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After living and enjoying a full and active life, Robert T. Gilsdorf, known as Bob, age 97 of River Run / Ocean Pines, Berlin Maryland and recently also of Fort Meyers, Florida, peacefully passed away following a brief illness on July 30, 2022 at Stansell House, Ocean Pines, MD. He was born to Charles J. Gilsdorf Sr. and Magadeline (nee Winkler) Gilsdorf of Fort Lee, New Jersey on November 29, 1924.
To read full obituary, click Here. | https://www.wboc.com/obituaries/robert-t-gilsdorf/article_85945a1c-1a7a-11ed-a49c-53ea4a58480f.html | 2022-08-12T21:25:10Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/obituaries/robert-t-gilsdorf/article_85945a1c-1a7a-11ed-a49c-53ea4a58480f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Russell “Albert” Parker, 80, passed away peacefully on July 4, 2022 at his home in Charleston, SC. Born on October 31, 1941 in Salisbury, MD, he was a son of the late Russell Edward Parker and Naomi Parker Hancock.
To read full obituary, click Here.
Russell “Albert” Parker, 80, passed away peacefully on July 4, 2022 at his home in Charleston, SC. Born on October 31, 1941 in Salisbury, MD, he was a son of the late Russell Edward Parker and Naomi Parker Hancock.
To read full obituary, click Here. | https://www.wboc.com/obituaries/russell-albert-parker/article_062c66b0-1a7b-11ed-b6bb-a74995e7406e.html | 2022-08-12T21:25:16Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/obituaries/russell-albert-parker/article_062c66b0-1a7b-11ed-b6bb-a74995e7406e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Wallace Lee Willey, 79, of Delmar, DE died on July 31, 2022 at Atlantic General Hospital. Born on August 3, 1942 in Salisbury, MD, he was the son of the late George and Louise Shockley.
Wallace was very family oriented. While he loved spending time with his family at home, he also enjoyed going out to eat. Years ago he would make going to the stockcar races in Georgetown a family outing. Wallace was a member of Faith Baptist Church in Salisbury.
To read full obituary, click Here. | https://www.wboc.com/obituaries/wallace-lee-willey/article_6966af28-1a7c-11ed-b510-8b320c3a9b89.html | 2022-08-12T21:25:23Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/obituaries/wallace-lee-willey/article_6966af28-1a7c-11ed-b510-8b320c3a9b89.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DELMARVA FORECAST
Friday night: Mostly clear and comfortable. Lows around 60°F. Light north wind.
Saturday: Mostly sunny and pleasant, with low humidity. Afternoon highs in the low to mid 80s. A northerly breeze could be gusty at times at the beaches.
Sunday: Mostly sunny and continued pleasant. Highs in the low to mid 80s.
Monday: Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 80. Chance of rain 50 percent.
Tuesday: Scattered showers and thunderstorms, especially in the morning. Highs near 80°F. Chance of rain 40 percent.
Wednesday: A few lingering showers, then becoming mostly sunny. Highs in the low 80s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
Thursday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the low to mid 80s
Friday: Mostly sunny, but turning more humid. Highs in the mid 80s.
FORECAST DISCUSSION
For the first time in quite a while, we're getting back into a more comfortable temperature regime with low humidity and temperatures slightly below normal!
High pressure will build in to the Mid-Atlantic from the north, meaning mostly sunny skies and temperatures slightly below normal, near 60°F overnight, and in the low to mid 80s during the day. Couple that with relatively low humidity, and the weather will be great for outdoor activities on both days this weekend!
Our next round of showers and thunderstorms arrives on Monday as a shortwave approaches from the northwest. At this time the chance of severe weather is low, but we can't rule out at least some gusty downpours in some embedded thunderstorms. Any rain with non-severe storms will be welcome, as the latest drought monitor is indicating that some drought conditions are persisting in eastern Sussex County, and abnormally dry conditions are developing in Kent County, Del.
The shortwave won't move quickly, so scattered showers and thunder are likely to continue Monday night through at least midday Tuesday.
A few showers could linger into early Wednesday.
Then late next week, we'll enter a drier period once again with humidity slowly on the rise into next weekend. At this time, though, temperatures should remain reasonable, in the low to mid 80s.
In the tropics, a disturbance off the Louisiana coast has a low chance of developing into a tropical system, but at this time it looks like it will only bring some periods of heavy rain to coastal Louisiana and Texas. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/beautiful-weekend-ahead/article_84ef60e4-1a7e-11ed-90f8-0b52947429ce.html | 2022-08-12T21:25:29Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/beautiful-weekend-ahead/article_84ef60e4-1a7e-11ed-90f8-0b52947429ce.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
What To Know Today
Gunman killed after trying to attack FBI office appeared to call for violence on social media. On Thursday, a 42-year-old man wearing body armor and armed with an AR-15 rifle and a nail gun tried to breach a bureau field office in Cincinnati. Failing to do so, he fled the scene, engaged in a hourslong stand-off with police in which he exchanged gunfire with officers, and was later shot dead. Authorities were investigating the man’s potential ties to extremist groups like the Proud Boys. Meanwhile, social media accounts linked to him — including on Twitter and the Trump-founded Truth Social — had called for violence. After FBI agents raided the former president’s Mar-a-Lago property earlier this week, an account with the man’s name posted on Truth Social: “Kill the FBI on sight, and be ready to take down other active enemies of the people.” The account also posted a message acknowledging the failed attack afterward. As the event unfolded yesterday, FBI Director Christopher Wray said, “Violence and threats against law enforcement, including the FBI, are dangerous and should be deeply concerning to all Americans.”
Washington, D.C., wins suit against ghost gun company Polymer80. In 2020, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine filed suit against the Nevada-based firearms manufacturer and distributor, alleging that Polymer80 illegally sold and advertised unserialized ghost guns to consumers in the city. A D.C. Superior Court judge this week ordered the company to pay $4 million in penalties and barred it from selling ghost guns and ghost gun kits to residents of the District. Since D.C. filed suit, a number of other cities and states have taken their own actions against the company over its alleged facilitation of the illegal gun market, including Baltimore — which recently announced a lawsuit similar to D.C.’s — and New York, which called on the ATF — which had previously raided the company — to revoke the company’s federal firearms license. Police in thosecities and elsewhere say a big share of ghost gun recoveries include Polymer80 parts.
California Legislature passes bill to fund violence prevention with Medicaid. Days after the Senate passed it, the state House approved a bill to allow community violence prevention programs and recovery services, like hospital-based violence intervention, to be a covered benefit under the state’s Medicaid program. The bill goes to the desk of Governor Gavin Newsom, who is expected to sign it. “With this legislation, California enlists a more equitable approach to care for survivors of violence, the majority of whom are Black and brown boys and men who have historically been overlooked and ignored by our health systems,” said Fatimah Loren Dreier, the executive director of the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention (HAVI).
More developments after Bruen. There have been further changes to state policies and new litigation and arguments in court since we published our tracker looking at how the SCOTUS case has rapidly shaken up gun laws. They include:
- Colorado: The Boulder County Commissioners unanimously passed five gun ordinances, including a prohibition on the carrying of concealed guns in “sensitive public places,” including public buildings, daycares, medical facilities, and polling places.
- Massachusetts: Republican Governor Charlie Baker signed a bill amending concealed carry laws to comply with Bruen, including language that removes “a reasonable exercise of discretion” on the part of licensing authorities. The bill also requires in-person interviews with licensing authorities and adds new categories of prohibited carriers.
- New Jersey: The Highland Park Borough Council proposed prohibitions on concealed carry in public buildings, including schools, except by police. A final vote is set for September 6.
Another data point showing the concentration of urban violence. A WRAL analysis found that about a fifth of the nearly 400 shootings in Durham, North Carolina, so far this year occurred in one square mile. Moreover, the neighborhoods with the most gun violence that accounted for 16 percent of shootings comprised only 2 percent of the population. Those two neighborhoods included between 61 and 77 percent of residents under 18 living below the poverty line.
Data Point
5 — the number of states that now have a law allowing state Medicaid agencies to cover costs for violence intervention programs like hospital-based violence intervention programs, according to a tally from the HAVI, an association of HVIP programs. [The HAVI] | https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/the-would-be-fbi-attackers-suspected-online-trail/ | 2022-08-12T21:25:34Z | thetrace.org | control | https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/the-would-be-fbi-attackers-suspected-online-trail/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Justice Department informed a court on Friday that former President Donald Trump did not object to unsealing a search warrant and documents related to the FBI search of his Florida home earlier this week.
Read the filing below.
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™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved. | https://www.local3news.com/regional-national/read-doj-filing-showing-trump-supports-mar-a-lago-search-warrant-release/article_05dfa712-6f5e-5c22-8e22-07f0ab56719a.html | 2022-08-12T21:30:38Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/regional-national/read-doj-filing-showing-trump-supports-mar-a-lago-search-warrant-release/article_05dfa712-6f5e-5c22-8e22-07f0ab56719a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Friday unsealed the search warrant and property receipt from the FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach earlier this week.
Read the unsealed search warrant below.
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™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved. | https://www.local3news.com/regional-national/read-search-warrant-for-trumps-mar-a-lago-resort/article_32630962-9234-5116-b936-7c2cc5821e33.html | 2022-08-12T21:30:44Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/regional-national/read-search-warrant-for-trumps-mar-a-lago-resort/article_32630962-9234-5116-b936-7c2cc5821e33.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Snowflake (SNOW) could potentially have an incredibly bumpy road ahead, given the firm’s usage-based revenue recognition model. Nevertheless, I think the long-term growth profile and secular tailwinds are more than enough reasons to give Snowflake the benefit of the doubt. Shares have been gaining considerable ground in recent weeks. Still, the stock is well off its peak of around $400 per share, leaving it ample upside potential.
At writing, the wildly-volatile data-cloud innovator is up around 50% from its bottom hit in June 2022. Indeed, investors have eased over rising interest rates and the implications of the next recession.
Although the share price has collapsed from its highs, the $57 billion big-data play remains quite expensive at 36 times sales, well above the industry average, just north of 10 times. With the ability to continue posting impressive growth through a recession without having to reinvest heavily, I think Snowflake is one of few technology stocks out there that’s actually worth a multiple north of 40 times sales.
I remain incredibly bullish on Snowflake stock as shares look to melt up again.
Economic Weakness Likely to Impact IT Spending
As we head into a recession or period of economic weakness, IT spending could take a bit of a hit. Undoubtedly, most layoffs, hiring freezes, and rescinded job offers have been concentrated within the tech sector. Even the resilient big-tech firms (think the FAANG companies) have been more cautious with their hiring practices going into the second half of 2022.
Undoubtedly, the tech-focused weakness does not bode well for the broader batch, especially firms like Snowflake that may not be seen as essential to day-to-day operations. Further, the usage-based revenue recognition model will not do the firm’s coming quarters any favors.
As I noted in prior pieces, the usage-based model could go from volatility exacerbator to revenue accelerator. No subscriptions or lock-in makes firms more willing to try and discover what Snowflake’s cloud-based offering can provide.
If they like what they see, they don’t need to be “locked in” to stay aboard. In this regard, Snowflake has a moat surrounding its user base. It’s not in the form of “contractual obligations” but in the customers’ willingness to stick around.
The usage-based model has its cons, though, and as the economy grinds to a slowdown, these cons will heavily outweigh the pros.
Charging customers based on usage could make revenue growth look incredibly ugly once firms begin to cut back. As IT budgets contract, Snowflake’s revenue growth deceleration could easily give the impression that the firm’s best days are behind it.
Though the usage-based model is bound to induce volatility, it could pay off with a “snowballing” effect down the road once the next bull market roars and the magnitude of data swell at an exponential rate.
In short, volatility works both ways.
For Snowflake, more client data means more usage of storage and analytics solutions, which, in turn, means more sales. As Snowflake continues adding to its tech arsenal, use could rebound sharply.
Ahead of a downturn, it’ll work against Snowflake. However, come the next expansionary cycle (markets may soon begin to look past the 2023 economic storm clouds), Snowflake could find itself storming out of the gate stronger than ever.
Snowflake Likely to Come Out of a Recession Stronger
As the old saying goes, “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” Truly wonderful businesses treat a recession not as a setback but as an opportunity to gain ground on rivals and strengthen their market position. Snowflake has a nice headstart in its nascent industry, and it’s well-equipped to widen the gap as firms recognize the phenomenal growth from platforms and tools that unlock the full potential of data sets.
Data is a commodity and a very precious one in the digital age. I view Snowflake as akin to a commodity player in the midstream and downstream. Indeed, refining, moving (or sharing), and storing data is where Snowflake shines.
Snowflake faces stiff competition from the big tech in the realm of data warehousing and analytics. Further, up-and-comer Databricks is hungry to take a sizeable bite out of the data cloud. Snowflake has stayed on its toes, and it’s likely to continue doing so as times get tougher.
Snowflake will be busy improving as the economic tides go out, all while the digital transformation secular trend encourages firms to migrate their troves of data to the cloud.
What is the Target Price for Snowflake Stock?
Turning to Wall Street, Snowflake has a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on 21 Buys, six Holds, and two Sells assigned in the past three months. The average Snowflake price target of $184.80 implies 9.8% upside potential. Analyst price targets range from a low of $120.00 per share to a high of $295.00 per share.
Takeaway – Snowflake Stock is Not Like Other Tech Stocks
Snowflake isn’t cheap at around 40 times sales, with a lack of profits to show today or anytime in the near future. However, the secular tailwinds at the firm’s back are so powerful that I think Snowflake doesn’t deserve to be grouped with the rest of its fallen speculative tech peers. The company’s days of high double-digit growth are far from over. While a recession could weigh over coming quarters, the long-term trend is still a friend of the firm. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/heres-why-snowflake-stock-has-plenty-of-room-to-run/ | 2022-08-12T21:34:19Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/heres-why-snowflake-stock-has-plenty-of-room-to-run/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
18-year-old arrested after Jeffersontown High School threat made
Published: Aug. 12, 2022 at 5:22 PM EDT|Updated: 11 minutes ago
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - An 18-year-old was arrested Friday after he allegedly threatened Jeffersontown High School on social media.
According to the Jeffersontown Police Chief Rick Sanders, Jeffersontown police arrested David Joseph Horsmann, 18, after threats were made.
Horsmann is a former Jeffersontown High School student but is no longer enrolled in JCPS.
Chief Sanders says that officers were made aware of the social media post by Kentucky State Police on Thursday.
Extra security was used at the high school on Friday to ensure the safety of faculty and staff.
Copyright 2022 WAVE. All rights reserved. | https://www.wave3.com/2022/08/12/18-year-old-arrested-after-jeffersontown-high-school-threat-made/ | 2022-08-12T21:35:50Z | wave3.com | control | https://www.wave3.com/2022/08/12/18-year-old-arrested-after-jeffersontown-high-school-threat-made/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LAS VEGAS — A Las Vegas landlord has been accused in federal court of forcing a woman to sign a sex contract in exchange for housing.
According to court documents, Allan Rothstein allegedly forced Candy Torres to sign the contract, a document titled "Direct Consent for Sexual Intercourse," in November 2018 to rent a four-bedroom home.
Rothstein was the property manager at the time and a licensed real estate broker, ABC affiliate KTNV reported.
In the court documents, Torres said she felt that she had no other option but to sign the contract because she and her five children were homeless, living weekly in a residential hotel.
KTNV reported that the woman was approved for a housing voucher through Section 8.
But according to the federal program, you have 60 days to find a place to live.
According to the court documents, the tenant had to swear she wasn't signing the contract "under the influence of an incapacitating intoxicant, aphrodisiacs, or psychoactive substances," KTNV reported.
The Nevada Real Estate Division launched an investigation into the claims, KTNV reported.
According to the news outlet, Rothstein admitted to the Real Estate Division that he wrote the contract and forced the tenant to sign it.
As a result of the investigation, Rothstein lost his real estate license and property manager license, the news outlet reported.
He was fined $94,000, KTNV reported. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/las-vegas-landlord-accused-of-forcing-tenant-to-sign-sex-contract-to-lease-home | 2022-08-12T21:46:50Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/las-vegas-landlord-accused-of-forcing-tenant-to-sign-sex-contract-to-lease-home | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOWNDES COUNTY, Ga. (WTXL) — The Georgia Department of Transportation announced Friday that repairs to Interstate 75 south in Lowndes County will begin Monday, Aug. 15.
I-75 south in Lowndes County from north of State Route 38 to south of Mud Creek along with ramp work at exit 16/state route 38 south will be impacted by the road work.
The Georgia Department of Transportation notes that commuters should expect double lane closures beginning at 7 p.m. Monday and lanes are expected to open by 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.
The GDOT said in its news release that pavement preservation, spot mill and inlay travel and ramp lanes, milling grinds into the upper layer of pavement to remove ruts and other imperfections along with inlay paving covers the milled area and levels the road will be conducted. | https://www.wtxl.com/traffic/maintenance-to-i-75-south-in-lowndes-county-set-for-august-15 | 2022-08-12T21:46:56Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/traffic/maintenance-to-i-75-south-in-lowndes-county-set-for-august-15 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Hill) — The FBI recovered 11 sets of classified documents while conducting the search of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
The Journal reviewed a three-page list of items that FBI agents took from the Palm Beach, Fla., property on Monday, revealing that they took about 20 boxes of items, binders of photos, a handwritten note and Trump’s grant of clemency to his former adviser Roger Stone, who was convicted in 2019 of lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstruction of an official proceeding.
The list refers to one set of documents as “Various classified/TS/CSI documents,” meaning top secret/sensitive compartmentalized information. It states that FBI agents acquired four sets of top-secret documents, three sets of secret documents and three sets of confidential documents.
The FBI reportedly sought documents containing information about nuclear weapons in the search, but it is unclear if the agency recovered any. The Journal reported that the list did not contain any additional details about what information was in the classified documents.
NewsNation separately reported that FBI agents had found dozens of classified documents during their search of Mar-a-Lago on Monday.
The list reported by the Journal was included in a seven-page document that also includes the search warrant the FBI executed mentions information about the “President of France.”
The warrant shows agents planned to search “the 45 Office” and “all storage rooms and all other rooms or areas within the premises used or available to be used by [the former president] and his staff and in which boxes or documents could be stored, including all structures or buildings on the estate,” according to the Journal.
The FBI did not appear to search private guest rooms.
Trump allies have claimed that the former president declassified the documents that he brought to Mar-a-Lago while he was still in office.
Trump and his allies have attacked the search as being politically motivated as Trump considers another run for the White House in 2024.
Republicans have called for answers from the Department of Justice (DOJ) over what led up to the search, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) vowed to launch an investigation into the department if Republicans retake control of the House in the November midterm elections.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday that the DOJ filed a motion to request that the search warrant be unsealed given Trump’s public notice of the search and the significant public interest in the situation.
Garland also defended the DOJ and FBI against attacks on its credibility, saying that their integrity has been “unfairly attacked.” He said he personally approved the search but did not do so lightly.
A group of news organizations also filed a motion on Thursday to support Garland’s effort to unseal the warrant and further request that all documents related to the warrant be made public.
The search was conducted over Trump’s potential violations of the Presidential Records Act, which requires presidents to turn over documents to government record-keepers after they leave office. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/fbi-recovered-11-sets-of-classified-documents-in-trump-search-report/ | 2022-08-12T21:50:56Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/fbi-recovered-11-sets-of-classified-documents-in-trump-search-report/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Newport man arrested for felonious assault
A 38-year-old Newport man is in custody after allegedly attempting to attack another man with an incendiary device and a shotgun.
The incident occurred at approximately 2 a.m. Tuesday morning in the 8000 block of South Huron River Drive in Berlin Township, South Rockwood, according to a press release issued by the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies received a report of a male subject who had reportedly attacked another man with an incendiary device. When attempts to ignite the device failed, the suspect allegedly produced and discharged a shotgun before fleeing the scene in his vehicle prior to deputies' arrival.
Once on scene, deputies conducted an initial investigation where they gathered information and evidence that helped identify the suspect as 38-year-old James Michael Pattenaude. Deputies reportedly determined this was an isolated incident where the suspect and victim are known to each other.
As a result of the investigation, deputies later located the suspect at his residence in Newport, where he was arrested and lodged in the Monroe County Jail.
On Thursday, Pattenaude was arraigned in 1st District Court on the following felony charges:
- Count 1 - Possession with Intent to Deliver Methamphetamines
- Count 2 - Manufacture/Possession of an Incendiary Device
- Count 3 - Discharge a Firearm from a Moving Vehicle
- Count 4 - Felon in Possession of a Firearm
- Count 5 - Felon in Possession of Ammunition
- Count 6 - Felonious Assault
- Counts 7 through 10 - Felony Firearm
Bond was set at $50.000.
The incident remains under investigation by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Detective Bureau. Anyone with information is asked to contact detectives at 734-240-7530. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/crime/2022/08/12/newport-man-arrested-felonious-assault/10307404002/ | 2022-08-12T21:50:57Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/crime/2022/08/12/newport-man-arrested-felonious-assault/10307404002/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY
EVENING...
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.
* WHERE...A portion of southeast Wyoming, including the following
areas, Central Laramie County, Central Laramie Range and Southwest
Platte County, East Platte County, Laramie Valley, South Laramie
Range and South Laramie Range Foothills.
* WHEN...From Saturday afternoon through Sunday evening.
* IMPACTS...Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas.
Low-water crossings may be flooded.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action
should Flash Flood Warnings be issued.
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A male sage grouse struts on a Wyoming lek in April 2020.
A key timing restriction protecting some wintering greater sage grouse from oil and gas development doesn’t align with the imperiled birds’ use of the critical habitat, a University of Wyoming study shows.
Sage grouse generally move to winter range on Nov. 7 and stay through March 13, according to research by professor Jeff Beck and others who used data from hundreds of GPS-tagged sage grouse. But Wyoming’s restrictions on oil and gas activity in defined “winter concentration areas” start only on Dec. 1, according to Gov. Mark Gordon’s executive order protecting the bird.
The new information could lead to a revision of that executive order, members of the Sage Grouse Implementation Team said last week.
The understanding of grouse winter habits “has changed somewhat from what the assumptions were,” Beck told the team.
SGIT chairman Bob Budd agreed.
“We were using the best science available,” Budd said of the existing protective timeframe. However, “what we thought [to be correct] wasn’t right,” he said in an interview.
“Now it’s a matter of saying ‘do we need to change the way we are managing?’”
Another team member, Brian Rutledge, a consultant for Audubon , said science shows the grouse protection “has to occur earlier.”
Calling the research “big news to everybody,” he said winter concentration area protections may need to extend from November to April or May.
Beck and two associates plan to refine their findings and take them to the grouse-team’s winter concentration area subcommittee. The work has not yet been published. Should the WCA subcommittee call for expanded drilling restrictions, there’s a “pretty good chance” the full SGIT would forward that to the governor, Budd said.
Gordon could then change his executive order to revise when drilling would be allowed in WCAs.
Budd’s willingness to advance new protections, “that’s a big deal,” Rutledge said. “That’s responsiveness.”
Beck, a professor in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, along with post-doctoral research associates Kurt Smith and Aaron Pratt, used information from 540 grouse collected between 2008-2018. All told 900,000 GPS locations made up the data set.
The researchers tracked sage grouse movements in five general areas: the Tongue/Powder River area, Bighorn Basin, Wind/Sweetwater Rivers area, Upper Green River valley and northern Red Desert.
On average the data showed that 25% of the tagged grouse arrived at wintering grounds by Oct. 10, half by Nov. 7 and 75% by Nov. 25., researcher Pratt told the grouse team. The governor’s executive order drilling restrictions, however, begin “after most birds have already arrived,” Pratt said.
The existing protections end on May 15 when only half the population has left the winter habitat, he said.
Wyoming has defined only one WCA, which is largely located in an energy field approved for drilling and fracking. The Normally Pressured Lance, or NPL gas field and the corresponding wintering area lie in southern Sublette County near the Jonah gas field.
No drilling is expected to occur there this winter, SGIT member Paul Ulrich, a representative of Jonah Energy, which owns the rights to the NPL Field, told the team.
Gordon recognized and protected the lone WCA after a biologist discovered as many as 2,000 grouse there. Gordon designated the WCA because Wyoming’s general sage grouse core-area conservation strategy did not cover the Sublette County winter refuge.
Extending the protective dates for the Sublette WCA may not be enough, Rutledge said. That’s because un-designated WCAs — defined as places where 50 or more birds flock — exist inside protected core areas as well.
But those core areas, generally delineated around habitat used in other seasons, may not have adequate winter drilling restrictions, Rutledge said.
Wyoming also should better define what activities unsettle grouse on their winter range, Budd and Rutledge said. Those potentially disruptive activities include things like snowmobiling and antler hunting.
Greater sage grouse spend an average of 94 days a year in breeding habitat, 99 days in summer habitat and about 46 days on fall transitional range. But winter is the longest single season, the UW research shows, extending for 126 days.
Last week’s discussion came as the Wyoming Game and Fish Department prepares to release its annual summary of grouse population trends, derived from counts of strutting males at spring breeding grounds known as leks. That information and similar estimates from other Western states help inform the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as it monitors the struggling species for potential protection under the federal Endangered Species Act.
Wyoming’s core areas, WCAs and connectivity areas cover where an estimated 83% of the state’s population of birds live, according to the governor’s executive order. The designations cover about 24% of the state and are designed to encourage development elsewhere and limit the amount of surface disturbance in the protected zones.
Greater sage grouse tend to spend winter in gently rolling terrain, where sagebrush covers at least two-thirds of the landscape and is not completely covered by snow, the researchers told the team.
Rutledge said it is possible the sage grouse team could receive recommendations from its WCA subcommittee before this winter.
WyoFile is an independent nonprofit news organization focused on Wyoming people, places and policy. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/research-shows-winter-grouse-efforts-miss-key-weeks/article_169df0d4-962f-534a-a901-155fab0ef17d.html | 2022-08-12T21:51:43Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/research-shows-winter-grouse-efforts-miss-key-weeks/article_169df0d4-962f-534a-a901-155fab0ef17d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The warrant and inventory of what was seized at former President Donald Trump's Florida residence have now been released.
