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PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. — A Wendy's employee faces second-degree murder charges after allegedly punching a customer in Arizona last month.
On July 26, police were called to the restaurant on Glassford Hill Road for an injured person.
A customer complained about his food order, which led employee Antoine Kendrick to come out from behind the counter and hit the 67-year-old customer in the head, according to the Prescott Valley Police Department.
The customer then fell to the floor, hit his head, and lost consciousness. He was later flown to a Phoenix-area hospital, where he died on Aug. 5.
Kendrick was arrested and initially charged with aggravated assault.
Those charges were later upgraded to second-degree murder, police said.
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A new Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) scheme could make it simpler for millions to access cheaper broadband. Stats show that just 1.2 per cent of eligible parties have taken up cut-price packages, with the hassle of proving benefits are being claimed among the reasons.
But a new scheme will allow internet service providers (ISPs) to do all the groundwork. The Express reports that from August 22, the only thing a UK broadband consumer will have to do is tell their ISP that they wish to be considered for a reduced-price plan, with the provider then verifying whether or not the customer is in receipt of a suitable benefit.
The customers will no longer be the ones who have to provide the evidence. Significant savings can be found from providers including BT, Sky and Virgin Media - who offer plans from as little as £15 per month. This is far cheaper than the standard tariffs, which usually start in the ball park of £25 per month.
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Digital Secretary Nadine Dorries, said: "Social tariffs are vital for families struggling with bills, keeping them connected even in tough times. Our discussion with broadband companies led to the range of social tariffs on the market today and we've secured a raft of new cost-of-living commitments from them to ensure help is available for anyone that needs it.
"I urge anyone concerned about falling behind on payments to contact their supplier to see what support is available."
Here's what you could be paying if you are eligible:
BT Home Essentials • £15 a month - 36Mbps speeds
Virgin Media Essentials • £15 a month - 15Mbps speeds
Sky Basics • £20 a month - 36Mbps speeds
NOW Basics • £20 a month - 36Mbps speeds
Hyperoptic Fair Fibre • £15 a month - 50Mbps speeds
The new system will verify entitlement for Universal Credit, Pension Credit, Income Support, Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance and Income-related Employment Support Allowance.
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In April, rookie offensive lineman Spencer Burford was waiting to hear his name called on the third day of the NFL draft following an illustrious career at The University of Texas San Antonio. Instead, a few months later, Burford now finds himself entrenched as the starting right guard for a team that boasts one of the most talented rosters in the entire NFL.
To get more clarity on what made Burford so prepared to make this monumental leap in such a short time, I reached out to someone who has worked extensively with Burford leading up to his arrival in the Bay Area.
I spoke with coach Matt Mattox, who is currently the co-offensive coordinator/offensive line coach at the University of Texas San Antonio. Coach Mattox spent the last two seasons working extensively with Burford. He shared valuable insight into what makes Burford such an extraordinary athlete and why his rapid ascent should not surprise anybody.
Coach Mattox joined the staff at UTSA in December of 2019, getting his first chance to work with Burford during the offseason before his junior year. I started by asking coach Mattox what his first impressions of Burford were.
Number one, I had heard his name as a guy who had started on the east side of town here in San Antonio, he went to Wagner High. Amazingly athletic, a talented kid, I knew that coming in, we had guys on the staff that had been GA’s and stuff. When I met him, quiet kid, you could tell he was a sweet kid from the very beginning. That was kind of my first impressions coming into this from that position.
I knew watching film, obviously he played in the guard position in the season before and that situation. I knew what we were transitioning to that year, and offensive style what we were going to do. We wanted to move him out to be a tackle for us.
During his sophomore season, Burford started 11 games at the left guard spot. In his junior year, the first under coach Mattox, Burford saw action at right tackle for the first two games before moving to left tackle for the remainder of the season.
This is a noteworthy chapter of Burford’s story, given that he is now playing guard for the 49ers after making a move to tackle for the entirety of his last two seasons at UTSA.
To get more transparency behind the move, I asked coach Mattox what propelled the decision to have Burford change positions.
For us, some of it was a little bit of need. The guys that maybe were at tackle at the time couldn’t handle some of the athleticism things we needed them to do. Whether it was pass pro, our run schemes, our screen game. And Spencer was obviously unbelievable at that. Our defense was all heavy three down structure, and with him playing tackle, and us running our wide zone, and us running our GT counter, and us doing that type of stuff.
Him being able to handle 4i’s on his own, it made really good sense for the things we were going to have him do, and he could do, and he was obviously very talented in being able to adjust out to that position. He had unbelievably long arms, so he has the range and some things to do. And we kind of new he’d be a tweener potentially for the next level, but I think the best thing was him being able to show that he was that freak of an athlete. He can set on an edge and do that stuff too, and that showcased his skills to be able to move back into that guard position as well.
Burford not only seamlessly made the transition to the outside, he absolutely dominated in his new role. In his first two seasons, Burford logged 1,344 snaps on the offensive line, with only 50 coming at tackle. In his final two seasons, Burford logged 1,322 snaps, all of which came at the tackle position. Of those 1,322 snaps at tackle, 652 were in pass protection. Burford only allowed five sacks across those 652 snaps in pass pro.
I did think it was interesting that Coach Mattox noted that he had a good sense that Burford would profile as a tweener by teams at the NFL level. As someone who worked closely with Burford for years and helped facilitate his move to the outside, I was curious to hear what he thought the best spot for Burford would be at the NFL level to maximize his skillset both now fully and in the long term.
You know I could see him staying in there (at guard), especially like you said being such a great fit, obviously that’s why they drafted him to be where he’s at now. But I mean I also could easily see him being maybe that guy that can be a swing guy at tackle too if you need it.
And I think what that just is going to allow him to do is just have more and more opportunities to make rosters, to maximize the years of maybe the right tackle goes out, left tackle pops out, well Spencer is that guy that I do think. I heard feedback from multiple NFL teams, some had him at tackle, some had him at tweener, some had him at guard. So I think that this gives him the best opportunity to continue staying on the field, and it should make him even more valuable.
I was interested to hear more about the feedback on Burford that coach Mattox received from NFL teams. In addition, I was curious to know what in particular stood out about the NFL teams who reached out to coach Mattox to inquire about Burford.
Yeah, you know a lot of the people, and more so than anything a lot of wide zone in the NFL obviously, but the thing that I heard from people was his plays of him being in a poor angle, poor position right, you know defenses out leverage him to the play side. His ability to still be able to win those blocks, whether it was backside cut off on a backer, back side on a 4i or a 3technique, his ability and his athleticism to win blocks, even when he was at a disadvantage, was something that I think really started opening up people’s eyes when they started getting in on his game tape.
We pull a lot on GT, they got to see his athleticism, and not only did he pull, I mean he was knocking people over, and doing things like that while he was running. To see a big 300 pounder run like that, and as athletic as he was, I think that obviously helps with him. His plays where he was at a disadvantage, and his ability to still find a way to win kind of really gave him that next opportunity.
There were a couple of things that coach Mattox mentioned that we saw unfold in real-time during Burford’s NFL debut against the Green Bay Packers. The first was the ability to knock people over while pulling.
Another Spencer Burford rep from last night that really impressed me
— Jordan Elliott (@JLeeElliott) August 13, 2022
Burford shows off his agility while pulling to the strong side, and his exceptional power is on full display as he finishes off this block with authority pic.twitter.com/JR6Kw5GCbT
The other was a rep where I was very impressed with Burford’s ability to recover in pass protection while at a disadvantage.
I wrote in my recap, the thing that impressed me most was his ability to recover and salvage reps, extremely impressive for a rookie in their first start
— Jordan Elliott (@JLeeElliott) August 13, 2022
This play is a great example, I’d imagine PFF had this as a pressure, but I wouldn’t count this as a “loss” for Burford pic.twitter.com/mwkojAIOT9
You can see the athleticism and power coach Mattox referenced on both of these reps, even when Burford was in a less than advantageous position.
Another thing I wanted to know was a specific area that coach Mattox thought Burford improved on during his two years working closely with him at UTSA.
We had talks about his body and stuff, one of the big things was just he played at such an early age in college, and one thing as a big guy to do is your bottom half takes time to catch up in certain things in the weight room. He did an amazing job going from his junior year into his last year of adding the weight, getting his core and his body, his lower half especially, stronger and being able to be more powerful at the point of contact. So that was something I saw him take to the next level physically, and then mentally it was just learning how to “hey here’s the game plan”, we had expectations of, these are things we’re doing, boom, and once he started learning how we wanted things, and what we needed, the football part of it was something that came a long on the mental side of it too. So it was awesome to see, just kind of that growth from year one to year two.
Building on our conversation surrounding work ethic and improvement, I spoke with coach Mattox about Burford being one of only two players on the 49ers who took up Trent Williams on his offer to work out together this past offseason. I asked coach to talk a bit about Burford’s work ethic and some of the things he did behind the scenes during his time at UTSA that people might not be aware of.
He has, number one an unbelievable love for his teammates, so he doesn’t want to let his team down, that type of pride. Talk about a guy, one of our culture pillars, we talk about giving perfect effort, and that dude was a million miles an hour. We almost had to like protect himself from him, we had to make sure his reps were, during camp we didn’t get to crazy. So not having to coach effort, and him always showing up, and when you have your best players giving that type of effort, you know it’s just so much easier for a coach to not have to be harping on it. So that’s something that’s awesome and been great, and he was one of those guys that set the tone that way for sure.
As we continued our conversation, I wanted to hear more about coach Mattox’s thoughts about how Burford fits into Kyle Shanahan’s offense. Coach gave examples of how he thinks Burford’s game will translate into Shanahan’s scheme.
His ability number one play side to reach things, and his power and quickness off the ball. I think he’ll be able to jump on guys from the beginning, and then his ability with the backside cut offs and things like that where you can really take those four and five yard runs and get that extra 10-15 yards, I think he has a great ability to help with that in that scheme, and overall just his natural athletic ability.
After touching on that, I pivoted and asked coach Mattox if he remembered a moment where it clicked for him that Burford would make it to the NFL and play on Sundays.
I think it was probably, when I really knew, year one we played up against BYU. This was 2020, our first play of the game he pulled around on GT, and we had bodies hitting the floor all over. And BYU is large humans, they’ve had a lot of NFL guys. When I saw him be able to maintain and sustain and blow up those dudes, I mean obviously we knew he was freaky, but then you’re like “okay, yeah he’s fine.” Then when he progressed from year one to two with the physical and mental part of it, you’re just like “yeah this dude is going to be fine”. He’s just got to keep growing and get better everyday.
One of the areas I will always emphasize in my work is highlighting the human side of the sport of football. These are real people, just like you and me under those helmets and shoulder pads, and I try to do my best to create content that tells the story of the human being as much as it tells the story of the football player.
With Burford taking up a starting role on one of the most prestigious franchises in sports, I wanted to give a glimpse into who he is as a person and help to familiarize 49ers fans with a player who looks poised to be a key piece on the offensive line for years to come.
So, to wrap up my conversation with coach Mattox, I asked him to talk a bit about Burford as a person.
The type of person you’re going to get is a young man that’s got a ton of integrity. He comes from a great family, who’s got a great foundation, and does things the right way. Last to leave at my house every time we had a barbecue, helping my wife clean up, and he’s just a great kid. Football wise you’re going to get a kid who know’s that he’s going to give perfect effort everyday, he’s going to spend his time and surround himself with the people that can help him take himself and the 49ers to the next level. And you’ll also find he has a great personality, he’s funny, he can dance a little bit and all that good stuff, so you’ll get to see once he let’s that personality come out more and more.
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Trey Lance continues to be one of the most interesting stories of the entire NFL season. This week it was Peter King’s turn to chat with the 49ers’ quarterback, and he did so for his Football Morning in America column. The topics King focused on more than any other were Lance’s mechanics and accuracy. Trey had an interesting answer when asked to compare those two things from last year to this year.
“I think I’m in a really good spot. I think I’m honestly pretty similar to where I was a year ago as far as just throwing the ball and getting my body in position. Mentally everything is a lot more clear for me. I’m in a much better spot mentally, so I think that probably smooths a lot of things out as far as my footwork. So some things that might look like mechanics, I think, some of the time has a lot to do with understanding the offense and being able to play fast.”
Lance has stuck with this answer since the offseason began. On multiple occasions, he’s stated that he hasn’t made any major changes to his physical mechanics. He’s also characterized himself as “swimming” a little bit last year when it came to the mental side of the game. This year, he appears to be far more comfortable from that standpoint, which is to be expected.
Later in the column, Kyle Shanahan had an interesting answer when asked if Lance was ready to assume the starting job after so little experience.
“He shouldn’t be. He hasn’t gone through it enough. I believe in him as a man, as a person. I believe in his talent. I don’t think he is going to make or break our season, just like in 2019 and last year; I didn’t think Jimmy was going to make or break our season.
“But what sucks is when you’re learning how to play, and you’re not there yet, how do you not get worse sometimes when that pressure’s on you, and you need to go through the growing pains?”
Shanahan is doing his best to lower the expectations for Lance, but he and the 49ers know the truth. The NFL is designed for the quarterback to make or break a team’s season. As much as they have almost bucked that trend in their deep playoff runs, they acknowledged that truth when they traded three first-round, picks to move up for Jimmy Garoppolo’s replacement. Hopefully, they acquired a quarterback that will make their season instead of breaking it.
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A sex offender has been jailed after repeatedly exposing himself to women in a Kent village. Iskren Ganchev committed three offences against victims in Otford in June this year.
Police say the 35-year-old approached women in areas close to a footpath off Pickmoss Lane, where he would then expose himself and commit indecent acts. During one incident, he beckoned to a woman before grabbing her arm.
Another victim however was able to take a photo of Ganchev as she escaped. An investigation established that during all the offences the suspect appeared to be carrying the same shopping bag.
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Police checked CCTV from a local shop, which carried the same branding, and images of Ganchev were retrieved. He was arrested in Halstead on June 19.
A property where Ganchev was living was searched and officers discovered the clothing and shoes he wore during the offences. During a police interview Ganchev, of no fixed address, accepted he had been present at the locations connected to the allegations but denied any wrongdoing, claiming that on each occasion there had been a misunderstanding.
Ganchev has now been jailed for a year after admitting outraging public decency and two counts of indecent exposure at Medway Magistrates' Court. He was also made subject of a sexual harm prevention order, lasting five years.
Detective Sergeant Alan Poulton, of Kent Police, said: "Ganchev’s disturbing actions will have had a significant and detrimental impact on each of his victims. His appalling behaviour was carried out in an area very close to a school and would have also caused significant alarm and anxiety within the wider community.
"In passing a custodial sentence, the courts have recognised the threat that Ganchev would have continued to pose, and we remain determined that everyone should feel safe to walk the streets whenever they choose to, and will continue to do everything in our power to keep it that way."
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A Tunbridge Wells home owner has blasted British Gas over its prediction he would use more than £5,000 of energy a year - an estimate he slammed as "preposterous". And now Richard White wants to warn other customers - especially those who had direct debits set before the government subsidy - to check their bills.
Richard, 43, saw his monthly direct debit rocket to £429.41 on August 1, a jump of 115 per cent on his June payment of £200. The communications specialist, who lives near Toad Rock, complained to British Gas on August 4 and asked the company to justify the increase.
He told British Gas if it did not fully resolve his complaint within eight weeks, he would escalate it to energy regulator Ofgem. The gas company contacted Mr White yesterday hours after Kent Live made enquiries to British Gas about the bill. British Gas admitted in writing to Mr White the bill was "quite the jump" and that it had not "factored into this projection" the £400 subsidy from the Government for energy bills.
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Mr White told Kent Live: "My partner and I live in a modest three bedroomed detached home with a cat by Toad Rock. It is not the base camp for an arctic expedition so for British Gas to predict we are going to burn more than £5,000 worth of energy a year is preposterous., a figure they jovially describe to me in the email I forwarded to you as 'quite the jump'."
'Obscene and disproportionate'
He said the company must have believed he was "running a gas fired power station in Narnia." He said British Gas was taking "obscene and disproportionate" amounts from customers as energy prices rose because the war in Ukraine had threatened supplies from Russia.
"In my own little way, I am now punishing British Gas by more than halving the direct debit sum until my credit (or interest free loan they have taken without my permission, depending how you look at it) is reduced to a level that suits me. Everyone who had direct debits set by British Gas before the government subsidy was announced may wish to check to see if this is still accurate," he said.
He said "British Gas accepts it has not taken into account the government £400 subsidy when calculating direct debits. Therefore, it seems all these direct debits have been set too high. It may only be a few pounds a month for some customers, but it is their money and British Gas have done this on a mass scale.
"Simply put, money a family might need to feed the kids, British Gas wants that cash in its back pocket. It's an interest free personal loan from those least able to afford to give one," he said.
'Families are struggling to feed their kids'
Mr White, who owns R White Associates, was with People's Energy for gas and electric until it folded in September last year and British Gas took over the account from December.
Before British Gas got in touch with Mr White yesterday, he had told us: "They have six more weeks to precisely explain their calculations before I take the matter to Ofgem. All customers affected this way should be offered proportionate compensation for their time and the anxiety caused by this kind of grotesque cash grabbing when families are struggling to feed their kids."
He said British Gas was a "disgrace" for charging customers such levels and that once there was "some kind of semblance of stability with energy costs and supply" he would be looking to swap firms.
"Others should do the same," he said.
A spokesperson for British Gas said: "Mr White's annual bill has not been set at over £5,000. We periodically review direct debit payment plans and after reassessing his current plan which ends in October, we advised in his June statement that his payments would rise up until October to ensure his projected usage was covered."
They said Mr White's monthly payment of £429.41 "would not continue for the next 12 months". They also said they were "sorry about the delay in responding" and had explained the adjustment was based on his previous energy use "among other factors".
They said they would also take Mr White's gas and electric meter readings to "bill his account to date".
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Primark is selling a new pair of boots for £20 - and they are very similar to a £207 designer pair. Shoppers have been quick to praise the new item.
The cream chunky boots have been compared to some released by designer shoe brand Alohas. The designer version, named The All Rounder White Leather Boots are priced at £207.
Both pairs of shoes are very similar in appearance - both having a chunky sole, slip on silhouette and reach above the ankle. Alohas describe their version as adding 'height and attitude to any type of outfit'.
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Primark is now selling a pair of boots that have been compared to the cream version - for a fraction of the price, NottinghamLive reports. In a post on their Instagram, which got thousands of likes, Primark wrote: "Cream on cream [heart eye emoji] Boots perfect for festival season and beyond, only £20."
Primark fans were quick to praise the new item. One user said: "Love this cream [heart eye emoji]." Another wrote: "Got them in black, absolutely love them!! So comfy."
Another fan added: "I need these in my life." Another user tagged her friend and said: "Only £20 I cant wait to go autumn shopping next month."
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Britain has launched a scheme to extend tariff cuts to hundreds of products, such as clothes and food, from developing countries, part of London’s post-Brexit efforts to set up systems to replace those run by the European Union.
In June, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he wanted to start a new trade system to reduce costs and simplify rules for 65 developing countries to replace the EU’s Generalised System of Preferences, which applies import duties at reduced rates.
Trade minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan said the Developing Countries Trading scheme (DCTS) would extend tariff cuts to hundreds more products exported from developing countries, a system, she said, that goes further than the EU scheme.
“As an independent trading nation, we are taking back control of our trade policy and making decisions that back UK businesses, help with the cost of living, and support the economies of developing countries around the world,” Trevelyan said in a statement.
“UK businesses can look forward to less red tape and lower costs, incentivising firms to import goods from developing countries.”
The DCTS covers 65 countries, simplifies rules such as rules of origin, which dictate what proportion of a product must be made in its country of origin, and removes some seasonal tariffs, such as making cucumbers tariff-free in the winter.
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A Kenyan election official who went missing shortly after last Tuesday’s general election has been found dead. (BBC)
The body of Daniel Mbolu Musyoka was found near Mount Kilimanjaro, a long way from his base in the capital.
The reasons behind his death are unknown, but the news has added to the sense of anger in the wake of the disputed presidential election result.
William Ruto narrowly beat rival Raila Odinga to the presidency. But Mr Odinga’s allies have questioned this.
Mr Ruto took 50.5% of the vote, official results say.
Although in general, this has so far been one of the most peaceful election periods in Kenya’s history, the chair of the electoral commission, Wafula Chebukati, said other staff members had been arbitrarily arrested and had faced intimidation or harassment.
Monday’s announcement of the result was delayed amid scuffles at the results centre and allegations of vote-rigging, made by Mr Odinga’s campaign.
He is due to break his silence shortly – but an ally told the BBC that Mr Odinga did not find the result “acceptable at all”.
“It has no credibility because four of the seven [election] commissioners have said they did not sign on to the announcement that Mr Ruto was lawfully elected,” Salim Lone said.
He was referring to the fact that the commissioners had refused to endorse the presidential result, saying the way it had been handled was “opaque”. They did not give any further details on Monday.
President Uhuru Kenyatta, who was backing Mr Odinga to succeed him after completing two terms, has also not been seen in public or made any comments since election day 9 August.
Calm has returned to most parts of the country after a mixture of celebrations and violent protests after the results were declared on Monday evening.
In Mr Ruto’s home town of Eldoret in the Rift Valley, thousands of residents broke into song and dance. But the mood was different in Mr Odinga’s political base in the western city of Kisumu where residents set up burning tyres and barricades to protest the loss.
Most shops remain closed in Kisumu.
In his acceptance speech, Mr Ruto called for unity, saying he wanted to be a president for all, and for the country to focus on the future.
“To those who have done many things against us, I want to tell them there’s nothing to fear. There will be no vengeance. We do not have the luxury to look back,” he added.
At a press conference after he was declared the winner Mr Ruto revealed that he had spoken to Mr Odinga earlier on Monday.
“I called my competitor and had a discussion with him and we agreed that whatever the outcome of this election we should have a conversation,” he told journalists.
He also lauded the electoral commission chairman for conducting a transparent election.
This was the first time Mr Ruto, 55, had run for president. He has served as deputy president for nine years but fell out with President Kenyatta, who refused to endorse him.
Mr Odinga, 77, who got 48.8% of the vote, was running for president for the fifth time.
Mr Ruto had framed the election as between “hustlers” – poor Kenyans – and “dynasties” – influential families like the Kenyatta’s and Odinga’s who have been big players in the country’s politics since independence.
Unlike previous elections, the campaigns were dominated by issues such as how to address the cost of living, fix the economy and fight corruption. There was not the same level of mobilising ethnic vote as seen in previous elections.
Analysts believe that Mr Odinga is likely to challenge the result.
The Kenyan Supreme Court annulled the last election in 2017 and ordered a re-run – it might have to make another big decision in a few weeks.
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Nigeria to save N2trn by 2030 from malaria elimination ― Buhari
• Names Dangote heads committee to eradicate disease
President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the Nigeria End Malaria Council (NEMC) with an assurance that the successful implementation of its agenda and savings from the estimated economic burden of the disease will save Nigeria about N687 billion in 2022 and N2 trillion by 2030.
During the ceremony, which took place at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja, he told the Council that beyond improving the quality of life, health and well-being of Nigerians, the concerted strategy to tackle malaria had both public health as well as socio-economic benefits for Nigeria.
The 16-member Council is headed by the founder and president of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote.
A statement issued by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), quoted him as saying: ‘‘Our inauguration today will therefore ensure that malaria elimination remains a priority on our agenda, with strong political commitment from leaders at all levels.
‘‘Additionally, the End Malaria Council will provide a platform to advocate for more funding to protect and sustain progress made so far by our country, and put us on a pathway to ending malaria for good.’’
Expressing concern that the age-long disease had remained a major public health challenge in Nigeria, the President cited the World Health Organisation (WHO) report of 2021, showing that Nigeria alone accounts for 27 per cent of all cases of malaria and 32 per cent of deaths globally.
‘‘Malaria infection can cause severe disease and complication in pregnant women and lead to high rates of miscarriage.
‘‘It is also responsible for a considerable proportion of deaths in infants and young children, with children under 5 years being the most vulnerable group affected. These are reasons we must not relent in fighting malaria.’’
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On his choice of Dangote to chair the Council, President Buhari explained that it was in recognition of the track record and passion of Africa’s richest man in supporting initiatives on various health issues such as polio and primary health care system strengthening.
He expressed confidence that Dangote would bring his outstanding achievements to help the country achieve its goal of malaria elimination, adding that a group of eminent personalities, who have also made their mark across all walks of life, have been selected to work in the Council.
He added that the membership of the Council reflects Government’s commitment to significantly reducing the malaria burden in Nigeria, to a level where it is no longer a public health issue.
‘‘I have been informed that the End Malaria Council (EMC) has already been established in other African countries, in line with the African Union Assembly Declaration for Establishment of EMC’s in Africa.
‘‘EMCs have provided leadership, new funding and innovation to enable these countries to stay on track to meet malaria burden reduction targets, and I am optimistic that the setting up of the Nigeria End Malaria Council will do the same for Nigeria.
‘‘I must add that with the additional advocacy and funding the Council will bring to the malaria control drive, we can anticipate a reduction in malaria burden that ensures that our children, pregnant women, indeed, all Nigerians are shielded from the disease.
‘‘We must work together to reduce the unnecessary deaths attributable to malaria and ultimately improve the well-being of citizens. I implore the Council to ensure best practices and innovative strategies in achieving its mandate.’’
President Buhari used the occasion to thank the Chairman of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA), President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, the Executive Secretary of ALMA, RBM Partnership in Nigeria for their continuous support to the Federal Ministry of Health and the malaria programme, in particular.
He also acknowledged the contributions of the Global Fund, the United States Agency for International Development, the President’s Malaria Initiative, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, WHO, UNICEF, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office, other implementing partners, and the private sector.
In separate remarks, the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, and the Minister of State for Health, Joseph Ekumankama Nkama, said since 2010, Nigeria has been recording a continuous decline in malaria from 42 per cent in 2010, 27 per cent in 2015 to 23 per cent in 2018.
Quoting figures from the 2010 Nigeria Malaria Indicator Survey and the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey, they attributed the decline to the thorough implementation of the National Malaria Strategic Plan (NMSP).
Both ministers, however, admitted that the funding gap has impacted the implementation of the malaria programmes in Nigeria, adding that the country needs N1.89 trillion to reduce malaria prevalence and mortality by 2025.
Ekumankama said: ‘‘The biggest challenge confronting us, which prevents the elimination of malaria, to ensure a malaria-free nation in the shortest possible time is inadequate finances to fund the NMSP.
‘‘We are currently implementing NMSP of 2021 to 2025, with the intent to achieve a parasitic prevalence of less than 10 per cent and reduce mortality attributable to malaria to less than 50 deaths per 1000 live births by the year 2025. It will take about N1.89 trillion to implement this plan.
‘‘However, in the first year of its implementation we had an estimated deficit of over N150 billion and in 2022, we already have a deficit of over N170 billion.’’
