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Monkeypox vaccine available in Middle Georgia
The North Central Health District is now offering the monkeypox vaccine at two locations.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The North Central Health District is now offering the monkeypox vaccine at two locations.
The vaccine is available at the Houston County Health Department and the Baldwin County Health Department.
It’s given out in a two-shot distribution similar to the Covid-19 vaccine.
The health district currently reports 11 cases of monkeypox in its area.
Public information officer Michael Hokanson says an individual can only be tested for monkeypox when a rash develops.
“So if a person does not display the rash associated with monkeypox they can not get tested,” he said. “We have to take samples from the rash itself.”
Vaccine appointments can be made on the state health department’s website.
Hokanson says if you suspect you have contracted monkeypox or if you’ve come into contact with someone who does, call your local health department before arriving. | https://www.41nbc.com/monkeypox-vaccine-available-in-middle-georgia/ | 2022-08-17T01:59:42Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/monkeypox-vaccine-available-in-middle-georgia/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Monkeypox vaccine available in Middle Georgia
The North Central Health District is now offering the monkeypox vaccine at two locations.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The North Central Health District is now offering the monkeypox vaccine at two locations.
The vaccine is available at the Houston County Health Department and the Baldwin County Health Department.
It’s given out in a two-shot distribution similar to the Covid-19 vaccine.
The health district currently reports 11 cases of monkeypox in its area.
Public information officer Michael Hokanson says an individual can only be tested for monkeypox when a rash develops.
“So if a person does not display the rash associated with monkeypox they can not get tested,” he said. “We have to take samples from the rash itself.”
Vaccine appointments can be made on the state health department’s website.
Hokanson says if you suspect you have contracted monkeypox or if you’ve come into contact with someone who does, call your local health department before arriving. | https://www.41nbc.com/monkeypox-vaccine-available-in-middle-georgia/ | 2022-08-17T01:59:42Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/monkeypox-vaccine-available-in-middle-georgia/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Monroe County Sheriff’s Office makes several arrests in drug investigation
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office recently began an investigation into complaints concerning drug activity amongst a large number of people hanging out at 2 addresses on Stokes Store Road and Virginia Lee Blvd.
The investigation began on Monday, August 15th, during which authorities arrested several people with active warrants and seized illegal drugs at the 2 locations in question.
MCSO says the following were arrested and charged:
David Daniels – Possession of Methamphetamine
John Cox – Possession of Methamphetamine; Possession of Drug related objects;Possession of marijuana more than one ounce
Austin Shephard – Wanted by Forsyth Police Department for Felony Theft by taking
Jasmyn Parrish – Wanted by Monroe County Sheriff’s Office for Failure to Appear on traffic offenses
Max McDaniel – Wanted by Butts County Sheriff’s Office for Failure to Appear on traffic offenses
Nicholas Johnson – Wanted by Monroe County Sheriff’s Office for Battery; Wanted by Lamar County Sheriff’s Office for Violation of Probation (dangerous drugs); Wanted by Henry County for Violation of Probation and multiple other charges
And Derek Sappenfield, who is still at large, is wanted for Obstruction of a Law Enforcement Officer. | https://www.41nbc.com/monroe-county-sheriffs-offices-makes-several-arrests-in-drug-investigation/ | 2022-08-17T01:59:48Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/monroe-county-sheriffs-offices-makes-several-arrests-in-drug-investigation/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Monroe County Sheriff’s Office makes several arrests in drug investigation
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office recently began an investigation into complaints concerning drug activity amongst a large number of people hanging out at 2 addresses on Stokes Store Road and Virginia Lee Blvd.
The investigation began on Monday, August 15th, during which authorities arrested several people with active warrants and seized illegal drugs at the 2 locations in question.
MCSO says the following were arrested and charged:
David Daniels – Possession of Methamphetamine
John Cox – Possession of Methamphetamine; Possession of Drug related objects;Possession of marijuana more than one ounce
Austin Shephard – Wanted by Forsyth Police Department for Felony Theft by taking
Jasmyn Parrish – Wanted by Monroe County Sheriff’s Office for Failure to Appear on traffic offenses
Max McDaniel – Wanted by Butts County Sheriff’s Office for Failure to Appear on traffic offenses
Nicholas Johnson – Wanted by Monroe County Sheriff’s Office for Battery; Wanted by Lamar County Sheriff’s Office for Violation of Probation (dangerous drugs); Wanted by Henry County for Violation of Probation and multiple other charges
And Derek Sappenfield, who is still at large, is wanted for Obstruction of a Law Enforcement Officer. | https://www.41nbc.com/monroe-county-sheriffs-offices-makes-several-arrests-in-drug-investigation/ | 2022-08-17T01:59:48Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/monroe-county-sheriffs-offices-makes-several-arrests-in-drug-investigation/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
One more day of sun before clouds and rain return
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Sunny skies will continue to dominate Middle Georgia this afternoon.
Today
Skies around Middle Georgia were clear heading into the sunrise hours, but a number of low level clouds filled in as temperatures reached their low point. We will continue to see those clouds clear out as we approach lunchtime, and mostly sunny skies will take over from there. Highs this afternoon are primarily in the lower 90s around Middle Georgia with heat indices reaching into the mid 90s. There will not be much cloud cover to shelter from the sun and heat later, and the clouds that are present will mainly be upper level cirrus clouds. Those often let a decent amount of sunlight through, so sunblock is necessary for anyone wanting to spend the afternoon outside.
Another reason today is a great one to get outside is because of the low rain chances. We may see one or two stray storms in the region this afternoon and evening, and that is it. Additionally more cloud cover will be making its way in tomorrow morning, bringing gloomy conditions with it. Those who wish to enjoy the sun should do so today.
Skies will be mostly clear for the first half of tonight, and rain is not expected. We could begin to see some cloud cover ahead of the sunrise tomorrow, however the models are in disagreement on time of arrival, meaning we could also see a pretty sunrise. Lows will be in the upper 60s and lower 70s around the region.
Tomorrow
Whether or not the day begins with cloud cover or a pretty sunrise, we will see plenty of clouds. As mentioned above, models are not entirely in agreement on when the clouds will pile in, just that we will see a whole bunch of them by the end of tomorrow. More than likely we will see them begin to fill in more during the middle of the day. Highs for tomorrow are currently forecast to be in the mid to upper 80s, however the earlier the clouds arrive, the cooler it will be in the afternoon.
Storm chances for tomorrow will be higher than today, but for the afternoon it will likely just be a few sporadic showers. We will begin to see the storm chances climb more following the sunset tomorrow evening.
Tomorrow night will be a cloudy one and a wet one for a good portion of Middle Georgia. Storms will begin to move in more as we push past midnight, with widespread rain likely taking over the majority of the region as we head into the sunrise hours of Thursday. Get your rain gear ready, you will need it out the door for work and school Thursday morning. Low temperatures tomorrow night into Thursday morning will be in the lower 70s and upper 60s.
Thursday and Beyond
Thursday will be a wet day for most if not all of Middle Georgia as heavy rain moves through, especially during the first half of the day. Some scattered storms will be possible during the afternoon and evening, and some may persist into the overnight hours. High temperatures could range from the upper 70s into the mid 80s, but most of the region will likely be in the lower 80s.
This pattern will continue through Friday and into Saturday before clearing up a bit. Storms will still be possible Sunday and into the start of next week, however the rain will likely not be as widespread, allow temperatures to climb back up a bit.
The tropics are also overall still quiet right now, however the NHC has identified a cluster of storms they are watching in the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast of the Yucatán Peninsula. It has a 0% chance of imminent formation (within the next two days), however there is a 20% chance for development once it crosses to the northwest side of the peninsula within the next 5 days.
Follow Meteorologist Aaron Lowery on Facebook (Aaron Lowery 41NBC) and Twitter (@ALowWX) for weather updates throughout the day. Also, you can watch his forecasts Monday through Friday on 41NBC News at Daybreak (6-7 a.m.) and 41Today (11 a.m). | https://www.41nbc.com/one-more-day-of-sun-before-clouds-and-rain-return/ | 2022-08-17T01:59:54Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/one-more-day-of-sun-before-clouds-and-rain-return/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
One more day of sun before clouds and rain return
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Sunny skies will continue to dominate Middle Georgia this afternoon.
Today
Skies around Middle Georgia were clear heading into the sunrise hours, but a number of low level clouds filled in as temperatures reached their low point. We will continue to see those clouds clear out as we approach lunchtime, and mostly sunny skies will take over from there. Highs this afternoon are primarily in the lower 90s around Middle Georgia with heat indices reaching into the mid 90s. There will not be much cloud cover to shelter from the sun and heat later, and the clouds that are present will mainly be upper level cirrus clouds. Those often let a decent amount of sunlight through, so sunblock is necessary for anyone wanting to spend the afternoon outside.
Another reason today is a great one to get outside is because of the low rain chances. We may see one or two stray storms in the region this afternoon and evening, and that is it. Additionally more cloud cover will be making its way in tomorrow morning, bringing gloomy conditions with it. Those who wish to enjoy the sun should do so today.
Skies will be mostly clear for the first half of tonight, and rain is not expected. We could begin to see some cloud cover ahead of the sunrise tomorrow, however the models are in disagreement on time of arrival, meaning we could also see a pretty sunrise. Lows will be in the upper 60s and lower 70s around the region.
Tomorrow
Whether or not the day begins with cloud cover or a pretty sunrise, we will see plenty of clouds. As mentioned above, models are not entirely in agreement on when the clouds will pile in, just that we will see a whole bunch of them by the end of tomorrow. More than likely we will see them begin to fill in more during the middle of the day. Highs for tomorrow are currently forecast to be in the mid to upper 80s, however the earlier the clouds arrive, the cooler it will be in the afternoon.
Storm chances for tomorrow will be higher than today, but for the afternoon it will likely just be a few sporadic showers. We will begin to see the storm chances climb more following the sunset tomorrow evening.
Tomorrow night will be a cloudy one and a wet one for a good portion of Middle Georgia. Storms will begin to move in more as we push past midnight, with widespread rain likely taking over the majority of the region as we head into the sunrise hours of Thursday. Get your rain gear ready, you will need it out the door for work and school Thursday morning. Low temperatures tomorrow night into Thursday morning will be in the lower 70s and upper 60s.
Thursday and Beyond
Thursday will be a wet day for most if not all of Middle Georgia as heavy rain moves through, especially during the first half of the day. Some scattered storms will be possible during the afternoon and evening, and some may persist into the overnight hours. High temperatures could range from the upper 70s into the mid 80s, but most of the region will likely be in the lower 80s.
This pattern will continue through Friday and into Saturday before clearing up a bit. Storms will still be possible Sunday and into the start of next week, however the rain will likely not be as widespread, allow temperatures to climb back up a bit.
The tropics are also overall still quiet right now, however the NHC has identified a cluster of storms they are watching in the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast of the Yucatán Peninsula. It has a 0% chance of imminent formation (within the next two days), however there is a 20% chance for development once it crosses to the northwest side of the peninsula within the next 5 days.
Follow Meteorologist Aaron Lowery on Facebook (Aaron Lowery 41NBC) and Twitter (@ALowWX) for weather updates throughout the day. Also, you can watch his forecasts Monday through Friday on 41NBC News at Daybreak (6-7 a.m.) and 41Today (11 a.m). | https://www.41nbc.com/one-more-day-of-sun-before-clouds-and-rain-return/ | 2022-08-17T01:59:54Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/one-more-day-of-sun-before-clouds-and-rain-return/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Rain and cooler temps settle in for the week
It has been a nice day across Middle Georgia with plenty of sunshine and highs in the upper 80s.
The dry weather will be coming to an end on Wednesday as our next weather pattern starts to set up.
A combo of mid-level forcing and continued moisture will spark up a few showers and storms through the day.
Although we could see some sunshine, expect partly to mostly cloudy skies through the day with highs in the mid 80s.
The trend will continue through the rest of the week as a stationary boundary sits over the area.
This doesn’t mean that it will be raining all day, every day, but there will be periods of showers with some heavy rain.
Temperatures through the rest of the week will be staying mainly in the mid and low 80s, mostly dependent on rain and cloud coverage.
While we are not forecasting a widespread flooding threat, many areas could see significant rainfall through the week.
Most of Middle Georgia will likely pick up 1-3″ of rain over the next 5 days.
Rain will be sticking around in the forecast for the foreseeable future, but should keep high temps well below normal for this time of year.
Overnight lows hover around 70 for the week. | https://www.41nbc.com/rain-and-cooler-temps-settle-in-for-the-week/ | 2022-08-17T02:00:00Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/rain-and-cooler-temps-settle-in-for-the-week/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Rain and cooler temps settle in for the week
It has been a nice day across Middle Georgia with plenty of sunshine and highs in the upper 80s.
The dry weather will be coming to an end on Wednesday as our next weather pattern starts to set up.
A combo of mid-level forcing and continued moisture will spark up a few showers and storms through the day.
Although we could see some sunshine, expect partly to mostly cloudy skies through the day with highs in the mid 80s.
The trend will continue through the rest of the week as a stationary boundary sits over the area.
This doesn’t mean that it will be raining all day, every day, but there will be periods of showers with some heavy rain.
Temperatures through the rest of the week will be staying mainly in the mid and low 80s, mostly dependent on rain and cloud coverage.
While we are not forecasting a widespread flooding threat, many areas could see significant rainfall through the week.
Most of Middle Georgia will likely pick up 1-3″ of rain over the next 5 days.
Rain will be sticking around in the forecast for the foreseeable future, but should keep high temps well below normal for this time of year.
Overnight lows hover around 70 for the week. | https://www.41nbc.com/rain-and-cooler-temps-settle-in-for-the-week/ | 2022-08-17T02:00:00Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/rain-and-cooler-temps-settle-in-for-the-week/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Senator Jon Ossoff announces bill to fund law enforcement and mental health
Senator Jon Ossoff visited Macon Tuesday to make an announcement about a bill he introduced that will fund law enforcement and mental health services.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Senator Jon Ossoff visited Macon Tuesday to make an announcement about a bill he introduced that will fund law enforcement and mental health services.
It’s on its way to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law.
When a person is in crisis, one of the calls they often make is to 911. Many times, first responders and law enforcement respond to those calls, but they’re often not equipped to do it. That’s why Senator Ossoff introduced the bill.
“The mental health crisis in our country is something that impacts everybody,” Senator Ossoff said.
Senator Ossoff’s bill passed the House and the Senate with bipartisan support.
Colonel Henderson Carswell with the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office says funding from the bill will help them in two ways.
“It’s going to be able to help us contact services in the field,” Carswell said. “It’s something we haven’t been able to do in the past, and I think it’s going to be very effective in helping us deal with these matters. The second is the training aspect of it.”
Kathryn Dennis, President of the Community Foundation of Central Georgia, is thrilled the legislation passed through Congress. She says mental health is the number one concern of the non-profits she works with.
“To have this support for the programs that are here, plus to train our law enforcement, because they really are the people that are there on the front lines,” she said. “A lot of people don’t need to be going to jail. They need help, mental help, and most of our homeless population is the same way.”
Colonel Carswell says training is essential to having favorable outcomes in mental health situations.
“This is just another step forward in bringing people together,” he said. “That’s what I love about this particular bill: it’s bipartisan. It’s bringing people together, because this is a serious issue we all have to deal with. I think we have to know how to deal with it properly so that we’ll not only save lives but make our community safer.”
According to Senator Ossoff’s press secretary, the bill reauthorizes the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration from 2023 to 2027. $54 million a year in grant money is available for local governments and agencies to apply for.
Macon-Bibb County received a $750,000 grant through the program in 2021. The money helped implement a project supporting law enforcement and prosecutors in responding to threats of targeted violence. | https://www.41nbc.com/senator-jon-ossoff-announces-bill-to-fund-law-enforcement-and-mental-health/ | 2022-08-17T02:00:12Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/senator-jon-ossoff-announces-bill-to-fund-law-enforcement-and-mental-health/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
Senator Jon Ossoff announces bill to fund law enforcement and mental health
Senator Jon Ossoff visited Macon Tuesday to make an announcement about a bill he introduced that will fund law enforcement and mental health services.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Senator Jon Ossoff visited Macon Tuesday to make an announcement about a bill he introduced that will fund law enforcement and mental health services.
It’s on its way to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law.
When a person is in crisis, one of the calls they often make is to 911. Many times, first responders and law enforcement respond to those calls, but they’re often not equipped to do it. That’s why Senator Ossoff introduced the bill.
“The mental health crisis in our country is something that impacts everybody,” Senator Ossoff said.
Senator Ossoff’s bill passed the House and the Senate with bipartisan support.
Colonel Henderson Carswell with the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office says funding from the bill will help them in two ways.
“It’s going to be able to help us contact services in the field,” Carswell said. “It’s something we haven’t been able to do in the past, and I think it’s going to be very effective in helping us deal with these matters. The second is the training aspect of it.”
Kathryn Dennis, President of the Community Foundation of Central Georgia, is thrilled the legislation passed through Congress. She says mental health is the number one concern of the non-profits she works with.
“To have this support for the programs that are here, plus to train our law enforcement, because they really are the people that are there on the front lines,” she said. “A lot of people don’t need to be going to jail. They need help, mental help, and most of our homeless population is the same way.”
Colonel Carswell says training is essential to having favorable outcomes in mental health situations.
“This is just another step forward in bringing people together,” he said. “That’s what I love about this particular bill: it’s bipartisan. It’s bringing people together, because this is a serious issue we all have to deal with. I think we have to know how to deal with it properly so that we’ll not only save lives but make our community safer.”
According to Senator Ossoff’s press secretary, the bill reauthorizes the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration from 2023 to 2027. $54 million a year in grant money is available for local governments and agencies to apply for.
Macon-Bibb County received a $750,000 grant through the program in 2021. The money helped implement a project supporting law enforcement and prosecutors in responding to threats of targeted violence. | https://www.41nbc.com/senator-jon-ossoff-announces-bill-to-fund-law-enforcement-and-mental-health/ | 2022-08-17T02:00:12Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/senator-jon-ossoff-announces-bill-to-fund-law-enforcement-and-mental-health/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
YKK $125M expansion into Macon on its way
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) –A $125 million business expansion is on its way to Bibb County.
Governor Kemp announced Tuesday that YKK AP America Inc. will be expanding to include a new manufacturing facility and additional machinery and equipment in Bibb County. The new facility will create 100 new jobs in addition to the 250 jobs YKK AP already supports in Macon. The new facility will be located at Macon-Bibb’s I-75 Industrial Park, at a Georgia Ready for Accelerated Development certified site. After completion, the company plans to relocate its operations and employees from its current site on Ocmulgee Boulevard to the new facility.
The Macon facility will become home to the company’s residential division, which manufactures vinyl windows and doors for builders and homeowners. It will serve as a model plant for future North American manufacturing facilities, with new technologies, as well as sustainable manufacturing processes.
Operations are expected to begin in early 2024, and the company is currently hiring for several positions– anyone interested can learn more and apply at careers.ykkap.com.
YKK AP is a technology-oriented manufacturer of commercial facade systems and residential windows and doors. It specializes in architectural products for commercial and residential buildings.
Governor Kemp had this to say concerning the expansion:
“Being the No. 1 state for business doesn’t just mean attracting new investments. It is also our priority to ensure companies already operating in Georgia can grow and thrive,” and, “We’re excited YKK AP recognizes the advantages of doing business in middle Georgia and has chosen to expand their relationship with the Macon community through 100 new jobs.” | https://www.41nbc.com/ykk-125m-expansion-into-macon-on-its-way/ | 2022-08-17T02:00:18Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/ykk-125m-expansion-into-macon-on-its-way/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
YKK $125M expansion into Macon on its way
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) –A $125 million business expansion is on its way to Bibb County.
Governor Kemp announced Tuesday that YKK AP America Inc. will be expanding to include a new manufacturing facility and additional machinery and equipment in Bibb County. The new facility will create 100 new jobs in addition to the 250 jobs YKK AP already supports in Macon. The new facility will be located at Macon-Bibb’s I-75 Industrial Park, at a Georgia Ready for Accelerated Development certified site. After completion, the company plans to relocate its operations and employees from its current site on Ocmulgee Boulevard to the new facility.
The Macon facility will become home to the company’s residential division, which manufactures vinyl windows and doors for builders and homeowners. It will serve as a model plant for future North American manufacturing facilities, with new technologies, as well as sustainable manufacturing processes.
Operations are expected to begin in early 2024, and the company is currently hiring for several positions– anyone interested can learn more and apply at careers.ykkap.com.
YKK AP is a technology-oriented manufacturer of commercial facade systems and residential windows and doors. It specializes in architectural products for commercial and residential buildings.
Governor Kemp had this to say concerning the expansion:
“Being the No. 1 state for business doesn’t just mean attracting new investments. It is also our priority to ensure companies already operating in Georgia can grow and thrive,” and, “We’re excited YKK AP recognizes the advantages of doing business in middle Georgia and has chosen to expand their relationship with the Macon community through 100 new jobs.” | https://www.41nbc.com/ykk-125m-expansion-into-macon-on-its-way/ | 2022-08-17T02:00:18Z | nbc.com | treatment | https://www.41nbc.com/ykk-125m-expansion-into-macon-on-its-way/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
RICHMOND, Va. -- Large racial disparities among Virginia organ donors have kept some patients on the organ transplant waiting list for years, while others never get the call that a life-saving match was found. LifeNet, a nonprofit that works with people in need of new organs, wants to renew hope by putting a spotlight on National Multi-Ethnic Donation Awareness Month.
"I’ve been waiting for this call for seven years now. I’m kind of losing hope," Darrell Jackson, who is in need of a kidney donation, said.
While he waits for a donation, his life revolves around dialysis four hours a day, three times a week.
"It’s just hard on you," he said. "Hard on your body. Hard on your mind."
CJ Richardson knows the angst Jackson and others feel as they wait for a kidney match.
The Richmond-area comedian and community activist is also a kidney transplant recipient.
He recently shared a video on social media, celebrating seven years since a donor saved his life. The video stressed the importance of organ donation.
Richardson said he understood the significant racial disparities among organ donors in Virginia.
According to LifeNet Health, while African Americans make up 19 percent of Virginia’s population, they represent 50 percent of the patients on the state’s organ transplant waiting list.
"The need is this, there are people waiting on the list and unfortunately people die waiting," Kia Potts, with LifeNet Health, said.
Potts said family members of potential African American donors are less likely to consent to their loved one being a donor and African American majority geographical areas show significantly lower levels of donor registrations.
She and Richardson, who uses his comedy platform to raise awareness about organ donation, said the best thing to do is to talk about it.
"There are multiple ways you can give life. Doesn’t have to be a deceased donor. You can be a living donor. I’m constantly saying all the time, we have to educate our people," Richardson said. "We have to make it a household conversation. A day-to-day conversation. Doesn’t have to be an uncomfortable conversation to discuss organ donation, which it is in some homes and communities, that’s why the numbers are so low."
By spreading knowledge, LifeNet hopes more donors will sign up and make a life-saving difference.
"Any opportunity that there is community, there is a place to talk and have a conversation, that’s where we want to be," Potts said. "We want to build trust in the community and want them to know we are trying to save lives restore health and give hope."
To become an organ donor, you can go to your closest DMV or register here. If you want to see if you’re a match for Darrell Jackson, it’s as simple as contacting his care team at VCU Medical Center.