KATC's parent company, E.W. Scripps, is among several media corporations who filed Motions urging a south Florida court to release the warrant.
On Monday, FBI agents executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, a resort owned by Trump in Palm Beach, and which he refers to as one of his homes. Although Trump's attorneys have had copies of the warrant and the inventory of what was taken since the warrant was executed, Trump and his supporters have repeatedly called for its public release.
Yesterday, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland held a press conference in response to Trump's statements, denying that the FBI is corrupt and announcing that he had asked the court to unseal the warrant.
E.W. Scripps, together with CBS, NBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Associated Press and CNN, all filed Motions to Intervene in the case, urging the court to grant Garland's Motion to Unseal.
It's important that the public know what is in the warrant, and what was seized by the FBI, the Motion states.
"Given the former President’s own public discussion, the seriousness of the allegations against him, and the condemnations of law enforcement by his supporters, disclosure of the Search Warrant Records could not be more in the public interest," the Motion states.
The Motion reiterates what some of Trump's attorneys have stated about the nature of the warrant.
"According to Trump’s lawyer, the warrant was aimed at finding classified documents that allegedly were removed from the White House and brought to Mar-a-Lago in violation of federal law. Federal agents reportedly broke a lock, opened the former President’s safe, riffled through closets, and seized approximately 12 boxes of documents containing what may be highly sensitive, classified records," the Motion states. "The materials that may have unlawfully been removed implicate Trump in potential violations of the Presidential Records Act and laws governing the handling of classified materials. Not since the Nixon Administration has a President been the subject of such a dramatic and public criminal process. The Media Intervenors are among the news organizations that have reported on the search and are attempting to shed light on the federal government’s unprecedented actions and motivations."
Yesterday, Trump also called on the court to release the documents.
"Not only will I not oppose the release of documents related to the unAmerican, unwarranted, and unnecessary raid and break-in of my home in Palm Beach, Florida, Mar-a-Lago, I am going a step further by ENCOURAGING the immediate release of those documents, even though they have been drawn up by radical left Democrats and possible future political opponents, who have a strong and powerful vested interest in attacking me, much as they have done for the last 6 years," Trump said in a statement.
The Motion includes a copy of Trump's August 8 statement about the warrant, as well as discussion regarding its content. In light of everything that is known, is being said, and remains unknown, the Motion requests a public hearing on the issue.
"In light of the Court’s task in reviewing the interests that the government or Trump may assert, considering the many facts already publicly known about the investigation of Trump, and weighing the colossal public interest in the records, a public hearing would assist the Court and further the public’s interest in transparency," the Motion states.
In addition to the search warrant itself and the return, which lists what items the FBI took away, the Motion requests that any supporting affidavits also be unsealed. In general, a supporting affidavit lists for the judge considering the warrant evidence that investigators have obtained which lead them to believe there is probable cause for a warrant to be issued. In general, a search warrant is requested by law enforcement, and signed by a judge - if the judge determines there is probable cause for a search.
"Transparency of the search warrant process, especially here, clearly would “operate as a curb on prosecutorial or judicial misconduct,” as the former President and his supporters have alleged. Transparency would also shed light on the basis for the FBI raid, including whether it resulted from credible information that the former President may have committed violations of federal law. Therefore, to the extent that the government’s motion to unseal does not include the supporting affidavits or any other materials filed in connection with the search warrant, the Media Intervenors request that those Search Warrant Records also be unsealed.
The government's Motion to unseal doesn't indicate if the affidavits are included; it only mentions the warrant with two attachments and the receipt for property that was taken during the execution of the warrant. You can read it for yourself here. What was released Friday did not include the Affidavit; it was just the warrant and a list of items taken away. NPR has posted the documents; you can see for yourself here. | https://www.katc.com/news/covering-louisiana/katc-parent-company-among-those-who-asked-court-to-unseal-trump-warrant | 2022-08-12T21:54:46Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/covering-louisiana/katc-parent-company-among-those-who-asked-court-to-unseal-trump-warrant | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Video footage of a bear acting intoxicated after eating too much of a type of honey with psychoactive properties was shared online, showing the bear in possible distress sitting in the back of a truck in Turkey.
The Turkish news outlet dokuz8haber shared a clip of the bear wobbling and swaying while appearing disoriented while sitting safely in the back of a truck while some tried to watch over it.
🐻 Obur ayının sonu veteriner kliniği oldu
— dokuz8haber (@dokuz8haber) August 10, 2022
🍯 Düzce'nin Yığılca ilçesinde acı bal üretimi yapan arıcıların kovanlarındaki balı yiyen ayı bayıldı. Orman İşletme Müdürlüğü ekiplerince alınan ayı kamyonetin kasasına konulurken, sarhoş halleri gülümsetti. Ayının tedavisi sürüyor. pic.twitter.com/hoChzjdRMo
The bear is thought to have consumed a type of honey in Turkey called "deli bal" which comes from beehives in an area of Turkey called Düzce, which is located in the northwest of the country along the Black Sea. In English, the type of honey is called "mad honey,"
As Newsweek reported, the Turkish outlet dokuz8haber reported that officials in Turkey were able to pick up the bear and put it in the back of their truck.
When the bear passed out, it was taken to a veterinarian for treatment.
Düzce’de bitkin halde bulunan yavru boz ayımızın sağlık durumu iyi, ekiplerimiz tedavisine devam ediyor. @milliparklar
— T.C. Tarım ve Orman Bakanlığı (@TCTarim) August 11, 2022
Balın dozunu kaçıran sevimli “kızımıza” bir isim verelim, adıyla yaşasın😊 💬 pic.twitter.com/dZsI2FcsIw
The Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry said the bear was named "Balkiz" and was later determined to be in "good health" and would be released back into the wild as soon as it was ready. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/bear-seen-acting-intoxicated-after-eating-too-much-psychoactive-mad-honey | 2022-08-12T21:55:10Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/bear-seen-acting-intoxicated-after-eating-too-much-psychoactive-mad-honey | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — With inflation raging near its highest level in four decades, Congress is poised to approve President Joe Biden's signature Inflation Reduction Act. Its title raises a tantalizing question: Will the measure actually tame the price spikes that have inflicted hardships on American households?
Economic analyses of the proposal suggest that the answer is likely no — not anytime soon, anyway.
The legislation, which is headed for final approval Friday in the House and will then be signed into law, won't directly address some of the main drivers of surging prices — from gas and food to rents and restaurant meals.
Still, the bill could save money for some Americans by lessening the cost of prescription drugs for the elderly, extending health insurance subsidies and reducing energy prices. It would also modestly cut the government's budget deficit, which might slightly lower inflation by the end of this decade.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office concluded last week that the changes would have a "negligible" impact on inflation this year and next. And the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Wharton Budget Model concluded that, over the next decade, "the impact on inflation is statistically indistinguishable from zero."
Such forecasts also undercut the arguments that some Republicans, such as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy have made, that the bill would "cause inflation," as McCarthy said in a speech on the House floor last month.
Biden himself, in speaking of the legislation's effect on inflation, has cautiously referred to potentially lower prices in individual categories rather than to lower inflation as a whole. This week, the president said the bill would "bring down the cost of prescription drugs, health insurance premiums and energy costs."
At the same time, the White House has trumpeted a letter signed by more than 120 economists, including several Novel Prize winners and former Treasury secretaries, that asserts that the bill's reduction in the government's budget deficit — by an estimated $300 billion over the next decade, according to the CBO — would put "downward pressure on inflation."
In theory, lower deficits can reduce inflation. That's because lower government spending or higher taxes, which help shrink the deficit, reduce demand in the economy, thereby easing pressure on companies to raise prices.
Jason Furman, a Harvard economist who served as a top economic adviser in the Obama administration, wrote in an opinion column for The Wall Street Journal: "Deficit reduction is almost always inflation-reducing."
Yet Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who was a top economic adviser to President George W. Bush and later a director of the CBO, noted that the lower deficits won't kick in until five years from now and won't be very large over the next decade considering the size of the economy.
"$30 billion a year in a $21 trillion economy isn't going to move the needle," Holtz-Eakin said, referring to the estimated amount of deficit reduction spread over 10 years.
He also noted that Congress has recently passed other legislation to subsidize semiconductor production in the U.S. and expand veterans' health care, and suggested that those laws will spend more than the Inflation Reduction Act will save.
In addition, Kent Smetters, director of the Penn Wharton Budget Model, said the bill's health care subsidies could send inflation up. The legislation would spend $70 billion over a decade to extend tax credits to help 13 million Americans pay for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Those subsidies would free up money for recipients to spend elsewhere, potentially increasing inflation, although Smetters said he thought the effect would likely be very small.
While the bill could have the benefit of increasing the savings of millions of households on pharmaceutical and energy costs, it's unlikely to have much effect on overall inflation. Prescription drugs account for only 1% of the spending in the U.S. consumer price index; spending on electricity and natural gas makes up just 3.6%.
Starting in 2025, the act will cap the amount Medicare recipients would pay for their prescription drugs at $2,000 a year. It will authorize Medicare to negotiate the cost of some high-priced pharmaceuticals — a long-sought goal that President Donald Trump had also floated. It would also limit Medicare recipients' out-of-pocket costs for insulin at $35 a month. Insulin prescriptions averaged $54 in 2020, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
"This is a historic change," said Leigh Purvis, director of health care costs at the AARP Public Policy Institute. "This is allowing Medicare to protect beneficiaries from high drug prices in a way that was not there before."
A study by Kaiser found that in 2019, 1.2 million Medicare recipients spent an average of $3,216 on drug prescriptions. Purvis said recipients who use the most expensive drugs can spend as much as $10,000 or $15,000 a year.
The legislation authorizes Medicare to negotiate prices of 10 expensive pharmaceuticals, starting next year, though the results won't take effect until 2026. Up to 60 drugs could be subject to negotiation by 2029.
Holtz-Eakin argued that while the provision may lower the cost of some Medicare drugs, it would discourage the development of new drugs or reduce new venture capital investment in start-up pharmaceutical companies.
The Inflation Reduction Act's energy provisions could also create savings, though the amounts are likely to be much smaller.
The bill will provide a $7,500 tax credit for new purchases of electric vehicles, though most EVs won't qualify because the legislation requires them to include batteries with U.S. materials.
And the legislation also significantly expands a tax credit for homeowners who invest in energy-efficient equipment, from a one-time $500 credit to $1,200 that a homeowner could claim each year. Vincent Barnes, senior vice president for policy at the Alliance to Save Energy, said this would allow homeowners to make new energy-efficient investments over several years.
But for all Americans, including those who aren't homeowners, the impact will likely be limited. The Rhodium Group estimates that by 2030 the bill's provisions will save households an average of up to $112 a year as gas and electricity becomes cheaper as more Americans drive EVs and houses become more energy- efficient. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/inflation-reduction-act-may-have-little-impact-on-inflation-in-the-immediate-future | 2022-08-12T21:55:16Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/inflation-reduction-act-may-have-little-impact-on-inflation-in-the-immediate-future | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A federal judge has preliminarily approved the $24 million equal pay settlement between the U.S. Soccer Federation and the U.S. women's national soccer team.
The Associated Press reported that U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner gave his decision on Thursday.
“Most significantly, the unopposed settlement agreement accomplishes the plaintiffs’ goal for litigation: equal pay,” Klausner wrote per the Associated Press. “The court is satisified that the settlement is a fair and reasonable resolution.”
Two years ago, Klausner dismissed the women's team's claims they received lower pay than the U.S. men's team, NPR reported.
A hearing for final approval is scheduled for Dec. 5, ESPN reported.
"We are pleased that the Court granted preliminary approval for the Historic Equal Pay Resolution today," The players' spokesperson, Molly Levinson said in a tweet. "We look forward to celebrating this hard fought victory for women and girls at the final hearing in December."
According to the news outlets, both sides agreed to the terms of the settlement in February, with the sport's governing body agreeing to pay $22 million to settle the dispute. | https://www.katc.com/sports/federal-judge-preliminarily-approves-equal-pay-deal-for-us-womens-soccer | 2022-08-12T21:55:29Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/sports/federal-judge-preliminarily-approves-equal-pay-deal-for-us-womens-soccer | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Bauchi NBA lauds Bala Mohammed for signing judicial autonomy bill into law
Bauchi State branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has lauded the governor, Sen Bala A. Mohammed for signing into law, the judicial autonomy bill as passed by the State House of Assembly.
The NBA also commended the Chief Judge, Grand Khadi, Attorney-General & Commissioner of Justice and indeed all other stakeholders in the Justice Sector of the state for the landmark development which will go a long way in further helping the cause of justice in the state
In a press statement jointly signed by the Chairman and Secretary Jibrin S. Jibrin Esq and U.B. Babayo Esq respectively, the NBA stated that “As we have noted in our previous statement on this issue, this development is highly welcome and it represents a watershed in the annals of judicial service and the wider interest of justice in the state.”
According to it, “We further commend the Executive, legislative and judicial arms of government along with other stakeholders including the Bar for rising to the occasion by making sure this great and unique piece of legislation is now firmly on the ground thereby setting the stage for the much needed financial independence for the judicial arm of the government.”
The NBA also seized the opportunity to call on judges at all levels, other personnel and all stakeholders in the Justice Sector to regard this development as a call for higher service, selflessness and dedication to duty.
It is observed that society will now become more interested in monitoring the performance of our judicial actors, especially from the lenses of the kind of judgements they turn in as a mirror of their integrity, fear of God and promotion of the law.
The point is therefore stressed that while financial independence and satisfaction are critical to a smooth, effective and justice dispensing system, the integrity, good reputation and pleasure of the Almighty God are by far more important considerations and which must be situated in all our actions, decisions and general undertakings.
It stated further, “On our part, the Bar under our able leadership will continue to work closely with other stakeholders in ensuring that there is a corresponding immediate implementation of the law so that, unlike some states, we will be seen to be walking the talk as far as the practical implementation of the law is concerned.”
“Once again, we congratulate the Governor Bala Mohammad’s-led administration and other stakeholders for this remarkable feat even as we reiterate our standing commitment to engaging the system for positive action with respect to other crucial issues that are negatively affecting justice delivery in the state such as the poor condition of courts particularly at the lower level among other things we discovered during our tour of the facilities as part of the activities for the 2022 Law Week held in June,” the NBA concluded.
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Bauchi NBA lauds Bala Mohammed… Bauchi NBA lauds Bala Mohammed… | https://tribuneonlineng.com/bauchi-nba-lauds-bala-mohammed-for-signing-judicial-autonomy-bill-into-law/ | 2022-08-12T22:00:47Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/bauchi-nba-lauds-bala-mohammed-for-signing-judicial-autonomy-bill-into-law/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON — With inflation raging near its highest level in four decades, Congress is poised to approve President Joe Biden's signature Inflation Reduction Act. Its title raises a tantalizing question: Will the measure actually tame the price spikes that have inflicted hardships on American households?
Economic analyses of the proposal suggest that the answer is likely no — not anytime soon, anyway.
The legislation, which is headed for final approval Friday in the House and will then be signed into law, won't directly address some of the main drivers of surging prices — from gas and food to rents and restaurant meals.
Still, the bill could save money for some Americans by lessening the cost of prescription drugs for the elderly, extending health insurance subsidies and reducing energy prices. It would also modestly cut the government's budget deficit, which might slightly lower inflation by the end of this decade.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office concluded last week that the changes would have a “negligible” impact on inflation this year and next. And the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Wharton Budget Model concluded that, over the next decade, "the impact on inflation is statistically indistinguishable from zero.”
Such forecasts also undercut the arguments that some Republicans, such as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy have made, that the bill would “cause inflation,” as McCarthy said in a speech on the House floor last month.
Biden himself, in speaking of the legislation's effect on inflation, has cautiously referred to potentially lower prices in individual categories rather than to lower inflation as a whole. This week, the president said the bill would “bring down the cost of prescription drugs, health insurance premiums and energy costs.”
At the same time, the White House has trumpeted a letter signed by more than 120 economists, including several Novel Prize winners and former Treasury secretaries, that asserts that the bill's reduction in the government's budget deficit — by an estimated $300 billion over the next decade, according to the CBO — would put “downward pressure on inflation.”
In theory, lower deficits can reduce inflation. That's because lower government spending or higher taxes, which help shrink the deficit, reduce demand in the economy, thereby easing pressure on companies to raise prices.
Jason Furman, a Harvard economist who served as a top economic adviser in the Obama administration, wrote in an opinion column for The Wall Street Journal: “Deficit reduction is almost always inflation-reducing.”
Yet Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who was a top economic adviser to President George W. Bush and later a director of the CBO, noted that the lower deficits won't kick in until five years from now and won't be very large over the next decade considering the size of the economy.
“$30 billion a year in a $21 trillion economy isn’t going to move the needle,” Holtz-Eakin said, referring to the estimated amount of deficit reduction spread over 10 years.
He also noted that Congress has recently passed other legislation to subsidize semiconductor production in the U.S. and expand veterans' health care, and suggested that those laws will spend more than the Inflation Reduction Act will save.
In addition, Kent Smetters, director of the Penn Wharton Budget Model, said the bill's health care subsidies could send inflation up. The legislation would spend $70 billion over a decade to extend tax credits to help 13 million Americans pay for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Those subsidies would free up money for recipients to spend elsewhere, potentially increasing inflation, although Smetters said he thought the effect would likely be very small.
While the bill could have the benefit of increasing the savings of millions of households on pharmaceutical and energy costs, it’s unlikely to have much effect on overall inflation. Prescription drugs account for only 1% of the spending in the U.S. consumer price index; spending on electricity and natural gas makes up just 3.6%.
Starting in 2025, the act will cap the amount Medicare recipients would pay for their prescription drugs at $2,000 a year. It will authorize Medicare to negotiate the cost of some high-priced pharmaceuticals — a long-sought goal that President Donald Trump had also floated. It would also limit Medicare recipients' out-of-pocket costs for insulin at $35 a month. Insulin prescriptions averaged $54 in 2020, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
“This is a historic change,” said Leigh Purvis, director of health care costs at the AARP Public Policy Institute. “This is allowing Medicare to protect beneficiaries from high drug prices in a way that was not there before.”
A study by Kaiser found that in 2019, 1.2 million Medicare recipients spent an average of $3,216 on drug prescriptions. Purvis said recipients who use the most expensive drugs can spend as much as $10,000 or $15,000 a year.
The legislation authorizes Medicare to negotiate prices of 10 expensive pharmaceuticals, starting next year, though the results won't take effect until 2026. Up to 60 drugs could be subject to negotiation by 2029.
Holtz-Eakin argued that while the provision may lower the cost of some Medicare drugs, it would discourage the development of new drugs or reduce new venture capital investment in start-up pharmaceutical companies.
The Inflation Reduction Act's energy provisions could also create savings, though the amounts are likely to be much smaller.
The bill will provide a $7,500 tax credit for new purchases of electric vehicles, though most EVs won't qualify because the legislation requires them to include batteries with U.S. materials.
And the legislation also significantly expands a tax credit for homeowners who invest in energy-efficient equipment, from a one-time $500 credit to $1,200 that a homeowner could claim each year. Vincent Barnes, senior vice president for policy at the Alliance to Save Energy, said this would allow homeowners to make new energy-efficient investments over several years.
But for all Americans, including those who aren't homeowners, the impact will likely be limited. The Rhodium Group estimates that by 2030 the bill's provisions will save households an average of up to $112 a year as gas and electricity becomes cheaper as more Americans drive EVs and houses become more energy- efficient. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/inflation-reduction-act-could-do-little-to-impact-inflation/507-974d59a6-ea75-4c81-9ab5-0342d0bf262c | 2022-08-12T22:03:34Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/inflation-reduction-act-could-do-little-to-impact-inflation/507-974d59a6-ea75-4c81-9ab5-0342d0bf262c | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON — A Florida judge has unsealed the FBI search warrant for Monday's search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.
FBI agents recovered 11 sets of "top secret" records from Mar-a-Lago, according to the property receipt obtained by several news outlets. Federal agents use property receipts to specify what is taken during a search.
The unsealed documents did not specify details or information about the what classified records contained. In a statement Friday, Trump claimed that the documents seized by agents at his Florida club were “all declassified,” and argued that he would have turned over the documents to the Justice Department if asked.
Read the unsealed records here:
The decision to unseal the warrant comes after Attorney General Merrick Garland called for the release of the warrant after Trump confirmed the search to the public. On Friday, Trump's lawyers did not object to the proposal of making the documents public.
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.”
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. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/unsealed-documents-fbi-search-donald-trump-home/507-888286b4-5f4d-4180-9321-59fdb46e5f01 | 2022-08-12T22:03:40Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/unsealed-documents-fbi-search-donald-trump-home/507-888286b4-5f4d-4180-9321-59fdb46e5f01 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
During a recent search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, the FBI recovered documents that were labeled “top secret,” the Associated Press reported on Aug. 12.
The Washington Post reported that the FBI searched the home to look for “documents related to nuclear weapons,” among other items.
In response to the search, Trump claimed in a statement that former President Barack Obama “kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified.”
A VERIFY reader also sent us a screenshot of another Trump statement where he claimed that the records were taken to Chicago under promises to “digitize them and put them online,” but “zero pages have been digitized and disclosed.”
THE QUESTION
Did former President Barack Obama keep 30 million pages of his administration’s records?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
No, former President Barack Obama did not keep 30 million pages of his administration’s records.
WHAT WE FOUND
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) debunked Trump’s claims in a statement on Aug. 12, writing that it “assumed exclusive legal and physical custody” of Obama’s presidential records when he left office in 2017, in accordance with the Presidential Records Act (PRA).
“NARA moved approximately 30 million pages of unclassified records to a NARA facility in the Chicago area where they are maintained exclusively by NARA. Additionally, NARA maintains the classified Obama Presidential records in a NARA facility in the Washington, DC, area,” the statement reads. “As required by the PRA, former President Obama has no control over where and how NARA stores the Presidential records of his Administration.”
In previous statements, the NARA also detailed efforts to acquire Trump’s presidential records.
The agency said in February 2022 that it had “obtained the cooperation of Trump representatives” to locate records that hadn’t been transferred to the National Archives at the end of Trump’s administration.
The PRA, which was passed in 1978, “states that presidential records are property of the United States,” according to a report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS). Before the act was passed, administration records were the president’s private property.
The definition of presidential records in the PRA does exclude a president’s personal records, defined as “documents of a purely private or nonpublic character,” the CRS report says.
A website devoted to the Barack Obama Presidential Library, maintained by the National Archives, also provides more information about the preservation of the Obama administration’s records.
In May 2017, the Obama Foundation decided not to construct a Presidential Library to house paper records and physical artifacts. Instead, the Foundation sought to provide funding for the digitization of records so they’d be available online.
“While the vast majority of the material transferred into the custody of the National Archives from the Obama administration was ‘born digital’ (the 300 million emails are equivalent to over one billion pages), the 30 million pages of paper records are an integral part of the collection,” the website says.
Following digitization, which is currently on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NARA will store and preserve the Obama administration’s records in an existing NARA facility. The materials are currently housed in a temporary facility in Illinois that is not open to the public.
Obama’s presidential records did become subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests on Jan. 20, 2022, so NARA will “process textual records in a traditional manner,” according to the Library’s website. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/verify/government-verify/fact-check-trump-claim-missing-obama-records-false/536-c6e7c1ef-d9f8-4f86-99b9-b5d426488801 | 2022-08-12T22:03:46Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/verify/government-verify/fact-check-trump-claim-missing-obama-records-false/536-c6e7c1ef-d9f8-4f86-99b9-b5d426488801 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On Aug. 11, in the transition between Fox News shows “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and “Hannity,” a photo on-screen appeared to show Judge Bruce Reinhart with Ghislaine Maxwell.
Reinhart is the judge that executed the search warrant that authorized the FBI to search the Florida home of former President Donald Trump. Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to recruit, groom and abuse underage girls.
After the photo aired on the network, some social media users called out Fox News for sharing a “clearly fake, photoshopped image of the judge involved in approving the Mar-a-Lago warrant.”
THE QUESTION
Is the photo showing Judge Bruce Reinhart with Ghislaine Maxwell real?
THE SOURCES
- Fox News’ websites for Tucker Carlson Tonight and Hannity
- Google Images reverse image search engine
- TinEye, a reverse image search tool
THE ANSWER
No, the photo is not real and has been doctored. The original photo dates back to at least December 2021 and actually showed Maxwell with Epstein.
WHAT WE FOUND
During the Aug. 11 transition between “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and “Hannity,” Carlson’s guest host, Brain Kilmeade, teased the introduction to Hannity’s show by airing the photo.
In the tease, Kilmeade says: “You won’t believe who he’s [Reinhart] is getting cozy with. We’re going to show you that next.”
Hannity responds at the start of his own show, telling Kilmeade he believed the photo was edited, and that the original photo was of Maxwell and Epstein, not of Reinhart.
In a statement posted to Twitter on August 12, Kilmeade said he showed the photo on the program in jest.
"Last night while subbing for Tucker Carlson, we showed you an image of Judge Bruce Reinhart w/ Ghislaine Maxwell that was sourced on screen to a meme pulled from Twitter & wasn’t real. This depiction never took place & we wanted to make clear that we were showing a meme in jest," the tweet said.
Using a reverse Google image search, VERIFY was able to trace the original photo to news reports from December 2021, and it wasn’t Reinhart in the photo with Maxwell. The original photo shows Maxwell giving a foot rub to Epstein.
“SOLE MATES Ghislaine Maxwell gives Epstein foot massage in creepy never-before-seen pics of their sordid relationship,” said one headline containing the original photo.
Using TinEye, another reverse image search tool, VERIFY was able to compare the original image with the doctored image. The photo that was aired on Fox News was edited to replace Epstein’s torso with a photo showing Reinhart holding a bag of Oreos and a bottle of whiskey.