In his acceptance speech, Dangote thanked the President and all members of the Council for entrusting him with the enormous responsibility, pledging to work hard to achieve the mandate.
‘‘I must confess that this resonates with my current role as the Nigerian Ambassador for Malaria, my role on the Global End Malaria Council and with the work that my Foundation is doing to mobilise the private sector to support malaria control in Nigeria and Africa at large,’’ he said.
The Council members are; Shehu Ibrahim, Permanent Secretary, Office of the Vice President on Political and Economic Affairs, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), Sen Yahaya Oloriegbe, Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Hon Abubakar Dahiru, Chairman, House Committee on AIDS, TB and Malaria, Dr Ehanire, Hon Ekumankama, Mahmuda Mamman, Permanent Secretary, Federal Minister of Health.
Others include Tony Elumelu, Chairman, Board of Directors, UBA, Folurunsho Alakija, CEO, Rose of Sharon Group, Herbert Wigwe, CEO, Access Bank, Femi Otedola, CEO Forte Oil, Hajiya Lami Lau, President, National Council of Women Societies, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, Emertius Archbishop of Abuja Catholic Archdiocese, Alhaja Rafiyat Sanni, National Amira, Federation of Muslim Women Nigeria (FOWAN) and Dr Perpetua Uhomoibhi, NEMC Secretariat/National Coordinator, National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP).
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IN Yoruba family sociology, children are categorised into three broad groups. The stratification is determined by the character portraiture of the child. The first category is called Omo Ojú – a child who requires just a glance from the parents to do the right thing. Omo Ojú is the ideal child any parent would wish for.
He is the disciplined one who takes redress by the mere look of the parents.
Most often than not, an Omo Ojú does not even require the presence of the parents before he or she behaves very well.
A typical Omo Ojú is that child who says “my parents must not hear this” (omo obi mi o gbodo gbo). Omo Ojú behaves very well not because the parents are harsh on him or her, but because he/she is the well brought up one and attaches importance to the family name.
Omo Ojú goes out with the mother and is offered food by their host. He/she refuses, politely, to take the food.
The mother, if the host insists, merely says: “we just finished eating before coming”; even when they have nothing at home for their next meal and Omo Ojú nods his/her head in affirmation. Omo Ojú is an Omo Alálúbáríkà – the blessed child who gives no trouble to the parents.
The second category of children is the one known as Omo Ohùn or Omo Òrò – a child who requires you to talk to him or her before he or she behaves well.
An Omo Ohùn or Omo Òrò, at times, requires the parents to say some unprintable words before he/she acts according to the acceptable norms of the society.
He/she is not usually the delight of the parents. The parents shout, threaten or curse for them to fall back in line.
These are the type of children you often hear their parents say: «even the creator knows I am not quiet about your matter (Eleda na mo pe mi o dake lori oro re).
The father, for instance, in his peak of frustration asks if he indeed is the biological father of such a child. When that happens, the mother becomes dejected because her fidelity is being interrogated. Yet she knows that the father knows the truth but the behaviour of an Omo Ohùn or Omo Òrò is why the father queries the paternity.
The third category is the worst of them all. He is called Omo Igi – a child that must see the cane before he acts well. Omo Igi is the typical picaro of the worst form. Anywhere he is, there is trouble and chaos. He is as indecent as he is incorrigible.
An inorigibe, Omo Igi goes back to the same offence almost immediately after a reprimand. Among his peer group, he causes chaos. In his family circles, Omo Igi is the allegorical Àjàntálá – an unruly child; the enfant terrible.
He is an àwíìgbó (listens to no counsel), an àbéìgbà (refuses entreaties); a typical olóríkunkun (an irritant, stubborn being).
Above all, an omo Igi acts only in his own wisdom. No matter how organised a place is, once an Omo Igi enters, peace takes a flight. He is an oníjàgídíjàgan (a compulsive trouble maker). He is also an àjàígbólà (when he fights, he does not know when to apply the brakes); the typical fight-to-finish element.
The only thing an Omo Igi understands is thorough whipping or in the alternative, to be completely ignored.
It is useless to persuade him to toe the path of honour. Nothing satisfies an Omo Igi unless he is disgraced and dishonoured.
No parent wishes to have an Omo Igi as a child. No society desires his type. Most often than not, in the family and the larger society, an Omo Igi turns a pariah. His innate hubris of bad mannerism follows him anywhere he goes. He acts such that the larger society thinks he is not well brought up (aláìlékô). But the truth is that an Omo Igi is a typically well-brought up child, who throws overboard all his home training; hence he is called an àkóìgbà – impervious to training.
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, held its convention on May 28 through May 29, 2022, where it elected its presidential candidate. In the keenly contested primaries, the former Vice President and itinerant politician, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, won with 371 votes to defeat the incumbent governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, who scored 237 votes.
Ever since the election, the party has known no peace. What finally triggered the self-destruct voyage the PDP is navigating at the moment is the choice of a vice-presidential candidate. While Wike swallowed the bitter pill of defeat at the primaries, it was reported that Atiku made overtures to him to be his running mate.
Wike, it was further gathered, was persuaded to accept the offer.
In fairness to him, he never lobbied to be Atiku’s running mate. Atiku, the candidate, without any inducement, set up a selection committee to assist in picking a running mate. That was the beginning of the unending crisis in the opposition party.
Atiku, for reasons best known to him, turned down the majority recommendation of the committee he personally set up and chose to pick Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State as his running mate. His argument: “my running mate would have the potential to succeed me at a moment’s notice, that is, a President-in-waiting. In other words, the person must have the qualities to be Presiden”, is what is stoking the embers of disunity in the party.
Without being magisterial, I daresay that statement is most ungentlemanly in content and un-presidential in delivery.
Wike never lobbied to be anybody’s running mate.
If Atiku decided to withdraw his initial offer, he could have done that without rubbing salt on Wike’s injury. There are some words that are too pregnant with meanings. Atiku uttered some at the unveiling of Okowa. Wike has the right to be angry. I would have been angry too if I were in his shoes. But even at that, his anger should be devoid of the tendencies to destroy the very house that has given him shelter in the last two decades. Why do I say so?
Wike’s open romance with the ruling APC in recent times is unbecoming. It shows a deep-seated bitterness. That, in itself, is as ungentlemanly as the initial offence. His rebuff of virtually all attempts to bring about peace tells much about his character. Hobnobbing with the APC at this critical moment, to me, is a psychological war of attrition against the PDP. I think, and very strongly too, that the PDP should ignore him!
Otherwise, the party will be molding him into a Frankenstein monster that may turn out to be the party’s nemesis. My people advise that you cut the branches of an Iroko tree when it is too young; when it grows, it requires a daily sacrifice from you.
Wike, by his romance with the APC, is embarking on a journey to political adultery, of which his Man Friday from Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, holds the patent right. It is a journey to political oblivion. People simply don’t learn from history.
Bukola Saraki, in 2014, led some PDP governors and leaders to walk out on President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan at Eagle Square. He thought he was on top of the world then. Where is he today? It took Bukola just eight years to bring to ruins the legacies his late father, Oloye Olusola Saraki, built over decades.
The Kwara ‘o to ge’ movement swept him off the Kwara political ladder. Today, Bukola is struggling for relevance and he is back in the same PDP.
In his Rivers State backyard, Wike has a living lesson. Rotimi Amaechi, as a sitting PDP governor openly despised Jonathan and practically became the APC’s ATM machine, counterbalancing the financial war chest of Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
As a minister of Transport, Amaechi concentrated almost every project in the North, thinking that his APC friends would hand over the party presidential ticket to him. They only allowed him to run around the Adokiye Amesimaka Stadium. When the real race began at the APC presidential primaries on June, 8, 2022, they shoved him aside. Ever since, who has heard anything about Amaechi again? Wike can toe the same line. He can tear down the PDP for all I care. What have been the benefits of the PDP to the Nigerian masses, anyway? The worst that can happen to the PDP is the loss of the 2023 presidential election. If that happens, does Wike gain anything? He will only go into political oblivion like Fayose.
The shout of “Oshokomole” attracts opprobrium on the streets of Ekiti today. Wike, if he likes, should invite General Muhammadu Buhari to come and commission projects in Rivers State so as to “pepper” the PDP. The shame of his political folly will soon come pouring on him like the rains after the August break.
Atiku, at Okowa unveiling, said he wanted a running mate that is presidential in character and content, I felt it was too insulting to the person of Wike. But events in recent times have come to prove that the Waziri Adamawa was eternally right. When a man is accused of having a massive alimentary canal, he controls his gastronomical tendencies. I ask: is there anything presidential in the conducts of the Rivers State governor in the last few weeks?
Where is the finesse of that exalted office? Where is the ‘Excellency’ in the prefix of his designation as a governor of a state? Atiku offered him the vice presidential slot, yes! Atiku set up a committee to select a running mate for him, OK! The committee selected Wike in a vote of 14 to three, so? Atiku went ahead to pick Okowa, what again? Is that why the house should collapse on everybody? Is that enough reason why Wike should become rabid in his anger against the entire leadership of the party? Granted that he sustained the party financially, as some are wont to argue, with whose resources was he able to accomplish that?
A personal family inheritance or the patrimony of the Rivers people? Come off it! Truth is Wike is becoming an Alásejù – an obstinate person. My people say alásejù, péré niíté – the obstinate gets easily disgraced. It is usually difficult for a woman introduced to whoredom to retrace her steps. Someone, somewhere, has introduced Wike to the Lagos political whoredom. He is already in the web of the lords of political adulterers of the South West and the leech, which leads that gang, does not let go of whatever it holds. It is unfortunate that Wike would allow a common political harlot to lead him to his political Golgotha! The sad thing here is that unlike the Saviour, who resurrected three days after His Golgotha experience, there is no such grace for Wike. The choice is his’. PDP should dare him and put an end to the bully’s war of attrition. Bashorun Dele Momodu has put the issue in proper perspective.
PDP is the only solid platform that Wike has, he counsels. All other political sand is sinking sand. If Wike likes, let him burn the bridge and kill the bridge builders as well. He is like a leech which threatens to kill the dog, its host forgetting that once the dog dies, the leech goes into extinction! I saw an inscription on a building in Ogbomosho some years ago.
It reads: “Àdàbà ò ñáaní àhún kùn›gbé. Pápá njó, ęyé lo; kétékété kú, ìsó pin “- the dove does not care if the bush is set on fire. The bush burns, the bird flies. When the donkey dies, its tethering ends. That should be instructive to Wike. The one egging him on towards the slaughter slab of the Lagos whoremonger is finished, politically. He is now looking for more victims in a “da bi mo se da” scheme. How do I translate this? It simply means: join me in my sorry state. If that is how Wike wishes to end his political Odyssey, the PDP should wish him luck. No omo igi ends well in the first instance. Nyesom Wike will only be fulfilling his strata of atavistic regression!
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CASPER — A couple of decades ago, Leilani Martin stopped by Poverty Resistance maybe once a year. She started visiting the Casper food pantry off and on in 2018 or 2019, she said — just when money was especially tight.
Now, she drops by just about every day.
“I just hope things get better,” Martin said Thursday morning, cradling a jug of water in each arm.
As inflation drives prices up and pandemic relief programs come to an end, more and more Wyoming residents are leaning on food pantries to get by.
“We went from serving about 40 hot lunches a day to about 80,” said Poverty Resistance’s owner, Mary Ann Budenske.
Yet changes to federal funding, supply chain issues and dwindling donations have left food pantries with less inventory to go around.
Lunchtime at Poverty Resistance starts at 11 a.m. On Thursday, the main course was a Lunchable — the prepackaged lunch meal that usually comes with some deli meat, cheese, crackers or mini pizzas.
Also up for grabs: chips, cake slices and frosting (packaged separately) and onions. There were some boxes of fruit toward the back of the room, too, plus refrigerators with milk, beets, lettuce and kale.
Poverty Resistance usually has much more variety, volunteers said. But their guests were just grateful for something to eat.
Wyoming food pantries are supported in part by the The Emergency Food Assistance Program, run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The federal program got an additional $1.2 billion in federal coronavirus relief to help keep struggling Americans fed.
“During the pandemic, we had extra food,” said Corrine Livers, an administrator for the Department of Family Services, which handles the program for Wyoming. The extra funding expired earlier this summer.
Now, after a time of plenty, Wyoming’s food banks are facing what seems like famine by comparison.
Joshua’s Storehouse — located just up the street from Poverty Resistance in Casper — had to close early one day a couple weeks ago due to a lack of inventory.
“We have no cereal, no crackers,” said Stephanie Miller, president of the food pantry’s board of directors. “Dry foods, we’re really short on.”
The food pantry, like some 160 other organizations throughout the state, relies on The Food Bank of Wyoming to help keep its shelves full.
The Evansville-based organization is in charge of distributing food the Department of Family Services buys through The Emergency Food Assistance Program. The agency expects to receive $388,900 from The Emergency Food Assistance Program for the 2023 fiscal year, Public Information Officer and Ombudsman Clint Hanes said in an email.
The state got about $654,100 from the program for fiscal year 2022. Food from that program accounts for only 23% of the Food Bank of Wyoming’s total inventory, said Rachel Bailey, the organization’s executive director.
And food pantries have to opt-in to get it — just about 35 of the food bank’s 160 partners participate in The Emergency Food Assistance Program.
In other words, the dip in federal funding directly affects only a slice of organizations to which the Food Bank of Wyoming distributes.
Still, the changes have come with some unexpected supply chain hiccups. The food bank was expecting a delivery of fresh produce through the program in June, but as of early August, it still hadn’t been delivered.
All the Food Bank of Wyoming received in June from the program was grapes, Hanes said in the email.
“What’s happening on the federal level is that commodities are not being purchased because of high prices, supply chain issues and other things that are happening,” Bailey said.
Livers, the Department of Family Services administrator, said she wasn’t aware of any issues facing Wyoming’s August orders from The Emergency Food Assistance Program.
Outside of the federal program, the Food Bank of Wyoming’s also getting less supply from some of its other partners, like grocery stores and food manufactures, Bailey said.
Grocery stores are keeping food on their shelves longer, for one.
Manufacturers are being more conservative, too, Bailey said.
Sometimes, the foods that end up being donated are experimental products that fail on the market. But companies aren’t testing new products as much right now, Bailey said. And they’re less willing to bin them just because they’re not popular.
In May, the organization distributed 957,004 pounds of food.
In June, the Food Bank of Wyoming distributed 766,542 pounds of food — about 20% less than the month before.
Joshua’s Storehouse relies on partners in the community like restaurants and churches to supplement what it gets from the food bank. Lately, those groups haven’t been giving as much, Miller, the organization’s board president said.
Individual donors seem to be more careful about what they part with, too. The food pantry held a food drive at a local Albertson’s grocery storehouse a couple weeks ago.
“I noticed people giving us a lot of stuff that was on sale,” Miller said.
Increased funding to The Emergency Food Assistance Program was just one part of the coronavirus pandemic safety net. Several other enhancements have since unraveled, too.
The USDA had expanded benefits for families on SNAP (colloquially known as food stamps) and relaxed some of eligibility requirements. In Wyoming, those changes officially expired in April.
Bonuses to a handful of other major federal programs — like unemployment benefits and Child Tax Credit, for instance — have also been reversed.
One pandemic relief initiative that’s still widely available in Wyoming is the federally funded Emergency Rental Assistance Program, which the Department of Family Services oversees. Under its latest wave of funding, the program has up to $152 million in assistance to give out by 2025.
Plenty of other states, however, have been burning through their pandemic rental relief funding.
The decrease in assistance come amid a year of burgeoning inflation. The Federal Reserve has hiked up interest rates in an attempt to cool down the economy, offering Americans some relief.
But as of early August, basic necessities were still well above pre-pandemic prices.
A gallon of milk, for instance, cost roughly $3 in August 2019, compared to a little over $4 in July 2022, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Low-income Wyoming residents, for the most part, have to take those price increases on the chin.
Food pantries aren’t burdened just because federal programs are cutting back, said Budenske, owner of the Poverty Resistance food pantry. It’s also partly because the state avoids weaving a robust social safety net of its own to fall back on, she argued.
“Expanding Medicaid would sure make a big difference on people that have to decide between food and medicine,” Budenske said.
It seems unlikely that Congress will step in to give food assistance programs more relief money anytime soon.
“We haven’t heard anything,” Livers said of the notion.
So what’s the state to do in the meantime? If the department runs into more supply chain issues with The Emergency Food Assistance Program, Livers said it may lean on The Wyoming Hunger Initiative, an anti-hunger program launched in 2019 by First Lady Jennie Gordon’s office.
“If there’s a truck that gets canceled or whatever, we’re going to let their office know,” Livers said. “Because they can maybe utilize some of their partnerships to fill a gap if we see one coming.”
The Wyoming Hunger Initiative has four core programs.
The first two help people donate game meat and locally grown meat and produce, respectively. Another program provides infrastructure grants to organizations that fight hunger, which helps them buy things like refrigerators, shelving and other hardware.
By the end of August, the initiative will have given out $200,000 in grants and $160,000 in groceries this summer, according to Trista Ostrom, the first lady’s chief of staff.
It also donated $50,000 worth of meat as part of a partnership with Frank’s Butcher Shop in Casper.
The initiative’s fourth program is aimed at fighting student lunch debt — which, in recent years, has been a huge problem in Wyoming, Ostrom said.
In December, it paid off nearly $100,000 worth of debt for over 3,000 students. There’ll be more work to do this fall, Ostrom said.
For the last couple of years, the USDA’s temporarily funded free meals for students as part of its coronavirus relief efforts. But that won’t be the case when kids return to school this year.
Meanwhile, the Food Bank of Wyoming is working on growing its sourcing department, Bailey said. That’ll help the food bank expand its inventory and get food out to its 160 partner food pantries more smoothly.
She called on members of the public to donate what they can. Financial contributions help more than you’d expect, she said.
“We are really able to stretch those dollars even more than if you are able to buy food at the grocery store and donate it,” Bailey said.
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The major US stock indices are mixed in early trading for the day.
- Dow industrial average is up 24 points or 0.07% at 33938.25
- S&P index is down -4.0 points or -0.10% at 4292.47
- NASDAQ index is down -37 points or -0.28% at 13088
- Russell 2000 is down 5.9 points or -0.29% 2015.42
The major indices all rose yesterday recovering from earlier declines. The 3 major indices are also working on its 5th consecutive week to the upside. Yesterday the Dow industrial average closed above its 200 day moving average for the 1st time since April 20. Bullish. The S&P index is the closest to its 200 day moving average at 4326.11. At current levels, it's 34 points away from that key technical target.
In the US debt market, yields are tracking to the upside:
- 2 year 3.23%, +4.4 basis points
- 5 year 2.951%, +4.8 basis points
- 10 year 2.837%, +4.7 basis points
- 30 year 3.136%, +3.1 basis point
The 100 day moving average in the 10 year yield is up at 2.888%. The price has been banging against that moving average level in August, but have not been able to successfully extend with momentum above that level.
In other markets:
- spot gold is trading down $2.56 or -0.14% at 1776.65
- spot silver is down $0.07 or -0.37% at $20.17
- The price of crude oil is trading at $89.50 that's up around $0.07 on the day. The high price reached $90.63 today while the low price was down $87.83
- bitcoin is trading at $23,963 marginally lower from the earlier New York levels just above the $24,000 level
The housing starts were weaker than expectations, but building permits were a bit stronger than expectations. The most important is housing starts and building permits can be always be delayed.
In the forex,
- EURUSD is moving back toward its high for the day after testing the high of a lower swing area and finding support buyers near 1.0121 (see early video here outlining the levels)
- The GBPUSD is also extending higher and trading at new session highs at 1.2070. The price just moved above a swing area between 1.2063 and 1.20648
- USDJPY is also moving higher as it follows yields in the US to the upside. The price moved above the 100/200 hour MA today shifting the bias back to the upside. . | https://www.forexlive.com/news/major-indices-trading-mixed-in-early-us-trading-20220816/ | 2022-08-16T14:07:48Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/major-indices-trading-mixed-in-early-us-trading-20220816/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
- Prior was -0.2% (revised to 0.0%)
- Capacity utilization 80.3% vs 80.1% expected
- Manufacturing output +0.7% vs +0.2% expected
- Prior manufacturing output -0.5% (revised to -0.4%)
This is strong data but after the crash in the Empire Fed yesterday, the market is worried about manufacturing going forward. That said, a 'normalization' of manufacturing in the US is inevitable and shouldn't be a surprise. Going back to running factories regularly rather than full-out is negative growth but I don't see it as a sign of a recession. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/us-july-industrial-production-06-vs-03-expected-20220816/ | 2022-08-16T14:08:00Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/us-july-industrial-production-06-vs-03-expected-20220816/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The EURUSD moved down to test the high of a swing area between 1.0096 and 1.0121. The low reached 1.0122 and bounced modestly higher. That low was equal to the August low as well.
The 50% retracement of the range since July 14 is close topside resistance that would now need to be rebroken if the buyers are to take back more control. That level comes in at 1.01597. There is a swing area at 1.0144 to 1.0151 ahead of that level. | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/eurusd-moves-down-to-test-the-high-or-the-lower-extreme-and-finds-buyers-20220816/ | 2022-08-16T14:08:06Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/eurusd-moves-down-to-test-the-high-or-the-lower-extreme-and-finds-buyers-20220816/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
UPDATE: The Rhea County Sheriffs Department reports that Victor Freeman has returned home and is safe.
PREVIOUS STORY: The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued a Silver Alert Tuesday morning for a 73-year-old Rhea County man who went missing.
Victor Freeman is described as 6'2" tall, 210 pounds, with gray hair and hazel eyes.
Freeman was last seen wearing a pink shirt, brown pants, black shoes, and a black back brace.
The Rhea County Sheriff's Department says that family members shared that Freeman has Dementia, Alzheimer’s, and bipolar disorder.
Freeman was seen driving a white Buick Enclave, unknown year, with a TN temporary tag.
If you see Freeman, you are asked to call 423-775-7837 or 1-800-TBI-FIND. | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/update-missing-rhea-county-man-found-safe/article_cec262a2-1d5d-11ed-9435-73b5fd89fa10.html | 2022-08-16T14:12:38Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/update-missing-rhea-county-man-found-safe/article_cec262a2-1d5d-11ed-9435-73b5fd89fa10.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Republican nominee for secretary of state in Arizona is a self-proclaimed member of the far-right extremist group the Oath Keepers who repeatedly shared anti-government conspiracies and posts about stockpiling ammunition on social media.
CNN's KFile team uncovered previously unreported posts from Mark Finchem, an Arizona state representative who won his party's nomination with the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, on several social media websites linked from his since-deleted former Twitter account.
The posts included a Pinterest account with a "Treason Watch List," and pins of photos of Barack Obama alongside imagery of a man clad in Nazi attire making a Nazi salute; Finchem also shared photos of the Holocaust claiming it could happen in the United States.
The Oath Keepers, of which Finchem self-identified as a member since 2014, is an anti-government, far-right militia composed of former and active military and law enforcement that purports to defend the US Constitution. The group is perhaps best known for providing security for the January 6, 2021, "Stop the Steal" rally preceding the Capitol riot. Eleven members, including its leader, were charged by the Justice Department with "seditious conspiracy" related to the Capitol attack.
Finchem, who attended the January 6 rally before the attack on the US Capitol but has denied he participated in the riot and has not been charged with any crimes, campaigned extensively on the false claim the election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. If Finchem wins his race against Democrat Adrian Fontes, a former county clerk of Maricopa County, Arizona, Finchem would be tasked with running the state's elections in 2024. In Arizona, the secretary of state is second in line to the governorship.
Finchem said CNN is not credible and declined to comment.
A "Treason Watchlist" on Pinterest
Finchem's most extreme content came on the social media platform Pinterest, which allows users to save, categorize and share posts called pins into digital mood boards. While Finchem has some light-hearted and conventional boards on food, fashion and dogs, he also has a board titled "Treason Watch List," featuring photos of Jesse Jackson, former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and former Secretary of State John Kerry.
In another board labeled "Thought Provoking," Finchem pinned a number of extremist posts, comparing Democrats to Nazis and invoking the Holocaust to argue against gun control, along with posts calling for stockpiling ammunition.
One pin compared Obama to Adolf Hitler with a cartoon featuring the former president raising his arm while speaking and a cartoon of a Nazi just behind him in similar fashion saying "tyranny is always lurking just around the corner." Another pin shared by Finchem showed hundreds of boxes of stockpiled personal ammunition saying "you need to be prepared."
Another of Finchem's pins, arguing against gun control, depicted Jews being rounded up by Nazis saying, "What makes us think IT CAN'T HAPPEN IN AMERICA?"
Yet another pin showed an image saying "a war in America" will have "no rules of engagement."
Other posts Fincham pinned on his "Thought Provoking" board included conspiracy theories that the Mexican Army was making incursions into the United States in preparation for a full-scale invasion and repeated anti-Muslim posts arguing Sharia law was coming to the US soon.
One pin shared an image warning of "the communists inside our government," and another included a fake quotation alleging George Washington saying US citizens should be armed against the government.
Finchem was linking to his Pinterest account in Tweets from 2012 to 2015.
Elsewhere on the internet, CNN's KFile also found that Finchem said he learned about the Tea Party -- a conservative movement that began following the backlash of Obama's election -- website from "a fellow intel operator in the desert southwest."
On Twitter, he shared conspiracies that multiple ships docked at a Virginia naval station might be a target for a second Pearl Harbor-type attack. He said Satan ruled the United States and said gun ownership should be mandatory. In one post, he called for the impeachment of Obama, who was then President, for letting his daughter go on vacation in Mexico.
Ties to Oath Keepers
Finchem described himself as a member of the Oath Keepers in 2014, saying he was "committed to the exercise of limited, constitutional governance."
In September 2014, Finchem promoted an Oath Keeper meeting on Facebook, and later that same year shared a blog post from the Oath Keepers website. A defunct campaign Twitter account for his state representative races also included "Join Oath Keepers," in the bio.
Finchem also has political ties to prominent Oath Keepers. Former Sheriff Richard Mack, who previously sat on the board of the organization, endorsed him for secretary of state, according to Finchem's Facebook post.
CNN's Sam Woodward contributed to this story.
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An extraordinary drought in the West is drying up the Colorado River and draining the nation's largest reservoirs -- Lake Mead and Lake Powell. And amid the overuse of the river and the aridification of the region, the federal government is preparing to make mandatory water cuts and asking states to devise a plan to save the river basin.
Two major announcements could come Tuesday. The first is a forecast from the US Bureau of Reclamation that could trigger the first-ever Tier 2 water shortage for the Lower Colorado River Basin. The second is the bureau's next step in its demand that the seven states in the river basin come up with a way to voluntarily cut up to 25% of their water usage, or the federal government will do it for them.
It was just a year ago that the Department of Interior declared the first shortage on the Colorado River -- a Tier 1. But the past 12 months did not bring enough rain and snow. A report from July shows Lake Mead, which the agency uses to determine shortage conditions, is hovering around 1,040 feet above sea level, after having dropped 10 feet in just two, dry months.