This story was originally published by WTVR in Richmond, Virginia. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/closing-the-organ-donation-racial-gap-people-die-waiting | 2022-08-17T02:10:30Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/closing-the-organ-donation-racial-gap-people-die-waiting | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MILWAUKEE — The door to the manager’s office stayed closed long after the game ended Monday night at American Family Field.
When it opened, out came Cody Bellinger, mired in yet another slump and given a seat on the bench by Dave Roberts to “re-set” mentally for a couple of days.
“He’s been – I guess we all use the word grinding a lot,” Roberts said before Tuesday’s game. “When you look back 10 days ago, he was coming out of something and feeling really good. I just see him pressing a little bit. So just to give him a chance to step back, reset and we’ll get him back in there probably Thursday or Friday.
“We had a good conversation and this is more kind of playing the short-term and the long-term view to best serve him.”
The long-term view looking backward shows a three-year offensive slide from his National League MVP season filled with stretches when Bellinger seemed to be “coming out of something” only to regress again. The latest started after his two-homer game against the San Diego Padres a little over a week ago. Since then, Bellinger is 2 for 19 with six strikeouts – and one of the hits (a home run) was with a position player pitching.
“Obviously you’re gonna go through ups and downs,” Bellinger said. “I’ve been seeing the ball well, feeling healthy.
“It just hasn’t been obviously working as well as it was. That’s the game. I think at the end of the day, I’ve just got to focus on winning, and not being so internal sometimes and just try to help this team win any way I can.”
Things were much worse last season, Bellinger acknowledged.
“This year, I’ve felt like I was able to contribute more than last year obviously,” Bellinger said. “Last year, for sure, I was super internal. Not having any fun. This year, I’ve had a lot more fun on the every-day basis.”
The .206 batting average he dragged into Tuesday did represent a 40-point improvement from last season’s miserable offensive showing. But last year’s struggles were often blamed on a series of physical challenges – offseason shoulder surgery, a fracture in his leg, a hamstring injury and a broken rib.
There have been no health issues this season. But good health has not returned Bellinger to anywhere near the 140 OPS-plus player he was during his first four big-league seasons.
“Very surprised. I think we all are,” Roberts said when asked if he was surprised a healthy season hasn’t resulted in a more productive Bellinger. “But … this is where we’re at and how are we going to get out of this? So for me, it’s just not helpful to look at how we got here. I’m trying to figure out how we’re going to move forward with him.
“I think that supporting him in every way – the coaches are working great, he’s all in to put in the work and putting him in a position to have success. But yeah, this game is hard. But he hasn’t run from it. So that’s something I can hang my hat on.”
Roberts also praised Bellinger’s work in center field – “his defense alone has won us a lot of ballgames.” The Dodgers’ big division lead gives them room to absorb Bellinger’s struggles. But Roberts admitted there could come a time when he sees Trayce Thompson or Chris Taylor as a better option than Bellinger when games become more meaningful.
“As we look out, I still expect things to turn. But we’ve got a very good team and guys that aren’t playing every day,” Roberts said.
“If it comes to that, I’ll look at it. But I’m not in that mindset right now.”
DUFFY SETBACK
Scratch left-hander Danny Duffy off the list of injured pitchers who might return to help the Dodgers in the postseason.
The 33-year-old Duffy considered retiring after last season but underwent flexor tendon surgery last November and re-signed with the Dodgers. He had progressed in his recovery to throwing to hitters in live batting practice sessions at Camelback Ranch in Arizona recently. But he suffered a setback when he experienced discomfort after the throwing sessions, according to Roberts.
“I don’t want to write it off right now,” Roberts said of Duffy pitching this season. “I just think it’s pretty unlikely.”
Duffy’s one-year, $3 million contract includes a club option for 2023 at $7 million.
ALSO
Clayton Kershaw did not travel to Milwaukee with the team. He is continuing his throwing program at home in Texas, then will rejoin the Dodgers when they return to Los Angeles this weekend. The three-time Cy Young Award winner could be ready to start throwing off a mound at some point soon after that. …
Relief pitcher Brusdar Graterol is scheduled to pitch on back-to-back days for Triple-A Oklahoma City on Friday and Saturday. If all goes well, that would complete his rehab assignment and Graterol would rejoin the Dodgers on Sunday. …
Infielder Rylan Bannon was claimed on waivers by the Atlanta Braves. Bannon was acquired by the Dodgers on waivers from the Baltimore Orioles then was designated for assignment to clear a roster spot Friday.
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A statewide Flex Alert, asking residents to conserve electricity from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 17, has been issued as temperatures are expected to soar across the state, with some of the most searing heat expected in inland Southern California.
Much of the state is expected to see above average temperatures Wednesday, officials with the California Independent System Operator Tuesday said in a news release.
It marks the first statewide Flex Alert issued in 2022 by Cal-ISO, which manages the state’s power grid.
A Flex Alert is issued when the electricity grid is under stress because of generation or transmission outages or from persistent hot temperatures, Cal-ISO said.
During the Flex Alert, consumers are asked to set their thermostats to 78 degrees or higher, if health permits, and take other voluntary measures, including avoiding the use of major appliances and unnecessary lights. Cal-ISO recommended that residents take steps before the Flex Alert takes effect, such as pre-cooling homes to 72 degrees and closing blinds and drapes.
A heat advisory will be in effect through 8 p.m. Wednesday in Riverside County valleys, with temperatures expected to range from the upper 90s to as high as 104 degrees.
🔥🌡️ Highs approaching the triple digits are expected in the Inland Empire for the next few days, thus a Heat Advisory ⚠️ is in effect through 8 PM Wednesday.
Be sure to hydrate regularly and never leave pets or kids unattended in a locked vehicle! #CAwx pic.twitter.com/cSlHAFVjYt
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A third suspect arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of an off-duty Monterey Park police officer during a botched robbery attempt in Downey now faces charges, including murder, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Authorities accused Gerardo Magallanes, 18, of standing by with a 17-year-old getaway driver while another suspect attempted to rob Officer Gardiel Solorio Aug. 8 in a parking lot outside LA Fitness.
The shooter fired at the victim multiple times as Solorio backed out of the parking space before allegedly fleeing with Magallanes and the driver.
Magallanes, who was arrested Thursday, Aug. 11, faces counts including murder, shooting at an occupied vehicle and unlawful possession of a firearm while on probation.
“We will ensure that anyone involved in the tragic and senseless killing of officer Solorio is held accountable,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Gascón said in a statement.
Carlos Delcid, the suspected shooter, faces similar charges with the added special circumstance allegation that the murder was committed during a carjacking.
The getaway driver, a minor, was charged last week in Juvenile Court with the murder of Officer Solorio.
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People's Bank of China set the onshore yuan (CNY) reference rate for the trading session ahead.
- USD/CNY is the onshore yuan. Its permitted to trade plus or minus 2% from this daily reference rate.
- CNH is the offshore yuan. USD/CNH has no restrictions on its trading range.
- A significantly stronger or weaker rate than expected is typically considered a signal from the PBOC.
- The previous close was 6.7890
- The PBOC injects 2 yuan via 7-day reverse repos (rate remains at 2%)
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RBNZ hikes its cash rate by 50bp as expected
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Reserve Bank of New Zealand monetary policy decision August 2022
Eamonn Sheridan
Wednesday, 17/08/2022 | 01:57 GMT-0
17/08/2022 | 01:57 GMT-0
RBNZ takes the Official Cash Rate to 3% from 2.5%
RBZN projections for the path ahead:
- sees OCR at 3.69% in December this year (up from its previous projection at 3.41%)
- sees OCR at 4.1 in September 2023 (from 3.95%)
- sees OCR at 4.1% in December 2023 (from 3.95%)
- sees OCR at 3.65% in September 2025
On the currency, sees the NZ dollar TWI around 71.7 in September 2023 (prior was 71.8))
More:
- Conditions need to continue to tighten
- Core consumer price inflation
Inflation
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Read this Term remains too high and labour resources remain scarce
- Range of indicators highlight broad-based domestic pricing pressures
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care bill into law on Tuesday, delivering what he has called the “final piece” of his pared-down domestic agenda, as he aims to boost his party’s standing with voters less than three months before the midterm elections.
The legislation includes the most substantial federal investment in history to fight climate change — some $375 billion over the decade — and would cap prescription drug costs at $2,000 out-of-pocket annually for Medicare recipients. It also would help an estimated 13 million Americans pay for health care insurance by extending subsidies provided during the coronavirus pandemic.
The measure is paid for by new taxes on large companies and stepped-up IRS enforcement of wealthy individuals and entities, with additional funds going to reduce the federal deficit.
In a triumphant signing event at the White House, Biden pointed to the law as proof that democracy — no matter how long or messy the process — can still deliver for voters in America as he road-tested a line he will likely repeat later this fall ahead of the midterms: “The American people won, and the special interests lost.”
“In this historic moment, Democrats sided with the American people, and every single Republican in the Congress sided with the special interests in this vote,” Biden said, repeatedly seizing on the contrast between his party and the GOP. “Every single one.”
The House on Friday approved the measure on a party-line 220-207 vote. It passed the Senate days earlier with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking a 50-50 tie in that chamber.
“In normal times, getting these bills done would be a huge achievement,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said during the White House ceremony. “But to do it now, with only 50 Democratic votes in the Senate, over an intransigent Republican minority, is nothing short of amazing.”
Biden signed the bill into law during a small ceremony in the State Dining Room of the White House, sandwiched between his return from a six-day beachside vacation in South Carolina and his departure for his home in Wilmington, Delaware. He plans to hold a larger “celebration” for the legislation on Sept. 6 once lawmakers return to Washington.
The signing caps a spurt of legislative productivity for Biden and Congress, who in three months have approved legislation on veterans’ benefits, the semiconductor industry and gun checks for young buyers. The president and lawmakers have also responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and overwhelmingly supported NATO membership for Sweden and Finland.
With Biden’s approval rating lagging, Democrats are hoping that the string of successes will jump-start their chances of maintaining control in Washington in the November midterms. The 79-year-old president aims to restore his own standing with voters as he contemplates a reelection bid.
The White House announced Monday that it was going to deploy Biden and members of his Cabinet on a “Building a Better America Tour” to promote the recent victories. One of Biden’s trips will be to Ohio, where he’ll view the groundbreaking of a semiconductor plant that will benefit from the recent law to bolster production of such computer chips. He will also stop in Pennsylvania to promote his administration’s plan for safer communities, a visit that had been planned the same day he tested positive for COVID-19 last month.
Biden also plans to hold a Cabinet meeting to discuss how to implement the new climate and health care law.
Republicans say the legislation’s new business taxes will increase prices, worsening the nation’s bout with its highest inflation since 1981. Though Democrats have labeled the measure the Inflation Reduction Act, nonpartisan analysts say it will have a barely perceptible impact on prices. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/biden-signs-massive-climate-and-health-care-legislation/article_fe9f4ec2-1dad-11ed-a16c-376d8e685d0b.html | 2022-08-17T02:25:04Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/biden-signs-massive-climate-and-health-care-legislation/article_fe9f4ec2-1dad-11ed-a16c-376d8e685d0b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New York state may provide more cancer screenings and diagnostic services at no cost to patients.
The proposal is part of S.9258/A.10535 introduced by Sen. Roxanne Persaud, D-Brooklyn, and Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages, D-Valley Stream, to increase spending on the New York State Cancer Services Program to $26.8 million a year while covering testing and diagnostic services for breast cancer, cervical cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, testicular cancer and ovarian cancer. The legislation has been referred to the Senate Finance Committee and the Assembly Health Committee for possible consideration when the legislative session starts in January.
Persaud and Solages cite American Cancer Society estimates showing 120,000 new cancer cases will be diagnosed in New York with more than 35,000 deaths in 2021, making cancer the second-leading cause of death in the state.
According to an Associated Press report in May, cancer death rates have steadily declined among Black people but remain higher than in other racial and ethnic groups, according to a federal study. Cancer deaths have been dropping for all Americans for the past two decades because of lower smoking rates and advances in early detection and treatment.
The rates among Black people fell 2% each year from 1999 to 2019, from 359 cancer deaths per 100,000 to 239 deaths per 100,000, according to the report published online in JAMA Oncology and reported on by the Associated Press. In 2019, the highest cancer death rates were in Black men — 294 deaths per 100,000 — almost double the lowest rate in Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The rate for white men was 249 deaths per 100,000. For Hispanic men, it was 177 deaths per 100,000 and 255 deaths per 100,000 among Native American men.
According to the AP, the persistently higher death rate among Black Americans remains a concern, and likely reflects social and economic disparities including poverty, less access to care and mistrust of doctors, said National Cancer Institute researcher Wayne Lawrence, who led the study.
“It’s showing that we can’t simply rely on medical care as a way to address and eliminate the disparities,” said Carla Williams, a Howard University expert in cancer-related health disparities, who had no role in the research, said to the AP.
Solages and Persaud say their legislation is one way to lessen the death rates for cancer between whites and Blacks because it will result in more people having access to early detection testing.
“Health disparities across populations from racial and ethnic minority groups are more likely to be uninsured, increasing the likelihood of being diagnosed with advanced cancer,” Persaud and Solages wrote. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/state-backed-cancer-screenings-proposed/article_19881404-1dad-11ed-b40a-bff86d449a92.html | 2022-08-17T02:25:10Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/state-backed-cancer-screenings-proposed/article_19881404-1dad-11ed-b40a-bff86d449a92.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK — Wolfgang Petersen, the German filmmaker whose World War II submarine epic “Das Boot” propelled him into a blockbuster Hollywood career that included the films “In the Line of Fire,” “Air Force One” and “The Perfect Storm,” has died. He was 81.
Petersen died Friday at his home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood after a battle with pancreatic cancer, said representative Michelle Bega.
Petersen, born in the north German port city of Emden, made two features before his 1982 breakthrough, “Das Boot,” then the most expensive movie in German film history. The 149-minute film (the original cut ran 210 minutes) chronicled the intense claustrophobia of life aboard a doomed German U-boat during the Battle of the Atlantic, with Jürgen Prochnow as the submarine’s commander.
Heralded as an antiwar masterpiece, “Das Boot” was nominated for six Oscars, including for Petersen’s direction and his adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim’s best-selling 1973 novel.
Petersen, born in 1941, recalled as a child running alongside American ships as they threw down food. In the confusion of postwar Germany, Petersen — who started out in theater before attending Berlin’s Film and Television Academy in the late 1960s — gravitated toward Hollywood films with clear clashes of good and evil. John Ford was a major influence.
“In school they never talked about the time of Hitler — they just blocked it out of their minds and concentrated on rebuilding Germany,” Petersen told The Los Angeles Times in 1993. “We kids were looking for more glamorous dreams than rebuilding a destroyed country though, so we were really ready for it when American pop culture came to Germany. We all lived for American movies, and by the time I was 11 I’d decided I wanted to be a filmmaker.”
“Das Boot” launched Petersen as a filmmaker in Hollywood, where he became one of the top makers of cataclysmic action adventures in films spanning war (2004’s “Troy,” with Brad Pitt), pandemic (the 1995 ebolavirus-inspired “Outbreak”) and other ocean-set disasters (2000’s “The Perfect Storm” and 2006’s “Poseidon,” a remake of “The Poseidon Adventure,” about the capsizing of an ocean liner).
But Petersen’s first foray in American moviemaking was child fantasy: the enchanting 1984 film “The NeverEnding Story.” Adapted from Michael Ende’s novel, “The NeverEnding Story” was about a magical book that transports its young reader into the world of Fantasia, where a dark force known as the Nothing rampages.
Arguably Petersen’s finest Hollywood film came almost a decade later in 1993’s “In the Line of Fire,” starring Clint Eastwood as a Secret Service agent protecting the president of the United States from John Malkovich’s assassin. In it, Petersen marshalled his substantial skill in building suspense for a more open-air but just as taut thriller that careened across rooftops and past Washington D.C. monuments.
Seeking a director for the film, Eastwood thought of Petersen, with whom he had chatted a few years earlier at a dinner party given by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Eastwood met with Petersen, checked out his work and gave him the job. “In the Line of Fire” was a major hit, grossing $177 million worldwide and landing three Oscar nominations.
“You sometimes have seven-year cycles. You look at other directors; they don’t have the big successes all the time. Up to ‘NeverEnding Story,’ my career was one success after another,” Petersen told The Associated Press in 1993. “Then I came into the stormy international scene. I needed time to get a feeling for this work — it’s not Germany anymore.”
Petersen considered the political thriller — which cast the heroic Eastwood as the tired but devoted defender of a less honorable president — an indictment of Washington.
“When John’s character says, ‘Nothing they told me was true and there’s nothing left worth fighting for,’ I think his words will resonate for many people,” Petersen told The Los Angeles Times. “The film is rooted in a profound pessimism about what’s unfortunately happened to this country in the last 30 years. Look around — the corruption is everywhere, and there’s not much to celebrate.”
After “Outbreak,” with Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo and Morgan Freeman, Petersen returned to the presidency in 1997’s “Air Force One.” Harrison Ford starred as a president forced into a fight with terrorists who hijack Air Force One.
“Air Force One,” with $315 million in global box office, was a hit, too, but Petersen went for something even bigger in 2000’s “The Perfect Storm,” the true-life tale of a Massachusetts fishing boat lost at sea. The cast included George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg but its main attraction was a 100-foot computer-generated wave. With a budget of $120 million, “The Perfect Storm” made $328.7 million.
For Peterson, who grew up on the northern coast of Germany, the sea long held his fascination.
“The power of water is unbelievable,” Petersen said in a 2009 interview. “I was always impressed as a kid how strong it is, all the damage the water could do when it just turned within a couple of hours, and smashed against the shore.”
Petersen’s followed “The Perfect Storm” with “Troy,” a sprawling epic based on Homer’s Iliad that found less favor among critics but still made nearly $500 million worldwide. The big-budget “Poseidon,” a high-priced flop for Warner Bros., was Petersen’s last Hollywood film. His final film was 2016’s “Four Against the Bank” a German film that remade Petersen’s own 1976 German TV movie.
Petersen was first married to German actress Ursula Sieg. When they divorced in 1978, he married Maria-Antoinette Borgel, a German script supervisor and assistant director. He’s survived by Borgel, son Daniel Petersen and two grandchildren. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/wolfgang-petersen-blockbuster-filmmaker-of-das-boot-dies/article_6405dc78-1dad-11ed-9cb9-3742cdd4daf1.html | 2022-08-17T02:25:16Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/wolfgang-petersen-blockbuster-filmmaker-of-das-boot-dies/article_6405dc78-1dad-11ed-9cb9-3742cdd4daf1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Elizabeth Holtzman has been excluded from the PIX11 House debate Wednesday night, triggering a protest from the former Brooklyn congresswoman and district attorney as well as one of her major supporters — the National Organization For Women.
PIX 11 said Holtzman didn’t get the required 5% in its recent poll released to make the cut. She received 4.1% support.
“The Supreme Court is eliminating women’s rights. PIX 11 shouldn’t be erasing women’s voices,” Holtzman told The Post Tuesday night.
Holtzman claimed PIX 11’s heavy reliance on text polling undercounts elderly voters — and therefore an elderly candidate who is a proven vote-getter.
“It’s astounding that we have a person who has played a significant role in New York’s political history being excluded,” she said.
Sonia Ossorio, the head of the NYS chapter of the National Organization For Women, which has endorsed Holtzman, also cried foul.
“We have a senior citizen running for office ousted from the debate stage because of a poll that underrepresents older voters. Older voters are the most unreliable voters on the planet,” Ossorio said.
She said Holtzman is a “formidable” candidate who’s been “elected multiple times to multiple offices.”
Candidate Dan Goldman, the chief House Democrats’ lawyer during the first impeachment proceeding against former President Donald Trump, will be on the budget stage after finishing first in the PIX/Emerson College survey with 22% support from Democratic voters surveyed.
Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, who is backed by the Working Families Party, made the cut with 17% support, followed by Councilwoman Carlina Rivera and suburban Rep. Mondaire Jones each with 13% and Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon at 6%.
PIX 11 executive producer John Tummino Tuesday night defended the debate criteria.
“We outlined the debate criteria. We stand by our debate criteria,” Tummino told The Post.
PIX 11 also posted a story Tuesday night that included a July 19 email from Holtzman’s campaign manager, Marlene O’Brien, who supported “your sensible rules and safety guidelines” for the debate.
Holtzman is not the only candidate to gripe.
Parent activist and former Legal Aid lawyer Maud Maron complained when she didn’t make the cut for NY1’s recent debate for candidates in the 10th Congressional District. Holtzman was included in that debate, which included six candidates.
The one-hour PIX 11 debate will take place at 8 p.m. Wednesday at CUNY’s Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Another fraud has been uncovered in Spokane.
42-year-old Edward Thomas has been sentenced to five years of probation for fraudulently obtaining COVID relief funds.
The CARES Act was signed to aid small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, prosecutors said Thomas took advantage of the benefits for fraudulent purposes.
“COVID-19 relief programs were designed to lift up our community during crisis, and due to the number of people and businesses that requested funding, some deserving small businesses were not able to obtain funding to keep their businesses in operation,” U.S. Attorney Vanessa Waldref said in a statement.
According to prosecutors, Thomas applied for an Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL). He received two loans in July and August 2020 for a total of $54,900, for an alleged tattoo parlor and a clothing design company. In May 2022, Thomas pleaded guilty and admitted he obtained false information to make the business claims seem legitimate.
“We created the Eastern Washington COVID-19 Fraud Strike Force because combatting pandemic-related fraud and holding those accountable who abused these programs is critical to protecting our small and local businesses, and the critical jobs and services that they provide for the community.” said Waldref.
As part of the sentence, Thomas will be supervised by the Court and has to remain employed in order to pay back the full amount of money he obtained.
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Bronny James is one of the most heavily recruited high schoolers on the planet — and his dad wants everyone to know he hasn’t decided where he’ll play college ball.
LeBron James responded to On3 naming Oregon as the front-runner to land Bronny’s services.
“He hasn’t taken 1 visit yet and has only had a few calls with coaches and universities,” the elder James tweeted. “When Bronny makes his choice you’ll hear it from him.”
On3 noted that Oregon, Ohio State and USC are actively recruiting Bronny,
While the Ducks program and its ties to Nike — LeBron is one of the biggest names on the sneaker giant’s roster of players, and co-founder Phil Knight has made his alma mater a flagship for the brand — would make for an obvious connection, it’s too early to declare any recruiting victories.
For now, Bronny, 17, is content to build up his considerable highlight reel ahead of his senior season at Sierra Canyon in Los Angeles during the fall. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/16/lebron-james-shoots-down-bronny-college-commitment-rumors/ | 2022-08-17T02:28:01Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/16/lebron-james-shoots-down-bronny-college-commitment-rumors/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SPOKANE, Wash. — In response to another upcoming heatwave, the city has once again reactivated its cooling plans. Library hours have been extended beginning Tuesday, Aug. 16, through Sunday, Aug. 21.
The following libraries will be open until 8 p.m. from Tuesday until Sunday:
- Central – 906 W. Main St.
- Shadle Park – 2111 W. Wellesley Ave.
- Liberty Park – 402 S. Pittsburg St.
- Hillyard – 4110 N. Cook St.
“August temperatures are expected to heat up again, so the cooling centers portion of the City’s hazard sheltering plan is being reactivated to give people a place to cool off,” Mayor Nadine Woodward said in a statement. “Air conditioning, water and restrooms will be available at these branches for anyone who needs a place out of the heat.”