During the Fox News tease, an Instagram account was credited as the source of the photo. That account, @what.i.meme.to.say, posted the photo on August 10. The biography on the Instagram account says the person is a digital artist and “original meme creator.”
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NEW SHOREHAM, R.I. (WPRI) — One person is safe after a boat fire off the coast of Block Island.
The U.S. Coast Guard tells 12 News the boat’s starboard engine caught fire Friday afternoon roughly 1.5 nautical miles from New Harbor. Video tweeted by the Coast Guard shows heavy smoke pouring from the vessel.
Only one person was on board, the Coast Guard said, and a good Samaritan helped get them to safety.
The Block Island Fire Department and Harbormaster responded to put out the fire, along with firefighters from Narragansett and Newport.
The 38-foot vessel has since been towed to the port of Galilee, according to the R.I. Department of Environmental Management.
No injuries have been reported.
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In South Africa the city formerly known as Port Elizabeth is approaching “Day Zero,” the moment when the water taps may run dry.
Mpho Lakaje reports.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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This photograph is good for your biceps. It's on the cover of a heavy, large, impressive catalogue for the National Gallery's exhibition "American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams." A perfect choice, this picture, to express Adams' obsession: the American landscape, and what's happened to it in the 85 years he's been looking at it.
Do you see the message in the photo? Notice that the word FRONTIER is missing its final R? The letter has disappeared just like the landscape itself: lost to over-development, clear-cutting, various human abuses.
"He's passionate about our relationship to the world around us," says National Gallery senior curator and head of the photography department (and friend) Sarah Greenough. I tell her I see Adams' pictures as doctrinaire — indictments of human avarice and neglect. "That's too harsh," Sarah says. He wants us to witness what has been, what's been lost, and the beauties that remain.
The tree announces its survival, shadowing the garage door in what could be a community of such houses, built on land once covered in trees.
Notice how gorgeous these photos are? The velvety blacks, the aggressive chalky whites. Robert Adams does all his own developing.
Ansel Adams (no relation), Robert's elder by some 30 years, is known for his glorious black-and-white work that celebrates the majesty of our landscape. Curator Greenough says that, in the 1970s, Robert Adams was part of a generation of Americans who looked at the landscape in a very different way. Instead, "they looked at the landscape as the place where we live," and what happens to it as our living takes root.
Robert Adams wrote, "go to the landscape that frightens you the most, and take pictures until you're not scared anymore." Greenough says he meant that we must confront the world that's developing around us. "He had to photograph it until he could come to terms with it." And find the beauty. Here, the landscape is wiped out by ticky-tacky houses. Adams shoots them at an angle that celebrates the architectural forms, and they're umbrella-ed by "a glorious sky."
As he gets older, the photographs seem more about beauty. He's looking for "the things that can give us hope." And Sarah says he's finding them.
Hope, especially, in the light. The exhibition is called "American Silence," she says, not because silence is so pervasive here. Rather, when you stand and look at one of our still glorious landscapes, it's the feeling of silence, "that sense of peace and awe that the beauty of nature can give you."
Art Where You're At is an informal series showcasing online offerings at museums you may not be able to visit.
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In a major update to its protocols for sailings in September, Carnival Cruise Line removes the pre-cruise testing requirement for vaccinated guests, with some limitations for some destinations. The Miami-based cruise line will also welcome all unvaccinated guests to sail.
Carnival Cruise Line Drops Requirements
It has been a long-awaited day for multiple Carnival-owned cruise brands, including Carnival Cruise Line, which will drop requirements on sailings.
Starting from departures on September 6, 2022, vaccinated guests no longer have to undergo a pre-cruise test to sail. However, guests will still need to show proof that they are fully vaccinated.
“Our ships have been sailing very full all summer, but there is still room for more of our loyal guests, and these guidelines will make it a simpler process, and make cruising accessible for those who were not able to meet the protocols we were required to follow for much of the past 14 months,” said Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line.
Carnival is also taking a major change to its vaccine requirements, which will open up cruises to more guests. Unvaccinated guests will be allowed to cruise and no longer required to show proof before a cruise. However, this does not apply to sailings in Australia or on voyages 16 nights and longer.
Unvaccinated guests will still need to show proof of a negative PCR or antigen test result taken within three days before departure. It’s also important to know that policies do depend on the destinations that ships visit, and further changes could be coming.
Read Also: Carnival Cruise Line Updates Testing Protocols for The Bahamas
Duffy added, “We’ve got lots happening, with Carnival Luminosa and Carnival Celebration joining our fleet this November and more to come in 2023. Whatever the ship, homeport or itinerary that works for you, our great onboard team is ready to deliver a fun vacation – something we all look forward to even more nowadays!”
Carnival also says that for those guests that do have a pending vaccine exemption application and waiting for a response, that booking is confirmed as long as the cruise is departing on or after September 6 and does not visit Canada, Bermuda, Australia, or if the voyage is 16 nights or longer.
Why Are Protocols Easing?
Since the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ended its cruise ship program, the cruise lines that operated from the U.S. have been able to take back control of their own protocols.
Carnival Cruise Line has been sailing safely since the summer of 2021, when it restarted operations following the industry-wide suspension. With requirements being removed across other travel industries and even the CDC recently removing even more specific guidance, the time has come to gradually start making it easier for guests to sail.
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Belinda Huijuan Tang's debut novel A Map for the Missing is a story about family, forgiveness and the challenge of grappling with the past while charting a path for the future.
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Belinda Huijuan Tang's debut novel A Map for the Missing is a story about family, forgiveness and the challenge of grappling with the past while charting a path for the future.
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Princess Cruises announced a significant change to its COVID-19 protocols today. It removed all of its vaccine requirements for most voyages of less than 16 days so that anyone can cruise and adjusted pre-travel testing requirements to make it less complicated to sail.
The new protocols go into effect on September 6.
Princess Cruises Removes Vaccine Requirement, Eliminates Pre-Cruise Testing For Vaccinated Guests
Besides a handful of very long cruises, Princess Cruises will no longer require guests to be fully vaccinated and has made it significantly easier for guests to get tested before a cruise. The Carnival-owned cruise line announced the changes on August 12.
“These updated guidelines help ensure a Princess vacation is available to everyone,” said John Padgett, president of Princess Cruises. “The Princess experience is truly one-of-a-kind and we encourage everyone to take a Princess vacation that offers amazing service at unmatched value.”
Starting September 6, vaccinated guests sailing on a cruise of fewer than 16 days in length will no longer have to test before boarding. They just need to upload proof of their vaccination on the OceanReady app.
Unvaccinated guests or those who do not provide proof of vaccination on those itineraries will only need to self-test within three days of sailing and upload evidence of a negative test before boarding to the Oceanready app.
The new guidelines are for all sailings where government requirements allow the cruise line to implement these guidelines. The exceptions are cruises sailing to and/or from Canada, Greece, and Australia. In short, the new protocols are:
- No pre-cruise testing for vaccinated guests on voyages of up to 15 nights (guests five and older) except full Panama Canal transits, trans-ocean, and other unique itineraries;
- Unvaccinated guests must provide a negative self-test result taken within three days of embarkation (unvaccinated children under five years do not require pre-cruise testing)
- Guests sailing on voyages 16 nights or longer or sailing on full Panama Canal transits, trans-ocean, and other specific itineraries need to take a supervised test within three days of embarkation (guests five and older).
Princess Cruises The Next Major Cruise Line To Remove Requirements
The change from Princess Cruises is huge news, and with it, the cruise line is the second major cruise line to remove most vaccine requirements.
On August 10, Royal Caribbean announced that further updates would be coming on departures from September 5, 2022, on select sailings. The vaccine requirement on cruises out of Galveston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and homeports in Europe will be dropped.
The new protocols mean cruising is open to a significantly larger group of people, many of whom have been waiting for more than a year for the opportunity to step onboard a cruise ship again.
With Princess Cruises part of Carnival Corporation, the door is open to all cruise brands under the Carnival umbrella to move in the same direction.
This includes Holland America Line, Carnival Cruise Line, Seabourn, Costa Cruises, and more. Earlier today, P&O Cruises and Cunard already announced relaxed protocols for their sailings.
Of course, the question remains whether or not the choice is the right one. Experts still expect cases of COVID-19 to rise again with the approach of Autumn. We can only hope that Princess Cruises hasn’t set itself up for a repeat of the problems the cruise line experienced at the start of the pandemic.
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Two more cruise lines, both part of Carnival Corporation & plc, have adjusted testing requirements for shorter sailings, relaxing protocols to permit passengers to set sail more conveniently.
Cunard Line and P&O Cruises are easing their requirements for sailings from September 6, 2022, but only on shorter sailings where government regulations permit. In some embarkation ports, stricter local guidelines will still apply.
Cunard Line and P&O Cruises Relax Testing Requirements
For both lines, testing for fully vaccinated passengers will become “highly recommended” rather than “required” as of Tuesday, September 6.
Only on longer, more “complex” sailings will guests still be required to present a negative antigen or PCR test to be permitted to board. While exact details on what constitutes a “complex” sailing have not yet been clarified, the stricter requirements are likely to apply to itineraries 16 nights or longer, as well as certain holiday sailings.
Regions with stricter local protocols, at this time including Canada and Australia, still require testing, and guests booked on applicable sailings will be notified about their exact requirements for cruise travel.
“These updated protocols reflect the current environment across the world and while certain key elements have relaxed, our commitment to protect the health and wellbeing of all guests, crew and the communities we visit remains an ongoing and vital consideration,” said Sture Myrmell, Carnival UK president, overseeing both Cunard Line and P&O Cruises.
P&O Cruises temporarily eased testing requirements in late June aboard a single ship, Iona, for several sailings to test how guests might respond and whether the measure would be suitable. That test period passed without difficulty, but was not extended nor applied to other ships until now.
To continue ensuring the health and wellbeing of guests and crew, both Cunard Line and P&O Cruises still require all guests ages 16 and older to be fully vaccinated at least 14 days before embarkation. Crew members will also continue to be fully vaccinated and tested regularly.
Prospective guests should stay in touch with their cruise line to be alerted to changing protocols and updated guidelines as their sailing date approaches, as requirements may change at any time if needed or as local conditions evolve.
More Cruise Lines Dropping Testing
In recent weeks, a number of cruise lines have eased pre-cruise testing requirements, particularly for vaccinated passengers on shorter sailings.
This includes the most familiar cruise line that is part of Carnival Corporation & plc, Carnival Cruise Line, which dropped testing requirements for short cruises as of August 4, though some cruises are still excluded depending on their port destinations.
While other Carnival Corporation-owned brands – notably Holland America Line and Princess Cruises, as well as AIDA Cruises, Costa Cruises, Princess Cruises, and Seabourn – have not yet dropped testing requirements, those changes may well be made in the near future, particularly as more sailings safely commence without the added burden of testing.
Other major lines, including Celebrity Cruises, Royal Caribbean International, Norwegian Cruise Line, and MSC Cruises, have already dropped testing requirements, as have some smaller lines such as Margaritaville at Sea and Virgin Voyages, which was the first cruise line to drop pre-cruise testing from U.S. homeports.
Each cruise line does have subtle differences in their evolving policies, however, and travelers should not assume the requirements of one line will be the same as for another line.
Factors such as ship capacity, itinerary destinations, departure ports, cruise length, vaccination status, passenger age, and more all impact whether or not a pre-cruise test may be required.
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Megan Thee Stallion has many dismissive modes, but she is often most effective as an intimidator. The Houston freestyler turned Grammy Award winner has maintained an air of presupposed superiority throughout her ascent, and when she uses her lashing lyricism to browbeat ill-wishers (both real and faceless) she reasserts her own star power.
On "Scary," an Avedon-produced standout from her new album Traumazine, she once again embraces presence as a means of intimidation, reimagining Swishahouse as a haunted house in the process. Alongside the ever-flippant Rico Nasty, she presses forward relentlessly like a slasher villain, embodying both connotations of a baddie, as both a heel and a confident, independent woman, each bar enunciated with bite. Rico, like Megan, is usually the alpha within the universe of her songs, but where her Texan compatriot plays the dominatrix, she is a taunter. "He talkin' on my name and we gon' dig a grave with you / Zombie-ass bitch, n**** gave me brain for dinner," Rico snaps. Playing with the horror theme, she zips through references to a little terror kingdom of her own making. As the song's spooky music-box chimes and Halloween synths build out a jam fit for slab music, two of rap's premier smack talkers find a demented glee in menacing those who might otherwise belittle them.
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Gerry Keene was about 20 minutes into his caving excursion in the Tom Moore cave system near Perryville, Mo., when one of the kids with him said there was a dog ahead of them.
Dogs don't usually dwell in caves, but sure enough, there was a dog curled up on the mud floor.
"She didn't look real good," Keene said. "I mean, she had 11 people walk by her with lights and she just basically lifted her head, but she wouldn't move at all."
It was clear the dog was not in the right place, so Keene left the cave and started going to nearby houses with a photo of the dog to try and find its owner. Word got around and the dog's owner met Keene at the entrance to the cave and identified her as his dog Abby, who had been missing since June 9.
The owner was shocked to hear his dog was alive. Since Abby had been missing for so long, he told the rescuers that he assumed she was likely gone forever.
Keene called one of his friends, an assistant fire chief, to come help with the rescue mission. As they were about to go back into the cave system, Rick Haley, another experienced caver, came out of it. They quickly recruited him to help.
"We didn't want to leave Abby down there any longer than we had to," Keene said.
It wasn't clear how to get the dog out of the cave
But figuring out how best to get the dog out of the cave took a bit of brainstorming since the rescue equipment on hand was really meant for humans. Haley had the idea of using a duffle bag and a blanket to move the dog like a package.
Then, they began the descent.
"It is an entrance to the cave that is a little technical," Haley said. "It's vertical in places. It's windy. It's very tight."
The assistant fire chief stayed at the first constriction and Keene and Haley continued on. By the time they got to where Abby was, Haley estimates they were 500 feet from the entrance.
"Once we reached her, I did a quick assessment to see what kind of injuries she had. It was evident she had been there a long time," Haley said.
Abby was malnourished and lethargic and Haley said she didn't show much emotion as she was approached by people.
"She was just trying to stay as comfortable as she could, which was hard down there because it's very wet and it's 58 degrees or so," Haley said.
Haley and Keene tried to see if Abby would walk toward the entrance, but once it was clear that was not feasible, they decided to put her in the duffle bag. They put out the bag and the blanket and Abby moved right on top of it
She was probably glad to have something soft and warm to sit on and likely knew that she was being helped, Haley said. She laid down and seemed to go to sleep.
"You could tell that the blanket was a big comfort to her as she sat in the duffle bag," he said.
The newly-minted trio then began the journey back together, with Keene and Haley moving Abby foot by foot and handing her over to each other until they got out of the cave.
In total, the rescue mission took about an hour and a half.
A reunion and a beef stick
Once they were out of the cave, it took some time for Abby to adjust to the light. While they were waiting for her owner to return, they gave Abby a beef stick which seemed to rejuvenate her a bit and she appeared "ready to go up for another adventure," Keene said.
After she was missing for almost two months, Abby was reunited with her owner on Aug. 6 and is recuperating. Haley has kept in contact with the family, who said she's still weak and a bit wobbly when she walks around, but her spirits are much better.
Haley said the cave project for the weekend didn't go exactly as planned and the project cavers will have more to do next time, but "if it weren't for the project weekend, we'd have never found the dog."
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David Finkelstein, former U.S. Army China specialist and director of Asian security affairs at CNA, talks about China's recent military demonstrations and the country's rising tensions with Taiwan.
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David Finkelstein, former U.S. Army China specialist and director of Asian security affairs at CNA, talks about China's recent military demonstrations and the country's rising tensions with Taiwan.
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A 41-year-old woman is facing felony charges in Nebraska for allegedly helping her teenage daughter illegally abort a pregnancy, and the case highlights how law enforcement can make use of online communications in the post-Roe v. Wade era.
Police in Norfolk, Neb., had been investigating the woman, Jessica Burgess, and her daughter, Celeste Burgess, for allegedly mishandling the fetal remains of what they'd told police was Celeste's stillbirth in late April. They faced charges of concealing a death and disposing of human remains illegally.
But in mid-June, police also sent a warrant to Facebook requesting the Burgess' private messages. Authorities say those conversations showed the pregnancy had been aborted, not miscarried as the two had said.
The messages appear to show Jessica Burgess coaching her daughter, who was 17 at the time, how to take the abortion pills.
"Ya the 1 pill stops the hormones an rhen u gotta wait 24 HR 2 take the other," read one of her messages.
Celeste Burgess writes, "Remember we burn the evidence," and later, "I will finally be able to wear jeans."
According to police investigators, medical records show the pregnancy was 23 weeks along. A Nebraska law passed in 2010 forbids abortions after 20 weeks, but that time limit wasn't enforced under Roe v. Wade. After the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson ruling overturned Roe in June, Madison County Attorney Joseph Smith brought charges against Jessica Burgess.
It's not clear the illegal abortion charges against Burgess will stand. In his concurring opinion to Dobbs, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote, "May a State retroactively impose liability or punishment for an abortion that occurred before today's decision takes effect? In my view, the answer is no based on the Due Process Clause or the Ex Post Facto Clause."
Regardless of the outcome, the Nebraska case shows how police may rely on digital communications to investigate abortions in states where they're illegal.
"Every day, across the country, police get access to private messages between people on Facebook, Instagram, any social media or messaging service you can think of," says Andrew Crocker, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Warrants for online messages are a routine part of police investigations, he says, but "a lot of people are waking up to it because of the far-ranging nature of how we expect abortion investigations are going to go. And it's going to touch many more people's lives in a way that maybe that they hadn't thought about in the past."
Facebook's parent company, Meta, wouldn't speak about the case on the record, but it released a statement saying, in part, "We received valid legal warrants from local law enforcement on June 7, before the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The warrants did not mention abortion at all."
What Meta hasn't said is whether it would have handled the warrants differently, had it known they involved an investigation into illegal abortion. Most major tech companies have a longstanding policy of complying with warrants that are legal and valid in the jurisdictions they come from.
"There isn't a whole lot of room for them to pick and choose," Crocker says. Companies might come under public pressure not to cooperate with abortion investigations, but Crocker says it's not that simple.
"We want the rule of law to operate normally," he says. "It's just that there are investigations, like into abortion, where we might hope the companies aren't holding the data in the first place, and aren't in the position of having to make the difficult choices like that."
As tech firms consider their options for handling warrants for abortion investigations, others in the tech world say the long-term solution is for communications platforms not to retain information that might be of use to police. And they say that if companies like Meta fail to minimize such data, people should consider shifting their online conversations to platforms such as Signal, which encrypt messages "end-to-end" and can't reveal them to police even when they get a warrant.
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FBI agents retrieved multiple sets of classified documents from former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida this week, newly unsealed documents reveal.
The search warrant and property receipt documents show agents seized papers with a range of classifications, include at least three items labeled "Miscellaneous Top Secret Documents."
Also retrieved were multiple binders of photos, an item labeled "Potential Presidential Record" and one item labeled "Info re: President of France."
Below, read the full search warrant and property receipt document. You can also click here to read the document,
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A growing shortage for neon is driving up its prices by 5000%. Neon production became highly concentrated in post-Soviet states, such as Ukraine and Russia. The world is paying for that concentration.
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A growing shortage for neon is driving up its prices by 5000%. Neon production became highly concentrated in post-Soviet states, such as Ukraine and Russia. The world is paying for that concentration.
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MTSU graduates reminded to uphold university slogan and be 'True Blue'
Graduates at the Middle Tennessee State University summer 2022 commencement were reminded to be "true blue" beyond the hallowed walls of the institution.
“MTSU has a great slogan: ‘True Blue.’ 'Remember to always be True Blue.’ It's short, it's two words: True, blue," professor Robert Gordon told the 850-plus graduating members of the Class of 2022 on Aug. 6.
And there's one more thing about blue, Gordon said. "It's far better-looking than orange,” the Department of Media Arts associate professor joked, prompting sudden laughter and extended applause.
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"True Blue" — a slogan that sums up the core values for the campus community — also urges self-examination, said Gordon.
“But the operative word is ‘true.’ Be true. Be authentic. Be transparent. Be honest. Be responsible to everyone you meet, but more importantly than that, be true to yourself. Be transparent, authentic, honest, reliable — to you. Don't kid yourself. Don't lie to yourself. Don't overpromote yourself, and don't sell yourself short. Be true.”
Gordon, the departing 2021-22 president of MTSU’s Faculty Senate whose 40-year career in TV includes 15 years at MTSU, coordinates the live production and multi-camera concentration of his department’s Video and Film Production Program in the College of Media and Entertainment.
His students manage, produce, and direct live sports, election specials, dance and theater performances, in-house series, award shows and concerts, and he’s led the university’s coverage of the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival since 2015.
Gordon urged the new graduates to accept and prepare for “Murphy’s law” and the inevitable personal and professional challenges they’ll face and to ensure that they leave a positive legacy, “… to have a life that is remembered well, live a life worth being well-remembered” through their generosity, thoughtfulness and forgiveness."
Graduate experiences
New graduate Kaitlyn Berry of McMinnville is prepared with a master’s degree in industrial/organizational psychology from the College of Behavioral and Health Sciences to help guide her future colleagues toward more respectful, thoughtful workplace relationships.
She already holds a bachelor’s degree from MTSU in the field, often abbreviated to “I/O psych,” but had initially intended to seek a degree as a music therapist. Her educational path diverged several times, however, and included neuroscience, but I/O psychology won her heart.
“I had worked full time from the moment I had turned 16, so it was natural for me to gravitate back to the workplace,” said Berry, who plans to work in either learning and development or training areas of I/O psychology as a specialist or consultant.
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Berry said she’s grateful to the supportive relationships her MTSU colleagues have offered, “from the lovely janitor who greeted me each day and cheered me on to graduation in Jones Hall to my mentors at the Center for Dyslexia and the Honors College to Dr. (Jamie) Burriss (in the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs) to all of the I/O faculty who have supported me in my program.”
Summer graduate Daniel Garrett, a U.S. Army veteran from Chapel Hill, furthered his education with a master’s degree in engineering technology. Although the degree will bolster his career goals, he knows he is setting a good example for his four young children.
"I want them to see that going to college is a good thing," said Garrett, now a two-time MTSU alumnus, earning his bachelor’s degree in unmanned aerial systems operations from the Department of Aerospace in the College of Basic and Applied Sciences.
Garrett's wife will wrap up her master's degree in public health this fall.
‘Bright future for our great state’
MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee noted that workplaces across the country and around the world benefit from the experiences of MTSU graduates, and Tennessee tops that list of beneficiaries.
“Your university continues to serve as a powerful economic engine for our community and the entire state of Tennessee,” McPhee told the audience inside MTSU’s Murphy Center. “A recent study affirmed that MTSU was responsible for more than $1.42 billion in economic impact and almost 11,500 jobs statewide.
“We take great pride in our institution’s economic impact on our community as we work to fulfill our mission of preparing the next generations of leaders, entrepreneurs, and highly skilled professionals across the workforce."
The August 2022 graduating class at MTSU, totaling 857 students, comprises 564 undergraduates and 293 graduate scholars from all MTSU’s colleges — including Graduate Studies, the Jones College of Business, the College of Education, Liberal Arts and the University College alongside Basic and Applied Sciences, Behavioral and Health Sciences, and Media and Entertainment.
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The graduate student group includes 265 master’s, seven education-specialist and 21 doctoral degree recipients. Twelve students also received graduate certificates — expanding the number of degrees MTSU has awarded since its 1911 founding to more 176,500.
The official commencement program, listing all the August 2022 graduates by college and noting their honors, is available at mtsunews.com.
The two-hour ceremony will be rebroadcast at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 14, on MTSU’s “True Blue TV” station on local cable channels and at mtsu.edu/truebluetv/.
A video with highlights from the day's events is available on YouTube.
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Why Ben Marshall, a 3-star tight end for Blackman, committed to California football, Pac-12
Staying close to home is a common answer many football recruits give when they make their college choice.
Blackman senior tight end Ben Marshall isn't one of them.
Marshall committed to California on Friday, choosing the Golden Bears over other Power 5 schools such as Vanderbilt.
"It's a lot different there than Tennessee," said Marshall, who is ranked as a three-star prospect (No. 58 tight end nationally in the 2023 class, No. 39 overall in Tennessee). "I lived in Tennessee all my life. This is something different. The weather and facilities, everything is nice."
Marshall is the second Blackman player to commit this month, joining senior wide receiver Justin Brown, who chose Mississippi State a week ago.
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The 6-foot-5, 220-pound Marshall also had offers from Ole Miss, West Virginia, Memphis, North Carolina State, Pittsburgh, Indiana and Washington State, among others.
He said Vandy, Pitt and Memphis were also in his final choices. He said the Tigers were "really close"
But Cal was where he felt most comfortable after taking a June visit.
"I love the energy from the coaches," Marshall said. "They talked about me playing early. They don't want me sitting around. Playing as a freshman means a lot to me. Not a lot of schools talked about that. The way they use their tight ends gives me a better chance to play early.
"I really like the Pac 12 and the style of play there."
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Marshall had 65 catches for 834 yards and seven touchdowns during a breakout junior season in 2021, which garnered a slew of Division I offers.
He said he was interested in studying business in college, and was high on Cal's Haas School of Business.
During the recruitment process Marshall had the most communication with tight ends coach Geep Cryst, director of player personnel Marshall Cherrington and offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave.
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"During the visit, we would have downtime, where we could spend time with players," Marshall said. "I would go with them and ask them questions. They said the coaches really care about you and make sure everything is good mentally and physically."
Cal went 5-7 overall, 4-5 in the Pac-12 last season.
Blackman opens its season at Brentwood Aug. 19.