The reservoir is at just 27% of its full capacity.
Tuesday's report, which will be released around 1 p.m. ET, is all but certain to show Lake Mead will be below 1,050 feet come January -- the threshold required to declare a Tier 2 shortage beginning in 2023. The question is how far below that threshold it will be. If the forecast is below 1,045 feet, which recent forecasts would suggest it will be, then mandatory water cuts will expand beyond Arizona, Nevada and Mexico and into California for the first time.
But the growing concern is that the mandatory cuts -- a system that was updated as recently as 2019 -- aren't enough to save the river in the face of a historic, climate change-driven drought. States, water managers and tribes are now back at the negotiating table to figure out how to solve the West's water crisis.
"We thought we were good, but the last few years have been so dry that we realized those tier reductions weren't enough and aren't enough," Bill Hasencamp, the Colorado River resources manager with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, told CNN. "So the two things we're focused on is how do we get through the next three years without the system crashing, and then how do we develop a long term plan to sustain the Colorado River."
'There's only so much water'
The Colorado River's water was divvied up among seven states in the West a century ago. The pact gave half of the river's water to the Upper Basin states (Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico) and half to the Lower Basin (California, Arizona and Nevada). Mexico -- through which the river flows before it reaches the Gulf of California -- was also guaranteed an allotment.
There was one major problem: Having been written in the 1920s, at a time when precipitation was higher than normal, the pact overestimated how much water the Colorado River carries. It also did not account for the West's booming population growth and its hotter and drier future in the face of the climate crisis.
At a June Senate hearing, Bureau of Reclamation chief Camille Touton laid out a stark warning. In order to stabilize the Colorado River Basin, states and water districts must come up with a plan by August 15 to cut 2 to 4 million acre-feet of water usage by next year. (An acre-foot is the amount of water that would fill one acre a foot deep -- roughly 326,000 gallons.)
Touton's proposed cut is a massive amount -- the high end of the target is about 25% less water than states currently receive. And the low end of the target represents the vast majority of Arizona's yearly allotment of Colorado River water.
Touton also made clear in June that if the states cannot come up with a plan, the federal government will act.
"It is in our authorities to act unilaterally to protect the system, and we will protect the system," she said at the time. "We need to see the work. We need to see the action. Let's get to the table and let's figure this out by August."
But inter-state negotiations are not going well.
John Entsminger, the general manager for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, told CNN that so far not enough of the stakeholders have put forth proposals that would get the basin to Touton's target. He said he hopes the federal government proposes "some pretty strong measures" that could be acted on immediately.
"Frankly, I'm frustrated because the overwhelming sense I've gotten from the negotiations is there aren't enough people taking this seriously enough and understanding this is about adapting to less water in this river," Entsminger said.
Nevada has already moved to cut its metropolitan water usage, banning non-functional turf and paying people for years to remove water-intensive lawns, Entsminger said. But agriculture, which takes up a lot of the water from the river, must be part of the equation as well.
"You have to have a contribution from the sector that uses 80% of the water," he said. "That's not law, politics, it's just math."
Entsminger said other stakeholders that are hesitant to give up their water allotments need to accept a new reality: The river is running dry, and sacrifices must be made.
"It doesn't matter what can be agreed to because there's only so much water, and mother nature will figure this out at some point," he said. "At some point, there's just not water in the river channel."
The federal government has not often stepped in and taken control of water management plans from the states, but it has the authority to do so in the Lower Colorado River Basin -- which includes Arizona, southern Nevada and southern California. And experts told CNN the threat of federal action is something states will respond to.
"We kind of need the federal government to make some threats to spur action," John Fleck, a Western water expert and professor at the University of New Mexico, told CNN earlier this year. "Progress seems to happen when the federal government comes in and says to states, you need to do this or we're going to do something you don't like."
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The US Air Force on Tuesday tested an unarmed nuclear-capable long-range missile, according to the Air Force Global Strike Command.
The unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, equipped with a test reentry vehicle, was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and traveled 4,200 miles to a test range near the Marshall Islands.
The missile, launched at 12:49 a.m. PT, was "to demonstrate the readiness of U.S. nuclear forces and provide confidence in the lethality and effectiveness of the nation's nuclear deterrent," a statement from the Air Force said.
"This test launch is part of routine and periodic activities intended to demonstrate that the United States' nuclear deterrent is safe, secure, reliable and effective to deter twenty-first century threats and reassure our allies. Such tests have occurred more than 300 times before, and this test is not the result of current world events," the statement continued.
The launch was originally scheduled for August 4, according to Steven Wilson, a spokesman for AF Global Strike Command, but it was delayed over concerns about China's response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan, CNN confirmed. A US official told CNN at the time that it was a "prudent step."
The US regularly tests its intercontinental weapon system to verify its accuracy and reliability.
"Make no mistake - our nuclear triad is the cornerstone of the national security of our country and of our allies around the globe," Col. Chris Cruise, 576th Flight Test Squadron Commander, said in a statement. "This scheduled test launch is demonstrative of how our nation's ICBM fleet illustrates our readiness and reliability of the weapon system. It is also a great platform to show the skill sets and expertise of our strategic weapons maintenance personnel and of our missile crews who maintain an unwavering vigilance to defend the homeland."
The Minuteman III is traditionally known as the only land-based leg to the US nuclear triad. The other two parts of the triad are the Trident submarine-launched ballistic missile and nuclear weapons carried by long-range strategic bombers.
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(The Hill) — First lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 while on vacation with President Joe Biden and other family members in South Carolina, the White House announced Tuesday,
“After testing negative for COVID-19 on Monday during her regular testing cadence, the First Lady began to develop cold-like symptoms late in the evening. She tested negative again on a rapid antigen test, but a PCR test came back positive,” Elizabeth Alexander, the first lady’s communications director, said in a statement.
The first lady is fully vaccinated and has received two booster shots. She has mild symptoms, the White House said, and will start taking Paxlovid, an antiviral drug that has proven effective at preventing serious cases of COVID-19.
“She is currently staying at a private residence in South Carolina and will return home after she receives two consecutive negative COVID tests,” Alexander said in a statement.
The president tested negative on Tuesday after taking a rapid test, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tweeted.
“Consistent with CDC guidance because he is a close contact of the First Lady, he will mask for 10 days when indoors and in close proximity to others. We will also increase the President’s testing cadence and report those results,” Jean-Pierre tweeted.
Jill Biden’s COVID-19 case comes roughly two weeks after the president was able to leave isolation following a rebound case of COVID-19. Rebound cases can happen in patients who take Paxlovid when a patient tests negative for the virus, only to test positive again a few days later.
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Leading up to the 2022 NFL season, Post Action Betting will release a gambling preview for all 32 teams in the National Football League, covering the schedule, predictions, win total over/under picks and prop bets for every team. Today, we will cover the Philadelphia Eagles. Be sure to check out our Arizona Cardinals preview.
Philadelphia Eagles (+2500 to win the Super Bowl, BetMGM)
2021 Record: 9-8 (2nd in NFC East)
The Eagles are at home in the NFC East, which is a wide open race every year. After an offseason of surrounding Jalen Hurts with talent, the Eagles are poised to make a run at the division, and could be a dark horse to make it deep into the playoffs.
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The big addition that the Eagles made was a draft-day trade with the Tennessee Titans, sending the 18th overall pick (who turned into wide receiver Treylon Burks) and a 3rd-round pick for A.J. Brown.
Immediately following the trade, the Eagles gave Brown a massive contract in the amount of $100 million over four years.
Now with a true top receiver, something that Philadelphia has been desperately searching for for years, the offense is expected to make a leap forward.
Eagles offseason moves: Draft, trades, free agent signings, injury report
- Traded for WR A.J. Brown
- Re-signed: DT Fletcher Cox, C Jason Kelce, S Anthony Harris, DE Derek Barnett, TE Richard Rodgers, RB Boston Scott, WR Greg Ward, S Andre Chachare,
- Additions: CB James Bradberry, DE Hasson Reddick, WR Zach Pascal, S Jaquiski Tartt, TE Jaeden Graham, LB Kyzir White, CB Jimmy Moreland
- Departures: CB Steven Nelson, S Rodney McLeod, DT Hassan Ridgeway, LB Alex Singleton, LB Genard Avery, RG Nate Herbig, DE Randy Gregory
- Drafted: DT Jordan Davis (13th), C Cam Jurgens (51st), LB Nakobe Dean (83rd), LB Kyron Johnson (181st), TE Grant Calcaterra (198th)
Titans 2022 Schedule
Week 1: @ Detroit Lions
Week 2: vs. Minnesota Vikings
Week 3: at. Washington Commanders
Week 4: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars
Week 5: at Arizona Cardinals
Week 6: vs. Dallas Cowboys
Week 7: BYE
Week 8: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
Week 9: at Houston Texans
Week 10: vs. Washington Commanders
Week 11: at Indianapolis Colts
Week 12: vs. Green Bay Packers
Week 13: vs. Tennessee Titans
Week 14: at New York Giants
Week 15: at Chicago Bears
Week 16: at Dallas Cowboys
Week 17: vs. New Orleans Saints
Week 18: vs. New York Giants
NFL Betting Lines: Eagles Win Total O/U
9.5 Wins (FanDuel)
The Eagles are an intriguing team playing in what’s expected to be one of the easier divisions in football. Matchups against the New York Giants and Washington Commanders should provide winnable games, and they’re a good enough team to bring the fight to the Dallas Cowboys as well.
Other non-division games against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Pittsburgh Steelers, Houston Texans, New Orleans Saints, Chicago Bears, and Brown’s former team the Tennessee Titans will also give them plenty of options to rack up the wins. With Hurts under center capable of being a threat on the ground and through the air, with a strong run game, and with a receiver duo of Brown and second-year Devonta Smith, the offense will compete.
This team is capable of winning four out of six games in the division, and has plenty of other winnable matchups. The Eagles ranked 12th in points per game last year and are primed to take a leap into the realms of the more explosive offenses in the league.
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Eagles exact division finish – 1st (+185, FanDuel Sportsbook)
I’m not stopping the Eagles hype train yet. All aboard.
I believe that the Eagles are one team poised for the biggest jump this year. Yeah, I think they’re even worth a sprinkle at their long odds to win the Super Bowl.
I don’t think there’s any way that they aren’t one of the two best teams in their division, along with the Dallas Cowboys. While I believe that the Eagles are full of talent on both sides of the ball, and that Brown is going to give Hurts what he needs to take a leap as a quarterback, and that rookie linebacker Nakobe Dean was the biggest steal of the NFL Draft, I believe the Cowboys could be poised to take a step backwards.
Let’s look at Dallas. Gone are the days of the Cowboys having the best offensive line in the NFL. La’el Collins is gone, and they’ll likely be relying on first-round lineman Tyler Smith to contribute right away. A changing line could be a problem.
More so, RB Ezekiel Elliott now looks to have lost a step, WR Amari Cooper was traded to the Cleveland Browns, and WR Michael Gallup isn’t going to be ready to start the season coming off a torn ACL. They have an unproven receiving core behind Ceedee Lamb, who will now operate as the No. 1 option.
Dallas is still a solid team, but they open their season with three of their first five games against the Buccaneers, Bengals, and Rams. Philadelphia could get out to an early lead in the division, and if panic sets in Dallas, the race will be on for the division crown.
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An 88-year-old woman in South Carolina was killed by an alligator on Monday after she apparently slipped into a pond while gardening, officials said.
The body of Nancy Becker was discovered around 11:15 a.m. at the edge of the water in Sun City Hilton Head, a gated senior living community in Bluffton, by another resident, who told sheriff’s deputies the alligator appeared to be “guarding” the body.
“When we responded, that’s what we observed — that the alligator was basically holding her hostage, I guess,” Major Angela Viens, with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office, told the station WJCL.
It took first responders two hours to retrieve Becker’s body. The reptile, a male measuring 9 feet, 8 inches long, was captured by officials with the state Department of Natural Resources and euthanized.
An autopsy on Becker will be performed later on Tuesday.
This marks the fifth alligator death in South Carolina since 2000, and the second so far this year.
On June 24, the Horry County Police Department said an alligator dragged a man into a pond. Prior to that attack, authorities said, the state had not recorded any in two years.
In May 2020, a woman was attacked and killed by an alligator in the gated community where she’d gone to do a homeowner’s nails.
A 90-year-old woman walked out of a Charleston nursing home in 2016 and was killed, while a 45-year-old woman walking her dog was fatally attacked on Hilton Head Island in August 2018.
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Rep. Liz Cheney is poised to lose to a Donald Trump-backed opponent in Tuesday’s Wyoming Republican primary election after igniting the former president’s wrath by voting to impeach him and serving on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot.
Cheney, 56, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, is the last of the 10 Republican House members who voted to impeach Trump in 2021, and she trails opponent Harriet Hageman by double digits, according to the latest polls in deep-red Wyoming.
Only two Republican members of Congress who supported the impeachment have won their primaries this year.
Cheney, who has taken a leading role on the Jan. 6 panel, has been defiant in the face of potential defeat, continuing to speak out about the former president inciting a mob to attack the Capitol in an effort to disrupt the results of the 2020 election and the threat he still poses.
“I am working hard to earn every single vote,” Cheney said in an interview last month on “Fox News Sunday.”
“Given the choice between maintaining my seat in the House of Representatives on the one hand or ensuring the survival of our constitutional republic and ensuring the American people know the truth about Donald Trump, I will choose the Constitution and the truth every day of the week and twice on Sunday,” she continued.
Her father, who served as vice president in the George W. Bush administration’s two terms, reiterated his daughter’s anti-Trump message in a campaign message earlier this month.
“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who was a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” her father said in the campaign spot. “There is nothing more important she will ever do than lead the effort to make sure Donald Trump is never again near the Oval Office.”
In a state that Trump won with nearly 70% of the vote, Cheney is hard-pressed to find enough Democratic voters who are willing to switch parties to vote for her.
Republicans vastly outnumber other parties in voter registration in Wyoming, making it highly likely that even if some voters did switch, the effort would still fall short.
In a campaign ad last week, she sounded an appeal to Democrats and independents, saying that they must stand united against “those trying to destroy our republic.”
“Millions of Americans across our nation, Republicans, Democrats, independents, stand united in the cause of freedom. We are stronger, more dedicated and more determined than those trying to destroy our republic,” she said.
“This is our great task, and we will prevail,” Cheney continued.
Some have speculated that Cheney, sensing defeat, is looking over the horizon at a possible run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
But others say that Cheney, already an outcast among Trump Republicans, is likely facing political oblivion because her conservatism will eventually turn off Democratic and independent voters.
“You know … we have a common enemy in Donald Trump, right? I mean, you know, politics makes strange bedfellows. Plus, look, if I lived in Wyoming, I would vote for Liz Cheney because a Republican is going to be in that seat. So it might as well be Liz Cheney,” political commentator Hilary Rosen said Monday on CNN.
“But look, Liz Cheney is still anti-abortion. She still has a huge level of conservatism. I think she’s going to be a woman without a party. You know, all these people speculating that she’s going to now become a Democrat or she’s going to run as an independent, or let her be, you know, a vice presidential candidate for the Democrats, I just don’t see any of that,” Rosen said.
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Michael King feels “actually great” right now, but he will feel much better if he does not require an additional surgery.
King, the Yankees standout reliever, already went under the knife to repair his fractured right elbow, an injury suffered while throwing a pitch July 22 in Baltimore.
When King regains his full range of motion, doctors will check again on his arm to see if his UCL needs Tommy John surgery.
If a second procedure is called for, he almost certainly would be out all of next season, too. If not, and his bone solely needed to be repaired, the righty should be ready for the start of spring training.
“From the MRIs that I was able to get, it looked like the ligament was intact and pretty healthy,” King, speaking publicly for the first time since the surgery, said before the Yankees hosted the Rays on Monday.
His next MRI exam should be about three to six weeks away.
King said he is now watching road games on TV and called his setback “definitely disappointing.” The 27-year-old had emerged as one of the most valuable relievers in baseball, able to shut down opposing lineups for multiple innings. He posted a 2.29 ERA in 51 innings before he threw a pitch and heard a pop.
“I knew our bullpen needed some help, and I also felt like I was pitching well, so I wanted to throw through whatever soreness I was feeling,” said King, who went down about two months after Chad Green required Tommy John surgery. “There are so many times where I’ll throw through something for a week or two, and it totally goes away and I’m great. And unfortunately, this wasn’t those times.”
King has leaned upon Green and hopes the two recovering relievers can begin a throwing program together. He also was thankful for Matt Carpenter, who is trying to come back from a fractured foot and advised King to begin journaling “the little wins you have throughout the process because you’re going to have a lot of losses.”
If the worst is behind him, King can be full-go in February, but he won’t know until his next checkup.
“I’m obviously hoping I don’t need Tommy John,” King said. “I [hope I] just have weak bones, I need some more calcium or something.” | https://nypost.com/2022/08/16/yankees-michael-king-hoping-to-avoid-devastating-second-surgery/ | 2022-08-16T14:18:05Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/16/yankees-michael-king-hoping-to-avoid-devastating-second-surgery/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The GBPUSD has pushed higher and trades above a key swing area near 1.2064 and now looks toward the 1.2100 level. The 200 hour MA looms above 1.21216 if the 1.21000 level can be broken. Sellers have the 1.2100 level to lean against with a stop on a break above.
Close support now comes in at 1.2064 area for buyers. That level corresponds with prior swing lows going back to the end of July.
Earlier today, the low for the day did find support buyers near the low for August at 1.2002. The low today reached 1.2006 ahead of the August low and the natural support at 1.2000.
There has been some positive buying off support, but if the buyers are to take more control, they will ultimately need to extend above the 200 and 100 hour MAs above (green and blue lines). | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/gbpusd-moves-to-a-new-high-extends-toward-resistance-target-near-12100-20220816/ | 2022-08-16T14:20:51Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/gbpusd-moves-to-a-new-high-extends-toward-resistance-target-near-12100-20220816/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GoPro, Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRO) today announced that its highly profitable GoPro subscription service has surpassed two million subscribers.
"Our subscription service is having a profoundly positive financial impact on our business, and we're excited to announce that we've surpassed the two million subscriber mark," said Nicholas Woodman, GoPro's founder and CEO. "We expect subscriber growth to continue to impress as we roll out new features and benefits on a regular basis, driving subscriber value further."
The GoPro Subscription provides customers with unlimited cloud storage, the ability to auto upload footage to the cloud directly from GoPro cameras, premium editing tools in the Quik App, a private livestreaming platform, guaranteed damaged-camera replacement, exclusive savings on GoPro cameras, and up to 50% off at GoPro.com on accessories.
"In addition to providing our customers with immense value, subscription has become a powerful financial engine for GoPro, representing the fastest-growing, highest-margin and most profitable product we offer," said Brian McGee, GoPro's CFO and COO. "Two million GoPro subscribers translates into $100 million in annual recurring revenue with gross margin of 70-80%, positively impacting our bottom line, and we expect subscription growth to continue as we add significant new features and benefits on an ongoing basis."
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Editor’s note: NewsNation has clarified Griggs’ age. She was 49, not 53.
(NewsNation) — Soap opera actress Robyn Griggs has died, her publicist Lisa Rodrigo confirmed to USA TODAY on Sunday. She was 49.
Star of the popular daytime soap “Another World,” Griggs did not hide her health struggles after being diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer in 2020. Just this past July, the actress revealed on Facebook she contracted four new tumors.
“Hi I have an update, Unfortunately, I have 4 new tumors. 2 new tumors on my liver, one on abdominal muscle and large one on right side lymph node. So in pain and I goto chemo Monday am. I told them whatever it takes,. I’m in for the fight. I’ll be very sore, nauseous etc, but who knows, maybe it works and relieves some pain. You never know. Please keep those prayers coming,. Hugs to all!!!,” she wrote.
Two months later, she has died.
“With a heavy heart, I am saddened to announce Robyn’s passing,” the post said. “However, she is no longer suffering and would want us to remember that and the good memories,” Griggs’ official Facebook account wrote in a post about her death Saturday.
“I will never forget how open she was to telling her story and accepting of me helping her tell it. She wanted to help people and spread the word of her story to do it. I was honored to do so. RIP my friend, I love you and smile when I think of you,” the post continued.
The Pennsylvania native was largely known for her role as Maggie Cory in “Another World” but she was also known for her roles in horror movies like “Zombiegeddon,” “Severe Injuries” and “Minds of Terror.” | https://www.wwlp.com/news/entertainment/another-world-actress-robyn-griggs-dead-at-49/ | 2022-08-16T14:21:20Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/entertainment/another-world-actress-robyn-griggs-dead-at-49/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A family-friendly consignment store featuring infant, children’s and adult clothing, toys and a crafters’ boutique area recently opened on Yakima Avenue, just west of downtown.
Owner Bridgette Huard opened One More Time Around at 419 W. Yakima Ave. on July 16 and said she is pleased with the store’s reception thus far.
“We are very, very happy with the amount of consigners we have,” Huard said Wednesday. “And we wanted to make this someplace very special, someplace super welcoming and inviting.
“We wanted to make this a store that when people walk in, they say, ‘wow!’ And they do,” she added.
Huard said much of the credit goes to her good friend and store manager Katie Purves, who helped set up many of the store’s display racks and who, with her husband, helped design and build the front counter.
“Friendship got this store opened,” Huard said.
Family-friendly features include a large play area for children while their parents shop; room to push shopping carts through the store; a changing room to try on clothing; and even a private nursing area for breast-feeding mothers.
Although most clothing is sized for infants through school-aged children, there also are girls’ juniors, women’s clothing up to size 4X and boys clothing through small and medium men’s sizes.
The Crafters’ Corner features home décor, toys and gift items which are all handmade by Yakima Valley crafters, Huard said.
Purves said the business also has started a Community Compassion Project. Completely fueled by donations, it provides clothing, toys and supplies such as diapers and baby formula to families in need.
“It’s to help people get clothes for their children when they can’t afford to,” Purves said, noting she is encouraged by the amount of clothes, diapers and formula which already has been donated.
One More Time Around is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays. For more information, visit their Facebook page or call 509-571-4413. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/business/consignment-store-opens-on-west-yakima-avenue/article_9e1b23a4-1cb9-11ed-a7fa-a388947cf65a.html | 2022-08-16T14:24:09Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/business/consignment-store-opens-on-west-yakima-avenue/article_9e1b23a4-1cb9-11ed-a7fa-a388947cf65a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tribal leaders in Washington are pressing the state to reject permits for a proposed hydropower project they say will have disastrous effects on more than a dozen important tribal sites and resources.
On July 28, 17 of Washington’s 29 federally recognized tribes sent a letter to Gov. Jay Inslee, urging him to deny permits for the proposed Goldendale Energy Storage Project because it would destroy irreplaceable sacred sites and violate hunting, fishing and gathering treaty rights reserved by the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation when the tribes ceded millions of acres to the federal government in the 19th century.
Yakama Nation Chairman Delano Saluskin separately sent a letter to Inslee recently, reiterating the tribe’s long-held opposition to the project and asking him to not issue any state permits that the project needs to move forward.
“We Treaty Tribal Leaders stand with the Yakama Nation in their fight to protect their cultural and natural resources,” the leaders said in their letter. “We call on the state and federal governments to do better. Uphold the Treaties and respect the rights of our Sovereign Nations. Deny the permits for the Goldendale pumped storage project on Yakama Nation’s sacred lands.”
Rye Development has pitched the more than $2 billion project in an area of Klickitat County near the John Day Dam and the city of Goldendale as a way for the state and region to meet renewable energy goals. It would be the largest so-called pumped storage project in the region, generating enough energy to power about 500,000 homes. The project, proponents say, could be especially useful during times of higher energy needs or when other forms of renewable energy, like wind or solar, are unable to keep up with demand.
To generate electricity, the nearly 700-acre project would include two approximately 60-acre reservoirs separated by more than 2,000 feet of elevation. Water draining from the upper reservoir overlooking the Columbia River to the lower one adjacent to the river would generate power when it passes through turbines. Water would be pumped back uphill to the upper reservoir when energy demands are lower, storing the energy potential for when it’s needed again.
Although the tribe supports developing more clean and renewable energy projects, tribal leaders have pledged to withhold support from a project “if it’s going to impact what we hold dear,” Yakama Nation Tribal Council member Jeremy Takala said in an interview with Underscore News and ICT. Takala said this isn’t the only clean energy project — including other pumped storage proposals — on or slated for Yakama treaty lands that has raised concerns for the tribe.
“The tribe has said loud and clear that we do support green energy, but not at the cost of (the) destruction of irreplaceable sites, especially if they have food, gathering or medicine uses,” Takala said.
For the Yakama, this project falls into that category. It also confirms fears around disregarding tribal concerns that the tribes presented to Inslee in their letters. The project, as proposed, would likely have “significant adverse impacts” to multiple — up to an estimated 15 — archaeological sites and other areas used for ceremonial or religious purposes, and would lead to the disturbance or loss of areas used to hunt or gather culturally significant animals and other traditional foods and medicinal plants, according to a draft environmental impact statement released in late June by the Washington State Department of Ecology and other documents produced by the state identifying the potential impacts.
State regulators say no mitigation solutions have been identified yet and have said the harm to the important sites or limited access to them would degrade the health and well-being of tribal citizens. The Yakama Nation says preventing or limiting destruction and serious disturbances to archaeological sites and areas used for ceremonies or to hunt and gather medicinal plants is unavoidable.
“What damage is going to be done, is going to be done, and you can’t mitigate or rehabilitate that site,” Takala said.
In 2020, Inslee indicated his support of the pumped storage projects and Goldendale proposal when he signed legislation adding the concepts to a list of “Projects of Statewide Significance,” which allowed them to go through an expedited permitting process. Still, Inslee spokesperson Mike Faulk said although he may have speculated on the “potential upsides” of the project in the past, the governor has not officially “made up his mind on the project.” Faulk added that throughout the permitting process, “(t)ribal impacts and interests must be a part of any final decision.”
A Rye Development official didn’t respond to a request for comment before Underscore published its article.
While the project area sits on private land that had once been used as an aluminum smelter, it’s also on treaty lands the tribe ceded in 1855 but retained rights to continue to hunt, fish and gather on. In one culturally important area high above the river — known as Pushpum, or Juniper Point — tribal citizens have used it for ceremonies and to gather plants and continue to do so. There, the Yakama Nation has identified at least nine sites that would be destroyed or irreversibly impacted.
Another threatened area within the project area, Nch’ima, is the site of a fishing village used for education of traditional cultural practices and knowledge, as well as gathering.
Both areas, state regulators say, are eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Yakama Nation has opposed the proposal from the beginning. And three other tribes that have also traditionally used the land for ceremonial and resource purposes — the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Nez Perce Tribe and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs — have said the project would likely destroy or have serious consequences for sites and areas they also consider sacred.
A number of environmental advocacy organizations have also opposed the proposal because of tribal criticism and concerns about the project being detrimental to sacred sites and resources, in addition to concerns over potential negative impacts to wildlife, the environment and water quality or levels.