Cooling centers are estimated to hold approximately 1,700 people throughout the city. If capacity is reached, Spokane will open more cooling center locations.
As in previous heat emergencies, Spokane Public Libraries will include drinking fountains and filling stations, restrooms, access to books, wi-fi connectivity, technology, and interactive play areas. All libraries with expanded hours saw a slight increase in visitors.
Populations vulnerable to the heat should remember to stay cool and out of the heat as much as possible to keep themselves safe. Staying hydrated, finding shade, and other precautions can help everyone get through next week’s mini heatwave.
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WASHINGTON — This year, Washington's fresh apple harvest is predicted to be 11.1% down compared to the 2021 harvest.
The Washington State Tree Fruit Association (WSTFA) released its 2022 Washington state apple crop forecast this week and announced its production of 40-pound boxes of fresh apples is projected to be 13.6 million less compared to the 2021 harvest.
According to the WSTFA report, the full apple crop for this year is expected to be 108.7 million compared to 122.3 million boxes in 2021.
“Growing seasons are never the same, and currently many WSTFA members are still evaluating the impact of prolonged cold weather and ongoing crop development," Jon DeVaney, WSTFA president said in a written statement. "Weather is always a factor, and some varieties still have several months of growth ahead."
The apple harvest represents nearly $7.5 billion in annual economic impact for the state of Washington.
Research from the WSTFA shows that five popular apple varieties make up the majority of the harvest production:
- Gala 20%
- Red Delicious 14%
- Honeycrisp 14%
- Granny Smith 13.4%
- Fuji 12.7%
- Cosmic Crisp, a proprietary varietal grown only in Washington state made up 4.6% of the harvest, up from 3.2% last year.
“The strong harvest estimate for these varieties, which have been popular with domestic and international consumers, is good news," DeVaney said. "Apples are synonymous with Washington state, and our members are set to deliver another year of high-quality and delicious fruit."
Washington apples are exported to over 40 countries. Its production is vital to the state’s economy.
Despite the reduction of fresh apple harvest this year, the production of emerging varieties and organic apples grew. Washington leads the nation in the production of organic apples with over 90% of the country’s output.
The organic forecast for 2022 is 14.4 million boxes or 13% of the total harvest.
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A city councilwoman angrily confronted a man leaving what she called a “known squatter house” in her district — only to have him curse her out and blow pot smoke in her face, according to a video clip she posted online.
“This will not stand on my watch,” Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (R-Queens) fumed Monday on Twitter.
“Homeowners have rights and our neighborhoods deserve better. More action coming.”
The 1-minute and 38-second recording shows Paladino standing on the sidewalk and holding her cell phone as the unidentified man backed out of a driveway in a burgundy sedan with the windows open.
“Can I help you with something?” he asked.
“Yeah, this is a disgrace,” Paladino said, pointing at the house.
After he responded, “Yeah? Go f–k yourself,” she replied in kind, telling the man, “Go f–k yourself. How’s that?”
“OK,” he said before puffing on what appeared to be a large joint and exhaling a cloud of smoke.
After they exchanged sarcastic remarks, the man got out of the car, holding his own phone and tugging up his shorts as he approached Paladino.
“Why don’t you do me a favor and get the f–k over there? Because this is mine,” he said while gesturing at the ground.
Paladino, standing with her chin up, said, “I’m an elected official.”
“I don’t give a f–k who you are. You’re still over here. Go the fuck over there,” the man said.
When Paladino stepped back, the man stuck the joint back between his lips and turned around, prompting Paladino to demand, “Whattaya got in your mouth?”
At that point, he turned to face Paladino, took a deep drag and stepped forward while exhaling a stream of smoke at her.
“Weed,” the man answered.
The man then blew another cloud of smoke at an unidentified woman who shot the scene and responded by saying, “Disgusting.”
“It’s legal. What’s disgusting? Go f–k yourself,” the man said.
As of Tuesday evening, the recording had racked up nearly 100,000 views and more than 1,700 “likes.”
In her tweet, Paladino described the man’s dilapidated home as “a known squatter house in my district at 20th Ave and 146th street in College Point.”
The Department of Buildings said Wednesday that it’s located at 146-26 20th Road and was subject to a partial vacate order that was issued Sunday and prohibits anyone from occupying the second floor due to cracks and holes in the roof.
Property records show it’s owned by Wells Fargo Bank, which took possession through foreclosure in December 2020.
Wells Fargo didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment and the man couldn’t be reached. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/16/nyc-pol-confronts-squatter-house-resident-who-blew-weed-at-her/ | 2022-08-17T02:28:19Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/16/nyc-pol-confronts-squatter-house-resident-who-blew-weed-at-her/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Don’t Worry, Choupette Lagerfeld is Still Living the High Life
When Karl Lagerfeld died of pancreatic cancer in February 2019, a rumor began circulating that the designer’s fortune—estimated to be anywhere between $195 to $300 million dollars—was being inherited by his beloved Birman cat, Choupette. The rumor was never confirmed, but given Choupette just rang in her eleventh birthday, surrounded by champagne and gifts, we can definitely conclude she’s continued to be well taken care of.
On Monday, Choupette shared a post on her (verified) Instagram account, showing off how she spent her big day. “Happy birthday to me,” Choupette wrote in the caption of the photos, which showed the fluffy creature lounging on a private plane. The kitty did clarify that the plane remained grounded while they were on it, “in memory of the many trips with my daddy.” And no, Choupette isn’t the world’s most brilliant cat with disposable thumbs, able to navigate social media, merely the subject of an Instagram account run by her now-owner, Lagerfeld’s former housekeeper, Françoise Caçote, who took ownership of Choupette following Lagerfeld’s death.
Yes, this kind of celebration for a cat seems over the top, but the pampered pet is likely used to it as this point. According to the New York Times, Choupette enjoyed quite the extravagant lifestyle back when Lagerfeld was alive, with a staff that included two minders, a bodyguard, chef, and doctor. She also traveled around in a custom Louis Vuitton carrying case, her silver dishes and brushes accompanying her in their own Goyard bag. These days, though Choupette may not still have quite the entourage, she does seem to stay busy with photoshoots, vacations, and over 100 thousand Instagram followers following her every hair ball. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/karl-lagerfelds-cat-choupette-11th-birthday-private-jet | 2022-08-17T02:28:26Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/karl-lagerfelds-cat-choupette-11th-birthday-private-jet | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Pennsylvania man was left as happy as a clam after finding a purple pearl inside a shellfish while dining in Delaware.
Scott Overland, of Phoenixville, told NBC10 Philadelphia he was eating with his wife and children at Salt Air in Rehoboth Beach when he found the rare, glistening treasure inside of a clam.
At first they thought it was some kind of bead or a piece of candy.
“We thought the chef dropped something in there,” he said.
On closer inspection, however, he found that it must have come from inside of the clam.
“As we were looking at the shell, we saw this little indentation on the shell, inside the clam where it was growing, so we figured it was probably something from inside the clam,” he said.
Overland said he almost sent the clams back before he found the pearl because of a bell pepper garnish that his wife didn’t like.
He said he plans to have the pearl appraised.
While pearls are typically formed inside of the shells of living oysters, they can also form inside of other shellfish like clams and mussels.
Depending on its color, size and where the pearl was formed — naturally in the wild or cultured on a farm — they can be worth thousands of dollars, but on average are worth between $300 and $1,500, according to The Pearl Source. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/16/rare-purple-pearl-found-inside-clam-by-delaware-diner/ | 2022-08-17T02:28:31Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/16/rare-purple-pearl-found-inside-clam-by-delaware-diner/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Emma D’Arcy Dripped in Gold at the House of the Dragon London Premiere
At this point in their career, Emma D’Arcy has only walked three red carpets. A relative newcomer to acting, the 30-year-old had a handful of small roles in various TV shows before landing the part of the bleach-blonde Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen in House of the Dragon, the prequel to Game of Thrones. But the looks they wore for the events celebrating the hotly anticipated series were unequivocal style-wins—meaning D’Arcy’s red carpet fashion track record is near-perfect.
Of course, a premiere can be overwhelming for the uninitiated. And when D’Arcy stepped out onto the carpet in Los Angeles last month, they were initially overwhelmed. “The red carpet especially is a very unnatural environment,” they told W over email. “It’s not normal to have that much attention focused on you—and it’s a lot of cameras if you’re camera-shy.” It helps, then, that D’Arcy brought reinforcements in the form of “armor and a mask,” or the looks pulled together with the guidance of their stylist, Rose Forde.
It’s easy to see why D’Arcy describes their outfits using militia terminology. The Los Angeles premiere last month saw D’Arcy in an all-black look: an oversized Vetements suit paired with steel-toed chunky sneakers—an outfit fit for modern battle. For London, though, D’Arcy explains they were more so dressing for a party. While the second look has that edge D’Arcy has managed to make their signature with just two red carpets, it’s more, “self-consciously ‘dressed-up’ and drippingly romantic in equal measure,” as they described it.
The romance is obvious in the rich lurex vest that hung low over D’Arcy’s striped chiffon shirt. The piece looks almost like protective chainmail from far away, but up close, invokes bright and cheerful Christmastime tinsel. A custom look from Acne Studio’s spring 2023 collection, D’Arcy was drawn to the brand because of the “playful theatricality in their design,” a notion that is obvious in D’Arcy’s choice for the event.
Here, D’Arcy (and their glam team) shares with W a glimpse into their getting ready process for the London premiere, and reveals what it’s been like to enter into the world (and fanbase) of George R.R. Martin.
“We bleached the hair a week before the premiere, so we had some roots coming through—which adds depth and texture,” said Jody Taylor, D’Arcy’s hairstylist. “The styling is very much inspired by the Blitz kids, but with a stripped-back, modern approach to make it feel believable, and not like a caricature.”
After D’Arcy bleached their hair, makeup artist Justine Jenkins decided bleaching the eyebrows was the obvious next step. “No mascara and the bleached brow kept the look otherworldly,” Jenkins said.
“There’s a quality of ‘found-object’ to their work which I love; each individual piece feels like it has a history,” said D’Arcy of Acne.
“[Acne Studios’] clothing feels performative—like the child who has raided their parent’s closet and come out wearing a satin gown and father’s brogues.”
“I don’t want to assume that we’ve automatically inherited anything from Game of Thrones,” D’Arcy said about existing in the hit show’s universe. “We’re following in its wake, for sure, and there’s a lot of pressure to live up to the enormous expectations. But House of the Dragon has to be its own thing.”
“The screening was fun. I loved watching it with a full audience for the first time. I’m also not in the first episode, so it’s one that I can watch as a fan.” | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/emma-darcy-house-of-the-dragon-london-premiere-outfit-interview | 2022-08-17T02:28:32Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/emma-darcy-house-of-the-dragon-london-premiere-outfit-interview | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Leni Klum Is Saying Bye to Heidi and Heading Off to College
Just as she’s starting to enter the spotlight, Leni Klum is taking a slight step back from the public eye. According to Heidi Klum, her 18-year-old daughter is headed to New York City to earn a degree. “Right now, college is on top of the list. It’s not modeling and she’s really excited for that next chapter in her life,” the super and TV host told Entertainment Tonight. “She has her head screwed on right.” For Heidi, the news that Leni is moving out is bittersweet: “I think she’s going to have a good time, but my heart will be sad.” Still, she’s comforted by the fact that her daughter knows New York “inside and out”; the family always joined her when she was in town to film Project Runway.
While Leni, who graduated from Pacifica Christian High School in Santa Monica this past June, will primarily focus on her studies, she still plans to pursue her career in fashion on the side. She first followed in her mom’s footsteps in late 2020, when she appeared alongside her on a cover of German Vogue. Her runway debut came eight months later, when she walked Dolce & Gabbana’s 2021 Alta Mode show in Venice, Italy. (She most recently walked its 2022 Alta Moda show earlier this summer and starred in a Supergo campaign.)
Leni’s specific choice of school remains unknown. But if we had to guess, we’d go with New York University; the school counts fellow models Karlie Kloss and Christy Turlington among its alumni. Don’t be surprised if you run into her amid the stacks at Bobst. | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/leni-klum-college-new-york-city | 2022-08-17T02:28:38Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/leni-klum-college-new-york-city | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Nicola Peltz Beckham is Fiercely Loyal to Her Platform Pumps
When Nicola Peltz said “‘till death do us part,” while standing at the alter during her wedding to Brooklyn Beckham back in May, she wasn’t just speaking about her husband-to-be. She was also speaking to the white, satin Versace platform heels on her feet. Some criticized Peltz for the footwear choice on her wedding day, which they believed felt out of place with her custom Valentino gown, but the actress has ignored the comments and remains loyal to her platforms.
Aside from her wedding, Peltz has worn the style on many occasions, though she isn’t exclusive to Versace. Peltz also favors Pierpaolo Piccioli’s take on the style for Valentino. It was those that Peltz wore to the 2022 Met Gala, the sharpened-toe Tan-Go variety in Valentino’s now-signature pink. Later that night, Peltz swapped out the bright hue for a black pair of the same heels as she attended an after party with Beckham.
And the love affair has continued, most recently at Variety’s 2022 Power Of Young Hollywood Celebration over the weekend. Peltz attended the red carpet to support her husband, who was being honored at the event. Peltz wore a set from Fendi featuring a strapless corset top with an asymmetric hem and a pair of matching, wide-leg pants. For shoes, you guessed it, Peltz opted for some platform Versaces, though this time, the actress seemed to go with the brand’s boot version. An equal-opportunity platform wearer, Peltz switched into her black Valentino pair for the after party, pairing them with a Saint Laurent top and Jean Paul Gaultier skirt.
So, the question is, does Peltz have a separate closet solely to house her extensive platform collection? It seems likely, considering the actress’ dedication to the shoe style. Peltz has gotten very creative when it comes to pairing the platforms with various looks, finding a way to make them work with everything from a wedding dress to trousers. Now, all we can do is wait to see how she inevitably wears them next (as we worry about her likely sore feet in the meantime).
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A Texas toddler younger than two appears to have tested positive for monkeypox, a Houston-area leader confirmed Tuesday.
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said officials have yet to determine how the baby contracted the disease, noting the child hasn’t been in daycare or school. The presumed case won’t be confirmed until testing is done by the Centers for Disease Control Prevention.
“The child is currently expected to have a full recovery, is doing very, very well,” Hidalgo said during a press conference streamed by KHOU 11.
She said the only symptom the child is showing is a rash.
Contact tracing is underway, but no one has appeared to catch the virus from the child yet, Hidalgo said. The child’s parents are also cooperating with officials.
“This case in Harris County is one of only a handful of cases in young children nationwide,” she said. “I understand that it’s a very scary thing and parents have concern.”
There have been over 1,000 monkeypox cases in Texas, according to the CDC.
New York has the most cases in the nation with 2,620.
The CDC says monkeypox can be caught through close, personal, and often skin-to-skin contact. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/16/texas-toddler-presumed-positive-for-monkeypox/ | 2022-08-17T02:28:50Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/16/texas-toddler-presumed-positive-for-monkeypox/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
I believed — and still do — that the United States needed to use military force against Afghanistan following the terrible events of 9/11. The national interest demanded that we severely punish the Taliban government because it had provided support and shelter to those responsible for the attacks. Our interests also required that we decimate Al Qaeda and kill Osama bin Laden.
But by last August when the final American troops left Afghanistan, ending our longest war, the withdrawal had been long overdue. Indeed, it should have been years earlier. We had already won the war we needed to fight and lost the one to turn Afghanistan into a liberal democracy — an objective not connected to our safety nor worth the cost of American blood and treasure.
I supported Operation Enduring Freedom when it started and eventually decided that I needed to contribute to these efforts like my ancestors had in America’s previous conflicts. So I joined the military just before I would have been too old to start serving.
It was a bit amusing when I went through the screening process with recruits nearly half my age. But I hoped I could do my part in a mission that, from my perspective, was necessary. Plus it had made me angry to hear those without any skin in the game advocate so vociferously for war in Iraq (which I opposed), and here I was on the sidelines for a war I favored.
I volunteered to go to Afghanistan, and the Navy fulfilled my mobilization request. I’m proud to have served in Afghanistan the best way I could despite the problems that eventually befell our mission. I only wish I had made it back there again to serve our country and help end a seemingly endless war after President Donald Trump nominated me to be ambassador to Afghanistan in 2020.
Looking back at our withdrawal with a year’s worth of distance, I still believe leaving was the right decision.
The execution of the final phase of the withdrawal was problematic to say the least. It was terrible to see those 13 Americans lose their lives at Hamid Karzai International Airport. It also reflects poorly on the Biden administration that no one has been held accountable for the failures of the final evacuation.
But just as going in was warranted, leaving after two decades was best for our national interest.
By early 2020 when the Trump administration had signed the Doha agreement with the Taliban to withdraw, the United States had long since met the three necessary goals of the invasion: punish the Taliban, attrit Al Qaeda, and kill bin Laden.
But we had lost our way in Afghanistan. While we won the war we needed to fight, we expanded our aims beyond what our security and our way of life here at home required. We tried to nation-build and promote democratic values in an inhospitable environment based on the false premise that these were necessary to prevent another 9/11 — or that we needed to expand our war aims to do good there. Like most idealistic ventures, it failed and we paid a terrible price: Thousands of American troops died, tens of thousands more were wounded, and we spent trillions of dollars.
Fortunately, US leaders recognized that we didn’t need to stay. Both President Trump and President Joe Biden should be given due credit for understanding this. As it turned out, the Afghan government we supported was a corrupt dependent incapable of effective, legitimate governance. Its military was struggling on the battlefield and ultimately fell sooner than its critics expected.
The only critical US interest we had was counterterrorism, something that withdrawal advocates thought could be managed without a permanent military presence. Instead, the United States could use over-the-horizon capabilities to hit individuals and groups with an intent and capability to harm America. The recent successful strike on Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri shows this is more than possible.
If Trump or Biden had listened to establishment voices and backtracked on withdrawal, our troops would still be fighting and dying in support of a strategy of losing slowly. So when I think about the anniversary, I’m quite pleased that we left. And I was and remain hopeful that we as a country understand that we did so not because we are against war as an instrument of statecraft but because we are realists about when to use military power to serve our country’s interests.
William Ruger is president of the American Institute for Economic Research. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/16/the-afghan-pullout-was-horribly-handled-but-it-was-the-right-thing-to-do/ | 2022-08-17T02:28:56Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/16/the-afghan-pullout-was-horribly-handled-but-it-was-the-right-thing-to-do/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney was soundly beaten Tuesday by Donald Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman in a widely-watched Republican primary showdown.
The race was called by NBC as incumbent Cheney garnered just 30% of the vote compared with Hageman’s 65% with about 10% of precincts reporting.
The 56-year-old daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney raked in campaign donations from Democrats around the country and was expected to receive a modest boost from Wyoming Democrats crossing parties to vote for her in the Republican primary.
Cheney’s loss was widely anticipated, however, and she becomes Trump’s top scalp in a revenge tour against the 10 House Republicans and seven Republican senators who voted to impeach or convict him of inciting last year’s Capitol riot.
“Congratulations to Harriet Hageman on her great and very decisive WIN in Wyoming,” Trump wrote on his social media website.
“This is a wonderful result for America, and a complete rebuke of the Unselect Committee of political Hacks and Thugs. Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others. Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion where, I am sure, she will be much happier than she is right now.”
But Cheney has signaled she will remain active in politics and has even flirted with running for president in 2024 — possibly against Trump.
The 45th president repeatedly denounced Cheney as a “warmonger” during the campaign and urged voters to embrace his “America First” mantra instead of her more interventionist views on foreign policy — while Cheney returned fire, trashing Trump as a would-be dictator.
Cheney is the vice chair and de facto lead prosecutor of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot and has played a leading role in narrating Trump’s actions leading up to that day — as well as his inaction during the violence.
“I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible; there will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain,” Cheney said in June at a public hearing of the riot committee.
But Cheney’s tensions with Trump had mounted even before the Capitol was pillaged by a wild mob of his supporters. In fact, he attacked her by name on Jan. 6, moments before the crowd broke into the building in a bid to stop the certification of President Biden’s victory.
In his pre-riot speech, Trump told his supporters, “We’ve got to get rid of the weak congresspeople, the ones that aren’t any good, the Liz Cheneys of the world. We got to get rid of them. We got to get rid — you know, she never wants a soldier brought home.”
One month before the riot, Trump vetoed a $740 billion defense bill in part because of Cheney-pushed restrictions on removing US troops from Afghanistan, Germany and South Korea.
Cheney outraged fellow House Republicans after accepting a post on the riot committee even after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) rejected pro-Trump Republicans nominated to the panel by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)
Cheney later accused House GOP leadership of having “enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism.”
The Wyoming rep’s reputation as an anti-Trump crusader even created speculation that she might be tapped as Biden’s running mate for the 2024 election — in what would be a rare fusion ticket.
Vice President Kamala Harris in January slammed “gossip” that Biden might replace her with someone else, such as Cheney.
Cheney told The Post in April 2021 that she may run for president, without specifying when that may happen. “I’m not ruling anything in or out — ever is a long time,” she said.
In the final stretch of the campaign, Dick Cheney, who held the same House seat from 1979 to 1989, released a video ad for his daughter.
“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual that was a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” the elder Cheney said. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters rejected him. He is a coward. A real man wouldn’t lie to his supporters.”
Dick Cheney added, “Liz is fearless. She never backs down from a fight. There is nothing more important she will ever do than lead the effort to make sure Donald Trump is never again in the Oval Office and she will succeed.”
Cheney was until last year the No. 3 House Republican until she was ousted in retaliation for her persistent criticism of Trump. Her House colleagues initially stood by her after she voted to impeach Trump, but soured on her persistent rebukes of the ex-president. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/16/trump-nemesis-rep-liz-cheney-defeated-in-gop-primary/ | 2022-08-17T02:29:14Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/16/trump-nemesis-rep-liz-cheney-defeated-in-gop-primary/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Marie Bouzkova moved into the second round of the Western & Southern Open on Tuesday, as No.11 seed Coco Gauff had to retire from their match after suffering a left ankle injury.
Gauff was leading 5-3, 30-15 when she turned her ankle. Gauff received treatment on the ankle but Bouzkova won the remaining games of the opening set. After dropping serve in the first game of the second set, Gauff called a stop to the match.
It is an unfortunate end to Gauff's Cincinnati campaign, which saw her week begin by claiming the WTA Doubles World No.1 ranking for the first time. Gauff, 18, is the second-youngest player to ever hold the top spot in the doubles rankings.
🇨🇿 @MarieBouzkova moves into the second round in Cincinnati after Gauff is forced to retire through injury.
— wta (@WTA) August 16, 2022
Final score: 7-5, 1-0, RET.#CincyTennis pic.twitter.com/T8RH9S6DQ6
Despite the retirement ending, Bouzkova now has 14 wins in her last 16 matches (including qualifying wins in Cincinnati over the weekend). Already this summer, Bouzkova reached her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at Wimbledon and won her first WTA singles title in Prague.
Bouzkova will face another American, Alison Riske-Amritraj, in the second round. In their only prior meeting, Bouzkova beat Riske-Amritraj 6-2, 6-3 en route to the Wimbledon quarterfinals this summer.
Later on Tuesday, No.2 seed Anett Kontaveit became the first competitor to reach the Round of 16 this week, earning a 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 rain-interrupted win over qualifier Tereza Martincova after two-and-a-half hours of play.
