’s not about inclusion in a feel-good way, it’s about inclusion in a practical, logistical way. Can I fit places? Can I be places? Can I be accepted in places? Not, just do I look in the mirror and see something I like.” says Osborn.
“Body positivity is focused on the individual: How do they feel in their bodies? Can they purchase clothes? Can people see themselves in magazines and on TV?” adds Evette Dionne, Culture Critic, and author of Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul “Fat acceptance focuses on systems: how does the world at large discriminate, target, and surveil fat bodies, trans bodies, disabled bodies, and anyone perceived as deviant from the “norm?”
Dionne recalls facing fat discrimination as young kid. “Fat phobia is very insidious and started affecting me as a child around eight or nine years old,” remembers Dionne. “I had an asthma attack and was prescribed steroids which made me gain weight. After that the doctors only wanted to talk to me about diet. It was odd. Kids began to torment me, and I couldn’t find clothes that fit. I knew something was wrong.”
When she was 22, Dionne saw the influencer Gabi Fresh on social media and was wowed. “She wore bikinis, which was eye-opening for me. Having that confidence inspired me to find that power within myself. I discovered it wasn’t just me feeling this way.” Dionne learned about the Fat Acceptance movement when she was around 25, turning her attention outwards towards examining systems and the way they oppress and discriminate against marginalized bodies.
“I have felt that I stuck out my entire life,” says Amie Anderson, a Hudson Valley therapist, educator, and activist who runs Body Liberation circles. “Feeling othered is a trauma based in both systemic oppression and interpersonal interactions. So I use the phrase ‘Body Liberation’ because it turns the issue on its head. What if it was never a self-esteem issue? It’s something that started on the outside of us and was reinforced by the messaging we get day in and day out about how we are ranked by skin color, size, gender, ability, and facial symmetry. Fat people are denied access to medical care, clothing, airplanes, restaurants, theaters, jobs. Even though it’s starting to get better, representation of fat people in the media is still atrocious, even children’s media. My activism work can’t just be about healing my relationship with my own body. I’m working to make space for people larger than me,” says Anderson.
“The mainstreaming of body positivity has opened a lot of doors for a lot of people.” says Osborn. “A lot of dialogue has been created. And some cultural attitude shifts in expanding beauty definitions creates a little breathing room. But for people who are still farthest out on the margins, #bopo isn’t changing their lives.”
“When you look at the hashtags for Body Positivity now, what comes up is a lot of skinny white women posting ‘Look how brave I am posting a pic in my bikini after I gained three pounds!’ which is a real erasure of the fat black women who started this movement” says Anderson.
This is a sentiment Lizzo shared on Tik Tok, saying:
"Because now that body positivity has been co-opted by all bodies, and people are finally celebrating medium and small girls and people who occasionally get rolls, fat people are still getting the short end of this movement…We're still getting s--- on, we're still getting talked about, meme'd, shamed and no one cares anymore because it's like, 'Body positivity is for everybody…Yes, please be positive about your body, please use our movement to empower yourself, that’s the point. But the people who created this movement: big women, big brown and black women, queer women, are not benefitting from the mainstream success of it.”
“When body positivity starts, it is a radical, social movement on social media created by people who are farthest of mainstream beauty standards really demanding their right to be seen, heard and be themselves as they are without having to fix themselves,” says Osborn. “But as it gets more popular it gets more mainstream and as the marketplace starts to recognize body positivity as something that is really popular, they start to co-opt it in advertising. So, it’s not the same radical roots as that beginning of body positivity on social media and it’s definitely not the same radical roots as the beginning of fat liberation.”
What is body neutrality?
In her book What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat, author Aubrey Gordon defines body neutrality as the viewpoint that “bodies should be prized for their function, not their appearance, and that simply feeling impartial about our bodies would represent a significant step forward for those of us whose bodies are most marginalized bodies.”
“We don’t have to be happy, happy, joy, joy, all the time,” says Anderson. “If someone has a troubled relationship with their body, does that mean they’re not invited to the revolution?”
“The expectation that you have to love your body and feel all ‘Yay, my body!’ is a lot of pressure that’s not just about your internal landscape,” says Osborn. “It’s about the actual practicality of how your body works or how it works in the world and maybe asking people to feel positive about that is just too much. I don’t have to feel crappy about my body, but I don’t have to be having a romanticized love affair with my body, either. I just have to meet my body where it’s at.”
Osborn also offers that body neutrality gives room for vulnerability. “There can be so much vulnerability in taking the steps towards loving your body in a culture that is set up to tell you to not love your body. There are all these messages that tell us our bodies are bad, or they’re not good enough or we have to fix them or be cured of something. It’s beautiful if you can—despite all of that—have a love affair with your body. But there might be days, or it might be every day, that that is asking too much of you. The alternative doesn’t have to be hating yourself, there can just be acceptance.”
Where do we go from here?
“The first step is self-interrogation,” says Dionne. “How do you think about your body and other people’s bodies? Interrogate your own biases with fat, trans, and disabled folks.” she encourages.
“Body Positivity has been an important stepping stone to get us to where we are now, but there is still a lot of work to do, “says Anderson. “Explicit body shaming may have gone down a little, but implicit bias is actually up. People make the assumption that fatness is changeable and a choice, and this is largely not the case. There’s this idea that bullying someone is somehow healthy for them, which couldn’t be farther from the truth, and this type of thinking leads to real harm at every scale. Everyone should be examining their own bias around this issue. There are many great writers who highlight the intersectional experiences of people in fat bodies, and activists are working toward making real systemic long-term change. The best way to help someone to feel good about their body is not a t-shirt that says “you go girl”, it isn’t a pep talk. It’s a commitment to justice. “
Resources:
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
Robyn Moreno is a curandera, life coach, and Emmy-nominated TV host. Her new book, Get Rooted, comes out June 7, 2022 from Hachette Go. Robyn’s favorite things are her family, being in nature, and eating tacos, not necessarily in that order. | https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/health/a40809665/what-is-body-positivity/ | 2022-08-12T04:55:18Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/health/a40809665/what-is-body-positivity/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
‘Field of Dreams’ game: Drew Smyly stars as Cubs beat Reds
After the Griffeys played catch in Iowa, Smyly struck out nine in five scoreless innings and Chicago beat the Cincinnati, 4-2, in the second annual event
Chicago Cubs pitcher Drew Smyly throws to the plate during the first inning of their game against the Cincinnati Reds in the first inning of the “Field of Dreams” game on Thursday night in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Chicago Cubs’ Seiya Suzuki hits a one-run double against the Cincinnati Reds during a baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Chicago Cubs’ Patrick Wisdom scores as Cincinnati Reds catcher Austin Romine (28) waits for the throw in the first inning of a baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Cincinnati Reds pitcher Nick Lodolo throws against the Chicago Cubs during a baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Chicago Cubs right fielder Seiya Suzuki fields a ball against the Cincinnati Reds in the first inning of a baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Workers change the scoreboard during a baseball game between the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Cincinnati Reds third baseman Kyle Farmer tags Chicago Cubs’ P.J. Higgins (48) in the fourth inning during a baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Chicago Cubs left fielder Ian Happ (8) throws the ball in after a Cincinnati Reds Donovan Solano hit in the third inning during a baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Cincinnati Reds’ Jonathan India reacts to being hit by a pitch in the first inning against the Chicago Cubs during a baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Former Chicago White Sox player Frank Thomas watches during a baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Chicago Cubs second baseman Nick Madrigal can’t reach a hit by Cincinnati Reds’ Matt Reynolds (4) in the fifth inning during a baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Chicago Cubs’ Christopher Morel shatters his bat against the Cincinnati Reds in the sixth inning during a baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Cincinnati Reds relief pitcher Buck Farmer throws against the Chicago Cubs in the sixth inning during a baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Actor Timothy Busfield, right, watches during a baseball game between the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Cincinnati Reds’ Matt Reynolds hits a two-run double against the Chicago Cubs in the seventh inning during a baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Cincinnati Reds’ Jose Barrero scores against the Chicago Cubs in the seventh inning during a baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Brandon Hughes throws against the Cincinnati Reds in the seventh inning during a baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Chicago Cubs catcher Willson Contreras, left, and relief pitcher Brandon Hughes (47) talk after the final out of the eighth inning against the Cincinnati Reds during a baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Actor Dwier Brown cheers during a baseball game between the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Cincinnati Reds center fielder Albert Almora Jr. (3) catches a Chicago Cubs Willson Contreras fly ball in the ninth inning during a baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Cincinnati Reds center fielder Albert Almora Jr. (3) catches a Chicago Cubs Willson Contreras fly ball in the ninth inning during a baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Cincinnati Reds center fielder Albert Almora Jr. (3) catches a Chicago Cubs Willson Contreras fly ball in the ninth inning during a baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Rowan Wick celebrates the final out against the Cincinnati Reds in the ninth inning during a baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. The Cubs won 4-2. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Ken Griffey Jr., left, and his father, Ken Griffey Sr., walk on to the field before a game between the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs at the “Field of Dreams” movie site on Thursday in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
DYERSVILLE, Iowa — After the Griffeys played catch in Iowa, Drew Smyly took over.
Smyly struck out nine in five scoreless innings, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Cincinnati Reds, 4-2, on Thursday night in Major League Baseball’s second annual “Field of Dreams” game.
Seiya Suzuki reached three times and Nick Madrigal had three hits for Chicago in a throwback ballpark a short walk away from the main field for the beloved 1989 movie. Ian Happ had two hits and drove in a run.
“It’s really magic,” Cubs catcher Willson Contreras said of the field. “It has some kind of energy that I think is real.”
The night began with Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. and his father emerging from the iconic outfield cornstalks for their own version of a memorable scene from the film, delighting the sellout crowd of 7,823.
“Hey dad, do you wanna have a catch,” Junior said.
“I’d like that,” Senior said.
The Griffeys then played catch as more parents and children joined them on the field with their own balls and gloves, followed by the Cubs and Reds, dressed in special uniforms inspired by how the franchises looked in the early 20th century.
“What they’ve done here is incredible. … I think every baseball player should experience this,” Reds third baseman Kyle Farmer said.
Backed by Chicago’s three-run first, Smyly (5-6) earned his second straight win. The veteran left-hander allowed four hits and walked two.
Rowan Wick worked the ninth for his seventh save.
Cincinnati dropped its fourth straight game. Matt Reynolds hit a two-run double in the seventh, but the last-place Reds went down in order in the final two innings.
Major League Baseball returned to Dyersville – a population of about 4,400 – after its first “Field of Dreams” game was a smashing success. The Chicago White Sox topped the New York Yankees, 9-8, on Tim Anderson’s electric home run last year in the first MLB game in Iowa.
But the sequel lacked the drama of the original version. Chicago and Cincinnati dropped out of contention a long time ago, and the Cubs grabbed control right at the start against Nick Lodolo (3-4).
Suzuki and Happ each hit an RBI double in the first, and Nico Hoerner had a run-scoring single. The rally started after Lodolo retired the first two batters.
Madrigal tacked on an RBI single for a 4-0 lead in the fourth.
SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY
David Bell’s grandfather, father and brother played in the majors. Bell spent 12 years in the big leagues himself and worked as a coach and front office executive before taking over as manager of the Cincinnati Reds.
So yeah, “Field of Dreams,” a movie about family and baseball, hits a little differently for him.
“Baseball’s a big part of our life,” Bell said, “and I thought that the movie did a great job of kind of just telling the story of how important baseball can be to families and just to people in general.”
The game again took place a short walk from the field where Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta and Amy Madigan filmed the 1989 movie. The game came 2½ months after Liotta, who played the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson, died in May at age 67.
The makeshift ballpark seats only about 8,000 fans, less than the spring training homes for each team. The Cubs have strong ties to the Hawkeye State, going back to the franchise’s time on WGN-TV and continuing to today with its Triple-A club a couple of hours away in Des Moines.
“There’s moments in the season where you get something different that’s exciting, and making sure you appreciate that I think is the main thing for me,” Cubs manager David Ross said.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cubs: Contreras appeared to roll his left ankle when he tried to scurry back to second after rounding the bag on Patrick Wisdom’s single in the third. He was tagged out, but he was back behind the plate for the bottom half of the inning.
Reds: Second baseman Jonathan India (leg contusion) was replaced by Reynolds before the start of the fourth. India was hit on his lower left leg by a pitch in the first.
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An attorney for pop star Britney Spears has released a statement with sharp words directed at the singer's ex-husband, Kevin Federline, who also fathered multiple children with Spears.
Spears' ex-husband posted multiple videos to Instagram on Wednesday said to have been filmed by Spears' son years ago. In the videos, you can hear Spears using harsh language while verbally disagreeing with the child.
As CNN reported, the videos have been removed from the social media platform but were published by TMZ.
Spears' attorney said in a statement that Spears' team is “working with Instagram to ensure that Mr. Federline adheres to its rules, and we are exploring all appropriate relief against him.”
Mathew Rosengart, an attorney for Spears, said, “Whether he realizes it or not, Mr. Federline has not only violated the privacy and dignity of the mother of his children, he has undermined his own children, whose privacy he should protect.” He said, Mr. Federline’s ill-advised decision to post an old video of his 11 and 12-year-old children was cruel, bottom of the barrel stuff.”
“It has been my honor to work with Britney, to suspend her father as conservator, to help her gain her freedom and dignity, and to help protect her from the type of bullying she endured in the past - and we will not tolerate bullying in any area,” Rosengart said.
Federline said in his post that he was sharing the video to show why he and his family have recently distanced themselves from Spears. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/britney-spears-lawyer-tells-ex-husband-kevin-federline-that-bullying-will-not-be-tolerated | 2022-08-12T05:00:46Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/britney-spears-lawyer-tells-ex-husband-kevin-federline-that-bullying-will-not-be-tolerated | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The August primary election in Florida is Aug. 23 and now, all three of the big names eyeing the governor's office are stepping up ads and spending.
Political experts say you're seeing more ads because early voting has started in Florida.
Both Democrats in the primary, Nikki Fried and Charlie Crist, have dropped several new commercials with very different focuses.
Fried's latest pair centered on attacking Crist's record as a Republican.
The Congressman, meanwhile, showcasing work with President Barack Obama and targeting current Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Dr. Susan MacManus says the ads are telling.
"If you're the front runner in a primary, you can focus your attention on your general election opponent. And if you're sort of running behind in polls you've got to focus your attention on your primary opponent," MacManus said.
GOP incumbent, Gov. Ron DeSantis has his own ads up— but he's spending time and money on other races.
His political committee funding mailers for school board candidates.
DeSantis even traveling out of state to boost Republicans in places like Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
Political pundits say the move suggests a lot of confidence from the governor heading into the general election Nov. 8. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/politics/candidates-in-florida-governors-race-increase-advertising-ahead-of-primary-election | 2022-08-12T05:00:52Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/politics/candidates-in-florida-governors-race-increase-advertising-ahead-of-primary-election | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — The Chiles High football team has what head coach Kevin Pettis calls an older group, and he's not lying. The Timberwolves were extremely junior heavy last season, but they are taking advantage of that heading into this season.
Coach said camp has been good for the Timberwolves, and that's thanks in part to this now senior laden team. That experience is going to come in handy.
Chiles has a tough schedule and an even tougher district to play in, but they have all but three starters back on both sides of the ball.
The specialists, are also a huge advantage for this team, they have experience at quarterback, and Tre Jones is back to run the football. It's a group Pettis is excited about, as it's this experienced team's time to shine.
"Of course, we think about it on the field, but it helps you on game days," said Pettis. "It helps you going on the road. They know how to get on the bus, they know how to focus, they know how to lock in after a pregame meal. Those are the things that having older kids helps you do. I think going into it, what I'm really anxious to see is how our defensive line plays because that's been a strong point for us in the spring, but was not such a strong point for us last fall. I'm interested to see how those guys being a year older will help us."
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The top half of the draw at the National Bank Open presented by Rogers was upended by Beatriz Haddad Maia's upset of World No.1 Iga Swiatek on Thursday, but a bevy of powerful players still fill out that side of the draw.
Here is how the rest of the Round of 16 shook out in the top half:
Zheng Qinwen def. Bianca Andreescu 7-5, 5-7, 6-2
Zheng continues to make waves in her breakthrough season on the Hologic WTA Tour. The 19-year-old from China, who started the season ranked No.143 but cracked the Top 50 earlier in the year, bested 2019 champion and hometown hope Andreescu in just under three hours.
"I think both of us, we played our best tennis in the third set," Zheng said, after her win. "At the end, I am happy that I got through the pressure and to get this match."
Zheng had 28 winners to Andreescu's 16 as the teenager ended Andreescu's eight-match winning streak in her backyard of Toronto. With the victory, Zheng is into the first WTA 1000 quarterfinal of her burgeoning career.
An overhead winner gave Zheng the one-set lead after a grueling 67 minutes. However, Andreescu reached level footing after attaining the lone break of the second set at 5-5, then serving out the set routinely.
After an early exchange of breaks in the decider, Zheng used exceptional depth and well-placed groundstrokes to reel off the final three games of the match and triumph over former US Open champion Andreescu.
Zheng will next face Karolina Pliskova in the quarterfinals, in their first meeting.
"I think it's really important that tomorrow I am able to level up my serve and [serving] percentage," Zheng said, looking forward to Pliskova. "Tomorrow will be a tough match, an interesting match. And I would like to challenge myself once again."
(14) Karolina Pliskova def. (3) Maria Sakkari 6-1, 6-7(9), 6-3
Last year's National Bank Open runner-up Pliskova prevailed in a topsy-turvy two-and-a-half-hour showdown with Sakkari. With the win, former World No.1 Pliskova ekes her win-loss record for the season back over .500 (13-12).
Pliskova had not faced a Top 10 player this year before this match, but she gritted her way to victory over World No.4 Sakkari. Despite the lengthy gap since her last match against a player from the topmost echelon, Pliskova has now won her last four matches against Top 5 opposition.
Pliskova did not serve out the match at 5-4 in the second set, and Sakkari did not convert two set points at 6-5 either. Pliskova grabbed three match points in the second-set tiebreak, but Sakkari withstood that trio, and she converted her fourth set point to level the clash.
Pliskova regrouped and romped to a 5-1 lead in the third set, but she dropped serve in that game despite holding her fourth match point. Pliskova needed to save one final break point at 5-3 before at last converting her sixth match point to book a quarterfinal spot.
(12) Belinda Bencic def. (8) Garbiñe Muguruza 6-1, 6-3
Last year's Olympic gold medalist Bencic breezed into the quarterfinals with a 63-minute victory over former World No.1 Muguruza. Bencic improved to 2-1 over two-time Grand Slam champion Muguruza with the win.
Bencic saved all four of the break points she faced and converted all four of the break points she held against Muguruza. Bencic prevailed on 27 of her 32 first-service points in the match, backing up her second-round victory over Serena Williams.
Bencic will be Beatriz Haddad Maia's quarterfinal opponent, following Haddad Maia's upset of top seed Iga Swiatek. Bencic beat Haddad Maia in Sydney earlier this year. Also, nine years ago, Bencic defeated Haddad Maia en route to her 2013 Junior Roland Garros title. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2738565/photos-zheng-topples-andreescu-pliskova-triumphs-in-toronto | 2022-08-12T05:02:07Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2738565/photos-zheng-topples-andreescu-pliskova-triumphs-in-toronto | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Completion of 2022 hajj: Matters arising
NIGERIA, on Sunday, August 7, completed the 2022 hajj operation with the conclusion of the airlift of 43,008 pilgrims from the holy land. The last inbound flight conveyed 319 pilgrims from Kaduna and Kano and officials from various states and NAHCON.
The transport of the pilgrims from Nigeria to Saudi Arabia was, however, not without challenges. But the chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), Alhaji Zikrullah Hassan, in an interview with newsmen, stated that the fact that 90 per cent of the pilgrims were able to perform this year’s hajj and return safely indicated that the exercise was a huge success.
Also, the head of the public affairs unit of the commission, Fatima Usara, in a statement, noted that the last flight came six days ahead of the deadline of hajj airlift set by the Saudi Arabian authorities and three days ahead of NAHCON’s deadline, which was August 10, 2022. According to Usara, for the over three weeks the outbound flights lasted, only two flight cancellations were recorded with a maximum delay of six hours.
Alhaji Hassan attributed the success of the exercise to Allah without whose intervention, he said, nothing could have been achieved. He also thanked President Muhammad Buhari for giving the commission a free hand to operate.
The number of hajj slots allocated to Nigeria this year (about 43,000) was a far cry from the about 95,000 that had usually been allocated to the country over the years. The shortfall was the first challenge encountered by NAHCON. Hassan had said at different forums that in view of the shortfall, intending pilgrims should not expect magic. He said not everyone who had deposited money to travel to the holy land for hajj should expect to make it after all.
This year’s hajj also took place when the world was still recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic. For two years, the pandemic caused the exercise to be held without the participation of international pilgrims. This was also a major challenge faced by the international community. NAHCON had prepared well ahead of time but the cancellation dwarfed its effort, bearing in mind that many intending pilgrims had made deposits under the commission’s Hajj Savings Scheme (HSS). The commission had directed states pilgrims agencies to treat the applications on a first come, first served basis.
Unfortunately, it was gathered that when the preclusion of international pilgrims was reversed this year, most of these agencies did not conform to the NAHCON directive. They ignored the Hajj Savings Scheme introduced by the commission for reasons best known to them. This resulted in outcry by some intending pilgrims who could not make it to the holy land. There were allegations (which have however been denied) of allocation of complimentary seats to political allies, family members and friends by some industry players. Nevertheless, the commission should rectify this anomaly and ensure that the depositors are the first to be attended to for the 2023 hajj.
Another challenge faced by the commission while preparing for hajj was the failure of the Saudi Arabian authorities to make up their mind on whether the exercise would hold this year or not.
In a media interview, Hassan was quoted as saying: “We only received directive from the Saudis a month to the commencement of the hajj that hajj would hold this year. This is not easy. If we had not done some planning, we would have been caught napping. The challenges could be overwhelming.”
After Saudi Arabia finally reversed the restriction of hajj, it allocated a little above 40,000 seats to Nigeria. This shortfall was indeed a big issue as Nigeria is one of the countries that were used to having some of the highest numbers of pilgrims. With the number at hand, the commission and the states agencies had no option but to work with what they had.
NAHCON was able to beat the time with the airlift of the first batch of pilgrims from the Maiduguri International Airport.
Nigeria had recorded a smooth hajj operation until the case of the 700 intending pilgrims that were stranded at Aminu Kano International Airport sprang up.
The issue of the stranded intending pilgrims was not pleasant and the case could have been avoided. Findings revealed that by 19th June, 2022, NAHCON had transferred money along with schedule of payments in spite of the allegation by the private tour operators that the commission refused to fund their International Bank Account Number (IBAN).
What this means is that each tour company’s entitlement was sent to its Mu’assasa. The remittance was well in excess of what was ultimately to be paid into the individual IBAN accounts of the tour operators. It should be noted that subsequent transfers to these individual accounts are an exclusive responsibility of the Mu’assasa. But these Mu’assasa were unable to do so, hence the embarrassment. Notwithstanding, the chairman of NAHCON, it was learnt, called the Mu’assasa to rectify the logjam. The Mu’assasa, it was said, in turn, spoke to the bank but the payments remained hanging. The NAHCON boss admitted that these hiccups were issues that would be sorted out by the private tour operators and the commission when planning for next year’s hajj.
Another major challenge encountered by the pilgrims was the issue of poor feeding. Most of the food vendors contracted in Saudi Arabia served substandard meals. Piqued by this development, the NAHCON boss asked the food vendors to return the pilgrims’ money. Against this background, all eyes will be on the commission as regards ensuring that the vendors comply with the directive.
Hassan acknowledged that there were challenges during the outbound trip from Nigeria to Saudi Arabia which resulted from time constraint and other unforeseen hiccups such as the IBAN issue that affected some tour operators.
“Nonetheless, this has spurred the commission into taking lessons,” said Hassan, who also told newsmen that the commission would commence early planning and embark on pre-qualification of airlines sooner than later so as to enable the air carriers to scale any unforeseen hurdles in good time.