The public comment period is scheduled to end Aug. 9. To move forward, the project will need several permits from different state and federal agencies and Klickitat County.
Last June, state regulators denied a water quality certification application from the project’s developer because the company didn’t show that it would meet the state’s water quality laws. The state allowed the company to re-apply for that permit after including more details, which it did in May.
The proposal has also stirred up unpleasant memories — and their lingering effects — associated with the federal government’s construction of dams along the Columbia River, which destroyed traditional villages, inundated burial grounds and other important cultural sites and has contributed to drastically declining numbers of salmon in the river, Takala said. He called the pumped storage project proposal another example of the government proceeding with projects without tribal consent, or with inadequate tribal consultation, despite the burden they placed on Indigenous people, important resources or treasured sites.
“This is historical trauma, and it’s still ongoing,” he said.
It’s unclear when Inslee will make any permitting decisions. Rye Development says it could begin construction on the pumped storage project in 2025 and begin operating it in 2028.
Other tribes in Washington say this is a familiar story and that it’s important for all area tribes to support others when development projects violate treaty rights or threaten sacred places or resources.
“Our medicines, foods, lands, and waters are sacred to us,” tribal leaders said in their letter. “For too long, these sacred places where we gather our foods and hold our ceremonies, have been threatened by development without consultation with, or consent from, our sovereign tribes. This is unacceptable. Our ways of life are under constant threat from development and climate change. We must protect our sacred places for our future generations.”
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Education Department cancels $3.9B in debt for ITT Technical students
The Department of Education is canceling all remaining federal student loans to borrowers that attended ITT Technical Institute from 2005 until it closed in 2016, the department said Tuesday.
Why it matters: The announcement follows a series of actions by the Education Department to wipe out loans for borrowers whose schools defrauded them.
- "ITT spun a web of lies to coerce students into enrolling into their programs," U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said Tuesday.
- Tuesday's announcement marks the second largest group discharge in the Department of Education history, Cardona added.
Driving the news: The decision will result in 208,000 borrowers receiving $3.9 billion in full loan discharges, per the department.
- The borrowers will have their student loans cleared without any additional action.
- "The evidence shows that for years, ITT’s leaders intentionally misled students about the quality of their programs in order to profit off federal student loan programs, with no regard for the hardship this would cause," Cardona said.
The big picture: The announcement comes after the department investigated internal records, testimony from ITT Tech managers and recruiters and first-hand accounts from borrowers.
- The department also said Tuesday that it notified DeVry University that it is required to pay millions of dollars for approved borrower defense applications.
- The Education Department found that from 2008 to 2015 DeVry University "repeatedly misled prospective students" about graduates' job placement rates.
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Heathrow extends passenger limit into fall amid ongoing travel chaos
London's Heathrow Airport announced on Monday that it will extend its cap on the number of daily departing passengers into the fall.
Why it matters: Heathrow introduced the daily cap in July as it, like many airports, struggled to meet the surge in demand for air travel while dealing with staffing shortages.
- Airline staffing shortages — which have led to flight delays, cancellations, and passenger limits at a number of prominent international airports — are expected to last into 2023.
The big picture: Heathrow will keep the cap at the same limit of 100,000 daily departing passengers through Oct. 29, the airport said in a press release.
- "The cap has resulted in fewer last-minute cancellations, better punctuality and shorter waits for bags," it noted.
- The passenger cap could be lifted earlier if the airport decides it has the increased resources to deal with higher capacity.
What they're saying: “Our primary concern is ensuring we give our passengers a reliable service when they travel. That’s why we introduced temporary capacity limits in July which have already improved journeys during the summer getaway," Ross Baker, Heathrow Chief Commercial Officer, said in the press release.
- “We want to remove the cap as soon as possible, but we can only do so when we are confident that everyone operating at the airport has the resources to deliver the service our passengers deserve," he added. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/16/heathrow-extend-passenger-limit | 2022-08-16T14:24:41Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/16/heathrow-extend-passenger-limit | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Explosions rock Russian ammunition depot in Crimea
A Russian ammunition depot in Crimea was rocked by explosions on Tuesday, injuring two people and spurring the evacuation of thousands of nearby residents.
Why it matters: This is the second time in a week that Russia's war in Ukraine has reverberated through Crimea. Last week a series of explosions at a Russian air base in southwest Crimea destroyed several Russian planes.
- Ukraine has not officially claimed or denied responsibility for the explosions, but an unnamed Ukrainian official told the Washington Post the attack was carried out by special forces operating behind the Russian lines, Axios' Dave Lawler writes.
The big picture: Russia's Defense Ministry acknowledged the explosions in a statement Tuesday, noting that there were no serious injuries and blaming the incident on an "act of sabotage," AP reported.
- The statement added that fires in the area damaged power lines, railroad tracks and apartment buildings.
- "Necessary measures are being taken to eliminate the consequences of sabotage," the statement added, but it did not elaborate on the extent of the ammunition or equipment damaged, per CNN.
- The Dzhankoi district of Crimea, where the explosions were heard, is about 30 miles from Ukraine's Russian-occupied southern region of Kherson, per AP.
State of play: Crimea's Kremlin-installed leader Sergei Aksyonov wrote in a Telegram post that more than 3,000 people were evacuated from the area. He added that two people had suffered minor injuries.
- Ukraine hasn't officially claimed involvement or responsibility in the attack. However, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak took to Twitter to call the explosions "demilitarization in action." | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/16/ukraine-russia-crimea-explosion-depot | 2022-08-16T14:24:59Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/16/ukraine-russia-crimea-explosion-depot | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Metro Phoenix could see temperatures top 125°F by 2035, report shows
Maricopa County is one of many counties across the U.S. where the heat index could reach 125°F at least one day a year by 2053.
- That's according to a hyperlocal analysis of current and future extreme heat events published Monday by the nonprofit First Street Foundation.
Driving the news: The report makes clear where households will be vulnerable to what would now be considered almost unheard-of heat indices, which show how the air feels from the combination of air temperature and relative humidity, Axios' Andrew Freedman reports.
Why it matters: In just 30 years, climate change will result in higher temperatures for longer periods of time in metro Phoenix.
- The Valley is already grappling with increased numbers of heat deaths and illnesses during the past several summers.
By the numbers: First Street shows that Maricopa County currently sees an average of 83 days a year with a heat index above 100°F. By 2053, we could likely see an average of 100 days with a heat index that high.
- Right now, we see an average of 29 consecutive days over 100°F, compared to 45 days expected in 2053.
- Today, the likelihood of a three-plus day heat wave is 55%. In 2053, it will likely be 85% — 30 years ago it was 12%.
Around Arizona: Nearly every county in the state could see temperatures increase at a similar rate in the coming decades.
- Yuma County is expected to have the longest, hottest summer in 2053, with a projected 71 consecutive days above 100 degrees.
Zoom out: The report, which is based on First Street's peer reviewed heat model, shows that as of now, just 8 million Americans are exposed to "extreme heat" — a maximum heat index of greater than 125°F.
- However, due to the anticipated warming over the next three decades, that number is expected to balloon to 107 million people.
Go deeper: How cities are tackling extreme heat
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Help pick the name of the Phoenix Zoo's black-footed ferret kits
Five litters of black-footed ferret kits were born at the Phoenix Zoo this summer, and Tuesday is the last day to vote on some of their names.
State of play: The Phoenix Zoo is one of six facilities worldwide breeding these critters for release to the wild as part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums' black-footed ferret Species Survival Plan.
- Thirteen kits born at the zoo last year have been released in Colorado grasslands.
Why it matters: The black-footed ferret is one of North America's most endangered species and was once thought to be extinct in the wild.
- Through breeding and reintroduction programs, they have returned to their native habitat, including in the prairie grasslands of Arizona.
1 fun thing: The zoo is asking for the public's help to name one litter born to mom Canneles and dad Juniper. Staff and volunteers have narrowed it down to the following choices:
- Freya, Eisa, Idunn and Senua (Norse mythology names)
- Espeon, Umbreon, Flareon and Jolteon (Pokemon characters)
- Maple, Acacia, Cedar and Willow (tree species)
Our picks: If we were in charge, here's what we'd name these little ones:
- Jessica: Agnetha, Ana-Frid, Björn and Benny (ABBA members)
- Jeremy: Lafayette, Douglass, Winston and Kennan (historical figures)
- Editor Ross: Thor, T'Challa, Tony and Thanos (Marvel characters)
What we're watching: The winning names will be announced Friday.
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SF home sales move closer to asking prices
Hunting for homes in San Francisco can be demoralizing, especially knowing that a house might sell for much more than its listing price.
- But there's a positive trend for buyers — the gap between asking price and actual selling price appears to be shrinking.
What's happening: Single family homes in San Francisco sold for 8.6% over their list price on average in July, down from a 13.7% average overbid the same month in 2021, according to the San Francisco Multiple Listing Service, a database for realtors.
- Local agent Eileen Bermingham, who runs the Inside San Francisco Real Estate blog, confirmed these numbers with Axios.
- Similarly, condo sales in July averaged 1.5% over their asking prices, compared to a 4.4% average overbid last July.
What they're saying: "This tells me that the market is cooling a bit and may be coming down from a single-family home-buying frenzy," Bermingham wrote in a recent post.
By the numbers: 179 single-family homes sold in July compared to the 247 homes that sold in July 2021, according to MLS.
- The median sale price was $1.67 million, down from $1.85 million the prior year.
- As for condos, 196 sold in July versus 316 in July 2021 with median prices dropping slightly from $1.212 million to $1.202 million.
Of note: 36 homes and 9 condos still sold for over 20% of their asking prices in July.
What's next: Bermingham says buyers and sellers are often on vacation in August, which could lead to an uptick in activity post Labor Day.
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State's plan to split monkeypox vaccines will only go so far
Washington health care providers are splitting doses of monkeypox vaccine to stretch the state's limited supply, but it still may not be enough to inoculate everyone at high risk of infection.
Why it matters: Public health officials estimate roughly 77,000 people statewide are at high risk of contracting monkeypox — yet the state's vaccine allotment from the federal government so far is about 24,000 doses.
The latest: Health providers in Washington have started dividing doses and injecting them under the top layer of skin, following an emergency use authorization issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week.
- The shallower, intradermal injection "will increase the total number of doses available for use by up to five-fold," according to the FDA.
Yes, but: State health officials say some clinics have not been able to obtain a full five doses from each vaccine vial, making it unclear how many can ultimately be produced from the state's limited supply.
- Some patients shouldn't receive the smaller, intradermal dose, limiting the number of doses that can be divided and stretched between patients, the health department said.
- Minors and people with certain types of scarring, for instance, will still require a full dose, according to local health officials.
Zoom in: A spokesperson for Public Health — Seattle & King County told Axios in an email that given those factors, "our current dose allocation of 9,160 will not meet the need fully."
- "More doses are expected soon, but we are also keeping second vaccinations in mind," the spokesperson, Christina Bradic, wrote in an email to Axios.
- Of note: The monkeypox vaccine is supposed to be administered in a two-dose series.
By the numbers: As of Monday, the state health department recorded 282 cases of monkeypox, with 240 in King County.
Background: While the current outbreak has largely been concentrated among men who have sex with men, anyone can contract monkeypox from close contact with someone who has been infected.
- Symptoms can include a fever, headache and rash, which may appear anywhere on the body.
What's next: So far, public health officials have focused their vaccination efforts on those who have had confirmed exposure to the virus or who may have recently been exposed.
- Broad, preemptive vaccinations aren't underway because of the limited supply.
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TigerConnect makes first appearance on the Inc. 5000, Ranking No. 3297 with three-year revenue growth of 160 percent.
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TigerConnect, maker of healthcare's most powerful clinical collaboration platform, today announced that it has been named to the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies. This prestigious honor follows a period of 3-year revenue growth, a strategic investment from Vista Equity Partners, and appointment of a new president in the first half of 2022.
"We are thrilled to be recognized by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America," said Brad Brooks, co-founder and CEO of TigerConnect. "This honor is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our entire team. As we continue to scale our business and expand our reach, we remain focused on our mission of providing best-in-class healthcare communication solutions that radically improve the way care is delivered."
TigerConnect has helped thousands of health systems of all sizes increase care team collaboration and expedite decision-making while improving patient outcomes and reducing costs. The company continues to deliver innovation across the TigerConnect portfolio — which includes cloud-based clinical communications, physician scheduling, and patient engagement, while modernizing its nurse alarm management and event notification solution — to further enable providers to deliver better, safer patient care.
"TigerConnect's inclusion on the Inc 5000 list is further evidence of the growing demand for our communication platform in the healthcare industry," said Melissa Bell, president of TigerConnect. "We look forward to continued success as we help our customers deliver better care to their patients."
Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2018. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2021. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2018 is $100,000; the minimum for 2021 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places. The top 500 companies on the Inc. 5000 are featured in Inc. magazine's September issue. The entire Inc. 5000 can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
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TigerConnect transforms healthcare with the industry's most widely adopted clinical collaboration platform – uniquely modernizing how doctors, nurses, care teams, patients, and data connect. With solutions spanning care communication, patient engagement, scheduling, alarm notifications, nurse call, and more, TigerConnect accelerates productivity, reduces costs, and improves patient outcomes, safely and securely. Trusted by more than 7,000 healthcare organizations for user-friendly yet enterprise-ready solutions, TigerConnect delivers 99.99% verifiable uptime for more than 10 million messages each day. To learn more about TigerConnect, visit www.tigerconnect.com.
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Homeowners can create a customizable, luxurious getaway inside the home
YORK, Pa., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolf Home Products®, an innovator and leader in the building products industry, announced the expansion of its bath offerings with the introduction of Wolf Showers.
The Wolf Shower line allows homeowners to create a new, refreshed style for their bathroom with a variety of shower bases, wall panels, accessories and more to match their home aesthetic.
"Over the last year, we've seen homeowners reevaluate their homes and invest more into them," said Craig Danielson, President, and CEO of Wolf Home Products. "The launch of the Wolf Showers will present consumers with customized options that allow them to select showers that directly reflect their unique style preferences."
Wolf Showers are made of cultured marble that mirror the rich colors and depth of detail of natural stone, but at a fraction of the cost. Homeowners can piece together their own custom combinations by selecting a shower base, wall panels and accessories in the color and size of their choice. Offering over 36 finishes, Wolf Showers cultured marble color options can match the bathroom vision of any homeowner.
Shower bases are available with a non-slip and pitched-to-drain floor and accept standard size drains. They can be customized for length, depth and shape and can become handicap accessible. Wall panels can also be designed in various dimensions and come in a variety of patterns, including:
- Smooth
- Traditional
- Shiplap
- Subway tile
- Interlock tile
Shower accessories, such as soap trays and shelves, are vital to keeping the bathroom organized and clean. These items are practical in function and also crafted of cultured marble to complete any design.
Wolf Home Products continues to expand the range of its product offerings for contractors, builders, and designers to meet the demands of their customers. Wolf Home Products also distributes decking, railing, siding, and trim through its network of 3,500+ independent dealers.
To learn more about Wolf Showers, visit www.wolfhomeproducts.com/showers.
Wolf Home Products®, is an innovator in the building products industry. Transforming homes for more than 175 years, Wolf Home Products has been the preferred home building products brand by families across North America who value the importance of their home and time together to build lasting memories in the spaces they enjoy most. With a vast inventory of kitchen and bath, outdoor living and building products, Wolf Home Products delivers orders in a fraction of the time, ensuring unparalleled value when and where customers need it. Wolf stands behind its service, cultivated with years of business experience into a total satisfaction guarantee.
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This Is the Perfect Plan to Rewild the American West. There’s Just One Problem: Politics.
Western Rewilding Network calls for replacing livestock grazing on public lands with protected habitat for two of the most controversial wild species
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A new paper written by 20 wildlife biologists and ecologists and published in the journal BioScience this month offers a simple, cost-effective solution to many of the problems plaguing the West: climate change, a loss of biodiversity, and even mega-fires. The authors suggest we replace livestock grazing across large swaths of federal public lands with protected habitat for two controversial and seemingly unrelated species—wolves and beavers.
Dubbed the Western Rewilding Network, the plan is remarkable in both its simplicity and the studied effectiveness of its proposed solution. Cows produce greenhouse gases and harm ecosystems. Grazing them on public lands doesn’t offer much economic benefit to anyone outside of a handful of ranchers. Wolves and beavers restore those ecosystems to health from top to bottom, altering the presence, behavior, and overall well-being of plants and animals—without much input from or cost to humans.
The authors put the Rewilding Network proposal together in response to President Biden’s call to conserve 30 percent of American lands and waters by 2030. “This is the best possible science on how to do that,” says the study’s lead author, William J. Ripple, a professor of ecology at Oregon State University.
Reintroducing the two species, and protecting habitat for them across 11 major reserves (pictured, top) in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, would return streams to their natural courses, repair riparian habitats, and restore fish populations. It would also address overpopulation and overconcentration of ungulates, like deer and elk, while making those species more resistant to disease, improving access to clean water, reducing the severity of wildfires, and helping to restore forests’ ability to capture atmospheric carbon.
What about the cows? The paper proposes removing them from only 29 percent of current grazing areas on public lands in the West. But there’s no need to worry about hamburger supply. The Rewilding Network authors cite a 2008 study that found that cattle grazing across all public lands only accounted for two percent of beef production nationally. The authors propose buying ranchers out of their grazing allotments with “an economically and socially just federal compensation program,” but don’t specify a price. Instead, they write, “the net economic benefits would be substantial given the social carbon cost of livestock grazing on federal lands.”
There’s just one problem: politics. The authors nod to this briefly: “Although our proposal may at first blush appear controversial or even quixotic,” they write, “we believe that ultra ambitious action is required.”
They cite the converging crisis of “extended drought and water scarcity, extreme heat waves, massive fires triggered at least partly by climate change, and biodiversity loss” as being indicative of a need for urgent adoption of the plan. They don’t, however, acknowledge the political reality that many Republican politicians don’t even agree that climate change is real and are actively trying to dismantle the Endangered Species Act.
The Republican Party controls all branches of state government in Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Montana, and Wyoming—about half of the states in the Rewilding Network. The paper says that “successful rewilding will depend on the reversal of state policies that severely limit wolf and beaver abundances.” But this would require more than a simple policy change. Rather, it would depend on a fundamental shift in the right’s belief systems, dogma, and relationship with voters.
The Republican politicians who run Idaho, Montana, and Utah have been conducting a war on wolves in recent decades. Montana’s governor received a warning from the state’s fish and wildlife department in 2021 after trapping a wolf without the required permits, and signed an order dramatically expanding wolf hunting right up to the border with Yellowstone National Park. Idaho legislators signed a new law last year that is aimed at reducing the state’s wolf population by 90 percent. The law is riddled with lies. Across the West, Republican politicians have successfully turned wolves into a culture war issue in which the species and its defenders are cast as monsters trying to destroy the livelihoods of Republican voters. Beavers are less scary than wolves, but frequently run into conflict with homeowners.
“We’re just scientists trying to put forward the best possible science,” Ripple tells me. He says he hopes that by advancing knowledge of realistic and cost-effective means for addressing the converging natural crisis in the West, he’s giving conservation organizations and policymakers the tools they need to achieve political consensus.
I asked Ripple if the Rewilding Network could produce significant results, even if the plan is only implemented in a single, Democrat-leaning state like California or Colorado. It turns out, that’s exactly his hope. Citing the example of legalized marijuana, Ripple contends that, even if only a single state implements the Rewilding Network plan, it will be so successful that other states would feel significant pressure to do the same.
“Ultimately, the climate disaster is going to make this a necessity everywhere,” he says. | https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/western-rewilding-network/ | 2022-08-16T14:29:04Z | eonline.com | treatment | https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/western-rewilding-network/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(NEXSTAR) – Are you looking to move? Picking a new place can be tricky, especially if you’re considering a different state. A new report may help make your decision a little easier – or even convince you to stay in the state you’re already in.
Reviewing dozens of metrics across five key dimensions – affordability, economy, education and health, quality of life, and safety – personal finance site WalletHub analyzed all 50 states to determine which are the best – and worst – states to live in. An overall score was then assigned to each state based on those metrics.
States in New England and the Midwest ranked toward the top of the list while states in the southern portion of the country landed toward the bottom.
Taking the top spot was Massachusetts, which scored highly in terms of education and health, quality of life, safety, and economy, but was among the worst states for affordability. The second and third-ranked states – New Jersey and New York, respectively – also had low affordability scores.
Rounding out the top 10 best states were Idaho, Virginia, New Hampshire, Florida, Wyoming, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
Alternatively, the study’s authors ranked Mississippi as the worst state to live in. While it was considered one of the more affordable states, it scored poorly across the four other dimensions.
The nine other states landing in the bottom 10, following Mississippi, were Alaska, Louisiana, Arkansas, New Mexico, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Alabama, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
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While Alabama landed toward the bottom, it received the best affordability score in this study. California received the worst score. North Dakota was found to have the best economy, Massachusetts the best education and health, New York the best quality of life, and New Jersey the best safety.
Of the 10 best states to live in, three were recently ranked among the best to have a baby in – Massachusetts again topped out the list. Seven of the worst states to live in were also among the worst to have a baby in – Alabama was the worst, followed by Mississippi.
A study released earlier this year found four of the best states to live in – New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Minnesota – had among the longest life expectancies, all greater than 80 years old. Seven of the worst-ranked states had the lowest life expectancies: Mississippi, West Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. | https://www.wspa.com/news/these-are-the-top-states-to-live-in-study-finds-how-does-yours-rank/ | 2022-08-16T14:30:45Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/these-are-the-top-states-to-live-in-study-finds-how-does-yours-rank/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 and was experiencing “mild symptoms,” the White House announced Tuesday. President Joe Biden continues to test negative after recently recovering from the virus but will wear a mask indoors for 10 days as a precaution.
The Bidens have been vacationing in South Carolina since Aug. 10, and the 71-year-old first lady began experiencing symptoms on Monday. Jill Biden, like her husband, has been twice-vaccinated and twice-boosted with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. She has been prescribed the antiviral drug Paxlovid and will isolate at the vacation home for at least five days.
“Close contacts of the First Lady have been notified,” her communications director, Elizabeth Alexander, said in a statement “She is currently staying at a private residence in South Carolina and will return home after she receives two consecutive negative COVID tests.”
The president tested negative for the virus on Tuesday morning, the White House said, but would be wearing a mask indoors for 10 days. He plans to return to Washington on Tuesday to sign Democrats' landmark climate change and health care bill in the afternoon, before continuing to his home in Wilmington, Delaware.
"Consistent with (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) guidance because he is a close contact of the First Lady, he will mask for 10 days when indoors and in close proximity to others," the White House said. It said it would increase the president’s testing cadence and report those results.
When administered within five days of symptoms appearing, Paxlovid, produced by drugmaker Pfizer, has been proven to bring about a 90% reduction in hospitalizations and deaths among patients most likely to get severe disease. But it also is associated with a higher incidence of rebound infections - like the one Joe Biden recovered from on Aug. 7 - in which patients test positive again days after the drug helps them clear the initial infection.
Joe Biden's cases had kept the first couple apart for more than two weeks.
After more than two years and more than 1 million deaths in the United States, the virus is still killing an average of 411 people a day in the U.S., according to the CDC. The unvaccinated are at far greater risk, more than twice as likely to test positive and nine times more likely to die from the virus than those who have received at least a primary dose of the vaccines, according to the public health agency.
The highly transmissible omicron variant is the dominant strain in the U.S., but scientists say it poses a lower risk for severe illness to those who are up to date on their vaccinations. Omicron’s BA.5 substrain, believed to be even more contagious, now makes up more than 88% of U.S. cases. | https://www.wboc.com/news/jill-biden-tests-positive-for-covid-19-has-mild-symptoms/article_2219ac96-1d6b-11ed-9dca-cf3d6acad936.html | 2022-08-16T14:32:51Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/jill-biden-tests-positive-for-covid-19-has-mild-symptoms/article_2219ac96-1d6b-11ed-9dca-cf3d6acad936.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
POCOMOKE CITY, Md.- The USDA Rural Development is providing a $306,600 grant to Pocomoke City to purchase a new ambulance and improve access to emergency medical services, U.S. Congressman Andy Harris (MD-01) announced Tuesday.
The new ambulance will replace an older vehicle near its lifespan that lacks key modern safety and health standards. Included in the new ambulance is a better air filtration and heating system, a more comprehensive air disinfection system, and a power lift system for administering oxygen.
“As a physician, I fully understand the need for local government, especially in our rural communities, to have first-rate emergency medical equipment at their disposal," Harris said. "I was pleased to support the application for this grant and know that it will help save lives in Pocomoke City.” | https://www.wboc.com/news/pocomoke-city-gets-306k-grant-for-new-ambulance/article_c7f43a92-1d60-11ed-b755-9fd3d184c1bc.html | 2022-08-16T14:32:57Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/pocomoke-city-gets-306k-grant-for-new-ambulance/article_c7f43a92-1d60-11ed-b755-9fd3d184c1bc.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Lloyd G. McAllister, Jr. “Jack” of Salisbury, Maryland passed away on Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at the age of 98. Jack graduated from Forest Park High School in Baltimore, Maryland and entered the Army Air Corps in February of 1943. As a Navigator in the 14th Air Force, he flew 74 combat missions throughout China, Burma, and India and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and two Air Medals. Jack was honorably discharged in February of 1946.
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TUCSON, Ariz. — Spared from oblivion by an anonymous stranger, you are a fragile lamb saddled with a stiff debt: Build a cult from the ground up in honor of your savior.
A wacky, endlessly entertaining effort, "Cult of the Lamb" starts at full speed and hardly ever pauses for breath.
Devolver Digital, the mad scientists behind the likes of "Fall Guys," "Enter the Gungeon," and "Hotline Miami," has another watercooler game on its hands.
Phil Villarreal: Devolver Digital just gets it. It's a rare combination to be able to appeal to highbrow and plug-and-play audiences consistently, but the publisher nails the task with nearly every game it produces.
"Cult of the Lamb" hooked me from the get-go, with a clever hook of an intro that sucked me in right away. The subtle ways in which the game indoctrinates you into its spell are entrancing. Subtly and slowly, you combine the skillset it takes to survive, thrive,s and fail in your quest to build your following.
The visuals reminded me of "Castle Crashers," and the soundtrack helped ratchet up the tension. I adore this game. Were you as taken with it, Sean?
Sean Newgent: Devolver's "Inscryption" earlier this year took the deck-building genre and completely reinvented it. "Cult of the Lamb" is a similar experience, mashing genres into a comprehensive and delightful reimagining of a tired, overdone genre.
From the beginning, the game pulled me in with the art. Cutesy animals like something out of "Peppa Pig" being indoctrinated into a devilish cult have a certain dark whimsy to them that it's hard not to smile at. Watching these frightened, cute little creatures become influenced by the dark proselytizing of the player character is satisfying in a twisted way.