World No.71 Martincova led by a set and a double-break at 3-0 before Kontaveit stormed back, winning five of the last six games in the second set. An additional wrench was thrown into the works when an hour-long rain delay hit Cincinnati at 3-2 in the third set.
Upon resumption of play, Martincova went up a break at 4-3, but Kontaveit again fought back, converting her fourth break point of the next game to level the decider at 4-4. Kontaveit stayed sturdy and claimed a second consecutive break at 5-4 to seal the victory.
Also on Tuesday, Shelby Rogers moved into the second round, breezing past fellow American and 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin 6-2, 6-1.
Rogers and Kenin had not met since 2016, when they split their two meetings at ITF Challenger events. Over six years later, Rogers took the 2-1 lead in their rivalry with a 66-minute victory.
Rogers won a staggering 92 percent of her first-service points in Tuesday's match (23 of 25). Rogers, currently ranked at a career-high No.30, also fired nine aces and never faced a break point.
More to come... | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2746806/bouzkova-advances-past-injured-gauff-kontaveit-prevails-in-cincinnati | 2022-08-17T02:29:26Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2746806/bouzkova-advances-past-injured-gauff-kontaveit-prevails-in-cincinnati | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MASON, Ohio -- Emma Raducanu outlasted Serena Williams in a highly anticipated opening-round match Tuesday at the Western & Southern Open.
Raducanu was dominant from the start, breaking Williams in the opening game before rolling to a 6-4, 6-0 win.
The 40-year-old Williams, who announced she is stepping away from tennis after the US Open, was competing in only her fourth match of the season. The 23-time major champion won her first match in over a year last week at the National Bank Open, defeating Nuria Parrizas Diaz in straight sets before bowing out to Olympic champion Belinda Bencic.
mood: @naomiosaka 🙌#CincyTennis pic.twitter.com/rGywN6j7V2
— wta (@WTA) August 16, 2022
On Tuesday, Williams struggled to find her rhythm. Raducanu, 19, played clean tennis throughout the match. Raducanu fired just one unforced error to go with eight winners in the first set, while Williams misfired on 12 unforced errors to go with 11 winners. Raducanu broke Williams twice in the opening set to build a quick 4-1 lead before Williams generated her first and only break point of the match. Williams converted to close the gap but Raducanu coolly served out the opening set after 39 minutes.
"I think from the beginning to the end, I maybe looked calm, but I just knew how important every single point was, because you let up a little bit and she's going to be all over you," Raducanu told reporters. "She's just such a legend."
ACE 💥@EmmaRaducanu takes the first set, 6-4!#CincyTennis pic.twitter.com/XXcBnrlLzW
— wta (@WTA) August 16, 2022
With a set in hand, the Brit raced away in the second set to collect her 12th win of the season, hitting zero unforced errors to close the match. She will face former No.1 Victoria Azarenka in the second round.
"I think we all need to just honor Serena and her amazing career," Raducanu told the crowd after the match. "I'm so grateful for the experience of being able to play her and for our careers to cross over. Everything that she's achieved is so inspirational and it was a true honor to share the court with her."
Cheering squad 🤗@OlympiaOhanian x @GrigorDimitrov @atptour | #CincyTennis pic.twitter.com/16GJwsRWG8
— wta (@WTA) August 17, 2022
Stat of the match: Raducanu hit just one unforced error in the match while striking 14 winners. Williams finished with 19 winners, including seven aces, along with 19 unforced errors.
Raducanu readies for Azarenka: "I remember more recently when she was playing in the US Open and made the final in 2020 during the bubble, I was studying for my exams," Raducanu said. "I hadn't played tennis in like two, three months, and I was kind of just dreaming that one day I'm going to play on Ashe, and one day I'm going to be at that level and playing these great players myself. Everything felt so far away."
Raducanu relishing the win: "I think it's important to really cherish the wins, because I think that if anything, this year has taught me that the wins don't come by easily. No matter what win that is, it means a lot to any athlete, and I definitely am going to take it in, be really proud of myself.
"But it is a fast turnover tomorrow, and I probably have got 12 hours until I'm back on site. I'm playing another Slam champion tomorrow, so it's obviously going to be really difficult. Just going to try to prepare as best as possible." | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2747026/raducanu-ousts-serena-in-opening-round-in-cincinnati | 2022-08-17T02:29:32Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2747026/raducanu-ousts-serena-in-opening-round-in-cincinnati | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MASON, Ohio -- Simona Halep joined Serena and Venus Williams as the only Hologic WTA Tour players to earn more than $40 million in career prize-money. On Sunday, Halep won the National Bank Open and collected a winner’s check worth $439,700, enough to push her over the financial milestone.
Heading into the Western & Southern Open this week, Halep has earned a total of $40,107,097, a little more than $2 million shy of the $42,300,728 Venus made in her career. Serena has more than doubled that amount with a pot of $94,606,355 in prize-money.
Including the ATP, only seven players have earned more than Halep in their careers. Novak Djokovic tops the list with $158,996,253 in earnings, while Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Serena round out the top four.
Halep battles past Haddad Maia to win Toronto
On Tuesday in Cincinnati, Halep began where she left off in Toronto. She knocked off Anastasia Potapova in a back-and-forth 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 match that lasted 2 hours, 11 minutes. The two players combined for 15 breaks of serve.
Halep, a two-time Grand Slam champion who has spent 64 weeks atop the rankings, won her seventh straight match, a season high. On Monday, she moved back into the Top 10.
“When I started the year I was not very confident and I set the goal to be, at the end of the year, Top 10,” she said Sunday after her match. “And here I am. So it's very special moment. I will enjoy it. I will give myself credit. I'm just dreaming for more.”
That more could come this week in Cincinnati, where she is a two-time runner-up. Halep is next scheduled to play unseeded Veronika Kudermetova before a possible showdown with No.3 seed Paula Badosa in the Round of 16. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2747038/simona-halep-tops-40-million-mark-in-prize-money | 2022-08-17T02:29:38Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2747038/simona-halep-tops-40-million-mark-in-prize-money | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KIHEI, Hawaii (KITV4) -- Maui Police arrested a man for criminal property damage and terroristic threatening after an incident at Kamaole Beach Park III on Monday.
On Aug. 15, around 5:37 p.m., officers responded to Kamaole Beach Park III after a family of five, visiting from Massachusetts, reported that a man had been harassing them earlier that day.
The unknown suspect, later identified as Haiku resident Keaka Paleka, 35, had approached the family again while they were loading their belongings into their car. Paleka had been trying to start a chainsaw.
The family reported that as they were reversing their SUV, Paleka struck the side passenger door multiple times with the running chainsaw. The family left the parking lot to contact the police, and reported that Paleka left the parking lot in a 2018 Toyota 4-Runner.
Shortly after, police located Paleka at the Kihei Boat Ramp. He was arrested for First Degree Criminal Property Damage and First Degree Terroristic Threatening.
His bail was set at $27,000. Paleka was later transported to the Wailuku Police Station.
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Kathryn spent the last decade in the Bay Area working in nonprofits, education, and communications consulting. She has a B.A. in English from St. Mary's College of CA and an M.A. in Public Affairs and Politics from the University of San Francisco. | https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/haiku-man-arrested-for-threatening-family-attacking-car-with-running-chainsaw/article_6820ce26-1dcb-11ed-a786-e757b980173e.html | 2022-08-17T02:32:06Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/haiku-man-arrested-for-threatening-family-attacking-car-with-running-chainsaw/article_6820ce26-1dcb-11ed-a786-e757b980173e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Honolulu prosecutors have charged Oscar Kanoa, 43, with attempted murder. His bail is set at $2 million.
According to the Criminal Complaint, as a condition of bail, Kanoa shall be subject to GPS monitoring and would be confined to his home in Waianae.
Kanoa is accused of attacking a 51-year-old woman, leaving her with life-threatening injuries to her head.
Sources said Kanoa had an intimate relationship with the victim.
ORIGINAL STORY 8/15:
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- A 43-year-old man is in custody pending charges for attempted murder. He is accused of attacking and critically injuring a 51-year-old woman at a home in Waianae.
Police were called to a house on Leihoku Street at around 3:30 a.m. on Saturday upon reports of an unresponsive woman. Police said the victim had head injuries, and she was rushed to the hospital. Doctors told police the woman has life-threatening injuries.
Police identified the suspect, and officers arrested him on suspicion of attempted murder on Sunday at 2 p.m. near Kahana Bay Beach Park in Windward Oahu.
This is a developing story and will be updated as new information becomes available.
Marisa Yamane joined KITV4 in January 2022 as an anchor and executive producer. She is an award-winning veteran journalist, who’s spent most of her career in Hawaii. She’s a proud graduate of Iolani School and UCLA. | https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/man-charged-with-attempting-to-kill-a-woman-in-waianae-update/article_c8a315d8-1d08-11ed-a62f-4b4893846c29.html | 2022-08-17T02:32:12Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/man-charged-with-attempting-to-kill-a-woman-in-waianae-update/article_c8a315d8-1d08-11ed-a62f-4b4893846c29.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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A group of high school football players in northern Georgia jumped out of their cars while on the way to school to help free an injured woman who was trapped after a wreck.
Treyvon Adams, 16, was driving to school Friday morning with his teammates Antwion Carey, 16, Tyson Brown, 17, and Alto Moore, 16, when they saw the crash. The four are members of the Rome High School football team.
Fellow player Cesar Parker, 16, was in another vehicle with his mother, and got out to help with the rescue. Another student, Messiah Daniels, was also involved.
As soon as the teens saw the car wreck, "we just ran as fast we (could) to the lady and check on her to see if she was alright," Adams told CNN.
They found the woman inside her car, trapped by doors that had been damaged in the crash and wouldn't open.
"We were seeing she was in pain, she was screaming and asking us to help her," Adams said.
A picture posted on Facebook by Rome City Schools shows smoke rising from a wrecked car as the group of players works on freeing the woman.
Luis Goya, a math teacher, told CNN he was working at the school and called 911 when he heard the crash. Meanwhile, the students were trying to free the trapped woman.
"We used all our muscles," Adams said. "We're pretty big people, we're strong. We play football, so we lift weights a lot, but (the door) was just extremely bent and broke."
Together, the teens were able to force the car's passenger side door open, but soon realized they would need to open the driver's side door to be able to free the woman.
It all happened in about a minute, according to Adams. "We were all moving very fast to get her out," he added.
As his teammates helped the woman out of the car, Adams said he went to check on the driver of the other vehicle to make sure they were okay.
The group said they don't know the woman they helped and haven't been in touch since -- but want her to know they hope she's doing okay following the crash.
"We are very proud of them," Goya, the teacher, said. "This is the kind of news that we need, that is more positive."
In a post on Twitter, the school's football team wrote, "PROUD of our MEN!" in reference to the story.
Adams said they have been "getting a lot of love from a lot of different places."
"We've been recognized in a lot of different ways," he said. "We appreciate it, but I feel we just did the right thing."
Rome is roughly an hour northwest of Atlanta.
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PITTSFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – A suspected juvenile has been arrested in Pittsfield after one person was shot Tuesday afternoon.
Pittsfield Police Lieutenant Michael Maddalena said officers were called to the area of the Cumberland Farms on First Street for a victim of a shooting around 4:00 p.m. Tuesday. Officers found a 19-year-old with a gunshot wound on Adam Street. The victim was taken to Berkshire Medical Center but is expected to be okay.
A vehicle believed to be involved in the shooting was then located a short time after. Inside the vehicle, police found a firearm and a juvenile was arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm. Police are still investigating the juvenile’s involvement in the shooting. Police are reviewing footage of the incident and believe the incident was not random.
State Police are assisting Pittsfield Police in the investigation. If you have any information on the shooting, you are asked to contact the Pittsfield Police at 413-448-9705. You can also text-a-tip by texting PITTIP and you message to TIP411 (847411). | https://www.wwlp.com/news/crime/one-person-injured-in-pittsfield-shooting-suspected-juvenile-arrested/ | 2022-08-17T02:36:36Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/crime/one-person-injured-in-pittsfield-shooting-suspected-juvenile-arrested/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WESTFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Westfield residents voiced there concerns during a public hearing Tuesday night, as the city considers building a Target Distribution Center near Barnes Air Force base.
The Target Corporation owns the land where the center would be built along North Road, Falcon Drive, and Southampton Road. The facility would be about 525,000 square feet.
William Onyski, President of the Westfield City Council, said, “It would bring in new business, there’s jobs that come to the city and additional taxes, but at what cost? Alternatively, I don’t feel that this is appropriate.”
Guy D’Angelo lives on North Road, and remembers when previous distribution centers were located at the same site across from his home. He told 22News, “I have pictures of those trucks up and down the road lining up just to get in…. I would wake up in the morning with a house full of diesel fuel.”
If the Target Distribution Center were approved, it would add 200 tractor-trailer trips and 1,000 employee vehicle trips daily to the area. Some residents are worried that instead of the Mass Pike, trucks would instead use Homestead Avenue, which leads to Holyoke to get onto I-91.
Gurlander Thaliwal, of the Holyoke Planning Board, noted the facility’s location would raise traffic concerns. “There’s a sign on Homestead Avenue, ‘no truck from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.’ But when the trucks take a right on Homestead from 202, they don’t read the time they just see the sign and so they pull into my parking lot.”
Another talking point made during Tuesday’s public hearing, the environmental impacts on the Barnes Aquifer and Hampton Ponds. Susan McFarlin, Hampton Ponds President said, “Traffic will contribute immensely to water pollution to road pollution and to an inherently already overburdened road system.”
Westfield’s Planning board chair William Carellas said the board has 90 days to make an official vote on whether or not to approve the special permits to build the facility. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/westfield-residents-voice-concerns-over-proposed-target-distribution-center/ | 2022-08-17T02:36:42Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/westfield-residents-voice-concerns-over-proposed-target-distribution-center/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — "I do mom's medication management, so I make sure that she has everything she needs every day, and I take them to all of their doctor's appointments."
Allison Wiman is the Executive Director of Big Bend Area Health Education Center. She also takes care of both of her parents.
"They're 89 and 87 and they still live at home. I do all of their cooking so every night I make sure they have meals, I do some of their shopping for them."
Allison, like many others, has to balance both caregiving, work, and having a family.
"If you aren't taking care of yourself and your health fails, or your well-being fails, of course it's going to make you a less-effective caregiver."
That's where Big Bend AHEC is stepping in. With the help of several community partners, they're launching a new program designed to give people the skills they need to put themselves first, while still caring for a loved one.
"This class is one that allows people to kind of put down that fear for a second."
It's called Powerful Tools for Caregivers. It's a free, 6-week class that will equip caregivers with skills on how to: communicate feelings, manage emotional burdens, problem-solve, improve self-confidence, and reduce stress. Katharine Williams is the Aging Programs Coordinator at Big Bend AHEC and says it's…
"The best way they can stay being a caregiver for as long as they need to."
Something Allison agrees with…
"There is support out there, there are people who are willing to walk hand in hand with you."
The Powerful Tools for Caregivers class will have two different free sessions open to the community. The first will start on Tuesday, August 23rd and the second begins on Wednesday, August 31st.
Both will go from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM. Each session is 6 weeks long and there are both in-person and virtual options.
Call or email to register for either session. Contact info can be found in flyers below. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/free-community-program-helps-caregivers-look-after-themselves-while-caring-for-a-loved-one | 2022-08-17T02:41:37Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/free-community-program-helps-caregivers-look-after-themselves-while-caring-for-a-loved-one | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE FLA. (WTXL) — The Neighborhood Leadership Academy is a way to encourage people to be part of the change they want to see in their communities.
Tallahassee's Neighborhood Leadership Academy is bridging the gap between community members and the people who are working to protect them.
For graduate Sonya Jackson, the academy gave her a new perspective on Tallahassee.
"I left the academy having a lot of pride for Tallahassee being an ambassador for Tallahassee," said Jackson.
Jackson was part of the 2021 Neighborhood Leadership Academy class.
She said she joined to learn more about the city after moving here from Michigan.
What she got in return is something she never imagined.
"I am Tallahassee proud. I am proud to be a resident of Tallahassee," said Jackson.
That's something Jackson said she never thought would happen.
The goal of the Neighborhood Leadership Academy is to be the voice for your community.
It gives people an opportunity to be empowered and understand how the local government operates.
People get to engage with community leaders to learn about the city programs and where to go if they need something fixed in their neighborhoods like a pothole broken traffic lights or trees that have fallen down.
Ashley Edwards is the Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Affairs Director.
She said this academy has been around for more than ten years and Tallahassee isn't as small as you think.
"There's about 240 neighborhoods in the city limits," said Edwards.
Edwards said those neighborhoods need leaders to make a difference and the academy serves as a resource to do just that.
"So if you or your neighborhood has a challenge has a question has an issue you'll know right who to call you'll know the employee that's responsible for those services," Edwards said.
Applications for the 2022 Neighborhood Leadership Academy are open, only 25 spots are available.
You have to be at least 18 years old and live in the City of Tallahassee.
You also must be willing to commit to one night per week for ten weeks.
The program begins Tuesday, September 20.
There will be no session the week of Thanksgivng.
If you're interested register on the City of Tallahassee's website. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/the-neighborhood-leadership-academy-is-turning-community-members-into-leaders | 2022-08-17T02:41:49Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/the-neighborhood-leadership-academy-is-turning-community-members-into-leaders | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The U.S. Air Force tested an unarmed long-range nuclear-capable missile from Vandenberg Air Force base in California in the early morning hours on Tuesday.
The Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was launched just after midnight and traveled 4,200 miles to the remote Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The test, originally scheduled to be carried out earlier this month, had to be delayed citing concerns over U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Asia, which included a stop to meet with officials in self-governed Taiwan.
China followed up that visit by Pelosi to Taiwan with days of live-fire drills that made headlines and were seen as an intimidation tactic showing China's displeasure over the visit.
Military officials released a statement emphasizing that Tuesday's test was not a reaction to world events as tensions between the U.S. and China have roiled in the days following Pelosi's visit to the island, followed by visits from multiple U.S. lawmakers to meet with officials in Taiwan.
Maj. Armand Wong, commander of the test task force, said, "Our test launches are scheduled well in advance and are not reactionary to world events," he said. "A meticulous planning process for each launch begins six months to a year prior to launch."
But scrutiny over launches like these, especially now as Russia's Kremlin has recently put its country's nuclear capabilities on alert as it wages a sustained, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, has surfaced from military experts. Former Defense Secretary William Perry argued that bolstering the United States' nuclear arsenal now could welcome harsh responses from countries that see the exercises as a threat. There is also the possibility of a miscalculation when firing these weapons, which include ICBMs.
Col. Chris Cruise said, "This scheduled test launch is demonstrative of how our nation's ICBM fleet illustrates our readiness and reliability of the weapon system."
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers from Alabama criticized delaying the launch saying, "This news comes after China conducted live-fire exercises following the Speaker of the House's visit to Taiwan." He said, "These weak-kneed pearl-clutching attempts at appeasement hurt our readiness and will only invite further aggression by our adversaries."
The Minuteman III is the only land-based part of the U.S. Military's nuclear triad. It makes up one leg of a three-part system that includes the Trident submarine-launched ballistic missile along with other nuclear weapons that are delivered by long-range strategic bombers. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/us-air-force-tests-nuclear-capable-long-range-missile | 2022-08-17T02:42:07Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/us-air-force-tests-nuclear-capable-long-range-missile | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
2 North Carolina Brothers Killed While Eating Breakfast When Elderly Man Crashes Car Into Hardee’s: Police
Two brothers were eating breakfast when an SUV crashed into the restaurant, killing them both.
Two brothers were killed while eating breakfast when a vehicle crashed into a Hardee’s in North Carolina, police say.
Christopher and Clay Ruffin were eating their meals at the fast-food restaurant when an SUV driven by Jesse Lawrence, 78, accidentally crashed through the restaurant’s front windows Sunday, leaving the right side of the restaurant destroyed, WRAL News reported.
Christopher Ruffin, 58, was pronounced dead on the scene and Clay Ruffin, 62, was taken to the hospital, where he later died, the Wilson Police Department said.
Lawrence was also taken to the hospital, where he was treated and released, police said.
Gabriela Palacios Alonzo, who was in the drive-thru at Hardee’s when it happened, told WRAL News she heard an employee scream.
“I heard the young lady screaming from the drive-thru and I look in the mirror and I just see glass everywhere,” Palacios Alonzo told WRAL News.
Police said they do not believe the crash to be the result of a medical issue or impairment. The incident is still under investigation and no charges have been filed, officials said.
Anyone with information regarding this case has been asked to contact the Wilson Police Department at 252-399-2323 or Crime Stoppers at 252-243-2255.
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3 Georgia Men Charged After Scamming 90-Year-Old Woman Out of $118,000 From Her Life Savings, Police Say
The Floyd County Police Department encourages people to check in on elder relatives to ensure they are not being taken advantage of.
Three men have been charged after scamming an elderly woman out of $118,000 from her life savings, according to Georgia police.
Robert John Criswell, 39, Kyle Dewayne Dover, 28, and Hunter Chase Hammitt, 23, met the 90-year-old woman while working for a local tree company, though they were working not working in their capacity as employees of the company when they allegedly committed the crimes, police said.
Between the months of December to April, investigators allege there were 33 checks written to the three men for various amounts of money.
Only some tree work was completed but in those instances, trees were left in place, brush piles were left on the property and some shutters that were supposed to be hung were “hanging crooked by one screw," the Floyd County Police Department wrote in a statement.
The three men were arrested on Aug. 10 after an investigator followed up on a tip about the alleged scam, according to the statement. Police believe that the men have been living in a remote camp area about 10 minutes away from the 90-year-old woman, which was where they were also arrested.
Criswell and Dover have been charged with exploitation of the elderly and theft by deception, police said. Dover is being held on a $15,000 bond and Criswell was released on Aug. 12 on a $15,000 bond, police told Inside Edition Digital.
Hammitt has been charged with exploitation of the elderly, theft by deception and probation violation and is being held without bond, officials said.
Floyd police said that scams of this sort are not uncommon because “the elderly are sometimes embarrassed by the spending, or they are intimidated by the persistent and aggressive sales technique of scammers.”
The department encouraged people to check in on elder relatives and members of their community to ensure that they are not being taken advantage of.
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Alec Baldwin Says He's 'Bitter' About How Slow the 'Rust' Shooting Investigation Is Taking
The actor opened up on Chris Cuomo's new podcast about his frustration with the investigation into the fatal shooting on the set of "Rust."
Alec Baldwin is doubling down on his claim that he didn't pull the trigger when cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was accidentally shot to death on the set of “Rust” last October.
Baldwin spoke on a podcast hosted by former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo.
“You say you never pulled the trigger, but the gun went off,” Cuomo said.
“Right,” Baldwin said.
“That will not make sense to people. If a bullet comes out of a gun, they say, 'Well then someone fired it,’” Cuomo said.
“This did not come from me. This came from the DA’s office themselves,” Baldwin said.
Baldwin then asked Cuomo if he was familiar with the phrase “fanning a gun,” a shooting technique commonly seen in Old Western movies, that Baldwin claims can result in a gun firing without pulling a trigger.
Baldwin also repeated his claim that he was told the gun was safe the day of the shooting
“There's only one question to ask here — who put a live round in the gun? That's it,” Baldwin said.
The interview came as the FBI said in a report that its own tests showed the gun could not be fired "without a pull of the trigger,” contradicting Baldwin's account, which he first told George Stephanopoulos nine months ago.