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Nollywood movie lovers are in for a big treat as award winning actress and producer, Eniola Ajao has raised her game with the production of what many expect to be a masterpiece judging by the quality of acts on the project
The just completed project, ‘Beast of two worlds’ (ÀJÀKÀ’JÚ) is the story of a powerful lady, ÀJÀKÀ’JÚ, who is both human and an animal.
In the story, she roams the forest at night, making life difficult for hunters, killing and maiming some of them. She destroys crops and crippled the economy of the town.
The king, Towobola storms into the forest to confront her and after epic battle, the king and ÀJÀKÀ’JÚ reached a pact to marry each other with the hope that ÀJÀKÀ’JÚ would bear male children as all kids borne for the kings were females. True to hope, ÀJÀKÀ’JÚ gave birth to a son but threw the boy, who was now the hope of continuation of the lineage of the king into fire. The move led to twists and turns that made the plots of the movie entertaining, daring and suspense-filled.
ÀJÀKÀ’JÚ features notable actors such as Sola Sobowale, Bimbo Akintola, Odunlade Adekola, Ibrahim Chatta, Adedimeji Lateef, Femi Adebayo, Faithia Balogun, Mercy Aigbe, Eniola Ajao, Peju Ogunmola, Yinka Quadri, among others.
Beast of two words (ÀJÀKÀ’JÚ) was directed by Adebayo Tijani, Odunlade Adekola and respected cinematographer, Idowu Adedapo, the man who shot ‘Wedding Party’, ‘King of Boys (1)’, ‘Chief Daddy’, ‘Dear Affy’, ‘Oloture’, and many other notable movies. According to Eniola, I am not sparing anything to make this movie a hit and it will surely be in the cinemas this December. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/eniola-ajao-drags-sola-sobowale-notable-actors-to-oyo-forest-for-ajakaju/ | 2022-08-12T05:16:41Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/eniola-ajao-drags-sola-sobowale-notable-actors-to-oyo-forest-for-ajakaju/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ifiok Babatolu is the owner of Spa Revivify in Lagos. In this interview with ROTIMI IGE, she speaks about the need for Nigerians to embrace spa treatments and relaxation techniques in order to live better. Excerpts.
You own one of the best spas in Lagos. Tell us about how it all started.
My journey into the beauty industry started in 2006, two years after the liquidation of Nigeria Airways where I had worked as part of the cabin crew for 14 years. I ran out of my beauty supplies and since I had always bought them outside the country, I didn’t know where to buy original products in Lagos. I bought a lipstick in a shop and ended up with rashes on my lips. Fortunately, my elder sister was a registered beauty consultant in an international and well known beauty company, so I turned to her for a handout. Instead of a handout, she encouraged me to join the brand, which I did. I learnt a lot about beauty and the industry as a consultant with that brand and it piqued my interest in the industry as a whole.
It took the interest and determination first of all. With that, I looked for where I could learn to be a major stakeholder in the industry. I was introduced to a spa owner who had an apprenticeship programme. I saw it as a start though it wasn’t really what I wanted. I’m glad though that I learnt through her.
After almost two years with her, I discovered an established beauty academy which was a franchise of a US based academy and moved there. I got my certificate in easthetics and cosmetology from there. While I was still in training there, I had the opportunity to attend a seminar of Spa and Wellness Practitioners in Africa (SWAA) with a few others from within and outside Africa, in Mauritius. I knew I had found my niche. I decided to establish my own business and make it world class. So that’s how Spa Revivify was birthed.
What do you intend to achieve with your wellness centre?
First of all, I intend to make it a safe and wellness haven for people looking to escape the stress of living in Lagos and the environs, as well as bring out the beauty in their skins.
Our well-trained therapists are always on hand to offer therapeutic and relaxation massages and other beauty services to our clients. We have put all things in place to ensure that our clients leave with the best experiences.
Many Nigerians believe that such facilities are exclusively for the rich. In your opinion, who needs spa treatments?
Everyone needs spa treatment! There’s so much stress in the country right now. Prolonged stress leads to health conditions that can be avoided with regular medical checks and self care. Regular visits to the spa are self care. Many of our clients sleep off during massage treatments. People don’t realise how much stress they are carrying around until they come to that bed.
Taking care of your skin also boosts one’s self- confidence and makes you feel/look younger to take on the world. I know this from experience!
So, I’ll say again, visiting the spa should be like going for your medical checks, only more often. If you can’t do it monthly, then try every two months. Many people bemoan the prices of services they mistakenly consider non-essential, but I always say that, health is wealth! We can’t put a price on good health. You will only realise how expensive and precious good health is when you lose it.
Many do not also understand the concept of sauna or acupuncture. Kindly shed some light?
A sauna is a room in which people aim to relax in dry heat. It may provide benefits for cardiovascular health that resembles those derived from exercise. Most people confuse saunas with steam rooms. Saunas are dry heat while steam rooms are wet heat. These rooms have been used over time to produce a feeling of relaxation. It also improves blood circulation and detoxification.
Acupuncture is a form of alternative medicine and component of traditional Chinese medicine in which thin needles are inserted into the skin to stimulate the central nervous system. This, in turn, releases chemicals into the muscles, spinal cord and brain which will stimulate the body’s natural healing abilities and promote physical and emotional well-being.
Most people in Lagos live very hectic lives. How do you think they can balance it all and be healthy in all ramifications?
Priorities! Make rest and good food a priority! Learn to say no to activities that do not add value to you or are not essential. So eat healthy, rest, drink plenty of water and book a spa treatment if not monthly, at worst, quarterly.
Where do you see yourself and your centre in the next five years?
Our dream is to be positioned as the number one wellness centre in OPIC and its environs. For starters with a client base of 1000 people, who see the centre as their second home.
What parental or societal influences shaped you during childhood and now as a fully grown adult?
My parents were teachers. My father went on to become a trade unionist and rose to the position of the principal state secretary for the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) in the then Cross River State comprising the present day Cross River and Akwa Ibom states, was one of the earliest influences in my life’s ideology and mindset. He was honest, firm, extremely neat, and particular about integrity and a good name.
Also, schooling in the north with people of diverse backgrounds, religions and tribes helped me to develop great understanding and tolerance for others. Till date, I am an active member of my school alumni groups.
I love to bring people together, organise events meet ups and I think this comes from my upbringing where we hosted a lot of extended family and friends. Also, I remember in my early years in secondary school, my mother, who was schooling in the USA then, would bring back a lot of beauty products whenever she came home for holidays. It made a great impact on me. That was my introduction to beauty products.
About myself
I’m the fifth of six children of Sir David (KCW) and Lady Akon Etokebe, born in Akwa Ibom State in the late 60s. I was born at the onset of the civil war which threatened the unity of Nigeria. The government made a concerted effort to eliminate the division that led to the war and promote unity by creating the unity schools. I was fortunate enough to have attended one of such schools. So I had my secondary education in the north.
I later went back home to Akwa Ibom for the university education, earned a BA (Hons) degree in History, then a masters’ in international law and diplomacy from University of Lagos. In between my first degree and masters, I worked as a cabin crew with the now liquidated national carrier, Nigeria Airways. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/every-nigerian-should-learn-better-ways-to-relax-ifiok-babatolu/ | 2022-08-12T05:16:48Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/every-nigerian-should-learn-better-ways-to-relax-ifiok-babatolu/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Updated August 12, 2022 at 12:19 AM ET
Former President Donald Trump posted on his social media platform late Thursday night that he will not oppose the release of documents related to the search of Mar-a-Lago by federal investigators. He added that he encourages "the immediate release of those documents."
In his posting, Trump goes on to attack the investigation in political terms as he has since he revealed it on Monday. Trump's attorneys had been given copies of the documents and the former president could release them at any time if he chooses to.
A federal judge in Florida had given the Justice Department until Friday afternoon to confer with Trump's attorneys and advise the court as to whether Trump objects to the release of the warrant authorizing the search on Monday and the property receipt for what was taken.
Earlier Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Department of Justice has asked a federal court in Florida to unseal the search warrant served at Trump's Mar-A-Lago residence three days ago, as well as a property receipt for what was taken.
Garland made remarks Thursday afternoon at a news conference from the Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C., the first time the agency has commented on the search since it took place.
"Both the warrant and the FBI property receipt were provided on the day of the search to the former president's counsel, who was on site during the search," Garland said. A property receipt is a document left with the property owner after a search like this takes place.
He also said he personally approved the decision to seek that search warrant, one that the department did not make lightly, he added.
"Where possible it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search and to narrowly scope any search that is undertaken," Garland said.
He did not provide any further details about the nature of the search or other DOJ matters but he said more information would be made available.
Trump now has the next move
In order for the motion to unseal the search warrant and property receipt to proceed, Trump had been given the opportunity to respond and object. The federal judge in Florida had ordered the government to give the filing to Trump immediately. Trump has had until 3 p.m. on Friday to advise the court if he will object to the motion.
According to the court filing, the Justice Department calls for the unsealing of the documents given the heightened public interest in the case, but it makes clear that the former president should be given the opportunity to say whether he has "legitimate privacy interests" that could cause harm if they are made public.
Trump said in a social media post shared after Garland's remarks that he and his attorneys had been cooperating with authorities and said, "the government could have had whatever they wanted, if we had it." He did not indicate whether he would oppose the motion to unseal the documents related to Monday's search.
In his statement Monday night, Trump said that his home at Mar-A-Lago was "under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents." He also said they opened his safe.
His son, Eric Trump, told Fox News that federal authorities had given him a heads up that the search was about to take place on Monday morning and he informed his father. Trump claimed in his social media post Thursday that there was no warning that agents were coming. Trump was at his residence in Manhattan when the search took place.
What to expect to learn from the documents if they're unsealed
The documents, according to Andrew Weissmann, a former Justice Department prosecutor, would likely provide details on the crimes that are being investigated, where agents could and could not search and a list of what was found.
"It won't be document by document but that should be helpful in identifying for the public that there was material there," he said.
The underlying affidavit would offer more detail, Weissmann told NPR's All Things Considered, though it does not appear to not among those the Justice Department is seeking to have unsealed. The affidavit would detail the facts — from an FBI agent swearing under oath — that support probable cause for the search warrant.
"We won't, without that underlying affidavit, get all the answers that I think everyone is looking for," he said.
Garland blasted critics who have attacked the FBI
In his remarks, the DOJ head also blasted what he called "unfounded" attacks on the professionalism of the FBI and Justice Department agents.
"I will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked," Garland said.
Garland's remarks come just hours after a suspect breached an FBI field office in Cincinnati.
Earlier in the day, the FBI field office in Cincinnati said the subject fled north onto Interstate 71 after an alarm went off and FBI special agents responded.
Hours later, law enforcement officials shot and killed the suspect after a standoff, member station WVXU reported, and there is an ongoing investigation.
FBI Director Christopher Wray was critical of the attacks on those who work in the agency.
"Unfounded attacks on the integrity of the FBI erode respect for the rule of law and are a grave disservice to the men and women who sacrifice so much to protect others," Wray said in a statement. "Violence and threats against law enforcement, including the FBI, are dangerous and should be deeply concerning to all Americans."
According to Brian O'Hare, president of the FBI Agents Association, threats made against the FBI "contribute to an atmosphere where some have, or will, accept violence against law enforcement as appropriate. It is not."
"This is not a partisan or political issue. It is a matter of public safety and basic decency," O'Hare said. "Calls for violence against law enforcement are unacceptable, and should be condemned by all leaders."
Garland is also facing criticism from GOP leaders
Garland himself has already faced criticism from top ranking Republicans.
"The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said in a statement after Trump publicized the search took place.
McCarthy said if the GOP wins the House in the midterm elections, there would be oversight of the department, and he told Garland, "preserve your documents and clear your calendar."
Trump, in his Monday statement, also blamed political motivation for the search, saying it happened because of his potential to run for president again in 2024.
But President Biden and White House officials found out about the FBI search from media reports, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Tuesday.
"The president was not briefed, was not aware of it. No one at the White House was given a heads up," Jean-Pierre said, adding that the DOJ conducts their investigations independently.
A White House official also said Thursday that Biden did not have advanced notice that Garland was making comments today, and learned about them from media reports.
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Alan on Saturday night’s race at Richmond: “Our No. 45 team is looking forward to another short track on the schedule this week at Richmond. We brought a really strong AUTOChargit Chevrolet Silverado to IRP and had ourselves trending towards a top-15 finish before we were taken out late, but we’ll build off of those notes to put together a strong run at another new track for me.”
Alan at Richmond Raceway: Alan makes his first career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start at Richmond Raceway in Saturday night’s Worldwide Express 250.
On the Truck: Alan will pilot the No. 45 AUTOChargit Chevrolet Silverado Saturday night at Richmond.
Last Time Out – TSport 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park (Start: 22nd / Finish: 34th): “Our No. 45 AUTOChargit Chevrolet Silverado came on strong in Stage Two tonight as we made our way up through the field. Our pit strategy had us inside the top-five in the final laps of the stage, but unfortunately our night was cut short after getting turned which was out of our control. I’m proud of the effort from this team tonight and we’ll shift our focus to Richmond.”
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Thompson on Saturday night’s race at Richmond: “Our No. 40 team is excited to get to Richmond with Worldwide Express in its entitlement race this weekend. We’re confident we can get things turned around at another short track this week and we’re looking forward to making Worldwide Express and all of its carrier partners proud on Saturday night.”
Thompson at Lucas Oil Raceway: Thompson makes his first career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series start at Richmond Raceway in Saturday night’s Worldwide Express 250.
On the Truck: Thompson’s No. 40 Worldwide Express Chevrolet Silverado will feature a new paint scheme Saturday night, displaying the logos of Worldwide Express’ carrier partners Southeastern Freight Lines, Yellow, XPO Logistics, TForce Freight, UPS, Estes, AAA Cooper Transportation, R&L Carriers, and Roadrunner. The Worldwide Express 250 for Carrier Appreciation logo will be prominently displayed on the bed top.
Last Time Out – TSport 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park (Start: 25th / Finish: 29th): “We brought a fast Worldwide Express Chevrolet Silverado to the track tonight, but a mechanical failure took away from a much stronger run than the result showed. We’ll continue to go to work these next two weeks to be ready for another short track test at Richmond.”
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LOS ANGELES — Anne Heche is on life support after suffering a brain injury in a fiery crash a week ago and her survival isn't expected, according to a statement from a representative.
The actor, who is in a coma and in critical condition, is being kept on life support for possible organ donation, according to the statement released Thursday night on behalf of her family and friends.
Heche, who's been hospitalized at the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills hospital north of Los Angeles, suffered a “severe anoxic brain injury,” the statement said. Such an injury is caused by a sustained lack of oxygen to the brain.
“She is not expected to survive,” the statement said. “It has long been her choice to donate her organs and she is being kept on life support to determine if any are viable."
On the morning of Aug. 5, Heche’s car smashed into a house in a neighborhood in west Los Angeles and a fire erupted with the car embedded inside the home.
Earlier Thursday, police said they were investigating Heche for driving under the influence. Detectives with a search warrant took a sample of her blood and found narcotics in her system, LAPD spokesperson Officer Jeff Lee said.
Toxicology tests, which can take weeks to complete, must be performed to identify the drugs more clearly and to differentiate them from any medication she may have been given for treatment at the hospital.
Evidence is still being gathered from the crash, police said, and they would present a case to prosecutors if it is warranted when the investigation is complete.
A representative for Heche declined comment on the investigation.
On Tuesday, Heche spokesperson Heather Duffy Boylston said she had been in a coma since after the accident, with burns that required surgery and lung injuries that required the use of a ventilator to breathe.
“Anne had a huge heart and touched everyone she met with her generous spirit. More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life’s work — especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love,” Thursday's statement said. “She will be remembered for her courageous honesty and dearly missed for her light.”
Heche, 53, was among the most prominent film stars in Hollywood in the late 1990s, playing opposite actors including Johnny Depp (“Donnie Brasco”) and Harrison Ford (“Six Days, Seven Nights”). In a 2001 memoir, she discussed her lifelong struggles with mental health.
She recently had recurring roles on the network TV series “Chicago P.D.” and “All Rise,” and in 2020 was a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars.” | https://www.krem.com/article/news/entertainment-news/anne-heche-not-expected-to-survive/507-db0e1091-ba4c-40e9-8c64-4c1b62946291 | 2022-08-12T05:23:04Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/entertainment-news/anne-heche-not-expected-to-survive/507-db0e1091-ba4c-40e9-8c64-4c1b62946291 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DOVE VALLEY, Colo. — Max Borghi is getting a second chance at making an NFL roster with his hometown Denver Broncos.
"This is awesome," Borghi said after his first practice with the Broncos. "It's surreal. I mean obviously to come out here. I grew up in Denver. I've been watching the Broncos my whole life and to be out here is a blessing to say the least."
The Arvada, Colorado native had a record setting career at Washington State with 3,292 all purpose yards and 41 touchdowns over essentially three seasons, as Borghi only played in one game his junior campaign due to a back injury. His 41 overall touchdowns is tied for the most in WSU history and his 32 career rushing touchdowns comes in second, one shy of tying the program rushing touchdowns record.
Borghi, an undrafted free agent, had a short stint with the Indianapolis Colts before being waived back in May. On August 3rd, he was signed by the Broncos after running back Damarea Crockett was placed on the season-ending injured reserve with a torn ACL.
For Borghi, the biggest challenge right now is coming into camp late compared to others. He admitted he's going to have to be a sponge to learn the offense.
"Obviously, I'm coming in mid-camp and I have a lot to learn," said Borghi. "Just gotta take advantage of every single day and... study."
He's hoping his versatility that Coug fans saw for years will help him make the 53-man roster.
"I just want to show them I can do it all. Obviously, at Washington State, I'm sure they saw my career I was a little bit of a receiver, a little bit of a running back, caught a lot of passes in my days," said Borghi. "I think I'll fit real well into this system, a lot of toss and outside zone and I feel like I'm a good outside zone runner. Not only that, but all the pass plays and all the different ways they can use me. I believe I can just bring an edge."
Borghi will look to capitalize on his opportunity in Denver with the Broncos first preseason game on Saturday, August 13th against the Cowboys.
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U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Benjamin T. Watson, the commanding general of 1st Marine Division (MARDIV), visits Marines and Sailors with Marine Rotational Force-Darwin (MRF-D) 22, and members of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) in Darwin, NT, Australia, Aug. 9 through 11, 2022. The 1st MARDIV commanding general visited Marines and Sailors with MRF-D 22, and members of the ADF, in Darwin to gain insight into the rotation's current operations and capabilities. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Emeline Molla)
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Yakima Valley proved it’s a different team from the one that lost all six regular season games to Corvallis by a combined score of 38-6.
The Pippins held on for a 7-6 win in Game 1 at home and nearly knocked the five-time defending West Coast League champions out of the playoffs in a 5-3 Game 2 loss at Goss Stadium. Starting pitchers Daniel Charron and Liam McCallum mostly kept the Knights’ bats in check, giving up just four earned runs in 12 combined innings.
Jaxon Sorenson, who went 3-for-4 with an RBI on Tuesday, said Charron initially planned to leave after his last start on Aug. 2 against Wenatchee. But the Central Washington signee decided to stick around and help a depleted Yakima Valley pitching staff.
Charron pitched gave up six runs in an 8-0 loss to Corvallis on June 5 but he rolled through the first four innings Tuesday, giving up just two hits. Two errors on one play in the fifth allowed Corvallis to score twice and set up a third for the Knights before the Pippins escaped, clinging to a one-run lead.
“Early on that might have led to a snowball and gave up eight, 10 runs, but now we’re just next pitch,” Krustangel said. “I think that’s been a difference in our mindset is just looking at the future and not so much what happened in the past.”
The offense responded by scoring in the bottom of the fifth on Jake Borst’s single, extending the catcher’s hitting streak to eight games. A Connor Coballes RBI single and Yakima Valley’s signature double steal with runners on first and third added two more runs in the sixth, putting the Pippins back ahead by four.
They still nearly lost their lead in the eighth, when Tyler Quinn’s fly ball went over the left fielder’s head with runners on second and third. But a bad jump and an efficient relay throw allowed Coballes to throw out the tying run at the plate.
Defense let Yakima Valley down on Wednesday, when a potential double play ball in the eighth inning found its way into left field. Three batters later the tying run scored with two outs and Spencer Scott’s two-out single delivered the final blow.
Catcher Jake Borst gave Yakima Valley an early lead and its first hit on one swing with a two-run homer in the second inning. After the Knights tied the game in the third, Spencer Shipman put the Pippins back in front with an RBI double in the sixth.
Kaden Segel entered the game and struck out Borst to end the threat, then retired nine straight to pick up the win. McCallum settled for a no-decision after pitching a season-best seven innings, allowing only two hits while holding Corvallis scoreless over his final four frames.
The two teams met in Corvallis again for a decisive Game 3, with the winner scheduled to face Ridgefield or Portland in a loser-out divisional title game on Saturday. For full coverage, go to yakimaherald.com/sports or check out the YHR’s eEdition. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/pippins-push-five-time-champ-corvallis-to-the-brink/article_3581094e-1930-11ed-b0b3-cb3575eecc27.html | 2022-08-12T05:30:59Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/pippins-push-five-time-champ-corvallis-to-the-brink/article_3581094e-1930-11ed-b0b3-cb3575eecc27.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Yakima Valley's remarkable turnaround ended on a sour note Thursday night at Goss Stadium.
Despite their impressive rise from the bottom of the standings to a playoff spot, the Pippins' season ended the same way it began — with a loss to Corvallis. Yakima Valley hitters couldn't solve three Knights pitchers, falling 5-0 in Game 3 of the opening round at Goss Stadium.
Jaxon Sorenson's single to lead off the fourth inning turned out to be his team's last hit, and Jake Borst's walk two batters later gave the Pippins' their last baserunner. Joey Gartrell and Neil Feist came out of the bullpen and combined to throw five perfect innings, with Gartrell notching three strikeouts as he extended his scoreless streak against Yakima Valley to eight innings this season.
No one in the West Coast League came close to matching the 72 innings pitched this summer than Tyler Frieders, who recently announced plans to transfer to defending Heart of America Athletic Conference champion MidAmerica Nazarene. The Pippins' ace delivered another strong start, just four days after he threw 93 pitches in a 5-1 win at Kelowna to clinch a playoff spot on Sunday.
Frieders totaled another 91 pitches through five innings Thursday, giving up five hits while striking out two. He still took the loss thanks to Tanner Smith's two-out single in the fourth inning.
A bullpen depleted by recent departures gave up a two-run homer to Tanner Smith in the sixth inning. Two innings later, an error on a suicide squeeze play allowed Corvallis to score two more runs.
The Pippins held an eighth-inning lead and nearly knocked out the Knights in a 5-3 loss on Wednesday. But the five-time defending WCL champions leaned on by far the league's most dominant pitching staff to extend the Pippins' losing streak in Corvallis to 13 games.
Just reaching the playoffs felt nearly impossible a little more than a month ago, when an 11-3 Ridgefield rout put Yakima Valley's overall record at 10-21. The Pippins rebounded to win 20 of their next 24 games, capped off by a hard-fought 7-6 win over No. 1 seed Corvallis in Tuesday's playoff opener.
In the North Division's other opening round series, Ridgefield swept No. 2 seed Portland and will travel to Corvallis for the divisional title game on Saturday. Bellingham's set to host Wenatchee for the South Division title that same night.
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Frieders, Yeager (6) and Borst. Ross, Gartrell (5), Feist (7) and Smith.
Yakima Valley highlights: Tyler Frieders 5 IP, 5 H, ER. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/pippins_baseball/yakima-valleys-upset-bid-falls-short-at-corvallis/article_8b70eae2-19e7-11ed-b1b6-ef8df02ead38.html | 2022-08-12T05:31:05Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/pippins_baseball/yakima-valleys-upset-bid-falls-short-at-corvallis/article_8b70eae2-19e7-11ed-b1b6-ef8df02ead38.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
An Arlington man has been arrested in the stabbing and burning death of a 40-year-old Falls Church woman in her apartment.
At 3:05 p.m. Wednesday, a neighbor called police after hearing a man and woman arguing in an adjacent apartment in the 2900 block of Willston Place. Officers arrived and saw smoke emanating from the apartment.