The gameplay comes in two parts. You have the roguelite section where you swing around an edged weapon of some denomination "Zelda" style, collecting items and power-ups as you work your way toward a generally very tough boss who will whoop you and force you to go back and reevaluate your strategy and continue grinding for better abilities and weapons.
That comes in the form of a kind of cult simulator. The hub world allows you to indoctrinate followers you collect in the dungeons and build your cult's little parcel of land to be as efficient as possible with food, bedding, hygiene, and other necessary items for a successful religion. As you decide who does what and offer sermons to level up your abilities, you also must keep the cult happy and healthy. Otherwise, you'll see all your followers slink off to other religions or the great beyond.
Which gameplay elements did you find the most satisfying, Phil?
Phil: I'm not a huge fan of games like "Animal Crossing" and "Stardew Valley," but I was oddly attracted to the village management aspects of the game. It gave me a sense of pride and accomplishment to complete the quest and bolster my base.
The not-so-subtle mockery of the influence of religious and political demagoguery was fantastic. There is a thrill in the cynical manipulation and coercion of your innocent marks; wielding them as surrogate weapons carries a guilty pleasure.
Though leaning toward the simplistic side, the challenge—reward loop is thoroughly satisfying, and the procedural generation ensures that no two playthroughs will be the same. I was surprised about how enraptured in its world I became. "Cult of the Lamb" is quickly becoming one of my go-to's as I take a break from meatier endeavors.
Final thoughts, Sean?
Sean: "Cult of the Lamb" can be as deep and rewarding or simple and exciting as you want. While you don't necessarily need to focus on the cult-building aspect if you are more into the dungeon-crawling. It's an adorable facade masking a cynical, dark story subtly told through minuscule dialogue and the gothic environment. "Cult of the Lamb" is fast-paced yet deeply rewarding and a nonstop thrill ride that can take you from decapitating unbelievers to scooping up your followers' excrement in the span of a couple of minutes, and the latter activity is just as fun as the former (somehow).
"Cult of the Lamb" is sure to show up on my list of best games of this year; and I'll gladly join the cult of this game and offer it my indulgences (for $25, it's a small price for gaming heaven) and sermonize to every one of its greatness.
Publishers provided review codes. Phil played on Xbox Series X, and Sean played on PS4.
Past game reviews by Sean and Phil:
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
Diablo II Resurrected
NEO: The World Ends with You
Rainbow Six: Extraction
King of Fighters XV
WWE 2K22
Weird West
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
TMNT: Shredder's Revenge
Capcom Fighting Collection
Capcom Arcade: 2nd Stadium
Stray
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As family budgets tighten, the toy industry seems prepared to weather the storm.
The two largest players, Hasbro and Mattel, reported profits were up year-over-year in the second quarter of 2022.
It comes on the heels of rapid growth during the pandemic.
"Toys have been absolutely on fire," said Steve Pasierb, the president and CEO of the Toy Association.
"When people predicted sales would be off" in 2020, Pasierb said, "they grew enormously. In 2021, [the] same thing."
Over the last few months, as sectors like clothing and video games have begun to report a decline in sales, the toy industry continued to thrive.
"Overall," Pasierb said, "pretty much everything is selling well."
The desire for toys led some economists to classify them as consumer staples rather than discretionary products.
It is a distinctly North American industry.
Pasierb said consumers spend about 50% more on toys than shoppers in Europe and ten times as much as those in Asia.
"At the end of the day, parents and adults love their kids," Pasierb said. "They want to get them that birthday present. They want toys under the tree. They want Hanukkah presents. The toy industry tends to be recession-proof."
Now, the industry is beginning to gear up for the holidays.
The finalists for Toy of the Year were announced Monday.
The list includes Squishmallows, Healthy Roots dolls, and a Lego set based on "The Office."
Pasierb said the challenge for retailers would be keeping toys on the shelves for the holiday season.
"The supply chain is not fixed," he said, noting the long backlogs at the port of Los Angeles.
He said retailers would be stocked up in September and October, but things will get dicier after Black Friday.
His advice?
"If your kid has their heart set on a given toy, buy that now," Pasierb said. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/as-budgets-tighten-parents-are-saving-room-for-toys | 2022-08-16T14:34:40Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/as-budgets-tighten-parents-are-saving-room-for-toys | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
'Lifeless' bodies dumped out side Katsina town as terror sweep the Niger north, thousands are traveled and running for the security. More attacks were registered against security forces over Christmas e\nby BOLD WIBA PUBLIC LECTIONAL DEMOCRATHES NOW-AFRO SLAMOCACY\nInnocent and old were reported by Islamo terror swepping and taking peopkles into fear-state after attacks People will soon be able to buy hearing aids over the counter, without a medical exam, prescription or fitting.
The Food and Drug Administration says its new rule will improve access and bring down the cost of hearing aids for millions of Americans.
“Establishing this new regulatory category will allow people with perceived mild to moderate hearing loss to have convenient access to an array of safe, effective and affordable hearing aids from their neighborhood store or online," said FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert M. Califf.
The new rule only applies to air-conduction hearing aids for people with mild to moderate hearing loss.
A prescription is still needed for hearing aids to treat severe hearing loss.
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RICHMOND, Va. — Alease Taylor celebrated her 101 birthday this week with something new.
Never on her previous 100 birthday celebrations had the Richmond-area native received flowers.
That changed this week when Westport Rehabilitation and Nursing Center staff heard about Taylor's flowerless streak.
"It was brought to our attention that you've never received a bouquet of flowers for your birthday," Westport administrator Emmanuel Motley said during Ms. Taylor's birthday celebration at the center. "So the team here at Westport teamed up with our local Trader Joe's, and they donated 101 stems for your birthday."
Friends and family were also able to join Taylor in celebrating the milestone birthday. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/virginia-woman-receives-flowers-for-the-first-time-on-her-101st-birthday | 2022-08-16T14:35:00Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/virginia-woman-receives-flowers-for-the-first-time-on-her-101st-birthday | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
'Sadly it had all gone pear' — A guide to getting along with pests\nThe only guide ever designed and used exclusively about keeping farm machinery in serviceable pink without unnecessary aggression - a free app developed to ensure healthy machi(...) Siamangs are primates that inhabit the Malay Peninsula and Sumatran rain and monsoon forests in South Asia. They are endangered because of the illegal pet trade and habitat loss. They often mate for life, and fathers are heavily involved in caring for the babies, which are absolutely adorable.
Now that you know a little about these marvelous creatures, how would you like the chance to name one?
The Virginia Zoo in Norfolk participates in a Species Survival Program for all gibbon species, including siamangs. Along with donating to various global conservation efforts to help save these primates from extinction, the program monitors breeding in zoos to help ensure the survival of the species.
Recently, a pair of the zoo’s siamang residents welcomed their own bundle of joy, complete with a birth announcement posted to Facebook.
“BABY ALERT – Our siamangs are parents! Zoo Keepers found 33-year-old mom, Malana, with her newborn infant on Sunday morning,” The Virginia Zoo posted in June. “Both mom and baby appear to be doing well and the baby is nursing.”
The father was revealed to be an 18-year-old named Bali, while the sex of the baby was not immediately determined so it could have uninterrupted bonding time with its mother. Along with the announcement, the zoo posted some pics of the new family.
The Virginia Zoo is holding an online auction to raise funds for its Act for Wildlife conservation fund. The auction began on Aug. 8, and will end on Aug. 19 at 5 p.m. Eastern. The highest bidder will have the honor of naming the baby.
There are a few guidelines for anyone considering placing a bid.
- The name cannot be a duplicate of any other animal at the Virginia Zoo, due to medical documentation and record keeping.
- Of course, the baby siamang’s name cannot contain inappropriate, offensive or objectionable words.
- Finally, all names are subject to approval by the Virginia Zoo.
You can find out more or place a bid on the zoo’s auction webpage. At the time of this writing, the high bid was already over $1,200!
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The FBI and Department of Homeland Security are warning of an increase in threats to federal law enforcement following the FBI's court-authorized search last week of former President Donald Trump's Florida home.
The agencies issued the joint intelligence bulletin on Friday, days after federal agents executed a search warrant at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club and residence in Palm Beach, Fla., according to a person familiar with the document.
Trump, his political allies and conservative media have denounced the FBI and the search, even though it was approved by a federal judge. And they also have pushed Trump's claims that he's being targeted for political reasons.
Trump supporters, including many Republican lawmakers, have echoed those claims and lashed out at the FBI and Justice Department. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, for instance, accused the department of being politically weaponized.
Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray have both pushed back against the allegations.
In his only public remarks since the search, Garland called the attacks "unfounded" and said the people who work at the FBI and Justice Department are "dedicated, patriotic public servants."
Separately, Wray said the attacks on the FBI's integrity "erode respect for the rule of law and are a grave disservice to the men and women who sacrifice so much to protect others."
He also said that violence and threats against law enforcement "should be deeply concerning to all Americans."
The joint intelligence bulletin mentioned an incident last week in Cincinnati, Ohio, where an armed man tried to storm the FBI field office. He then fled and was later shot and killed by police.
Over the weekend, meanwhile, a small group of armed Trump supporters protested outside the FBI field office in Phoenix, Arizona. The demonstration was peaceful, and concluded without incident.
A federal judge in Florida on Friday unsealed the search warrant and property receipt from the Mar-a-Lago search. It showed the agents seized documents labeled secret, top secret as well as some classified at the higher level of TS/SCI.
The warrant indicated that investigators are probing possible violations of three laws, including one that falls under the Espionage Act.
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4moms is recalling more than 2 million of its MamaRoo and RockaRoo infant swings and rockers because of entanglement and strangulation hazards, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced.
There have been two reports of children becoming entangled in the restraint straps of the Mamaroo swing, which hang below the seat of the swing when it's not in use.
In one case, a 10-month-old died from asphyxiation. The other case also involved a 10-month-old who had bruising along his neck.
There have not been any reported incidents with the RockaRoo, according to 4moms.
"Consumers with infants who can crawl should immediately stop using the recalled swings and rockers, place them in an area where crawling infants cannot access and register your product immediately to receive a free strap fastener that will prevent the straps from extending under the swing when not in use," 4moms said in its statement.
The recall covers MamaRoo swings versions 1.0 to 4.0 and all RockaRoo rockers sold between January 2010 and August 2022. Both products were sold at BuyBuy Baby and Target stores, as well as online through Amazon and the 4moms website. A smaller number of these products were also sold in Canada.
The products do not need to be disposed of. 4moms has created a strap fastener that secures the straps when the swings and rockers are not in use.
The straps are free, you just need to email safetyandrecall@4moms.com, call the recall hotline at 877-870-7390, or order a strap online through the website.
4moms said it would also be reaching out to known consumers to let them know about the recall.
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TALLAHASSEE FLA. (WTXL) — Homework Hub is providing free tutoring for students in Leon County and giving parents more options for their kids.
Cindy Baisden is one of the tutors at Homework Hub.
"Tutoring can be a very costly endeavor," said Cindy Baisden.
"I know the needs in the community. I know how much students need that support and guidance," said Baisden.
After teaching in Leon County schools for more than 25 years, Baidsen retired in 2021 during the pandemic.
Baisden told ABC 27 that this resource takes a burden off of some parents.
Homework Hub is offered through the Leon County Public Library System.
It pairs students in kindergarten through eighth grade with an academic tutor in- person or virtually. High school students can also receive tutoring.
"This is what we're here to do," said Library Services Coordinator John Alden Field.
He said the idea is not extra hours of school but a program that builds relationships.
"This is supposed to be more of a relaxed working on your homework at home environment with just a buddy to help you out with it," said Field.
Field said so far Homework Hub has helped more than 100 students in Leon County, fulfilling that mission.
"Anytime that they can share with you their successes and experiences they've had that makes you feel real good inside," said Baisden.
For parents interested in signing their child up they need to fill out an online form providing their child's name, age, grade and school.
Homework Hub also needs more tutor-volunteers.
They're hoping to start in-person sessions soon but need more people to commit.
If you're interested in becoming a volunteer, head to Leon County Volunteer Services. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/homework-hub-provides-free-tutoring-for-leon-county-students | 2022-08-16T14:39:03Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/homework-hub-provides-free-tutoring-for-leon-county-students | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
People will soon be able to buy hearing aids over the counter, without a medical exam, prescription or fitting.
The Food and Drug Administration says its new rule will improve access and bring down the cost of hearing aids for millions of Americans.
“Establishing this new regulatory category will allow people with perceived mild to moderate hearing loss to have convenient access to an array of safe, effective and affordable hearing aids from their neighborhood store or online," said FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert M. Califf.
The new rule only applies to air-conduction hearing aids for people with mild to moderate hearing loss.
A prescription is still needed for hearing aids to treat severe hearing loss.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, approximately 40 million adults aged 20-69 have noise-induced hearing loss. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/fda-green-lights-over-the-counter-hearing-aids | 2022-08-16T14:39:34Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/fda-green-lights-over-the-counter-hearing-aids | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
RICHMOND, Va. — Alease Taylor celebrated her 101 birthday this week with something new.
Never on her previous 100 birthday celebrations had the Richmond-area native received flowers.
That changed this week when Westport Rehabilitation and Nursing Center staff heard about Taylor's flowerless streak.
"It was brought to our attention that you've never received a bouquet of flowers for your birthday," Westport administrator Emmanuel Motley said during Ms. Taylor's birthday celebration at the center. "So the team here at Westport teamed up with our local Trader Joe's, and they donated 101 stems for your birthday."
Friends and family were also able to join Taylor in celebrating the milestone birthday. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/virginia-woman-receives-flowers-for-the-first-time-on-her-101st-birthday | 2022-08-16T14:39:50Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/virginia-woman-receives-flowers-for-the-first-time-on-her-101st-birthday | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. — A Wendy's employee faces second-degree murder charges after allegedly punching a customer in Arizona last month.
On July 26, police were called to the restaurant on Glassford Hill Road for an injured person.
A customer complained about his food order, which led employee Antoine Kendrick to come out from behind the counter and hit the 67-year-old customer in the head, according to the Prescott Valley Police Department.
The customer then fell to the floor, hit his head, and lost consciousness. He was later flown to a Phoenix-area hospital, where he died on Aug. 5.
Kendrick was arrested and initially charged with aggravated assault.
Those charges were later upgraded to second-degree murder, police said.
No other details have been released. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/wendys-employee-charged-with-murder-after-allegedly-punching-customer-in-arizona | 2022-08-16T14:39:56Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/wendys-employee-charged-with-murder-after-allegedly-punching-customer-in-arizona | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
All you need to do is have one conversation with Dhruv Amitabh of Haymarket and it’s clear that he is wise beyond his years. At just 11 years old, he is already a published author. His other talents and interests include Tae Kwon Do — he earned his black belt at age 7— baseball, playing the guitar, horseback riding, and more.
His number one passion, though, is writing.
“He comes up with and writes the stories by himself,” his mom, Shaili says. “We just read the final product.”
Dhruv, who is a sixth grader at Linton Hall School, submitted his story The First Grade Field Trip to the iWRITE writing contest last year and was selected as one of the winning entries to be published in the 2021 ‘iWRITE Short Stories by Kids for Kids Publishing Contest’s Anthology Vol. 12′. As one of the winners, Dhruv was invited to attend iWRITE’s Big Book Signing Celebration at the Hyatt Regency in Houston, Texas. Traveling to Houston and being part of the book signing was a big motivator to keep writing for Dhruv. He was inspired by the other authors he was able to meet during the duration of the trip.
iWRITE’s mission is to build student confidence through writing. They believe that through writing students become more creative and confident, which opens the door to opportunities they never had before.
When he’s not working on writing for school, he’s writing short stories on his own or with friends. He co-authored another story The One Who Started It All with five other students that was published last year.
“My language arts teacher gives me extra writing assignments,” Dhruv said. “We were studying China and I had to write a Chinese legend. I wrote a story about two brothers that had a sibling rivalry. I had to do research to find out who the first king of China was to give the story context.”
Dhruv gets some inspiration from having a love of the Magic Treehouse book series. “He loves reading,” mom Shaili said. “He loves the fantasy, the mythology and the history components. He always loves integrating humor into his stories, as well.”
His latest story is part of a series called The Wild Adventures of Christopher Brown. The story tells the tale of 16-year-old Christopher Brown who lives in a neighborhood called El Puerto in Texas. He is a fan of western movies and loves the Wild West.
“The town he lives in used to be the Wild West, but now it’s a modern town,” Dhruv said. “One day, the Wild West rises from the ground and Christopher Brown is transported back in time where he meets his grandpa. I’m doing research to incorporate it into the story, also.”
When he’s not writing, he has many other hobbies, but he loves baseball. Dhruv has been on his baseball team since 2017.
“I like baseball because the team is always there to support you,” Dhruv said. “They used to call me the Miracle Hitter because I would always get a hit at the last second.” He started baseball with the Brentsville League, but now is part of the Gainesville Haymarket Baseball League.
“He enjoys hitting and has a good supportive team,” mom Shaili said. “He needs team encouragement. He’s always motivated to perform when he has encouragement from his teammates.”
The iWRITE Short Stories by Kids for Kids Vol. 12, which includes Dhruv’s award-winning short story, is available for purchase on Amazon. The One Who Started It Allis also available for purchase online.
This feature appears in the August 2022 issue of Haymarket-Gainesville Lifestyle Magazine. Pick up your copies here! | https://www.insidenova.com/lifestyles/he-s-got-the-write-stuff-meet-dhruv-amitabh/article_b3f38ed6-1d69-11ed-9a96-4f9a206394cd.html | 2022-08-16T14:42:34Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/lifestyles/he-s-got-the-write-stuff-meet-dhruv-amitabh/article_b3f38ed6-1d69-11ed-9a96-4f9a206394cd.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(Motor Authority) — More gas-powered vehicles are coming from Acura, despite an Automotive News (subscription required) report stating that the Acura Integra hatchback launched for the 2023 model year will be the brand’s final launch for a vehicle still equipped with an internal-combustion engine. The story was reported based on an interview with Emile Korkor, assistant vice president of Acura national sales, but the brand refutes AN‘s conclusion.
Acura spokesman Andrew Quillin shared a statement correcting the record. “The AutoNews article referenced is speculative, and not based on confirmed plans or statements. While we can’t comment on future product plans, the recently introduced 2023 Integra will not be the last new ICE vehicle from Acura. Acura will play a critical role in Honda’s transition to electrified vehicles. In fact, as we announced last fall, Acura will lead American Honda’s transition to electrification and digitalization. This begins with an all-new full electric Acura SUV coming in 2024.”
Given the product cycle of Acuras such as the RDX compact crossover and TLX mid-size sedan, the switch to battery-electric powertrains would be extremely difficult. Both are due for an update in the next few years, and we expect them to continue with gas engines.
Nonethless, Acura is moving toward electric vehicles. Korkor in a separate interview with Automotive News published last December said Acura was committed to electric vehicles and would skip launching additional hybrid vehicles as it makes the transition from gas to battery power.
The transition will start as early as the 2024 model year when Acura launches an electric SUV that will be built by General Motors on its Ultium platform found in the 2022 GMC Hummer EV and 2023 Cadillac Lyriq. Parent company Honda will also launch an SUV based on the Ultium platform for 2024. Honda (and likely Acura) also plans EVs based on its own e:Architecture platform starting from 2026.
In addition, we might see an electric NSX in the not too distant future. Acura boss Jon Ikeda confirmed plans for a third-generation NSX last summer when Acura rolled out the 2022 NSX Type S to mark the end of the current second-generation model’s run. His comments at the time implied that the next NSX would be powered by something other than a standalone internal-combustion engine like the first-gen car and a hybrid setup like the second-gen car.
Honda has since teased a pair of electric sports cars, one of which was described as a “flagship” model (shown above) and looks to have proportions like a mid-engine supercar. The other car looks to feature the proportions of a front-engine rear-wheel-drive sports car and as a result may serve as a spiritual successor to the S2000.
Update: This story has been updated to include the statement from Acura and to correct the record that the Integra will not be the last vehicle launched with a gas engine.
— Motor Authority Senior Editor Kirk Bell contributed to this report. | https://www.wspa.com/automotive/acura-integra-wont-be-brands-last-gas-powered-model-launch/ | 2022-08-16T14:43:18Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/automotive/acura-integra-wont-be-brands-last-gas-powered-model-launch/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(Green Car Reports) — Washington State is once again looking to end sales of new internal-combustion cars and trucks by 2030.
The state legislature passed what started under HB 1204 and SB 5256, collectively known as Clean Cars 2030 and placed into the state’s supplemental transportation budget, on March 11. The legislation would shift policy toward a goal: all new vehicles sold in Washington electric, starting with the 2030 model year. It would exclude vehicles weighing more than 10,000 pounds, according to a fact sheet.
Specifically, the language says this: “(1) A target is established for the state that all publicly owned and privately owned passenger and light duty vehicles of the model year 2030 or later that are sold, purchased, or registered in Washington state be electric vehicles. (2) On or before December 31, 2023, the interagency electric vehicle coordinating council created in section 428 of this act shall complete a scoping plan for achieving the 2030 target.”
If this sounds familiar, that’s because a similar bill was proposed last year. However, that bill was vetoed by Washington Governor Jay Inslee, as it was tied to a road-usage charge he opposed.
In addition to setting that goal, Clean Cars 2030 calls for a planning process to prepare for 100% electrification and incentivizes private-sector investment in charging infrastructure. It also calls on utilities to invest in the extra grid capacity needed for more EVs.
The latter element is more aggressive than California’s plan to end sales of new internal-combustion vehicles. The Golden State was the first to do so, setting a 2035 target. The California plan also includes plug-in hybrids, so it’s unclear if Washington will follow suit. A bill modeled on Washington’s was recently introduced in the Rhode Island legislature, so it could serve as a template for other states in the absence of federal leadership.
Even if Washington’s attempt to end gasoline car sales fails a second time, the Evergreen State is still set to substantially reduce emissions. It’s also moved to adopt California’s zero-emission vehicle requirements, joining nine other states that have already done so. Minnesota and Virginia have also moved to adopt elements of the California rules recently.
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NOTE: This story was updated to add more details about the legislation and clarification that this is a target, not a mandate. | https://www.wspa.com/automotive/washington-state-aims-to-end-gasoline-car-sales-by-2030/ | 2022-08-16T14:43:25Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/automotive/washington-state-aims-to-end-gasoline-car-sales-by-2030/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Hill) — Former President Donald Trump has shifted his defenses for taking classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago residence in the wake of the FBI search of the estate last week when agents seized 33 items, including nearly a dozen sets of classified items.
Trump has ripped the FBI and Department of Justice while giving varying explanations for why he did nothing wrong.
On Monday, in an interview with Fox News, he said the “temperature has to be brought down” but then added that his supporters would not “stand for another scam,” repeating his criticisms. Those statements came amid worries that law enforcement could come under attack given the fierce criticism of the FBI coming from some voices on the right.
An unsealed warrant shows the FBI executed the warrant while investigating whether the Espionage Act had been violated. Agents seized 11 sets of classified documents from the estate. The warrant was approved by a federal judge.
Here’s what Trump has said about the FBI’s actions and his shifting explanations about the documents.
FBI search was unnecessary and inappropriate
Trump told the world that the FBI had executed a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago home, calling it “not necessary or appropriate.”
He said at the time he had been “working and cooperating with the relevant government agencies” and described his home as “under siege” by FBI agents.
Investigators had provided Trump’s attorneys with their own copy of the search warrant and a receipt that would have itemized the materials seized during the search, which follows standard practice.
Trump at the time also decried the search as “political persecution” and included a link for donations to his political action committee in his statement. The investigation comes amid growing speculation over how soon the former president might announce he’s running again in 2024.
Trump and his supporters also in the days that followed floated a conspiracy theory that the FBI had planted evidence at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump’s initial reaction led to a flurry of finger-pointing from his supporters, including Republican lawmakers who blamed President Joe Biden and claimed the president had used the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) to go after his political opponent.
On Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland made his first public appearance since the search to say he personally made the decision to seek a warrant and that it was not done “lightly.” He announced at the time that the DOJ would move to unseal the warrant authorizing the search.
Documents were declassified under a standing order
After initially suggesting evidence had been planted, Trump’s argument evolved as he and his team said the president had declassified the documents that were at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump on his social media platform Truth Social argued that the FBI didn’t need to seize anything because they could have had these documents anytime.
Court records unsealed on Friday indicated the FBI seized 33 items, including 11 sets of classified items and some marked as top secret. The Justice Department on Friday disclosed that the search was a part of the agency’s investigation into whether Trump violated the Espionage Act and other federal statutes.
The Trump camp put out a statement later, saying “everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time” and that Trump would take documents, including classified documents, to his residence to “prepare for work the next day.”
“He had a standing order that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them,” the statement said.
The 33 items that were seized from the property included the executive order of clemency for longtime Trump ally Roger Stone, information regarding the “President of France,” binders of photographs, and a handwritten note. The FBI reportedly sought documents containing information about nuclear weapons in the search, but it’s unclear if such records were seized.
The documents seized are protected by attorney-client and executive privileges
In his latest defense, Trump claims the documents are protected by attorney-client and executive privileges and called on the FBI to return them on Sunday. Trump said on his social media platform that the FBI “knowingly should not have taken” these privileged documents.
Attorney-client privilege enables communications between an attorney and their client to remain private during an investigation and executive privilege allows the president to keep some communications private from the other two branches of government.
Trump tried to use the executive privilege defense before in an effort to block records from being turned over to the House Jan. 6 committee for the probe into the Capitol riot. A federal appeals court in December denied his claims of such privilege. | https://www.wspa.com/hill-politics/here-are-trumps-shifting-defenses-for-taking-classified-documents-to-mar-a-lago/ | 2022-08-16T14:43:39Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/hill-politics/here-are-trumps-shifting-defenses-for-taking-classified-documents-to-mar-a-lago/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Corban Irwin is the health promotions coordinator assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Rota, where he works to promote healthy habits and lifestyles within the Rota community.
“I get to interact with many different populations in the community,” he said. “I help coordinate health fairs, fitness challenges, classes, and sit on boards that help steer quality/health for the community.”
Similar to his daily duties, his work experience has been varied as well. Irwin, from a ranch in rural North Dakota, has worked with department of transportation on road construction, welder in oil fields, served as an academic advisor, and managed stores.
Pulling on his bachelor’s in exercise science with emphasis in health education from Grand Canyon University, Irwin enjoys that the Health Promotion team and himself are able to impact the Rota community.
“Our team is always striving to create new opportunities to promote health,” he said. “I also really enjoy that even though I am ‘promoting’ something, I am just here to help people better their lives (at no cost).”
It comes as no surprise that Irwin enjoys working out and fitness given his education and work experience.
“I am also a backpack collector and spend a lot of time researching and collecting rare/unique backpacks to aid in my travels,” he said.
Irwin describes the ease of traveling as one of his favorite parts about being stationed in Rota.
“I love to travel and being stationed here has been a dream come true for that,” he said. “I have am quickly approaching my 30th country visited and have no plans of slowing down.”
So whether you see Irwin at the pool handing out healthy snacks and talking sun safety or giving a presentation about health concerns in the community, he encourages anyone to stop by and say hi.