“The process of fanning a revolver involves pressing the trigger or applying pressure to the trigger, and while maintaining that pressure, pulling the hammer back and releasing it. Every time we do that, you’ll see the cylinder rotates and the hammer falls,” firearms expert Steve Wolf told Inside Edition. “It’s certainly possible that [Baldwin] wasn’t aware that he was pressing the trigger, because it’s not a large, deliberate action.”
Baldwin's lawyer says, "The FBI report is being misconstrued.”
The Albuquerque district attorney's criminal investigation into the shooting is ongoing.
“I’m waiting and waiting and waiting, and then the announcement’s going to come about who is and isn't going to be charged. The process is slow. I am deeply, deeply, deeply resentful and bitter about how slow the process has been,” Baldwin said.
Baldwin has denied wrongdoing in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the cinematographer's family, along with two other lawsuits filed by crew members.
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Alligator Kills Elderly South Carolina Woman Who Fell in Water While Gardening in Retirement Community
Nancy Becker, an 88-year-old resident of Sun City Hilton Head, was gardening when she fell into a body of water and an alligator fatally attacked her.
An 88-year-old South Carolina woman was killed in a freak alligator attack Monday, authorities said. Nancy Becker was a resident of Sun City Hilton Head, a gated retirement community in Okatie, and was believed to be gardening at the time of her death, according to the Island Packet.
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office, along with fire officials, first responders and the community’s security, arrived at the scene around 11:15 a.m. Monday after receiving reports of an alligator attack.
When authorities arrived, they discovered the woman dead, alongside a 9-foot, 8-inch alligator that appeared to be “standing guard” over her body, USA Today reported.
Investigators believe she slipped and fell into a body of water when she was gardening when the alligator attacked her.
Authorities were able to recover the body hours later, at 1 p.m., they said in a statement. The alligator was euthanized hours after that, the Island Packet reported.
“Alligator attacks are rare but not surprising,” public information officer Major Angela Viens told The New York Times.
Becker’s death marks the second fatal alligator attack in South Carolina this year.
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Anne Heche's Fiery Car Crash Aftermath Revealed in Harrowing 911 Call
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A newly-released 911 call is shedding light on the terrifying aftermath of Anne Heche’s fiery Aug. 5 car crash.
A neighbor called the police as the horror unfolded next door, when Heche’s vehicle tore through the home.
But the caller had no idea that the driver who crashed into the house was the famed actress. He told the operator that the house was on fire.
Chaos unfolded as the neighbor tried to douse flames with a hose, and the operator asked if anyone was trapped in the car.
“Try and get the driver out of the car if we can, but I need you to stay in a safe location,” the operator told the caller.
Before the crash, Heche was caught on camera speeding through the quiet Los Angeles neighborhood. She breathed in thick smoke for more than an hour before she was rescued and later died from her injuries.
New video from inside the wrecked home shows firefighters taking stock of the damage. The crash seems to have destroyed the entire house.
The director of Heche's last completed film, in which she plays a rodeo trainer, announced the film will be dedicated to the actress when it's released this fall.
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Dog Gets Monkeypox in 1st Suspected Case of Human-to-Pet Transmission, Researchers Say
An Italian greyhound contracted the monkeypox virus from its human owners, researchers say.
A dog has tested positive for the monkeypox virus in the first suspected case of humans transmitting it to their pets, according to a medical journal.
An Italian greyhound living in France with its two male owners, who were infected with monkeypox, began showing symptoms 12 days after they did, according to The Lancet.
The 4-year-old pup tested positive after experience lesions and pustules on its abdomen, researchers said. The animal had no previous medical maladies.
Genetic testing showed the virus affecting all three was monkeypox.
The men had isolated themselves from other humans after developing symptoms, but continued to sleep with their dog.
“Our findings should prompt debate on the need to isolate pets from monkeypox virus-positive individuals,” the report said.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had previously warned about human-to-pet transmission, noting that “infected animals can spread monkeypox virus to people."
People infected with monkeypox should avoid petting, hugging, kissing or sharing food with their pets, researchers warned.
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Flying Umbrella Fatally Impales South Carolina Beachgoer in the Chest in Freak Accident
Tammy Perreault was enjoying a day at the beach with her husband and friends when a powerful gust of wind sent the umbrella flying. “I’ll never forget it. I think about it every minute. Her life was just cut so short. It’s just not fair,” a friend says.
A 63-year-old woman has died after being speared in the chest by a flying umbrella while enjoying a day at the beach.
Tammy Perreault was with her husband and friends near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, when a powerful gust of wind sent the umbrella airborne. Her friends screamed and ducked, but it was too late for Perrault. The sharp end of the pole struck and impaled her.
Her husband Mike is reeling after the tragic accident.
“It was just a regular day with all our beach friends, and then this happened,” Mike said.
Devastated, he wants beachgoers to be on alert.
“Keep your eyes open. It could have been a 10-year-old kid, and it just so happened that it was my wife,” Mike said on "Good Morning America."
Tammy’s friend, Sherry White, was there and witnessed the incident.
“I’ll never forget it. I think about it every minute. Her life was just cut so short. It’s just not fair,” White told the outlet.
Sarah Schermerhorn Murphy, who specializes in umbrella safety at beachBUB, demonstrated how to secure an umbrella in the sand. She used a special tool called a sand gopher to dig a hole and says that an anchor is essential.
Experts say if the wind at the beach reaches 15 to 20 miles per hour, take your umbrella down, because nothing will anchor it in wind gusts that strong.
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Hero Dog Bravely Saves Family From Maryland House Fire by Barking Until They Woke to Escape and Call 911
When a house fire started in his home, a Cairn Terrier named Bear barked until his loved ones woke up and could call 911.
A family dog saved his family from a house fire in Maryland, according to local reports.
Frederick County Fire and Rescue Battalion Chief Rusty Hahn said crews responded to a working fire a little before 4 a.m. on Monday, according to local outlet ABC 7,
When first responders arrived, the house was aflame, according to the outlet.
Hahn told the outlet that a Cairn Terrier named Bear kept barking until his owners woke up and noticed the fire.
According to local outlet ABC 13, the two people in the house were able to safely escape the house with their dog and then called 911.
Hahn told ABC 7 that it took about 50 to 60 firefighters around 30 minutes to knock down the fire, and one hour to get the fire under control.
Fire officials told the outlet the home was completely destroyed, but luckily no injuries were reported.
Officials on the scene are working to determine the cause of the fire, according to the outlet.
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Missouri Cave Explorers Who Rescued Abby the Poodle Say Dog 'Totally Understood' They Were Saving Her
Two men exploring the caves with their families 500 feet below ground discovered the missing pup, and brought her back up to safety.
Two explorers rescued a dog from a Missouri cave after she was trapped there for as long as two months.
Gerry Keene and his friend Rick Haley were exploring the cave with their kids 500 feet below ground when someone heard the missing pup.
“They report back, ‘Dad, there’s a dog here.’ We did not believe them,” Keene said.
Abby, a poodle mix, was skinny and listless, but alive.
“She was not looking real healthy. We thought her back might be broken or something, just not in good shape,” Keene said.
But the two men were determined to carry her up to safety.
“When you initially go into the cave, you’re going in about a 2’ by 2’ hole, so there’s this little teeny crawl hole that goes for maybe 10 feet,” Keene said.
They put Abby in a bag while navigating the narrow passages.
“Basically, I would go first. Rick would hand the pup up to me. I would then put her on a ledge or something, make sure she doesn’t fall. Rick would then climb up, take over. I climb up further, and we’re just handing her over. I think she totally understood that we were helping her,” Keene said.
Abby's owners say she ran off back in June and may have been swept into the cave by flood waters. They had just about given up hope they would ever see her again.
“As days went on, we figured probably with her age, we didn’t know if she died or got hit by a vehicle,” one of her owners said.
“I guess that was the worst fear, that she would be suffering,” her other owner said.
Once skin and bones, Abby is now bouncing back. The owners are thankful that the men rescued the pup just in time.
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New York Man Arrested for Allegedly Having 420 Pounds of Marijuana in His Car During Traffic Stop, Cops Say
The New York City man was charged with intent to distribute marijuana, authorities said.
A New York City man was arrested after 420 pounds of pot was allegedly found in his car during a traffic stop, authorities said.
Li Fan Feng, 20, of Queens, was pulled over for speeding last week on Interstate 95 in New Jersey, prosecutors said, and was charged with first-degree possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.
Feng was arrested without incident and was held overnight at the Bergen County Jail, according to a statement from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office.
Feng was released with conditions on Friday, the prosecutor's office said.
The officer who stopped Feng saw 18 large cardboard boxes and several black garbage bags in the back of the vehicle, according to court records, NJ.com reported.
A K9 member of the Bergen County Sheriff's Office dispatched to the scene detected suspected narcotics, and contents of the bags and boxes were determined to be marijuana, authorities said.
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Texas Teen Charged With Shooting Woman at Her Son's Gravesite
A 17-year-old was charged in the shooting of a woman who was visiting her son's gravesite and later died.
A Texas teen was arrested as a suspect in the murder of a woman who was shot at her son’s gravesite, according to local reports.
According to a press release from the Killeen Police Department, Christian Lamar Weston, 17, was arrested on Saturday for the murder of Yolanda N’Gaojia, 52.
Police said they were called to a reported shooting on March 22 around 5 p.m, according to the release.
According to local outlet KPAX, when officers arrived at the gravesite, they found N'Gaojia and another victim.
The woman’s son, Amir, was killed on January 1, and N’Gaojia was shot while visiting Amir’s grave on what would have been his 22nd birthday, per the outlet.
According to local outlet KXXV, the 52-year-old died later that evening from her injuries.
According to KPAX, the second victim - whose identity has not been released - was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at the scene and then released.
Police said Weston is being held without bond for this charge, and is being held on a $5,000 bond for a separate charge of unlicensed carrying of a weapon, according to KPAX.
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Thousands of Capri Sun Juice Pouches Recalled Over Possible Contamination With Cleaning Solution
The juice packets are being recalled after cleaning solution was accidentally introduced into a production line, Kraft Heinz said.
Kraft Heinz is recalling thousands of drink pouches that could be be contaminated with a cleaning solution, the company announced.
The recall affects nearly 6,000 cases of Capri Sun juice bags, the food company said in a statement. The 6.6-ounce, kid-friendly pouches may have been tainted by a diluted cleaning solution that was accidentally introduced into a production line at one of its factories.
The only flavor affected was wild cherry-flavored juice drinks. Kraft Heinz advised buyers to return the pouches to purchase sites.
Consumers were also urged to check dates on the pouches. The “Best When Used By” designation on the affected drinks is June 25, 2023.
The company said it is "actively working" with retailers to remove the products from store shelves.
"The issue was discovered after we received several consumer complaints about the taste of the affected product," Kraft Heinz said.
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Updated August 16, 2022 at 10:37 PM ET
Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney conceded defeat in the primary election for her House seat on Tuesday following months of her withering criticism of former President Donald Trump and his efforts to subvert the 2020 election.
"This primary election is over, but now the real work begins," Cheney said, nodding to future political plans to take on Trump. Cheney noted that she had called opponent Harriet Hageman to congratulate her.
Hageman, an attorney endorsed by Trump who once was a Cheney supporter, overtook the incumbent by a wide margin in early returns. In a state that gave Donald Trump his biggest victory in 2020, Hageman is on a glide path to win the seat outright against Democratic opponent Lynnette GreyBull in November.
It was an expected outcome for someone who went from party star and heir to a conservative dynasty to a political outcast — marked by the moment Cheney chose to break with the former president following his role in fomenting a mob to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Cheney addressed supporters in Jackson Hole, near her home, repeating her vow to do whatever she can to stop Trump from returning to the White House.
"Our nation is barreling again toward crisis, lawlessness and violence," Cheney said. "No American should support election deniers."
When Liz Cheney chose to run for reelection to her House seat in 2020 instead of making a bid for an open Senate seat, some Republicans speculated she was charting a path to become the first female Republican speaker of the House.
Cheney's allies assert she could have easily won reelection if she had done what the vast majority of her GOP colleagues in Congress have done — stood in lock step with Trump. Instead, Cheney made the race entirely about her decision to stand up to the former president.
The Trump base is king in GOP primaries
Roughly 70% of Wyoming voted for Trump and Cheney's repudiation of him became the red line for so many GOP voters who enthusiastically backed her not long ago.
Her final campaign ad zeroed in on her argument that Trump's lie about the 2020 election being stolen is "insidious" and damaging to democracy.
Mary Martin, chair of the Teton County Republican Party in Wyoming, supported Cheney in the past, but says Cheney's interaction with voters changed following her sharp break with the former president.
"I have heard personally from folks who were really staunch supporters of Liz Cheney, and contributed lots of money to her in the past, that she's insulted them," Martin said, adding that her rhetoric labeling her constituents, "Just her personal approach to this has alienated and turned people off. She is not the only person in Wyoming that supports the Constitution."
Republican strategist Alice Stewart says Trump's influence was the ultimate factor in this race.
"Without a doubt, again, when we're talking about a primary, the base is king, and right now, the base of the Republican Party supports Donald Trump," she said.
Martin says the race became personal for many: "In Wyoming, trust and loyalty are very high traits. And she has betrayed trust and she's betrayed loyalty. And she has taken a stance that is perceived by some to be arrogant and not acceptable. And that I mean, it comes down to just, in my opinion, January 6th."
Hageman proudly touted Trump's support. He traveled to Casper in May hold a rally for her and labelled Cheney a "RINO" — Republican In Name Only.
While Hageman criss-crossed the state, Cheney held mostly small private campaign events and her aides say security concerns forced a more limited public schedule. Cheney has had a U.S. Capitol Police detail for more than a year due to a steady stream of threats.
Cheney was one of just 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. With her loss, only two in that group — David Valadao of California and Dan Newhouse of Washington State — will remain on the ballot in November. Three others lost primaries and four chose to retire.
Cheney's future: Jan. 6 investigation and 2024
Cheney's public statements hinted for some time she's focused on the long game. In June, she delivered a blunt broadside at fellow House GOP members still loyal to Trump at the primetime kick off of the public hearings of the House panel probing Jan, 6.
"Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain," Cheney said.
The panel is still interviewing witnesses and planning more public hearings this fall. It plans to release a report by the end of the year, and Cheney's position as vice chair gives her a national platform for several more months.
Even before the primary vote, Cheney was showing some signs of positioning for a possible 2024 presidential campaign. It's unclear if she would remain a Republican, or consider an independent bid.
In June, she traveled to the Ronald Reagan Library — a stop for GOP presidential hopefuls — and made a speech many viewed as the blueprint for a national campaign. It was a mix of her regular denunciations of Trump, mixed with her political biography. It outlined conservative principles similar to those espoused by her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney: limited government, lower taxes and a strong national defense.
Cheney also made gender a part of her critique about the current leaders in power. She emphasized that many of the key witnesses in the Jan. 6 probe were young women like Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, whose dramatic testimony marked a major moment in the investigation. She told the audience at the library, "These days, for the most part, men are running the world, and it is really not going all that well."
For her 2022 House race, Cheney raised $14 million, a record for any primary in Wyoming's history, and she spent about half of it. The vast majority of donations came from out of state, and she has built up a network she could tap into in the future.
Stewart believes, even after she no longer has a seat in Congress, there is a place for Cheney in the GOP. She thinks she could be part of an effort to expand the message beyond the Trump base.
"If she continues to get out there and engage in GOP circles and functions, and continue to remind people about her voting record as a Republican, and about her support for freedom and policies that unite the Republican Party as opposed to grievances that divide us, there's a path for her to stay very relevant in the Republican Party," Stewart said.
Martin agreed that Cheney's Wyoming primary, and her role in the party going forward, would be one that people would talk about for a while: "I know that she's going to go down in history, but I think we are going to have to wait a while to see what the story is of what is said about Liz Cheney in history."
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Airbnb says it will use new methods to spot and block people who try to use the short-term rental service to throw a party.
The company said Tuesday it has introduced technology that examines the would-be renter’s history on Airbnb, how far they live from the home they want to rent, whether they’re renting for a weekday or weekend, and other factors.
Airbnb said the screening system that it is rolling out for listings in the United States and Canada has been tested since last October in parts of Australia, where it produced a 35% drop in unauthorized parties.
The San Francisco-based company said the technology is designed to prevent a customer’s request for reservation from ever reaching the host of the property involved. Airbnb said people blocked from renting an entire home might be able to book a single room because the host is more likely to be around.
Airbnb has been under growing pressure to clamp down on parties since 2019, when a Halloween house party in a San Francisco suburb ended with five people dead in a shooting.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Airbnb says it will use new methods to spot and block people who try to use the short-term rental service to throw a party.
The company said Tuesday it has introduced technology that examines the would-be renter’s history on Airbnb, how far they live from the home they want to rent, whether they’re renting for a weekday or weekend, and other factors.
Airbnb said the screening system that it is rolling out for listings in the United States and Canada has been tested since last October in parts of Australia, where it produced a 35% drop in unauthorized parties.
The San Francisco-based company said the technology is designed to prevent a customer’s request for reservation from ever reaching the host of the property involved. Airbnb said people blocked from renting an entire home might be able to book a single room because the host is more likely to be around.
Airbnb has been under growing pressure to clamp down on parties since 2019, when a Halloween house party in a San Francisco suburb ended with five people dead in a shooting.
The following year, Airbnb announced a worldwide party ban at its listings and banned people under 25 from renting an entire house near their home unless they had a record of positive reviews on the site. The party ban was initially cast as a temporary health measure during the pandemic but was made permanent in June. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/airbnb-is-rolling-out-new-screening-tools-to-stop-parties/ | 2022-08-17T02:55:19Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/airbnb-is-rolling-out-new-screening-tools-to-stop-parties/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 38 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden arrived at the White House promising to “build back” America, and legislation he signed Tuesday delivers a slimmer, though not insignificant, version of that once sweeping idea.
Approved by the divided Congress, the bill brings the biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. Also in the legislation is a $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for Medicare recipients as well as a new 15% corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share.
And billions will be left over to pay down federal deficits.
All told, the Democrats’ “Inflation Reduction Act” may not do much to immediately tame inflationary price hikes. But the package, an election year turnaround after loftier versions collapsed, will touch countless American lives and secure longtime party goals.
Democrats alone supported the package, as Republicans lined up against it. Republicans deride the 730-page bill as big government overreach and point particular criticism at its $80 billion investment in the IRS to hire new employees and go after tax scofflaws.
Voters will be left to sort it out in the November elections, when control of Congress will be decided.
Not as robust as Biden’s initial ideas to rebuild America’s public infrastructure and family support systems, here’s what’s in the estimated $740 billion package — made up of $440 billion in new spending and $300 billion toward easing deficits.
LOWER PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS
Launching a long-sought goal, the bill would allow the Medicare program to negotiate some prescription drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, saving the federal government some $288 billion over the 10-year budget window.
The result is expected to lower costs for older adults on medications, including a $2,000 out-of-pocket cap for older adults buying prescriptions from pharmacies.
The revenue raised would also be used to provide free vaccinations for seniors, who now are among the few not guaranteed free access, according to a summary document.
Seniors would also have insulin prices capped at $35 a month.
HELP PAYING FOR HEALTH INSURANCE
The bill would extend the subsidies provided during the COVID-19 pandemic to help some Americans who buy health insurance on their own.
Under earlier pandemic relief, the extra help was set to expire this year. But the bill would allow the assistance to keep going for three more years, lowering insurance premiums for some 13 million people who are purchasing their own health care policies through the Affordable Care Act.
BIGGEST U.S. INVESTMENT ‘BY FAR’ IN CLIMATE CHANGE
The bill would infuse nearly $375 billion over the decade in climate change-fighting strategies that Democrats believe could put the country on a path to cut greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030, and “would represent the single biggest climate investment in U.S. history, by far.”
For consumers, that means tax rebates to buy electric vehicles — $4,000 for used vehicle purchase and up to $7,500 for new ones, eligible to households with incomes of $300,000 or less for couples, or single people with income of $150,000 or less.
Not all electric vehicles will fully qualify for the tax credits, thanks to requirements that component parts be manufactured and assembled in the U.S. And pricier cars costing more than $55,000 and SUVs and trucks priced above $80,000 are excluded.
There’s also tax breaks for consumers to go green. One is a 10-year consumer tax credit for renewable energy investments in wind and solar.
For businesses, the bill has $60 billion for a clean energy manufacturing tax credit and $30 billion for a production tax credit for wind and solar, seen as ways to boost and support the industries that can help curb the country’s dependence on fossil fuels.
The bill also gives tax credits for nuclear power and carbon capture technology that oil companies such as Exxon Mobil have invested millions of dollars to advance.
The bill would impose a new fee on excess methane emissions from oil and gas drilling while giving fossil fuel companies access to more leases on federal lands and waters.
A late addition pushed by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and other Democrats in Arizona, Nevada and Colorado would designate $4 billion to combat a mega-drought in the West, including conservation efforts in the Colorado River Basin, which nearly 40 million Americans rely on for drinking water.
HOW TO PAY FOR ALL OF THIS?
One of the biggest revenue-raisers in the bill is a new 15% minimum tax on corporations that earn more than $1 billion in annual profits.
It’s a way to clamp down on some 200 U.S. companies that avoid paying the standard 21% corporate tax rate, including some that end up paying no taxes at all.
The new corporate minimum tax would kick in after the 2022 tax year and raise more than $258 billion over the decade.
There will also be a new 1% excise tax imposed on stock buybacks, raising some $74 billion over the decade.
Savings from allowing Medicare’s negotiations with the drug companies is expected to bring in $288 billion over 10 years, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
The bill sticks with Biden’s original pledge not to raise taxes on families or businesses making less than $400,000 a year.
Yet money is also raised by boosting the IRS to go after tax cheats. The bill proposes an $80 billion investment in taxpayer services, enforcement and modernization, which is projected to raise $203 billion in new revenue — a net gain of $124 billion over the decade.
Sinema was instrumental in doing away with other tax proposals and shaping the final plan.
EXTRA MONEY TO PAY DOWN DEFICITS
With some $740 billion in new revenue and around $440 billion in new investments, the bill promises to put the difference of about $300 billion toward deficit reduction.
Federal deficits spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic when federal spending soared and tax revenues fell as the nation’s economy churned through shutdowns, closed offices and other massive changes.
The nation has seen deficits rise and fall in recent years. But overall federal budgeting is on an unsustainable path, according to the Congressional Budget Office, which recently put out a new report on long-term projections.
WHAT’S LEFT BEHIND?
The package, nowhere near the sweeping Build Back Better program Biden once envisioned, remains a sizable undertaking and, along with COVID-19 relief and the GOP 2017 tax cuts, is among the more substantial bills from Congress in years.
While Congress did pass and Biden signed into law a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill for highways, broadband and other investments that was part of the White House’s initial vision, the Democrats’ other big priorities have slipped away.
Gone, for now, are plans for free pre-kindergarten and community college, as well as the nation’s first paid family leave program that would have provided up to $4,000 a month for births, deaths and other pivotal needs. Also allowed to expire is the enhanced child care credit that was providing $300 a month during the pandemic.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden arrived at the White House promising to “build back” America, and legislation he signed Tuesday delivers a slimmer, though not insignificant, version of that once sweeping idea.