Inside, they found Silvia Vaca Abacay, 40, on fire and suffering from multiple stab wounds to the upper body, Fairfax County police said in a news release.
First responders extinguished the fire, with one officer suffering smoke inhalation, and attempted to provide life-saving measures but Abacay died at the scene. She was known by family and friends “and all who loved her” as Kelly, Fairfax County Police Maj. Ed O’Carroll said during a Thursday news conference.
“Detectives with the assistance of professional support staff conducted an investigative analysis of the apartment and identified a person of interest, Richard Montano, 47, of Arlington,” the release said. “Surveillance footage of Montano entering the home prior to the murder was found and distributed to officers and the community.”
Preliminarily, detectives believe Montano forced his way into the apartment, assaulted the victim and set her on fire. He fled the apartment and eventually returned to his home in Arlington, police said.
“The suspect knew the victim, this is not a stranger attack,” O’Caroll said. The two were friends who knew each other through “several occupants in the home.” There was no indication of a romantic relationship.
Fairfax detectives along with the Arlington County Police Department found Montano at a gas station near his home Wednesday afternoon and “arrested him without incident,” the release said.
He was taken to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center and charged with second-degree murder, burglary with intent to commit murder, and burning of an occupied dwelling. He was held on no bond. | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/updated-arlington-man-arrested-in-stabbing-burning-death-in-falls-church/article_4ebadda6-18ed-11ed-bbd6-53a70d150add.html | 2022-08-12T05:37:10Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/updated-arlington-man-arrested-in-stabbing-burning-death-in-falls-church/article_4ebadda6-18ed-11ed-bbd6-53a70d150add.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As a child, Jamie Martinez wanted to grow up and be an astronaut.
“I love space [and] space exploration,” she said.
Jamie ran the 3 Ring Super Circus with her husband, Matias, and his son for years. Matias built the metal globe they used in their circus act over 10 years ago.
Around the same time years ago, Jamie said, “I [wanted] to do something different, … be educational. I always thought about putting a track around the outside of the globe and [making] it look like Saturn.”
In 2020 they had the time to map out the globe addition and new show. It simultaneously became clear that NASA was working on returning astronauts to the surface of the moon with the Artemis missions. Later this month, NASA plans the first test of its Space Launch System, which will eventually take the Artemis crew, cargo and their spacecraft Orion into lunar orbit so the first woman and person of color can walk on the moon.
“We knew we could physically do the show, I knew that I had the education, and I knew that [the [performers] had the experience of the act. The hard part was changing the show and making it something different,” Jamie said.
They started performing the new Space Adventures Thrill Show this year and it will come to the Prince William County Fair this week. While some fair organizers missed the circus, Jamie said, “I enjoy the show more because it’s more of a passion of mine.”
She teaches audiences about space, centrifugal force, NASA’s planned return to the moon, the equipment to get there and things that many people don’t know.
It’s space with a circus flair for demonstration. Performers will juggle nine balls while Jamie gets the audience involved in talking about the solar system – ending on the ninth ball with how Pluto was designated a dwarf planet.
“The biggest compliment I get now is, ‘I learned something new today,’” Jamie said, “It’s not just inspiring the kids to be astronauts or to follow their dreams. … I’m reaching older people as well.”
Jamie also highlights the importance of a female and minority astronaut on the moon – something unimaginable when the Apollo 11 crew stepped onto the moon in 1969. “I think that’s great and should be celebrated … because now everybody has the opportunity.”
Accuracy is important to her, so she invited some of her rocket scientist and astrophysicist friends to review her material at a show. They corroborated her carefully researched information.
She also introduced them to the audience. “They signed more autographs after the show than I did,” she laughed.
The Space Adventures Thrill Show is not affiliated with NASA but, Jamie said, “My ultimate goal is to be in official cooperation with NASA.”
In the meantime, Jamie plans to keep coming back to the Prince William County Fair as she has for years with her family – including their baby, Charlie.
“I love the crowds because they give us six or seven bleachers and they are packed. The audiences come year after year, so I’ve seen people and I’ve watched their kids grow up,” Jamie said.
“The Prince William County Fair is one of our favorite fairs. … They take care of us and that makes me feel appreciated and loved,” she said.
When she was accidentally booked during the Prince William County Fair dates a few years ago, Jamie rearranged her schedule so she could attend. “It just feels like home to me because I’ve been there forever.”
The Space Adventures Thrill Show will be in the kids zone every day of the fair Aug. 12-20 for two to three performances in the afternoon and evening.
And you might even catch the Martinez family going to the National Air and Space Museum at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Dulles on their off days. | https://www.insidenova.com/lifestyles/new-adventure-at-the-fair-takes-the-circus-to-space/article_7620dc3c-19fc-11ed-b0d3-e33311da9d36.html | 2022-08-12T05:37:16Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/lifestyles/new-adventure-at-the-fair-takes-the-circus-to-space/article_7620dc3c-19fc-11ed-b0d3-e33311da9d36.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Vic Mensa launches first Black-owned weed brand, available in Illinois
CHICAGO - After two years of legal cannabis in Illinois, the first local Black-owned brand is hitting dispensary shelves.
Musician and activist Vic Mensa is co-owner of the brand of pre-rolled joints called 93 Boyz.
Mensa said his legal cannabis brand is an effort to undo some damage done during the war on drugs.
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"We're donating a part of our proceeds to our community. The community most impacted by the war on drugs. The way we're launching it with a program called 'Books before Bars," said Mensa.
'Books before Bars' sends books to incarcerated people. | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/vic-mensa-launches-first-black-owned-weed-brand-available-in-illinois | 2022-08-12T05:37:21Z | fox32chicago.com | control | https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/vic-mensa-launches-first-black-owned-weed-brand-available-in-illinois | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Circus sideshow comes to town
Hellzapoppin comes to Temple Live
The Hellzapoppin Circus Sideshow, the largest such show in the world, will perform at 8 p.m. Friday at Temple Live.
The "production is part fantasy, part vaudeville, part freakshow and all rock ‘n roll," spokesman Rick Scott said in an email.
The show includes acrobats performing without safety nets or wires, entertainers swallowing swords and eating and breathing fire.
"This is definitely not the circus you grew up watching," Scott said in the email.
The circus was established in 2009. Willow Lauren has been with the show since 2017.
Prior to her time with the circus, Lauren was a motorcycle stunt woman until she met circus performers while she was at Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and later joined the troupe.
With the circus, Lauren developed the ability to breathe and eat fire. She also is able to swallow and regurgitate knives.
Lauren said sword swallowing was the hardest act to learn.
Lauren considers the work the circus does as preserving an artform.
“For us, this isn't a hobby or just a job," Lauren said. "You know it's a lifestyle."
She promised that the show would be like nothing the audience has ever seen.
“It’s definitely a one-of-a-kind show. We are the largest and one of the last touring circus, side shows in the world," Lauren said.
Lauren said that the entertainers in the show perform because they love it.
“Not only are we able to live out our dreams, but we’re also, we try to wrap all of that up with a positive, impactful message to anyone who comes to our shows inspiring them hopefully to step outside their comfort zones, to not play small with their lives, to go after their dreams. Or as I say in the show, to limit what they see as being impossible," Lauren said.
Alex Gladden is a University of Arkansas graduate. She previously reported for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and The Jonesboro Sun before joining the Times Record. She can be contacted at agladden@swtimes.com. | https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/2022/08/12/fort-smith-hosts-circus/10226869002/ | 2022-08-12T06:11:36Z | swtimes.com | control | https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/2022/08/12/fort-smith-hosts-circus/10226869002/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Sometimes it's the small things that have the biggest impact. People usually post about crime on the social media page Stolen Stuff Hawaii, but lately there have been several posts about random acts of kindness, including one from Kellie Halemano of Ewa Beach.
She and her 11-year-old daughter Emmalani were at the McDonald's drive-thru in Waikele last week, and when they pulled up to the window they got an unexpected surprise.
"I get to the cashier and she said the person in front of you paid for your order," Halemano said. "And so my daughter, the reaction on my daughter's face is what got me. You hear about it, but for her she never really saw anything like this especially happening to us.
"And the only thing I could do because I wanted to beep my horn, just to acknowledge the driver of the vehicle in front of me, kind of stuck my hand out the window, opened my door and kind of gave a good wave. And it just made us feel so good."
Another Stolen Stuff Hawaii member, Jane Greenwood, also recently posted a story about her experience receiving a random act of kindness.
She said: "Nothing stolen...but my mom turned 91 and we took her to the Signature for dinner. The table next to us paid for her dinner ($69 rack of lamb) before they left. They never said a word to us. Random act of kindness. There is hope for this ugly world yet!!!! Thank you to whoever you are, I will pay it forward."
The Toeaina family also shared their experience on Stolen Stuff Hawaii: "My little family of 6 dined in at Zippy's Kaneohe for breakfast. It was a great day to begin with, but got even better when the customer dining in next to us paid our bill in full!!! We are so blessed and thankful.
"There are still good people out there despite all the horrible things that's been happening here in our islands!!!"
As for Halemano, said she posted her story on Stolen Stuff Hawaii to also let people know that despite the crime that's been happening, there are good people in Hawaii doing random acts of kindness, and that it had a huge effect on her daughter Emmalani.
"She told everybody. She was so happy," Halemano said. "Immediately she said, mom, we have to something, we have to pay for someone. And unfortunately, no one was behind us. And so you know we kind of paused a little bit and she said, mom, pay for someone. I'm like no one's behind us ironically."
She said they did get a chance to pay it forward later at Starbucks.
As for what they had ordered at McDonald's, Halemano said: "We just ordered two drinks. Oh, that's the thing though. Regardless of what the cost of our items were, it was just the act, you know that someone took their hard earned money and decided, you know, I'm gonna pay for the people behind me.
"And I wanted to tell her it's not just paying for people, you know, it's it's about telling people good morning, it's about acknowledging whether you know them or not, it just makes people feel good."
Marisa Yamane joined KITV4 in January 2022 as an anchor and executive producer. She is an award-winning veteran journalist, who’s spent most of her career in Hawaii. She’s a proud graduate of Iolani School and UCLA. | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/it-just-made-us-feel-so-good-small-random-acts-of-kindness-have-a-huge/article_665899cc-19f0-11ed-bbf6-576e345d03ff.html | 2022-08-12T06:12:26Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/it-just-made-us-feel-so-good-small-random-acts-of-kindness-have-a-huge/article_665899cc-19f0-11ed-bbf6-576e345d03ff.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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HONOLULU (KITV4) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its COVID-19 guidelines - not to state the pandemic is over but to lead the country to a point where the virus no longer affects our daily lives.
The key message is still to stay up to date on vaccines and new vaccines as they become available - and to avoid hospitalizations and serious illness.
However, a few local doctors disagree with these new recommendations. Dr. Scott Miscovich said the CDC is confusing the word “caution” with “disruption” while 78% of the nation remains in high risk community levels.
He said he hoped they would change the definition of “fully vaccinated.” He said two shots worked for last year and three to four shots means maintaining immunity in 2022.
"Once again, I’m very disappointed in the CDC guidelines. They are sending the wrong message to the population in the U.S. Although they are stating the pandemic is not over, their guidelines are basically saying to not worry about the pandemic,” said Dr. Miscovich.
The updates include wearing a high quality mask for ten days and getting tested for COVID on day five - instead of quarantining after exposure to the virus.
"Five days of quarantine after being positive is only going to identify 50% of the people who will still not be shedding. We were hoping they were going to extend the positivity quarantine to seven days," said Dr. Miscovich.
Another key measure in this update is dropping social distancing. Instead, they are focusing more on staying up to date on vaccines and isolating yourself when needed.
There are many layered mitigation strategies that can reduce your risk of COVID-19. Distancing is not the only one in some situations. It’s not the most practical way to protect yourself," said Dr. Sarah Kemble, Hawaii state epidemiologist.
Dr. Kemble also added she believe COVID-19 cases will continue to go down in Hawaii but that can change depending on peoples’ response to this new recommendation.
Do you have a story idea? Email news tips to news@kitv.com | https://www.kitv.com/news/the-cdc-updated-their-covid-19-guidelines-and-some-doctors-are-concerned/article_a49a5488-19f4-11ed-b4f5-a72c54bc92e9.html | 2022-08-12T06:12:38Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/the-cdc-updated-their-covid-19-guidelines-and-some-doctors-are-concerned/article_a49a5488-19f4-11ed-b4f5-a72c54bc92e9.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) has recently revealed that the company will discontinue the sale of its talcum-based baby powder in 2023.
Shares of the company declined 2.1% to close at $167.14 in yesterday’s trading session.
Why is JNJ Stopping the Sale of Baby Powder Globally?
Amid widespread litigation, reduced customer demand, and safety concerns, Johnson & Johnson has decided to stop sales of one of its most famous products globally. The baby powder has already been discontinued in the United States and Canada since 2020.
The baby powder manufactured by the company has come under a lot of criticism. The chief among them is talc, a mineral that is crushed to create Johnson’s Baby Powder. This mineral can cause inflammation that leads to cancer. Some of the lawsuits also alleged that the powder contained traces of asbestos, which has been linked to an increased risk of mesothelioma.
Notably, Talc lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson in the U.S. are on hold currently as the company’s subsidiary, LTL Management LLC, filed for bankruptcy last year.
Meanwhile, to fight against these various lawsuits related to its baby powder, Johnson & Johnson has shelled out roughly $3.5 billion so far. Also, more lawsuits are expected in the coming years.
The company is slated to report its third-quarter results on October 18, 2022.
Is Johnson & Johnson Stock a Good Buy?
Despite numerous headwinds due to countless litigation, top investors remain confident about Johnson & Johnson’s stock.
TipRanks’ Stock Investors tool shows that top investors currently have a Very Positive stance on JNJ. Further, 9.3% of the top portfolios tracked by TipRanks, increased their exposure to JNJ stock over the past 30 days.
Overall, the Wall Street community remains cautiously optimistic about the stock with a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on eight Buys and four Holds. The JNJ average price forecast of $188.73 implies the stock has an upside potential of 12.9% from current levels. Shares have declined 4.6% over the past year.
Key Takeaways
Johnson & Johnson has decided to discontinue the sale of its well-known baby powder due to rising litigation costs. With the reduction in these costs, the company can channel these funds towards more fruitful endeavors, which can enhance its value.
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CHICAGO (AP) — McDonald’s will start reopening some of its restaurants in Ukraine in the coming months, a symbol of the war-torn country’s return to some sense of normalcy and a show of support after the American fast-food chain pulled out of Russia.
The burger giant closed its Ukrainian restaurants after Russia’s invasion nearly six months ago but has continued to pay more than 10,000 McDonald’s employees in the country.
McDonald’s said Thursday that it will begin gradually reopening some restaurants in the capital, Kyiv, and western Ukraine, where other companies are doing business away from the fighting. Western businesses like Nike, KFC and Spanish clothing retailer Mango are open in Kyiv.
“We’ve spoken extensively to our employees who have expressed a strong desire to return to work and see our restaurants in Ukraine reopen,” Paul Pomroy, corporate senior vice president of international operated markets, said in a message to employees. “In recent months, the belief that this would support a small but important sense of normalcy has grown stronger.”
The Ukrainian economy has been severely damaged by the war and restarting businesses, even in a limited capacity, would help. The International Monetary Fund expects Ukraine’s economy to shrink by 35% this year.
McDonald’s has 109 restaurants in Ukraine but didn’t say how many would reopen, when that would happen or which locations would be the first to welcome back customers. Over the next few months, the company said it will start working with vendors to get supplies into restaurants, prepare those stores, bring back employees and launch safety procedures with the war still raging to the east.
While it will start to reopen in Ukraine, McDonald’s has sold its 850 restaurants in Russia to a franchise owner. That came three decades after McDonald’s opened its first location in Moscow, becoming a powerful symbol of easing Cold War tensions.
McDonald’s had shuttered hundreds of Russian locations in March, costing the company about $55 million per month. Selling its Russian restaurants was the first time the company has “de-arched,” or exited a major market.
Alexander Govor, who held a license for 25 McDonald’s outposts in Siberia, has begun reopening former McDonald’s locations under the name Vkusno-i Tochka, or Tasty-period. | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/big-mac-is-coming-back-mcdonalds-to-reopen-in-ukraine/ | 2022-08-12T06:24:11Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/big-mac-is-coming-back-mcdonalds-to-reopen-in-ukraine/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — Gas prices have fallen from the record highs they reached earlier this summer, but they’re still much higher than a year ago. And with inflation driving up the cost of pretty much everything else, finding the funds to cover your commute may be increasingly tricky.
“Being able to get to work is so essential to people’s basic survival that other things have to go first,” said Abbie Langston, director of equitable economy at PolicyLink, a national research institute. “When we see these massive increases in gas prices, it’s really hurting people.”
Whether you drive, take the bus or ride the subway, here’s what you need to know about how commuters are affected by the cost of living in the United States.
HOW ARE GAS PRICES AFFECTING COMMUTERS?
More than 76% of Americans commute by car. In June, they saw gas prices spike beyond $5 per gallon. While prices have dropped significantly since, the national average price of a gallon of regular unleaded was $3.99 on Thursday, still higher than $3.19 a year ago.
Costanza Bentancor, a paralegal from Mohegan Lake, New York, needs gas to commute 20 minutes each way to work and also uses her car to get to clients, who are families who recently immigrated to the U.S.
“It’s been very difficult, I’ve been learning to budget my money a little bit better,” Bentancor said.
Because of the high cost of living in Westchester County, she has also struggled with moving out of her parents’ home into her own.
AAA survey data published in July found that almost 64 percent of U.S. adults have changed their driving habits or lifestyle since March of this year. The top three changes included driving less, combining errands and reducing shopping or dining out.
“People choose houses, the type of car that they drive and how much they drive based on the assumption of how much they can afford to drive, and when that changes, it becomes really difficult to give people alternatives,” said Yonah Freemark, senior research associate at the Urban Institute, a non-profit research organization based in Washington, D.C.
For workers who take public transportation, increasing gas prices might not directly affect their bus or train fare, but the rising costs of living might affect their ability to afford those tickets.
WHICH COMMUNITIES ARE THE MOST AFFECTED?
Housing and transportation combined account for more than half of an average families’ spending, according to the Brookings Institution’s Affordability Index. For low-income families, the percentage spent on housing and transportation can be even higher, meaning they’re hit hardest by rising prices.
“People are really struggling right now. They are forgoing childcare, they are not seeking medical care or rationing prescription drugs,” said Langston, who points out that one in three people in the U.S. are at or near poverty.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted many inequalities in society, including who got to work from home.
“The majority of the Latino and immigrant workforce doesn’t have the luxury to work from home,” said Yanira Merino, national president of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement.
Only 16.2% of Latino workers and 19.7% of Black workers were able to work from home in 2020, compared to 37% of Asian workers and 29.9% of non-Hispanic white workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Low-income families are also more likely to rent their homes, which then makes them more vulnerable to the rising prices of housing, according to Freemark.
Vicente Gonzalez, a postal worker in Boyle Heights, a neighborhood of Los Angeles, has seen members of his community move farther away because they can’t afford to pay their rent.
“A lot of people are moving to cheaper areas, but there’s no jobs out there so they end up driving all day,” said Gonzalez. “As much as people want to buy an electric car and save gas, they really have no choice.”
The average worker commutes for 26.9 minutes, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. However, workers of color have longer commute times than white workers, regardless of income level, according to data by the National Equity Atlas.
HOW DO EXPERTS RECOMMEND TACKLING THIS ISSUE IN THE LONG TERM?
San Jose State University professor Asha Weinstein Agrawal believes that in order to make a long-term change, government officials need to invest in public transportation but also incentivize the use of fuel efficient vehicles.
“If we truly want to reduce people’s transportation costs, it’s not something you can do in a month. But we should help them get more electric vehicles. That is going to have far more impact, especially low-income families,” she said.
E-bikes or electric vehicles are also a more environmentally-friendly mode of transportation, Freemark said.
Alternatively, both Langston and Freemark believe that raising people’s wages and developing affordable housing would help to create an environment where everyone can weather hard times.
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BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged his government won’t leave citizens freezing or unable to pay their energy bills but acknowledged Thursday that his country faces considerable challenges in the coming months.
Rising fuel costs sparked by Russia’s war against Ukraine have put severe financial strain on many in Germany and beyond, raising concerns about a possible winter of discontent.
“We will do everything to help citizens get through this difficult time,” Scholz told reporters during his annual summer news conference in Berlin.
He cited numerous measures the government already adopted to ease financial hardships for residents and to secure alternative energy supplies to replace Russian oil, coal and gas.
Asked whether he feared that frustration could boil over into violent protests, Scholz replied, “I don’t believe that there will be unrest … in this country.” He cited Germany’s strong tradition of social welfare.
But the chancellor acknowledged there would be “many demands” during the winter as the country tries to reconcile energy shortages with long-standing plans to phase out nuclear power and fossil fuel use.
The German government has given utility companies a green light to reactivate shuttered oil and coal power plants as part of efforts to reduce the nation’s dependence on Russian natural gas.
Scholz said the government is also considering extending the lifetime of the country’s three remaining nuclear plants beyond the end of the year, even as it takes steps to massively ramp up the generation of renewable energy in the short- and medium term.
“The most important thing we can do to achieve (energy) sovereignty in the future and simultaneously do what’s necessary for our economic future is to expand renewable energy and protect the climate,” he said.
Scholz appeared to acknowledge that Germany’s past reliance on Russian energy – long criticized by allies such as the United States – had been a mistake, and that the country should have diversified its supplies sooner.
He declined to say whether he personally regretted Germany’s continued purchase of Russian gas and whether it gave Berlin a heightened responsibility to support Ukraine in defending itself against Russia’s military assault.
Scholz also remained tight-lipped when asked about the role he played in a large-scale tax evasion scam when he was mayor of Hamburg.
Questions about meetings he had with private bank M.M. Warburg in 2016 and 2017 have dogged Scholz. Hamburg officials later dropped demands for the bank to repay millions of euros in tax refunds it had wrongly claimed for share trades.
Dozens of bankers are being investigated in connection with so-called cum-ex share transactions that are said to have cost the German state billions.
Scholz has previously denied wrongdoing and claimed not to recall details of his meetings with Warburg officials.
Thorsten Frei, a leading lawmaker with Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union, said recent revelations about 200,000 euros in cash being found in a safe belonging to a close Social Democratic Party associate of Scholz raised further questions about the cum-ex affair.
“Olaf Scholz needs to explain himself,” Frei said in an interview published Thursday by German media group RND.
Asked about the issue repeatedly on Thursday, Scholz said he had not spoken to party associate Johannes Kahrs and didn’t know about the provenance of the money.
“I’m as curious as you are,” he said.
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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and senior ministers held inconclusive talks Thursday with energy companies amid mounting pressure to help residents cope with soaring gas and electricity prices.
Johnson, who is in his final weeks as prime minister, joined Treasury chief Nadhim Zahawi and Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng at the meeting with firms including Scottish Power, EDF and Centrica. But with Johnson insisting that “significant fiscal decisions” must be left to his successor, the talks produced no relief for Britons struggling with a cost-of-living crisis.
Johnson said the government would “keep urging the electricity sector to continue working on ways we can ease the cost of living pressures and to invest further and faster in British energy security.”
There was a hint that the Conservative government could take action at some point. It said it “continues to evaluate the extraordinary profits seen in certain parts of the electricity generation sector and the appropriate and proportionate steps to take.”
Energy bills around the world have soared this year as the war in Ukraine squeezes global oil and gas supplies. The problem is especially acute in Britain, where the bills that people pay are governed by a regulator-set price cap linked to wholesale prices.
The average U.K. household fuel bill has risen more than 50% this year, and another increase is due in October. Consulting firm Cornwall Insight forecast this week that the average bill will top 3,500 pounds ($4,300) a year in the fall, and rise above 4,000 pounds ($4,900) in the new year.
Energy suppliers say the price increases are not their fault.
“This is not in the hands of energy retailers,” Dale Vince, founder of the energy firm Ecotricity, told Sky News. “The problem is the crazy price of gas on global commodity markets.”
Anti-poverty campaigners say Britain is facing financial time bomb that could leave millions of people unable to heat their homes this winter.