“I am very approachable and would love to help anyone along with their health journey.”
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(The Hill) – More than 5 billion would die from starvation in the event of a full-scale nuclear war between the United States and Russia, a new study has found.
That’s the worst-case scenario in a Nature Food study published on Monday that examined the indirect death toll caused by soot from burning cities and forests entering the atmosphere.
The Rutgers University team arrived at that death toll by estimating how much global crop yields would suffer as the drifting clouds blocked out the sunlight that feeds plants that feed people, according to a statement accompanying the study.
First, researchers estimated the quantities of ash that would be thrown up by nuclear wars of varying size, as major cities in India, Pakistan, the United States or Russia burned. Then they loaded that into a U.S. government-sponsored climate forecasting tool to track how that ash would move around the globe — and where and how much it would impact food production.
In the event of a U.S.-Russia nuclear war, the model found that the planet’s wind patterns would bring circling clouds of smoke and particulates to the skies above major food exporters like the U.S., China, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Crashing crop yields in those countries would trigger a cascade of escalating consequences that would draw the rest of the world into the crisis. With harvests collapsing, so would food exports — spreading famine across Africa and the Middle East that depend on imported food for survival.
Under that scenario, three-quarters of people on Earth would be starving within two years after the missiles stopped falling — and that would only be the beginning.
By three or four years after the nuclear exchange, global crop, animal and fishing yields would have dropped by 90 percent — spreading famine, disruption and collapse further, and triggering other feedback loops.
Much of the details of the extent to which crops would fail under such an exchange remains unclear, co-author Lili Xia of Rutgers said.
“For instance, the ozone layer would be destroyed by the heating of the stratosphere, producing more ultraviolet radiation at the surface, and we need to understand that impact on food supplies,” Xia added.
Such a war would need to reach the scale of a full-scale exchange between superpowers to spread famine far beyond the blast zone.
Even in the most limited nuclear war the team examined — a localized nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan — global food production dived by 7 percent from soot and ash from the explosions entering the atmosphere.
That number is far smaller than the crop failures the model found for the U.S.-Russia case study. But it’s also bigger than any disturbance to world food supplies since the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization started tracking them.
Such a disruption would detonate against a world already facing the prospect of falling crop yields from climate change.
A NASA study last year — also in Nature Food — found that corn yields would begin to fall by 2030, suggesting that “major breadbasket regions” would begin to face the risks from human-caused climate change “sooner than previously anticipated.”
The conclusion of the new research was clear: that nuclear war would “obliterate global food systems,” co-author Alan Robock said in a statement.
“If nuclear weapons exist, they can be used, and the world has come close to nuclear war several times,” Robock said. “Banning nuclear weapons is the only long-term solution.”
He pointed to the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which has been ratified by 66 nations but none of the nine nuclear states.
“Our work makes clear that it is time for those nine states to listen to science and the rest of the world and sign this treaty,” he said. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/billions-would-die-from-starvation-in-nuclear-war-research-finds/ | 2022-08-16T14:44:41Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/billions-would-die-from-starvation-in-nuclear-war-research-finds/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Hill) – A medical journal has published evidence of the first suspected case of human-to-pet transmission of the monkeypox virus.
A dog living with two men in France who were infected with the virus began exhibiting symptoms 12 days after they did, according to The Lancet. The 4-year-old male Italian greyhound, which had no previous medical disorders, tested positive after showing symptoms including lesions and pustules on its abdomen.
Through DNA testing, researchers determined the viruses infecting the two men and the dogs were both monkeypox.
Since they became symptomatic, the two men had kept their dog away from other people and other pets, but had slept with the animal in their bed.
“Our findings should prompt debate on the need to isolate pets from monkeypox virus-positive individuals,” the report reads.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned against possible human-to-pet transmission in their monkeypox guidance.
“Infected animals can spread Monkeypox virus to people, and it is possible that people who are infected can spread Monkeypox virus to animals through close contact,” the guidance reads.
Those who are infected are advised to avoid activities with their pet including petting, cuddling, hugging, kissing, licking, sharing sleeping areas and sharing food.
While the full symptoms of monkeypox in pets are unknown, watch for “potential signs of illness including lethargy, lack of appetite, coughing, nasal secretions or crust, bloating, fever, and/or pimple- or blister-like skin rash,” the CDC warns.
Monkeypox spreads when people have close, physical contact with an infected person’s lesions, their clothing or bedsheets. Most people recover without needing treatment, but the lesions can be extremely painful and more severe cases can result in complications including brain inflammation and death.
Globally, there have been more than 31,000 cases of monkeypox reported in nearly 90 countries. Last month, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak to be a global emergency and American officials have classified their epidemic as a national emergency.
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(The Hill) — First lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 while on vacation with President Joe Biden and other family members in South Carolina, the White House announced Tuesday,
“After testing negative for COVID-19 on Monday during her regular testing cadence, the First Lady began to develop cold-like symptoms late in the evening. She tested negative again on a rapid antigen test, but a PCR test came back positive,” Elizabeth Alexander, the first lady’s communications director, said in a statement.
The first lady is fully vaccinated and has received two booster shots. She has mild symptoms, the White House said, and will start taking Paxlovid, an antiviral drug that has proven effective at preventing serious cases of COVID-19.
“She is currently staying at a private residence in South Carolina and will return home after she receives two consecutive negative COVID tests,” Alexander said in a statement.
The president tested negative on Tuesday after taking a rapid test, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tweeted.
“Consistent with CDC guidance because he is a close contact of the First Lady, he will mask for 10 days when indoors and in close proximity to others. We will also increase the President’s testing cadence and report those results,” Jean-Pierre tweeted.
Jill Biden’s COVID-19 case comes roughly two weeks after the president was able to leave isolation following a rebound case of COVID-19. Rebound cases can happen in patients who take Paxlovid when a patient tests negative for the virus, only to test positive again a few days later.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A woman who bought a home valued at $594,481 got more than she bargained for when the sale included about $50 million in additional lots — no charge.
When county officials went over the documents for the sale in Washoe County, Nevada, they found what appeared to be a copy-and-paste error that added 84 additional lots and two common spaces to the transaction.
The error was first reported by the Reno Gazette-Journal. The newspaper did not name the woman, but said it reached out to a Sparks resident with the same name as the buyer and received a “no comment” response with a smiley face emoji.
The home in Sparks, Nevada, was sold in July to a woman who had no idea she was getting the extra property. The home she purchased and all the extra lots are in a Toll Brothers subdivision called Stonebrook.
County officials told the Gazette-Journal on Monday that Westminster Title’s Las Vegas office appeared to be the source of the error.
Westminster Title branch manager Tammy Barnes didn’t have much to say about the mistake. She said, “It’s been resolved.” She said her office doesn’t copy and paste information, adding that the error was on a “base document,” but offered no further comment.
To sort out the mess, the homebuyer will have to transfer the title back to Toll Brothers so they can be recorded and sold again properly, according to the Washoe County Assessor’s Office. Some of the properties had previously been built on and sold, the newspaper reported. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/woman-buys-594k-nevada-home-mistake-adds-84-lots-to-deal/ | 2022-08-16T14:45:43Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/woman-buys-594k-nevada-home-mistake-adds-84-lots-to-deal/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
AICC General Secretary, KC Venugopal, was questioned by the CBI in a sexual assault case filed by the accused in the solar scam.
The senior Congress leader was questioned in New Delhi the other day in the case from May 2012.
According to the allegation, Venugopal sexually assaulted the woman at Rose House, the official residece of former minister AP Anilkumar.
The complainant had alleged that the assault took place when she reached Anilkumar's residence seeking support in a tourism-related project. The complainant had reportedly handed over digital evidence to the investigators.
It was the state Crime Branch that handled the case initially before the CBI took over during the previous LDF government's term.
The Congress had then dubbed it a 'politically motivated' move claiming the CPM-led state government could not find anything against its leaders.
In May this year, a CBI team visited the Cliff Houe, the official residence of Kerala's chief minister, for evidence collection, in the allegation against former chief minister Oommen Chandy.
The complainant had alleged that Chandy had harassed her at the Cliff House in September, 2012.
The Crime Branch had registered six FIRs. Besides, Venugopal, Chandy, Hibi Eden, Adoor Prakash and BJP leader A P Abdulla Kutty were accused in the case. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/16/solar-scam-sexual-assault-case-cbi-questions-kc-venugopal.amp.html | 2022-08-16T14:50:51Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/16/solar-scam-sexual-assault-case-cbi-questions-kc-venugopal.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kochi: Indumathi Karthiresan scored a hat-trick as Lord's FA Kochi played out a thrilling 4-4 draw with Kerala Blasters in the Kerala Women's League at the Maharaja's College Ground here on Tuesday.
Player of the match Indumathi netted the equaliser in injury time to salvage a point for her side.
Blasters had scored identical 10-0 wins overs Emirates SC and SBFA Poovar in their earlier matches, while Lord's had thumped Don Bosco FA 12-2 in their opener.
Result: Kerala Blasters 4 ((Malavika 7 (pen), Muskan Subba 57, Nararem Priyangka Devi 60, 75) drew with Lord's FA 4 (Indumathi Karthiresan 17, 40, 90+2; Win Theingi 30). | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/football/2022/08/16/kerala-womens-league-lords-fa-hold-kerala-blasters-in-thriller.html | 2022-08-16T14:51:11Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/football/2022/08/16/kerala-womens-league-lords-fa-hold-kerala-blasters-in-thriller.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Delhi: There was palpable tension among top players as well as prominent ISL and I-League clubs after the FIFA ban on the All India Football Federation (AIFF) due to "third party interference".
As per Article 13 of FIFA Statutes, the letter sent by the world football governing body general secretary Fatma Samoura, states that "AIFF representatives and club teams are therefore no longer entitled to take part in the international competition until the suspension is lifted.
"This also means that neither the AIFF nor any of its members or officials may benefit from any development programmes, courses or training from FIFA and/or the AFC."
While there is no imminent threat to the AFC Asian Cup participation by the senior men's team in late 2023 or early 2024, some of the games slated for clubs and age-group national teams in the next few months could well be a tricky terrain.
Men's national team
The two friendly internationals against Vietnam (September 24) and Singapore (September 27) will stand cancelled if the ban is not revoked at the earliest.
Some years ago, the Indian men's team used to struggle to get quality games on FIFA international friendly dates, and a lot of the blame lay at the doors of the AIFF administration.
Things did change slightly after Croatian head coach Igor Stimac pushed for more friendlies, something that his predecessors Stephen Constantine and Wim Koevermans lacked. The ban has brought the senior team back to square one.
Anxious wait for Gokulam women
Indian Women's League champions Gokulam Kerala were set to open their campaign in the AFC Women's Club Championship against home side Sogdiana-W in Qarshi, Uzbekistan on August 23.
The Kozhikode-based side is then set to face Bam Khatoon FC of Iran in its next round-robin match on August 26.
While the Supreme Court has listed the matter for urgent hearing on Wednesday, it will be an anxious wait for the team that touched down in Tashkent on Tuesday.
Gokulam Kerala had participated in the last edition of the continental pilot tournament last year and finished third in the four-team event.
Bagan's AFC Cup Inter-Zonal semifinals under a cloud
One of India's most loved football clubs, ATK Mohun Bagan, were supposed to play their AFC Cup Inter-Zonal semifinals on September 7, but a look at the AFC website will show that ATKMB's name currently doesn't feature among eight clubs in the play-offs.
The teams that are listed on the website are PSM Makassar, Kedah Darul Aman, Viettel FC, Kuala Lumpur City FC, Arabi SC, Al Seeb, East Riffa, Al Riffa.
Mohun Bagan played really well in the group stage and their fans were eagerly waiting for the upcoming games at the continental level.
AFC U-20 qualifiers
India, who won the U-20 SAFF Cup recently under the tutelage of S Venkatesh, are due to play the AFC U-20 qualifiers in Iraq.
India are clubbed in a very tough group with hosts Iraq, Australia and Kuwait.
The matches are slated for September 14 (Iraq), 16 (Australia) and 18 (Kuwait) respectively at Basra.
Could lose out on massive FIFA grants
It is being learnt that FIFA has reportedly sanctioned grants to the tune of $3 million in last three years.
This money is used by the AIFF for development of grassroots football in the country. If the ban persists, annually, the AIFF stands to lose $500,000 in grants.
An AIFF insider said that FIFA currently pays its member nations in kind -- such as construction of astro-turf, providing footballs, jerseys and other gears -- and not in cash.
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American Airlines places deposit on 20 supersonic planes
DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines has agreed to buy up to 20 supersonic jets and put down a non-refundable deposit on the planes that are still on the drawing board and years away from flying.
Neither American nor the manufacturer Boom Supersonic would provide financial details Tuesday, including the size of American’s deposit. American becomes the second U.S. customer for Boom after a similar announcement last year from United Airlines for 15 of the planes, called the Overture.
It has been nearly 20 years since the last supersonic passenger flight by Concorde, the British-French plane that failed to catch on because of the high cost of flights.
Boom CEO Blake Scholl insists his company’s plane will be different when it debuts in 2029, with tickets costing about $4,000 to $5,000 to fly from New York to London in about three and one-half hours.
“There are tens of millions of passengers every year flying in business class on routes where Overture will give a big speed-up,” Scholl said in an interview, “and airlines will be able to do it profitably.”
Skeptics have questioned Boom’s ambitious timetable, especially in light of the many years it has taken Boeing, an established manufacturer, to get planes or even retrofits to planes approved by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Also, Boom does not yet have an engine manufacturer lined up. It is talking with Rolls Royce and others.
Boom says the plane will fly entirely on sustainable aviation fuel, often made from plant material, which is currently in short supply and very expensive.
Boom says the Overture program will cost between $6 billion and $8 billion. The plane carries a list price of $200 million, although other manufacturers routinely give airlines deep discounts.
Last month, Boom announced changes to the plane’s design to make it simpler and less expensive to build and maintain. The most striking change was going from three engines, including a different type on the tail, to four identical engines under the delta-shaped wings.
The union representing American’s pilots questioned the timing of the airline’s investment in planes that won’t be available for several years at best. American has struggled this summer, canceling more than 9,300 flights since June 1 — more than double the cancellations at United, Delta or Southwest — according to FlightAware.
“Investing in today’s operation should be management’s sole focus,” said Dennis Tajer, a spokesman for the union. “If there aren’t any changes to how management schedules this airline and its pilots, these will just be supersonic cancellations.”
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A US congressional delegation led by Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Ed Markey has arrived in Taipei on an unannounced two-day visit, the second US congressional delegation to Taiwan this month.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi drew the ire of China when she became the first US speaker to visit in 25 years at a time when Washington-Beijing relations have been especially tense.
The new five-member delegation is visiting the self-governing island in an effort to "reaffirm the United States' support for Taiwan" and "will encourage stability and peace across the Taiwan Strait," a spokesperson for Markey said in a statement.
The delegation includes Democratic Reps. John Garamendi, Alan Lowenthal and Don Beyer, and Republican Rep. Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen, the statement added.
The group led by Markey will meet with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen and Foreign Minister Joseph Wu during the visit, and will also hold discussions with the Taiwanese parliament's Foreign Affairs and National Defense committee on security and trade issues, Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
The foreign ministry added that it sincerely welcomed the delegation, and thanked them for demonstrating the US' strong support toward Taiwan despite escalating tensions with Beijing.
The senator's spokesperson said the delegation "will meet with elected leaders and members of the private sector to discuss shared interests including reducing tensions in the Taiwan Strait and expanding economic cooperation, including investments in semiconductors."
China hit back against the visit, saying it would take "resolute countermeasures in response to the US's provocations" in a statement Sunday from the Chinese Embassy in Washington.
"Members of the US Congress should act in consistence with the US government's one-China policy," embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu said on Twitter.
Liu said China "firmly opposes any kind of official ties" between the US and Taiwan, and the latest congressional delegation visit "proves that the US does not want to see stability across the Taiwan Straits and has spared no effort to stir up confrontation between the two sides and interfere in China's internal affairs."
China's ruling Chinese Communist Party views Taiwan as part of its territory, despite having never controlled it, and has long vowed to "reunify" the island with the Chinese mainland, by force if necessary. Ahead of Pelosi's visit, Beijing had repeatedly warned of dire consequences should the trip go ahead -- even going as far as to warn US President Joe Biden that those who played with fire would "perish" by it.
During her trip to Taiwan, Pelosi, a California Democrat, said the visit intended to make it "unequivocally clear" that the US would "not abandon" the democratically governed island.
China responded to the speaker's trip by launching military exercises, which China's Ministry of Defense said began with drills in both the seas and airspace surrounding Taiwan. In addition to the drills, Beijing has canceled future phone calls between Chinese and US defense leaders, suspended bilateral climate talks and sanctioned Pelosi and her immediate family.
The White House has summoned China's ambassador to condemn the military activities and to stress the US' wish to avoid a crisis in the region. The White House has said there is no change to the US' "One China" policy and that Washington recognizes the People's Republic of China as the sole legitimate government of China.
The US maintains close unofficial ties with Taiwan, and is bound by law to provide Taiwan with defensive arms. But it remains deliberately vague on whether it would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, a policy known as "strategic ambiguity."
This story has been updated with additional background information.
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Jill Biden tests positive for COVID-19, has ‘mild’ symptoms
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 and was experiencing “mild symptoms,” the White House announced Tuesday. President Joe Biden continues to test negative after recently recovering from the virus but will wear a mask indoors for 10 days as a precaution.
The Bidens have been vacationing in South Carolina since Aug. 10, and the 71-year-old first lady began experiencing symptoms on Monday. Jill Biden, like her husband, has been twice-vaccinated and twice-boosted with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. She has been prescribed the antiviral drug Paxlovid and will isolate at the vacation home for at least five days.
“Close contacts of the First Lady have been notified,” her communications director, Elizabeth Alexander, said in a statement “She is currently staying at a private residence in South Carolina and will return home after she receives two consecutive negative COVID tests.”
The president tested negative for the virus on Tuesday morning, the White House said, but would be wearing a mask indoors for 10 days. He plans to return to Washington on Tuesday to sign Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care bill in the afternoon, before continuing to his home in Wilmington, Delaware.
He recovered from a rebound case of the virus on Aug. 7.
“Consistent with CDC guidance because he is a close contact of the First Lady, he will mask for 10 days when indoors and in close proximity to others,” the White House said. It said it would increase the president’s testing cadence and report those results.
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Majority of US renters saw price hike in the past year, study says
Published: Aug. 16, 2022 at 9:31 AM CDT|Updated: 17 minutes ago
(CNN) - Renters in the U.S. are facing more worries about paying for housing.
Nearly 60% of people were hit with a rent increase during the past year, according to a study from Freddie Mac.
Just 38% of those renters said they saw an increase in take-home pay.
The study also found higher housing costs and inflation have altered the plans for many potential home buyers.
Nearly three-quarters of renter households who were planning to buy a home say that’s become more out of reach over the past year.
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SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The results are IN! Alamo Plastic Surgery was voted #1 Best Plastic Surgery in San Antonio for the second year in a row. Alamo Plastic Surgery is extremely grateful to their patients and SA Current readers for taking the time to vote. To celebrate and show their appreciation, the team announced weekly giveaways for our patients. Dr. Albright looks forward to another year of providing exceptional service and results!
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ST. LOUIS, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ansira Partners, Inc. ("Ansira"), an independent global marketing services and solutions company with proprietary channel, website, and advertising technology, today announced the company's momentum-building first half of 2022. In the first and second quarters the company welcomed more than 10 new brands to its client roster, hosted two client events to share thought leadership and connect cross-industry peers, began to roll out enhanced reporting for its website platform, and continued to receive third-party industry accolades for its work and technology.
"Supply chain challenges and chip shortages, compounded by inflation, continue to impact many of our client verticals but our team has proven to thrive under this downward pressure, reacting by innovating and refining our solutions and services," said Ansira President and Chief Revenue Officer Andy Arnold. "We are constantly finding ways, both big and small, to help clients at the enterprise level, and at the last mile of customer engagement, to drive demand and retention."
Capitalizing on refined solutions and industry-recognized technology, Ansira added 12 new brands to its already impressive roster of long-standing clients, the majority of which are household names. Ansira supports brands through channel partner marketing, local websites & marketing, media & ad technology, and CRM & loyalty, empowering companies operating in a distributed ecosystem to improve performance by realizing a connected marketplace. Ansira's new clients include: McKesson, Hiscox, Ciena, Dave & Buster's, 24 Hour Fitness, Prudential Financial, Native Shoes, T. Marzetti, Rusnak Auto Group, Wienerschnitzel, Northern Tool + Equipment, and Bill Dodge Auto Group.
Ansira once again gathered its client community for thought leadership and networking events, bringing peers together across industries including auto, tech, insurance, restaurant, retail, and consumer packaged goods. EiQ, in its fifth year, was held virtually in April and focused on customer experience, email, and integrated loyalty with client speakers from brands including Domino's Pizza, Brinker International, and Edible. At The Channel Effect in July, Ansira hosted clients and thought leaders in Chicago for the second annual event to talk about the future of CRM & loyalty, channel partner marketing, and cross-channel media activation with speakers from brands including Purina, Citrix, Mazda, Ford, Red Hat, Adobe, Grubbs Family of Dealerships, and Benjamin Moore.
Ansira has completed phase one of its award-winning Google Reporting Analytics Creator Experience (GRACE) dashboards for its Sincro Website platform technology, an enhancement that provides auto dealer clients with a flexible, transparent, and easy-to-understand reporting experience that allows them to gauge the effectiveness of their digital marketing solutions and then make strategic improvements. A comprehensive view of digital marketing performance is enabled by the open platform, allowing for reporting integrations from owned, third-party, and website and advertising platform tags and identifiers to help businesses strategize based on pipeline prospect behavior. Reporting dashboards provide data transparency, as well as straight-forward reports with metrics that enable dealers to decide, and act upon, those KPIs most important to them.
"In the auto industry, dealers historically have not had the luxury of seeing simplified website engagement metrics that illustrate how a buyer is moving through their shopping journey," said Ansira Chief Product and Technology Officer Ed McLaughlin. "With this platform reporting evolution dealers are now able to see the customer experience on their website, through activation of more than 150 custom-created event identifiers including the inventory-level data on what influences the journey without relying on PII. Enhanced dashboard visualizations will enable dealers to make informed strategic decisions and reach more shoppers."
Ansira started the year with recognition from AWA, receiving an award for its Sincro Website Platform technology which stands apart from competitors with third-generation AI-powered tailored experiences and its inventory merchandising, as well as the Rising Star Award for GRACE. Ansira also received Bloomreach's Newcomer of the Year Award for collaborations that power customer experiences through marketing technology.
Ansira participated in two recent Forrester Wave evaluations, recognized in both as a Strong Performer. The reports are The Forrester Wave™: Channel Incentive Management, Q1 2022, receiving highest scores possible in six criteria, and The Forrester Wave™: Customer Data Strategy and Activation Services, Q2 2022 in which the company received highest scores possible in seven criteria. Read more about Ansira's recognition and download the reports here.
"We are proud of the strong start to the year, and the Ansira team shows no signs of slowing down," Arnold said. "We continue to evolve the proprietary technology platforms of the company across channel partner marketing, ad buying and personalization, and websites to deliver an even more impactful back half of the year and beyond for our clients, and our cross-functional teams across the globe."
Ansira is backed by Advent International, one of the largest and most experienced global private equity investors, with deep expertise in the business and financial services sector.
Ansira is an independent, global marketing technology and services firm that empowers companies operating in a distributed ecosystem to improve performance by realizing a connected marketplace.
Ansira and its subsidiary Sincro enable brands and their agents, franchisees, dealers, and distributors to drive demand, create seamless customer experiences, and drive revenue through marketing services and proprietary technology platforms.
Teams operating across the US, Europe, South Asia, and Oceania, arm brands and their ecosystems with digital offerings, channel partner marketing technology and services, and local marketing technology to make these experiences possible. For more information on Ansira visit Ansira.com or LinkedIn, and to learn more about Sincro, visit SincroDigital.com or LinkedIn.
Founded in 1984, Advent International is one of the largest and most experienced global private equity investors. The firm has invested in over 395 private equity investments across 41 countries, and as of March 31, 2022, had $75.9 billion in assets under management. With 15 offices in 12 countries, Advent has established a globally integrated team of 270 private equity investment professionals across North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia. The firm focuses on investments in five core sectors, including business and financial services; health care; industrial; retail, consumer and leisure; and technology. For over 35 years, Advent has been dedicated to international investing and remains committed to partnering with management teams to deliver sustained revenue and earnings growth for its portfolio companies. For more information, visit AdventInternational.com or Linkedin.
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Admiral Thomas Allan, commander First Coast Guard District, speaks with Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and Representative Stephen Lynch, at Coast Guard Base Boston, Massachusetts, during a groundbreaking ceremony April 14, 2022. The groundbreaking ceremony marked the beginning of a pier renovation project in preparation for the arrival of several Fast Response Cutters that will be home-ported at Coast Guard Base Boston. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Briana Carter)
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CDC Foundation Seeks Commitments from Cross-Sector Partners
ATLANTA, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Millions of Americans struggle with hunger including children. Millions more struggle with diet-related diseases—like heart disease and diabetes, some of the leading causes of death and disability in the United States. While the effects of hunger impact all Americans, the toll from hunger disproportionately impacts underserved communities, communities of color, low-income families and rural Americans. Today the CDC Foundation announced it is engaging in the White House's initiative to end hunger and increase healthy eating and physical activity by 2030 by working to identify cross-sector partners interested in making transformative commitments in support of the initiative.
In September 2022, the White House is hosting a Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health to catalyze the public and private sectors around a coordinated strategy to:
- accelerate progress and drive transformative change to end hunger in the United States, and
- improve nutrition and physical activity and close the disparities surrounding them.
"All Americans deserve access to affordable and nutritious foods. We need to understand and address the root causes of hunger and structural and systemic inequities," said Judy Monroe, MD, president and CEO of the CDC Foundation. "Achieving this goal will require collective action. We must come together as a nation to help our communities and neighbors and find solutions to put an end to hunger."
Through the CDC Foundation's extensive and proven experience working with cross sector partners, the Foundation will collaborate with businesses, foundations, academic institutions, associations, health systems, individuals and community organizations to engage partners around one or more of the five pillars outlined by the White House.
These pillars to end hunger and increase healthy eating and physical activity include:
- Improve food access and affordability: End hunger by making it easier for everyone—including urban, suburban, rural and Tribal communities—to access and afford food.
- Integrate nutrition and health: Prioritize the role of nutrition and food security in overall health, including disease prevention and management, and ensure our health care system addresses the nutrition needs of all people.
- Empower all consumers to make and have access to healthy choices: Foster environments that enable all people to easily make informed healthy choices, increase access to healthy food, encourage healthy workplace and school policies, and invest in public messaging and culturally appropriate education campaigns that resonate with specific communities.