Approved by the divided Congress, the bill brings the biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. Also in the legislation is a $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for Medicare recipients as well as a new 15% corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share.
And billions will be left over to pay down federal deficits.
All told, the Democrats’ “Inflation Reduction Act” may not do much to immediately tame inflationary price hikes. But the package, an election year turnaround after loftier versions collapsed, will touch countless American lives and secure longtime party goals.
Democrats alone supported the package, as Republicans lined up against it. Republicans deride the 730-page bill as big government overreach and point particular criticism at its $80 billion investment in the IRS to hire new employees and go after tax scofflaws.
Voters will be left to sort it out in the November elections, when control of Congress will be decided.
Not as robust as Biden’s initial ideas to rebuild America’s public infrastructure and family support systems, here’s what’s in the estimated $740 billion package — made up of $440 billion in new spending and $300 billion toward easing deficits.
LOWER PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS
Launching a long-sought goal, the bill would allow the Medicare program to negotiate some prescription drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, saving the federal government some $288 billion over the 10-year budget window.
The result is expected to lower costs for older adults on medications, including a $2,000 out-of-pocket cap for older adults buying prescriptions from pharmacies.
The revenue raised would also be used to provide free vaccinations for seniors, who now are among the few not guaranteed free access, according to a summary document.
Seniors would also have insulin prices capped at $35 a month.
HELP PAYING FOR HEALTH INSURANCE
The bill would extend the subsidies provided during the COVID-19 pandemic to help some Americans who buy health insurance on their own.
Under earlier pandemic relief, the extra help was set to expire this year. But the bill would allow the assistance to keep going for three more years, lowering insurance premiums for some 13 million people who are purchasing their own health care policies through the Affordable Care Act.
BIGGEST U.S. INVESTMENT ‘BY FAR’ IN CLIMATE CHANGE
The bill would infuse nearly $375 billion over the decade in climate change-fighting strategies that Democrats believe could put the country on a path to cut greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030, and “would represent the single biggest climate investment in U.S. history, by far.”
For consumers, that means tax rebates to buy electric vehicles — $4,000 for used vehicle purchase and up to $7,500 for new ones, eligible to households with incomes of $300,000 or less for couples, or single people with income of $150,000 or less.
Not all electric vehicles will fully qualify for the tax credits, thanks to requirements that component parts be manufactured and assembled in the U.S. And pricier cars costing more than $55,000 and SUVs and trucks priced above $80,000 are excluded.
There’s also tax breaks for consumers to go green. One is a 10-year consumer tax credit for renewable energy investments in wind and solar.
For businesses, the bill has $60 billion for a clean energy manufacturing tax credit and $30 billion for a production tax credit for wind and solar, seen as ways to boost and support the industries that can help curb the country’s dependence on fossil fuels.
The bill also gives tax credits for nuclear power and carbon capture technology that oil companies such as Exxon Mobil have invested millions of dollars to advance.
The bill would impose a new fee on excess methane emissions from oil and gas drilling while giving fossil fuel companies access to more leases on federal lands and waters.
A late addition pushed by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and other Democrats in Arizona, Nevada and Colorado would designate $4 billion to combat a mega-drought in the West, including conservation efforts in the Colorado River Basin, which nearly 40 million Americans rely on for drinking water.
HOW TO PAY FOR ALL OF THIS?
One of the biggest revenue-raisers in the bill is a new 15% minimum tax on corporations that earn more than $1 billion in annual profits.
It’s a way to clamp down on some 200 U.S. companies that avoid paying the standard 21% corporate tax rate, including some that end up paying no taxes at all.
The new corporate minimum tax would kick in after the 2022 tax year and raise more than $258 billion over the decade.
There will also be a new 1% excise tax imposed on stock buybacks, raising some $74 billion over the decade.
Savings from allowing Medicare’s negotiations with the drug companies is expected to bring in $288 billion over 10 years, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
The bill sticks with Biden’s original pledge not to raise taxes on families or businesses making less than $400,000 a year.
Yet money is also raised by boosting the IRS to go after tax cheats. The bill proposes an $80 billion investment in taxpayer services, enforcement and modernization, which is projected to raise $203 billion in new revenue — a net gain of $124 billion over the decade.
Sinema was instrumental in doing away with other tax proposals and shaping the final plan.
EXTRA MONEY TO PAY DOWN DEFICITS
With some $740 billion in new revenue and around $440 billion in new investments, the bill promises to put the difference of about $300 billion toward deficit reduction.
Federal deficits spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic when federal spending soared and tax revenues fell as the nation’s economy churned through shutdowns, closed offices and other massive changes.
The nation has seen deficits rise and fall in recent years. But overall federal budgeting is on an unsustainable path, according to the Congressional Budget Office, which recently put out a new report on long-term projections.
WHAT’S LEFT BEHIND?
The package, nowhere near the sweeping Build Back Better program Biden once envisioned, remains a sizable undertaking and, along with COVID-19 relief and the GOP 2017 tax cuts, is among the more substantial bills from Congress in years.
While Congress did pass and Biden signed into law a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill for highways, broadband and other investments that was part of the White House’s initial vision, the Democrats’ other big priorities have slipped away.
Gone, for now, are plans for free pre-kindergarten and community college, as well as the nation’s first paid family leave program that would have provided up to $4,000 a month for births, deaths and other pivotal needs. Also allowed to expire is the enhanced child care credit that was providing $300 a month during the pandemic.
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NEW YORK (AP) — After a string of arrests and erratic behavior that spanned Hawaii to Vermont, “Flash” actor Ezra Miller said they have begun treatment for “complex mental health issues.”
The 29-year-old Miller, who identifies as non-binary, issued a statement late Monday. On Sept. 26, Miller is due to appear for arraignment in Vermont Superior Court after being cited for felony burglary in Stamford, Vermont. Authorities last week said Miller had taken several bottles of alcohol from a residence while the homeowners weren’t present.
“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. “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.”
Miller was arrested twice earlier this year in Hawaii, including for disorderly conduct and harassment at a karaoke bar. The second incident was for second-degree assault.
The parents of 18-year-old Tokata Iron Eyes, a Native American activist, earlier this year filed a protection order against Miller, accusing the actor of grooming their child and other inappropriate behavior with her as a minor from the age of 12. Tokata Iron Eyes has disputed that.
Representatives for Miller have not responded to requests for comment on those allegations or previous arrests.
Miller’s personal troubles have been a particularly pressing issue for Warner Bros. and DC Films. After appearing in several “Justice League” movies as the Flash, Miller stars in an upcoming standalone film about the speedy superhero due out next summer. Principal photography on “The Flash” was completed last year. David Zaslav, chief executive of Warner Bros. has said that the studio is committed to releasing the film. | https://www.wpri.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ezra-miller-seeks-treatment-for-mental-health-issues/ | 2022-08-17T02:57:34Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ezra-miller-seeks-treatment-for-mental-health-issues/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas on Tuesday began a partial hand recount of this month’s decisive statewide vote in favor of abortion rights, a move forced by two Republican activists even though the margin was so large that the recount won’t change the outcome.
Nine of the state’s 105 counties are doing the recount at the request of Melissa Leavitt, of Colby, in far northwestern Kansas, who has pushed for tighter election laws. A longtime anti-abortion activist, Mark Gietzen, of Wichita, is covering most of the costs.
A larger than expected turnout of voters on Aug. 2 rejected a ballot measure that would have removed protections for abortion rights from the Kansas Constitution and given to the Legislature the right to further restrict abortion or ban it. It failed by 18 percentage points, or 165,000 votes statewide.
It drew broad attention because it was the first state referendum on abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.
WHY DO A RECOUNT IF IT WON’T CHANGE THE OUTCOME?
Gietzen and Leavitt have both suggested there might have been problems without pointing to any actual examples or evidence. Gietzen acknowledged in an interview that he would be surprised if the Kansas recount changed the results, but that he wants “the system fixed.” He pointed to potential things that could have gone wrong, such as malicious software, inaccurate voter rolls and voting law violations, even though there is no evidence that happened.
Recounts increasingly are tools to encourage supporters of a candidate or cause to believe an election was stolen rather than lost. A wave of candidates who have echoed former President Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was rigged have called for recounts after losing their own Republican primaries.
In Nevada, attorney Joey Gilbert raised money to pay for a $190,000 recount that still showed him losing the GOP nomination for governor by 26,000 votes. In Colorado, county clerk Tina Peters raised $256,000 to pay for a recount that showed she gained 13 votes total in her bid for the party nomination for Secretary of State, but still lost by more than 88,000 votes. Both candidates continued to claim they had actually won the election even as recounts showed they came nowhere close.
The refusal of candidates or campaigns to believe they could ever be defeated in an election is a dangerous development for American democracy, said Tammy Patrick, a former Arizona voting official who is now a senior adviser to Democracy Fund.
“What we see now is people just don’t believe they lost because they’re constantly being fed these lies about the legitimacy of the process,” Patrick said. The call for recounts “keeps their base engaged, ginned up and donating,” she added.
Deb Otis of the nonprofit group Fair Vote wrote a report that found about two recounts occurred a year in statewide elections between 2000 and 2019, and in only three did the results change after the recounts uncovered tiny but significant flaws in the initial count.
“Voters will start losing track of when these claims are legitimate and when a state should pay for a recount,” Otis said.
Kansas law requires a recount if those who ask for it prove they can cover the counties’ costs. The counties pay only if the outcome changes.
WHAT’S THE PROCESS?
Kansas law says counties have five days following a request to complete a recount. The clock for the recount on the abortion measure started Monday, when the Kansas secretary of state’s office concluded Gietzen and Leavitt could cover the costs.
All nine counties expected to finish by Saturday. Four started recounting by Tuesday, and one of those, Lyon County, planned to finish by day’s end. The other five planned to start Wednesday.
WHERE IS THE MONEY COMING FROM?
Leavitt and Gietzen provided credit cards to pay for the nearly $120,000 cost, according to the secretary of state’s office. Leavitt has an online fundraising page that had raised more than $47,000 as of Tuesday afternoon. Gietzen also said he is getting donations from a network built over three decades in the anti-abortion movement, but he declined to be more specific.
The two initially wanted the vote recounted in all 105 Kansas counties, but they couldn’t raise the required $229,000. Gietzen said the nine counties were chosen based in part on their population and cost.
Votes are being recounted in Douglas County, home to the University of Kansas’ main campus; Johnson County, in suburban Kansas City; Sedgwick County, home to Wichita, Shawnee County, home to Topeka; and Crawford, Harvey, Jefferson, Lyon and Thomas counties. Abortion opponents lost all of those counties except Thomas.
WHO IS BEHIND THIS?
Gietzen has been active in the anti-abortion movement and frequently protests outside a clinic providing abortions in Wichita. He leads his own group, the Kansas Coalition for Life, which is separate from the larger and more influential Kansans for Life that wields significant power at the Statehouse. He has pushed legislation to ban most abortions at about the sixth week of pregnancy. Kansas law doesn’t do that until the 22nd week.
He also leads the Kansas Republican Assembly, which had some clout among the GOP’s conservative activists more than a decade ago before they solidified their hold over the state party organization. He is retired from aircraft manufacturer Boeing.
He’s run repeatedly and unsuccessfully for the Legislature, and he has been an activist against cities adding fluoride to their drinking water, something Wichita rejected in 2012.
“He’s so far, right, he’s coming around the other side,” said former Republican state Rep. John Whitmer, host of a Wichita radio talk show. “There’s just not a lot of wiggle room with Mark.”
Leavitt owns a hobby and craft store in Colby. She has questioned how Thomas County is handling its elections. She served on a local election advisory group.
WHY IS THE RESULT NOT GOING TO CHANGE?
Voters in the nine counties cast roughly 59% of the more than 922,000 ballots on the Aug. 2 ballot question. They rejected the abortion opponents’ measure by 31 percentage points — significantly larger than the statewide total.
Recounts almost never reverse the outcome of elections, even in the closest races. Since the Florida recount for the 2000 presidential race, more than 30 statewide elections across the U.S. have been the subject of recounts. The three that were overturned were decided by hundreds of votes — not thousands.
The largest lead erased by a statewide recount was 261 votes in Washington state’s 2004 election for governor. There is no precedent in U.S. history of a recount reversing the outcome of an election decided by more than 165,000 votes.
Even some strong abortion opponents see the recount as a waste of time and money. Whitmer said the money could be much better spent on GOP efforts to unseat Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly or on competitive legislative seats.
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Hollingsworth reported from Kansas City, Missouri, and Riccardi, from Denver. Also contributing was Margaret Stafford in Kansas City, Missouri and Stephen Ohlemacher in Washington, D.C.
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — Cops usually have a prime suspect. In this case it’s a primate suspect.
The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office believes it was a little Capuchin monkey that called 911 from a zoo last Saturday night.
The call disconnected and dispatchers tried to call and text back but there was no response, so deputies were sent to investigate, the office said in a social media post.
The address turned out to be the Zoo to You near Paso Robles, but the deputies found that no one there made the call.
They finally deduced that a Capuchin monkey named Route had apparently picked up the zoo’s cellphone, which was in a golf cart used to move about the property.
“We’re told Capuchin monkeys are very inquisitive and will grab anything and everything and just start pushing buttons,” the office’s post said. | https://www.wpri.com/news/politics/ap-politics/monkey-business-behind-911-call-from-california-zoo/ | 2022-08-17T03:00:52Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/politics/ap-politics/monkey-business-behind-911-call-from-california-zoo/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
JUIZ DE FORA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s presidential election campaign officially began Tuesday with former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva leading all polls against incumbent Jair Bolsonaro amid growing concern of political violence and threats to democracy.
Da Silva, whose two-term presidency ran from 2003 to 2010, has already taken to wearing a bulletproof vest for public appearances. He was scheduled to speak at an engine factory Tuesday morning, but federal police officers asked him to cancel the event due to security concerns, according to his campaign. Instead, the leftist launched his seventh bid for the presidency at a Volkswagen plant in Sao Bernardo do Campo, a manufacturing city outside Sao Paulo where he rose to fame as an union leader in the 1970s.
Bolsonaro revisited the spot in city Juiz de Fora where he was stabbed by a mentally ill man on the campaign trail in 2018. He arrived on a motorcycle surrounded by security guards and wearing a bulletproof vest, unlike in 2018 when he plunged unprotected into the thronging crowd.
Creomar de Souza, founder of political risk consultancy Dharma Politics, told The Associated Press that da Silva’s visit to an auto plant is typical of Brazilian symbolism, evoking nostalgia of his first presidential run in 1989 and hinting at his legacy. De Souza added that he expects candidates to attack one another more than present plans for voters.
“I want this election to end as soon as possible with Lula winning it, so there’s less risk of violence and more talk about the future,” Vanderlei Cláudio, a 32-year-old metalworker, said at the event.
And Bolsonaro’s return to the site of his stabbing is an attempt to invoke the same outsider profile that enabled the seven-term lawmaker to cruise to victory in 2018, said Maurício Santoro, a political science professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro.
“For Bolsonaro, this is the image of himself as a rebel, anti-system candidate, and the attack on his life is central to that narrative,” said Santoro. “For him and his supporters, the man who stabbed him was not a ‘lone wolf’, but part of a conspiracy of the political elite against Bolsonaro.”
The race in Latin America’s largest democracy is a clash of titans, with all other candidates lagging far behind. Both have been publicly rallying supporters for months, although they hadn’t been permitted by the electoral authority to ask for votes nor air ads. So far, no debates between da Silva and Bolsonaro have yet been scheduled.
“It’s impossible not to be moved, returning to this city,” Bolsonaro told the crowd in Juiz de Fora, where people were patted down before being allowed past metal barriers to approach the president’s stage. “The memory that I carry with me is of a rebirth. My life was spared by our creator.”
After his speech, Bolsonaro made a speedy exit while standing on the bed of a truck, waving to the crowd while tightly encircled by security personnel.
Despite the 2018 attempt on Bolsonaro’s life, recent events have caused greater concern his supporters could engage in attacks. Bolsonaro backers surrounded da Silva’s car to hurl verbal abuse earlier this year and, in July, one of them killed a local official of da Silva’s Workers’ Party in the city Foz de Iguaçu.
Da Silva’s supporters have also been targeted; at a rally in June, a drone sprayed a crowd with a fetid liquid and, at another last month, a man detonated a homemade explosive containing feces. The assailants in both cases were Bolsonaro supporters, according to social media posts reviewed by the AP.
“Lula cancelled his first event due to security risks, and that kind of thing has taken over all camps. I don’t think Bolsonaro runs the same risk, but he was stabbed last time,” said Carlos Melo, a political science professor at Insper University in Sao Paulo. “These terrible events are now part of Brazil’s elections, and that matters.”
Bolsonaro is a staunch pro-gun advocate and has loosened restrictions, enabling his supporters to stock up on firearms and munitions. At the launch of his candidacy on July 24, he asked supporters to swear they would give their lives for freedom, and has repeatedly characterized the race as a battle of good versus evil. His wife, Michelle, said at that same event that the presidential palace had been consecrated to demons before her husband assumed office.
In Sao Bernardo do Campo, da Silva rattled off the Bolsonaro administration’s failings during the COVID-19 pandemic — which a Senate investigation found contributed to the world’s second-highest death toll — then said, “If there’s anyone possessed by the devil, it’s that Bolsonaro.”
Bolsonaro’s supporters frequently cite da Silva’s 580 days of imprisonment after he was found guilty of corruption and money laundering. Those convictions ejected da Silva from the 2018 race and cleared the way for Bolsonaro; they were first annulled on procedural grounds by the Supreme Court, which later ruled the judge had been biased and colluded with prosecutors.
Trailing in the polls, the former army captain has sowed concern that he could reject results if he loses the October vote. The far-right leader has raised unfounded doubts about the nation’s electronic voting system in use since 1996, notably in a meeting he called with foreign diplomats. His insistence elicited a reaction last week from hundreds of companies and over a million Brazilians who signed a pair of letters demanding the nation’s democratic institutions be respected.
When Bolsonaro’s candidacy was confirmed, he called on supporters to flood the streets for Sept. 7 independence day celebrations. On that date last year, he declared before tens of thousands of supporters that only God can remove him from power. Analysts have repeatedly expressed concern he is setting the stage to follow the lead of former U.S. President Donald Trump and attempt to cling to power.
Human Rights Watch said Monday that the campaign “is likely to be a critical test for democracy and the rule of law in the country and in Latin America.”
“Candidates should condemn political violence and call on their supporters to respect the right of Brazilians to peacefully elect their representatives and to run for office without fear,” it said. ___
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Cuban doctor has been shot to death at a hospital in a rough neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City, prosecutors in the State of Mexico confirmed late Monday.
The doctor, whose name was not provided, was killed Friday along with a nurse and another woman at a hospital in the suburb of Ecatepec.
The killing comes after criticism of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s plan to hire hundreds of Cuban doctors to work where Mexican doctors aren’t available, or in areas where they don’t want to work because they are too dangerous or remote.
The Cuban doctor killed in Ecatepec apparently arrived in Mexico some time ago and was not part of the current hiring program. However, his death raised the question of whether some areas of Mexico are too dangerous for the Cuban doctors, as well.
A woman who identified herself as the victim’s sister wrote in her Facebook account that the dead man was Ernesto Oliva Legra.
Prosecutors in the State of Mexico, which borders Mexico City, said two armed men entered the hospital in the early morning hours of Friday and asked for a female patient at the reception desk.
Being unable to locate her, the gunmen then forced the receptionist too open the door to a second-floor medical area, where they opened fire, killing the nurse and another woman, and wounding the doctor.
The doctor died later of his wounds at another hospital. Local media said the other victim was a woman who had been visiting a relative undergoing treatment.
Mexican gangs have been known to enter hospitals at gunpoint to finish off wounded rivals, and Mexico has also seen a wave of violence against medical personnel.
In July, medical school graduates and residents demonstrated across the country to protest the July 15 shooting death of 24-year-old Erick David Andrade in the northern state of Durango as he was treating a patient.
He was days away from finishing the mandatory term of barely paid “social service” required of Mexican med school graduates before starting an internship or residency.
On July 11, an anesthesiologist for a rural government hospital was shot to death at her home in the neighboring state of Chihuahua.
In July 2021, a doctor was killed on a highway near Jerez, Zacatecas, after she apparently failed to stop at a drug gang’s checkpoint. That same month two paramedics were murdered while transporting a patient in the same violence-plagued northern state.
Critics have also filed injunctions against the plan to hire more than 500 specialized doctors from Cuba, over 100 of whom have already arrived and are working in the western states of Nayarit and Colima.
The injunction claims the government has not proved the doctors have the ability or training needed to practice in Mexico, and argued that most of the doctors’ pay might go to the Cuban government, not the medical professionals themselves.
On Tuesday, López Obrador defended the program, saying Mexico didn’t have enough specialists.
“It is absurd, irrational for people to question the fact that Cuban specialist doctors are coming to Mexico in solidarity with us,” the president said. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/cuban-doctor-shot-to-death-at-mexico-hospital/ | 2022-08-17T03:01:20Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/cuban-doctor-shot-to-death-at-mexico-hospital/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A new high school textbook produced under the auspices of Poland’s conservative government has provoked criticism for what some government critics see as an attempt to indoctrinate young people.
Criticism of the contemporary history book, titled “History and the Present,” has focused in a recent days on a passage that describes what the author views as modern approaches to sexuality and child bearing. The passage appears to take a dim view of in vitro fertilization, without using the term.
It reads: “Increasingly sophisticated methods of separating sex from love and fertility lead to the treatment of sex as entertainment and fertility as human production, one could say breeding. This raises a fundamental question: who will love the children thus produced?”
Donald Tusk, the leader of the centrist opposition party Civic Platform, denounced the passage, as well as Education Minister Premyslaw Czarnek and other members of the right-wing government, during a meeting with Tusk supporters last week.
“You can read that children conceived using IVF are children from breeding farms that no one loves,” Tusk said. Of the government officials, he added: “There is no limit to villainy for them. There is no line for them they will not cross.”
Poland’s Education Ministry has denied the section is about IVF. Czarnek threatened to sue Tusk for slander if the former Polish prime minister and former top European Union official does not apologize.
Czarnek insisted that neither he nor the ministry was the author or publisher of textbooks and that “History and the Present” does not say no one loves children conceived via IVF.
The Education Ministry, reacting to Tusk, said on Twitter that only a mind “sick and mad with hatred” would interpret the passage that way.
Polish news portal Onet reported that the textbook’s author, Wojciech Roszkowski, has in the past used similar language to describe in vitro fertilization, citing what it said was a recording of him saying: “the effects of this in vitro ideology have not yet been completely revealed, but I think they will be nightmarish.”
Other passages of the book also concerned critics. A section titled “Ideology and Nazism” says that a number of popular ideologies include socialism, liberalism, feminism and gender ideology.
The book was added to a list of school books in July in preparation for a new subject called “history and the present,” which the government is introducing this fall.
Education Ministry representatives faced questions about the book in July from the political opposition in parliament and stressed that teachers remain free to choose which textbooks to use.
One lawmaker, Katarzyna Lubnauer, a mathematician who has taught, argued at the time that a textbook “should educate and not be an object of ideological indoctrination of young people.”
Amid anger by many Poles, the father of a daughter born thanks to IVF, launched an online appeal seeking to raise 30,000 zlotys ($6,500) for the legal costs of suing Czarnek and trying to block distribution of the book. His appeal raised over 280,000 zlotys ($60,000).