Johnson resigned as Conservative Party leader last month, and remains in office for a few more weeks as caretaker prime minister. The two candidates to replace him — Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak — can’t act until one of them takes over as prime minister in September.
Sunak — who earlier this year signed off on a 400 pound ($490) payment to offset fuel bills that all households will get this fall — has said he will offer more help, but has not given specifics. Truss says she prefers tax cuts to giving “handouts,” but also is facing intense pressure to help poor households.
Opponents say by the time the new leader is announced on Sept. 5 and takes office the next day, it will be too late to avert an autumn crisis.
Some want the U.K. to emulate France, where the government last month announced the nationalization of electricity giant EDF.
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who led the U.K. during the global financial crisis of 2008, said Britain was now in “the eye of a cost-of-living storm” and action couldn’t wait. Brown, a member of the opposition Labour Party, said the Conservative government should negotiate lower prices with energy firms, and suggested those that resisted could be temporarily nationalized.
Writing in The Guardian, he said that crises “don’t take holidays, and don’t politely hang fire – certainly not to suit the convenience of a departing PM and the whims of two potential successors.”
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HAVANA (AP) — Officials said Thursday that a second firefighter has died in Cuba, where crews have controlled a massive blaze that began last week at a key oil storage facility amid a deepening energy crisis.
The 24-year-old firefighter identified as Elier Correa had been hospitalized in extremely critical condition, according to government news site Cubadebate. Another 14 firefighters are missing after lightning on Friday sparked the fire, which has injured 130 people and destroyed four of the facility’s eight tanks.
The blaze also forced officials to evacuate more than 4,900 people and temporarily shut down a thermoelectric plant after it ran out of water as countries including Mexico, Venezuela and Bolivia sent help.
Clusters of fire and smoke remain at the Matanzas Supertanker Base in the island’s western region, but authorities don’t expect them to spread. Meanwhile, firefighters said they hope they can soon access the areas where their colleagues went missing Saturday at dawn.
The Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment said that it has observed a decrease in smoke via radar images, adding that air quality is being controlled.
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SINGAPORE, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The IVAR Coin (IVAR) is now listed on XT.com as an IVAR and Tether (USDT) trading pair. For all traders, the most promising crypto trading experience of IVAR/USDT is available on the exchange's Main Zone (Metaverse). Participants who haven't traded the coin yet can go ahead and deposit their crypto assets and start trading on the go.
IVAR Coin is a fundamental currency responsible for all transactions within the Ivarex ecosystem. As a utility coin in the ecosystem, IVAR can be used on both decentralized and centralized exchanges. Due to its utility and vast use cases, the coin can be exchanged for in-game items used on GameFi or used to buy digital assets in the metaverse.
IVAR can be staked. The coin has a well-vesting period, allowing crypto lovers to lock their holdings and be rewarded. Additionally, this new listing gives users an opportunity to enter into derivative trading seamlessly using IVAR/USDT. Anyone who has never traded the coin has the option to do so without any restrictions by simply creating a trading account on the platform.
Moreover, crypto enthusiasts and investors are encouraged to take advantage of this listing to trade and help push the coin's presence and usability to the mainstream. IVAR/USDT spot trading is open for traders on the exchange. This allows traders to practically trade the coin using a reserve fund from their cryptocurrency wallet on the platform. Meanwhile, traders will have the withdrawal option from August 8, 2022, at 10:00 (UTC).
Jonathan Shih, the Head of MEA (Middle East & Africa) at XT.com, shared his delight, "As IVAR Coin is listed on our platform, we will help Ivarex achieve its sustainable excellence with its long-term goal of becoming a home for gamers to build projects, own, and monetize their assets with a high resolution of virtual experience."
About Ivarex (IVAR Coin)
Ivarex is a metaverse gaming platform having its own validator network called Ivar Chain. The platform allows players to build, own, and monetize their assets and virtual experiences. It also empowers artists and creators through blockchain.
The native currency that powers the Ivar Chain network is IVAR Coin. Specifically, the coin is used to reward block validators for ensuring the security of transactions. Users who use the network pay a gas fee using the IVAR coin.
The team behind the Ivar Chain is vocal based on the platform's potential to become the next generation of blockchain for the multiverse. The Ivar Chain solves the interoperability, scalability, and metaverse trilemma. The company believes the Ivar Chain ecosystem has what it takes to grow significantly in the blockchain industry because of its interoperability features.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian death toll from last weekend’s fighting between Israel and Gaza militants rose to 48 Thursday after an 11-year-old girl and a man died from wounds they suffered during the worst cross-border violence in over a year.
Meanwhile, two wounded Gaza children, ages 8 and 14, were fighting for their lives in a Jerusalem hospital. In all, more than 300 Palestinians were wounded over the weekend when Israel struck Islamic Jihad targets across Gaza and the militant group fired hundreds of rockets at Israel.
The death of 11-year-old Layan al-Shaer at Mukassed Hospital in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem brought to 17 the number of children killed in the fighting. Hani al-Shaer, a relative, said she was wounded in a drone attack during a surprise opening salvo launched by Israel, hours before any rockets were fired.
Israel said it launched the initial wave of airstrikes, which killed an Islamic Jihad commander, in response to an imminent threat from the militant group, days after Israeli troops arrested one of its leaders in the occupied West Bank.
Two other Gaza children, 14-year-old Nayef al-Awdat and 8-year-old Mohammed Abu Ktaifa were being treated in the intensive care unit at Mukassed.
Nayef, who is blind, was wounded in an Israeli airstrike, while Mohammed was hurt in an explosion that went off near a wedding party and killed an elderly woman, with the circumstances still unclear.
Israel has said as many as 16 people might have been killed by rockets misfired by Palestinian militants. Israeli strikes appear to have killed more than 30 Palestinians, including civilians and several militants, among them two senior Islamic Jihad commanders. It wasn’t immediately clear how the man whose death was announced Thursday was wounded. The Israeli military says it makes every effort to avoid civilian casualties.
A cease-fire took hold Sunday night, bringing an end to the fighting that started Friday. No Israelis were killed or seriously wounded.
Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers have fought four wars and several smaller battles over the last 15 years at a staggering cost to the territory’s 2 million Palestinian residents. Hamas sat out the latest fighting, possibly because of understandings with Israel that have eased a 15-year Israeli-Egyptian blockade imposed on Gaza when Hamas took power.
In other developments, a Palestinian prisoner on a protracted hunger strike was moved Thursday from an Israeli jail to a hospital because of his worsening condition, the prisoner’s wife said. An Israeli prison service official confirmed the development, speaking on condition of anonymity under regulations.
Khalil Awawdeh has refused food for just over 160 days, according to his family, in a bid to draw attention to his detention by Israel without trial or charge. His case was thrust into the spotlight during the latest Gaza fighting.
Gaza militants have demanded his release as part of the cease-fire that ended the fighting.
Awawdeh, a 40-year-old father of four, was arrested by Israel in December, accused of being a member of a militant group, a charge his lawyer said he denies. Recently, he has been using a wheelchair and was showing memory loss and speech difficulties, according to his lawyer, Ahlam Haddad.
Dalal Awawdeh, Khalil’s wife, said his condition had deteriorated, prompting Israeli authorities to move him to a hospital.
Dr. Lina Qasem from the Physicians for Human Rights Israel organization said Thursday after meeting Awawdeh that his condition was “extremely bad” and that he only drinks water and is refusing additional vitamins, salts and sugar.
“He suffers from a very extreme weakness,” she said. Awawdeh said he will continue his hunger strike until his release from detention, she said, but he “requests that the medical team do what is necessary to save his life because he does not wish to die.”
Prospects for Awawdeh’s release under the cease-fire are uncertain. But his case highlights the plight of hundreds of Palestinians who are being held by Israel under a system that critics say denies them the right to due process, known as administrative detention. The worsening conditions of hunger striking prisoners has in the past whipped up tensions with the Palestinians, and in some cases prompted Israel to accede to hunger strikers’ demands.
Israel is currently holding some 4,400 Palestinians, including militants who have carried out deadly attacks, as well as people arrested at protests or for throwing stones. Around 670 Palestinians are now being held in administrative detention, a number that jumped in March as Israel began near-nightly arrest raids in the West Bank following a spate of deadly attacks against Israelis.
Israel says administrative detention is needed to prevent attacks or to keep dangerous suspects locked up without sharing evidence that could endanger valuable intelligence sources. Israel says it provides due process and largely imprisons those who threaten its security, though a small number are held for petty crimes.
Palestinians and human rights groups say the system is designed to quash opposition and maintain permanent control over millions of Palestinians while denying them basic rights.
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By LYNN ELBER and ANDREW DALTON
LOS ANGELES >> Anne Heche is on life support after suffering a brain injury in a fiery crash a week ago and her survival isn’t expected, according to a statement from a representative.
The actor, who is in a coma and in critical condition, is being kept on life support for possible organ donation, according to the statement released Thursday night on behalf of her family and friends.
Heche, who’s been hospitalized at the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills hospital north of Los Angeles, suffered a “severe anoxic brain injury,” the statement said. Such an injury is caused by a sustained lack of oxygen to the brain.
“She is not expected to survive,” the statement said. “It has long been her choice to donate her organs and she is being kept on life support to determine if any are viable.”
On the morning of Aug. 5, Heche’s car smashed into a house in a neighborhood in west Los Angeles and a fire erupted with the car embedded inside the home.
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Earlier Thursday, police said they were investigating Heche for driving under the influence. Detectives with a search warrant took a sample of her blood and found narcotics in her system, LAPD spokesperson Officer Jeff Lee said.
Toxicology tests, which can take weeks to complete, must be performed to identify the drugs more clearly and to differentiate them from any medication she may have been given for treatment at the hospital.
Evidence is still being gathered from the crash, police said, and they would present a case to prosecutors if it is warranted when the investigation is complete.
Related story: Anne Heche remains in critical condition as police continue to investigate her car crash
A representative for Heche declined comment on the investigation.
On Tuesday, Heche spokesperson Heather Duffy Boylston said she had been in a coma since after the accident, with burns that required surgery and lung injuries that required the use of a ventilator to breathe.
“Anne had a huge heart and touched everyone she met with her generous spirit. More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life’s work — especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love,” Thursday’s statement said. “She will be remembered for her courageous honesty and dearly missed for her light.”
Heche, 53, was among the most prominent film stars in Hollywood in the late 1990s, playing opposite actors including Johnny Depp (“Donnie Brasco”) and Harrison Ford (“Six Days, Seven Nights”). In a 2001 memoir, she discussed her lifelong struggles with mental health.
She recently had recurring roles on the network TV series “Chicago P.D.” and “All Rise,” and in 2020 was a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars.”
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California’s recently enacted $308 billion state budget included a $100.7 million program for the state to produce low-cost insulin. Of this amount, $50 million is earmarked for product development and $50 million is dedicated to building an in-state manufacturing facility.
“Nothing epitomizes market failures more than the cost of insulin. Many Americans experience out-of-pocket costs anywhere from $300 to $500 per month for this life-saving drug,” Gov. Gavin Newsom remarked when announcing the passage of the insulin plan. “California is now taking matters into our own hands.”
While it is very unfortunate that Americans pay high prices for lifesaving insulin, high insulin prices are caused by a maze of regulation, bureaucracy, and pharmacy benefit managers that drive up the costs. While California’s efforts are well-intentioned, high insulin prices would be better addressed by regulatory reform and private initiative rather than a government-run program administered by a state with a dubious track record of competence and efficiency.
Evidence that the private sector can produce affordable insulin is available just south of the border. In Mexico, insulin prices are about one-sixth of those in the United States for a variety of reasons. Some Americans cross the border to take advantage of the lower costs. While it is illegal to import prescription drugs to the United States, the federal government generally does not enforce the prohibition for personal importation of up to a three-month supply of most medicines. But making regular trips to Mexico isn’t a sustainable solution for most California insulin users.
One problem in the United States is a lack of competition arising from patent protection for insulin delivery devices and barriers to getting approval for biosimilar products. There is some promise on the latter front as the Food and Drug Administration approved two biosimilars in 2021.
But additional reforms will likely be needed to bring US insulin prices down to international levels. Writing in Mayo Clinic Proceedings in 2020, the Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Vincent Rajkumar recommended that the United States participate in a reciprocal approval process with Canada and Western European countries. If a drug regulator in one of those nations approves a new insulin treatment, it could also be sold in the United States.
Further, Rajkumar recommended limiting the length of initial patents and preventing the use of additional patents on a single drug to extend market exclusivity. Although generous patent protection is defended as a means of encouraging innovation, incremental changes in how insulin is produced or delivered may not merit long exclusivity periods.
Costs could also be reduced if patients could obtain newer insulin formulations without a prescription. Early insulin formulations are still available on a non-prescription basis, having been grandfathered in before the Food and Drug Administration acquired the authority to classify new drugs as prescription-only. Although non-prescription insulin accounts for a small portion of the market, its availability without publicized safety incidents likely suggests that all insulin formulations could be safely dispensed without a prescription.
Some price relief might also come from disruptive new market entrants such as Civica RX, a nonprofit generic drug company that plans to sell insulin for $30 per vial. Civica was founded in 2018 with the support of major health systems, including the Mayo Clinic, and large philanthropies (one of which also supports my employer, Reason Foundation). Nonprofits that prioritize delivering social benefits over net income can reasonably be considered a market response since they address consumer needs without the coercion and top-down thinking that characterizes government interventions.
For-profit companies can also address the high price of insulin. Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drug Company is offering prescription drugs at steep discounts by selling direct to consumers, eliminating markups imposed by pharmacy benefit managers and other middlemen. Cuban’s company appears to be working on adding insulin to its low-cost generic drug offerings.
Meanwhile, the same state government considering entering the complex pharmaceutical industry is struggling with basics, like upgrading its own computers and information technology systems. Rather than take a state-driven insulin approach, California could more effectively bring down insulin prices by importing it or purchasing it from new entrants like Civica RX and Cuban’s company.
Marc Joffe is a senior policy analyst at Reason Foundation.
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A court in Russia on Thursday ordered a former state TV journalist placed under house arrest for nearly two months pending an investigation and potential trial on charges of spreading false information about Russia’s armed forces.
Marina Ovsyannikova was charged over a street protest last month, when she held up a banner that said, “(Russian President Vladimir) Putin is a killer, his soldiers are fascists. 352 children have been killed (in Ukraine). How many more children should die for you to stop?”
If convicted, Ovsyannikova faces up to 10 years in prison under a new law that penalizes statements against the military. The law was enacted shortly after Russian troops moved into Ukraine.
In the courtroom on Thursday, Ovsyannikova held up a poster saying “Let the murdered children come to you in your dreams at night.” She first made international headlines on March 14, when she staged an on-air protest against Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
“Marina became a hostage of her own conscience and a hostage of her love for her children, you see,” her lawyer, Dmitry Zakhvatov, said after the hearing.
“She cannot be abroad because her children are here, and she cannot stay silent here because she’s a prisoner of her conscience,” Zakhvatov said. “As a mother, she can’t stay silent. She sees what’s going on and it’s making her speak out.”
In March, Ovsyannikova appeared behind the anchor of an evening Channel One news broadcast holding a poster that said “Stop the war, don’t believe the propaganda, they are lying to you here.” She quit her job at the channel, was charged with disparaging the Russian military and fined 30,000 rubles ($270 at the time).
After quitting her job, Ovsyannikova became somewhat of an activist, staging antiwar pickets and speaking out publicly against the conflict.
She was fined two more times in recent weeks for disparaging the military in a critical Facebook post and with comments she made at a court where an opposition activist also accused of spreading false information about the military was remanded into custody.
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BOSTON — Not too long ago, both the Yankees and Aaron Judge were on historic paces.
The Yankees were looking at potentially making a run at the franchise record of 114 regular-season wins set in 1998 or the MLB record of 116, achieved by the Mariners three years later.
And Judge was ready to make a run at Roger Maris’ record of 61 homers, the most in Yankee and American League history — and still considered by some to be the true home run record.
But after a month of mediocrity — including a week of downright poor play — the win total milestone has become unrealistic.
And it’s why Judge insists he’s still not focused on his own numbers, even having hit 45 homers heading into Friday’s series opener against the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
“I’m not thinking about that at all,’’ Judge said of his numbers. “I’m not even close yet.”
That’s a matter of debate, since he remains on a pace to hit 65 home runs this season with less than two months left.
“What helps is that we’re playing important games,” Judge said. “We’ve got this big lead in the division and want to maintain it and we know we want home field [advantage] in the playoffs, so there’s other stuff to play for. We have games to win, so I’m not worried about stats.”
One stat he is interested in is their place in the standings.
The Yankees fell a half-game behind the Astros for the best record in the AL when Houston beat Texas 7-3 Thursday, but they remain firmly in control of the AL East, with a 10-game lead over Toronto.
The lead had been as high as 15 ½ games on July 8 — which is the last time the Yankees were in Boston, when they appeared to be on their way to running away with the division and the best record in the AL and perhaps the majors.
Since then, though, the Yankees lost the last two games at Fenway and have gone 10-18, including losing seven of their last eight.
“It’s not that easy,’’ Judge said of winning the division. “We’ve got a lot of work to do to get the job done and you know this is a part of it. Every good team goes through a moment like this and times like this. We’ll come out on the other side and be better for it. It’s good it happened now in August and not in September going into the postseason. We can learn from it.”
What they’ve seen lately is an overreliance on Judge’s bat.
He’s been on a tear pretty much the entire season, but even better in his last 21 games, going 33-for-76 (.434), with five doubles, 14 homers, 19 walks and 20 strikeouts to go along with an OPS of 1.614.
It’s left Aaron Boone and most of Judge’s teammates without more ways to describe what he’s doing. But without contributions from the injured Giancarlo Stanton and Matt Carpenter, as well as Anthony Rizzo, who just returned from lower-back tightness and didn’t look comfortable at the plate in Wednesday’s loss in Seattle, the Yankee offense is much less intimidating — no matter what Judge is doing.
As an example, the Yankees got another home run from Judge in the seventh inning, but it was one of just four hits.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Shannon Bream, a Fox News Channel veteran who is the network’s chief legal correspondent, is the new anchor of the “Fox News Sunday” political talk show, filling a role left vacant when Chris Wallace left last December.
Meanwhile, CNN said Thursday that Wallace’s interview program will air on the network Sundays at 7 p.m. Eastern.
Bream was among the rotating guest anchors of Fox’s Sunday show over the past several months. Fox said that each time Bream hosted, viewership was up 20% over the 2021 average — when Wallace was host.
She will relinquish her role anchoring a weeknight newscast that airs at midnight on Fox News Channel, the network said.
When she officially starts on Sept. 11, she’ll be the third host of the 26-year-old show, after the late Tony Snow and Wallace. “Fox News Sunday” airs on the Fox broadcast network and is later repeated on the news channel.
“It has been an honor to cover major news throughout Washington over the last 15 years at Fox News,” Bream said in a statement Thursday. “I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to host a Sunday show and look forward to this new role.”
Bream is also the first franchise author of the Fox News book imprint, where she has written two books on women and the Bible. She was a corporate lawyer before entering journalism.
Wallace, the only Fox News personality to moderate a presidential general election debate, told The New York Times after leaving that he no longer felt comfortable with the programming there. He signed on to host a program at the CNN+ streaming service. The streaming service was shuttered this spring after only a few weeks on the air.
His interview show — “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” — landed on the HBO Max streaming service. CNN said his weekly television show will air the highlights of interviews first shown on HBO Max.
Wallace has also surfaced as a commentator on CNN, particularly on weekday mornings, and that role is expected to continue.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — If you were exposed to COVID-19, take three home tests instead of two to make sure you’re not infected, according to new U.S. recommendations released Thursday.
Previously, the Food and Drug Administration had advised taking two rapid antigen tests over two or three days to rule out infection. But the agency says new studies suggest that protocol can miss too many infections, and could result in people spreading the coronavirus to others, especially if they don’t develop symptoms.
The new guidance applies to people without symptoms who think they may have been exposed. People with symptoms can continue using two tests spaced 48 hours apart.
Thursday’s update reflects the evolving understanding of the accuracy of antigen tests, which are less sensitive than laboratory tests but have become the standard testing approach due to their speed and convenience. Instead of detecting the coronavirus itself, they detect protein traces, known as antigens, similar to rapid flu tests.
Health officials have repeatedly cautioned that the tests can give false negatives if taken too early. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends people without symptoms wait five days after an exposure. That’s because it generally takes several days before the antigens reach levels detectable via testing with a nose swab.
All 22 home antigen tests on the U.S. market were authorized for emergency use based on preliminary data, while companies and researchers gathered more definitive metrics on their accuracy.
The FDA said its latest decision reflects new information on the accuracy of antigen tests. In a government study, adding a third test improved accuracy from 62% to 79%.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has become the honorary co-chairman of a nonpartisan group devoted to education about the Constitution, joining Justice Neil Gorsuch at a time of intense political polarization and rising skepticism about the court’s independence.
The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia said Thursday that Breyer and Gorsuch, who has served since 2019, will be spokesmen for civics education and civility in politics.
The justices’ decision to work together “is especially meaningful in this polarized time,” Jeffrey Rosen, the center’s president and CEO, said.
The 84-year-old Breyer retired at the end of June after nearly 28 years as a justice. His seat was taken by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the high court’s first Black woman.
Breyer has been a constant voice for seeing the court as something other than “politicians in robes” even as the court has issued a string of conservative-driven decisions topped by eliminating the constitutional right to abortion and overturning Roe v. Wade.
In recent months, the court with six Republican-appointed conservatives and three liberals appointed by Democrats also has expanded gun rights, weakened the separation of church and state and constrained the Biden administration’s efforts to combat climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.
Gorsuch was in the majority of all those cases and Breyer, in dissent.
Challenges to affirmative action in education and key election-related cases highlight the term that begins in October and seem likely to produce more sharp splits along ideological lines.
“Despite the strong disagreements on the court, Justices Breyer and Gorsuch, like all their colleagues, unite around a shared belief that civics are necessary for the future of the republic,” Rosen said.
Recent public opinions surveys have shown a sharp drop in approval of the court and its role as an institution that is above the political fray.
Still, Breyer said last week at a lawyers’ convention in Chicago that he remains optimistic about the American legal system.
In a statement, he said, “The nonpartisan work of the National Constitution Center is essential, and I look forward to working with Justice Gorsuch to promote civil dialogue and debate.”
Breyer also will return to teaching at Harvard Law School.
Past center chairmen have included President Joe Biden, who resigned when he launched his presidential campaign in 2019, and former Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush.
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Real Madrid starts the Spanish league season overflowing with confidence that it can retain the domestic title despite Barcelona spending big to add top talent to its team.
Barcelona hosts Rayo Vallecano on Saturday, a day before Madrid visits the newly promoted Almería in the opening round of the league.
Led by Ballon d’Or favorite Karim Benzema, Madrid delivered an outstanding campaign last season by winning the Champions League for a record-extending 14th time and running away from Barcelona and Atlético Madrid in the league.
After retaining all its starters and important reserves, as well as making select reinforcements to its midfield and defense, Carlo Ancelotti’s team is openly talking about their aspirations to sweep up all the titles in play.
Madrid was in championship form on Wednesday when it won the UEFA Super Cup after easing past Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0 thanks to goals by Benzema and David Alaba. Now it wants to not only defend its European and Spanish titles, but also win the Copa del Rey and the Spanish Super Cup.
“When you’re successful, it’s difficult to do it again,” Madrid defender Dani Carvajal said after the victory over Frankfurt. “We’re going to fight for everything. Barcelona, Atlético and Sevilla will make life difficult in La Liga. We have to approach the Champions League game by game. We’ve won one title and we’re aiming for the next five.”
Madrid will start its league title defense on Sunday in southern Spain at Almería, which won the second division last season. The modest Almería’s biggest threat is Nigeria forward Umar Sadiq.
Ancelotti, who exceeded expectations last season after returning for a second stint in charge of the team, should have more to work with from the bench this season. Little-used veterans Gareth Bale, Isco Alarcón and Marcelo have all left. Madrid has added defender Antonio Rüdiger and defending midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni.
Madrid will still boast its mix of proven winners in Benzema, Luka Modric, Toni Kroos and Thibaut Courtois, along with younger players Vinícius Júnior, Federico Valverde, Éder Militão and Rodrygo.