- Support physical activity for all: Make it easier for people to be more physically active (in part by ensuring everyone has access to safe places to be active), increase awareness of the benefits of physical activity, and conduct research on and measure physical activity.
- Enhance nutrition and food security research: Improve nutrition metrics, data collection and research to inform nutrition and food security policy, particularly on issues of equity, access and disparities.
It's been more than 50 years since the first and only White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health. That pivotal event influenced the country's food policy agenda for the past half century.
For more information about the White House conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health please visit the conference website. If you are interested in learning more about making a transformative commitment to end hunger and improve health, please complete this form. These commitments may be recognized at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health in September 2022.
About the CDC Foundation
The CDC Foundation helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The CDC Foundation is the go-to nonprofit authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC's critical health protection mission. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has raised over $1.6 billion and launched more than 1,200 programs impacting a variety of health threats from chronic disease conditions including cardiovascular disease and cancer, to infectious diseases like rotavirus and HIV, to emergency responses, including COVID-19 and Ebola. The CDC Foundation managed hundreds of CDC-led programs in the United States and in more than 160 countries last year. Learn more at www.cdcfoundation.org.
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10 vying for title in 60th Miss Monroe County program
Ten local young women are vying for the title of Miss Monroe County in the 60th Miss Monroe County Scholarship program, to be held at 6 p.m. Saturday at the La-Z-Boy Center/Meyer Theater on the campus of Monroe County Community College, 1555 S. Raisinville Rd.
Reserved seating tickets are $25 each. For tickets, call Laurie Loveland, Miss Monroe County board member and ticket chairperson, at (734) 735-1039.
“60 Years of Legacy” is this year’s event theme.
In honor of the program's anniversary, previous Miss Monroe County titleholders have been invited to return to the show and be a part of the festivities. About 20 plan to attend. At 5 p.m., guests can meet the former titleholders in the atrium and get autographs.
“There is also a special section in this year's program book celebrating the legacy of the 60 years of Miss Monroe County,” Dione Oerther, executive director, said. “The Forever Miss Monroe Countys are also being celebrated with a video production that is being produced by our current Miss Monroe County 2021, Kendall Madison Comer, that will be shown on-stage for the opening of the second act. The Forever Miss Monroe Countys who are in attendance will also be officially announced and celebrated on-stage after the video production.”
Kendall also prepared a video tribute to celebrate the life of the Honorable Judge Michael Weipert, who was a long-time emcee for the program and who passed away in March. The video will be shown during the program.
More:Miss Monroe Outstanding Teen, Miss Monroe County Princess event Wednesday
Meet the candidates
Claire Isabel Bacarella
Hometown: Monroe
Age: 18
Education: Freshman at Michigan State University; 2022 Monroe County Community College graduate and 2021 Monroe County Middle College graduate
Social impact initiative: Girls Lifted Up
Scholastic/career ambition: Obtain a bachelor’s degree in journalism and become a broadcast journalist
Talent: Classical ballet en pointe to “Don Quixote Act III: Quiteria’s Variation (The Fan)”
Parent: Angela Bacarella
Emilee Ruth Breitner
Hometown: Ida
Age: 21
Education: Junior at Eastern Michigan University; 2019 Ida High School graduate; 2022 Monroe County Community College graduate
Social impact initiative: Creating Pathways
Scholastic/career ambition: Obtain a bachelor’s degree in secondary education
Talent: Musical theater vocal to “I Dreamed a Dream” from “Les Miserables”
Parents: Jeff and Lori Breitner
Savanna Rose Callahan
Hometown: Dundee
Age: 18
Education: Freshman at Monroe County Community College; 2022 Ida High School graduate
Social impact initiative: The Big Sister Body Project
Scholastic/career ambition: Obtain a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering
Talent: Broadway vocal to “Gimme! Gimme!” from the musical “Mamma Mia”
Parents: Jeremy and Stephanie Callahan
Ella Marie Foshag
Hometown: Monroe
Age: 19
Education: Monroe County Community College
Social impact initiative: Solely Yours
Scholastic/career ambition: Will decide this year
Talent: Speed painting to “Lazy” by Marilyn Monroe
Parents: Robert and Lori Foshag
Hannah Rose Huston
Hometown: Ida
Age: 18
Education: Freshman at Monroe County Community College; 2022 Ida High School graduate
Social impact initiative: Music for Mental Health
Scholastic/career ambition: Master’s degree in mathematics in secondary/post-secondary education
Talent: Flute solo to “Menuet” from “L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2” by George Bizet
Parents: Brad and Melissa Huston
Ashlee Mary-Grace Metdepenningen
Hometown: Newport
Age: 19
Education: Monroe County Community College; 2021 Jefferson graduate
Social impact initiative: Multiple Sclerosis
Scholastic/career ambition: Labor and delivery nursing
Talent: Dancing
Parents: Michael and Rebekah Metdepenningen
Celeste Nicole Milligan
Hometown: LaSalle
Age: 21
Education: Junior at Eastern Michigan University; 2019 Monroe High School graduate; 2022 Monroe County Community College graduate
Social impact initiative: Read to Succeed
Scholastic/career ambition: Obtain a bachelor’s degree in social work
Talent: Jazz dance to “A Little Party”
Parents: Veronica and Ricky Jennings and Charlie and Michele Milligan
Payton Perry-Radcliffe
Hometown: LaSalle
Age: 21
Education: Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in integrative studies at Grand Valley State University; 2019 Adrian High School graduate
Social impact initiative: Unity Through Diversity
Scholastic/career ambition: Planning to attend dental school with hopes of owning a dental practice
Talent: Vocal performance in French to “La Vie en Rose”
Parents: Kendra Radcliffe and Mark Perry
Laynie Rae Tipton
Hometown: Monroe
Age: 18
Education: Freshman at the University of Toledo; 2022 Carlson High School graduate
Social impact initiative: Ray4Hope: Adopt a Grandparent
Scholastic/career ambition: Obtain a bachelor’s in biology and a master’s in craniofacial biology to become an orthodontist
Talent: Vocal solo to “Try” by Colby Caillat
Parent: Shelley Ray and Jason Tipton
McKenzie Renee Valente
Hometown: Monroe
Age: 19
Education: Studying fine art at Monroe County Community College; 2021 St. Mary Catholic Central High School graduate
Social impact initiative: Mending Minds
Scholastic/career ambition: Obtain a degree in fine arts and become a full-time dance instructor
Talent: Lyrical dance to “Something in the Water”
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Miss Monroe Outstanding Teen, Miss Monroe County Princess event Wednesday
Nine young women are competing in the 16th Annual Miss Monroe County Outstanding Teen Program, taking place at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the La-Z-Boy Center, Meyer Theater at Monroe County Community College, 1555 S. Raisinville Rd.
General admission tickets are $15 and will be sold at the door.
Contestants are ages 13-17. The winner will be crowned by Elora Elizabeth Russell, Miss Monroe County Outstanding Teen 2021.
Also taking place Wednesday is the seventh annual Miss Monroe County Princess Program.
Twenty-four girls, ages 4 to 12, are competing in the princess competition.
More:10 vying for title in 60th Miss Monroe County program
Princess program participants
The new 2022 Tiny, Little and Junior Miss Monroe County Princesses will be selected as names are drawn out of a hat during the Outstanding Teen program.
Tiny Miss Monroe County Princess contestants (ages 4-6) are: Elliette Kay-Lynn Sue Blanchett, Caliana-Rose Crockett, Vivienne Anne DeSana, Adalynn Jean Henry, Hayden Eileen Henry, Penelope Leigh Hill, Teagan Skylar Hotaling, Elliana Kay Pierce and Mia Kathryn Sancrainte.
Competing for Little Miss Monroe County Princess (ages 7-9) are: Sophia Lou Adams, Ariona Renee Beason, Presley Renee Carr, Coralee Ann Goda, Peyton Elizabeth Mae Green, Peightynn Alivia Nicole Howard, Anna Elizabeth Ord, Genevieve Elizabeth Perkins and Sayler Olivia Stasko.
Vying for the title Junior Miss Monroe County Princess (ages 10-12) are: Jocelyn Avalee Adams, AnnaGrace Marie Brendel, Giavanna Brooklyn Shai DeSilvis, Vanessa Chyanne Griffin, Laylah Jean Mercedes Howard and Serenity Allura Perkins.
Current Miss Monroe County Princesses 2021 are: Ahlona Jean Beason, Tiny Miss Monroe County Princess 2021; Cheyanne Rose Hipkins, Little Miss Monroe County Princess 2021, and Olivia Presley Haase, Junior Miss Monroe County Princess 2021.
Miss Monroe County Outstanding Teen candidates
MaKayla Lynn Dickinson
Hometown: Ottawa Lake
Age: 16
Education: Whiteford High School
Social impact initiative: Bigger Than Bullying: Reclaim Your Confidence
Scholastic/career ambition: Doctorate degree and become a pediatric brain surgeon
Talent: Theatrical jazz dance to “Life of the Party”
Parents: Zane and Brandy Crawford
Rileigh Briann Grady
Hometown: Petersburg
Age: 14
Education: Summerfield High School
Social impact initiative: Fitting In But Sticking Out
Scholastic/career ambition: Veterinary technician or dental hygienist
Talent: Contemporary dance to “Stone Cold”
Parents: Jared Grady and Kristine Zeipekis
Rachel Ann Ingels
Hometown: Temperance
Age: 15
Education: Bedford Senior High School
Social impact initiative: STEM : The Foundation for Young Girls to Blossom as Tomorrow’s Leaders
Scholastic/career ambition: PhD in biotechnology engineering/biochemical engineer
Talent: Tap dance to “Betty Boop”
Parents: Steven and Michele Ingels
Reese Hindley Johnson
Hometown: Monroe
Age: 16
Education: Monroe County Middle College
Social impact initiative: PRISM: Youth Supporting Youth
Scholastic/career ambition: Bachelor’s degree in sound engineering with a minor in gender studies
Talent: Musical theater vocal performance to “Times Are Hard For Dreamers”
Parents: Patrick and Emily Johnson
JuliAnna Kaye Laird
Hometown: Monroe
Age: 17
Education: Monroe County Middle College
Social impact initiative: Porching Pets – Community Action and Advocating for our Local Shelter
Scholastic/career ambition: Bachelor’s degree in nursing
Talent: Baton twirling to “Astronomia”
Parents: Kenneth and AnnMarie Laird
Kynzie Nicole Riegel
Hometown: Monroe
Age: 16
Education: Ida High School
Social impact initiative: Revive
Scholastic/career ambition: Attend North Point Bible College to minor in psychology and a bachelors of arts in the ministry
Talent: Self-choreographed pointe solo to “Experience”
Parents: Jason and Erika Riegel
Sawyer Elizabeth Seitz
Hometown: Petersburg
Age: 14
Education: Dundee High School
Social impact initiative: The Pop Tab Project
Scholastic/career ambition: Bachelor’s degree and law degree and become a copyright/intellectual property attorney
Talent: Pop vocal to “Never Enough”
Parents: Jeff and Melissa Seitz
Dakota A. Stokes
Hometown: Luna Pier
Age: 16
Education: Monroe High School
Social impact initiative: Mental Health Awareness
Scholastic/career ambition: Become a singer and actress
Talent: Pop vocal to “Someone’s Watching Over Me”
Parents: Crystal Stokes and Joshua Stokes
Hayden Marie Wright
Hometown: Monroe
Age: 14
Education: Monroe County Middle College
Social impact initiative: Hayden’s Helping Heart
Scholastic/career ambition: Nurse Practitioner
Talent: Tahitian dance to “Bora Bora Drum Beats”
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Conservation officer, Monroe firefighter recognized for water rescue of stranded teenager
The fast-thinking actions of Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officer Nick Ingersoll and Monroe Charter Township Fire Department Capt. Dave Nadeau earlier this year are credited with saving the life of a 14-year-old boy who was stranded in cold water at the Dunbar Quarry.
The two men received Lifesaving Awards from the DNR Law Enforcement Division during a recent meeting of the Michigan Natural Resources Commission, hosted at the DNR Outdoor Adventure Center in Detroit.
“On behalf of the department, I am proud to recognize CO Ingersoll and Capt. Nadeau for their quick assessment of the situation, which required them to risk their own safety to save another,” said Chief Dave Shaw, DNR Law Enforcement Division. “We are grateful for the teamwork with the Monroe Charter Township Fire Department, Michigan State Police and other responding agencies that turned this into a successful lifesaving effort.”
The rescue happened Thursday, May 19, after Ingersoll heard a dispatch call about a person who was yelling “Help!” at the Dunbar Quarry – the local name for a deep portion of Lake Monroe (a private lake), located near East Dunbar Road and Hull Road in Monroe County.
Within five minutes, Ingersoll met emergency responders from Monroe Charter Township Fire Department and Michigan State Police trooper Mitchell Lehman, who were already on scene. Capt. Nadeau attempted to toss a throw rope to the boy, who was clinging to a rock cliff and displaying early signs of hypothermia.
Ingersoll quickly determined it was time to physically enter the cold water, as the boy appeared to be losing strength. Nadeau later said he believed the boy was seconds from going under the surface of the cold water.
“Ingersoll did not hesitate. He put on his life jacket and jumped in to save the child,” Lehman said.
With his department-issued personal floatation device, Ingersoll jumped from the rock cliff, about 15 feet down into the water; Nadeau jumped seconds after Ingersoll safely emerged.
Nadeau and Ingersoll secured the boy in a life jacket and pulled him over to a rock to keep him above water. A Monroe City Fire Department rescue boat arrived and transported the boy to shore, where Monroe County Community Ambulance took him to the hospital for medical attention.
Ingersoll patrols Monroe County and has been a conservation officer since 2016. Nadeau has been with the Monroe Charter Township Fire Department since 1993.
Michigan conservation officers are fully commissioned law enforcement officers who protect natural resources, ensure recreational safety and protect residents by providing general law enforcement duties and lifesaving operations in the communities they serve. Due to the nature of their job, these officers often work with federal, state and local law enforcement officers to ensure public safety.
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(The Hill) — First lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 while on vacation with President Joe Biden and other family members in South Carolina, the White House announced Tuesday,
“After testing negative for COVID-19 on Monday during her regular testing cadence, the First Lady began to develop cold-like symptoms late in the evening. She tested negative again on a rapid antigen test, but a PCR test came back positive,” Elizabeth Alexander, the first lady’s communications director, said in a statement.
The first lady is fully vaccinated and has received two booster shots. She has mild symptoms, the White House said, and will start taking Paxlovid, an antiviral drug that has proven effective at preventing serious cases of COVID-19.
“She is currently staying at a private residence in South Carolina and will return home after she receives two consecutive negative COVID tests,” Alexander said in a statement.
The president tested negative on Tuesday after taking a rapid test, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tweeted.
“Consistent with CDC guidance because he is a close contact of the First Lady, he will mask for 10 days when indoors and in close proximity to others. We will also increase the President’s testing cadence and report those results,” Jean-Pierre tweeted.
Jill Biden’s COVID-19 case comes roughly two weeks after the president was able to leave isolation following a rebound case of COVID-19. Rebound cases can happen in patients who take Paxlovid when a patient tests negative for the virus, only to test positive again a few days later.
The president and first lady have been vacationing in Kiawah Island, S.C., since last Wednesday. The president is scheduled to return to Washington, D.C., later Tuesday to sign the Inflation Reduction Act before flying to Delaware for the remainder of the week. | https://www.wpri.com/health/coronavirus/first-lady-jill-biden-tests-positive-for-covid-19/ | 2022-08-16T14:55:49Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/health/coronavirus/first-lady-jill-biden-tests-positive-for-covid-19/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LANCASTER, Texas (AP) — The brother of retired NFL cornerback Aqib Talib turned himself in to authorities Monday after police identified him as the suspect in the shooting death of a coach at a youth football game in Texas.
Police said that a murder warrant was issued for Yaqub Salik Talib, 39, in the fatal shooting on Saturday night of Michael Hickmon, 43, police in the Dallas-area city of Lancaster said.
According to witnesses, Talib pulled out a gun and shot Hickmon multiple times after a disagreement between the opposing coaching staff of two youth football teams over calls made by the officiating crew led to a physical fight, police said.
Hickmon was later pronounced dead at a hospital. Police say no other injuries were reported.
Yaqub Talib is the brother of Aqib Talib, a five-time Pro Bowler who announced his retirement in 2020. Aqib Talib was named last month as a contributor for Prime Video’s “Thursday Night Football.”
Police said that after the shooting, Yaqub Talib fled, taking the firearm with him.
Talib’s attorney, Clark Birdsall, told The Associated Press that his client “regrets the tragic loss of life but self-surrendered this morning so that he may have the chance to say his side of the story.” Birdsall declined to elaborate on what Talib’s side of the story is.
Police said they were still investigating the circumstances leading up to the shooting. Several people, including children, were present when Hickmon was killed, police said.
Dallas TV station WFAA reported that the brothers are coaches for North Dallas United Bobcats, a youth football team. Hickmon was a coach with the youth team D.E.A. Dragons, WFAA reported.
Dragons President Mike Freeman said the dispute began when Hickmon went to pick up a football and someone kicked it away.
“I don’t know how to explain it to the kids. That’s the part that I’m stuck on right now. How do I explain it to them. Why?” Freeman said. “This is something that these kids will remember for the rest of their life.” | https://www.wwlp.com/news/crime/former-nfl-stars-brother-turns-himself-in-after-deadly-shooting/ | 2022-08-16T14:56:14Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/crime/former-nfl-stars-brother-turns-himself-in-after-deadly-shooting/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Published: Aug. 16, 2022 at 9:30 AM CDT|Updated: 25 minutes ago
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GREEN BAY, Wisc., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Logistics Recycling. Inc. (LRI), a leader in the transport and disposal of medical waste, announced they've brought a new STI Series 2000 medical waste processing machine online. The machine brings a cleaner, greener and more efficient solution for midwestern customers to dispose of medical waste in a safe, compliant and cost-effective manner. LRI is bringing this innovative offering to market with the support of trusted partner Best Choice Environmental (BCE).
"Traditional autoclave processing is antiquated," says Brent DuBois, LRI's President and CEO. "Not to mention it leaves behind materials that still end up in landfill. Our new STI system provides customers with both landfill and waste-to-energy alternatives for their waste after processing."
The STI Series 2000 offers the right mix of time and temperature to ensure safe and complete destruction of medical waste with very low water use as well as no emissions and no odor. In addition, because medical waste is comprised of a lot of plastic, any sanitized material left behind is likely able to be diverted to other recycling streams which further ensures it doesn't end up in a landfill. Processing with the STI Series 2000 can also convert medical waste to an alternate source, such as concrete kiln, plastic extrusion or waste-to-energy.
LRI will offer the same streamlined medical waste services customers have come to expect at no additional cost – despite the tangible and elevated sustainability benefits of the STI Series 2000. In addition, they'll own the entire collection and disposal process for medical waste customers with no double handling.
Considering that in the United States hospitals alone generate 600 million tons of regulated medical waste annually, DuBois sees tremendous potential for a more sustainable solution in LRI's medical waste services.
"In an area with very few choices for safely disposing of medical waste, LRI and BCE are delivering a cost-effective, safer and more sustainable solution to hospitals, clinics, dentists, doctors, funeral homes and other essential businesses that generate medical waste," he said.
Logistics Recycling, Inc. (LRI) collects, manages and disposes of regulated waste streams so our customers to focus on running their business rather than worrying about their waste. With a commitment to service, sustainability and innovation, LRI serves the Midwestern heartland from locations in Green Bay, Wisconsin and Somerset, Minnesota.
Contact: Autumn Wagner
autumn.wagner@recyclewithlri.com
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Grants support promising scientists in critical areas of Parkinson's research and discovery
MIAMI and NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Parkinson's Foundation has announced an investment of $5.7 million in 33 grants to accelerate cutting-edge Parkinson's disease (PD) research. Through research grants, the Foundation funds scientists conducting innovative studies across various aspects of PD to bring forward new therapies, treatments and ultimately a cure for the 10 million people worldwide living with this debilitating neurological disease.
"The pioneering work of most Nobel Prize recipients occurred before the age of 40, and young scientists are likely to play a significant role in groundbreaking PD discoveries. Compared to the National Institutes of Health, our support doubles the number of early career researchers dedicating their careers to PD," said Chief Scientific Officer James Beck, PhD, of the Parkinson's Foundation. "Established investigators also bring keen insight to understanding PD, and our funding drives the pursuit of novel ideas that may lead to PD breakthroughs."
The Foundation is foremost focused on supporting innovative scientific approaches to PD research. Individual scientists are the drivers of these advances. The Stanley Fahn Junior Faculty Award acts as a bridge to ensure that independent, early career scientists stay in the PD research field. Stanley Fahn Junior Faculty Award recipients receive a maximum four-year award of $400,000.
Grant recipient Sarah Shahmoradian, PhD, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, will apply the award to study the cellular anatomy of a key Parkinson's protein, called alpha-synuclein (aSyn), using 3D Electron Tomography in its natural state in the brain. Through this study, her team will have the potential to fundamentally advance the understanding of how PD develops, inform new therapeutic strategies, and improve imaging tracer development.
"The generous support from the Parkinson's Foundation cements my commitment to continuing my PD research. By receiving this award from an organization so intimately linked to those affected by PD, I feel a heightened sense of personal responsibility and urgency," said Dr. Shahmoradian.
Parkinson's Foundation research grants are selected through a highly competitive application process that is comprised of a peer-review panel of scientific experts, including members of the Foundation's Scientific Advisory Board and Foundation-trained research advocates. Research award categories include independent investigator awards, fellowships, and early career awards. For a complete list of 2022 recipients and more information about Parkinson's Foundation research grant opportunities, please visit Parkinson.org/ResearchGrants.
The Parkinson's Foundation makes life better for people with Parkinson's disease by improving care and advancing research toward a cure. In everything we do, we build on the energy, experience and passion of our global Parkinson's community. Since 1957, the Parkinson's Foundation has invested more than $400 million in Parkinson's research and clinical care. Connect with us on Parkinson.org, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or call (800) 4PD-INFO (473-4636).
Affecting an estimated one million Americans and 10 million worldwide, Parkinson's disease is the second-most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's and is the 14th-leading cause of death in the U.S. It is associated with a progressive loss of motor control (e.g., shaking or tremor at rest and lack of facial expression), as well as non-motor symptoms (e.g., depression and anxiety). There is no cure for Parkinson's and 60,000 new cases are diagnosed each year in the U.S. alone.
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Sea Limited (SE) recently reported earnings for its second quarter of Fiscal Year 2022. Adjusted earnings per share came in at -$1.03, which beat analysts’ consensus estimate of -$1.14 per SE share. In the past nine quarters, the company has beat estimates three times. Nevertheless, shares fell by more than 9% shortly after the market opened.
Sales increased 29% year-over-year, with revenue hitting $2.9 billion compared to $2.3 billion. The increase in revenue can be attributed to the strong growth from SE’s E-commerce and Other Services segment, which saw a 75.6% increase.
However, gross profits increased by 17.1%, which means that the company did not demonstrate operating leverage since it increased less than revenue. Indeed, the gross margin contracted from 40.8% to 37.05%. This, along with an increase in operating expenses, caused the company’s operating loss to increase from $334 million in the comparable period to $837 million now.
Moreover, Sea Limited also withdrew its outlook for e-commerce in 2022. This highlights the macroeconomic uncertainties that continue to impact discretionary businesses.
Investor Sentiment is Negative for SE Stock
The sentiment among TipRanks investors is currently negative. Out of the 554,668 portfolios tracked by TipRanks, 1.6% hold SE. In addition, the average portfolio weighting allocated towards SE among those who do have a position is 3.6%. This suggests that investors of the company are fairly confident about its future.
However, in the last 30 days, 1.1% of those holding the stock decreased their positions. As a result, the stock’s sentiment is below the sector average, as demonstrated in the following image:
What is the Target Price for SE Stock?
Sea Limited has a Strong Buy consensus rating based on 10 Buys, three Holds, and zero Sells assigned in the past three months. The average SE price target of $119.46 implies 41.4% upside potential.
Takeaway – Revenue Growth is Becoming More Expensive
Sea Limited saw strong revenue growth in the quarter, as revenue increased substantially while adjusted earnings came in better than expected. However, the contracting margins and the widening losses are not what investors want to see, especially in the current market environment. As a result, it’s clear that revenue growth is becoming more expensive as SE wasn’t able to achieve operating leverage. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/sea-limited-reports-earnings-stock-falls-7 | 2022-08-16T15:04:48Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/sea-limited-reports-earnings-stock-falls-7 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On August 15, two owners of Six Flags (SIX) Arik Ruchim (Director) and Rehan Jaffer lapped up a total of 10,50,000 shares of the company (525,000 shares each) at $23.81 per share. Shares of SIX closed over 3% higher on Monday and were trading 2% higher early Tuesday.
TipRanks’ Insider Trading Tool shows Insiders at Six Flags are clearly optimistic about the stock’s near-term prospects and have bought SIX stock worth a whopping $57 million in the last three months.
The tool also shows that Insider Confidence Signal is currently Very Positive for Six Flags.
Interestingly, TipRanks also provides a list of hot stocks that boasts of either a Very Positive or Positive insider confidence signal.
What Does Six Flags Do?
Based in the U.S., Six Flags Entertainment Corp. engages in the operation of theme parks under the brand name Six Flags. It offers state-of-the-art and traditional thrill rides, water attractions, themed areas, concerts and shows, restaurants, game venues, and retail outlets.
Last week, the company reported disappointing Q2 results, missing analysts’ expectations for both revenues and earnings.
Wall Street’s Take on Six Flags
In a sharp contrast to the insider buying activity, Jefferies analyst David Katz on Monday slashed the price target on Six Flags Entertainment by 47% to $32 (from $60) but reiterated a Buy rating.
Katz stated, “With attendance of 15% below 2019 and costs equal to 2019, we believe the 2Q22 downside is self-inflicted rather than from industry or macro, as the strategic shift brought the risk of early-stage volatility. We believe SIX’s business model and assets are more productive than the 2Q22 demonstrated and patience is the right course.”
As per TipRanks, analysts are cautiously optimistic about the stock and have a Moderate Buy consensus rating, which is based on six Buys and five Holds. Six Flags’ average price forecast of $30.90 implies 24.5% upside potential.
Bottom Line
After losing half of its market capitalization in the past six months, Six Flags stock has recovered 17% over the past month.
Interestingly, it’s not just the corporate Insiders that are bullish on the stock. TipRanks’ Stock Investors tool shows that investors currently have a Very Positive stance on Six Flags, with a whopping 10.8% of investors on TipRanks increasing their exposure to SIX stock over the past 30 days.
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Black-ish Creator Kenya Barris Will Write and Direct Wizard of Oz Reboot
Last year, Warner Bros. Pictures’ New Line Cinema signed Watchmen‘s Nicole Kassell to helm a new version of L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz. However, that take on the project appears to have fallen by the wayside. Regardless, Warner Bros. is ready to try again. Deadline is reporting that Black-ish creator Kenya Barris has been lined up to write and direct a Wizard of Oz reboot.