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Kerala Blasters continued their great run in the Kerala Women's League with a 10-0 win over SB FA Poovar at the Maharaja's College Stadium in Ernakulam on Friday.
Sivisha C scored a hat-trick while Nidhiya Sreedharan and Gadha TG bagged a brace each in the Blasters' second big win of the campaign.
In a second match on the day, played at the EMS Corporation Stadium in Kozhikode, Kerala United beat Kadathanad Raja FA 6-0 with striker Baby Lalchhandami scoring four goals.
Results: Kerala Blasters FC 10 (Sivisha C 18, 40, 90+2, Gadha 13, 44, Nidhiya Sreedharan 52, 65, Aashwathip 22, Krishna Priya 36, Kiran 8) bt SB FA 0, Kerala United FC 6 (Baby Lalchhandami 16, 52, 55, 70, Aneena P 72, 90+3) bt Kadathanad Raja FA 0 | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/football/2022/08/12/kerala-womens-league-kerala-blasters-crush-sb-fa-poovar.html | 2022-08-12T22:12:38Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/football/2022/08/12/kerala-womens-league-kerala-blasters-crush-sb-fa-poovar.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Author Salman Rushdie was attacked on Friday at the Chautauqua Institution, which holds arts and literary events and lectures throughout the summer. The 75 year-old Indian-born author had taken the stage at Chautauqua in western New York where he was to be in conversation with Henry Reese on the theme of “More than Shelter,” according to the institution’s website, “for a discussion of the United States as asylum for writers and other artists in exile and as a home for freedom of creative expression.”
An unidentified man rushed onto the stage and attacked Rushdie stabbing him multiple times. Onlookers went to Rushdie’s aid and according to the New York State Police, a trooper at the scene arrested the suspect. Reese is said to have suffered a head injury. Rushdie was airlifted to an area hospital and is currently in surgery, his condition is unknown.
One of English literature’s most daring and innovative stylists, Salman Rushdie came to prominence for his novel Midnight’s Children in 1981, a book about the partition of India, for which he won the Booker Prize that same year and subsequently won the Booker of Bookers in 1993 and 2008. In 1988 he published The Satanic Verses, a book referring to the Quranic verses and the fictionalized life of the Prophet Muhammad, which prompted outrage and protests from the Muslim community. A fatwā was issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini forcing Rushdie into hiding for over a decade. While on the move from safe house to safe house he continued to publish acclaimed fiction and social commentary; his narratives brim with broken lives and fallen gods, wondrous women and malicious men, magic and heroes and the alchemy of attraction.
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After the fatwā was revoked Rushdie emerged into a public life, settling in New York City, where his support of younger writers and literary institutions became a legend in its own right. In 2020 he participated in a Zoom panel for the Brooklyn Book Festival, moderated by Leigh Haber, Vice President of Books for Oprah Daily.
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18 Best Lawn Games to Play Outside All Summer
It's time for some literal fun in the sun.
If the past year has taught us anything, it's that far-flung family vacations and adult summer camps are wonderful luxuries, but sometimes the best memories are made right at home in your own backyard. Whether splashing around in an inflatable pool and kicking back with a stack of beach reads or hosting a cookout complete with an array of lawn games, there's a lot of joy to be had when you're hanging out in your own space with friends and family.
If the latter is on your radar this season, make sure you're prepared with the ultimate setup. There are options abound for party guests of all ages, from toddlers and kids to adults. You're sure to keep everyone happy with classics like cornhole, horseshoe, or Jenga. But why not up the ante with something new to everyone? Like Molkky, a throwing game borrowed from the Finnish, or PutterBall, a hybrid of mini golf and beer pong.
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Of course, there are even some options suitable for a special event, like an outdoor wedding. Think a giant four-foot tall personalized game of Connect 4 or a DIY cornhole board painted with your monogram.
No matter which route you go, one thing's for sure: These outdoor games—suitable for the yard, beach, or even the camp ground—are sure to inspire some healthy competition! | https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/g32880344/best-lawn-games/ | 2022-08-12T22:14:16Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/g32880344/best-lawn-games/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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16 Best Crossbody Bags for Going Hands-Free in Style
Let the compliments commence.
Marisa Petrarca
Temi Oyelola
A crossbody bag is a non-negotiable when building out your accessories wardrobe. The list of reasons people love them is lengthy, but in a single word: they're convenient. For those new to the style, it's a handbag featuring a long strap that drapes diagonally from one's shoulder to the opposite hip. And the hands-free design is a game-changer. Unlike your trusty work tote, you never have to hold it, and it won't slip off your shoulders like your go-to laptop satchel. Crossbody's make it so that you can carry a coffee, eat a bagel, ring a friend — you name it — without it being a precarious balancing act.
And just about every brand and designer has a crossbody bag on its roster, which means there are options at every price point — from under-$50 style from Amazon to investment pieces from Saks. There are tons of different silhouettes, too, such as camera bags, phone bags, and bucket bags. And that's not all: materials run the gamut from genuine and faux leather to wicker, faux fur, and microfiber, among others.
To curate a comprehensive guide to the best crossbody bags worth coveting right now, we combed our favorite websites, including Amazon, Nordstrom, and Saks Fifth Avenue. There are options for those looking for that perfect everyday bag that goes with everything and fashion aficionados looking for eye-catching pieces. Keep scrolling to shop our favorite crossbody bags ahead.
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Anne Heche, the Emmy and Tony-nominated actor with a history of mental health struggles, died Friday of injuries sustained in a high-speed car crash on August 5 that left her in a coma and in “extreme critical condition,” according to her representative. She was 53.
Heche, best known for her breakout role as good and evil twins on the soap opera, Another World, and for such films as Barry Levinson’s Wag the Dog, Nicole Holofcener’s Walking and Talking, and Mike Newell’s Donnie Brasco, crashed her Mini Cooper into a two-story home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Mar Vista, the Los Angeles Fire Department reported. “Fifty-nine firefighters took 65 minutes to access, confine and fully extinguish the stubborn flames within the heavily damaged structure, and rescue one female adult found within the vehicle, who has been taken to an area hospital by LAFD Paramedics in critical condition,” the LAFD statement said. On August 12, her friends and family released an update about her condition, saying that Heche was “not expected to survive” the crash.
Following the crash, actors took to social media. James Tupper, Heche’s former partner and the father of one of her two children, Atlas, posted his “Thoughts and prayers for this lovely woman, actress and mother.” Alec Baldwin, who appeared with Heche in the thriller The Juror and later on Broadway in the 2004 comedy Twentieth Century, for which Heche was nominated for a Tony, posted on Instagram, “There’s not a lot of women I’ve worked with that are brave in the way that Anne is brave…. She would do anything; she would do anything…she was very original…. I love you, Anne. I love you. I think you’re such a talented person and I hope everything is OK; I hope you come through this.”
Heche’s bravery was forged through overcoming a traumatic childhood that she chronicled in her 2001 memoir, Call Me Crazy, in which she said she was sexually abused as a young girl by her closeted father, who died of AIDS in 1983. In a 2001 interview with Barbara Walters, she revealed, “I had a fantasy world that I escaped to. I called my other personality Celestia. I believed I was from another planet. I think I was insane.”
In another interview to promote the book, she told Larry King that she felt schizophrenic, but that she didn’t tell anybody. “I was a perfect hider,” she said. “I was raised to hide. I was raised to pretend. I was raised to always tell everybody that everything was fine, and even though I was in therapy for years, I never told anybody that I had another personality. I never told anybody that I heard voices and spoke to God. I never told anybody any of it.”
There was no hiding when she met Ellen DeGeneres in 1997 at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. “I saw the most ravishing woman I had ever seen in my life standing across the room,” she told Walters. “Her name was Ellen DeGeneres. She was radiating. I think at certain times in people’s lives, you just radiate an energy and a glow of fabulousness. And that was her. I had never seen anybody so lit up.”
Heche, who had been in relationships with Steve Martin and Lindsey Buckingham, became tabloid fodder and was accused of being a publicity-seeking opportunist. But the relationship, which lasted three and a half years, apparently had the opposite impact on her career. While a contestant in 2020 on Dancing With the Stars, Heche said that after bringing DeGeneres as her date to the premiere of her film Volcano she was fired from her multimillion-dollar picture deal and didn’t work in a studio film for a decade. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/anne-heche-dies-car-crash | 2022-08-12T22:15:30Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/anne-heche-dies-car-crash | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Grammy-winning musician Jon Batiste has left his role as bandleader for Late Night with Stephen Colbert. The late night host made the announcement on Thursday night’s show. Stepping into his very big shoes will be Louis Cato, who has been filling in for Batiste over the summer. Stephen Colbert said the rest of Batiste's Stay Human group will remain intact, then introduced his studio audience to what will now be called Louis Cato and the Late Show Band.
Earlier this year, Batiste’s album We Are took home the Album of the Year Grammy, one of its 11 nominations. He’s won five overall, and also has an Oscar, which he shares with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for Best Original Score for the movie Soul.
Colbert broke the news of Batiste’s departure gently, explaining that he was leaving “for all the best reasons, including to continue sharing his art with the world.” Alas, the announcement did not include an in-person sendoff (Joe Walsh, the Eagles guitarist that has been sitting in with the group, was ready to pop out of a cake, apparently), but Colbert said he’s been “so lucky to have a front row seat to Jon’s incredible talent for seven years.”
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Batiste has been Colbert’s bandleader since the show began in 2015. The 35-year-old is part of the legendary New Orleans Batiste family of musicians, which includes composer Harold Batiste, clarinetist Alvin Batiste, Lionel Batiste of the Treme Brass Band, and Jon’s cousin, Russell Batiste, a member of the Funky Meters. Early in the Colbert-Batiste partnership, the pair went to New Orleans, where Jon introduced Stephen to his roots.
As for the new guy, it’s a promote-from-within situation, as Louis Cato is already a member of Batiste’s Stay Human group. He is a bassist, guitarist, drummer, trombonist, tuba player, singer, songwriter, and producer who, as Colbert put it, can play Mozart on a shoehorn. He was born in Portugal, raised in North Carolina, and has recorded with a slew of jazz, R&B, pop, and cross-genre greats.
Over the years, Batiste has engaged in many great Late Show pre-recorded bits, like a humorous spin on Jazz 101, performed surprising covers of video game music, hit the streets of Manhattan for various “love riots,” and brought nonagenarian jazz drummer Roy Haynes up to his office for a jam session. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/jon-batiste-exits-bandleader-position-at-late-show-with-stephen-colbert | 2022-08-12T22:15:36Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/jon-batiste-exits-bandleader-position-at-late-show-with-stephen-colbert | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It was 9 a.m. P.T., and Kate Berlant had already encountered a “botulism moment.” The comedian-writer-actor never went to bed after her flight from London landed at LAX at 3 that morning, so she had enough time before our chat to convince herself that the can of coconut milk she left in her fridge posed a threat to her health. “I saw that it was expired and used it anyway,” she said. “It’s hours later, I’m alive.”
My brain was primed for a conversation about sealed food gone bad, since I’d recently watched Berlant talk about it—this time in character, on Abbi Jacobson and Will Graham’s forthcoming adaptation of A League of Their Own. Berlant plays sheltered Shirley Cohen, a Rockford Peach bunking with Jacobson’s Carson Shaw. In one of the final scenes of the season, Carson enters their room to find her roommate hovering over a table of cans. “I’ve been eating from dented cans,” she says. “I don’t have botulism! Do you realize what a miracle that is, Carson?”
Shirley fears what she does not know. So when she finds out that Carson—a married woman whose husband is away at war—has a relationship with another player on the team, Shirley is shocked and eventually inspired to take a teaspoonful of God-knows-what and test if queerness is, as she believes, contagious. (It’s not.)
Berlant, an experienced stand-up comic who recently released the beautifully chaotic sketch special Would It Kill You to Laugh? with comedy coconspirator John Early, has her biggest TV role yet in A League of Their Own. Berlant talked with Vanity Fair over Zoom about playing the nervous Nellie of the Peaches, and how the show digs into the lives of the World War II–era ballplayers in ways the 1992 film didn’t dare.
Vanity Fair: The show is incredibly physical. How did you prepare for filming? Had you played baseball before?
Kate Berlant: I had never played baseball outside of maybe swinging a bat or something. But we had proper baseball training. And it was just so fun to bond together. There definitely was a period of time where I was learning how to swing and it’s trippy. It’s just a world that if I weren’t involved with the show, I would never be playing baseball or have an opportunity to learn how to hit a ball.
Have you gone to watch baseball since shooting?
We went to a Pirates game when we shot in Pittsburgh. That was really fun. D’Arcy [Carden] threw out the first pitch, and it was also the first time I’d ever tried White Claw. I was really excited about all the free food because we got fancy box seats. I was overwhelmed by the amount of free stuff. I think I only had two White Claws but I ended up doing a handstand. I fell. But I was fine.
You’ve said that you’re a fan of the original movie and you’d watch it a lot growing up. I was so intrigued when I first learned that this adaptation deals with race and sexuality. What were your reactions when you got the scripts and were uncovering the story?
The film of course is so great, but it’s definitely a homogenized version of what it was like for the women in the league and the women who were trying to join the league. So I was excited that this was a more nuanced portrait of that time.
In terms of filming, there’s a ton of group scenes. What was it like having to shoot those?
We truly all love each other. I know it’s a cliché at this point. I can’t believe I’m like an actress being like, “it was just so fun going to work every day.” But truly, this group was just so natural. It really did feel like sleepaway camp. We were just far away from home and in a city that none of us had spent much time in.
You have to know I’m a POOG fan, and I was listening as you filmed in the summer heat. It was huge when you got the Nutribullet.
Oh, my God, thank you for being a hag. I was blown away by the quality of the Nutribullet. I was like, this is a $100 blender that’s operating at the level of a much more expensive one. I paid out of pocket. It’s such a crime. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/kate-berlant-a-league-of-their-own-interview | 2022-08-12T22:15:42Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/kate-berlant-a-league-of-their-own-interview | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Southern Baptists say denomination faces DOJ investigation
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention said Friday that several of the denomination’s major entities are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The SBC’s statement gave few details about the investigation, but indicated it dealt with sexual abuse. The SBC, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., has been plagued by problems related to clergy sex abuse in recent years.
“Individually and collectively each SBC entity is resolved to fully and completely cooperate with the investigation,” the statement said. “While we continue to grieve and lament past mistakes related to sexual abuse, current leaders across the SBC have demonstrated a firm conviction to address those issues of the past and are implementing measures to ensure they are never repeated in the future.”
Earlier this year, an SBC task force released a blistering 288-page report from outside consultant, Guidepost Solutions. The firm’s seven-month independent investigation found disturbing details about how denominational leaders mishandled sex abuse claims and mistreated victims.
There was no immediate comment from the Justice Department about the investigation.
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GURUGRAM, India, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ReNew Energy Global plc ("ReNew" or "the Company") (Nasdaq: RNW) (Nasdaq: RNWWW), India's leading renewable energy company, today announced it will issue its first quarter fiscal year 2023 earnings report after the close of the market on August 18, 2022.
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The secret to the fountain of youth may be “parents and porridge.”
That’s according to Dr. Charles Morris Godfrey, one of the oldest men to practice medicine in North America. He passed away at his home in Madoc, Ontario, on July 24 — just weeks before his 105th birthday, according to CTV News Toronto in Canada.
“The main thing is to keep interested in life,” Godfrey said during an interview of a Canadian documentary about aging gracefully in 2020.
“That’s the secret, of course. If you stick in front of your television, you lose your interest in life,” he added.
“That’ll kill you next week. Certainly, the quality of stuff that’s being peddled on television these days is enough to make you want to die pretty soon.”
Born in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1917, Godfrey moved to Toronto when he was young, according to a profile published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) in 1987.
And Canada became his home for the rest of his life.
His father, who was a physiotherapist, encouraged him to pursue medicine, but he was also inspired by watching movies like “Men in White,” starring Clark Gable, CMAJ added.
After serving in the Canadian military for over five years during World War II and qualifying as a physiotherapist while in service, he enrolled in the University of Toronto School of Medicine.
While in training, he started a family with his wife on her nurse’s salary, his veteran’s checks and working as a janitor and scrapyard worker, which also helped pay for school.
He graduated in 1953 — then went to Oxford, England, for a year to study neurology on a McLaughlin Fellowship in 1956.
In 1958, Godfrey received a fellowship in the Royal College of Physicians and became the medical director of the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Toronto East General Hospital.
But he split his time working also at Sunnybrook Medical Centre and Toronto Rehabilitation Centre.
He settled in at Wellesley Hospital because of the rheumatic disease unit. He wanted to be connected to “the long-term perspective and involvement in people’s whole lives,” according to CMAJ.
“It’s the Jane Austen rather than the Ernest Hemingway approach to medicine,” he said.
At the time, Godfrey had done “extensive research” on pain, back issues, rheumatoid arthritis and the effectiveness of exercise regimens.
“We’re dealing with long-term disabilities and how [to] prevent them. It isn’t very glamorous, but it sure can help keep people mobile — and independent,” Godfrey said.
He was also an environmental activist who became a politician.
“Doctors must show leadership within the community,” he noted.
He was elected to the Ontario legislature representing Durham West as a member of the New Democratic Party of Ontario from September 18, 1975, to June 8, 1977, of the 30th Parliament, according to Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
But he left — because “politicians have too many bosses.”
In 1989, he was invested to the Order of Canada for his work in medicine and political activism, an honor giving to those who make extraordinary contributions to the nation.
“Deeply committed to humankind and the elimination of human suffering, and although of retirement age, he continues to be involved in an exhausting round of activity,” the award said.
He traveled to over 22 international countries, including Afghanistan and Pakistan, with his wife, who died in 2002, to improve medical services as a volunteer physician on behalf of the relief agency known as CARE, according to the CMAJ.
“Service with underdeveloped nations is a real challenge,” he noted. “You are working with your bare hands. They have so little — and are so desperate. A country’s medical services can affect its whole economy. If the workforce is decimated by disease, it can’t produce anything.”
But when he was 99, he was still keeping busy with a small practice with patients referred to him for his expert advice on the intersection of rehabilitation with chronic illness and neurological issues, according to a YouTube video on the secrets of aging well.
“As a matter of fact, I’m amazed that I wake up every morning — that’s what it amounts to. But the secret is parents and porridge,” he said at the time.
“Pick your parents and eat porridge every day. I haven’t overeaten, I haven’t over-drunk, so I think a middle way is the best way to manage,” the physician said.
He kept working until he was 102 — but if the COVID pandemic hadn’t happened, he probably would have practiced longer, his son Mark Godfrey told CTV News.
Godfrey also admitted he was a smoker. He quit at midnight on his 40th birthday.
“Dr. Godfrey always cared for the whole person, which in our current high-tech world of medicine is sadly sometimes forgotten,” Dr. Mark Bayley told Fox Digital News.
Bayley, a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation and medical director of UHN-Toronto Rehabilitation Institute since 2018, knew Godfrey well.
Godfrey encouraged people to stick to their convictions.
“Don’t give up the fight. Although there are thousands of nasties out there, even one person standing up — may get shot or killed or what have you on the basis, but stick to your point and make sure you’re standing up for the right,” he advised. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/12/charles-morris-godfrey-one-of-north-americas-oldest-practicing-doctors-dead-at-104/ | 2022-08-12T22:23:43Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/12/charles-morris-godfrey-one-of-north-americas-oldest-practicing-doctors-dead-at-104/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
There’s an old saying in gold that you can’t win a tournament on Thursday, but you can lose one. The same applies to preseason football. On today’s Gold Diggers podcast, Michelle Magdziuk and I wondered which 49ers player needs to be at his best tonight against the Packers to avoid losing their spot on the team.
While ultimately, these games don’t matter in the standings, they do matter when it comes to roster decisions. Even though Kyle Shanahan has made no secret of his preference for practice in the preseason, he will also be watching what happens tonight for one specific reason.
“Just that the game’s not too big for them. That is the one thing that I do like about preseason games. It’s just that there’s some people that— some people get better when the lights are on, and some get worse. And obviously, you hope they get better, but you at least want them to be what they’ve shown in practice. And sometimes you get some guys who you think is a really good player, and you get out there, and for some reason, whoever’s in the crowd or whatever it is, they kind of just melt, and you’re like, alright, he’s not quite as ready as I thought.”
After what we’ve heard about training camp thus far, my choice was Ambry Thomas. After some early hiccups last year, it appeared that Thomas was improving with playing time down the stretch. Unfortunately, it seems we’re back to square one. As Kyle Posey wrote recently, “The second-year corner out of Michigan has been on the other end of what feels like every big play from the offense.”
If Thomas is going to claw his way back from the roster bubble, he’s going to have to have a good game against Jordan Love and the Packers. With Charvarius Ward and Emmanuel Moseley both out with injuries, he should have even more snaps available to help make that happen. The 49ers have added depth to their secondary this year, but part of that comes from the drafting of Tariq Castro-Fields and Samuel Womack. Surely the team would not have spent multiple picks at the position if they were totally confident in Ambry Thomas (and Deommodore Lenoir, for that matter).
Who do you think needs to have a good game tonight to get back into the team’s future plans? Let us know in the comments below, and be sure to join the Niners Nation Instant Reaction live show after it’s over to break down everything that happens! | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/12/23303394/which-49ers-player-needs-a-big-game-the-most-packers | 2022-08-12T22:24:12Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/12/23303394/which-49ers-player-needs-a-big-game-the-most-packers | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sight, smell and taste can trigger memories and connect us to the past.
The sight, smell and taste of a Kemper burger, for instance.
The Kemper burger originated in May 1954 at Kemper’s Drive-In at 306 S. First St. It became a Yakima fast-food staple.
“The Kemper burger was pretty much the rock, the foundation of the drive-in,” said Kay Maletta, daughter of John and Edna Kemper, founders and owners of Kemper’s Drive-In.
“It was based on that small Kemper burger with the relish. Buy a sack of burgers and hot sack of fries and feed your family and hopefully for a reasonable price.”
At the time, the Kemper burger cost 19 cents.
Although Kemper's Drive-In is long gone, you can still get a Kemper burger here, at the Lariat Bar-B-Q on Yakima Avenue.
Since day one, all ingredients of the Kemper burger are locally sourced. Edna Kemper believed that to survive as a business, they must help other local businesses succeed.
“My mother said, ‘I’m gonna succeed and I’m going to do well and that was her vision,’” Maletta said.
Unchanged since 1954, the Kemper burger consists of a hamburger patty, bun and red relish. There is also a cheese version. Today it costs about $2.
“Kemper’s was created by my mom and my dad. My dad loved the business. He loved to work. But it was my mom’s passion. And she developed this relish,” Maletta said.
The red relish was created by Edna and is still made the same way. It is unique to the Kemper burger and makes it stand out among other Yakima burgers.
When John and Edna Kemper were ready to sell their business, they entrusted it to Alice Keller, who had worked at Kemper’s Drive-In before owning and operating the Lariat Bar-B-Q at 621 W. Yakima Ave.
At the same time, Keller was in the process of selling the Lariat to Mina Kyle.
Keller and Kyle knew they had to keep Kemper’s Drive-In alive as a beacon of affordable eats. So they put a large sum of money into the drive-in and remodeled it.
“When we did that, we then had the largest grill and fryer and hood system in Yakima. It was fantastic and we had a tremendous business,” Kyle said. “We were very respectful of it because of Mrs. Kemper. She had put her heart and soul into that business.”
Try as they might, though, they were forced to close the restaurant in 2003.
Once the lights were turned off on what was once the largest reader board in town, according to Kyle, she and Keller wanted to honor the work ethic and tenacity of Edna. She influenced Keller, who influenced Kyle.
So the Kemper burger lives on at the Lariat Bar-B-Q.
And it’s thriving there. Maletta, Kyle and Sandra Ackerman, the current owner of Lariat, all notice posts on Facebook from people reliving their Kemper burger memories.
“I still see posts on Facebook like, ‘Stopped in for my Kemper fix!’ People grew up with that hamburger. You know, it’s just part of their lives,” Kyle said.
And it’s still a part of Kyle’s life. Now living in Hood Canal, she still visits friends and family in Yakima and makes it a point to get her fill of red relish.
“It’s always in my heart,” Kyle said. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/explore_yakima/cover_story/the-kemper-burger-and-its-famous-red-relish-still-delight-the-faithful-in-yakima/article_788804da-1823-11ed-b6d6-af1fce799e9f.html | 2022-08-12T22:25:24Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/explore_yakima/cover_story/the-kemper-burger-and-its-famous-red-relish-still-delight-the-faithful-in-yakima/article_788804da-1823-11ed-b6d6-af1fce799e9f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DES MOINES, Iowa (WHO) — Former Vice President Mike Pence will return to Iowa next week to campaign with Senator Charles Grassley and other Iowa Republicans.
Pence is scheduled to visit Iowa on Friday, August 19, and Saturday, August 20. He’ll campaign with Grassley and others at the Fair during the day and then take part in a fundraiser in Cumming that evening. On Saturday he’ll appear at a fundraiser in Waverly.
Pence remains a controversial figure in GOP politics. He is rumored to be considering a run for the presidency in 2024. That could put him in opposition to former President Donald Trump, if he chooses to run again. Trump blamed Pence for failing to have the “courage” to stop the certification of President Biden’s lawful electoral victory in the 2020 election. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/your-local-election-hq/mike-pence-coming-to-iowa-state-fair-next-week/ | 2022-08-12T22:28:04Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/your-local-election-hq/mike-pence-coming-to-iowa-state-fair-next-week/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BOSTON (WWLP) – A supervisor of a drug trafficking organization in the Boston area was sentenced Wednesday in connection with a cocaine and crack cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
According to the Department of Justice in Boston, 36-year-old Arthur Hodges formerly of Brighton was sentenced to 65 months in prison and three years of supervised release. In April, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute cocaine.