Ancelotti praised the team spirit his players have forged, saying that “this is the healthiest (locker room) I have coached” in his long career that has included success at AC Milan, Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain.
Madrid, however, should have to face a tougher challenge from Barcelona, which finished 13 points adrift in second place after a tumultuous season following the exit of Lionel Messi.
Unable to contemplate another year without a title, the highly indebted Barcelona sold 25% of its Spanish league television rights for the next 25 years and part of its own production company to get the money needed to reinforce its squad.
So instead of fielding an attack led by Memphis Depay and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, former Bayern star Robert Lewandowski will be its top striker. Winger Raphinha has arrived from Leeds to compete with Ousmane Dembélé, Ferran Torres and Ansu Fati for playing time on either side of Lewandowski, while Jules Koundé moved from Sevilla to greatly boost its defense. Those three signings cost the club 160 million euros ($165 million). Barcelona also bulked up in defense with Andreas Christensen and in midfield with Franck Kessie, who arrived as free agents.
“We have to admit that (Barcelona) has added some quality players, with Raphinha, who I know well, with Lewandowski, who is another world-class player,” Madrid midfielder Casemiro said. “They will try to play their best. We will also want to play better, so let the best team finish on top.”
It remains unclear if Barcelona’s new signings will be able to make their competitive debuts against Rayo due to the league’s salary cap rules that limit how much clubs can spend on players relative to their financial balance. With Barcelona still holding 1 billion euros ($1 billion) in debt, it has seen its salary cap shrink dramatically.
Club president Joan Laporta has said that his club will be able to register its new signings but two days before the home opener at Camp Nou, Barcelona has yet to officially register Lewandowski and its other new players with the league. Madrid, Atlético and Sevilla, along with most of the other clubs, have registered their new players. The deadline is the end of August to play in the 2022-23 league season.
So Barcelona’s busy off-season is likely not over. The club may need to sell players or more club assets to get its new transfers in league action as it tries to give Madrid a genuine challenge.
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Which scratching pad for cats is best?
Scratching pads for cats sit horizontally rather than vertically like scratching posts do. If your feline friends tend to scratch the rug or the couch cushions, a scratching pad is the best choice to keep them happy and keep their claws out of your soft furnishings.
It’s no secret that cats can be picky, so it’s worth considering all the features of a scratching pad to make sure you buy one your pet loves. The CatGuru The Infinity Scratcher is a durable choice.
What to know before you buy a scratching pad for cats
Cardboard vs. sisal
Most scratching pads are made from either corrugated cardboard or sisal. If you’ve had a scratcher that your cat didn’t use, give one made from a different material a try.
- Cardboard: Cardboard scratchers have a soft texture that many cats love, as it’s similar to soft roots and trees cats’ wild ancestors would have scratched. However, its soft texture is also a disadvantage, as cardboard scratchers usually only last a few months.
- Sisal: Sisal is a plant fiber that’s much more durable than cardboard, so sisal scratchers last significantly longer. While some cats love it, you’ll find others that don’t like the firm texture.
Flat vs. curved
You can find scratching pads that are both curved and flat. Some cats strongly prefer one over the other, while others are happy with either.
- Curved: Some cats prefer the tactile sensation of scratching a slightly curved surface, plus scratching pads of this shape are more comfortable for cats to lounge on.
- Flat: Within flat scratchers, you have two types: one is raised an inch or two and is perfect for use on the floor and another is completely flat, like a mat. The latter is great for covering a spot your cat usually scratches, such as on the floor or on a seat cushion.
Size
Cat scratching pads come in various sizes, from small to XX-large. It’s worth checking the exact dimensions to ensure any scratcher you’re considering is big enough to fit your cat or cover the area you want to protect. Ideally, a scratcher should comfortably fit your cat, with a spare room in which to scratch.
What to look for in a quality scratching pad for cats
Reversible
Cardboard cat scratching pads are often reversible, so when one side wears out, there’s another your cat can use. This extends the pad’s lifespan, so you won’t need to replace it as soon as you would otherwise.
Furniture covers
You can find a handful of scratching pads designed to hang over the arm of a couch or armchair and down the outside. This is perfect for protecting soft furnishings from cats that scratch where they shouldn’t.
Multipacks
Some scratching pads are sold in packs of two or more. This is an economical option if you have more than one cat or want to position scratchers in several places around your home where your cat tends to scratch.
How much you can expect to spend on a scratching pad for cats
The most affordable pads start at around $10-$15, while larger and more durable versions cost as much as $50.
Scratching pad for cats FAQ
Do cats need scratch pads?
A. Scratching is a natural and instinctive behavior for cats. They scratch to mark territory, to remove dead parts of their claws, as a form of exercise and to express emotions, such as stress or excitement.
If cats aren’t given some form of scratcher, whether a cat scratching post, pad or other, they’re likely to scratch items in your home that they aren’t supposed to. Therefore, it only makes sense to buy scratchers for cats.
Why won’t my cat use a scratcher?
A. It’s frustrating when you buy scratchers for cats, but they still take their claws to your furniture, door frames or other favorite off-limits scratching spots. Some cats prefer vertical or horizontal scratching, so if you’ve tried scratching posts, see if they prefer scratching pads and vice-versa.
It can also help to position scratchers near or over the top of where cats usually scratch. Positive reinforcement is also a great tool. Try praising and feeding cats treats when they use scratchers.
What’s the best scratching pad for cats to buy?
Top scratching pad for cats
CatGuru The Infinity Scratcher
What you need to know: Thanks to its curved design, this pad is great for both scratching and lounging.
What you’ll love: Although it’s made from cardboard, it’s far more durable than cheaper alternatives and is reversible for double the use. It’s made with natural soy ink and non-toxic glue. It comes in small and XXL sizes.
What you should consider: It’s not wide enough to comfortably accommodate large cats.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top scratching pad for cats for the money
What you need to know: Available in flat and curved versions, there’s something to suit most cats.
What you’ll love: The cardboard is high-density and evenly compressed to mimic the feeling of tree bark, which cats would naturally scratch. It’s glued with all-natural, non-toxic cornstarch. The dual-sided design memes cats get more use out of it.
What you should consider: Check the sizes before buying, as some buyers expected theirs to be larger.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
M and MK Pet Natural Sisal Cat Scratcher Mat
What you need to know: Made from sisal, this pad is a great choice for cats who don’t like cardboard or tear through it too quickly.
What you’ll love: It’s flat and thin, so you can use it to cover areas of carpet or seat cushions that your cat likes to scratch. The sisal natural is durable and long-lasting. You can choose from two sizes. The non-slip base keeps it from sliding around.
What you should consider: It’s tricky to clean as litter and other debris get stuck in the weave.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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A vacuum doesn’t have to be large and bulky to be an effective cleaning machine
Whether you’ll be living in a dorm an apartment when the fall college semester begins, chances are you’ll have limited space. When it comes to keeping it neat and clean, you may wonder where you’ll store a vacuum when it’s not being used. The good news is that portable models are available that are powerful enough to whisk away dirt yet small enough to stash in a corner or closet.
In addition to a space-saving design, the best portable vacuums have features such as onboard cleaning tools and powerful suction that make quick cleanups a breeze. Affordability is also important for college students on a budget.
Features to look for in a portable vacuum
Vacuum size is undoubtedly an important feature for dorm and apartment dwellers. However, vacuum cleaners that lack important features may not do a thorough job of keeping your place clean.
Powerful suction: Even in compact spaces, a vacuum must offer reliable suction. You’ll want something that grabs dirt with minimal effort.
Onboard tools: Brushes, hoses and crevice tools come in handy for cleaning tight areas, stairs and overhead spaces.
Removable dirt cup: Some well-performing vacuums still require bags, but they aren’t the most convenient models for college students. That’s because replacing the bags can be tedious, plus there is the continued cost of new bags. Today, most trusted brands offer vacuums across all categories that have removable dirt cups. These are economical and easy to empty and put back in place for the next use.
Rechargeable battery: Also called cordless vacuums, models that are powered by rechargeable batteries offer the convenience of cord-free operation.
Retractable cord: When a vacuum does have a cord, an auto-rewind function that stores it onboard saves space and hassles.
Easy maneuverability: Swivel steering, a lightweight build and angled tops make vacuums effective at their job. Maneuverability is also important in small rooms when cleaning around and under objects such as beds and desks.
Types of portable vacuums
Upright vacuums
Upright models offer reliable suction but can be bulky. However, some brands make models with slim designs that can be easily stored in tight spaces.
Stick vacuums
With a thin and compact build, stick vacs are ideal for dorm and apartment living. Cordless models are pricier than their corded counterparts but provide better suction.
Robotic vacuums
Vacuuming robots don’t take up much space. While they need room to mark their boundaries, some work well in small rooms. Although they used to be expensive, there are robotic vacuums available today for most budgets.
Canister vacuums
In the past, canister vacs were on the large side and required bags. Modern canister models aren’t bulky, and some with removable dirt cups are available. Budget-friendly options are also available.
Handheld vacuums
Handheld vacuums are compact and affordable. They are best for spot cleaning but aren’t ideal for vacuuming entire rooms.
Best portable vacuums
Best portable upright vacuums
Shark Navigator Light Upright Vacuum
The slim structure of the bagless Navigator Light makes it a good choice for any college student who prefers an upright but has minimal storage space. It delivers the impressive suction power that Shark is known for, and has useful onboard tools for hard-to-reach areas.
Eureka Airspeed Ultra Lightweight Compact Upright Vacuum
In addition to a trim design, this vacuum weighs just under eight pounds which makes it easy to maneuver. Other features of convenience include a dust brush, crevice tool and large dirt cup. The low price is also appealing to budget-conscious college students.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Best stick vacuums
Samsung Jet 75 Cordless Stick Vacuum
Versatile attachments, an ultra-compact build, impressive suction and long battery life per charge make this cordless stick vacuum a top-selling option. Although it’s one of the priciest options we considered, it’s a solid investment that can easily go from your dorm to your first place after college.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Eureka RapidClean Pro Lightweight Cordless Stick Vacuum
This cordless stick vac is powerful and super easy to maneuver. It gets up to 40 minutes of use with each charge and takes up minimal storage space. What’s more, it’s available at one of the lowest prices for vacuums in the cordless stick class, making it a sound choice for anyone who’s college-bound.
Sold by Amazon
Bissell Featherweight Stick Vacuum
When it comes to quick, simple cleanups in small spaces, a classic stick vacuum will do. The featherweight lives up to its name by being lightweight and easy to move. This versatile bagless model also doubles as a handheld thanks to the unit that detaches from the base.
Best robotic vacuums for small spaces
An affordable robotic model, this vacuum doesn’t make a lot of noise as it does the cleaning for you. It’s slim and capable of cleaning tight spaces. Wi-Fi connectivity allows you to pair it with your phone for effortless control.
Sold by Amazon
It’s easy to operate this robotic vacuum that boasts six cleaning modes for numerous cleanup tasks. Once charged, it gets up to 120 minutes of runtime. Students will appreciate the low price that makes it easy to own a robotic option.
Sold by Amazon
Best compact canister vacuums
Eureka Whirlwind Canister Vacuum
Lightweight, affordable and highly portable, the Whirlwind is a canister vac that’s ideal for dorm life. It’s bagless and cleans carpet and hard flooring in a snap. We love the automatic cord rewind that keeps the cord out of the way between uses.
Sold by Amazon
This is another compact bagless canister vacuum that suits the college lifestyle. A spacious dirt cup, retractable cord and reliable suction are some of its selling points. It’s also available at a price that won’t break a limited budget.
Best handheld vacuums
Black and Decker 20-Volt Max Flex Handheld Vacuum
The flex is ideal for small places, as it’s powerful yet compact and simple to store. Although it’s a handheld model, it comes with a hose that increases its reach. It’s powered by a rechargeable battery so there’s no cord to get in the way. The low price is another appealing highlight.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Dirt Devil Flipout Hand Vacuum
Eliminating minor messes is a straightforward job with a small hand vac. This little powerhouse has decent suction and an easy-to-empty dirt cup. It’s powered by a rechargeable battery that gets as long as 13 hours of runtime when fully charged.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tua Tagovailoa would rather chat with Tom Brady than answer questions about him taking his job.
Tagovailoa spent time talking with Brady while the Miami Dolphins and Tampa Bay Buccaneers held a joint practice Wednesday. He had a simple reply when asked about Miami being penalized for tampering with Brady.
“I’m still here. To me, that’s all noise at this point,” Tagovailoa said.
Last week, the NFL suspended Dolphins owner Stephen Ross through Oct. 17, fined him $1.5 million and docked the team a first-round pick in the 2023 draft and a third-round selection in the 2024 draft for talking to Brady while he was under contract with the Patriots in 2019 and Buccaneers in 2021.
The league’s investigation determined the Dolphins had impermissible communications with both Brady and his agent, Don Yee, no later than early December 2021 and after the season, while he was under contract to the Buccaneers.
Those discussions focused on Brady becoming a limited partner in the Dolphins and possibly serving as a football executive, although at times they also included the possibility he would play for the Dolphins. The league says Ross and Dolphins vice chairman/limited partner Bruce Beal participated in the discussions.
Brady, who turned 45 last week, briefly retired after last season. He hasn’t spoken to reporters since the league punished the Dolphins but the seven-time Super Bowl champion spoke to Tagovailoa on the field.
“We were talking on the side for a good bit,” Tagovailoa said. “He was just asking how the offseason was. We were talking a little about golf at the same time. But for the most part, 23 years playing, that’s a long time. That’s a lot of knowledge, so I was asking him some things and he gave me some good insight on. I’m going to keep that between me and Tom. Then if you guys want to ask Tom, you can go ask him.”
Tagovailoa said Brady’s “composure in the pocket” impressed him the most.
“Nothing really rattles him. When you have a guy in your face, he’s just – subtle movements and throwing the ball,” Tagovailoa said. “I would say those are top trait qualities in a really good quarterback with him, Russ (Russell Wilson), Aaron Rodgers, all of those big-time guys.”
The Dolphins and Buccaneers will practice again Thursday ahead of their preseason opener Saturday night.
First-year Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel downplayed the Brady story.
“For me, nothing happened,” he said. “Everyone else is the one making it awkward. It doesn’t occupy a single iota of space with anybody. It’s hard enough to be good in this league. As the Miami Dolphins, all of our energy is very coordinated and only has to do with us getting better and everything else would be an opportunity cost that we’re not willing to expend.”
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- German DAX futures flat
- UK FTSE futures flat
Overall risk tones are a bit more muted even with S&P 500 futures being up 11 points, or 0.2%, currently. There is a sense that markets are looking more cautious as the bond market isn't really playing ball following the US CPI data on Wednesday. Some food for thought here. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurostoxx-futures-flat-in-european-trading-20220812/ | 2022-08-12T06:38:56Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurostoxx-futures-flat-in-european-trading-20220812/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
- Prior +0.8%
- GDP +2.9% vs +2.8% y/y expected
- Prior +8.7%
Looking at the details, services output declined by 0.4% with the largest negative contribution coming from human health and social work activities, reflecting a reduction in COVID-19
Covid-19
Covid-19 or the novel Coronavirus is a pandemic that has yielded wide ranging economic turmoil and volatility across financial markets in 2020. The first cases of Covid-19 were reported in Wuhan, China in late 2019. Since then, the virus has expanded globally, infecting millions worldwide. The virus has been extremely controversial, namely in the United States, which became heavily politicized during the 2020 presidential election. The Covid-19 pandemic is completely unprecedented in modern times, with the most recent example being the influenza outbreak in 1918. Financial markets and global economies were completely unprepared for the scope of the virus, causing massive shutdowns, unemployment, and other hardships in an effort to contain and mitigate the virus. How Has Covid-19 Affected Markets? Virtually every asset has in some way been affected by Covid-19. Early on, financial markets and equities collapsed, with the nadir coming in March 2020 in the United States and Europe. Widespread lockdowns led to an economic standstill, resulting in stimulus packages to help keep domestic economies functioning. The result of this has been a depreciation of currencies such as the US dollar, with the Federal Reserve printing billions of dollars to pare economic losses. Forex markets have since experienced historic levels of volatility, leading some to classify the Covid-19 pandemic as a Black Swan event. Financial markets have for the most part rebounded in 2020 at the time of writing, though many headwinds remain in terms of economic recovery. Presently, unemployment rates and other indicators remain problematic, and when coupled with rising rates of infection, portend additional monetary policy action or stimulus in both Europe and the US. At the time of writing there is no vaccine for Covid-19 though several companies such as Pfizer and Moderna are close to producing a viable vaccine.
Covid-19 or the novel Coronavirus is a pandemic that has yielded wide ranging economic turmoil and volatility across financial markets in 2020. The first cases of Covid-19 were reported in Wuhan, China in late 2019. Since then, the virus has expanded globally, infecting millions worldwide. The virus has been extremely controversial, namely in the United States, which became heavily politicized during the 2020 presidential election. The Covid-19 pandemic is completely unprecedented in modern times, with the most recent example being the influenza outbreak in 1918. Financial markets and global economies were completely unprepared for the scope of the virus, causing massive shutdowns, unemployment, and other hardships in an effort to contain and mitigate the virus. How Has Covid-19 Affected Markets? Virtually every asset has in some way been affected by Covid-19. Early on, financial markets and equities collapsed, with the nadir coming in March 2020 in the United States and Europe. Widespread lockdowns led to an economic standstill, resulting in stimulus packages to help keep domestic economies functioning. The result of this has been a depreciation of currencies such as the US dollar, with the Federal Reserve printing billions of dollars to pare economic losses. Forex markets have since experienced historic levels of volatility, leading some to classify the Covid-19 pandemic as a Black Swan event. Financial markets have for the most part rebounded in 2020 at the time of writing, though many headwinds remain in terms of economic recovery. Presently, unemployment rates and other indicators remain problematic, and when coupled with rising rates of infection, portend additional monetary policy action or stimulus in both Europe and the US. At the time of writing there is no vaccine for Covid-19 though several companies such as Pfizer and Moderna are close to producing a viable vaccine.
Read this Term activities. Household consumption declined by 0.2% with a positive contribution from net trade helping to offset things. Overall, Q2 GDP is seen 0.6% above its pre-pandemic levels i.e. Q4 2019.
The pound caught a light spike on the data from 1.2190 to 1.2215 upon release as the figures were better than anticipated but it still points to a contraction in the UK economy in Q2. I don't see that as being much comfort as it just pushes the recession narrative one step closer than the BOE forecast of early next year.
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Team: Creighton Bluejays
2021-22 Record: 23-12, 12-7 Big East
2021-22 Big East Finish: Fourth, a game behind UConn and a game in front of Marquette.
Final 2021-22 KenPom.com Ranking: #50
Postseason? After scrapping their way to the Big East tournament championship game before falling to Villanova, Creighton earned a #9 seed in the NCAA tournament and advanced to the second round thanks to an overtime win against #8 seed San Diego State. They gave eventual champion Kansas absolute fits for 40 minutes, keeping it to a one possession game with just a minute to play, but the Jayhawks pulled away for the 79-72 win.
Key Departures: Two very big ones and one more worth mentioning. We have to start with Ryan Hawkins, the D2 grad transfer that ported his game to the Big East with almost zero difficulty. He led the Bluejays in scoring and rebounding — just barely by the end of the season — and connected on nearly 36% of his long range attempts, too. He was a major component of who and what Creighton basketball was last season, but we’re going to hold off on digging deeper into that until we get to the Outlook section.
Alex O’Connell maybe doesn’t jump off the page as a major contributor last year, at least not at the level Hawkins was, but the Jays are still going to miss him. #3 on the team at 11.8 points per game, and at 6’6”, he was sneaky tall (I didn’t realize he was that tall, tbh) and a pretty good rebounder (5.3 per game) for his position, too. He was also one of just three Bluejays to average more than two assists, which does help make up for the fact that he was a sub-par three-point shooter last season at 32.7%. There’s also KeyShawn Feazell, who departs the program after spending his COVID bonus season in Omaha. He wasn’t a big role guy, but he was a role guy after appearing in all 35 CU games and averaging 9.9 minutes a night. That number is propped up by a string of double digit games in November and December, but as Big East play wound on, he was usually under 10 minutes a night…. But the 6’9” big man from Mississippi did get to start Creighton’s NCAA tournament game against Kansas.
Key Returners: There’s A LOT of them, including five of their top seven scorers from 2021-22. Let’s start with the pairing of Ryan Nembhard and Ryan Kalkbrenner, who are entangled heading into next season not just because of their shared first names. Both men did not finish the season as part of the healthy active roster and so there’s at least a tiiiiiny bit of question marks on them right now. Nembhard broke his wrist against St. John’s on February 23rd and missed the final eight games of the year, while Kalkbrenner suffered a knee injury during the overtime session of Creighton’s NCAA tournament game against San Diego State and thus missed the Kansas game two days later when the season ended. Kalkbrenner finished #2 on the team in scoring and rebounding, losing out on both team titles to Hawkins just barely at 13.1 and 7.7 respectively. Nembhard had an objectively great freshman year, taking home the Big East Freshman of the Year trophy even while missing CU’s final three regular season games. He averaged 11.3 points, one of five guys on the squad north of 10 per game, along with 3.1 rebounds and a team high 4.4 assists per game.
Arthur Kaluma is the last of the three returning guys who averaged over 10 points a game last season, and he might be the returning guy who will have to step up the most this coming winter for the Bluejays to be successful. As a freshman, he started in 30 of his 31 appearances, missing four games in February due to a knee injury. The Arizona product added 10.4 points, 5.4 rebounds, and 1.3 assists per game.
Trey Alexander was the not the most heralded addition to Creighton’s roster last year, but he ended up being a starter by the end of the season and a pretty notable contributor at least in terms of minutes played all year long. The 6’4” guard slipped into the starting lineup when Kaluma went down with an injury and then Nembhard’s injury kept him in the first five when Kaluma was ready to take his spot back. 7.3 points, 3.7 rebounds, and 2.5 assists per game aren’t blow away numbers, but Alexander did play double digit minutes in every game and was turning into an Iron Man for the Jays by the end of the season. Rati Andronikashvili is the last guy we need to mention, and his first official season of Division 1 action was….. fine. The best ranked Creighton recruit this century when he committed and signed missed the 2020-21 season with a knee injury but bounced back to average over 13 minutes per game while appearing in 33 games this year. That’s not nothing, although his stat sheet contributions aren’t really worth mentioning…. But he did straight up win Creighton a game himself by locking up Darryl Morsell when the Golden Eagles needed a bucket.
Key Additions: The conversation here starts with Baylor Scheierman, as his transfer from South Dakota State is a big reason why the Bluejays are receiving high praise from national media heading into next year. After a perfectly fine freshman year for the Jackrabbits, Scheierman followed that up with two great seasons, averaging 15.9 points, 8.4 rebounds, 4.3 assists, 1.2 steals, and shooting a whopping 45.6% from long range. He is an offensive firehose to say the least.
He’s also not the only transfer inbound on the roster. Francisco Farabello joins the team after three seasons at TCU. The 6’4” Argentinian was A Guy for Jamie Dixon’s Frogs, averaging 4.4 points and just under two rebounds and two assists in his 73 career appearances. He is a career 40% long range shooter though, and those kind of guys always have a chance to make a major impact for Creighton.
There are also five freshmen on the roster this season, although two of them are Mason Miller and Zander Yates, both of whom redshirted a year ago for the Bluejays. Miller was a top 75 prospect that redshirted for Creighton last season, while Yates, who was high school teammates with Miller in Tennessee, appears to have not even existed in the eyes of 247 Sports. They both count as “additions” to the team since they present the possibility of change from last year’s roster, but both are familiar with what the coaching staff is asking of them. The other three guys are... just guys, with point guard Ben Shtolzberg coming in as the most notable one at #161 in the 247 Sports Composite rankings. We should point out that Fredrick King (6’10”, 236 pounds) was an April addition to the signing class and while he is listed as Not Applicable in 247’s rankings, he does come from the Latin American division of the NBA Academy.
Coach: Greg McDermott, entering his 13th season in charge at Creighton and 22st at the Division 1 level. He has a record of 272-135 with the Bluejays and 552-330 overall when you mix in his seven seasons coaching in Division 2.