Poland’s governing Law and Justice party has close ties to the Roman Catholic church and promotes conservative social policies. The country’s already restrictive abortion law became more prohibitive under the party’s rule and now outlaws abortions in almost all cases.
The party also ended a national program aimed at helping to fund fertility treatments for couples, leading to a sharp drop in the number of births aided by fertility treatments. Party leaders also have lashed out against the LGBTQ rights movement.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — For the second year in a row, Arizona and Nevada will face cuts in the amount of water they can draw from the Colorado River as the West endures more drought, federal officials announced Tuesday.
Though the cuts will not result in any immediate new restrictions — like banning lawn watering or car washing — they signal that unpopular decisions about how to reduce consumption are on the horizon, including whether to prioritize growing cities or agricultural areas. Mexico will also face cuts.
But those reductions represent just a fraction of the potential pain to come for the 40 million Americans in seven states that rely on the river. Because the states failed to meet a federal deadline to figure out how to cut their water use by at least 15%, they could see even deeper cuts that the government has said are needed to prevent reservoirs from falling so low they cannot be pumped.
“The states collectively have not identified and adopted specific actions of sufficient magnitude that would stabilize the system,” Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton said.
Together, the missed deadline and the latest cuts put officials responsible for providing water to cities and farms under renewed pressure to plan for a hotter, drier future and a growing population.
Touton has said a 15% to 30% reduction is necessary to ensure that water deliveries and hydroelectric power production are not disrupted. She was noncommittal on Tuesday about whether she planned to impose those cuts unilaterally if the states cannot reach agreement.
She repeatedly declined to say how much time the states have to reach the deal she requested in June.
The inaction has stirred concerns throughout the region about the bureau’s willingness to act as states stubbornly cling to their water rights while acknowledging that a crisis looms.
“They have called the bureau’s bluff time and again,” Kyle Roerink, the executive director of the Great Basin Water Network, said of the Colorado River basin states. “Nothing has changed with today’s news — except for the fact that the Colorado River system keeps crashing.”
For years, cities and farms have diverted more water from the river than flows through it, depleting its reservoirs and raising questions about how it will be divided as water becomes more scarce.
After more than two decades of drought, Arizona, Nevada and Mexico were hit with mandatory cuts for the first time last year. Some of the region’s farmers have been paid to leave their fields fallow. Residents of growing cities have been subjected to conservation measures such as limits on grass lawns.
But those efforts thus far haven’t been enough. The water level at Lake Mead, the nation’s largest man-made reservoir, has plummeted so low that it’s currently less than a quarter full and inching dangerously close to a point where not enough water would flow to produce hydroelectric power at the Hoover Dam on the Nevada-Arizona border.
Officials in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming have been reluctant to propose more draconian water-rationing measures or limits on development.
The trade-offs are emerging most prominently in Arizona, which is among the nation’s fastest-growing states and has lower-priority water rights than water users to the west, in California.
Under Tuesday’s reductions, Arizona will lose an additional 80,000 acre-feet of water — 21% less than its total share but only 3% less than what it’s receiving this year.
An acre-foot is equivalent to an acre of land covered by 12 inches of water. An average household uses one-half to one acre-foot of water a year.
After putting last year’s burden on the agricultural industry, state officials said this year’s cuts would extend to tribes and growing cities that rely on the Colorado, including Scottsdale.
Rather than ration water, mandate conservation or limit development, the cities will likely shift reliance to other sources. Phoenix, for example, will rely more heavily on the in-state Salt and Verde rivers, while directing less of its supply to recharge its groundwater aquifers.
Arizona officials blasted neighboring states that haven’t proposed cuts even as Arizona implements its own.
Arizona and Nevada came up with a plan for cuts that would have been close to proportional to water use, but both California and the Bureau of Reclamation rejected that deal, state officials said.
“We need California to participate, we can’t do this alone with just Arizona and Nevada,” said Tom Buschatzke, director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources.
The effect of the cuts on farmers remains unclear, but many fear more cuts will further inflame tensions between cities and agriculture, which uses more than 70% of the basin’s water.
Paco Ollerton, a Phoenix-area cotton farmer, worries that deeper cuts could jeopardize his water next year. Arizona farmers already lost much of their Colorado River water during prior cuts, but they were compensated with water through deals with cities like Phoenix and Tucson.
This year, Ollerton grew only half of what he had grown previously. The cuts announced Tuesday could further squeeze those cities, raising questions about whether they will share with farmers next year.
“It kind of changes my thinking about how much longer I’m going to continue to farm,” Ollerton said.
Nevada also will lose water — about 8% of its supply — but most residents will not feel the effects because the state recycles the majority of its water used indoors and doesn’t use its full allocation. Last year, the state lost 7%.
Scorching temperatures and less melting snow in the spring have reduced the amount of water flowing from the Rocky Mountains, where the river originates before it snakes 1,450 miles (2,334 kilometers) southwest and into the Gulf of California.
Amid the changing climate, extraordinary steps are already being taken to keep water in Lake Powell, the other large Colorado River reservoir, which straddles the Arizona-Utah border.
After the lake fell low enough to threaten hydroelectric power production, federal officials said they would hold back some water to ensure the dam could still produce energy. That water would normally flow to Lake Mead.
Mexico will lose 7% of the water it receives each year from the river. Last year, it lost about 5%. The water is a lifeline for northern desert cities, including Tijuana, and for a large farming industry in the Mexicali Valley, just south of the border from California’s Imperial Valley.
Historically, Mexico has been sidelined in discussions over how to share the river, but in recent years, efforts by countries have been important to keeping more water in the system, experts say.
“People have come to realize this is a really important relationship to maintain,” said Jennifer Pitt, who directs the Colorado River program at the Audubon Society.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The first shipment of grain to leave Ukraine under a wartime deal appears to have ended up in Syria — even as Damascus remains a close ally of Moscow, satellite images analyzed Tuesday by The Associated Press show.
The arrival of the cargo ship Razoni in Syria comes after the government in Kyiv praised the ship’s initial departure from the port of Odesa as a sign that Ukraine could safely ship out its barley, corn, sunflower oil and wheat to a hungry world where global food prices have spiked in part due to the war.
But its arrival in Syria’s port of Tartus shows how complicated and murky international trade and shipping can be. Syria has already received Ukrainian grain taken from Russian-occupied territory amid Moscow’s war on Kyiv.
Images from Planet Labs PBC analyzed by the AP showed the Sierra Leone-flagged Razoni at port just before 11 a.m. Monday. The vessel was just next to the port’s grain silos, key to supplying wheat to the nation.
Data from the Razoni’s Automatic Identification System tracker shows it had been turned off since Friday, when it was just off the coast of Cyprus, according to ship-tracking website MarineTraffic.com. Ships are supposed to keep their AIS trackers on, but vessels wanting to hide their movements often turn theirs off. Those heading to Syrian ports routinely do so.
The Razoni could be identified in the satellite image by its color, length and width, as well as the four large white cranes on its deck. Samir Madani, co-founder of the oil-shipment website TankerTrackers.com and an expert on following ships via satellite images, similarly identified the vessel from the image.
The Financial Times first reported on the satellite image.
The Razoni, loaded with 26,000 tons of corn, left Odesa on Aug. 1. The cargo ship was the first to leave a Ukrainian-controlled port in the country since Russia launched the war in February. As part of the deal, a United Nations coordination center in Istanbul staffed by Turkey, Russia and Ukraine oversees the shipments to make sure they safely travel through the Black Sea, which has mines in some areas and has seen combat during the conflict.
But Lebanon, which was Razoni’s presumed destination, ended up not taking the shipment, even as it struggles with its own economic crisis. Lebanese media had reported that after a monthslong delay due to the war in Ukraine, the merchant who had bought the shipment no longer wanted it.
The vessel sat off Mersin, Turkey, before heading to Syria.
Asked about the Razoni, the U.N. Joint Coordination Center said in a statement that “after outbound vessels clear inspection in Istanbul, the JCC ceases monitoring them.”
“The cleared vessels proceed then to their final destinations, whatever those may be,” the center said.
On Tuesday, the Ukrainian Embassy in Beirut referred to an earlier statement that Razoni’s cargo was no longer Kyiv’s responsibility.
“Our task has been to reopen seaports for grain cargo and it has been done,” the statement said.
In Washington, State Department spokesperson Ned Price similarly said that America didn’t “determine who buys the grain shipments or their final destinations.”
“What matters most to us are a couple things,” Price said. “One: That Ukraine is appropriately compensated for the grain, the foodstuff, for the crops that it is in this case providing. And that the food gets to where it is needed most.”
An official reached by telephone Tuesday at the Tartus port declined to comment. Syria’s mission to the United Nations did not respond to a request for comment.
Tartus, on the Mediterranean Sea, lies about 320 kilometers (200 miles) northwest of Syria’s capital, Damascus.
Syria remains sanctioned by the West over killing and abuses of civilians during the civil war, though food supplies have been exempted by the West. Russian military support has been key to Syrian President Bashar Assad remaining in power. Syria has recognized the Russian-backed breakaway eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as sovereign entities, leading to Kyiv severing diplomatic ties with Damascus.
Since earlier this year, ships have carried Ukrainian foodstuffs from Russian-occupied territory to Syria. In May, satellite images showed the Russian-flagged Matros Pozynich at dockside in Latakia, Syria. Ukraine said the ship had 27,000 tons of grain Russia stole from it and initially tried to sell to Egypt, which refused to take the cargo.
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220816-N-JC800-0134 SINGAPORE (Aug. 16, 2022) – (From left) Vice Adm. Karl Thomas, commander, 7th Fleet, and Capt. Tom Ogden, commodore, Destroyer Squadron 7 (DESRON 7) answer questions during a press conference to local and international news outlets during Southeast Asia Cooperation and Training (SEACAT) Aug. 16. SEACAT is an annual multi-national exercise to strengthen cooperation and increase maritime security by sharing information and resources in the Southeast Asia region. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Heath Zeigler)
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220816-N-JC800-0146 SINGAPORE (Aug. 16, 2022) – (From left) Vice Adm. Karl Thomas, commander, 7th Fleet, and Capt. Tom Ogden, commodore, Destroyer Squadron 7 (DESRON 7) answer questions during a press conference to local and international news outlets during Southeast Asia Cooperation and Training (SEACAT) Aug. 16. SEACAT is an annual multi-national exercise to strengthen cooperation and increase maritime security by the sharing of information and resources in the Southeast Asia region. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Heath Zeigler)
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Bathing Beach Advisory lifted at Sterling State Park
The Monroe County Health Department (MCHD) has lifted the whole-body contact advisory at Sterling State Park.
The move was effective Tuesday.
"Sample results from testing on 8/16/22 indicate that the levels of cyanobacteria have dropped below the recommended levels warranting the advisory," read a press release from the department. "The whole-body contact advisory remains in place for Luna Pier Beach. Please be advised that presence of an algae bloom can change quickly, based on wind direction and other factors. MCHD continues to recommend that visitors and residents of the lake avoid water-related activities and keep pets from drinking or going in the lake water in the area where a bloom is visible."
As it is not possible to determine whether harmful toxins reside within algal blooms simply by looking at the blooms, it is recommended that individuals avoid contact with any body of water covered with algal mats or significant rafts of algae on the surface.
Individuals are also recommended to search online for advisories or closings for bodies of water throughout Michigan, or contact EGLE at 800-662-9278 for more information about HABs and the environment.
In MCHD's statement, the department says it intends to test for harmful algae blooms through the remainder of the summer swimming season. They also provided a list of actions to take in areas where an algal bloom is visible:
- Avoid areas with scummy water in the lake or with water that looks like spilled paint or pea soup, floating scums, or has a green sheen to it. These may contain flecks, mats, foam, sheens, streaks, or clumps.
- Avoid water-related activities in areas where the bloom is visible. Individuals that have skin contact, swallow large amounts, or play in the water are susceptible to illness.
- Keep pets from drinking or playing in the lake water. Symptoms of illness often appear quicker in animals than in humans – sometimes in minutes to a few hours. Symptoms in animals can include vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue, staggered walking, excessive salivation, convulsions, erratic behavior, physical distress, and death.
- Do not boat or ski in water with HABs (may create water spray in the air). · Use caution if eating fish and mussels from impacted bodies of water.
- Do not water lawns or gardens with water from impacted bodies of water because it may create a water spray in the air.
If you or your pet(s) have been exposed to HABs:
- Shower yourself and pet(s) immediately
- Contact your medical provider or veterinarian if you or your pet have ingested or been exposed to HABs
- Contact Poison Control at 800-222-1222 or call your medical provider if you have been exposed to or swallowed water with HABs and have symptoms
Individuals can report suspicious-looking algae to EGLE by calling the Environmental Assistance Center at 800-662-9278 or by emailing AlgaeBloom@michigan.gov. For more information on HABs and your health, contact MDHHS at 800-648-6942. For information about HABs and pets or livestock call the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) at 800-292-3939. You may also contact the MCHD at 734-240-7900 for more information and updates. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2022/08/16/bathing-beach-advisory-lifted-sterling-state-park/10344308002/ | 2022-08-17T03:04:54Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2022/08/16/bathing-beach-advisory-lifted-sterling-state-park/10344308002/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Descaling a Keurig in seven easy steps
If that first delicious cup of coffee from your Keurig is now only a distant memory, dissolved in murky flavors and sluggish brewing speeds, it may be time to descale your Keurig. Even the cleanest water leaves trace amounts of minerals and other debris in the delicate lines inside your machine. These deposits can affect the flavor of your coffee and the speed at which it brews. Fortunately, descaling a Keurig is fast and easy.
How a Keurig gets dirty
Although tap water is perfectly safe to drink, it contains minute particles of minerals that can build up over time. This limescale can block water flow and give your morning cup of joe an unpleasant taste.
Hard water is also naturally high in dissolved minerals like calcium and magnesium, which can build up and block the lines inside your Keurig faster.
Investing in a filtered water jug can extend the period between cleanings. The carbon filter grabs most of the potential deposits and can prolong the life of your Keurig — or at least make it so that you don’t have to clean it as often. These require regularly changing the filter, so the expense can add up.
If you use water straight from the tap, there’s no way around it: you’re going to have to descale your Keurig regularly.
How do you know when it’s time to descale?
If you notice that your Keurig coffee machine is taking longer to create your caffeinated goodness, it might be time to descale.
Other signs it’s time to descale your Keurig include:
- A taste that is slightly off
- Visible signs of deposits
Even if none of these things occur, it’s good practice to descale your Keurig once every three months. This keeps it in top working order and ready to go when needed.
What you need
- Water
- Coffee mug
- Commercial descaling agent (or white vinegar)
Descaling your Keurig
Step 1: Cleaning the machine and accessories
Start by cleaning the machine itself and any brewing accessories. This includes any reusable K-Cups, the mug tray and the lid.
Wipe the lid down, and scrub the outside of the Keurig with a damp sponge. Rinse out the reusable K-Cup, and scrub it if needed.
Allow the accessories to dry, and then reassemble your machine for descaling.
Step 2: Add your descaler
If you opt for a commercial descaler, follow the directions on that product for its use. If you are using white vinegar, plan on using one full cup of white vinegar per water reservoir. Add your descaler of choice, then fill the reservoir and replace it on the machine.
Step 3: Start descaling
Place your mug on the mug tray and start brewing. Brew and dump the water/descaler mix until the water reservoir is empty. You might notice the water moving through your Keurig faster than when you started. This is a good sign that the descaler or white vinegar is doing its job.
If the water flow is still sluggish or mineral deposits are still obvious, add more white vinegar or descaler to another full reservoir of water and repeat the process.
Step 4: Rest
Once the descaling is finished, let your machine rest for 30 minutes. This gives the vinegar or descaler time to dissolve any remaining limescale.
Step 5: Clean the empty reservoir
While waiting for the descaling solution to do its job, take this opportunity to wash and completely rinse the reservoir. This removes any last traces of vinegar or descaler.
Step 6: Rinse completely
You’ll need to rinse your Keurig’s interior multiple times to ensure all traces of descaler or white vinegar are removed. Fill your reservoir with cool, clean water. If your Keurig has a carafe setting, use that to maintain a steady water flow.
Dump each mug or carafe of water as it brews. This may take four or more full reservoirs of water, but it’s worth it.
Step 7: Test your descaling
For the final step, taste the last cup of water you run through your Keurig. It should be free from any trace of vinegar or other taste.
What you need to buy for descaling a Keurig
Brita Standard Everyday Water Filter Pitcher
This 10-cup pitcher filters water to extend the time between descaling. It’s lightweight and has a filter that’s easy to change.
Sold by Amazon
Essential Values Store Keurig Compatible Descaling Solution and Keurig Cleaner
This two-pack gives you four cleanings. It’s non-toxic and compatible with other coffee machines, too.
Sold by Amazon
Bosmarlin Large Stoneware Coffee Mug
Descale in style with this 17-ounce, heat-safe stoneware coffee mug. It’s available in six colors and comes in packs of one or two mugs.
Sold by Amazon
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Which propane grills are the best?
Nothing says summer like firing up the grill. Whether you go for burgers and veggies or class it up with cedar planks and salmon, these outdoor cooking appliances are backyard staples across the country.
Propane grills are the perfect solution for those who love to cook outdoors but would prefer to do so without the mess, prep time and inconsistency of charcoal or wood pellets.
What to know before you buy a propane grill
Propane grill benefits
- Instant ignition: No more waiting for the charcoal to catch fire. Gas grills light up with the press of a button, so you can get those steaks sizzling in no time.
- Easy cleaning: Coal dust and greasy lighter fluid can make charcoal grills a real mess. Propane grills are much easier to tidy up when you’re done eating.
- Quick preheating: Propane grills reach high heat almost immediately after ignition. This makes achieving a safe cooking temperature quick and easy.
- Temperature control: With multiple burners and dials that let you adjust the flame across your cooking surface, propane grills offer temperature control that charcoal grills can’t match.
- Efficiency: Because you can choose which burners you want to ignite, propane grills let you cook more efficiently without wasting fuel.
Your cooking preferences
For the most part, anything you can cook in a charcoal grill you can also prepare in a propane grill. What you will miss, however, is the characteristic broiled taste that cooking food over burning coals creates. If you feel that the ease of gas grilling outweighs the loss of a little summertime flavor, a propane grill will set you up with everything you need to get started.
Grill size
From built-in appliances with huge cooking surfaces to portable grills designed to feed a few hungry campers, there is no shortage of choices for those who want to experience the simple, primal satisfaction of cooking food with an open flame.
Think about where you intend to use your grill, how many people you will usually be cooking for and whether or not you will be bringing it with you while you travel.
What to look for in a propane grill
Shelves and racks
Most propane grills feature side shelves, racks and utensil hangers to make preparing and serving food a breeze. Shelves that fold up let you store your grill with ease during the winter months.
Wheeled cart
Aside from tabletop and portable gas grills, just about all of them include a wheeled cart. These can keep your cooking surface at a convenient level, store propane out of sight and let you roll the grill out of the way when you’re not using it. Select a grill that has a cart with sturdy casters and accessible shelving to get the most out of it.
Fuel gauge
Some grills include a fuel gauge that lets you know how much propane you have left. Since it can be hard to determine how full your tank is, this feature could make the difference between enjoying a quick dinner or getting your preparation interrupted by a spent propane supply.
Warming rack
An interior warming rack lets you keep your finished food toasty while freeing your grill up to cook your next batch of burgers or dogs.
Thermometer
Select a grill with a thermometer on its lid that is easy to read. While a meat thermometer is still needed to ensure that your food is cooked to a safe temperature, having a gauge you can look at without having to open the grill will keep you from releasing the hot air inside it and extending your cooking time.
Best propane grills
Top premium propane grills
What you need to know: This compact grill from Weber has a sleek, modern look and is packed with useful features.
What you’ll love: A folding side table, utensil hangers and a fuel gauge make this gas grill the star of any cookout. It comes in four colors and features Weber’s classic Flavorizer bars that sizzle drippings for added smokiness.
What you should consider: Buyers say that this grill is challenging to assemble and is a bit on the expensive side for its size.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Char-Broil Four-Burner Propane Gas Grill
What you need to know: Stainless steel and slick black trim make this large grill from Char-Broil stand out from the competition.
What you’ll love: The side burner built into one of the shelves allows you to heat a pot of soup or sauce while you cook. Stainless steel construction and four burners put this appliance in a class of its own.
What you should consider: This grill is large, and its side shelves don’t fold down.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Monument Grills Four-Burner Propane Grill
What you need to know: Rule the cookout with this generously-sized, stainless steel gas grill.
What you’ll love: Built into a large cabinet with ample storage space, this grill features a side burner and a whopping 683 square inches of cooking area. LED knobs let you see your controls in the dark
What you should consider: Buyers have complained that this grill is not packed well and sometimes arrives dented.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Top budget propane grills
What you need to know: With three burners and two side shelves, this grill is a great value.
What you’ll love: You can roll this grill easily, thanks to its rugged wheeled cart. It includes a warming rack to keep prepared food from getting cold, and the gloss black finish looks great on any patio.
What you should consider: Some buyers find that this grill’s handle gets too hot to grab without using an oven mitt.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
American Gourmet Propane Gas Grill
What you need to know: This grill’s grates are coated in porcelain to prevent sticking and make cleaning easier.
What you’ll love: This grill’s three burners give you a wide range of options for cooking foods at different temperatures at the same time. It includes a warming rack and features a porcelain-coated lid and firebox.
What you should consider: Some users are disappointed with this grill’s inability to reach very high temperatures.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top travel grills
Char-Broil Portable Propane Grill
What you need to know: This portable grill is inexpensive but still large enough to feed a family.
What you’ll love: With its carrying handles and legs that fold up to keep its lid on during travel, this little grill is made to move. Just as at home in the backyard as it is at the campsite, this grill is fueled by a small propane cylinder as opposed to a heavy tank.
What you should consider: Some buyers have noticed quality control issues with the way this grill’s metal parts fit together during assembly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Weber Traveler Portable Gas Grill
What you need to know: This travel grill folds up for easy transport and storage.
What you’ll love: Unique in its design, this gas grill includes a cart that can fold up. With a surface large enough to cook 15 burgers, this travel grill does not skimp on cooking power.
What you should consider: The latch on this grill’s lid can come loose while you’re rolling it, causing the grates to fall out.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
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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 amount of American’s deposit.
American, which also took options for 40 more Boom Overture planes, becomes the second U.S. customer for Boom after a similar announcement last year from United Airlines for 15 jets.
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 — both for passengers and airlines.
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.”
Boom says its plane will have a top speed of 1.7 times the speed of sound, or about 1,300 mph, and carry between 65 and 80 passengers.
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.
Notably, Boom does not yet have an engine manufacturer lined up. It is talking with Rolls Royce and others.
“With a supersonic jet, you don’t design a plane, you design an engine first,” said Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst at consultant AeroDynamic Advisory. “This is just a collection of freehand drawings until that engine happens.”
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, which is based in Denver and plans to build the Overture in North Carolina, says the 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 market for four-engine planes is shrinking. The Boeing 747 is used mostly for hauling cargo now, and Airbus shut down production of the A380 in 2021. The vast majority of passenger jets flying today have two engines.
Four-engine planes “are that much worse from every standpoint, from economics to emissions,” Aboulafia said. “Nobody wants more engines, the answer is fewer engines.”
While American and United have said they’ll buy Boom’s plane, Delta Air Lines, the other big U.S. carrier that could use it on long international flights, isn’t ready to join them.