An investigation into a drug trafficking operation began in November 2018 of the Boston-based street gang at a multi-apartment public housing development, Commonwealth Development in Brighton, formerly known as Fidelis Way. It is alleged that in multiple apartments, the drug operation stored, cooked, packaged and sold drugs. The organization then supplied to customers, wholesalers and distributors.
According to the court documents, Hodges oversaw members responsible for the packaging, selling, storing and distribution of drugs to, or collection of proceeds from, drug customers, drug runners, or other drug distributors and suppliers. During this operation, Hodges distributed between approximately 280 and 840 grams of crack cocaine.
Hodges was charged along with 23 others as part of Operation Snowfall. He is the third defendant to plead guilty, the remaining have pleaded not guilty and are awaiting trial. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/crime/operation-snowfall-drug-trafficking-supervisor-sentenced/ | 2022-08-12T22:29:40Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/crime/operation-snowfall-drug-trafficking-supervisor-sentenced/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (PIX11) — The virus that causes polio has been detected in New York City wastewater, health officials said Friday, calling the discovery “alarming” and urging Big Apple residents to get vaccinated.
“For every one case of paralytic polio identified, hundreds more may be undetected,” said State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett in a news release confirming the virus’ discovery in wastewater sampling in the five boroughs. “The detection of poliovirus in wastewater samples in New York City is alarming, but not surprising. Already, the State Health Department – working with local and federal partners – is responding urgently, continuing case investigation and aggressively assessing spread.”
Both Bassett and her counterpart at the city Department of Health, Dr. Ashwin Vasan, urged vaccination, especially for young New Yorkers.
“The risk to New Yorkers is real but the defense is so simple – get vaccinated against polio,” said Vasan. “Polio is entirely preventable and its reappearance should be a call to action for all of us.”
Friday’s troubling announcement follows the identification of a case of paralytic polio in Rockland County on July 21, as well as the detection of poliovirus in wastewater samples collected in Rockland and Orange counties.
Polio can cause permanent paralysis of the limbs and even death. Most people who contract the virus do not experience any symptoms, though some will experience flu-like symptoms including a sore throat, fever, tiredness, nausea, and stomach pain, according to health officials. One in 25 people infected get viral meningitis and approximately one in 200 will become paralyzed, officials said. There is no cure for polio, but it can be prevented through safe and effective immunization.
Most adults do not need the polio vaccine because they were already immunized as children, and most kids are already protected as well because inoculation against the disease is recommended by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and required by the state Department of Health for school-aged children, according to Friday’s release.
However, officials noted that polio outbreaks are ongoing worldwide, and advised children and adults alike to stay up-to-date on all routine vaccinations before traveling. That includes a one-time booster shot for adults who were immunized as children, if they’re planning on traveling to an area currently seeing an outbreak.
For those in need of vaccines, options are available, according to health officials.
People without a health care provider can call 311 or 844-NYC-4NYC (844-692-4692) for help finding one, regardless of their immigration status, insurance coverage, or ability to pay, officials said.
Children ages 4 years and older can get low- or no-cost vaccines at the city DOH’s Fort Greene Health Center in Brooklyn. The center is located on the fifth floor of 295 Flatbush Ave. Extension, and is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
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Aaron Taylor-Johnson Praises Kraven the Hunter’s Practical Sets
Sony’s live-action Marvel Universe only has three movies to its name, none of which have scored especially high with critics. But the involvement of someone like J.C. Chandor, an Oscar nominee with several acclaimed films on his resume, has some fans intrigued by what he has planned for Kraven the Hunter. Now, Kraven himself is saying there’s another reason to give the movie a chance. During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Aaron Taylor-Johnson discussed the spinoff’s preference for practical sets as opposed to excessive virtual locations.
Taylor-Johnson was reportedly cast as Kraven after impressing Sony executives with dailies from his latest film, Bullet Train. However, the experiences couldn’t have been more different. Although it takes place in Japan, most of Bullet Train’s scenes were filmed on a soundstage in Los Angeles. But Kraven, on the other hand, has an on-location approach, and that’s what gives the movie its edge.
“Kraven being shot entirely on location is going to make all the difference,” said Johnson. “It’s going to add something really beautiful to our personal story. It also sets Kraven apart from that Marvel stage look. It’s important for this character to be in the real world. It’s important for the authenticity of the story. When you’re running on streets barefoot, you take in those elements and play within that.”
Taylor-Johnson has been around the superhero block before, having starred in both Kick-Ass films as the title character and later appearing in Avengers: Age of Ultron as Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver. He even turned down a part in Deadpool 2 before getting to work with David Leitch on Bullet Train. Regardless, Taylor-Johnson insists that Kraven offers something different from all of his other comic book roles.
RELATED: Sony’s Kraven the Hunter Movie Adds Levi Miller in a Mystery Role
“I’m not here to play the same character twice,” added Taylor-Johnson. “I, as a person, am naturally changing and evolving. New things inspire me, and you grow as a person. So I can only move forward and play things I haven’t done before. I like a challenge, and I like to step outside of my comfort zone, often. It’s more interesting to go from an indie to a blockbuster or whatever it may be.”
“So there’s a lot that really excited me about the character of Kraven,” continued Taylor-Johnson. “Sometimes, these roles come about, and you have to truly believe in the character. You’re going to be in that skin for a while, and you have to believe in what you’re saying. So there was a lot about Kraven that I really loved, and I’m excited to share it at some point.”
Kraven the Hunter will hit theaters on January 13, 2023.
Are you looking forward to seeing Taylor-Johnson bring the big game hunter to life? Let us know in the comment section below!
Recommended Reading: Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Kraven’s Last Hunt
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A scene of Equipment Park is shown in August 2022 at Fort McCoy, Wis.
Equipment Park is inside the installation’s historic Commemorative Area.
The Equipment Park is an outdoor display of historic and present-day equipment representative of the types used on the installation.
The design of the park allows for display of 70 pieces of equipment, ranging from helicopters and howitzers to trucks and trailers.
The Commemorative Area also consists of five World War II-era buildings set aside to help tell Fort McCoy’s unique story.
These facilities are representative of the types found in the cantonment area when it was constructed in 1942.
Fort McCoy was established in 1909 and its motto is to be the “Total Force Training Center.” Located in the heart of the upper Midwest, Fort McCoy is the only U.S. Army installation in Wisconsin.
The installation has provided support and facilities for the field and classroom training of more than 100,000 military personnel from all services nearly every year since 1984.
Learn more about Fort McCoy online at https://home.army.mil/mccoy, on the Defense Visual Information Distribution System at https://www.dvidshub.net/fmpao, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” and on Twitter by searching “usagmccoy.”
Also try downloading the Digital Garrison app to your smartphone and set “Fort McCoy” or another installation as your preferred base.
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Four faculty promotions announced in the university's student life office
Stephanie London is a university alum and has been on faculty for 15 years.
The University of Arkansas -- Fort Smith has announced four new promotions within its Student Life Office for the upcoming year.
Stephanie London will serve as Assistant Dean to Ashley Goodson in the Office of Campus and Community Engagement. Kara Crowley will be the new Student Activities and Civic Engagement Coordinator, and Kari Carbajal will be the Coordinator for Registered Student Organizations.
London is a university alum and has been on faculty for the last 15 years as a Student Activities event coordinator and coordinator of activities for Student Affairs.
"Your college friends become your family," London said. "Here at this institution in particular, it's big enough to be this really exciting place, but it's also small enough to still be able to walk down a hallway or across campus and wave at someone; you know who people are. I think that does create, your family outside of your family. I think that's probably one of the biggest reasons why I've stayed."
This year, more than 750 students are expected to live on campus, nearly a 30% increase from last fall.
London said the last few years have been challenging due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but she sees a bit of "return to normalcy" coming.
"We're excited to kick things off with the housing move-in, getting those students here, those who are going to our cub camp program, which is our student orientation, and just that student excitement in general to be here," she said.
According to a press release, London will also supervise 21 resident assistants and four student desk workers. Resident hall directors Brian Cook and Joe England will assist London in "advancing campus housing procedures and developing holistic student engagement opportunities."
London said the Residence Hall Association has recently selected new officers and is developing student programs for the fall. The theme for year is "quality."
"Quality drives quantity, so we're looking at how can we have really great quality intentional programming, not just do a lot of events," she said. "We need to do events that students want to come to and they're gonna get something out of it."
On Sunday, Aug. 21 the recreational wellness center will host the university's Fair Day to connect incoming students and get them excited about the semester.
"We're definitely looking at different ways to incorporate different learning outcomes," London said. "I like to call it 'edutainment,' so how do we entertain them, but in a way that is educational. That's what we're looking forward to for this upcoming year." | https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/2022/08/12/four-promotions-announced-universitys-student-life-office/10280922002/ | 2022-08-12T22:38:03Z | swtimes.com | control | https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/2022/08/12/four-promotions-announced-universitys-student-life-office/10280922002/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Fort Smith water conservation ends
Boil notices expire for Van Buren
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Fort Smith Times Record
Repairs to the Lee Creek Water Treatment Plant have been made Friday, but residents in Fort Smith no longer have to conserve water.
The boil-water notices that had been issued to Van Buren and the customers in the surrounding area were lifted.
Water pressure was expected to be fully restored by Friday. Testing had to be completed after contamination was reported.
The Lee Creek Treatment Plant supplies residents in Van Buren, and areas north of Interstate 40 have been under the boil notices for several days after the breakdown at the plant.
Water from Lake Fort Smith has been available to offset the shortage, but residents in Van Buren and Fort Smith have been asked to conserve water. | https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/2022/08/12/water-plant-repairs-made-boil-water-notices-expire-van-buren/10275084002/ | 2022-08-12T22:38:09Z | swtimes.com | control | https://www.swtimes.com/story/news/2022/08/12/water-plant-repairs-made-boil-water-notices-expire-van-buren/10275084002/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
When the ARCA Menards Series West takes to the track for next Saturday’s NAPA Auto Parts ARCA West 150, it will mark the 1000th time in series history dating back to 1954 that the series has taken the green flag, and it will happen at a racetrack – Evergreen Speedway – that has played host to more West races than any other.
The big five-eighths mile will be hosting its 60th West race, and one of the series’ most storied teams will be looking to make history of its own. Sunrise Racing, owned by long-time team owners Bob and Maureen Bruncati, will be looking for its fourth consecutive win at the track. Derek Thorn won for the team in 2018, Trevor Huddleston won in 2019, and Blaine Perkins won in 2020.
The Sunrise team will have better than fair odds at making a run at its fourth consecutive series win at the track. Jake Drew, driving the team’s flagship No. 6 Ford in 2022, has won the last three series races – at Portland International Raceway, Sonoma Raceway, and Irwindale Speedway – and holds a dominant 45-point lead over Cole Moore as the season hits the championship stretch. Should Drew earn his fourth straight win, it will also be his team’s fourth straight at Evergreen and all but ensure he celebrates the series title at Pheonix Raceway in November.
“Some drivers would tell you going to a track you’ve never been to with a team that’s won the last three races there would put a lot of pressure on you, but it does nothing but give me a ton of added confidence,” Drew said. “I know my team is 100 percent behind me and I’ve done my homework. I have a buddy who races there with his girlfriend and they’ve given me a lot of advice. It’s a big, fast, flat track and it’s very abrasive. We’re going to have to save our stuff.”
Drew is on an incredible hot streak and it’s one he’s not ready to come to an end just yet.
“I am not planning on letting anyone else win one of these races this year,” he said. “I have been talking a lot with Bill Sedgwick and Ryan Partidge and they’ve both been a huge help to me everywhere we go. It would be a huge win for me and for Sunrise Racing to get the 1000th race in West Series history.”
The West Series’ history dates back to March 28, 1954 when it debuted as the Pacific Coast Late Model Division at Oakland Speedway, a race won by Indy 500 veteran Dick Rathmann. Since then, another 199 drivers have won the next 1,998 races and the series has launched dozens of drivers into successful careers in the upper levels of NASCAR racing.
One of those drivers, Chad Little, enjoyed a fruitful career in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and later the NASCAR Cup Series. Little won the 1987 West championship and then finished third in 1988 before turning his attention to the national series, a move that led to six career Xfinity Series wins and 217 starts in the Cup Series.
Little, now the Managing Director, Event Management and Officiating for NASCAR, won five times in his 33 career West starts. His first win came at Evergreen in a demanding 500-lap event that saw him beat Cup Series superstar Bill Elliott to the checkered by nearly a full lap.
“I was just a young kid then and I certainly didn’t appreciate it as much then as I do now,” Little recounted. “The cars were identical to Cup cars then. My brothers were the tire changers and my best friends were the tire carriers. We had the chance to race with the Cup teams a few times every year, but Evergreen was the one time they would truly be on our turf. I didn’t realize it then but beating a guy like Bill Elliott absolutely helped put me on track to make my first Cup start.”
Three of Little’s five career West wins came in the 500-lap marathons at Evergreen over a four-year span starting in 1986. The year he didn’t win, 1987, he finished third. Despite not winning the series’ most prestigious race, he did earn the series championship that year.
“It was no small feat to beat guys like Hershel McGriff, Bill Schmitt, and Jim Robinson,” he said. “It’s a huge accomplishment to have my name on the list of West champions and it’s been a huge point of pride of me and my family over the years.”
Another driver who started his ascension to stardom in the West Series is 2014 NASCAR Cup Series champion Kevin Harvick. The 1998 West champion, Harvick has gone on to win 59 Cup Series races, 47 races in the Xfinity Series, and 14 in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Harvick recently won the Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway to secure a position in the playoffs as he pursues a second series title.
The NAPA Auto Parts ARCA West 150 is scheduled to go green at 11 pm ET/8 pm PT on Saturday, August 20. The race can be seen live on FloRacing; ARCARacing.com will have live timing & scoring information throughout the day’s events. Ticket information is available at EvergreenSpeedway.com.
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Race fans will be treated to beautiful weather, seven divisions of racing, Spectator Drags, and CEFCU Kids Club this coming Saturday, August 13 at Macon Speedway. The event will be a Melling Race Weekends Across America Tour, courtesy of Contingency Connection.
The evening’s special presentation will be at intermission when fans will get a chance to compete on track in the first edition of Spectator Drags this season. Macon Speedway officials are only accepting eight entries of those who would like to race their street legal vehicle on the racetrack in a bracket style tourney at intermission. There is no charge to compete and only a couple spots remain. To enter, call the office at 217-764-3000.
Taylorville, IL’s Colby Eller is now on top of the Decatur Building Trades Pro Late Model standings by 22 over Ryan Miller. Not far behind the two are Braden Johnson and Rockett Bennett, making for what could be an exciting four-man race for the championship. Guy Taylor raced with the class in an Eller car last week and claimed the Diane Bennett Memorial event.
Rodney Standerfer comes into Saturday’s event just 24 points ahead of Guy Taylor in the BillingsleyRewards.com Modified class. Standerfer has claimed three feature wins this year, while Taylor has two and third place pointman, Alan Crowder, has one. Tim Luttrell and Jarrett Stryker round out the current top five in points. Zach Taylor is in the mix as well, coming into the event in a virtual tie with Stryker for fifth.
Guy Taylor, barring any major issues, looks to be on his way to the DIRTcar Pro Modified championship, having a 90-point lead with nine feature wins. His nephew, Zach Taylor and Kevin Crowder are tied for second in points, while Maxx Emerson, coming off of a strong run, and the ever-improving Dean Holt complete the top five.
Cerro Gordo, IL driver Terry Reed has a commanding lead in the 51 Bistro Street Stock division standings, leading by 116 over Bobby Beiler. Reed has been a model of consistency all season, claiming 12 top fives in 14 starts. Beiler is coming off an impressive win last Saturday night in the Diane Bennett race. Nick Macklin, Jaret Duff, and Rudy Zaragoza round out the current top five.
Decatur, IL driver, Tristin Quinlan, holds the top spot in the DIRTcar Hornet class, leading by 28 over Brownstown, IL’s Billy Mason. Brady Reed has been the big winner in the class, claiming his sixth feature win of the season last week. Taryn Page and Jeremy Reed round out the top five.
The Micros by Bailey Chassis always seem to have tight battles when it comes to the championship race and this season looks to be the same. Sherman, IL driver John Barnard, and Riverton, IL’s Aarik Andruskevitch are separated by just four points.
The DIRTcar KidModz will round out the classes on this Saturday’s card. The KidModz will be making their only Macon Speedway appearance of the season, a series that competes at tracks all over the state for drivers between the ages of 8-16.
Pit gates will open Saturday at 4:00, grandstands at 5:00, hotlaps are at 6:00, and racing is at 7:00 PM. Grandstand admission is $15, while kids 11 and under are free.
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Clear-cutting trees to make it easier to raise cattle in the Midwest eliminated much of the landscape known as Midwest Savanna, but an experimental farm south of Rolla is trying to prove that grazing animals in forests is better for the environment, farmers, and the cows.
Midwest Savannas typically had many trees, but they were far apart, providing shade but also enough sunlight and space for native grasses to grow on the forest floor.
“That habitat was created intentionally by a lot of indigenous communities that lived here,” said Ashley Conway-Anderson, an agroforestry professor at the University of Missouri. “Intentionally managed with fire, and then once fire opened things up, what came next was grass and what came next was large grazing herbivores.”
Those herbivores were bison and elk 500 years ago, but Conway-Anderson said they could be cows today. She’s leading a multi-year study at the University of Missouri’s Wurdak Extension and Education Center, about 30 miles southeast of Rolla, to first thin out the forest areas, get native grasses growing and bring in cows to graze.
When Europeans came to the Americas, it started a pattern of forests either being overplanted, unmanaged, or clear-cut to make way for pastures or fields for crops.
The practice of returning to more natural efforts of grazing livestock in the forest is called silvopasture, and it's a very old way of raising animals.
While there isn’t anything new about the practice, Conway-Anderson’s research is getting more attention because healthy forests can be a critical part of combating climate change.
Trees are good at keeping carbon out of the atmosphere and are also resilient in the face of extreme weather caused by climate change.
“When we do have floods, when we do have droughts and fires, it won’t be wholesale destruction. It will be able to recover much more quickly and maintain functionality longer when it experiences those inevitable challenges,” Conway-Anderson said.
Her goal is to get the data and create an example to help farmers move their cattle from open fields into forests.
It could be a short trip, she said, because so many want to, and some already are, like Iowa farmer Bruce Carney, who raises cattle on his family farm north of Des Moines.
More than 10 years ago he decided to convert 200 acres from corn and soybeans fields to land for cattle to graze.
“What I learned after seeding a crop farm down was that I needed trees. I needed windbreaks. I needed shade. I needed a living barn. To me, that’s what trees do for you,” Carney said.
Carney said trees make cows happier, healthier and bring in more money when they are sold. He is cited as a success story of silvopasture development, but Carney eschews the label.
“I’m not a silvopasture expert,” Carney said, “I’m just a guy who planted trees. And I’d like to do more.”
The kind of research going on at the University of Missouri could help him and other farmers do that by developing best practices and plans to make forest grazing work.
Another benefit of the movement is that it can make small farms more viable by increasing the amount of money they bring in.
“By its very nature, silvopasture is intentional and intensive, so it allows for us to do more on one piece of land,” said Kaitie Adams, the Illinois Community Agroforester for the Wisconsin-based Savanna Institute.
“You can grow food like apples or walnuts, have a timber business and graze cattle all on one reasonably sized piece of land,” Adams said. “And with farmland prices skyrocketing, that makes it more possible for new, younger people to get into farming.”
There are a lot of challenges to making a go of having cattle graze in forests, including the time it takes for trees to grow, the inefficiency of raising cattle that graze as opposed to producing them in a factory farm, and the time and effort required to manage a forest properly.
Conway-Anderson and other advocates believe it’s worth it, and are optimistic that they can prove it.
“I want to get more people thinking about this as a viable possibility. Because even if everybody does this on 40 acres that they have, that’s a huge amount in Missouri alone that can add to this mosaic and help rebuild the tapestry of savanna landscape that once was here,” Conway-Anderson said.
Silvopasture proponents are also banking on the increased need for such measures, as climate change puts pressure on agriculture to come up with solutions in the coming years.
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This story was produced in partnership with Harvest Public Media, a collaboration of public media newsrooms in the Midwest. It reports on food systems, agriculture and rural issues. Follow Harvest on Twitter: @HarvestPM | https://www.kcur.org/2022-08-12/getting-cattle-into-the-forest-could-help-climate-change-farmers-and-the-livestock | 2022-08-12T22:57:19Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/2022-08-12/getting-cattle-into-the-forest-could-help-climate-change-farmers-and-the-livestock | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Founded in 2011, Lead to Read KC brings mentors to more than 20 schools for 30 minutes of reading time once a week with students in first, second and third grades.
This year the non-profit wants to assist 1,200 or more children in reaching the reading level for their grade.
- Pauly Hart, executive director, Lead to Read KC
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Former Notre Dame High School football star and Super Bowl 56 Champion Kareem Orr is back at his alma mater coaching and giving back to the community.
For now, Notre Dame High School serves as the home for Kareem Orr Sports Performance. After cashing in on a Super Bowl win with the Los Angeles Rams, Kareem is back in Chattanooga training local football players for the upcoming season.
While training on the gridiron is what Kareem Orr specializes in, he is planning to offer training for soccer, softball, baseball, and other sports as well.
He is looking to target student athletes of all ages who want to succeed.
“Kareem Orr Sports Performance is an advanced place where kids can come and get that advanced training at a young age, instead of getting it when you have to go away for college, for combine training, or you have to go away to do training somewhere else because we do not have it in the city,” Orr said.
Orr believes training habits should start at an early age to better prepare student-athletes for when opportunities come knocking.
“I try to install it in my guys all the time. I was training twice a day when I was trying to make it to the league and that was barely enough for me. I barely got my foot in the door, I had to try out to make the Titans. On top of that, after trying out I had to go through a lot of other things, mini camps, OTA's, just to get to the practice squad. If me doing two a days and you all are only doing one a day obviously that is not a enough,” Orr said.
Just two month of being back in Chattanooga training local football players, Orr said it has been amazing seeing all of the kids come out and seeing what type of talent the city has to offer.
“We really have a lot of talent in the city that needs to be seen. That is my goal, when we take my kids to 7-on-7 tournament that I have for my KOSP 7-on-7 team. I want them to get these offers, which they can at the tournaments on the west coast,” Orr said.
Orr is in the process of finding a permanent spot for his multi-sport sports performance complex.
He shared a few details of what people can expect.
“Where you have a two level story, with a balcony overlooking a turf field, and a film room upstairs,” Orr said.
Orr also has his own brand called OAUTICA Wave that kids can carry with them to the next level as well. | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/former-nfl-player-super-bowl-champion-giving-back-to-student-athletes-at-local-high-school/article_404f5ade-1a6f-11ed-9178-b3911cacab07.html | 2022-08-12T23:01:08Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/former-nfl-player-super-bowl-champion-giving-back-to-student-athletes-at-local-high-school/article_404f5ade-1a6f-11ed-9178-b3911cacab07.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The cost of insulin costs more today than almost ever. For people who depend on it, that cost can often feel random and unpredictable.
"This is something I've lived with for 37 years," said Coby Goins, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at eight-years-old. "This is what I'll live with until the day I die. We have to have it."
Goins wears an insulin pump, a constant flow of the blood sugar-stabilizing medicine. He considers himself lucky. Because he has insurance, he pays about $45/month for the medication.
Since his insulin need varies, however, there are times he runs out. And, sometimes, he pays for that out-of-pocket.
"You are at the mercy of the insurance," said Goins. "If you run out before that, then you're not going to get any until they give the okay for it."
The average price of insulin has quadrupled in the last 20 years. For people without insurance, they're paying for that difference with every trip to the pharmacy, where medical professionals see the differences in cost vary dramatically from person to person.
"Ultimately, the patient is the one that is not being taken care of appropriately when they can't afford these medications," said Wesley Bradford, a clinical pharmacist at Erlanger Medical Center.
Bradford said one person can pay as little as $25 for their supply of insulin, while the next person in line can pay upwards of $300. Those costs can lead to some people choosing to split their supply and, in some cases, go days without the medication.
"Today, they're controlled. They took their insulin," said Bradford. "Tomorrow, they have nothing on board to control their insulin, so we're creating complications from that."
This week, the U.S. Senate tried to get the rising cost of the drug under control. Included in a massive budget reconciliation bill was a cap of $35 for insulin for Medicare and Medicaid recipients. There wasn't enough votes to pass it.
"Government pricing is not the way to go," Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Local 3 News. "There are other ways to handle this."
For people like Goins, it means more of what feels like insurance price roulette.
"My advice to people is to find a really good pharmacy that you have a good relationship with," he said. "If it ever comes to that, you can try to reach out to them and they can try to help you out as much as possible." | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/making-ends-meet-how-the-rising-price-of-insulin-is-affecting-people-who-need-it/article_ccfe3294-1a82-11ed-8425-9fd62362dd80.html | 2022-08-12T23:01:20Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/making-ends-meet-how-the-rising-price-of-insulin-is-affecting-people-who-need-it/article_ccfe3294-1a82-11ed-8425-9fd62362dd80.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Good Friday!! This evening will be a nice one with humidity falling and temps falling through the 70s.
Saturday morning will be amazing with temps in the low 60s and low humidity making it perfect for outdoors on the front porch. We will climb to a tolerable 86 in the afternoon. There is a VERY slight chance for a couple of afternoon sprinkles.
Sunday and Monday will start awesome as well, but the afternoons will be a little warmer with highs in the low 90s.
We will cool a bit toward the middle and end of next week. Temps will go from 88 Tuesday to the low to mid 80s the rest of the week. Each day Tuesday through Friday may sport some spotty afternoon showers.
For the latest, download the Local 3 Weather app. | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/nice-weather-this-weekend/article_cd0f228c-1a84-11ed-8b40-bffd5f7df237.html | 2022-08-12T23:01:26Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/nice-weather-this-weekend/article_cd0f228c-1a84-11ed-8b40-bffd5f7df237.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A federal judge on Friday unsealed the search warrant and property receipt from the FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
The search, documents show, was an evidence-gathering step in a national security investigation about the mishandling of classified documents. Trump owns the sprawling estate, and it is his primary residence as well as a members-only club and resort.