Outlook: Well, let’s just get it out in the open, shall we?
Last year, I said that there was “a very real chance” that Creighton was going to be very bad because they effectively returned nothing from the most successful team in program history and were going to be incredibly reliant on not just newcomers but specifically on freshmen. I also attached eight Maybe’s to that statement that maybe, just maybe, head coach Greg McDermott, who I like as a coach, could figure it out and steer it into a positive direction.
Breaking News: Those maybes pretty much nailed exactly what happened to Creighton last year and the Bluejays turned in a season worthy of a #9 seed in the NCAA tournament. Maybe it would have actually been better than that if Ryan Nembhard hadn’t gotten hurt in the closing stretch of the regular season, because maybe they get an extra win (hello, Senior Day loss to Seton Hall) and the committee doesn’t ding them a little for Nembhard’s absence.
So they were good, maybe better than anyone outside of Nebraska expected, and that’s great news for this coming year since they’re returning a bunch of core players. Mix in the fireworks show that is Baylor Scheierman to a team that’s usually a great offensive squad anyway, add a dash of “hey, what’s going on in the Big East this year?” and a spritz of “Jay Wright retired” and you can easily get to thinking that Creighton’s the favorite in the Big East this season.
Except.
Creighton finished last year with KenPom’s #19 ranked defense. That’s obviously very good, no questions asked. That defense helped win them a lot of games last season, especially since the offense struggled at times. Here’s the thing, though: That was also the first time in the KenPom era that Greg McDermott has ever coached a top 20 defense. His previous best? #21 in the country.... back in his last year at Northern Iowa in 2006. #3 was, admittedly, the 2021 season, when the Bluejays finished at #32, but McDermott’s teams have only finished as a top 50 defense in five of his 21 seasons as a head coach as listed on KenPom.com.
In short: Greg McDermott’s teams aren’t historically known for locking you down, so expecting them to be able to do it for a third straight season feels very unlikely just in the “the odds and history are against them” way.
It’s also feeling unlikely because of 1) the departure of Ryan Hawkins and 2) the arrival of Baylor Scheierman. Now, yes, at a glance, trading a 6’7”, 220 pound guy who can shoot it and rebound it for a 6’6”, 205 pound guy who can really shoot it and rebound it can sound like a pretty close straight replacement situation, and if you like Scheierman’s skill set more than Hawkins, then you see big upside for the Bluejays.
However.
Let’s turn our attention to our friends at Hoop Explorer. Here we find that Creighton was more than 20 points per 100 possessions worse on offense — adjusted for competition level, by the way! — when Hawkins was off the floor as well as more than 15 points per 100 possessions worse on defense. Basically: Ryan Hawkins had a major impact on everything the Bluejays did, especially on defense.
South Dakota State?
Uh. Well. The Jackrabbits got a teensy bit — 3.3 adjusted points per 100 possessions — better on offense when Scheierman was off the floor and then nearly nine points worse on defense. For the purposes of our conversation about defense, it’s a good sign that SDSU got worse when Scheierman left the floor.... but they were allowing 103.7 points per possession when adjusted for competition level in the Summit League when he was on the floor. They were not a good defensive team in the slightest, finishing the year at #217 in the country by KenPom’s math, so that’s not a ringing endorsement of Scheierman being able to duplicate Hawkins’ impact on that end. The Jackrabbits getting more efficient on offense — looks like their assist rate went thru the roof — when Scheierman was off the floor isn’t a great sign relative to fitting into a Greg McDermott “we are going to attempt to shoot you off the floor at every position” type of offense.
One more note of teensy concern about just stapling Scheierman into the returning core and saying “we’re good here”? Last year, South Dakota State played five games against what KenPom calls top 100 level opponents, adjusting for home and/or away status. Baylor Scheierman shot 7-for-30 — 23.3%!!! — from long range in those five games. Even worse? He was at 18.2% before a 3-for-8 outing against Providence in the NCAA tournament to close the season.
For his career at SDSU, Scheierman is 18-for-69, or 26.1%, from long range against those KenPom top 100 teams. Last year, all but four — twice vs Georgetown and at home against Butler and DePaul — Big East games were top 100 games. If Scheierman’s shooting has been dependent on being able to carve it up against the North Dakotas and Denvers of the world — 48.9% in league play last year, by the way — that’s not a particularly great sign for his game translating to the Big East.
I’m not saying it’s time to panic. Creighton’s still the favorite, and if there’s a coach who’s going to figure out how to iron out these kinds of problems, it’s Greg McDermott. If anything, it’s likely that the Bluejays have a very good season with a back-to-normal McDermott offense and a defense that’s good enough to hold up its end of things. But it’s probably time to stop doing things like putting the Bluejays at #3 in the country and think fringe top 25 is more likely, especially if Ryan Nembhard is going to try to have a turnover rate that matches his assist rate again. | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/8/11/23295948/big-east-mens-basketball-preview-creighton-bluejays-mcdermott-kalkbrenner-nembhard-scheierman | 2022-08-12T06:41:47Z | anonymouseagle.com | control | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/8/11/23295948/big-east-mens-basketball-preview-creighton-bluejays-mcdermott-kalkbrenner-nembhard-scheierman | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Big East officially kicked off the fall sports season on Thursday afternoon when they announced the results of the poll of the league’s coaches to determine the preseason awards in women’s soccer. As you might be able to discern from the headline, it’s a bit of a disappointing day for Marquette. The Golden Eagles were picked to finish eighth in the conference this fall. They acquired 42 points in the polling, with 10 points going for a first place vote and one point for a last place vote. Coaches were not allowed to vote for their own teams.
That’s just one point behind seventh place Creighton, so at least that’s close. It is, however, 15 points away from sixth place Connecticut, and that’s not ideal. The top six teams in the Big East qualify for the conference tournament, and at the moment, it certainly appears that the collection of the league’s coaches don’t see MU as close to that top six. They are 11 points in front of ninth place DePaul, so there is that.
Here’s the full rundown on the voting, which is notable as there are three teams getting first place votes as opposed to the usual “can’t vote for your own team” thing giving us two teams with a top vote.
- Georgetown, 98 points (8 first place votes)
- Xavier, 91 (2)
- Butler, 83 (1)
- Providence, 69
- St. John’s, 59
- Connecticut Huskies, 57
- Creighton, 43
- Marquette, 42
- DePaul, 31
- Villanova, 22
- Seton Hall, 10
Unsurprisingly, Marquette did not pick up any of the three individual awards given out by the league at the start of the season. Also unsurprisingly but disappointingly, MU did not get anyone on the 11 woman preseason all-conference team. As a Second Team honoreee last fall, midfielder Katrina Wetherell would have been Marquette’s best shot at that, but if you’re voting MU clearly in the back half of the league, then there’s no reason to give an all-conference spot to the Golden Eagles. Can’t say I blame anyone here, as I put MU in my top six but still couldn’t justify giving Wetherell a place in that list of 11.
All three individual awards went in the direction I expected, just not the way I picked them. The league’s coaches installed Butler’s Katie Soderstrom as the preseason Offensive Player of the Year, because that’s what you do for the most productive returning player. Georgetown’s Allie Augur was named preseason Goalkeeper of the Year, because that’s what you do when the best statistical keeper from last season is returning. Preseason Defensive Player of the Year..... well, that’s interesting. My pick was Butler’s Aliya Diagne, who did make her way onto the preseason all-conference team. The coaches picked Georgetown’s Julia Leas, and at this point, I would like to provide you with two quotes. The first is me, nine days ago, discussing my pick of Diagne as PDPOY:
Watch the coaches figure out a way to give this to someone from Georgetown even though the Hoyas had three players listed as Graduate Students listed as defenders last season.
The second is the Big East press release on last fall’s end of season awards, discussing Leas being named Big East Midfielder of the Year:
Leas helped facilitate a Georgetown offense which averaged a BIG EAST-best 6.20 points per game over 10 league contests.
Hey, check it out, I was right, the coaches figured out a way to give this to a Georgetown player, even though nine months ago she was the best midfielder in the conference because of her offensive play! Great job, everybody!
Let’s wrap up with the full 11 woman preseason all-Big East team. Asterisks mark the players that were unanimous picks by the coaches. I went 9-for-11 on these picks, so it’s kind of surprising that there’s only three players named by all 10 coaches that aren’t their own coach, even more so since one of them is not the seemingly obvious pick for the best keeper in the league heading into the season.
Preseason All-Big East Team
Aliya Diagne, Butler, R-Jr., D
Katie Soderstrom, Butler, R-Sr., F*
Jaydah Bedoya, Connecticut, Jr., F
Aida Kardovic, Creighton, Sr., M*
Allie Augur, Georgetown, Sr., GK
Julia Leas, Georgetown, Sr., M*
Gia Vicari, Georgetown, Sr., F
Meg Hughes, Providence, Jr., F
Jessica Garziano, St. John’s, Sr., M
Molly McLaughlin, Xavier, Grad., M
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Fast rising Nigerian Afro pop and R and B artiste, Ojugbana Deborah Gold Ndidi with the stage name ‘Deborah Gold ’ is set for the official release and unveiling of her debut single titled ‘ Mister’.
Deborah Gold’s sojourn into music started at a tender age when she was part of a little girls musical group at age 11 where she drew interest in music. However, amazingly at age 14, she started putting lyrics together and writing out her own personal songs.
Inspired by acts like Madonna, Toni Braxton, Lady Gaga and Beyoncé, after her studies at the North American University, Houdegbe, she made the decision to pursue a career in music.
Professionally, Deborah Gold started recording at age 21 as she is now set to make her impact in the entertainment industry and as well bless the world with her beautiful vocals.
Speaking on the debut song, Deborah Gold disclosed that the song talks about love, heartache, affection and loyalty.
“Also, it’s about strength, self knowledge, and it embodies a strong sense of self confidence”, she said.
Managed by Kbee promo world, Deborah Gold is set to make an impact with her vocal prowess. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/deborah-gold-talks-strength-with-debut-single-mister/ | 2022-08-12T06:47:38Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/deborah-gold-talks-strength-with-debut-single-mister/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Emerging Nigerian Afropop singer/producer, IceBeatChillz is poised to take over the music scene.
On Saturday August 6, the musician held a special event tagged ‘Afro Got Soul: IceBeatChillz Live’ at the poolside of The Blowfish Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, to promote his upcoming mini-album titled ‘Love is King’.
“I am just preparing myself just like a newborn baby. This is just the tip of the iceberg. An EP is coming, this is to showcase the soul music of Afrobeats. I am a musician, people don’t really know me, this ‘Afro Got Soul’ night, the first episode is to showcase my brand as a full musician, someone that can play keys and still sing. I just want people to vibe along with us, while we work on the EP,” he said.
As a musical prodigy, IceBeatChillz produced the entire body of ‘Love is King’ and plays the instruments such as piano, guitar and saxophone on many of the songs as well.
Speaking on why he solely produced the album, IceBeatChillz said: “As a matter of fact, a lot of producers wanted to join in the production of the EP but I decided not to feature any. It’s not as if I don’t want them to feature but I feel I am capable of producing all the tracks in the album and stay alone because it is a free gift from God.”
He added, “This is to create a foundation for me for people to understand that I am a major producer.”
Emerging out of a past of loneliness and wander, amidst a world of struggle and division, IceBeatChillz is gifting the world with a message of Love off the album.
“I sat down and saw that love is everything we ever needed in life. First of all, God himself is love, the woman that truly loves a man, surrenders everything, and believes so much in the man,” the singer said, adding, “Love is king, love leads, the love we have for each other is nothing less than the life that we live. I actually believe that we can still show love for each other regardless of our ethnic differences and diversities.”
IceBeatChillz, a multi-instrumentalist, came into brighter spotlight when he got signed to Crystal Clear Records in 2021.
As an instrumentalist, music producer and artist, the romantic crooner has seen his career take off with his debut single, ‘Area’, featuring Jamaican dancehall great, Beenie Man.
The song racked up streams last year and hit UK Music Week’s Black Music Charts and Pop Charts at #7 and #10, respectively, climbing both charts for 9 weeks.
IceBeatChillz’s sophomore single, ‘Bad and Naughty’ was self-produced by himself, ‘Bad and Naughty’ featuring Starboy’s Terri was picked up by the playlist editors of TIDAL, VEVO and more.
The song employs the Afro-Pop style that has taken the world by storm and delivers a tune that should undoubtedly get the dancefloor bubbling.
As a warm up to his highly anticipated EP, the versatile and free soul singer released the smooth, romantic Afrobeat-R&B hybrid single “Special Attention”.
Having begun his career as a music producer, IceBeatChillz has produced for several emerging Afrobeats artistes, including Award winning Afro-Fuji artist, Barry Jhay, and recent Billboard Hot 100 chart topper, Tems.
With a debut mini-album on its way, IceBeatChillz, defies categorization and is on his way to making a powerful impact on the new era of global music. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/fast-rising-musician-icebeatchillz-debuts-with-afro-got-soul-gig/ | 2022-08-12T06:47:45Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/fast-rising-musician-icebeatchillz-debuts-with-afro-got-soul-gig/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The management of the National Assembly on Thursday night confirmed that there was a fire outbreak within the complex.
According to the statement titled ‘Reported fire incident at the House of Representatives new wing today’s, issued by the Director, Information, Mr Agada Rawlings Emmanuel, the fire outbreak occurred in one of the janitor’s offices located in the New Wing of the House of Representatives.
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He said: “There was a fire incident this evening in one of the janitor’s offices located on the second floor, Room 227 in the new-wing, of the House of Representatives, suspected to have resulted from an electrical fault which was noticed by one of the Staff to the Clerk, House of Representatives, who promptly alerted the Federal Fire Service Unit stationed in the National Assembly Complex.
“Accordingly, the fire have been put out with the assistance of staff on duty who immediately broke into the affected office and effectively deployed stationed fire extinguishers on the floor before the arrival of the fire service officers.
“Consequently, the combined prompt efforts contained the fire to the affected office only and power supply to the wing was put off to enable a full assessment and investigations into the incident.
“It is expected that, after due assessment by the fire service and the Estate and Works Directorate, normalcy in the New Wings, housing all principal officers of the House of Representatives and Honourable members offices, will be restored immediately.
“Management wishes to commend the prompt response/actions by the first responders particularly, National Assembly staff and the Fire Service Unit in helping to curtain the fire outbreak.” | https://tribuneonlineng.com/fire-outbreak-national-assembly-management-confirms-incident-gives-reasons-for-power-outage/ | 2022-08-12T06:47:51Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/fire-outbreak-national-assembly-management-confirms-incident-gives-reasons-for-power-outage/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
- HICP +6.8% vs +6.8% y/y prelim
No change to the initial estimates as French inflation continues to surge, providing little comfort to the economic outlook to start Q3.
No change to the initial estimates as French inflation continues to surge, providing little comfort to the economic outlook to start Q3.
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TRI-CITIES, Wash. - August 12 is National Vinyl Record Day, as the once-outdated method of music consumption continues to grow in popularity. There were over 19.4 million vinyl LP sales reported in 2022, according to data from Luminate. This is a slight increase from the year before, despite overall physical album sales dropping nearly 5%. In fact, the same Luminate study states vinyl sales have increased 361% since 2019.
New music from 2022 is seeing 27.4% more vinyl sales than new music last year. The most popular album so far is Harry’s House by Harry Styles, followed by SOUR by Olivia Rodrigo and good kid, m.A.A.d city by Kendrick Lamar.
Do you buy vinyl records?
There are several record shops in the Tri-Cities, including Rock n Roll Records & Collectables & Etc, Groovy Records and Adventures Underground.
Rock n Roll Records & Collectables & Etc is located at 323 W Kennewick Avenue and opens at 10 a.m. Wednesday-Saturday. It closes at 5 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, and 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. You can find lots of vinyls and collectibles of all kinds, like comics and coins.
Groovy Records is located at 105 S Washington Street in Kennewick. It is open Saturdays from 11 a.m. through 3 p.m. Groovy Records offers over 100,000 albums, plus speakers and turntables, band merchandise, CDs and cassettes and more.
Adventures Underground is located at 1391 George Washington Way in Richland. The building is more than 10,000 square feet, full of books, comics, records, collectibles, model kits and more. Most of the operations offered are pre-digital age, like audiobook and record listening. The owners describe the business as “pretty much your local neighborhood bookstore, comic book shop, record store, and game and hobby shop.” There’s even a coffee shop inside. You’re welcome to pop in a record, grab a book and relax. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/national-vinyl-record-day-celebrating-in-the-tri-cities/article_f0829b16-1a04-11ed-b881-a72405cd45bd.html | 2022-08-12T07:16:50Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/national-vinyl-record-day-celebrating-in-the-tri-cities/article_f0829b16-1a04-11ed-b881-a72405cd45bd.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PASCO, Wash. — The Pasco Fire Department has designed a new logo for Station 82, which is near the Tri-Cities Airport. Station 82 is home to an engine, a medic unit, a tactical tender and two ARFF trucks.
The new logo features multiple homages to the rich history of the airport. In World War II, the airport was the Naval Air Station Pasco. P52 Mustangs were on the naval base patch at the time, and are featured on the logo.
Behind the feature firefighting Bald Eagle, there is imagery of the current Pasco Airport tower.
The Pasco Fire Department has six collectible chips being distributed. Anyone who collects all six will win a “special prize” in the fall. All you have to do is ask a Pasco Firefighter for a chip when you see them in public. Crews at Station 82 already have a special station-specific chip ready to pass out. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/pasco-fire-department-designs-new-logo-for-station-82/article_5241d204-19fb-11ed-a729-33a03ba48ac5.html | 2022-08-12T07:16:56Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/pasco-fire-department-designs-new-logo-for-station-82/article_5241d204-19fb-11ed-a729-33a03ba48ac5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Getting to the state playoffs in football this upcoming season is going to look a little different for the MCC and Big 9.
The two conferences, along with the Greater Spokane League, have agreed to combine their state berths and hold a three-league playoff.
There will be five teams from the combined playoff that make it to the state tournament in the 3A and 4A classifications.
"If you didn't do any crossovers Spokane would get one berth, the Tri-Cities/MCC would get two berths and the Big 9 would get two berths," said Richland High School Athletic Director Mike Edwards. "If there was a third team that was any good, or a second team out of Spokane, it didn't matter, they're not going to get a chance."
The conversation has been ongoing and applies to football only for this upcoming season.
Edwards says they hope to expand it to other sports in the future.
"How do we get the best teams out and how do we get some good competition between all of us. And so we put them all in the same pot in the hope that we get the five best schools the advancement to move on."
The MCC, Big 9 and GSL are the only three leagues that have 3A and 4A teams in Eastern Washington.
The high school football season begins Friday, September 2nd and SWX will be broadcasting Prosser at Sunnyside. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/sports/high_school_sports/changes-coming-to-state-football-playoff-berths/article_83a48780-19fe-11ed-b815-0f069010d30c.html | 2022-08-12T07:17:02Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/sports/high_school_sports/changes-coming-to-state-football-playoff-berths/article_83a48780-19fe-11ed-b815-0f069010d30c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
RICHLAND, Wash. -- The US Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm went to the Tri-Cities for the first time Thursday. She and US Senator of Washington, Maria Cantwell have big dreams for the Tri-Cities and beyond.
Their goals to combat the world's climate change starts in Washington. Secretary Granholm said the goal is to use 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035 and have zero carbon emissions by 2050.
"Washington is like number 2 in the country in terms of clean energy, so you are working and it's fantastic as a model for other states," said Secretary Granholm.
Secretary Granholm and Senator Cantwell gathered with community leaders at a roundtable. They said they were impressed with how determined leaders were to make these goals happen.
Energy Northwest brought a lot to the table being already carbon-free --and is leading the way in solar energy.
"We're very happy to see that they were just as excited in that as we were and what I heard is that they're both ready to help us achieve that goal," said Energy Northwest CEO, Bob Schuetz.
Secretary Granholm and Senator Cantwell toured the Electricity Infrastructure Operations Center led by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Scientists showed them studies to reduce the devastation wildfires cause in the Pacific Northwest.
"People are working very hard," said Secretary Granholm. "To try to build in the information that will help out cities, our firefighters and everybody in the future understand the conditions."
Senator Cantwell says she's excited to create more jobs in the industry all while keeping clean energy costs low. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/tricities/the-us-secretary-of-energy-first-time-in-tri-cities-has-high-hopes-for-future/article_3b8ff4c6-1a02-11ed-814b-c3ac4f580648.html | 2022-08-12T07:17:08Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/tricities/the-us-secretary-of-energy-first-time-in-tri-cities-has-high-hopes-for-future/article_3b8ff4c6-1a02-11ed-814b-c3ac4f580648.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON — Recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has become the honorary co-chairman of a nonpartisan group devoted to education about the Constitution, joining Justice Neil Gorsuch at a time of intense political polarization and rising skepticism about the court’s independence.
The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia said Thursday that Breyer and Gorsuch, who has served since 2019, will be spokesmen for civics education and civility in politics.
The justices’ decision to work together “is especially meaningful in this polarized time,” Jeffrey Rosen, the center’s president and CEO, said.
The 84-year-old Breyer retired at the end of June after nearly 28 years as a justice. His seat was taken by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the high court’s first Black woman.
Breyer has been a constant voice for seeing the court as something other than “politicians in robes” even as the court has issued a string of conservative-driven decisions topped by eliminating the constitutional right to abortion and overturning Roe v. Wade.
In recent months, the court with six Republican-appointed conservatives and three liberals appointed by Democrats also has expanded gun rights, weakened the separation of church and state and constrained the Biden administration’s efforts to combat climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.
Gorsuch was in the majority of all those cases and Breyer, in dissent.
Challenges to affirmative action in education and key election-related cases highlight the term that begins in October and seem likely to produce more sharp splits along ideological lines.
“Despite the strong disagreements on the court, Justices Breyer and Gorsuch, like all their colleagues, unite around a shared belief that civics are necessary for the future of the republic,” Rosen said.
Recent public opinions surveys have shown a sharp drop in approval of the court and its role as an institution that is above the political fray.
Still, Breyer said last week at a lawyers’ convention in Chicago that he remains optimistic about the American legal system.
In a statement, he said, “The nonpartisan work of the National Constitution Center is essential, and I look forward to working with Justice Gorsuch to promote civil dialogue and debate.”
Breyer also will return to teaching at Harvard Law School.
Past center chairmen have included President Joe Biden, who resigned when he launched his presidential campaign in 2019, and former Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush.
The center’s home in Philadelphia is near the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, where the Constitution was drafted. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/breyer-gorsuch-join-to-promote-education-about-constitution/article_df182220-19ef-11ed-82e7-df5d98b98dc6.html | 2022-08-12T07:21:25Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/breyer-gorsuch-join-to-promote-education-about-constitution/article_df182220-19ef-11ed-82e7-df5d98b98dc6.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
For the fifth time this summer, swimming at Olcott Beach was temporarily banned on Tuesday due to an unsafe level of E. coli in the lake water. The ban was lifted by the county health department on Thursday, after follow-up water testing showed the bacteria counts had subsided.
Health department personnel test the water at “bathing” beaches in the county on a regular basis, from Memorial Day through Labor Day, to verify it’s safe to swim. When bacteria counts are “unsatisfactory” a swim advisory is issued and remains in effect until the counts come down.
E. coli is a type of bacteria associated with fecal matter and it can cause gastrointestinal ailments such as stomach ache and diarrhea. It’s naturally occurring in lakes, rivers, streams and ponds, according to Paul Dicky, director of the health department’s environmental division.
The water at Olcott Beach and the mouth of Eighteen Mile Creek is tested at least once a week. Three samples are taken every Monday — 20 feet from the shore, 40 feet from the shore and at the mouth of the creek — and if E. coli levels are low enough then the beach stays open; if not, more samples are taken on Wednesday and, if needed, on Friday. The beach stays closed until the water tests “safe.”
According to Dicky, the minimum threshold for keeping the beach open is 235 bacteria colony forming units per 100 milliliters of water. In the samples drawn this past Monday, the colony count was 20 at the mouth of the creek, 210 in the deeper lake water along the shore, and 370 in the shallow lake water, thus triggering the beach’s closure.
“When you take a sample, it represents a snapshot in time,” Dicky said. “You have to hope the picture of that sampling represents a broader window.”