Deadline didn’t disclose any details about the reboot, but noted that “it will be a modern reimagining of the iconic musical.” Beyond that, we don’t know if it’s a direct remake of the legendary 1939 adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, or if it will be something closer to Baum’s original Oz novels.
It should be noted that the famous ruby slippers from the 1939 film were invented for that movie. Consequently, MGM owns the rights to that specific part of the story. Disney previously reached an agreement with MGM to use the ruby slippers in 1985’s Return To Oz. If Warner Bros. wants to use the ruby slippers as well, then a new deal will have to be reached.
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In addition to creating Black-ish, Barris created and developed its two spinoff series: Grown-ish and Mixed-ish. His other TV credits include Girlfriends, America’s Top Model, Soul Food, The Game, and I Hate My Teenage Daughter.
Assuming the new Wizard of Oz goes forward, it will be either the second or third film directed by Barris. He previously helmed You People, a Netflix original movie that is slated to premiere later this year. He also wrote Barbershop: The Next Cut, Girls Trip, The Witches, Coming 2 America, and Cheaper by the Dozen. Barris has also signed on to write and direct a remake of White Men Can’t Jump.
What do you want to see in a new take on Wizard of Oz? Let us know in the comment section below!
Recommended Reading: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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Wednesday Writers Won’t Talk About Uncle Fester for Now
In Tim Burton‘s Addams Family reboot Wednesday for Netflix, we know Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Morticia, with Luis Guzman as Gomez. But that leaves one of the usual adults in the room conspicuously unmentioned. What of wacky, weird, hairless Uncle Fester, who turns on lightbulbs with his mouth? In a new Vanity Fair feature, this is the one topic cowriter Alfred Gough refuses to talk about.
“We have no comment on Uncle Fester,” Gough says. “Just watch the show.”
We know that the show is a mystery series that has a teenaged Wednesday Addams trying to solve a series of murders. Could Fester be one of the first victims? Or perhaps a surprise cameo? Whatever the case, Gough and writing partner Miles Millar proved happy to talk about Wednesday’s other familial relationships.
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“The relationship that kind of hangs over the season is really Wednesday’s relationship with Morticia,” Gough says. “How do you step out of the shadow of a mother as glamorous as Morticia?” Wednesday also resents how constantly upbeat her parents seem. “Wednesday’s not scared of sharks or creepy crawlies or anything, but she’s afraid of emotion,” Gough says. “Their overt displays of affection drive Wednesday crazy.”
As for brother Pugsley, “She’s allowed to torture him. Nobody else is,” Millar says. “That’s the difference. She will defend him to the end against bullies or anything else, but she has license to do what she wants.”
Wednesday debuts on Netflix later this year. Will you watch it? Let us know in comments.
Recommended Reading: The Addams Family: An Evilution
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WHEELER, Wash.-
Two people are dead after a fifth-wheel camper fire early Monday morning.
The Grant County Sheriff's Office and Grant County Fire District 5 responded to the fire at the Cougar Campus RV Park in Wheeler, just east of Moses Lake, around 3:45 a.m.
When firefighters arrived the camper was fully engulfed in flames. After extinguishing the fire, two bodies were discovered inside the camper.
Grant County Coroner Craig Morrison will perform autopsies on the bodies.
The cause of the fire is currently under investigation. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/2-dead-in-grant-county-camper-fire/article_3356f570-1d63-11ed-ab30-8bb625e488b6.html | 2022-08-16T15:08:39Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/2-dead-in-grant-county-camper-fire/article_3356f570-1d63-11ed-ab30-8bb625e488b6.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
YAKIMA, WA - The staffing crisis continues across the nation for teachers. Media outlets across the nation have been reporting school districts facing a crisis with teacher shortages.
Rural school districts in Texas are switching to four-day school weeks this fall, while other places in Florida are asking veterans with no teaching background to enter classrooms according to the Washington Post.
When I reached out to Washington's office of superintendent of public education, staff members sent me a statement saying...
"Across the state and nation, schools are facing educator shortages. Washington state determines teacher shortage both by geographic area and by content area. We consider that there are shortages when a school district is unable to attract a fully certificated and properly endorsed educator to the district. Many of our small, rural, and/or remote districts experience shortages. Additionally, we experience shortage when a district, regardless of size or location, is unable to recruit an educator in a particular content area. These “shortages” vary from district to district, but overall in our state, the most frequent content area shortages are in elementary education, special education, and career and technical education.
One of our strongest strategies to support educator recruitment and retention is to provide robust mentor and induction supports for beginning educators. OSPI is seeking additional funding to expand our support program for beginning teachers (called the Beginning Educator Support Team, or BEST) to provide statewide supports for beginning education staff associates (e.g., school counselors, psychologists, and nurses) and beginning principals. Educators who receive these supports are retained in the profession longer than their peers who do not receive the supports.
In addition, OSPI is seeking funding for robust year-long, paid teacher residencies. As we face educator shortages and an urgent need to close opportunity gaps widened by the pandemic, effective preservice teacher residency programs and principal learning supports help to ensure our newest teachers and principals are well-prepared and retained in the school communities in which they were trained."
Residency programs like what OSPI mentioned is exactly what West Valley School District has been doing to stay a float.
"We have this partnership where candidates have a full year residency in our classroom and were able to hire those candidates to teach for us at west valley," said Dr. Peter Finch the Superintendent of West Valley School District.
WVSD works directly with the Teacher Education Program at Yakima Valley College offering a Bachelor of Applied Science in Teacher Education and a residency program requiring hands-on working experience within classrooms under the guidance of a teacher.
"I didn't really want to pack up and go across the country and be in an area I had no connection to," said Adam Thompson, Resource Room Teacher and former Teacher Resident for West Valley School District. "So I think that was probably one of the biggest appeals."
Thompson grew up in Yakima Valley and when he decided he wanted to be a teacher, the program at YVC helped.
With teacher shortages across the country, West Valley School District has a bit of a boost when it comes to staffing.
"I think being in the room for a full year is a leg up on other programs because some other programs you're only in there for a couple of weeks but here it was an entire school year," said Thompson. "I was showing up every day."
Superintendent Dr. Finch tells me WVSD is not worried about staffing going into the school year.
"It's not only that the positions are filled," he said. "But the candidates from YVC have been in our classrooms for a full year, so they know all about our curriculum, they know our expectations and so they are really ready to hit the ground running."
I also reached out to the Yakima School District and the Human Resource Manager tells me they are also not worried about teacher storage.
"Our instructional labor force to start the 2022-23 school year is looking positive for the Yakima School District," said Kim Newell the Director of Human Resources. "We have hired over 100 new certified employees for the 22-23 school year. Our YSD substitute listing will close on August 14th. We are always looking for quality substitutes for our teachers, paras, bus drivers, and food services. Our focus this year in the Yakima School District is on attracting and replenishing our teacher pool for future opportunities."
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YAKIMA, Wash.-
The Yakima Fire Department responded to nine different dumpster fires in the downtown area from 10 p.m. Sunday to 4 a.m. Monday.
There were 2 fires on S. 3rd St, 4 on S. 4th St, and 3 on S. 6th St.
This string of dumpster fires is under investigation and the Yakima Fire Department urges the public to notify officials if they see any suspicious activity. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/yfd-investigates-string-of-dumpster-fires/article_b56df356-1d68-11ed-952b-43b37b3fccb1.html | 2022-08-16T15:08:51Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/yfd-investigates-string-of-dumpster-fires/article_b56df356-1d68-11ed-952b-43b37b3fccb1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Raila Odinga has rejected the results of Kenya’s presidential election saying that the figures announced on Monday were “null and void”.
According to the results, Mr Odinga narrowly lost to Deputy President William Ruto.
Mr Odinga accused the head of the electoral body of a “blatant disregard of the constitution”.
“We totally without reservation reject the presidential election results,” he said.
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Paris Club refund issue was inherited by Buhari’s administration, to be resolved soon ― Malami
The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said that the issue of the Paris Club refund, inherited by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in 2015 will soon be resolved before the expiration of the tenure of his administration.
“It is important to state that it was an inherited issue that started in 2011 with the engagement of a consultant by the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) and the subsequent issues that boiled down to the passing of judgement in 2013, in respect of which the Governors’ Forum and ALGON were in agreement,” Malami said on Tuesday while featuring on the NTA’s Good Morning Nigeria programme.
He said the Paris Club refund issue was discussed at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting and a memo relating to the deduction and high-profile inherited debt was stepped down to allow a formation of a cabinet committee, under the chairmanship of Vice President Yemi Osibanjo for parties to sit to a round table to deliberate on it, out of the desire for transparency and accountability of the Federal Government.
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He said Vice President Osibanjo’s led committee will sit with ALGON, the Governors’ Forum, the consultants and other parties, to look at the issue objectively before taking a final decision.
Malami, however, said, there is no time limit for which the committee will submit its report but noted that, since the present administration has limited time to wind up, the committee’s report will be turned in as soon as possible.
The AGF explained that ALGON had, through the instrumentality of the Governors’ Forum, presented a claim of $318 million and that part payment was made for the entire Paris Club refund established, “A point that they are in no way contesting.
“When this matter became an issue of the judicial contest, ALGON and the Governors’ Forum submitted to a consent judgement before a court of law, agreeing that these deductions are effected and payment be made.
“What are you talking about, first, by engaging a consultant, submitting to a consent judgement, effecting payment in your own right, providing a letter of no-objection by ALGON, letters of indemnity by the Governors and approving that the Federal Government should effect payments.
“Are you now saying that the Federal Government should allow itself to be subjected to ridicule, embarrassment arising from the attachment of its assets, taking into consideration that, at a point, action is instituted against Federal Government, and this time, joining ALGON as a plaintiff against FG and you think the FG, the AGF will fold hand and allow judgement against the interest of the Federal Government?
“The implication is that the Federal Government will be embarrassed, its assets will be attached; including FG’s financial assets, foreign reserves and any other associated income of the Federal Government deposited with the Central Bank of Nigeria, can now be executed upon and payment made to the consultant,” he explained further.
According to him, the issue, “It’s an inherited issue and we are trying to address it as a government of the day,” and lamented the way and manner the financial autonomy of the Local Governments is being trampled upon by state Governors. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/paris-club-refund-issue-was-inherited-by-buharis-administration-to-be-resolved-soon-%E2%80%95-malami/ | 2022-08-16T15:09:16Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/paris-club-refund-issue-was-inherited-by-buharis-administration-to-be-resolved-soon-%E2%80%95-malami/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Hill) — Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said on Monday that “we’re starting to live in a fascist state” after he was told that he was the target of a Georgia probe into the 2020 election.
“It’s just a further desecration of the Sixth Amendment. I was his lawyer of record in that case. The statements that I made are either attorney-client privilege, because they were between me and him, or they were being made on his behalf in order to defend him,” Giuliani said on Newsmax.
“When you start turning around lawyers into defendants when they’re defending their clients, we’re starting to live in a fascist state. Look, I’ve already had my law office raided. I never thought I’d ever see that happen.”
Earlier on Monday, Giuliani’s lawyer confirmed to The Hill that he was a target as part of a probe looking into efforts that former President Donald Trump and his allies took to overturn the 2020 election results that is being conducted by a special grand jury in Georgia.
The subpoena for Giuliani identifies him as both “a personal attorney for former President Donald Trump and a lead attorney for the Trump Campaign’s legal efforts seeking to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere.”
In the subpoena, it alleges that Giuliani offered testimony and evidence in an effort to show that election fraud occurred in Georgia in 2020, including a video of “election workers at State Farm Arena in Atlanta that purported to show election workers producing ‘suitcases’ of unlawful ballots from unknown sources, outside the view of election poll watchers.”
The subpoena claims that while Georgia officials had debunked the video quickly after the fact, Giuliani continued to make assertions that election fraud had taken place, including using the video footage.
“There is evidence that the Witness’s appearance and testimony at the hearing was part of a multi-state, coordinated plan by the Trump Campaign to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere,” the subpoena said. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/giuliani-on-being-told-hes-target-of-election-probe-were-starting-to-live-in-a-fascist-state/ | 2022-08-16T15:18:13Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/giuliani-on-being-told-hes-target-of-election-probe-were-starting-to-live-in-a-fascist-state/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(NewsNation) — It has been 10 days since California 16-year-old Kiely Rodni was last seen at a massive “senior send-off” party at a campground near Tahoe.
The Placer County Sheriff’s Office announced that they have obtained video from the night Rodni went missing. They say it shows her in different clothing than what she was previously believed to be wearing.
Last week, investigators said Kiely borrowed a dark-colored hoodie with a song lyric on the front. Now they have an update, based on the new video.
Authorities released an image of a pink-and-white sweatshirt with the words “odd future” on it. They say Rodni was seen wearing one like it in a video taken early in the evening of Aug. 5.
They’re still looking for information about what happened in the hours afterward.
“If anyone has more video, no information is too small,” Lt. Josh Barnhart of the Placer Co. Sheriff’s Office said during a news conference Monday, adding that they were also seeking additional accounts from witnesses at the party.
Rodni was last seen around 12:30 in the morning on Aug. 6 at the Prosser Family Campground, where about 200-300 young partiers had gathered.
On Friday, a search team located a possible “burial site” near the campground, which turned out to contain dog bones.
The last known “ping” from her phone was near the lake, but searches haven’t turned up any sign of Rodni, or her 2013 Honda CR-V. Authorities said that after 10 days of searching, they’re making plans to scale back the search effort.
“To date, we’ve had something like 9,000 manhours … which is astronomical,” Nevada County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Sam Brown said.
Rodni’s father, Daniel Rodni, is grateful for the search efforts and for an anonymous donation of $25,000 toward the reward fund.
He says the last 10 days have been agony.
“Every day is a roller coaster. Emotions are out of control,” Daniel Rodni said.
Meanwhile, the teen’s mother, Lindsey Rodni-Nieman, is begging anyone who was at the party to come forward.
“It’s hard to be courageous. It’s OK to be scared. We promise you that you won’t get in any trouble,” Lindsey Rodni-Nieman said. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/mystery-deepens-in-search-for-missing-teen-kiely-rodni/ | 2022-08-16T15:18:25Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/mystery-deepens-in-search-for-missing-teen-kiely-rodni/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Addams Family has taken many forms over the years, from the 1960s era TV show, to the 1990s big-budget movies, to a 2009 Broadway musical, and most recently as a two offbeat CG animated features, each shapeshifting to conform to—or, really, deviate from—the norms of the times. In the new Netflix series Wednesday, centered on the family's ominous only daughter, the household of macabre bon vivants hews closer to the original design of cartoonist Charles Addams that first appeared in the pages of The New Yorker.
Behold Catherine Zeta-Jones as matriarch Morticia, Luis Guzmán as pater familias Gomez, Jenna Ortega as eponymous Wednesday and Isaac Ordonez as hapless brother Pugsley. Tim Burton is an executive producer and directed four of the eight episodes, helping to shape the overall look of the series. Perhaps the weirdest thing about the show, which will debut this fall, is that he hasn't made an Addams Family project sooner.
For his first foray into television, Burton has brought along his longtime collaborator (and four-time Oscar winner) Colleen Atwood as costume designer to give Morticia her signature vampire chic and Gomez his fancy prisoner pin-stripes. Wednesday, who views the world in stark black and white, only wears the same—preferably with a razor sharp collar. Disheveled Pugsley is the only casual one in the clan, perpetually in short-pants and horizontal stripes that look like an old-school TV dialed to dead air.
The show is the brainchild of Smallville creators Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, who recruited Burton to bring his skewed sensibilities to the family of gothic outcasts. “He wanted the silhouette to look more like the Charles Addams cartoons, which is Gomez shorter than Morticia, versus the kind of suave Raul Julia version in the movies," Gough says.
“He's also incredibly debonair and romantic, and I think he has all those classic ingredients of the Gomez that we've seen come before, but he brings something also very different,” Millar added. “That's something that was very important to the show—that it didn't feel like a remake or a reboot. It's something that lives within the Venn diagram of what happened before, but it's its own thing. It's not trying to be the movies or the '60s TV show. That was very important to us and very important to Tim.”
Burton, who was not available for an interview, was famously pitched The Addams Family movie from 1991, but passed on it. Gough and Millar expected to get a no when they made their own plea. “Tim was always the Mount Everest of directors,” Gough says. To their surprise, Burton called them three days after receiving the script for the first episode.
“He was interested in where it was going, and the mystery of the show,” Gough says. “He had a lot of questions about the previous television work we'd done, and how we were able to achieve it. He really loved that you had time to be with Wednesday and explore the character and you didn't have to, you know, wrap things up in an hour and 45 minutes.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/addams-family-first-look-wednesday | 2022-08-16T15:19:57Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/addams-family-first-look-wednesday | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Early on during filming of Yellowjackets’ first season, as cameras rolled and after action had been called, Juliette Lewis turned around and—while in character as the volatile Natalie—hit Christina Ricci. This wasn’t in the script, but hell if it wasn’t in character. “I just pushed her right back,” Ricci recalls of improvising her way through the suddenly physical scene. “And we ended up with this weird, juvenile pushing thing.”
On this week’s Little Gold Men (listen to the full episode above), Ricci brings this up as one of many examples that explain Yellowjackets’ distinctive magic. These are rich, spiky characters being figured out by their portrayers on the fly, in scenes where pain, joy, shame, and humor are located between the lines. Indeed, Ricci reveals that the series’ producers began writing that relatively pushy dynamic between Natalie and Ricci’s Misty Quigley after Lewis’s spontaneous thwack. “It was so great because it immediately showed the dynamic between us that you could really lean into and play with,” she says. “Later, they wrote scenes where we physically, like, hit each other and stuff.”
These choices also carried an inherent risk, and Ricci made big acting choices on Yellowjackets from moment one. With Ricci now having been Emmy-nominated for her alternately hilarious, tragic, and terrifying turn as a plane-crash survivor with plenty of unfinished business, such gut-checks clearly paid off. “There were times when I was like, This could really work, or this could be terrible—meaning my performance, meaning me,” she says with a laugh. “Especially when you do go out on a limb, or do something a little risky, it’s nice for that effort to be validated. It encourages you to do more.”
More is exactly what Ricci hopes to bring to Yellowjackets’ second season, which goes into production at the end of this month. “I want to make improvements,” she says. “I now feel like I have a deeper understanding of so many different things and the ability to evolve in a great way.” She credits that increased confidence to the unique experience of making serial television: Not knowing what was happening to Misty week to week meant leaning into certain qualities, like her passive-aggression or her sense of alienation. She found her performance gradually matching up to episodic scripts, with writers responding to her interpretations.
Ricci has been in the business for more than 30 years, since she was nine years old. She’s experienced ups and downs, like anyone in Hollywood, but is doing some of the best and most transformative work of her career here—while, it seems, having a lot of fun. In our interview, we also discuss Ricci returning to her perhaps best-known project, The Addams Family, in Netflix’s upcoming Wednesday Addams–focused series (she’ll play a different character). Ricci says she felt “sentimental” about being part of the reboot, where her role remains shrouded in secrecy. She also confirms she’s attached to direct her first project—without divulging too many details, so as not to jinx it or herself.
For now, between September’s looming Emmy ceremony and the show’s impending return, it’s all Yellowjackets all the time. Ricci is surrounded by actors who, like herself, have been appearing onscreen for decades and are currently breaking through in a new way. “Working with all these other actresses is incredible,” Ricci says. “We all just get down to business and do our jobs. There’s a lot less ego.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/awards-insider-little-gold-men-christina-ricci | 2022-08-16T15:20:03Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/awards-insider-little-gold-men-christina-ricci | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ezra Miller is seeking treatment. The Flash star has issued a statement regarding their mental health and erratic and alarming behavior, telling Variety that they have been going through “a time of intense crisis” and are suffering from “complex mental health issues” for which they’ve begun treatment.
“Having recently gone through a time of intense crisis, I now understand that I am suffering complex mental health issues and have begun ongoing treatment,” Miller said in a statement via their representatives. “I want to apologize to everyone that I have alarmed and upset with my past behavior. I am committed to doing the necessary work to get back to a healthy, safe and productive stage in my life.”
The 29-year-old is reportedly seeking treatment after facing multiple run-ins with law enforcement this past year and repeatedly making headlines for their bizarre and dangerous behavior. In May, Miller was charged with felony burglary for allegedly stealing bottles of alcohol from an empty residence in Stamford, Vermont. In early August, an Insider exposé revealed that two separate families have filed orders of protection against Miller, claiming that the Flash star groomed their children. Last week, Rolling Stone reported that the Vermont child service's department was searching for a mother and her three children who had allegedly been living at Miller’s Vermont residence.
But that’s not all. Earlier this year, Miller was arrested twice in Hawaii—once in March on charges of disorderly conduct and harassment, and again in April on suspicion of second-degree assault. Miller pleaded no contest to the disorderly conduct charge and paid a $500 fine and $30 in court costs, and the harassment charge was dropped. They were released without charge in the arrest on suspicion of second-degree assault, pending an investigation.
This behavior has put Warner Bros. in a tough spot, as Miller stars in two of the studio’s tentpole franchises, The Flash and the Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts. Just last week, Warner Bros. was reportedly mulling its options with regard to how to proceed with its $200 million The Flash, in which Miller stars as the titular character. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. was considering scrapping the whole film if the allegations against Miller continued or worsened. Another option was for Miller to seek professional help and eventually sit down with press to explain their erratic behavior.
Despite all of the alleged drama, the actor reportedly participated in scheduled reshoots for The Flash this summer without incident. As of now, The Flash is scheduled to hit theaters on June 23, 2023. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/ezra-miller-is-struggling-with-complex-mental-health-issues-and-seeking-treatment | 2022-08-16T15:20:09Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/ezra-miller-is-struggling-with-complex-mental-health-issues-and-seeking-treatment | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
What will Hollywood do about Johnny Depp after his defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard? That’s a question Mads Mikkelsen, who replaced Depp in the Fantastic Beasts franchise’s third film, recently addressed while accepting an award at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
Depp resigned from his role as Gellert Grindelwald ahead of this year’s Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, following his loss in a 2020 libel case against British tabloid The Sun. He was replaced by Mikkelsen, although Depp reportedly would still receive his full $16 million salary for the third film.
“It was very intimidating,” Mikkelsen said of assuming Depp’s role, according to Deadline. “Obviously, well, now the course has changed—he won the suit, the court [case]—so let’s see if he comes back. He might.” (A jury awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages—in Virginia, however, punitive payments are capped at $350,000—in a second court case over Heard’s 2018 Washington Post op-ed, in which she identified herself as a domestic abuse survivor, but did not name Depp as her abuser. Heard was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages in her countersuit against Depp.)
In addition to suggesting Depp’s return to the role, Mikkelsen discussed his alternate approach to their shared character. “I’m a big fan of Johnny,” he said. “I think he’s an amazing actor, I think he did a fantastic job. Having said that, I could not copy it. There was no way I could just copy it, because it’s so much him. It would be creative suicide. So, we had to come up with something else, something that was mine, and build a bridge between him and me.”
Despite the fact that Depp has discussed “Hollywood’s boycott” of him, the actor is set to play King Louis XV in the French-language film La Favorite and his impassioned fan base has called for him to be reinstated in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. “His fans were very, very sweet, but they were also very stubborn,” Mikkelsen continued. “I didn’t interact too much with them, but I could understand why they had their hearts broken.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/mads-mikkelsen-says-johnny-depp-might-return-to-his-fantastic-beasts-role | 2022-08-16T15:20:15Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/mads-mikkelsen-says-johnny-depp-might-return-to-his-fantastic-beasts-role | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After three years of dating, Florence Pugh revealed that she and Zach Braff have ended their relationship.
The pair first began dating in 2019 after working together on the short film In the Time It Takes to Get There, and their 21-year age gap combined with their penchant for privacy quickly made them the focus of paparazzi, tabloid headlines, and derogatory remarks from fans. Pugh explained in an interview for the September issue of Harper's Bazaar that she found the whole spectacle surrounding their relationship to be totally cruel and unnecessary. “Whenever I feel like that line has been crossed in my life, whether it’s paparazzi taking private moments, or moments that aren’t even real, or gossip channels that encourage members of the public to share private moments of famous people walking down the street, I think it’s incredibly wrong,” she says. “I don’t think that people, just because they have this job, that every aspect of their life should be watched and written about. We haven’t signed up for a reality TV show.”
Which is why when she and the Scrubs star decided to end their relationship earlier this year, they tried to "do this separation without the world knowing, because it’s been a relationship that everybody has an opinion on,” she said. “We just felt something like this would really do us the benefit of not having millions of people telling us how happy they are that we’re not together. So we’ve done that. I automatically get a lumpy throat when I talk about it.”
But before the couple went their separate ways, they collaborated on a movie together called A Good Person, which Braff wrote specifically with Pugh in mind for the starring role. She said, “The movie that we made together genuinely was probably one of my most favorite experiences. It felt like a very natural and easy thing to do.” The project also helped give her clarity on the type of acting career she wants to cultivate, explaining, “I feel like I am now getting into this groove in my career where I’m knowing what I can take, what I give, and what I will not accept anymore.”
One thing Pugh has never accepted is rude comments directed towards her relationship, calling out her own fans in a video posted to Instagram in June 2020 for their "horrid" and "hateful" behavior towards Braff. “I do not need you tell me who I should and should not love, and I would never in my life ever, ever tell anyone who they can and cannot love. It is not your place. It has nothing to do with you,” she said at the time. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/florence-pugh-zach-braff-breakup-harpers-bazaar-interview-relationship-opinions-paparazzi | 2022-08-16T15:20:21Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/florence-pugh-zach-braff-breakup-harpers-bazaar-interview-relationship-opinions-paparazzi | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released its forensic report of the October shooting death on the set of the movie "Rust."
The report states that the gun used by actor Alec Baldwin when cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot could not have been fired unless the trigger was pulled, the Associated Press reported.
USA Today and CNN reported the FBI conducted tests on the gun and found that if the hammer were fully cocked, half-cocked, and quarter-cocked, it wouldn't have fired "without a pull of the trigger."
The FBI also found during testing that portions of the gun’s trigger sear and cylinder stop fractured while the hammer was struck, which allowed the hammer to fall and the firing pin to detonate the primer, the Associated Press reported.
In addition to the FBI report, New Mexico’s Office of the Medical Investigator released a report Monday that listed the manner of death as an "accident," the news outlets reported.
Baldwin has stated previously that he did not pull the trigger, the Associated Press reported.
In a statement on Sunday, Baldwin's lawyer told the news outlets that the FBI report "is being misconstrued."
The news outlets reported the FBI passed their report on to the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office.
The news outlets reported that the prosecutors have not yet decided if any charges will be filed in the case. | https://www.katc.com/entertainment/fbi-report-finds-gun-used-in-rust-shooting-could-not-fire-without-trigger-pull | 2022-08-16T15:22:15Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/entertainment/fbi-report-finds-gun-used-in-rust-shooting-could-not-fire-without-trigger-pull | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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