The FBI recovered 11 sets of classified documents from its search, including some materials marked as "top secret/SCI" -- one of the highest levels of classification, according to documents from the search warrant that were released Friday.
It identifies three federal crimes that the Justice Department is looking at as part of its investigation:
- violations of the Espionage Act
- obstruction of justice
- criminal handling of government records.
The inclusion of the crimes indicates the Justice Department has probable cause to investigate those offenses as it was gathering evidence in the search. No one has been charged with a crime at this time.
Here are some key lines from the search warrant and receipt.
'Receipt' of removed items
One of the newly unsealed documents is a search warrant "receipt" listing the items that the FBI collected from Mar-a-Lago.
That document reveals FBI agents removed more than 20 boxes from Trump's resort and residence in Palm Beach, as well as binders of photos, sets of classified government materials and at least one handwritten note.
According to the search warrant receipt, federal agents seized:
- 1 set of "top secret/SCI" documents
- 4 sets of "top secret" documents
- 3 sets of "secret" documents
- 3 sets of "confidential" documents.
The warrant receipt didn't detail what such classified documents were about.
Among the items taken:
- A document about pardoning Roger Stone, a staunch Trump ally who was convicted in 2019 of lying to Congress during its probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The Stone-related material taken from Mar-a-Lago was listed in the warrant receipt as "Executive Grant of Clemency re: Roger Jason Stone, Jr."
- Material about the "President of France."
Trump pardoned Stone before leaving office, shielding him from a three-year prison term. It's unclear how the Stone-related document seized during the search is tied to the broader criminal probe into Trump's potential mishandling of classified materials.
Areas authorized for search
The judge authorized the FBI to search what the bureau called the "45 Office," as well as "all other rooms or areas" at Mar-a-Lago that were available to Trump and his staff for storing boxes and documents.
"The locations to be searched include the '45 Office,' all storage rooms, and all other rooms or areas within the premises used or available to be used by FPOTUS and his staff and in which boxes or documents could be stored, including all structures or buildings on the estate," the warrant says, using the acronym "FPOTUS" to refer to the Former President of the United States.
The FBI's warrant application to the judge specifically said that federal agents would avoid areas being rented or used by third parties, "such as Mar-a-Lago members" and "private guest suites." Trump owns the sprawling estate, and it is his primary residence as well as a members-only club and resort.
"It is described as a mansion with approximately 58 bedrooms, 33 bathrooms, on a 17-acre estate," FBI agents told the judge in their application, describing the Mar-a-Lago property.
MORE: Read the search warrant for Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort
Timeline of the search warrant execution and release
Friday, August 5: Federal Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart signs the search warrant at 12:12 p.m., according to the warrant.
Monday, August 8: FBI agents execute the search warrant.
Thursday, August 11: Attorney General Merrick Garland announces that the Justice Department will ask a judge to unseal some of the search warrant documents, for the sake of transparency. Trump says in a late-night post on his Truth Social platform that he will "not oppose the release of documents" related to the search.
Friday, August 12: Reinhart approves the unsealing of the warrant, at the Justice Department's request and after Trump's lawyers agreed to the release.
CNN has reported that there has been an uptick in violent rhetoric against Reinhart on the pro-Trump internet. Amid those threats, the official website for the Southern District of Florida removed Reinhart's biography page, his contact information and his office address, CNN previously reported.
CNN previously did not name Reinhart because of the security concerns, but is doing so now because his name is now part of the public court record.
MORE: Timeline of DOJ's criminal inquiry into Trump taking classified docs to Mar-a-Lago
Trump team's response
The warrant receipts were signed by Trump attorney Christina Bobb, who has since spoken out about her presence at Mar-a-Lago during the search.
Bobb has complained that she and other Trump lawyers weren't permitted to observe the search while it happened, but it is not standard FBI procedure to allow observers during a search.
She signed two "receipts for property," which lists the items that the FBI took from Mar-a-Lago. Bobb signed these receipts at 6:19 p.m., when the federal agents were wrapping up their all-day search.
Bobb is a well-known promoter of pro-Trump conspiracy theories, including during her previous position at OAN, a far-right TV channel. CNN has previously reported that Bobb played a leading role in the Trump campaign's efforts in December 2020 to put forward slates of fake GOP electors in seven states.
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(Bloomberg) — House Democrats delivered the final votes needed to send President Joe Biden a slimmed-down version of his tax, climate and drug price agenda, overcoming a year of infighting and giving themselves a cornerstone achievement to campaign on for the November congressional election.
The legislation passed the House Friday on a party line 220-207 vote. Biden tweeted that he would sign it next week.
The bill passed the Senate on a 51 to 50 vote on Sunday with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi could not afford more than a few defections with the slim Democratic majority in the House. Given the high stakes, Biden personally called lawmakers to ensure support in the House throughout the week, a White House official said.
In the end, Democrats voted unanimously for the bill even though the spending is far less than the $10 trillion measure progressives like New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez initially pushed. It also doesn’t raise the $10,000 limit on the deduction for state and local tax, or SALT, which moderates from high-tax states demanded.
In the end the bill spends about $437 billion on climate, health subsidies and drought relief while raising about $740 billion in revenue over ten years. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimated an earlier version of the bill cuts deficits over ten years by $102 billion, a figure that rises to $300 billion when revenue from expanded tax audits is factored in.
Whether the bill helps Democrats retain their House majority remains to be seen. The party hopes its core voters are mobilized by the largest climate change bill in US history while seniors cheer the coming of lower drug costs.
“I’ve been prepared to win the midterms all along. It depends on getting out the vote. This probably could be helpful. I don’t know,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this week. “But I do know it will be helpful to America’s working families and that’s our purpose.”
Independent studies project the bill would have a limited impact on inflation despite the name Democrats gave it. A new Penn Wharton study of the bill found that it would reduce inflation by 0.1 percentage points after five years and have no impact after 2028. In the near term, effects would have upward pressure on inflation but be “too small” to be measured by the government.
For middle-class Obamacare enrollees and seniors with expensive prescription drugs the effect will be most immediate.
Republicans argue that imposing new taxes on business could worsen a looming recession likely to be provoked by the Federal Reserve raising interest rates to fight inflation. GOP lawmakers, who blame historic inflation on last year’s stimulus bill, argue the bill’s tax credits for pricey electric vehicles are a giveaway to the upper-middle class while the drug provision stifles innovation in the pharmaceutical industry.
“Democrats are desperate for any win, even one that slows the economy and crushes businesses” Republican Representative Kevin Brady of Texas said.
He said the GOP will work to repeal the tax increases and drug price changes if the party wins the House next year and try to shift the additional IRS funding in the bill toward customer service rather than ramped up auditing.
Democrats said they will seek to pass elements of Biden’s social agenda that did not make it in to the final version of the bill next year if they keep the House and expand their Senate majority. They said they will once again try to expand Medicare and Medicaid, boost child tax credits and childcare subsidies and provide paid family leave. On Friday Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal said Democrats will also look to raise the corporate tax rate and top individual tax rate paid by the wealthy next year.
Key effects on business in the bill that passed the House include:
- A 15% minimum tax on corporations with over $1 billion in revenue, with exceptions made for accelerated depreciation and for subsidiaries of private equity staring in 2023. Raises $222 billion.
- A 1% excise tax on stock buybacks, effective Jan. 1, to raise $74 billion.
- An $80 billion boost to the Internal Revenue Service budget to hire more agents, upgrade technology in order to boost revenue collection
- An extension of loan loss limitation tax breaks from the Trump tax package
- New Superfund taxes on oil companies
- Drug prices negotiated by Medicare for the first time, with tax penalty imposed on drug companies failing to abide by new price. Price negotiations begin in 2026 with 10 high priced drugs. Penalties imposed for price increases in sales to Medicare.
- A $2,000 per year cap on out-of-pocket costs for seniors enrolled in a Medicare drug plan
- Approximately $374 billion in energy and climate-related provisions including tax incentives for green energy projects, a $7,500 tax credit for purchasing new electric vehicles and $4,000 credit for used EVs. Limits imposed on supply chain sourcing for EVs that qualify
- A three-year extension of subsidies for Obamacare premiums, preventing expiration of subsidies in 2023.
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INGLEWOOD — There were many intriguing storylines heading into the Rams-Chargers preseason opener last year that made it more than a meaningless exhibition in August.
It was the first football game at SoFi Stadium with fans in attendance and it was also a reunion between Sean McVay and Brandon Staley, who made his debut as the Chargers’ head coach a year after serving as McVay’s defensive coordinator with the Rams.
But by the end of the clunky preseason matchup, Rams quarterback Bryce Perkins had taken the spotlight after delivering an electric scramble that included an emphatic stiff arm and ended with a hurdle over a Chargers defender to extend the drive in the fourth quarter. The Chargers held on to win, 13-6, for those keeping track of preseason scores.
A year later, Perkins will likely be the starting quarterback against the Chargers with Matthew Stafford and backup quarterback John Wolford scheduled to sit out, along with many other Rams starters.
Perkins wants to leave another lasting impression Saturday night at SoFi Stadium, but he wants to do it with his passes and he’s hoping second-year wide receiver Tutu Atwell will be on the receiving end of a few highlight throws.
The Rams drafted Atwell in the second round last year with the hope that he could develop into a consistent playmaker who had nothing to prove in exhibition games. That hasn’t happened yet because Atwell struggled as a rookie, but he made strides in training camp and now McVay wants to see his speedy wideout make plays against the Chargers, Houston Texans and Cincinnati Bengals in their three preseason games.
McVay will also keep a close eye on the rookies: offensive guard Logan Bruss, outside linebacker Daniel Hardy, offensive lineman AJ Arcuri and cornerbacks Derion Kendrick and Decobie Durant.
“I could go on and on about a lot of guys, but Tutu is a guy that’s done a really nice job,” McVay said.
Perkins and Atwell have built chemistry over the past year and it showed throughout training camp with Perkins hurling several deep balls for the Louisville product who had his rookie season cut short because of a shoulder injury.
“I think he’s made a big jump,” Perkins said of Atwell. “He’s so talented and gifted and fast, that any time that he’s on the field, it’s stressful for defenses. You don’t know how you’re going to play him. You can play him on the top and he can burst on his set down and come out of the break. You play him short, he’s going over the top. Just having him out there, it’s fun to have and he’s a great player.”
Perkins, the third-year quarterback, went deeper into the scouting report for the 5-foot-9 Atwell, who displayed toughness and sturdy hands on contested passes during training camp.
“His catch radius, he’s kinda smaller, but his arms are really long, so he can really pluck things out the air that are away from him, from the body,” Perkins said. “I think he’s made big jumps and I’m glad to see his growth and I’m excited to see how he grows in these next couple of weeks and months.”
Unlike Atwell, Perkins isn’t expected to contribute on the field for the Rams in 2022 because Stafford is the star quarterback and Wolford is the reliable backup, but McVay often praises Perkins for his improvements and he’s optimistic about Perkins creating opportunities for himself in the preseason, whether that’s with the Rams or elsewhere.
“Processing and seeing things and definitely understanding protection,” Perkins said about his improvements in the pocket. “From last year to this year, that’s something that I definitely made an emphasis on was protection. … Really trying to get the reps of staying in and working through your reads. When you’re going against the (first-team) defense, the pocket gets muddy, so more emphasis on staying in the pocket and throwing the ball around in practice.”
Quarterback Luis Perez, who rejoined the Rams on the first day of training camp, is also aiming to create opportunities for himself. He’s played in three different football leagues – the Alliance of American Football, XFL and the USFL – since his previous stint with the Rams in 2018.
“There was a lot of carryover from when I was here in 2018,” Perez said. “But you know, there are some new things. Ultimately, I feel back at home, to be honest. I feel comfortable. I feel good. Just excited to show all the work that I put in these last four years.”
Perkins, Perez and other unproven players for the Rams will be looking to put on a show Saturday night.
“I think the most important thing for us as coaches,” McVay said, “is that these players look back on that experience and say, ‘I was in an atmosphere and an environment where I felt believed in, positively pushed, and it was a good experience no matter how it ended up with us.’”
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What is common between the U.S. and China? Both countries are obsessed with Taiwan due to its control of the semiconductor market. The Semiconductor Industry Association describes semiconductors as the brain of modern electronics. Now, about 63% of these “brains” are manufactured in Taiwan. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSM) itself churns out 54% of the global semiconductors. This clears the picture of why the U.S. and China are so focused on Taiwan.
Earlier this month, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan thrust the tense China-Taiwan-U.S. dynamics into the limelight. China was very bothered by this trip and immediately got down to a full display of power as a protest. Many reasons are behind this, but the most important of all is the power play between the world’s two largest economies for control over Taiwan’s semiconductor manufacturing.
Geopolitical Dynamics Between the Countries
Let’s talk about the dynamics between Taiwan and China, as well as between Taiwan and the U.S.
Taiwan is an independently governed island country off China, which is still within the realm of the Republic of China. The history of Taiwan’s resistance to Chinese communist rule dates back to post-World War II times.
The U.S. initially bonded with Taiwan over mutual opposition to China’s communist-dominated political system. However, now, Taiwan’s global dominance over semiconductor manufacturing has piqued the interest of the U.S., which has been trying to extend support to the country in its political struggle with China.
Needless to say, China is not happy about this setup. Although China enjoys around a 7% share in the global chip manufacturing market, it primarily relies on Taiwan’s chip supply to manufacture its drones, military hardware, and other defense equipment.
The U.S., on the other hand, also has around a 7% market share, enjoyed by Global Foundries (GFS) in the international semiconductor manufacturing market. Even though it has some self-reliance in most of its military technologies, the U.S. still relies on Taiwan’s chips to design several key defense systems. Moreover, 90% of the chips marketed by American tech stalwarts like Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Nvidia (NVDA), and Qualcomm (QCOM) come from TSMC.
Why Has Nancy Pelosi’s Visit Irked China?
Coming back to the controversial visit, China had warned against this move multiple times. The defiance was the first red flag. Moreover, during the trip, Pelosi met Mark Lui, chairman of TSMC, which further bothered China. This is because the U.S. has been trying to get TSMC to build a manufacturing unit on U.S. soil and reduce its chip supply to China.
Knowing the repercussions of such a move by Taiwan, China retaliated against Pelosi’s trip with an elaborate display of fire drills, making Taiwan aware that China could take it over at any moment.
What a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Means for the U.S. Semiconductor Industry
If China invades and cuts off Taiwan’s export of chips, China’s market share could climb to 70%. Given the trade issues between the U.S. and China, the latter will have a monopolistic advantage over semiconductors, making it either difficult to attain or very expensive for American companies to source chips from China-controlled Taiwan.
On the flip side, Taiwan also sources raw materials and chemicals to produce its semiconductors. So, cutting off Taiwan will also hurt Taiwan’s production, leading to a fresh disruption in the global supply chain.
Given this uncertainty of chip supply from Taiwan, countries have begun to hoard chips, giving a new direction to the already jammed supply chain. This may lead to a massive supply shortage of semiconductors in the U.S. and elsewhere, accompanied by price rises, denting the margins of semiconductor companies.
There’s One Good Thing about the Current Supply Crunch
Interestingly, one good thing to come of this scenario is the new Chips and Science Act of the U.S., which allocates almost $53 billion towards efforts to internalize chip production, citing it unsafe to depend on Taiwan.
From navigating a potential supply crunch of a large magnitude to expanding its own innovation and production capacity, the U.S. semiconductor industry has a lot of work to do. The government’s investment will support semiconductor companies to achieve self-reliance at discounted costs. The near term may look shaky, and supply may be tight, but American chipmakers have a long runway for considerable growth in the long haul, with or without Taiwan. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/heres-why-the-u-s-and-china-are-interested-in-taiwan/ | 2022-08-12T23:06:40Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/heres-why-the-u-s-and-china-are-interested-in-taiwan/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Bill Allows Medicare to Negotiate Lower Drug Prices and Caps Out-of-Pocket Spending on Medications for Seniors
NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Earlier today the House voted to pass the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a bill that includes several key provisions to lower the prices of prescription drugs. AARP New York thanks Representatives Tom Suozzi (NY3), Kathleen Rice (NY4), Gregory Meeks (NY5), Grace Meng (NY6), Nydia Velazquez (NY7), Hakeem Jeffries (NY8), Yvette Clarke (NY9), Jerry Nadler (NY10), Carolyn Maloney (NY12), Adriano Espaillat (NY13), Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (NY14), Ritchie Torres (NY15), Jamaal Bowman (NY16), Mondaire Jones (NY17), Sean Patrick Maloney (NY18), Paul Tonko (NY20), Joe Morelle (NY25) and Brian Higgins (NY26) for supporting this critical legislation that will bring real relief for seniors. The bill now goes to President Biden for his signature.
The Inflation Reduction Act includes key AARP priorities that will go a long way to lower drug prices and out-of-pocket costs. AARP fought for provisions in the bill that will:
- Finally allow Medicare to negotiate the price of drugs
- Cap annual out-of-pocket prescription drug costs in Medicare Part D ($2,000 in 2025)
- Hold drug companies accountable when they increase drug prices faster than the rate of inflation, and
- Cap co-pays for insulin to no more than $35 per month in Medicare Part D.
Jo Ann Jenkins, AARP Chief Executive Officer, issued a statement reacting to the House vote:
"Today is a momentous day for older Americans. By passing the Inflation Reduction Act, Congress has made good on decades of promises to lower the price of prescription drugs. Seniors should never have to choose between paying for needed medicine or other necessities like food or rent, and tens of millions of adults in Medicare drug plans will soon have peace of mind knowing their out-of-pocket expenses are limited every year.
"Many people said this couldn't be done, but AARP isn't afraid of a hard fight. We kept up the pressure, and now, for the first time, Medicare will be able to negotiate with drug companies for lower prices, saving seniors money on their medications.
"I thank the House members whose votes today will bring real relief to millions of Americans, and I look forward to President Biden signing this bill into law."
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U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Jonathan Pickup, intelligence lead with Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group, Headquarters Battalion, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, and Capt. Christopher Teska, company commander with Company B, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, speak on the Marine Corps renewed focus on Reconnaissance/Counter-Reconnaissance (RXR), Aug.12, 2022. RXR training hones Marines' capability to operate forward within an adversary’s weapons engagement zone to provide integrated deterrence by providing commanders options to fight for information across all domains, hold adversarial targets at risk, and provide critical links for naval and joint fires. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Shane T. Beaubien, Lance Cpl. Luis Aguilar, Lance Cpl. Andrew Bray, and Lance Cpl. Joshua Sechser)
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (USCPSC) announced on Thursday that the company Future Motion had initiated a recall for footpads on its Onewheel GT Stakeboards, citing the possibility of bystander injuries.
The consumer safety agency and the company say the footpads on the one-wheeled electronic skateboards can "disengage" after the rider has stepped off of the boards or "dismounted," and this can happen while the skateboard is still in motion possibly causing injuries to those around the operator. '
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The Thursday recall announcement from (USCPSC) said that consumers should "immediately stop using the skateboards with recalled footpads" and those in possession of a Onewheel GT stake board should contact Future Motion to get help determining if their footpad is affected by the recall.
The recall includes the front footpads for the self-balancing electric boards either sold with the skateboard or as a replacement footpad.
Consumers will be required to provide the company with a serial number imprinted on the board as a way to identify if the board is affected by the recall.
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Sigh: Mayor Eric Adams has made a particularly ugly addition to his crony posse by hiring a gaming executive and close friend from his days with the NYPD as a taxpayer-funded adviser on public safety in the business community.
Timothy Pearson, remarkably, collects at least three regular “paychecks,” two of them taxpayer-funded: He’s got a six-figure pension as a retired NYPD inspector plus his City Hall salary — and is still paid by Resorts World.
Even if he’s not officially working on casino issues, that’s a bad look. That it’s technically kosher because Pearson works at the Economic Development Corporation, a city-controlled nonprofit exempt from city rules, hardly helps.
Particularly as EDC would oversee the bidding process to operate a city casino, a process in which the mayor gets a say, and Resorts World is looking to expand its Aqueduct slots operation into a full-fledged casino.
This, after Adams flirted with making his brother Bernard, a retired police sergeant, an NYPD deputy commissioner until the Conflict of Interest Board nixed the idea. (He now serves as a senior adviser of mayoral security for $1 a year.)
Also: The mayor’s chief of staff, Frank Carone, held a stake in BolaWrap, a police tool Adams touted as Brooklyn borough president that the NYPD rejected. (Adams denies knowing of Carone’s stake, but why is his chief of staff travelling the globe when the constant flux of bad publicity, including this scandal, suggests City Hall isn’t running very smoothly?)
Adams defends his hires as qualified people whom he has good reason to trust. But the smell keeps adding up. He should tell his pal Pearson to choose between public service and his Resorts World gig, or make the choice for him. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/12/eric-adams-casino-pal-timothy-pearson-is-triple-dipping-taxpayers/ | 2022-08-12T23:16:15Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/12/eric-adams-casino-pal-timothy-pearson-is-triple-dipping-taxpayers/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Salman Rushdie -- a celebrated author and winner of the world's top literary prizes whose writings generated death threats -- was attacked and stabbed at least twice on stage Friday before giving a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York, State Police said.
The suspect was identified as Hadi Matar, 24, from Fairview, New Jersey, State Police Troop Commander Major Eugene J. Staniszewski said in a Friday evening news conference. Police said they are working with the FBI and local authorities to determine what could have motivated the attack.
Authorities are also working to obtain search warrants for several items found at the scene, including a backpack and electronic devices, Staniszewski said. Authorities believe the suspect was alone but are investigating "to make sure that was the case," Staniszewski added.
The suspect jumped onto the stage and stabbed Rushdie at least once in the neck and at least once in the abdomen, state police said. Staff and audience members rushed the suspect and put him on the ground before a state trooper took the attacked into custody, police said.
Rushdie was airlifted from a field adjacent to the venue -- in a rural lake resort about 70 miles south of Buffalo -- to a hospital. Rushdie was undergoing surgery Friday evening, state police said.
Henry Reese, co-founder of the Pittsburgh nonprofit City of Asylum, who was scheduled to join Rushdie in discussion, was taken to a hospital and treated for a facial injury and released, state police said. The organization was founded to "provide sanctuary in Pittsburgh to writers exiled under threat of persecution," according to the Chautauqua Institution's website.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters Friday a state trooper "stood up and saved (Rushdie's) life and protected him as well as the moderator who was attacked as well.
"Here is an individual who has spent decades speaking truth to power," the governor said of Rushdie. "Someone who has been out there unafraid, despite the threats that have followed him his entire adult life it seems."
The suspect had a "pass to access the grounds," Dr. Michael E. Hill, president of the Chautauqua Institution, said in the news conference. Guests can purchase passes to attend programs, Hill added.
"We take our security measures very, very seriously," Hill said. "We'll continue to look at providing the maximum security that we can ... this has never happened in our entire history. Chautauqua has always been an extremely safe place and we will continue to be working to keep that tradition going," Hill said.
Authorities are working with the district attorney's office to determine what the charges for the suspect will be "once we get a little further in the investigation and determine the condition of Mr. Rushdie," Staniszewski said.
What witnesses say happened
Rushdie was being introduced at about 10:45 a.m. when the assault happened, according to a witness, who said he heard shouting from the audience. He said a man in a black shirt appeared to be "punching" the author. The witness, who was 75 feet from the stage, did not hear the attacker say anything or see a weapon.
Some people in the audience ran to render aid while others went after the attacker, the witness said. State police said a doctor who was in the audience during the event rendered aid to Rushdie until emergency responders arrived.
Joyce Lussier, 83, who was in the second row of the amphitheater during the attack, said Rushdie and Reese had taken a seat on the right-hand side of the stage when suddenly, a man who appeared to be in all black "lurched across the stage and got right to Mr. Rushdie."
"He came in the left side and leapt across the stage and just lunged at him. In, I don't know, two seconds he was across that stage," Lussier said. She added she could hear people screaming and crying and saw people from the audience rushing up to the stage.
"They caught him right away, he did not get off the stage at all," Lussier said of the suspect. Shortly after, the crowd was asked to evacuate, she added.
Another witness told CNN there were no security searches or metal detectors at the event. The witness is not being identified because they expressed concerns for their personal safety.
The witness said the attacker "walked quickly" down an aisle and jumped on stage, approaching the author and "making a stabbing motion with his hand repeatedly."
A third witness, a longtime Chautauqua resident who asked not to be identified, recalled a commotion on stage and a man making about seven to 10 stabbing motions in the direction of the author, who was in a half-standing position. She said she fled the open-air amphitheater "shaking like a leaf" in fear.
'His essential voice cannot and will not be silenced'
On its website, the Chautauqua Institution described Friday's event as "a discussion of the United States as asylum for writers and other artists in exile and as a home for freedom of creative expression."
In a statement the nonprofit education center and summer resort said it is "coordinating with law enforcement and emergency officials on a public response following today's attack of Salman Rushdie on the Chautauqua Amphitheater stage."
Writers such as Stephen King and J.K. Rowling expressed well-wishes for Rushdie via Twitter.
Rushdie is a former president of PEN America, a prominent US free speech group for authors, which said it is "reeling from shock and horror at word of a brutal, premeditated attack."
"We can think of no comparable incident of a public violent attack on a literary writer on American soil," PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel said in a statement.
"We hope and believe fervently that his essential voice cannot and will not be silenced."
Penguin Random House, Rushdie's publisher, tweeted a statement from CEO Markus Dohle: "We are deeply shocked and appalled to hear of the attack on Salman Rushdie while he was speaking at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. We condemn this violent public assault, and our thoughts are with Salman and his family at this distressing time."