“I have a lot more questions than answers still,” Delta CEO Ed Bastian said Tuesday on Fox Business. “Until we are confident that we could actually generate a reliable return from the aircraft, that’s not where we’re investing.”
American Airlines said the supersonic plane will change travel.
“Looking to the future, supersonic travel will be an important part of our ability to deliver for our customers,” said Derek Kerr, the airline’s chief financial officer.
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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ALONG THE COLUMBIA RIVER (AP) — James Kiona stands on a rocky ledge overlooking Lyle Falls where the water froths and rushes through steep canyon walls just before merging with the Columbia River. His silvery ponytail flutters in the wind, and a string of eagle claws adorns his neck.
Kiona has fished for Chinook salmon for decades on his family’s scaffold at the edge of the falls, using a dip net suspended from a 33-foot pole — like his father did before him, and his son will after.
“Fishing is an art and a spiritual practice,” says Kiona, a Yakama Nation elder. “You feel exhilaration in your body when you dip that net in the water and feel the fish. Then, you’re fighting the fish. The fish is fighting you, tearing holes in the net, jerking you off the scaffold.”
He finds strength, sanctity, even salvation in that struggle. The river saved Kiona when he returned from the war in Vietnam. As he battled addiction, depression and trauma, the river gave him therapy no hospital could.
When he lies on the rocks by the rushing river and closes his eyes, he hears the songs and the voices of his ancestors. The water, he says, holds the history of the land and his people.
“It heals you.”
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From its headwaters in British Columbia where the Rocky Mountains crest, the Columbia River flows south into Washington state and then westward and into the Pacific Ocean at its mouth near Astoria, Oregon. Just below the confluence with the Snake River, the Columbia’s largest tributary, the river turns through the Cascade Mountain Range, carving out the Columbia River Gorge.
It’s a spectacular canyon, 80 miles long and up to 4,000 feet deep, with cliffs, ridges, streams and waterfalls. The landscape and colors change dramatically from the brown hills, shrubs and sagebrush at lower elevations to the lush greens of ponderosa pines, fir and larch trees higher up. Eagles and ospreys nest all along the river.
For thousands of years, Native tribes in this area have relied on Nch’i-Wána, or “the great river,” for its salmon and steelhead trout, and its surrounding areas for the fields bearing edible roots, medicinal herbs and berry bushes as well as the deer and elk whose meat and hides are used for food and ritual. That reliance transcends the material realm into the spiritual, as the acts of gathering, consuming and respecting those foods are inextricably linked to the tribes’ religious practice.
Yet the river is under threat. Warming waters linked to climate change endanger the salmon, which need cooler temperatures to survive. Hydroelectric dams on the Columbia and its tributaries have curtailed the river’s flow, further imperiling salmon’s migration from the Pacific upstream to their freshwater spawning grounds. Industrial pollution are also threats; testing by the Columbia Riverkeeper, a nonprofit that aims to protect water quality, shows that fish caught in the area are contaminated with flame retardants; polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs; and heavy metals.
Pollution and climate change are not only threatening the health of the river and its habitat, but also the millennia-old spiritual traditions that hold Native communities together.
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“We are the salmon people or river people,” says Aja DeCoteau, executive director of the Portland-based Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, which represents the interests of the four Columbia River treaty tribes — Yakama, Umatilla, Warm Springs and Nez Perce — in policy, advocacy and management of the basin. “Without water there are no fish, plants or herbs.”
Each year the tribes honor the salmon, roots, berries, deer and elk — which they believe were originally placed in the land for their sustenance — with what are known as “first food ceremonies.” When children catch fish, dig roots or pick berries for the first time, they are stood up before their elders in the longhouse and recognized as food gatherers.
Elders speak of how streams flow from the mountains sanctified by the prayers of ancestors who went there to commune with the spirits. These rivulets then flow down and merge with the Columbia. If Nch’i-Wána is the main artery of the land, those streams are like the veins that feed it. So even the smallest creek is vital and sacred.
At communal meals, tribe members typically begin and end with water — “You take a drink of water to purify yourself before you eat and you end the meal with water to show respect for what you’ve eaten,” DeCouteau says.
Tribes also use the river’s water and rocks for rituals such as sweat lodge purification ceremonies, held in low, dome-shaped structures where river rocks are heated along with herbal medicine.
“After you sweat and pray, there is also the practice of jumping in the river to cleanse yourself,” DeCouteau says. “It’s hard to continue practicing these rituals when the river is so contaminated.”
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Whether the day is 100 degrees or nine below zero, Terrie Brigham takes her fishing boat out every day before the crack of dawn. Her family, members of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla, owns Brigham Fish Market in Cascade Locks, a bucolic riverbank town of some 1,500 residents about an hour’s drive east of Portland. Her grandfather erected the family’s scaffolds in the 1950s.
On a cold June morning, Brigham watches proudly at the scaffolds as her 23-year-old nephew, Brigham Campbell, fights a large Chinook salmon thrashing about in his dip net. He secures the fish and holds it up with smile, and she lets out a loud whoop and captures the moment on her cellphone.
Fishing has been the family’s life and livelihood for generations, but it’s also a big part of her spiritual identity. Brigham speaks of her scaffold as if it were a temple, and her boat an altar.
“To me, the river is sacred. The water is sacred. The fish are sacred.”
Each year when Brigham catches the first fish of the season, she utters, “Thank you, Creator.” Then she puts a rope around its mouth so it can be used in the longhouse as part of the ceremony to welcome the fish back, known as the First Salmon Feast.
That first fish is always shared with others in the community, even if each person might get just a single bite.
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Bill Yallup Jr. was 6 when Celilo Falls “drowned,” as he puts it.
Known as Wyam to Native people, the thundering cascade was a sacred place where for 15,000 years Indigenous tribes netted salmon as the fish jumped upstream. It was also their economic nerve center, with the salmon trading for all manner of goods from feathers to copper to wampum, beads crafted from shells.
Yallup’s family came to Celilo Falls from Toppenish, Washington, when he was an infant.
“My mom cooked with water from the river,” he says. “You could hear those falls for miles. It was sacred sound.”
The falls fell silent in 1957 when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers erected The Dalles Dam, flooding the area and creating the Celilo Lake reservoir. His father brought him to Lyle, Washington, when he was 17. He learned to fish there.
As a young man, Yallup dreamed of a career in Hollywood as a writer and actor. He played a tribal elder in the show “Northern Exposure,” a 1990s CBS comedy-drama series about quirky residents of a fictional small town in Alaska that ran for five seasons.
But, the mighty river has an unfathomable pull, and it drew him back. It reminds him of who he really is, Yallup says: “I’m a fisherman.”
In his deep baritone, he enjoys telling stories of the river that have been handed down over generations.
A tale he has told hundreds of times narrates how Coyote, one of the most important characters in tribal mythology, brought the salmon back to the big river. The fish had left after a legendary battle between Mount Hood and Mount Adams, both portrayed as women in the story, caused the salmon to drain into the ocean. The fish told Coyote they would come back, but only if they were respected.
Young salmon, or smolts, swim down the Columbia to the ocean, where they grow for between one and five years. Then they migrate back upstream to spawn. Some are caught and become a source of sustenance for the people, and others die and become one with the environment. The cycle repeats over and over.
“The sacredness of this river,” Yallup says, “lies in the sacrifice the salmon make each time they fulfill their promise to come back.”
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The Whitefoots are a large family spread across the West Coast. The best-known member of the clan, Patricia “Patsy” Whitefoot, is an advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women. A member of the Yakama Nation, she often travels along the river meeting family members and attending traditional tribal gatherings.
Her activism is as much a part of her Native identity as her religious practice is.
“If you are Indian, you’ll be political all your life,” she says.
On a recent afternoon, she visits cousins Debra and Sandy Whitefoot, who live near the Bonneville Dam in an “in-lieu fishing site,” lands set aside by Congress to compensate tribes whose villages were inundated by dams.
Many families here live in trailers without restrooms, lights or drains, and Debra, as executive director of the nonprofit Nch’i-Wána Housing, works to provide homes for Native people living along the river.
“My mom saw the world go by at Celilo,” she says, wiping away tears. “We have lost so much. We’re experiencing intergenerational trauma. My hope is I can make a village or a few villages for my people so we can heal and move forward.”
Sandy is smoking freshly caught salmon. She arranges the cleaned and cut-up pieces in trays and places them in a wooden smoking shed by the river. She has a job in a sandwich shop, but this, Sandy says, is “what I do.”
The first fish she ever caught was a steelhead off her father’s scaffold.
“It was one of the most exciting moments in my life,” she says.
Debra’s son, Aaron Paul, and his partner, Betty Jean Sutterlict, live by the river as well. When their son, Bennie, finished high school last year, he had his graduation photo taken on the scaffold wearing a vest embroidered with an eagle carrying a salmon. He now attends Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, Montana, and hopes to major in fisheries and wildlife.
Debra is proud of young people like her grandson, who grew up by the river doing homework under a streetlight, and are now going to college to learn about protecting their natural resources.
“They give me hope.”
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It was worries over the spring salmon’s disappearance from the river that inspired Elaine Harvey to get her bachelor’s degree in aquatic and fishery science. She is also concerned for species like the Pacific lamprey, which has “been around since the dinosaurs” but today faces possible extinction.
Now a fish biologist for Yakama Fisheries, Harvey says what keeps her up at night is what she calls a “race to harness green energy” that has brought multinational corporations to the Columbia.
“Wind turbines and solar farms are impacting our archeological sites, cultural resource sites, wildlife and fish,” she says, pointing to a sacred mountain near the John Day Dam that the Native people call Push-pum. “Our root fields are on that mountain. We could lose access to our food.”
The tribes are also focused on preserving areas in tributaries such as the Klickitat and White Salmon, two glacial rivers that provide cold water for migrating salmon.
Harvey hopes to impart this knowledge and sense of stewardship to her children and grandchildren.
“We travel with kids to fishing stations, hunting grounds and root fields,” she says. “We give them the experience of camping on our lands.”
She connects to the land by sleeping on the ground and cooking on an open fire, just as her ancestors did when they were traveling these lands on horseback and by foot.
Harvey says she will never leave the river because that’s what she was taught by her elders.
“We have a real, deep connection to all these places. Our blood line is here.”
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Harvey’s cousin, Bronsco Jim Jr., was appointed mid-Columbia River chief when he was 21 and in that capacity performs longhouse services, first food ceremonies and funerals. He knows many sacred songs, one of which talks about the birth of the first salmon at a spot in the Columbia River.
“God’s authoritative word comes down upon (the salmon’s) body,” Jim says. “He jumps out of the water in a circular movement, and in that one revolution, he was given life.”
Sunlight streams into the longhouse during a recent ceremonial meal with elders at historic Celilo Village. Supported by tall wooden beams, the building has at its center the altar, a rectangle of earth that Jim cleanses with water before the service begins.
Jim is wearing shell earrings and a beaded necklace with the pendant of a horse’s silhouette honoring his ancestors who rode them. His soft, measured speaking voice rises into song, echoing throughout the room. It has no words but is a deep, visceral, prayerful sound capable of evoking goosebumps or tears.
Tribal members seated around a table bearing the first foods — in order, salmon, roots, berries — join in softly, waving their right hands away from their bodies and then inward toward their chests. The gesture harnesses the light and energy around them and delivers it to their hearts, Jim explains. Tribal beliefs forbid capturing these solemn services in video or photographs because that would freeze the prayers in time and prevent their transmission to the Creator.
In Native families that inhabit the Columbia Basin, education about first foods begins at home and continues in these longhouses, accompanied by teaching and ceremony. Deeply held beliefs also dictate the rules of food gathering.
“You can’t just casually go out to gather food,” Jim says.
The ceremony for each of the foods is performed at a different time of year depending on when they become available. The salmon are the first to appear in the spring. The roots are ready to be dug in the summer and different berries are picked in the summer and the fall.
Community members are required to wait for that first feast to honor each food before they head out to harvest it. In the longhouse and out in the mountains, the food-gathering is accompanied by song.
“These songs and ceremonies are part of everything we do,” Jim says. “We need the river and these foods in our lives.”
Losing these irreplaceable foods and their sources could cost them their spiritual identity, he says.
“They feed our body and soul.”
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CHICAGO (AP) — White Sox manager Tony La Russa got a kick out of the idea that a screaming spectator convinced him to insert a pinch-runner during a winning rally this week.
The Hall of Fame skipper, the second-winningest manager in big league history, insisted Tuesday he had no idea a fan near the dugout was yelling for him to send Adam Engel to run for Eloy Jiménez the previous night against Houston.
Jiménez had just hit a tying, two-run double during a four-run eighth inning that propelled Chicago to a 4-2 victory.
“Make his day, tell him I heard him,” La Russa said, smiling.
La Russa said he and his staff were trying to decide: Do they keep Jiménez in for a potential at-bat later with the game tied in the eighth? Or do they have Engel run for him?
In a video posted on Twitter, a fan named Noah Weinstein can be seen screaming “Hey Tony! Hey Tony! Get Engel in there” from a spot near the front row on the home plate side of the third base dugout as José Abreu stepped into the box. While that was going on, La Russa motioned toward plate umpire Chris Conroy to call time and took a few steps onto the field.
Engel came in to run. The White Sox loaded the bases before Yoán Moncada lined a two-run single.
Weinstein, a self-described “diehard fan” who was at the game with his son, told WSCR-AM he walked down the aisle from his seat in about the 10th row after Jimenez’s double. He said he wasn’t sure La Russa heard him. But he thought he might have convinced the manager to have Engel run.
“He never looked at me. But something obviously happened, and he, as you saw, just sprung into action,” Weinstein said.
La Russa has been a lightning rod for White Sox fans since he was hired for a second stint in Chicago prior to last season. The White Sox won the AL Central in 2021 but have been one of baseball’s biggest disappointments this year. Chicago was 60-56 and trailed first-place Cleveland by two games following Monday’s win.
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BENTON COUNTY, Wash. — The Benton County Canvassing Board will recount votes for one office after final numbers showed two candidates 33 votes apart for the second spot. The board completed their count August 16, seeing the spot for Benton County Commissioner District 2 showed a 33-vote difference between William “Bill” Jenkin and Barry Bush.
By law, a machine recount is required. This is expected to take about one day, scheduled to start Monday, August 22 at 9 a.m. at the Benton County Voting Center. Observers are welcome. The Canvassing Board will review and certify the results of the recount the next day. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/elections/machine-recount-required-in-benton-county-commissioner-election/article_1b2055de-1dca-11ed-bbd1-1b48bcacae40.html | 2022-08-17T03:12:52Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/elections/machine-recount-required-in-benton-county-commissioner-election/article_1b2055de-1dca-11ed-bbd1-1b48bcacae40.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The decision to euthanize Freya, Norway’s beloved celebrity walrus, brought an abrupt end to her summer of stardom.
Now her death has provoked public outrage and renewed long-standing concerns about how the Scandinavian country treats its wildlife and natural resources.
The 1,300-pound marine mammal — who shares her name with the Norse goddess of fertility and love — had enthralled the public for months as she traveled the nation’s coastline, crushing small boats with her hefty frame. But Freya was suddenly put down Sunday over concerns for her welfare and the risk to the crowds that flocked to see her in Oslo's fjord region, the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries said in a statement on its website.
The government body said it feared the animal could injure or kill one of the many people who had been gathering just feet away to take photos, throw objects and even swim in the water near Freya as she bathed in the sun or slept.
“I am firm that this was the right call. We have great regard for animal welfare, but human life and safety must take precedence,” Frank Bakke-Jensen, the director general of fisheries, said Sunday.
After initially calling euthanasia "out of the question," the directorate had warned last week that the drastic step was being considered unless the public stayed away from Freya.
Norwegian headlines on Monday nonetheless expressed shock in the wake of the decision. "Rage after Freya’s death," read the front page of the popular Dagbladet newspaper, with the broadcaster TV2 decrying that she was "killed by her audience."
"This is Norway in a nutshell," said Rune Aae, a biologist who had been tracking Freya’s journey around northern Europe.
"Too often we kill the animals we don’t like or can’t cope with. It's an outrage in Norway how we are treating these kind of animals," said Aae, who is also a doctoral student in science didactics at the University of South-Eastern Norway.
Freya had not shown signs of stress, he said, but instead seemed curious about people. He criticized authorities for not blocking off the areas where the walrus spent the most time, or trying to move her, despite fears that she could drown if an attempt to tranquilize her failed.
Even a fatal attempt to move her would have been better than euthanasia, he said.
The Directorate of Fisheries did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Authorities have doubled down on the decision, with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre offering his support. “It was the right decision," he told the public broadcaster NRK on Monday. "I am not surprised that this had led to many international reactions. Norway is a maritime nation, sometimes we have to make unpopular decisions.”
A fundraiser to build a statue in Freya’s memory had raised 160,000 Norwegian kroner ($16,500) by Tuesday morning on the fundraising platform Spleis.
But some experts agree that euthanasia was the right, albeit unpopular, decision.
Controlling every interaction between the itinerant walrus and the residents of the Oslo region where she primarily fed was an impossible task that drained local resources, said Per Espen Fjeld, a biologist and a retired adviser for the Norwegian Nature Inspectorate.
"She was not behaving like a typical wild animal. She sought out humans, which increased the risk of an accident," he said. "A friendly bump on a child swimming in the water could be fatal."
The lone walrus' death will not impact the broader population in the Arctic, where they typically live in herds and where their numbers are growing after decades of successful repopulation efforts, Fjeld said.
Instead, the frenzy around Freya distracted from environmental policy decisions that put the endangered species as a whole at risk, he said, highlighting the Norwegian government's decision in March to offer new licenses for oil and gas companies to drill in the Barents Sea, close to its native walrus populations.
"Nobody talked about that. That is the real challenge and threat to the walrus population." Fjeld said.
Tuesday began a week of heavy rain in southeastern Norway, bringing an end to the swimming season and coinciding with the start of the new school year. Some questioned why the decision to euthanize the country's star animal couldn't have been held a few more days.
“Most people in Norway loved Freya; they wanted to protect her and wanted her to be protected,” said Ingrid Liland, the deputy leader of Norway’s Green Party, which holds three of the Parliament's 169 seats and is also critical of the government's approach on fossil fuels.
She has submitted a question to the fisheries minister to probe what alternative measures were considered before Freya was euthanized, and why they weren’t adopted.
“I hope we can get a picture of why they couldn’t let her live until the summer ended in Norway," Liland added. "It’s not a very long summer.” | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/freya-the-walrus-delighted-norway-her-death-has-divided-the-country/article_d1ccc502-1dd3-11ed-adaf-4ba94d188d9b.html | 2022-08-17T03:12:58Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/freya-the-walrus-delighted-norway-her-death-has-divided-the-country/article_d1ccc502-1dd3-11ed-adaf-4ba94d188d9b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
An Oatly oat milk distributor has expanded its voluntary recall of products over ongoing contamination concerns.
The California-based Lyons Magnus is now including in the recall 18-count/11 fluid ounce cartons of regular Oatly oat milk, as well as 18-count/11 fluid ounce cartons of Oatly chocolate oat milk and 18-count/11 fluid ounce cartons of Oatly Barista Edition oat milk.
Beverage products from several other brands are also included in the expanded recall.
The recall is being conducted in response to fears of microbial contamination, including from the organisms Cronobacter sakazakii and Clostridium botulinum. Lyons Magnus has said that while Clostridium botulinum was not found in the products, consumers are warned not to consume any of them, even if they do not look or smell spoiled.
Common symptoms of illness related to Cronobacter sakazakii are fever, vomiting and urinary tract infection. Vulnerable and immunocompromised individuals may be more susceptible to infection.
Clostridium botulinum may cause a severe form of food poisoning that can begin from between six hours to two weeks after eating food containing the toxin. Symptoms may include double vision, blurred vision, drooping eyelids, slurred speech, difficulty swallowing, and muscle weakness. Botulism poisoning can cause respiratory paralysis that leads to death.
Lyons Magnus said the products did not meet commercial sterility specifications.
A full list of the products listed in the expanded recall, which mostly consist of specialty milk and protein drinks, can be found here. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/oatly-distributor-expands-oat-milk-recall-over-contamination-concerns/article_397f2436-1dd6-11ed-8d32-2f26278bfa58.html | 2022-08-17T03:13:04Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/oatly-distributor-expands-oat-milk-recall-over-contamination-concerns/article_397f2436-1dd6-11ed-8d32-2f26278bfa58.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TRI-CITIES, Wash. — Ben Franklin Transit is offering multiple shuttle service options for the community to get to the Benton-Franklin Fair and Rodeo, which is from August 23-27. Shuttle passengers will get dropped off at a bus-specific entrance, avoiding lines on top of parking.
Throughout the week, the shuttle will pick people up at six locations around the Tri-Cities. Shuttle pick-up locations include Kamiakin High School and Lampson Stadium in Kennewick, the HAPO Center and 22nd Avenue Transit Center in Pasco, the Knight Street Transit Center and Tulip Lane Park and Ride in Richland.
Pickups start at 9 a.m., leaving to the fairground every hour, then every half hour starting 4 p.m. At the Lampson Stadium, shuttles will leave every 15 minutes after 4 p.m. The last shuttles leave at 11:30 from Monday through Thursday, and at midnight on Friday and Saturday.
People in West Richland, Benton City and Prosser can take bus routes to the Knight Street Transit Center. Return shuttles to each place will leave at 10:30 p.m.
If you already have a ticket, you can purchase a bus-only ticket for $1.50 each way. Seniors over 65 and children under 18 ride free.
The second option is a combination bus ticket and fair ticket, including round-trip shuttles and admission to the fair. Regular adult tickets are $13, kids 6-12 and seniors over 65 are $5. These can be bought online or at Yoke’s, Ranch and Home, Three Rivers Transit Center or the fair office. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/ben-franklin-transit-offers-shuttles-to-benton-franklin-fair-and-rodeo/article_800382ea-1dd0-11ed-965a-43412201ea0a.html | 2022-08-17T03:13:10Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/ben-franklin-transit-offers-shuttles-to-benton-franklin-fair-and-rodeo/article_800382ea-1dd0-11ed-965a-43412201ea0a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Many high school kids spend the summer going on vacation, relaxing or at worst working a summer job, but not Malia Ruud.
The Chiawana star was part of an under-16 team that won a national title and has been named to the Samoan national team that will compete in India in September in the FIBA under-18 Asia Championships.
She says she's super excited to take part in the tournament.
"Mostly because my Grandpa is 100% Samoan. He was born there and it's just nice. And my mom played for the Samoan team back in the day."
Ruud is only American that will be on the team which is almost entirely made up of players from Australia and New Zealand.
And while her goal is to win and push the Samoan team towards possible Olympic opportunities, there's another benefit.
"I'll get to like feel my heritage a little bit more and get to know the coaches and more diverse people."
The soon to be sophomore says she will travel to India on the first of September and be back about two weeks later.
With the team based out of Australia, Ruud is conversing with coaches remotely and getting workouts that she's doing at home. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/sports/high_school_sports/chiawanas-malia-ruud-named-to-samoan-national-team/article_e249540c-1dc6-11ed-9943-ff1bd34b3eaa.html | 2022-08-17T03:13:16Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/sports/high_school_sports/chiawanas-malia-ruud-named-to-samoan-national-team/article_e249540c-1dc6-11ed-9943-ff1bd34b3eaa.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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