Luckily, Dicky said, none of the water testing done at Olcott Beach on a Friday turned up too-high E.coli counts, for that would have meant ordering the beach closed through the weekend.
To date this summer, the beach has been closed five times due to high E. coli. Dicky said it was closed seven times between May and early August 2021. There are fewer closures in recent years, he added. In 2011, Olcott Beach was closed 18 times due to high bacteria counts.
The health department has been trying to determine the source of the contamination, Dicky said. Ruminants found in the water samples indicate the fecal contamination is from grazing animals: cattle, sheep, goat, elk or deer.
“We were initially thinking that since this is showing up in Niagara County, then it might be cattle,” Dicky said. “But the laboratory said that they weren’t able to isolate which ruminant it was, (and) they said that they didn’t think it was cattle.”
Dicky believes that deer are the likely source, since they are the second most common grazers found in the county.
“We don’t have a lot of goats, elk or llamas, but we do have a lot of deer,” he said.
Elevated bacteria counts are sometimes associated with increased lake temperature (about 70 degrees), high winds from the north which stir sediment, or rain within 24 hours of water samples being taken. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/e-colis-the-culprit-in-olcott-beach-closings/article_3f5bbdec-19d0-11ed-8b24-4fb2c96efb11.html | 2022-08-12T07:21:31Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/e-colis-the-culprit-in-olcott-beach-closings/article_3f5bbdec-19d0-11ed-8b24-4fb2c96efb11.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Lockport Main Street Inc. will host Lockport Food Fest from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday on Main Street between Pine and Locust streets, featuring tasty bites of local restaurants’ best dishes.
As part of the show there will be a stage and dining area overlooking the Erie Canal. Music will include a jazz act, North End Revival, and something more “jammy,” Acoustic Jelly.
Other features of the festival include a family zone where the YMCA will set up its inflatable “Gaga Ball Pit” for kids, and the P3 Center, a Niagara Falls-based parenting support agency, will man a 10-by 10-foot tent for small children, as well as a changing area. Joe Taylor of JT’s Martial Arts will give boxing demonstrations directly outside his gym on Pine Street.
Lockport Food Fest is a cash event. The standard serving size is for tasting purposes. Servings cost $3 to $5 each.
Food Fest is the successor to the Taste of Lockport, which ended in 2019.
“Lockport Main Street saw a need for a (food) festival, so it picked it up,” LMSI organizer Grace Platt said. “We try to highlight the Lockport restaurants. ... We want to bring community to the downtown area. It brings people into the heart of the city.”
Participating restaurants include Steamworks Coffee, Kith & Kin Gluten Free Bakeshop & Bistro, Village Eatery Italian Bistro, Molinaro’s Ristorante, B&D Bagels, Stooges Stuffed Burgers, Lock 34 Bar & Grill, Audley’s Caribbean Food truck, Baby Ribs, Seas the Day and the House of Munch. Community Farmers Market vendors Half Baked Cookies, Niagara Produce, Bees Jamboree, Herbalty Cottage and Lock City Books are involved as well.
“There’s a lot going on in Lockport,” Platt said. “And there’s a lot to do.” | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/lockport-food-fest-arriving-sunday-on-main-street/article_fce5c844-19cb-11ed-a07b-df7a533efba3.html | 2022-08-12T07:21:37Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/lockport-food-fest-arriving-sunday-on-main-street/article_fce5c844-19cb-11ed-a07b-df7a533efba3.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Doctors Aren’t Warning Women of the Health Risks of Anal Sex, Leading to Complications: Report
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Anal sex has ascended to a position of cultural intrigue. Movies, shows, and the people who live and breathe on the internet, aren’t quite shying away from speaking of its erotic pleasure. It is daring. Sexy. While the shift reflects a healthy normalization of the different varieties of sex, safety may be lost in cultural translation. Women are at greater risk of side effects from anal sex, yet they receive scarce guidance or advice on how to navigate anal intercourse safely.
This lack of conversation in medical circles that still remains “may be failing a generation of young women, who are unaware of the risks,” warned doctors recently.
Their analysis, published in the BMJ on Thursday, drew on cases among heterosexual women in the U.K., who were presenting with injuries, pain, and bleeding as a result of anal sex. The curiosity about this particular sexual pleasure may not match the knowledge people currently hold.
The failure to have a medically informed conversation when women present with anorectal symptoms coasts on a lack of awareness and invariably causes physical and mental harm. It “exposes women to missed diagnoses, futile treatments, and further harm arising from a lack of medical advice,” wrote Tabitha Gana and Lesley Hunt at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Anal sex without safety precautions has been linked to fecal incontinence — an inability to control bowel movements that cause feces to leak unexpectedly — and anal sphincter injury on the pelvic floor. There is pain and bleeding that people may not be prepared to address without prior information about these possibilities.
Moreover, women are at a higher risk of these injuries. The risk of incontinence, for instance, is different “than men because of their different anatomy and the effects of hormones, pregnancy, and childbirth on the pelvic floor,” the researchers wrote. What makes women more vulnerable to pain and fractures is that they “have less robust anal sphincters and lower anal canal pressures than men, and damage caused by anal penetration is, therefore, more consequential.”
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But these are risks rarely communicated, discussed, or addressed prudently. The reluctance among clinicians to address anal sex, let alone build a healthy discourse around it, may draw from a stigma around women’s sexuality in general. This aspect applies harshly to women in India who report being shamed and humiliated in gynecologists’ offices; the access to safety through information is hindered physically, economically, and ideologically. Moreover, doctors themselves may also struggle to effectively communicate “partly because they do not want to seem judgmental or homophobic,” Gana and Hunt added.
The aversion to anal sex and its link to women’s health is such that research about “anodyspareunia” — pain during anal penetration — has been sidelined and dismissed in the past.
“The study should have turned heads: It was the first research on anodyspareunia among women; it was conducted by a well-respected scientist (Dr. Aleksander Stulhofer from the University of Zagreb), and it was centered on young women and sex. That’s often the kind of research that attracts media attention (Young women sext! They get pregnant! They give oral sex! You get the picture …),” said sexual health researcher Debby Herbenick.
The taboo around anal sex presents a complex circuit of homophobia, purity, and misconceptions about addiction. “We have all been socialized that the ass is a ‘dirty’ place, meaning that many of us have some conditioned baggage to work through before exploring anal,” noted Sarah Tomchesson, a sex educator.
“No matter how excited someone is to explore anal or how sexually adventurous someone is, anal play requires sensitivity, open communication, and understanding that not everyone is going to be interested in it.”
But interest is no longer optional to engage in this conversation. More and more people are having anal sex: in the U.S., for instance, almost 40-45% of women and men in some age groups had reportedly tried anal sex as of 2009. PornHub data also shows that the search volume for anal sex on its website increased by a staggering 120% between 2009 and 2015. Older research dating back to 2010 found that anal sex was shown in 56% of porn videos.
Individual reasons for anal sex in straight relationships could be due to pleasure and curiosity, and even being influenced by pop culture. Think Fleabag and Sex and the City. Anal sex is shown to be daring and defiant, thus holding people’s fascination.
There is an element of coercion too that needs to be addressed. The surgeons note the “pain and bleeding women report after anal sex is indicative of trauma, and risks may be increased if anal sex is coerced.” As many as 25% of women surveyed say they felt pressured into having anal sex at least once. In 2017, a woman told MarieClaire: “I was drunk and said I didn’t want that [anal sex]. He kept doing it anyway even when I said stop.”
The conversation around the health risks for women then carries an imperative to address consent. “Anal sex is an area of sexual exploration where consent is even more essential for a number of reasons,” says Tomchesson. A “no” for vaginal sex could be interpreted as “yes” to anal. Or the pressure to be “fun” and “wild” could be construed as someone being open to trying anything. “No means no” falls inadequately in consent culture currently; its assertion in the context of anal culture then demands an education — sexual, social, and medical.
As the researchers noted: “With better information, women who want anal sex would be able to protect themselves more effectively from possible harm, and those who agree to anal sex reluctantly to meet society’s expectations or please partners, may feel better empowered to say no.” | https://theswaddle.com/doctors-arent-warning-women-of-the-health-risks-of-anal-sex-leading-to-complications-report/ | 2022-08-12T07:26:45Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/doctors-arent-warning-women-of-the-health-risks-of-anal-sex-leading-to-complications-report/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CEO Posts a Picture of Himself Crying on LinkedIn After Laying Off Employees
“This will be the most vulnerable thing I'll ever share,” HyperSocial CEO Braden Wallake wrote in a LinkedIn post.
The CEO of a marketing optimization company is facing criticism after posting a picture of himself crying on LinkedIn after announcing he had to lay off some of his employees.
“This will be the most vulnerable thing I'll ever share,” HyperSocial CEO Braden Wallake wrote on the site in his Aug. 9 post, though the post has since been edited.
“Days like today, I wish I was a business owner that was only money driven and didn't care about who he hurt along the way. But I'm not. So, I just want people to see, that not every CEO out there is cold-hearted and doesn't care when he/she have to lay people off. I'm sure there are hundreds and thousands of others like me.”
Wallake’s post went viral, receiving more than 33,000 interactions in the two days since it was posted.
The comments sparked discussion about the nature of Wallake’s post. Some applauded the CEO for sharing a vulnerable moment and showing compassion for his employees, but others thought the post was “cringe” and as one person commented was just to share “Fake emotions for likes and exposure.”
On Aug. 10, Wallake told Motherboard that the business had terminated two employees the day before. He conducted one of the layoffs, and as he told Motherboard, watched his "girlfriend turned business partner" terminate the other employee.
Wallake claimed to Motherboard that the two laid-off workers were "over-the-top nice" about it and "assured" him and his business partner that everything would be alright.
According to Motherboard, it was a few hours after then when he decided to post on LinkedIn.
“I was just sitting here at my desk, just kind of crying, I guess, and decided to make the post because I have seen a lot on LinkedIn recently of how awful business owners and CEOs are for laying off their employees and that they're laying off employees while they're getting their third house in the Bahamas or wherever,” Wallake said told Motherboard.
“I just wanted to kind of put it out there that it's not all just profit-hungry, rich businesses who are making layoffs, and there are normal people behind many layoffs as well,” he told the outlet.
According to its website, HyperSocial is a marketing firm that assists B2B (or business-to-business) organizations in creating sales campaigns and raising brand recognition. HyperSocial focuses mainly on LinkedIn, offering clients LinkedIn outreach services, LinkedIn posting techniques, and LinkedIn profile improvement, according to its website.
Prior to the layoffs, Wallake told Motherboard he tried to make sacrifices by cutting his income from the $250 per week that he had been paying himself to zero. He noted that prior to starting to receive paychecks last year, he had not received any income since rebranding the business in 2019.
“This was a low time in my life,” Wallake told Motherboard.
“[I] was not attempting to compare my low time to the laid off employees low time, because theirs is much worse. But just to simply share the journey that I am going through personally as a business owner in the current world.”
Wallake told Motherboard that he agreed that the photo was cringeworthy.
Wallake claimed that despite the harsh feedback he received, he was encouraged to see other business owners respond by expressing interest in maybe employing the laid-off workers, Motherboard reported.
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Death of Ellen Greenberg, Teacher Stabbed 20 Times in Case Ruled Suicide, Now Reexamined After 11 Years
The parents of Ellen Greenberg, a beloved Pennsylvania schoolteacher found stabbed 20 times more than a decade ago, say they will not stop until authorities move beyond the suicide ruling. "We’re not gonna let this go," her father said.
The case of a beloved Pennsylvania schoolteacher found dead with 20 stab wounds is being reopened more than a decade after it was initially ruled a suicide.
The family of Ellen Greenberg emphatically denied there being any chance that she could have killed herself. The 27-year-old educator was about to be married when her fiancé told police he came home from the gym to find her lying in their Philadelphia apartment on Jan. 26, 2011
Her fiancé, Sam Goldberg, told the 911 operator he thought she may have slipped and hit her head, and audio recording of the call captured the moment he discovered she had been stabbed.
“Her shirt won't come off, it's a zipper. Oh, my God, she stabbed herself,” he said.
Greenburg was stabbed 20 times, 10 in the back of her neck, once in the scalp, eight times in the chest and in the abdomen.
Her death was at first ruled a homicide but was later changed to suicide. Her parents have spent the last 11 years fighting that ruling.
Sandee and Josh Greenberg even commissioned images to show how improbable it was that their 27-year-old daughter could stab herself that many times.
“The authorities trying to make us believe that our daughter committed suicide when she didn't is just reprehensible to me,” Sandee Greenberg told Inside Edition.
Now prosecutors have agreed to review the case.
“We hope so,” Josh Greenberg said of the chance that this will bring about developments in his daughter’s case. “We’re not gonna let this go.”
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'Devastating' Indiana Explosion Kills 3 People and Destroys 11 Homes
Authorities are asking residents to stay away from the area while they investigate the blast.
At least three people were killed and 11 homes were destroyed when a devastating explosion rocked a suburban Indiana neighborhood.
The huge blast was captured on surveillance camera a couple blocks down and a doorbell camera from across the street.
Stunned residents fled from their shattered homes to find the neighborhood destroyed. Calls to 911 poured in.
“There's debris everywhere, and it shook the entire building at my office,” one person said.
A mail carrier in the neighborhood told police he “saw a bunch of debris go flying higher than the trees” in the blast, which he says shook his mail truck.
But firefighters didn’t need 911 calls to jump-start them into action.
“A block and a half away from the fire station, a large explosion that was felt all around the city — these guys were probably on the truck rolling out before they were even dispatched,” Fire Chief Mike Connelly said.
Charles Hite, 43, and his 37-year old wife, Martina, who were living in the house that exploded, were both killed, along with an unidentified neighbor.
At least 28 homes were damaged in the explosion.
Maddie Strubel and Trevor McDowell live across the street, but fortunately weren’t home at the time. The blast blew out all their front windows and doors.
“It was just so devastating,” Strubel said.
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Guests Shocked to Find $350 Per Night Hotel Room Completely Covered in Mold
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What was supposed to be an unforgettable girls’ trip turned into a nightmare when three best friends walked into their hotel room to find it was covered in mold.
The women shelled out a whopping $350 per night for the room in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
“We were looking forward to every bit of it. We’d never been away together,” Kelly Bruce said.
When they opened the door, there was mold everywhere — the floor, bed, walls and furniture.
“I was traumatized by what I saw,” Lashanda Terry said.
The video was posted to TikTok, where it has been viewed over 7.2 million times.
One of the reasons the friends were so shocked is that they went online to research the Sea Mist Oceanfront before booking.
When they complained, they say they weren't prepared for the front desk's response.
“I asked if she wanted to see the video and she was like ‘No, I believe you,'" Bruce said.
In a statement to Inside Edition, the resort said, “Due to a human error made by the management company, a guest was assigned to a unit that was…in the process of renovations. It was not meant to host guests. We extended our sincerest apology to the guest and provided an upgrade to a newly renovated Jacuzzi suite.”
The women shared video of their upgraded suite — no mold in sight!
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Kozhikode: A businessman was kidnapped by a four-member gang and brutally assaulted and left on the roadside near Vazhakkad.
Lukhmanul Hakkim (45), a resident of Balussery, sustained severe injuries in the attack. He has been admitted to the Kozhikode Medical College Hospital for treatment.
Hakkim, who runs a shop at Erakkulam in Kakkodi, was returning to Kozhikode on his bike after closing his shop around 9.30 on Thursday night.
When it rained, he took shelter at the bus stop near the Kakkodi Panchayath Office. A little later a van arrived and stopped near him.
Two men pushed him in after opening one of the doors, Hakkim said, while another man inside the van pulled him in.
The van sped away with Hakkim inside as people gathered when he cried aloud for help. On information from the locals, a police team led by Assistant Commissioner K Sudarshan, and Chevayur Inspector K K Biju reached the spot.
By then, the van had moved towards Narikkuni. The van went through Edavannappara road via Kunnamangalam. The gang brutally assaulted Hakkim inside the van and pushed him along the road around midnight.
Hakkim was initially taken to a private hospital and later admitted to the Medical College Hospital by 12.30 am.
Sub-Inspectors D Habeeb Rahman, Hareesh Kumar, and U K Jayadevan were in the police team.
The police said a hunt is on for the assailants. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/12/kozhikode-businessman-kidnap-injury.amp.html | 2022-08-12T07:45:44Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/12/kozhikode-businessman-kidnap-injury.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Mangaluru: Customs sleuths at the Mangaluru International Airport have seized 24 carat gold weighing 831 gm from a passenger who arrived by an Air India flight from Dubai on Wednesday.
A Customs communique here said the male passenger, hailing from Kasaragod in Kerala, was carrying the gold in paste form.
He had packed the gold in a white tape pouch and had concealed it inside a stitched pocket of the undergarment that he had worn. The seized gold is valued at Rs 43.29 lakh.
In another seizure on Thursday, officials of the air intelligence unit seized assorted foreign currency equivalent to Indian currency value of Rs 5,97,040 from a male passenger hailing from Bhatkal who was to travel to Dubai by a SpiceJet flight.
The passenger had concealed the currency in a handbag carried by him, the communique said. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/12/mangaluru-airport-gold-seized.html | 2022-08-12T07:46:02Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/12/mangaluru-airport-gold-seized.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Prosecuting Attorney Kelden Waltjen announced that a Hilo man, 34 year-old Kaipo Henry Pomroy, was charged with felony criminal property damage of a police vehicle, methamphetamine possession, and resisting arrest in relation to an August 9, 2022 incident in Hilo.
HILO, Hawaii (KITV4) -- A Hilo man was charged with 3 counts regarding an incident on August 9, 2022 in Hilo.
34-year-old Kaipo Henry Pomroy was charged with felony criminal property damage of a police vehicle, methamphetamine possession, and resisting arresting in relation to the August 9th incident. Pomroy has prior felony convictions for burglary, assault, theft, and unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle.
Second degree criminal property damage, and third degree promoting of a dangerous drug are both Class C felony offenses, which carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison. If convicted as charged of the criminal property damage offense, Pomroy faces sentencing to a mandatory prison term.
Pomroy made his first court appearance at Hilo District Court on August 10. His bail was maintained at $21,000. He will appear for a preliminary hearing on August 15, 2022.
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"Unfortunately, due to her accident, Anne Heche suffered a severe anoxic brain injury and remains in a coma, in critical condition. She is not expected to survive," the statement read. "It has long been her choice to donate her organs and she is being kept on life support to determine if any are viable."
Anoxic brain injury occurs when the brain is deprived of oxygen.
Last Friday, Heche was in a car that was traveling at a high speed when it ran off the road and collided with a residence that became engulfed in flames, Los Angeles Police Public Information Officer Jeff Lee told CNN.
A woman inside the home at the time of the crash suffered minor injuries, but did seek medical attention, according to Lee.
Heche has remained in critical condition. This week, a spokesperson for Heche told CNN the actress suffered "significant pulmonary injury requiring mechanical ventilation" and "burns that require surgical intervention."
"We want to thank everyone for their kind wishes and prayers for Anne's recovery and thank the dedicated staff and wonderful nurses that cared for Anne at the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills hospital," the statement continued.
In their message, her family and friends also paid tribute to Heche's "huge heart" and "generous spirit."
"More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life's work -- especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love," the statement read. "She will be remembered for her courageous honesty and dearly missed for her light."
Heche rose to fame on the soap opera "Another World," where she played the dual role of twins Vicky Hudson and Marley Love from 1987 to 1991. She earned a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance on the show.
Heche followed that success with numerous films, including "Donnie Brasco," "Wag the Dog" and "Six Days Seven Nights" opposite Harrison Ford.
In more recent years, Heche has appeared in television shows like "The Brave," "Quantico," and "Chicago P.D."
Following the crash, there was an outpouring of support for the actress from the Hollywood community. Her ex and former "Men in Trees" co-star James Tupper, with whom she shares one of her two sons, wrote on Instagram: "Thoughts and prayers for this lovely woman, actress and mother tonight Anne Heche. We love you." | https://www.kitv.com/news/national/anne-heche-is-not-expected-to-survive-family-says-in-statement/article_3d13294a-51ec-528b-9dd4-40fa467ff9cd.html | 2022-08-12T07:54:09Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/national/anne-heche-is-not-expected-to-survive-family-says-in-statement/article_3d13294a-51ec-528b-9dd4-40fa467ff9cd.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Meanwhile, S&P 500 futures are up 9 points, or 0.2%, with Nasdaq futures up 0.3%. But that comes after a bit of a lackluster finish in Wall Street yesterday as market players are engaged in some food for thought after the bond market isn't quite playing ball after the US CPI data on Wednesday. There is a sense that there needs to be more data before firming up any market narratives on the Fed pivot. I mean we had a hot US jobs report on Friday followed by a slightly softer consumer inflation report this week, so there's still a long way to go before settling the debate it seems. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/european-equities-little-changed-at-the-open-20220812/ | 2022-08-12T08:10:26Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/european-equities-little-changed-at-the-open-20220812/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — Shannon Bream, a Fox News Channel veteran who is the network’s chief legal correspondent, is the new anchor of the “Fox News Sunday” political talk show, filling a role left vacant when Chris Wallace left last December.
Meanwhile, CNN said Thursday that Wallace’s interview program will air on the network Sundays at 7 p.m. Eastern.
Bream was among the rotating guest anchors of Fox’s Sunday show over the past several months. Fox said that each time Bream hosted, viewership was up 20% over the 2021 average — when Wallace was host.
She will relinquish her role anchoring a weeknight newscast that airs at midnight on Fox News Channel, the network said.
When she officially starts on Sept. 11, she’ll be the third host of the 26-year-old show, after the late Tony Snow and Wallace. “Fox News Sunday” airs on the Fox broadcast network and is later repeated on the news channel.
“It has been an honor to cover major news throughout Washington over the last 15 years at Fox News,” Bream said in a statement Thursday. “I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to host a Sunday show and look forward to this new role.”
Bream is also the first franchise author of the Fox News book imprint, where she has written two books on women and the Bible. She was a corporate lawyer before entering journalism.
Wallace, the only Fox News personality to moderate a presidential general election debate, told The New York Times after leaving that he no longer felt comfortable with the programming there. He signed on to host a program at the CNN+ streaming service. The streaming service was shuttered this spring after only a few weeks on the air.
His interview show — “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” — landed on the HBO Max streaming service. CNN said his weekly television show will air the highlights of interviews first shown on HBO Max.
Wallace has also surfaced as a commentator on CNN, particularly on weekday mornings, and that role is expected to continue.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anne Heche is on life support after suffering a brain injury in a fiery crash a week ago and her survival isn’t expected, according to a statement from a representative.
The actor, who is in a coma and in critical condition, is being kept on life support for possible organ donation, according to the statement released Thursday night on behalf of her family and friends.
Heche, who’s been hospitalized at the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills hospital north of Los Angeles, suffered a “severe anoxic brain injury,” the statement said. Such an injury is caused by a sustained lack of oxygen to the brain.
“She is not expected to survive,” the statement said. “It has long been her choice to donate her organs and she is being kept on life support to determine if any are viable.”
On the morning of Aug. 5, Heche’s car smashed into a house in a neighborhood in west Los Angeles and a fire erupted with the car embedded inside the home.
Earlier Thursday, police said they were investigating Heche for driving under the influence. Detectives with a search warrant took a sample of her blood and found narcotics in her system, LAPD spokesperson Officer Jeff Lee said.
Toxicology tests, which can take weeks to complete, must be performed to identify the drugs more clearly and to differentiate them from any medication she may have been given for treatment at the hospital.
Evidence is still being gathered from the crash, police said, and they would present a case to prosecutors if it is warranted when the investigation is complete.
A representative for Heche declined comment on the investigation.
On Tuesday, Heche spokesperson Heather Duffy Boylston said she had been in a coma since after the accident, with burns that required surgery and lung injuries that required the use of a ventilator to breathe.
“Anne had a huge heart and touched everyone she met with her generous spirit. More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life’s work — especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love,” Thursday’s statement said. “She will be remembered for her courageous honesty and dearly missed for her light.”
Heche, 53, was among the most prominent film stars in Hollywood in the late 1990s, playing opposite actors including Johnny Depp (“Donnie Brasco”) and Harrison Ford (“Six Days, Seven Nights”). In a 2001 memoir, she discussed her lifelong struggles with mental health.