Furor over 'The Satanic Verses' hounded Rushdie
The 75-year-old novelist -- the son of a successful Muslim businessman in India -- was educated in England, first at Rugby School and later at the University of Cambridge where he received an MA degree in history.
After college, he began working as an advertising copywriter in London, before publishing his first novel, "Grimus" in 1975.
Rushdie's treatment of delicate political and religious subjects turned him into a controversial figure. But it was the publication of his fourth novel "The Satanic Verses" in 1988 which has hounded him for more than three decades.
Some Muslims found the book to be sacrilegious and it sparked public demonstrations. In 1989, the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called Rushdie a blasphemer and said "The Satanic Verses" was an insult to Islam and the Prophet Mohammed, and issued a religious decree, or fatwa, calling for his death.
As a result, the Mumbai-born writer spent a decade under British protection.
In 1999, Rushdie told CNN the experience taught him "to value even more ... intensely the things that I valued before, such as the art of literature and the freedom of expression and the right to say things that other people don't like.
"It may have been an unpleasant decade, but it was the right fight, you know. It was fighting for the things that I most believe in against things I most dislike, which are bigotry and fanaticism and censorship."
The bounty against Rushdie has never been lifted, though in 1998 the Iranian government sought to distance itself from the fatwa by pledging not to seek to carry it out.
But despite what appeared to be a softening of the fatwa, more recently, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reaffirmed the religious edict.
In February 2017, on Khamenei's official website, the supreme leader was asked if the "fatwa against Rushdie was still in effect," to which Khamenei confirmed it was, saying, "The decree is as Imam Khomeini issued."
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The House of Representatives voted Friday to pass Democrats' $750 billion health care, energy and climate bill, in a significant victory for President Joe Biden and his party.
The final vote was 220-207, along party lines. Four Republicans did not vote.
Now that the Democratic-controlled House has approved the bill, it will next go to Biden to be signed into law.
Final passage of the bill marks a milestone for Democrats and gives the party a chance to achieve long-sought policy objectives ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. It comes at a critical time as Democrats are fighting to retain control of narrow majorities in Congress.
The sweeping bill -- named the Inflation Reduction Act -- would represent the largest climate investment in US history and make major changes to health policy by giving Medicare the power for the first time to negotiate the prices of certain prescription drugs and extending expiring health care subsidies for three years. The legislation would reduce the deficit, be paid for through new taxes -- including a 15% minimum tax on large corporations and a 1% tax on stock buybacks -- and boost the Internal Revenue Service's ability to collect.
It would raise over $700 billion in government revenue over 10 years and spend over $430 billion to reduce carbon emissions and extend subsidies for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act and use the rest of the new revenue to reduce the deficit.
House acts after Senate Democrats passed the bill
The House took up the legislation after it passed in the Senate following a marathon overnight session of contentious amendment votes.
In the Senate, the bill passed on a final, party-line vote of 51-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie.
Senate Democrats, who control only a narrow 50-seat majority, ultimately stayed unified to pass the legislation. And they used a special, filibuster-proof process known as reconciliation to approve the measure without Republican votes.
Approval of the bill in the chamber marked a major milestone for Senate Democrats, who had long hoped to pass a signature legislative package, but had struggled for months to reach a deal that had the full support of their caucus.
Sen. Joe Manchin played a key role in shaping the legislation -- which only moved forward after the West Virginia Democrat and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a deal at the end of July, a key breakthrough for Democrats after earlier negotiations had stalled out.
Arizona Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was also at the center of the effort to pass the bill -- and Sinema, Manchin and other senators worked through the weekend making alterations on the bill.
Passage in the Senate came after a lengthy stretch of amendment votes known as a "vote-a-rama" that lasted nearly 16 hours from late Saturday night until Sunday afternoon.
Republicans used the weekend "vote-a-rama" to put Democrats on the spot and force politically tough votes. They were also successful in removing a key provision to cap the price of insulin to $35 per month on the private insurance market, which the Senate parliamentarian ruled was not compliant with the Senate's reconciliation rules. The $35 insulin cap for Medicare beneficiaries remains in place.
In the end, Republicans lined up to oppose the bill. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement that the bill included "giant job-killing tax hikes" and amounted to "a war on American fossil fuel." The Kentucky Republican said Democrats "do not care about middle-class families' priorities."
How the bill addresses the climate crisis
While economists disagree over whether the package would, in fact, live up to its name and reduce inflation, particularly in the short term, the bill would have a crucial impact on reducing carbon emissions.
The nearly $370 billion clean energy and climate package is the largest climate investment in US history, and the biggest victory for the environmental movement since the landmark Clean Air Act.
Analysis from Schumer's office -- as well as multiple independent analyses -- suggests the measure would reduce US carbon emissions by up to 40% by 2030. Strong climate regulations from the Biden administration and action from states would be needed to get to Biden's goal of cutting emissions 50% by 2030.
The bill also contains many tax incentives meant to bring down the cost of electricity with more renewables, and spur more American consumers to switch to electricity to power their homes and vehicles.
Key health care and tax policy in the bill
The bill would empower Medicare to negotiate prices of certain costly medications administered in doctors' offices or purchased at the pharmacy. The Health and Human Services secretary would negotiate the prices of 10 drugs in 2026, and another 15 drugs in 2027 and again in 2028. The number would rise to 20 drugs a year for 2029 and beyond.
The controversial provision is far more limited than the one House Democratic leaders have backed in the past. But it would open the door to fulfilling a longstanding party goal of allowing Medicare to use its heft to lower drug costs.
Democrats are also planning to extend the enhanced federal premium subsidies for Obamacare coverage through 2025, a year later than lawmakers recently discussed. That way, they wouldn't expire just after the 2024 presidential election.
To boost revenue, the bill would impose a 15% minimum tax on the income large corporations report to shareholders, known as book income, as opposed to the Internal Revenue Service. The measure, which would raise $258 billion over a decade, would apply to companies with profits over $1 billion.
Concerned about how this provision would affect certain businesses, particularly manufacturers, Sinema has suggested that she won changes to the Democrats' plan to pare back how companies can deduct depreciated assets from their taxes. The details remain unclear.
However, Sinema nixed her party's effort to tighten the carried interest loophole, which allows investment managers to treat much of their compensation as capital gains and pay a 20% long-term capital gains tax rate instead of income tax rates of up to 37%.
The provision would have lengthened the amount of time investment managers' profit interest must be held from three years to five years to take advantage of the lower tax rate. Addressing this loophole, which would have raised $14 billion over a decade, had been a longtime goal of congressional Democrats.
In its place, a 1% excise tax on companies' stock buybacks was added, raising another $74 billion, according to a Democratic aide.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention said on Friday that several of the denomination's major entities are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The SBC's statement gave few details about the investigation, but indicated it dealt with sexual abuse. The SBC, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., has been plagued by problems related to clergy sex abuse in recent years.
"Individually and collectively each SBC entity is resolved to fully and completely cooperate with the investigation," the statement said. "While we continue to grieve and lament past mistakes related to sexual abuse, current leaders across the SBC have demonstrated a firm conviction to address those issues of the past and are implementing measures to ensure they are never repeated in the future."
Earlier this year, an SBC task force released a blistering 288-page report from outside consultant, Guidepost Solutions. The firm's seven-month independent investigation found disturbing details about how denominational leaders mishandled sex abuse claims and mistreated victims.
There was no immediate comment from the Justice Department about the investigation.
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(The Hill) – House Democrats passed their sweeping tax, climate and health care bill on Friday, sending the $740 billion legislation to President Biden’s desk and securing a significant victory for Democrats less than three months before the midterm elections.
The bill, titled the Inflation Reduction Act, passed the House in a 220-207 party-line vote. Four Republicans did not vote.
House passage came four days after the Senate approved the bill in a party-line vote, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting a tie-breaking vote.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) touted the bill on the House floor during debate on Friday, arguing that it “saves the planet while keeping more money in your pockets.”
“This bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, a package for the people, increases the leverage of the public interest over the special interests, and expands health and financial security now and for generations to come,” she added.
Passage through Congress marks the culmination of more than a year of negotiations among Senate Democrats on a spending package.
The legislation will increase taxes on corporations, address climate change and bring down the prices of prescription drugs, all while lowering the deficit.
The package specifically includes $369 billion in energy security and climate investments and $64 billion to expand Affordable Care Act subsidies for two years.
The bill offers incentives to businesses and consumers to make cleaner energy choices, including utilizing lower-carbon and carbon-free energy, and it creates new programs that will bolster investments in climate.
On the health care end, the measure will allow Medicare to negotiate lower prices for 10 high-cost drugs starting in 2026. By 2029, that number is expected to grow to 20 drugs. Additionally, the measure allows caps to be placed on some drug costs, but mainly for Medicare.
To pay for the legislation, Democrats have written in a 15 percent minimum tax on income that large corporations report to their shareholders. According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, only about 150 firms would be affected.
The bill also allocates $80 billion to increase enforcement at the Internal Revenue Service and ensure that wealthy individuals and corporations are not evading taxes. Additionally, a one percent excise tax on stock buybacks is included in the bill.
Passage of the bill caps off more than a year of negotiations among Senate Democrats, who had been working to come to a consensus on a spending package but failed on a number of occasions due to intra-party disagreements.
The Senate, however, finally hit a breakthrough late last month when Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced a deal for the tax-and-spending package. The Senate ultimately approved that bill on Monday through budget reconciliation, a process that allowed Democrats to pass the measure with a simple majority, bypassing what would have likely been a Republican filibuster.
Every Democrat backed the bill, including Rep. Jared Golden (Maine), the only Democrat to oppose an earlier, larger measure approved by the House that was blocked by Manchin in the Senate.
He called it “common-sense legislation” and “fiscally responsible” in a statement prior to the vote.
Some progressive lawmakers had grumbled about the bill not being as expansive as they had hoped, but the entire caucus ultimately came together to support the measure.
House lawmakers interrupted their summer break to return to Washington to complete work on the bill and send it to Biden.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) started whipping against the bill on Tuesday, slamming the bill — which his office described as “the Inflation, Recession, and IRS Army Act — in a memo to House GOP offices.
In a roughly 50-minute speech on the House floor Friday, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called the legislation a “misguided, tone-dead bill,” slamming it for inflationary concerns and bringing attention to elevated prices in the U.S.
Republicans during debate also took issue with the provision that allocates $80 billion to the IRS to bolster enforcement.
“Democrats more than any other majority in history are addicted to spending other people’s money, regardless of what we as a country can afford,” McCarthy said on the House floor.
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With a 6-4, 7-6(2) victory over Coco Gauff, Simona Halep secured another semifinal berth at the National Bank Open presented by Rogers.
The two-time former champion is through to the last four in Canada for the fifth time in her career. Here's a snapshot of 15th-seeded Halep's victory over No.11 seed Gauff, by the numbers:
4: Halep improved her head-to-head record against Gauff to 4-0 with the 1 hour, 47-minute victory. Their first meeting came at Gauff's breakthrough Wimbledon tournament in 2019, but their other three matches have been played this year. Halep was also victorious in Indian Wells and Madrid.
Halep has noticed the improvement in the American teenager in that time.
"She's a bit stronger. She hits stronger. And the serve was much stronger today. Backhand is always hard," she said after the match. "I think she improved a lot since we played last time. It's always tough to play against her. She's fighting until the end. She doesn't give you a point, so you have to stay there and to fight."
8: Halep has, nonetheless, not lost a set against Gauff in their four meetings. Friday's second-set tiebreak marked the first time Gauff won more than four games in a set.
6: Halep broke Gauff's serve six times in victory. From 6-4, 4-1 up, the match got complicated: Halep failed to serve out victory twice, at 5-4 and 6-5, before ultimately winning the tiebreak.
36: The win is Halep's 36th this season. That figure ranks third behind only Iga Swiatek (48) and Ons Jabeur (37).
29: Halep is through to to her 29th career semifinal at a WTA 1000 event. That is the most all-time. ahead of Serena Williams (26), Agneiszka Radwanska (23), Victoria Azarenka (22) and Maria Sharapova (22). She's now 29-9 all-time in quarterfinals at WTA 1000 events.
51: Halep now owns a 51-23 career record against players from United States, with her record in 2022 standing at 6-1.
2: Halep is a two-time champion in Canada. She's won the title twice in Montreal (2016 and 2018) and was runner-up in Toronto to Belinda Bencic in 2015.
0: Halep and her semifinal opponent, Jessica Pegula, have never played before. Pegula booked her spot in the semifinals for the second straight year with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Yulia Putintseva.
5: Pegula needed five match points to close out her 81-minute victory. She and Putintseva had never played previously.
20: Pegula hit 20 winners in victory, more than Putintseva's 12. She also broke serve three times.
22: The top-ranked American now boasts 22 wins at WTA 1000 events in the last two years. She and Iga Swiatek are now tied for the Hologic WTA Tour lead in that statistic.
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The colorful, bilingual, and multicultural city of Montreal has a strong personality and a lot to offer. Whether it comes down to its food, culture, vibe, and big, big energy, Montreal is also home to a vast hotel portfolio that reflects the richness of its identity.
Now that travel is definitely back, Montreal is busy—more than ever, if that is even possible. The city opened 15 new hotels since the pandemic pause, while many of the pre-existing best took this opportunity to overhaul their look.
The Hyatt brand made a great comeback in the province of Quebec with the opening of a new flagship, Hyatt Place Montreal Downtown, a first-of-its-kind new concept for the beloved brand Hyatt Place in the neighborhood “Le Village.” The long-time Loews Vogue Downtown reopened under new ownership and concept, now a member of the Curio Collection by Hilton. And a Moxy hotel is scheduled to open—a first in the province of Quebec—in 2023.
If you’re planning a trip to the most European Canadian city (and you should), check out 10 of the best hotels in Montreal for a truly memorable stay.
Sofitel Hotel Montreal
- What to expect: large rooms, great restaurant, and Parisian flair
- Neighborhood: Golden Square Mile
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Sofitel Hotel Montreal is probably one of the best-kept secrets in the city. The French chain is well established in Europe, and its Montreal location is simply perfect. It offers a Parisian sensibility, though unlike the City of Light, here the rooms come oversized. (Also, the beds are oh-so comfy.) The views of downtown Montreal mesmerize; the value for your money is unbeatable, as is the location. Its on-site restaurant, Le Renoir, is also one of the best tables in the city, offering a French menu (bien sûr!) and, in season, one of the most attractive outdoor patios in town.
Four Seasons Hotel Montreal
- What to expect: A swanky design-focused luxury hotel with an unforgettable restaurant
- Neighborhood: Downtown
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The (Canadian!) Four Seasons brand came back to Montreal in 2019 after years of being MIA and it was, for the city, major news. This hotel has a signature look, feel, even scent that attracts a cool crowd, be it to the Instagram-worthy restaurant bathrooms (yes, it’s a thing), the South Beach–style indoor/outdoor patio, or the pink-and-marble lounge that will make you wish you had more upcoming parties. New York celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson has set up shop here with Marcus, while a luxury Clarins spa will soothe tired travelers.
W Hotel Montreal
- What to expect: a happening property that was the only W hotel in Canada (until July 2022)
- Neighborhood: Financial District
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For decades, W Hotel Montreal was the only W property in Canada (until this July, when Toronto got its own). The Montreal spot is still one of a kind, at the junction of Old Montreal and the Financial District, in a historic building facing the lovely Victoria Square park. This has been the place to be seen since opening day. Ever evolving, the rooms, restaurant, and lobby have been revamped, and an outdoor patio has opened, serving innovative cocktails and delicious food. This W hits all the right notes—playful yet thoughtful—and the location couldn’t be better.
Hôtel William Gray
- What to expect: a chic, locally owned and operated boutique hotel with a (nearly) year-round rooftop
- Neighborhood: Old Montreal
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The Hôtel William Gray is owned and operated by the Montreal-based Antonopoulous family, passing the hotel business down from generation to generation over four decades. Among their many properties in the city—11 restaurants, five hotels—William Gray is their finest, in the heart of Old Montreal. Linger on the terrace overlooking the Montreal Great Wheel; at the rooftop resto-bar, which is open almost all year for drinks, lunch, and dinner; or in the lobby with a drink and a book, a game of billiards, or a board game. Within the hotel, Café Olimpico is one of the city’s top-rated coffee shops. The rooms are also sleek, well appointed, and perfectly combine history and modernity, just like the surrounding neighborhood, the unique Old Montreal.
Hyatt Place Downtown Montreal
- What to expect: a WFH(otel) space that focuses on the new business traveler
- Neighborhood: The Village
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This hotel has long been well located and spacious, but outdated and, unfortunately, uninteresting. The pandemic pause was the perfect occasion for the Hyatt brand to take over and make its grand comeback in Montreal, investing $25 million to really turn the place around. The result is the flagship property for a new Hyatt Place concept, delivering coworking spaces, the latest tech for business travelers, an on-site bistro, an indoor pool, and large rooms that all offer unobstructed views of the Montreal skyline (plus free breakfast and competitive rates).
Fairmont the Queen Elizabeth
- What to expect: a historic masterpiece that has been totally revamped
- Neighborhood: Downtown
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The majestic “Queen E” hotel became legendary when John Lennon and Yoko Ono made it the site of their infamous bed-in during 1969 in Montreal. The hotel, which has hosted all kinds of celebrities since its opening, relaunched in 2017 after being closed for a year-long renovation that stretched from top to bottom. The new Queen Elizabeth is now better than ever, offering the perfect balance between history and a local twist. The suites are designed and named after Montreal districts: Mile End (geeky), Griffintown (edgy), Homa (funky), etcetera. The Nacarat terrace and cocktail bar are among the very best happy hours in the city, without forgetting the inside coffee shop, Krema, where locals from all around line up every morning for their caffeine fix. A new Or (Gold) level hotel-within-a-hotel comes with its own concierge and a private 21st-floor lounge.
Le Mount Stephen
- What to expect: vestiges of a historic private club on the left, hyper-modern Leading Hotels of the World on the right
- Neighborhood: Golden Square Mile
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Did you know that there are only two Leading Hotels of the World in Canada and one of them is in Montreal? Historically, the Mount Stephen Club was a private club that used to host the most lavish parties in the city. The historic house still stands, but a new wing has been added to what has now become Le Mount Stephen, a luxury boutique hotel where you may want to take photos of the sumptuous wooden staircase and red carpets or of the majestic Bar George when you go down for cocktails and a time-traveling kind of evening. Other pluses: top-class service and plush rooms with aloe-infused showers and custom-colored lighting.
Hotel le Germain Montreal
- What to expect: a chic, local, family-operated boutique hotel
- Neighborhood: Downtown
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The Germain Hotels brand is well established and well respected in the province of Quebec. Family-owned and -operated, their boutique hotels focus on gastronomy (the Germain family story started with restaurants), design, comfort, and a nod to the city where the property is located. Hotel le Germain Montreal is in the heart of downtown, allowing you to walk around anywhere you want to go (Time Out Market Montreal or the shopping avenue of Sainte-Catherine Street, for starters), and because it is a local property with a taste for design, they revealed a giant mural by a local artist in 2021. The rooms and food and beverage outlets have been refurbished by superstar local designers and firm Zebulon Perron and Lemay + Michaud, in a tribute to Expo 67.
Humaniti Hotel Montreal
- What to expect: a Miami-inspired high-rise hotel with a rooftop pool (a rarity in the city!)
- Neighborhood: International District
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Montreal has long awaited the completion of the Humaniti project, but the result was worth it: This striking new Marriott Autograph Collection hotel is in a mixed-use building with commercial and residential space, along with the largest patio in the city with one the very few outdoor hotel pools in Montreal. Humaniti also features a restaurant that holds one of the largest wine cellars in town and rooms that showcase floor-to-ceiling windows and local art, all located on the outskirts of the busy Palais des congrès, the convention center.
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Montreal
- What to Expect: a très chic and timeless classic
- Neighborhood: Museum District
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Both local and international celebrities gather at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Montreal, whether for Sunday brunch at Maison Boulud Montreal by Daniel Boulud or to celebrate a special occasion. No matter why you’re there, something about this Montreal gem will make you feel important. It is indeed a special place. The Ritz offers European-inspired charm steps away from museums and historic buildings, with some of the largest (and prettiest) hotel rooms in the city. It has maintained a popular afternoon tea service in the Palm Court; recently, it opened a champagne bar in the lobby and an appealing courtyard where you will find a duck pond and world-class service—it is the Ritz, after all. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/best-hotels-in-montreal | 2022-08-12T23:35:53Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/best-hotels-in-montreal | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
St. Charles Health System accidentally overpaid thousands of employees a total of $2 million across a few months and is now demanding employees pay that money back, according to a hospital spokesperson.
Employees were notified Thursday of the total amounts they allegedly owed. Scott Palmer of the Oregon Nurses Association said the amounts range from less than $100 to as much as $3,000 for some employees.
St. Charles leadership said in a written statement that the average amount owed is $780, and that many employees have already signed forms agreeing they will repay the money.
At least 2,000 employees owe some money to St. Charles, emails obtained by OPB show.
The problems started last November when hackers launched a ransomware attack on Ultimate Kronos Group, a technology company that runs St. Charles’ payroll system. The attacks left many businesses across the U.S. who use the system reeling and unable to access payroll records.
From late November until January, the hospital paid employees based on hours they reported during that time, a spokesperson said.
Emails obtained by OPB show hospital leadership gave affected employees a series of options to pay back the money: in one lump payment, a series of installments or deductions from an employee’s accrued time off.
Palmer said the nurses association plans to issue a cease and desist letter to St. Charles on Friday afternoon, demanding it stop sending letters to employees seeking repayment. He said in one case, a nurse was notified with a sticky note the amount of money they allegedly owed.
“This is just yet another way in which nurses and frontline health care providers and staff are being burdened,” Palmer said.
He said members of ONA have received little evidence that the hospital system overpaid employees.
“(St. Charles is) just asserting that this money is owed with no documented support, at least none that we can tell from our members,” he said. “(The ONA members are not) getting any sort of detailed rationale about why they should pay this money back.”
St. Charles representatives declined requests for an interview. In a provided statement, spokesperson Lisa Goodman wrote that employees were told ahead of time that overpayments would likely have to be collected.
“While we recognize this is an inconvenience for our employees, we’ve communicated from the beginning that this is a step we’d eventually need to take,” Goodman wrote.
She also wrote that St. Charles has spent the past several months paying back employees whom the hospital underpaid as a result of the hack, which forced the hospital to enter in payroll information for months afterward.
Palmer said St. Charles did not notify specific employees that they would owe money until Wednesday, months after the payroll issues at St. Charles had been addressed.
One employee sent an email to OPB from St. Charles in March briefly explaining how overpayments would be collected from workers.
It’s the latest setback in a year of unprecedented financial difficulty for St. Charles. As of July, the health system had lost a total of $40 million in 2022 and laid off more than 100 employees in May.
It also laid off two executives in July, which hospital officials said was done as a cost-cutting measure.
As with many other hospitals in Oregon, St. Charles has had difficulty handling a surge in patients while being severely short-staffed, especially among its registered nurses and certified nursing assistants. Executives have said it’s been difficult to fill vacant positions.
The hospital quietly declared crisis standards of care in July to address the shortage. It reversed the decision after the Oregon Health Authority said it didn’t meet the criteria to do so.
St. Charles Health System is the only hospital system in Central Oregon and is the region’s largest employer.
This story is developing and will be updated.
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We regularly answer frequently asked questions about life during the coronavirus crisis. If you have a question you'd like us to consider for a future post, email us at goatsandsoda@npr.org with the subject line: "Weekly Coronavirus Questions." See an archive of our FAQs here.
So you had dinner – indoors – with a friend and the next day got a call from your dining companion: "I hate to tell you – but I'm now testing positive for COVID." Uh oh, did you catch it from your friend?
Or you wake up in the middle of the night with a scratchy throat, a cough and a feeling that your head is going to float off your neck. Could it be COVID?
In both these scenarios, the question about whether or not you have COVID can be answered by a self-test or a PCR test. Many people opt for the self-test option since you can now easily pick up self-tests and get an answer in 15 minutes in the comfort of your home.
But if you take an at-home test and it's negative ... are you really in the clear?
That's a question the CDC and the FDA are addressing in guidance issued yesterday on COVID protocols. And there's a little bit of confusion.
The CDC says that if you were exposed to COVID or are sick with COVID to wear a mask and test 5 days later. If that test is negative, the CDC thinks you're good to go: "you can end your isolation."
The FDA, however, now says that one negative test isn't enough. Here's what the FDA advised in a "safety communication" released on August 11: If you have symptoms, you should take another test 48 hours later. If you don't have symptoms, you should take three tests, each 48 hours apart. Only if all those tests are negative should you consider yourself to be COVID-free.
And the FDA isn't the only one to think repeat testing is the way to go. Infectious disease experts agree that the only way to be sure you don't have COVID after a negative home test, is to test again – either with another home test or a more sensitive PCR.
Okay... so why am I being asked to redo my home tests if they're negative?
We get it, repeat testing isn't the most convenient thing. The problem is that those home tests aren't especially sensitive at the beginning of a COVID infection.
"There is a recognition that [at-home rapid antigen tests] are less sensitive than PCR tests," says Dr. Apurv Soni, professor at the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine. "But it's not that they don't work, it's just that we need a better understanding of what an effective testing regimen should be."
The FDA made its recommendations based on a yearlong study it did in collaboration with the NIH and University of Massachusetts School of Medicine that was released preprint on medRxiv on August 6.
That study showed that if you take a home test on the day you get a COVID infection, there's a good chance it's going to come back negative – meaning you could be infectious but a home test won't yet show it.
"The data very convincingly show" that if you take another test or two, you can be pretty sure if you have COVID or not, says Soni, who was the lead author on that paper.
Soni says, "If you are concerned about having an infection and you have symptoms, you should take two tests 48 hours apart. If you do not have symptoms, you should take three tests, one every 48 hours. That's it."
So why aren't home tests great at picking up COVID infections? I thought that's what they were supposed to do.
Okay, so now that we know officially know that a single at-home rapid test isn't particularly great at detecting an early case of COVID, the question is: Why not?
Scientists estimate that 95% of the U.S. population has some amount of immunity to COVID due to vaccination or previous infection.
"We're more immune to the virus than we were in 2020," says Soni. "So the way your body reacts to the virus is different than it was in 2020. Antigen tests [home tests] are really good at detecting infection when the viral load is above a certain threshold." But because of the various degrees of immunity most people now have, "the rate at which the viral load increases in your body is slower."
After another few days though, the amount of virus in your body will probably be high enough to be picked up by a home test.
Does the FDA recommendation to repeat test have anything to do with omicron or the new subvariants?
The good news is that it doesn't seem like omicron is having any effect on the sensitivity of the tests. "The currently known variants do not affect the result of the rapid test," says Meriem Bekliz, postdoctoral researcher in emerging viruses at the University of Geneva.
Bekliz is the lead author on a paper published on August 8 in Microbiology Spectrum showing that there's not a difference in how a home test picks up the delta variant and the first subvariant of omicron, BA.1.
But what about the new BA.4 and BA.5 variants? New research shows that those variants are particularly adept at evading your immune system, but are they just as good at evading detection from your at-home rapid tests?
"The rapid home antigen-based tests can detect [all the] omicron subvariants," says Dr. Preeti Malani, professor of medicine at the University of Michigan. "The home tests do not rely on the spike protein, which is where the mutations occur in variants."
The spike protein is what our immune system looks for to identify and neutralize COVID. It's what many of the vaccines are based on. And its why changes in the spike protein have allowed new variants of COVID to somewhat evade detection by our vaccine-primed immune systems.
The home rapid antigen tests detect a different protein, the nucleocapsid. And all of the omicron subvariants have the same version of the nucleocapsid. What does that mean? "Theoretically, there should be no difference in detection sensitivity between omicron BA.1 and its sub-variants [including BA.4/BA.5]," Bekliz says.
What if after two tests 48 hours apart, I'm still sick and still testing negative?
So yeah, maybe you just don't have COVID. "There may be an alternative virus or even a bacterial infection like strep throat, causing illness and not COVID," says Malani.
Still, two negative tests 48 hours apart isn't 100% definitive. "Besides repeating the home test, you can also consider testing with PCR," Malani says.
PCR tests are more sensitive to lower viral loads than the at-home rapid antigen tests. So if you take a PCR test while sick and it comes back negative, then you can be fairly comfortable knowing it's not COVID.
However, just because you don't have COVID doesn't mean you are OK to head into the office. "If you are ill, whether due to COVID or some other virus, you should stay away from others," says Malani.
So does this really mean if I have dinner with a friend who then tells me they have COVID that I need to test three times over six days?
This is where things get a bit tricky. Even Soni admits that testing for that long, "is a little impractical." But he also says: "If you do repeat a test [ahead of whatever social event you want to go to] that gives you the highest confidence that you're not infected and therefore not passing infection on to others."
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention said on Friday that several of the denomination's major entities are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The SBC's statement gave few details about the investigation, but indicated it dealt with sexual abuse. The SBC, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., has been plagued by problems related to clergy sex abuse in recent years.
"Individually and collectively each SBC entity is resolved to fully and completely cooperate with the investigation," the statement said. "While we continue to grieve and lament past mistakes related to sexual abuse, current leaders across the SBC have demonstrated a firm conviction to address those issues of the past and are implementing measures to ensure they are never repeated in the future."
Earlier this year, an SBC task force released a blistering 288-page report from outside consultant, Guidepost Solutions. The firm's seven-month independent investigation found disturbing details about how denominational leaders mishandled sex abuse claims and mistreated victims.
There was no immediate comment from the Justice Department about the investigation.
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One of the area’s biggest charitable hubs, the United Way of Otter Tail and Wandena Counties (UWOTW), has announced a new executive director, following the planned departure of its current leadership.
Summer Hammond of New York Mills will assume the role of executive director on Sep. 1. Hammond takes the place of Jacklin Steege, who has resigned the position.
Hammond has most recently served as the Perham and Wadena Area Coordinator for the United Way and will work from the Fergus Falls office two days per week and according to a press release, will also have office time in Perham.
Hammond is a Barnesville High School graduate and earned her Associates Degree in Administration at M State-Moorhead. Her background is in nonprofit work. She has worked with the Homebuilders Care Foundation, Sanford Health Foundation and the NDSU Foundation as well. She joined the United Way of Otter Tail and Wadena Counties team in Sep. 2020.
Despite the change in leadership, Hammond emphasized the incredible difference UWOTW is making in people’s everyday lives.
“Our goals are still the same. Assisting educational, financial stability and community growth,” said Hammond.
Hammond said personally she would like to keep working on educating the communities UWOTW serves and what United Way is and what they do.
“We help a number of programs throughout Otter Tail and Wadena Counties and pushing the education component, gathering more awareness on our programming and what we do and just continue to help as many people as possible.”
The organization states that the fall fundraising campaign is the immediate focus for both the staff and UWOTW board of directors, as well as the new executive director who has already hit the ground running.
“Summer‘s passion for people and for the services provided by the United Way will help grow the United Way’s impact throughout our two counties,“ according to UWOTW board president, Carolyn Glesne.
United Way of Otter Tail and Wadena counties is served by an 18-member board who represent all areas of the two counties.
For more information on the upcoming fall campaign or other services that UWOTW facilitates visit uwotw.org or call 218-736-5147
Hammond and her husband Eric and their two children, Heath and Bailey, reside in New York Mills.
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Magdalene Wallgren
1929-2022
Memorial Mass will be held for Magdalene “Mag” Wallgren, age 92 of Perham, Minnesota on Friday, August 26, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. at St. Henry’s Catholic Church in Perham with Fr. George Michael officiating. Urnbearers will be Mag’s grandchildren. Honorary Urnbearers will be Mag’s great-grandchildren. Visitation will be held one hour prior to Mass at church. Mag will be laid to rest at St. John the Baptist Catholic Cemetery, Bluffton, Minnesota.
Magdalene Katherine (Langer) Wallgren was born August 25, 1929, in Dazey, North Dakota to Paul and Katherine (Kunze) Langer. When Maggie was in 2nd grade the family moved from Dazey to Bluffton, Minnesota where she attended St. John’s Parochial school, attended one year of high school in New York Mills and graduated from Wadena High School with the class of 1947. She worked as a bookkeeper at the Bluffton Creamery and later in the business office at the Fergus Falls Medical Group until she retired. On July 27, 1948, she married Ervin Leslie Wallgren at St. John’s in Bluffton. Together they raised nine children during their 36 years of marriage. In 1985 she moved to Fergus Falls with her daughter Becky. In 2013 Mag made her home in Perham and in 2019 she became a resident of Perham Living.
Mag’s faith was very important to her and sharing that faith was evident over her lifetime as she volunteered at each parish she was a member of. She sang in the choir, taught Religious Education, crocheted prayer shawls, and helped in the office. She liked to attend church events and would often enlist others she was with to grab a few extra cookies or bars for her to take home.
Mag’s love for her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren was unconditional and they came first in her life above all things. She was an avid reader and passed on that love to her children and grandchildren. A quote she loved was: “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” (Emilie Buchwald). Mag could be found daily reading a good murder mystery.
Another love for Mag was traveling with friends and family. Throughout the years she traveled to 23 states and 11 countries. She was always happy to share the stories, pictures, and memories from her trips.
She loved listening to piano music while she worked on her crocheting, carefully stitching the 79 prayer shawls for those in need of comfort as well as countless afghans made for those she loved.
She enjoyed watching the Minnesota Twins and Timberwolves and marveled at the moves of the amazing athletes. She could be found laughing at Andy Griffith and the Golden Girls and often quoted Sophia’s “picture this” punchline. Her favorite show was Jeopardy and family knew never to call her or stop by between 5 and 5:30!
Mag was kind, funny, and quick witted. She had a special knack for telling a joke or sharing a funny story or limerick, and long after her retirement, former coworkers continued to tell of the hilarious anecdotes she had shared during break times. She valued and treasured all the friendships she made throughout her life and along the way. She went to daily coffee at Callie’s Coffee Shop in Fergus Falls where birthdays and special events were celebrated with coffee, scones, laughter and smiles. She made every effort to visit and keep in touch with her friends even after she moved.
On August 7, 2022, Mag passed away at Perham Living at 92 years of age. She will be greeted in Heaven by her parents, Ervin, granddaughter, Monique, siblings: Agnes, Emma, Frances, Eleanor, John, Marion, Rosella, and Ray.
She will be greatly missed by 5 daughters: Karen (Gerry) Muckala; Connie (Clyde) Dalton; Laurie (Alan) Krueger; Paula (Mike Maurer) Pulju; Becky Robertson: 4 sons: Jeff (Barb) Wallgren; Tom (Kris) Wallgren; Scott Wallgren; Pat Wallgren; 18 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; many other relatives and a host of friends.
Please visit www.karvonenfuneralhome.com to leave memorials and condolences on Mag’s Tribute Wall.
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I tend to find myself smiling and nodding when I hear non-sports families or new-to-sports families talk about how "it's that time of year," meaning, sports are about to start.
While they are absolutely correct, the school year is soon upon us, as are fall sports, it is far from true for my family!
We have sports 12 months out of the year. Last year, we had cross country and youth football in the fall. Football overlapped with the start of hockey, which is a 6-month commitment in itself and ended in March (April if you count my husband's hockey tournaments). Track season start in April. Soccer began in May and ended in July, but baseball started in June and ended in August ... and we had four summer hockey tournament scattered from May through August and optional cross country has been running through the summer months as well. Now we are in August and we are back to square one, though we are replacing football with futbol (soccer) this time around!
Three boys in my family participate in sports ... and my husband isn't about to put down his hockey stick anytime in the near future, so we might as well say we have four athletes in the house.
Is it chaotic? Yes. Is it exhausting? Yes. Do I feel like I'm running constantly? Yes. Would I change it? No — not a chance!
Our kids are learning about work ethic, teamwork, attitude, self-advocacy and so much more! They are learning that committing to a team is committing yourself to be actively present and put in the work required at practice, when no one is looking, because it only helps them improve for the things people are there to see — the games. Most importantly, they are learning how the work they put in pays off and is rewarding on a personal level, not just when looking at wins and losses.
Each year and each sports season passes with greater speed. As a parent, watching the kids grow both athletically and personally, as a result, is extremely fulfilling. Most parents would agree.
While I do find myself complaining about sports from time to time — especially following extremely chaotic moments when I'm trying to do more than I physically am capable of (because I do that), I am quick to put myself back into check.
As a sports parent, I don't go without personal fulfillment due to the kids' activities. I find that I make new friends each year in other parents. I find that the new growth and conflict that the kids are facing due to sports helps me to grow as a parent as well. I have become more selfless, patient and understanding of people in general — kids and adults alike. I have found valuable teaching moments and real-life, relatable examples to discuss with the kids that make all of our lives easier as a result.
Sports aren't just activities to fill the kids' time. Sports aren't just something to teach kids how to be good winners and good losers. Sports are full of valuable lessons for the kids, the parents and the spectators. Sports, especially at the high school and younger age ranges, are about exactly what you make of them — so I will choose to make them about positivity and development. | https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/opinion/oh-your-kids-play-sports/article_becc9102-19b5-11ed-81f8-0bcb7214c059.html | 2022-08-12T23:41:07Z | fergusfallsjournal.com | control | https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/opinion/oh-your-kids-play-sports/article_becc9102-19b5-11ed-81f8-0bcb7214c059.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
2022 Fergus Falls Hurricanes. Front row, from left to right, Owen Krueger, Arik Heacox, Carter Thielke, Austin Stanislawski and Alex Hexum. Back row, from left to right, Thomas Bosek, Darin Stanislawksi, Tosten Mann, Sean McGuire, Alex Hensch and Dave Johnson. Not pictured: Dan Revering.
The Fergus Falls Hurricanes amatuer baseball team is no stranger to success. This year will mark their seventh straight trip to the state tournament, 10 in the last 11 years and 24th overall appearance.
They have the advantage going into the weekend, as they have not lost yet in the region tournament. Alexandria and Urbank begin the weekend with an elimination game on Aug. 11. The winner of that game will then face Sauk Centre, on Aug 12., in another elimination game, with the winner moving on to face Fergus.
Last season, the final three teams were Alex, Fergus and Urbank. Alex defeated the Canes in the championship game, 20-11.
Seeding purposes for state are on the line, as the championship game is slated for 4 p.m., on Aug. 13, in Kensington.
The 2022 MBA Class C State Tournament begins on Aug. 19.
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7-Day Weather Forecast for Clarion County
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Today – Sunny, with a high near 78. Light north wind increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
Tonight – Mostly clear, with a low around 48. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Saturday – Mostly sunny, with a high near 78. Calm wind.
Saturday Night – Mostly cloudy, with a low around 54. Calm wind.
Sunday – Scattered showers after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 75. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Sunday Night – Scattered showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 57. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Monday – Scattered showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 74. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Monday Night – Scattered showers and thunderstorms before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 57. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Tuesday – Scattered showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 74. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Tuesday Night – Scattered showers and thunderstorms before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 55. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Wednesday – Scattered showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 74. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
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Thursday – Scattered showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 77. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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Donna Lou Radaker
DONNA LOU RADAKER, 82, of Parker (Callensburg), PA, passed away peacefully at her home on Wednesday, August 10, 2022, due to complications from leukemia.
Born in Rose Township, Jefferson Co., PA on August 22, 1939, she was daughter of the late Arthur L. and Annabelle Ray Johns.
She lived most of her life in the Callensburg and Licking Twp. area.
A graduate of Keystone High School, she was a graduate Registered Nurse from the former Butler Hospital School of Nursing.
Later, she earned her BS in Nursing from Clarion State College, and then worked as School Nurse in the Keystone School District from the mid-1960s’ to retirement in 1995.
Donna was a member of the Callensburg United Methodist Church.
She not only was a dedicated nurse, but was was an enthusiast of all flowers, loved the holidays, and giving gifts, was a noted collector of pitchers and angels.
On December 11, 1959, she married Herbert Radaker who preceded her in death in November of 2018.
Together, they had one son, Jeffrey, who survives.
Also surviving are a sister Cheryl Fox of Sarasota, FL, and a sister-in-law Shirley Radaker of Palm Desert, CA, and an aunt Brenda Armstrong of Brookville; also surviving are nieces, nephews, great to great-great nieces and nephews, and cousins.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded by her parents, parents-in-law, brother Charles Johns, infant sister Lorena Mae, two sisters-in-law, and three brothers-in-law.
She is already and will be greatly missed.
A unique visitation will be held from 1:00 to 1:30 PM at the Callensburg Cemetery on Sunday (08-14-22) with the Tolling of Bells and Celebration of Life Service at 1:30 PM.
She will then be laid to rest with her husband at the cemetery.
To view/send condolences and sympathy cards, visit www.buzardfuneralhomes.com
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Featured Local Job: Police Officers
Friday, August 12, 2022 @ 07:08 AM
The Emlenton Borough is hiring new and experienced police officers for an expanding, rural police department.
Positions Available:
- Full-Time Chief
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Seeking applicants with strong community policing skills suited for small-town/rural police work. Competitive wages, benefits, flexible scheduling.
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Application available online at https://emlentonpaborough.com or call 724-867-8611.
Mail application and resume to:
Emlenton Borough
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Emlenton, PA 16373
Applications due by Aug 29, 2022.
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FOOTBALL PREVIEW: Punxsutawney Hopeful Experience Will Help Chucks Finish Off Games and Turn Fortunes Around
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (EYT/D9) — There’s one word being spoken a lot around the Punxsutawney football team these days: “Finish.”
(Above, from left: Justin Miller, Quinton Voelkel, Landon Peterson and head coach Alan Nichol)
That was something the Chucks didn’t do last season during a disappointing 2-7 campaign.
There’s another popular word in Punxsy: “Experience.”
The Chucks have it with 10 starters returning on defense and seven on offense. They are hoping that will help them finish and lead to another word that hasn’t been uttered frequently around the program over the years.
“Playoffs.”
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“I think we are (very excited to see if we can take the next step),” said Punxsutawney coach Alan Nichol. “We have a lot of guys who have experience and we played some teams really tough. We need to learn how to finish. I think that’s a product of experience and being a year older and playing together another year.”
Punxsutawney hasn’t made the playoffs since 2017 and hasn’t enjoyed a winning season since 2014.
The Chucks are hoping this year will end both of those droughts while playing in the revamped District 9.
No more Small and Big School divisions. Now there are three regions and Punxsy finds itself in Region 1 with the likes of Bradford, DuBois, St. Marys, Karns City, Moniteau, Brookville, and Central Clarion.
There’s talent there on both sides of the ball to potentially crack the upper echelon of that new region.
On offense, it will start up front with four of the five linemen returning. They should serve up plenty of holes for senior running back Zeke Bennett to slither throuygh.
Last year, Bennett was a bright spot. He piled up 986 yards and 10 touchdowns on the ground and will be a major weapon again.
The top three leading tacklers are back on defense in juniors Landon Martz (73) and Mason Nesbitt (69) and senior Justin Miller (68), who also had 8½ tackles for a loss out of his strong safety position.
Nichol, though, doesn’t want to put so much of the offensive onus on the shoulders of Bennett, even though the 5-foot-7, 170-pound back proved last year he could carry the load despite his smaller size.
“Bennett averaged 110 yards per game rushing the ball last year, but we’ve got a whole room full of good running backs,” Nichol said. “I think taking the pressure off one guy and making them defend the whole field is going to play out well for us on offense.”
Senior wide receiver Landon Peterson will also see more passes thrown his way this season.
He feels something different this year as opposed to last season, an overwhelming sense of confidence that Punxsutawney is going to turn things around — and turn some heads in the process.
“You could really see it — we were knocking on the door,” Peterson said. “Really, that carried over into the offseason. You could really get the feeling we were ready to take the next step and be a winning football program.
“We know we’re physically capable (of winning games),” Peterson added. “It’s just about mentally focusing on getting there.”
Here comes that word “finish” again.
The second half was not kind to Punxsutawney last season.
“We gotta play the whole game,” said senior offensive and defensive lineman Quinton Voelkel. “Most times we go into halftime may be up by a touchdown and they score an opening-drive touchdown (to start the second half) and we think it’s over because they tied it up, and they’re just going to go ahead now. We don’t feel we can do it. We have to get over the hump of not believing.”
“A lot of games last year we’d start off well in the first half,” Miller added, “then, we’d come out in the second half and lay a goose egg.”
Turning that around is easier said than done.
It may just take that one signature win to do it.
“First of all, that’s just a matter of the way we approach every day and focus on getting better every day,” Nichol said. “Then, when we get into the game, understand that there’s gonna be ups and downs. Good things and bad things are gonna happen and just to worry about the next play. That’s something we’ve been preaching.”
Here comes that word “experience” again.
Nichol hopes that will be the magic elixir to help that mental process along.
“I think that’s going to lead to more confidence,” Nichol said. “That’s going to lead to an ability to play 48 minutes of good, solid football and see what happens.”
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Fundraiser Organized for Family of Former Franklin Native & Her Husband Killed in Car Crash
ANGOLA, Indiana (EYT) – A GoFundMe fundraiser has been organized for the family of a former Franklin native and her husband who were killed in an August 5th car crash.
The accident happened around 4:00 p.m. on Friday, August 5, on State Route 120, a mile east of Orland, Indiana.
A Volkswagen occupied by 33-year-old Breanna Jeanne Bright, of Freemont, Indiana, and a former Franklin resident, was hit nearly head-on by a Nissan pickup. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Breanna’s husband–43-year-old Lonnie Lee Bright–was driving the Volkswagen; he was airlifted to a local hospital and succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday, August 10.
The couple’s children–five-year-old Journey Louise Bright and three-month-old Granger Lee Bright–were occupants of the vehicle.
Journey was airlifted to a local hospital where she remains in a coma and in critical condition.
Granger was treated at a local hospital and taken in by loving family members.
The family is asking for help with funeral expenses and medical costs as there will be a long road of recovery that Journey will have to endure.
To donate to the Bright family, please visit gofundme.com.
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Helen Josephine Beach
Helen Josephine Beach, 103, of Franklin passed away on August 10, 2022, at Oil City Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center surrounded by her family.
She was born November 27, 1918, in Greenwood, PA, the daughter of Hiram Edison and Edna Viola (Painter) Irwin.
Jo was married to Chester B. Beach on August 28, 1939.
He preceded her in death in 2002 leaving a void in her heart and life.
She was employed by Franklin Area School District as Cafeteria Manager at 7th Street Elementary School for many years before retiring.
Jo was a woman of great faith.
She enjoyed being a very active in the First Baptist Church and was the oldest and longest standing member of the church.
She enjoyed traveling with her husband, painting, drawing, and solving crossword puzzles.
Jo made the staff residents at Oil City Health Care and Rehab Center her second family for the last few years.
They enjoyed her sense of humor and quick wit.
Left to cherish her wonderful memory are her daughters, Carol DeLong of Oil City and Penny Valeski and her husband, Dr. J. Edward, of Tucson, AZ; her grandchildren, Brett DeLong and his wife, Kay of Oil City, Jennifer Lamm and her husband, Dr. Frank of Billings, Montana, and Jill Valeski of Portland, Oregon; and her 10 great grandchildren, Jessica, Chett, Andrew, Kaylee, Ella, Lydia, Amara, Caleb, Isaak, and Siobhan.
In addition to her parents and husband, Jo is preceded in death by her sisters, Lilly May and Hepsibah Eloise; and her son-in-law, Embert DeLong; and her grandson, Andrew C. DeLong.
A funeral service for Jo will be held at First Baptist Church, 1041 Liberty Street, Franklin on Saturday, August 13, 2022 at 11 am with Rev. Randy Powell, pastor of First Baptist Church, officiating.
Jo will be laid to rest next to her husband in Graham Cemetery in Franklin, PA.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made in Jo’s memory to Oil City Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center,1293 Grandview Rd, Oil City, PA 16301.
Please take a moment to share a memory or condolence with the family on Jo’s Book of Memories at www.WarrenFH.com.
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Judith M. Scott
JUDITH M. “Judy” SCOTT, 63, of Eldorado, Parker, Pa. and Clarview Nursing and Rehab. Center, Sligo passed away Wednesday evening (08-10-2022) at Clarion Hospital following a series of health complications.
She was born in Chicago, IL. on January 28, 1959, to Ethel Horneman Scott who survives.
Judy had attended Bruin Elementary School, Clarence Brown School in Butler, and learned under direction of the Nuns’ of Greensburg.
Surviving in addition to her mother Ethel, is one brother and wife Michael and Jane Scott of Scottsdale, Pa. Also surviving are cousins Nancy and Willis Scott and Raymond and Maryann Slack, and a host pf valued friends.
Visitation will be from 4:00 to 7:00 PM Monday (08-15-22) at H. Jack Buzard Funeral Home, 201 So. Wayne Ave., Parker where a
Blessing Service will be held at 7:00 PM.
The Very Reverend “Steve” Conner of a New Jersey Parish will be celebrant.
Interment will follow Tuesday morning at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Ford Cliff near Ford City, Pa.
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Louella Jean Exley Moore
Louella Jean Exley Moore, 91, of Knox, passed away on Wednesday, August 10, 2022 at the Shippenville Healthcare and Rehab Center.
Born May 29, 1931, in Beaver Township, Jean was the daughter of the late Albert and Freeda Exley.
On November 14, 1954, Jean married Doctor Frank B. Moore who preceded her in death on December 9, 2006.
Jean traveled the world extensively with her husband Frank in his career as a Navy Lieutenant.
They spent time in Ireland, Greenland, Egypt, and she spoke fondly of their time one the Riviera and in Japan.
Jean traveled alone across Africa by train to meet up with her husband and enjoyed every minute of it.
She was very private, proud and independent individual who loved animals and had a great sense of humor.
Jean was preceded in death by her husband and parents.
She was the last remaining of her immediate family.
A celebration of life will be held for Jean from 1 to 4 PM on Sunday, August 14, 2022, at the Goliath Hunting Lodge on Sterner Road in Knox.
To view and share photos or leave an online condolence please visit the funeral home’s website at www.mcentire-weaverfuneralhome.com.
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Marie Koch
Marie Koch, 86, of Rimersburg, passed away Wednesday, August 10, 2022, at the ACMH Hospital in Kittanning.
She was born on March 3, 1936, in Perry Township.
She was the daughter of Edward and Irene (Goldinger) Fair.
Marie married Drew Koch on June 24, 1955, and he survives.
She worked at Cooks Market for many years as a clerk and at the Clarview Nursing Home and Rehab Center as a cook.
Marie was a member of the New Athens Church of God of Prophecy for 67 years.
In her spare time, she enjoyed cooking, baking, crossword puzzles, and spending time with her family, especially her grandkids.
Marie loved to bake and was known for her famous cinnamon rolls.
Marie is survived by her husband, Drew Koch of Rimersburg; a son, Colin Koch of Rimersburg; a daughter, Amber Aukerman of Ohio; five grandchildren, Michael Aukerman and his wife Jenna, Nick Aukerman and his wife Lacey, Ashley Aukerman, Brad Koch and his wife Gina and Bethany Agostinelli and her husband Joe, seven great-grandchildren and also a sister; Maybell Smith of Rimersburg.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two brothers, one sister, and a son in law, Michael Aukerman.
Marie’s family will receive friends on Saturday August 13, 2022, from 11 AM to 1 PM at the Varner Funeral Home in Rimersburg.
Funeral services will be held at the funeral home beginning at 1 PM with the Pastor Dale Gallo, officiating.
Interment will follow in the Cedarview Memorial Park.
The family suggests memorials be made to the New Athens Church of God of Prophecy, 24 Traister Road, Rimersburg, PA. 16248.
Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.varnerfuneralhome.com.
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