She recently had recurring roles on the network TV series “Chicago P.D.” and “All Rise,” and in 2020 was a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — About 135 million more doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine from a troubled Baltimore factory will have to be destroyed due to quality problems, Congressional panel leaders said Thursday.
The announcement follows a report in May that detailed how more than 400 million vaccine doses made at an Emergent BioSolutions plant had to be trashed. The doses more recently slated for destruction were made between August 2021 and February, the House members said.
Johnson & Johnson said in a statement Thursday that no doses produced at the site since the factory restarted have reached the market, and it was ending its agreement with Emergent.
The doses had been set aside after they were made. The panel said J&J told it that a batch of the shots failed inspection, which rendered all of them unusable.
The factory’s problems have hurt vaccinations in areas of the world where vaccines are still in short supply, said U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat and COVID-19 subcommittee chairman.
Emergent said it has been “open and forthcoming” about the factory’s challenges. It noted that J&J took control of the plant after problems first emerged and that J&J was in charge until manufacturing stopped there earlier this year.
The problem-plagued Baltimore factory was initially shut down by the Food and Drug Administration in early 2021 due to contamination. The government then allowed production to resume in August 2021.
J&J’s vaccine was one of three initially authorized by U.S. regulators more than a year ago to protect against COVID-19. But the government has since strictly limited who can receive the shot due to a small risk of rare but serious blood clots.
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CHICAGO (AP) — McDonald’s will start reopening some of its restaurants in Ukraine in the coming months, a symbol of the war-torn country’s return to some sense of normalcy and a show of support after the American fast-food chain pulled out of Russia.
The burger giant closed its Ukrainian restaurants after Russia’s invasion nearly six months ago but has continued to pay more than 10,000 McDonald’s employees in the country.
McDonald’s said Thursday that it will begin gradually reopening some restaurants in the capital, Kyiv, and western Ukraine, where other companies are doing business away from the fighting. Western businesses like Nike, KFC and Spanish clothing retailer Mango are open in Kyiv.
“We’ve spoken extensively to our employees who have expressed a strong desire to return to work and see our restaurants in Ukraine reopen,” Paul Pomroy, corporate senior vice president of international operated markets, said in a message to employees. “In recent months, the belief that this would support a small but important sense of normalcy has grown stronger.”
The Ukrainian economy has been severely damaged by the war and restarting businesses, even in a limited capacity, would help. The International Monetary Fund expects Ukraine’s economy to shrink by 35% this year.
McDonald’s has 109 restaurants in Ukraine but didn’t say how many would reopen, when that would happen or which locations would be the first to welcome back customers. Over the next few months, the company said it will start working with vendors to get supplies into restaurants, prepare those stores, bring back employees and launch safety procedures with the war still raging to the east.
While it will start to reopen in Ukraine, McDonald’s has sold its 850 restaurants in Russia to a franchise owner. That came three decades after McDonald’s opened its first location in Moscow, becoming a powerful symbol of easing Cold War tensions.
McDonald’s had shuttered hundreds of Russian locations in March, costing the company about $55 million per month. Selling its Russian restaurants was the first time the company has “de-arched,” or exited a major market.
Alexander Govor, who held a license for 25 McDonald’s outposts in Siberia, has begun reopening former McDonald’s locations under the name Vkusno-i Tochka, or Tasty-period. | https://www.wspa.com/news/business/ap-business/big-mac-is-coming-back-mcdonalds-to-reopen-in-ukraine/ | 2022-08-12T08:14:16Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/business/ap-business/big-mac-is-coming-back-mcdonalds-to-reopen-in-ukraine/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) — World Central Kitchen founder Jose Andres, Jordan’s Queen Rania, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda will help relaunch the Clinton Global Initiative in September, when the gathering of international dignitaries returns after six years.
The two-day meeting Sept. 19 and 20 in New York is built around a theme of “The Business of How,” looking to create partnerships between political, business and philanthropic leaders.
“We called the CGI community back together this year because we face an urgent and historic moment,” former President Bill Clinton said in a statement Thursday. “The global community is confronting several existential challenges, including climate change, new threats to our health, worsening economic inequalities, and a global refugee crisis.”
The Clinton Foundation’s annual gathering was called off in 2016 during former Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, when questions were raised about the appearance of potential conflicts of interests if CGI donors then had business before her administration.
Organizers say this year’s gathering will combine a mix of proven solutions to issues that can be shared around the world and fostering new connections that can create new solutions.
That means luminaries — including Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, actor and water access activist Matt Damon, as well as several philanthropic leaders including Emerson Collective founder Laurene Powell Jobs, Mellon Foundation CEO Elizabeth Alexander and Case Foundation co-founder Steve Case — can discuss both past successes and current needs.
Tom Watson, founder of social sector consulting firm CauseWired, said the Clinton Global Initiative’s model for attacking problems from several vantage points has been missed.
“It is a rare structure that brings together a lot of different types of organizations and people,” said Watson, who attended CGI, which launched in 2005, several times and did some consulting work for the initiative in the past, though he is not involved in this year’s event. “I know that when it went on hiatus as an annual meeting, there were nonprofits and foundations and corporate social responsibility types that definitely missed it. Nobody really filled the vacuum. From that aspect, it’s really a good thing that it is coming back.”
Watson, who also teaches nonprofit management at Columbia University, said that the current immense needs caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine require new approaches and collaboration.
“We need all hands on deck,” said Watson, who plans to attend this year’s event. “This allows many different kinds of players to come together.”
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Estonia decided Thursday to bar people from neigboring Russia with tourist visas from entering the northernmost Baltic country as a consequence of the war in Ukraine.
“Russian citizens’ opportunity to visit Estonia in large numbers or to visit Europe through Estonia is incompatible with the meaning of the sanctions we’ve established,” Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu was quoted as saying by the Baltic News Service said.
The European Union, of which Estonia is a member, already has banned air travel from Russia after it invaded Ukraine. But Russians can still travel by land to Estonia and apparently are then take flights to other European destinations.
By imposing the sanction, Estonia wants Russia “to be unable to continue its ordinary international life also at the level of its citizens,” Reinsalu said according to BNS, the region’s main news agency. He added that they had observed “a massive growth in the number of Russian citizens transiting through or arriving in Estonia.”
BNS said exceptions to Thursday’s sanction included Russian citizens with a long-term residence permit; those coming to visit close relatives; workers involved in the international transport of goods and passengers, as well as people entering the country for humanitarian reasons.
The Estonian sanction applies beginning Aug. 18. Estonia and Russia share a nearly 300 kilometer (186-mile) long border.
“I call on other governments to follow such steps,” Reinsalu wrote on Twitter.
Earlier this week, Estonian and Finnish leaders urged fellow European countries to stop issuing tourist visas to Russian citizens, saying they should not be able to take vacations in Europe while the Russian government carries out a war in Ukraine.
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas wrote Tuesday on Twitter that “visiting Europe is a privilege, not a human right” and that it is “time to end tourism from Russia now.”
A day earlier, her counterpart in Finland, Sanna Marin, told Finnish broadcaster YLE that “it is not right that while Russia is waging an aggressive, brutal war of aggression in Europe, Russians can live a normal life, travel in Europe, be tourists.”
Russian companies reportedly have started offering car trips from St. Petersburg to the airports in Helsinki and Lappeenranta in Finland, which have direct connections to several places in Europe. Russia’s second-largest city is 300 kilometers (186 miles) from the Finnish capital.
Visas issued by Finland and Estonia are valid across most of Europe’s visa-free travel zone, known as the “Schengen area” which is made up of 26 countries: 22 EU nations plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Normally, people and goods move freely between these countries without border checks. Nineteen other countries outside this travel area allow in foreigners using a Schengen visa.
Because of the war, Latvia has already decided it no longer is issuing visas to Russians. Poland said Wednesday that it was no longer issuing tourist visas to Russians.
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PHOENIX (AP) — U.S. transportation officials announced $2.2 billion for local infrastructure projects on Thursday, paving the way for new bridges, roads, bike lanes, railways and ports in scores of communities across the country.
The competitive grants are more than double the amount awarded the previous year under the same program. The influx comes from a $1 trillion infrastructure law backed by President Joe Biden, which provided an additional $7.5 billion over five years for the grants.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the projects would help modernize America’s transportation systems.
“This is a program that recognizes many of the most interesting and compelling ideas and designs and plans aren’t going to come from Washington, but more of the funding should,” Buttigieg said. “That’s what we’re delivering here.”
Buttigieg traveled to Arizona to highlight projects in Phoenix and Tucson, each of which are receiving the maximum $25 million. In Phoenix, the money will help build a new bike and pedestrian bridge over the Rio Salado, connecting the city’s southern area with downtown.
In Tucson, the money will revamp a prominent street and replace a 1960s-era vehicle bridge that’s in poor condition. It also will add a separate bicycle and pedestrian bridge as part of what Mayor Regina Romero called “a transformative investment in Tucson’s infrastructure.”
While the Tucson project will expand the number lanes for motorists, some projects elsewhere will reduce them. For example, a $17 million grant will help narrow a five-lane road to three lanes in the Chicago suburb of Munster, Indiana, in an effort to decrease traffic crashes. The money also will fund a 10-foot-wide multi-purpose path along the street and plant more than 250 trees.
For many road improvement grants, “we’re doing it in mind of also benefitting the bike and pedestrian side,” Buttigieg said.
Other newly announced projects in the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity program also provide funding for bicycle and pedestrian paths.
Texas and Kansas are each receiving about $25 million for hiking and biking trails. Huntsville, Alabama, is getting $20 million to improve a pedestrian corridor linking downtown to isolated neighborhoods. Another $20 million is helping finance a new bike and pedestrian bridge over the Potomac River between Arlington, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
Buttigieg said the U.S. Department of Transportation received about $13 billion in grant applications.
A total of 166 projects across the country are getting a slice of the $2.2 billion. The funding marks a significant increase from the $983 million distributed among 90 projects in 2021. The allotment is the largest dating to 2009 for a program that has undergone multiple name and emphasis changes during the presidential administrations of Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
Though still substantial, the funding doesn’t have quite the buying power as anticipated when the infrastructure legislation passed Congress last year. That’s because inflation has driven up the cost of key transportation construction materials, such as steel plates for bridges and asphalt for paving roads.
This year’s projects range from a new seawall and port improvements in Sitka, Alaska, to the construction of a four-lane parkway in the Virgin Islands.
Among other projects, New Jersey is getting $20 million to elevate a roadway that serves as a main evacuation route for Atlantic City and its casino industry. In Louisiana, $20 million will go toward the design and construction of two train stations along a planned route between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Whatcom County, Washington, will get $25 million to replace a 60-year-old ferry serving rural Lummi Island with an electric hybrid model.
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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and senior ministers held inconclusive talks Thursday with energy companies amid mounting pressure to help residents cope with soaring gas and electricity prices.
Johnson, who is in his final weeks as prime minister, joined Treasury chief Nadhim Zahawi and Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng at the meeting with firms including Scottish Power, EDF and Centrica. But with Johnson insisting that “significant fiscal decisions” must be left to his successor, the talks produced no relief for Britons struggling with a cost-of-living crisis.
Johnson said the government would “keep urging the electricity sector to continue working on ways we can ease the cost of living pressures and to invest further and faster in British energy security.”
There was a hint that the Conservative government could take action at some point. It said it “continues to evaluate the extraordinary profits seen in certain parts of the electricity generation sector and the appropriate and proportionate steps to take.”
Energy bills around the world have soared this year as the war in Ukraine squeezes global oil and gas supplies. The problem is especially acute in Britain, where the bills that people pay are governed by a regulator-set price cap linked to wholesale prices.
The average U.K. household fuel bill has risen more than 50% this year, and another increase is due in October. Consulting firm Cornwall Insight forecast this week that the average bill will top 3,500 pounds ($4,300) a year in the fall, and rise above 4,000 pounds ($4,900) in the new year.
Energy suppliers say the price increases are not their fault.
“This is not in the hands of energy retailers,” Dale Vince, founder of the energy firm Ecotricity, told Sky News. “The problem is the crazy price of gas on global commodity markets.”
Anti-poverty campaigners say Britain is facing financial time bomb that could leave millions of people unable to heat their homes this winter.
Johnson resigned as Conservative Party leader last month, and remains in office for a few more weeks as caretaker prime minister. The two candidates to replace him — Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak — can’t act until one of them takes over as prime minister in September.
Sunak — who earlier this year signed off on a 400 pound ($490) payment to offset fuel bills that all households will get this fall — has said he will offer more help, but has not given specifics. Truss says she prefers tax cuts to giving “handouts,” but also is facing intense pressure to help poor households.
Opponents say by the time the new leader is announced on Sept. 5 and takes office the next day, it will be too late to avert an autumn crisis.
Some want the U.K. to emulate France, where the government last month announced the nationalization of electricity giant EDF.
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who led the U.K. during the global financial crisis of 2008, said Britain was now in “the eye of a cost-of-living storm” and action couldn’t wait. Brown, a member of the opposition Labour Party, said the Conservative government should negotiate lower prices with energy firms, and suggested those that resisted could be temporarily nationalized.
Writing in The Guardian, he said that crises “don’t take holidays, and don’t politely hang fire – certainly not to suit the convenience of a departing PM and the whims of two potential successors.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Prices at the wholesale level fell from June to July, the first month-to-month drop in more than two years and a sign that some of the U.S. economy’s inflationary pressures cooled last month.
Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that the producer price index — which measures inflation before it reaches consumers — declined 0.5% in July. It was the first monthly drop since April 2020 and was down from a sharp 1% increase from May to June.
The easing of wholesale inflation suggests that consumers could get some relief from relentless inflation in the coming months. The wholesale report follows government data Wednesday that showed that consumer inflation was unchanged from June to July — the first flat figure after 25 straight months of increases.
Yet economists caution that it’s still too early to say that inflation is headed steadily lower.
“The July deceleration … is a move in the right direction,” said Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics. “But producer costs continue to rise at a rapid pace, well above target.”
Wholesale food prices rose 1% from June to July, a sign that grocery prices will likely keep rising in the coming months. The wholesale costs of eggs, beef and vegetables all jumped.
Trucking freight costs, though, fell 0.3%, evidence that some supply chain snarls are easing.
Inflation at the wholesale level still jumped 9.8% in July compared with a year earlier, suggesting that inflation will remain at painful levels for months to come. That was down from a year-over-year surge of 11.3% in June — near a four-decade high — and was the smallest annual rise in eight months.
Thursday’s report showed that wholesale gas prices tumbled 16.7% from June to July, a sign that retail prices at the pump will continue to decline this month and likely into September. Consumers are already seeing steady reductions: Gas prices fell below $4 a gallon, on average, on Thursday for the first time in five months.
The milder inflation data, and last month’s unexpectedly robust hiring that helped lower the unemployment rate to a half-century low of 3.5%, have provided President Joe Biden with some positive economic news after months of accelerating price spikes hammered his approval ratings. Congressional Republicans have made rising inflation a major line of attack in the upcoming midterm elections.
And the Federal Reserve has embarked on its fastest pace of interest rate hikes since the early 1980s in an effort to quell inflation, and will likely keep raising borrowing costs for the rest of this year. Its short-term rate is currently in a range of 2.25% to 2.5%, the highest since 2018.
Chair Jerome Powell has said the Fed would need to see a series of declining inflation readings before it would consider pausing its rate increases. The Fed could announce a third straight three-quarter point rate hike when it next meets in late September or instead carry out a less drastic half-point hike.
Thursday’s producer price data captures inflation at an earlier stage of production and can sometimes signal where consumer prices are headed. It also feeds into the Fed’s preferred measure of inflation, which is called the personal consumption expenditures price index. | https://www.wspa.com/news/business/ap-business/us-wholesale-inflation-rose-more-slowly-in-july/ | 2022-08-12T08:16:34Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/business/ap-business/us-wholesale-inflation-rose-more-slowly-in-july/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(Motor Authority) — To add some peace of mind for anyone considering buying one of its cars, Maserati has launched a new warranty program that covers the powertrain for up to 10 years.
Called the Extra10 Warranty Program, it is offered in addition to the existing Extended Warranty program that extends the whole vehicle’s coverage to up to five years, from the standard three-year factory warranty. In both cases there’s no mileage limit.
The powertrain warranty is available worldwide, though only from Oct. 1 in the U.S., Latin America, and Canada, and it can be added to existing cars no older than nine years and six months from the registration date. It covers items like the engine and transmission.
Maserati Nettuno 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged V-6
There are extras beyond just the powertrain coverage. The warranty also comes with a pick-up and return service to your home, as well as a courtesy car.
Ferrari was a pioneer when it comes to extended warranties, including for powertrains, and this has helped alleviate doubt in buying the brand’s older vehicles, which in turn has boosted resale values considerably in recent years.
Likewise, Maserati’s new powertrain warranty should help the brand as it aims to attract new customers with more affordable offerings, such as the recently revealed 2023 Grecale crossover. | https://www.wspa.com/news/maserati-introduces-10-year-powertrain-warranty/ | 2022-08-12T08:16:41Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/maserati-introduces-10-year-powertrain-warranty/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DETROIT (AP) — A judge declared a mistrial Thursday after jurors said they couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict in a dispute over whether two engineering firms should bear some responsibility for Flint’s lead-contaminated water.
Veolia North America and Lockwood, Andrews & Newman, known as LAN, were accused of not doing enough to get Flint to treat the highly corrosive water or to urge a return to a regional water supplier.
The eight-person jury met for roughly seven days after hearing evidence for months. The jury first signaled on July 28 that it couldn’t reach a verdict before taking a planned 11-day break. The group returned to work Tuesday.
“Further deliberations will only result in stress and anxiety with no unanimous decision without someone having to surrender their honest convictions, solely for the purpose of returning a verdict,” the jury said in a new note Thursday.
U.S. Magistrate Judge David Grand declared a mistrial, rejecting a request by lawyers for four children to allow a verdict that’s less than unanimous.
“This is not a focus group,” Grand said.
The trial centered on the engineering firms and the effects of lead on the children, not all Flint residents. But the result was being closely watched because there are other cases pending against Veolia and LAN.
The firms were not part of a landmark $626 million deal involving property owners, thousands of residents of the majority-Black city, the state of Michigan and other parties.
“We don’t see this as a defeat,” Veolia attorney Dan Stein told The Associated Press. “The plaintiffs were the ones trying to prove their claims to the jury, and they were unable to do so.”
Corey Stern, an attorney for the children, said he was only one juror shy from winning the case. The lack of a verdict means a trial can be held again with a different jury.
“I’m fired up for the next one,” Stern said. “I wish the judge would schedule it for Monday. I hated leaving the courthouse. You’re an inch from the goal line after toting the ball for 99 yards.”
Flint’s water became contaminated in 2014-15 because water pulled from the Flint River wasn’t treated to reduce the corrosive effect on lead pipes. Citing cost, managers appointed by then-Gov. Rick Snyder stopped using water from a Detroit agency and switched to the river while awaiting a new pipeline to Lake Huron.
The Michigan Civil Rights Commission said the bad water was the result of systemic racism in the city, doubting that the water switch and the spurning of complaints would have occurred in a white, prosperous community.
During closing arguments, attorneys for the children argued that Veolia should be held 50% responsible for lead contamination and that LAN should be held 25% responsible, with public officials making up the balance.
But Veolia’s lawyers noted the firm was briefly hired in the middle of the crisis, not before the spigot was turned on. LAN said an engineer repeatedly recommended that Flint test the river water for weeks to determine what treatments would be necessary.
LAN attorney Wayne Mason said outside engineers were getting lumped in with a “platoon of bad actors,” namely state and local officials who controlled all major decisions about the water. The health effects on the four children were also challenged at trial.
Snyder was summoned as a witness but declined to answer questions, citing his right against self-incrimination.
He was indicted on misdemeanor charges in a separate Flint water investigation. The Michigan Supreme Court said the indictment was invalid, though state prosecutors are trying to reinstate the charges.
The jury instead watched a video of Snyder’s 2020 interview with lawyers.
“I wish this never would have happened,” he said of the water mess, acknowledging mistakes by government.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s top public health agency on Thursday relaxed its COVID-19 guidelines, dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also said people no longer need to stay at least 6 feet away from others.
The changes are driven by a recognition that — more than 2 1/2 years since the start of the pandemic — an estimated 95% of Americans 16 and older have acquired some level of immunity, either from being vaccinated or infected, agency officials said.
“The current conditions of this pandemic are very different from those of the last two years,” said the CDC’s Greta Massetti, an author of the guidelines.
The CDC recommendations apply to everyone in the U.S., but the changes could be particularly important for schools, which resume classes this month in many parts of the country.
Perhaps the biggest education-related change is the end of the recommendation that schools do routine daily testing, although that practice can be reinstated in certain situations during a surge in infections, officials said.
The CDC also dropped a “test-to-stay” recommendation, which said students exposed to COVID-19 could regularly test — instead of quarantining at home — to keep attending school. With no quarantine recommendation anymore, the testing option disappeared too.
Masks continue to be recommended only in areas where community transmission is deemed high, or if a person is considered at high risk of severe illness.
School districts across the U.S. have been scaling back their COVID-19 precautions in recent weeks even before the CDC relaxed its guidance. Masks will be optional in most school districts when classes resume this fall, and some of the nation’s largest districts have dialed back or eliminated COVID-19 testing requirements.
Some have also been moving away from test-to-stay programs that became unmanageable during surges of the omicron variant last school year. With so many new infections among students and staff, many schools struggled to track and test their close contacts, leading to a temporary return to remote classes in some places.
The average numbers of reported COVID-19 cases and deaths have been relatively flat this summer, at around 100,000 cases a day and 300 to 400 deaths.
The CDC previously said that if people who are not up to date on their COVID-19 vaccinations come into close contact with a person who tests positive, they should stay home for at least five days. Now the agency says quarantining at home is not necessary, but it urges those people to wear a high-quality mask for 10 days and get tested after five.
The agency continues to say that people who test positive should isolate from others for at least five days, regardless of whether they were vaccinated. CDC officials advise that people can end isolation if they are fever-free for 24 hours without the use of medication and they are without symptoms or the symptoms are improving. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/cdc-drops-quarantine-screening-recommendations-for-covid-19/ | 2022-08-12T08:18:16Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/cdc-drops-quarantine-screening-recommendations-for-covid-19/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(NEXSTAR) – We’ve been stuck with La Niña for a long time – and, according to the latest National Weather Service outlook, we’re not getting rid of her just yet. There’s an 80% probability La Niña conditions persist between September and November, which will have an impact on fall weather around the country.
La Niña can mean drier conditions in the fall for a big swath of the country, NWS meteorologists explain. The precipitation outlook from September through November shows it’s likely to be drier-than-normal across pretty much the entire central U.S., from Nevada in the West to Ohio in the east, the upper Midwest and Great Lakes in the north down to Texas in the south.
Only a small part of the mid-Atlantic region is expected to have an especially wet fall, while the rest of the coastal states have an equal shot of a wet, dry or normal season.
When it comes to temperatures, most of the country is favored to see above-normal temperatures this fall. According to the latest models, Utah, western Colorado and the Northeast look most likely to see above-normal heat.
The warm temperatures and potentially dry skies are an ongoing drought concern, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spokesperson told Nexstar Thursday. Another La Niña winter would likely mean making a very bad drought even worse for the band of states from California to Texas. The latest map from the U.S. Drought Monitor already shows extreme and exceptional drought conditions in many parts of the region.
Another La Niña impact is on hurricane season in the Atlantic, which runs through November. La Niña years often correspond with busy and especially destructive hurricane seasons, and this year NOAA expects somewhere between three and five “major” hurricanes to form.
After November, the probability La Niña continues drops down. By the start of 2023, there’s a less-than-50% chance we’re still in a La Niña patter. However, NOAA forecasters caution that’s a long ways out, and so the forecast is less reliable.
If La Niña does end in the winter, we’ll likely shift into an “ENSO neutral” pattern, which means we’ll neither be in La Niña nor El Niño. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/la-nina-just-wont-quit-what-that-means-for-fall-weather/ | 2022-08-12T08:18:30Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/la-nina-just-wont-quit-what-that-means-for-fall-weather/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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