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What is your idea of perfect happiness? Under sail somewhere with my children, Mavis and Duncan, and my husband, Roderick, with no agenda.
What do you dislike most about your appearance? I’m all peaced out about it.
Which living person do you most despise? I despise the actions of so many who are willfully endangering the lives of Americans they fear.
Which words or phrases do you most overuse? “Can I ask you a question?”
What is your greatest regret? I laughed at a vulnerable classmate’s socks in fourth grade. It hurt and surprised her.
What or who is the greatest love of your life? My hilarious, exceptional, irreverent, and kind children.
When and where were you happiest? Between “action” and “cut.”
What is your greatest fear? Rats.
Which living person do you most admire? My dear friend Eve Plotkin, supervising attorney at the N.Y. Legal Aid Society, head of the Family Law Unit for 25 years.
What do you consider your greatest achievement? A jackknife jump into a full front split. Repeatedly.
What is the trait you most deplore in others? Inefficiency. Whiners.
What is your greatest extravagance? Traveling well.
What is your favorite journey? To the unfamiliar. Then returning because of the fellowship formed.
What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Selflessness.
Who are your favorite writers? Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez.
On what occasion do you lie? When I have nothing left to give, but people don’t accept that.
Which talent would you most like to have? Dancing à la Judith Jamison.
What is your current state of mind? Reaching toward balanced.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I’d like to be six feet tall.
If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be? I would not come back.
What is your most treasured possession? Whenever I’ve had one, I’ve lost it.
What is your motto? No one surrenders here!
What is it that you most dislike? Racist actions, racist policies, unexamined racist thought.
Where would you like to live? New Zealand, pulled a little closer.
What is your most marked characteristic? The timbre of my voice.
What do you most value in your friends? Humor.
Who is your favorite hero of fiction? Janie Crawford, from Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who are your heroes in real life? Marian Wright Edelman, Graça Machel, Serena Williams.
How would you like to die? Unaware.
If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be? The maestro for the L.A. Philharmonic at Disney Hall! | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/alfre-woodard-answers-the-proust-questionnaire | 2022-08-26T15:34:36Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/alfre-woodard-answers-the-proust-questionnaire | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Maitland Ward is forging her own path. The actress who starred as Rachel on Boy Meets World is opening up about her new career as an adult film performer in her forthcoming book Rated X: How Porn Liberated Me From Hollywood, out September 6th.
"I'm unapologetic about sex…but I think it's me in my truth and everything," she told Yahoo Life. "When I was young, I was so apologetic for so many years. I will never apologize anymore."
Ward got her start as a child actress on The Bold and The Beautiful before getting cast in the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World, opposite Ben Savage and Danielle Fishell. In the book, Ward shares her struggles in Hollywood. "I was always looked at, in my view, as the more provocative one — people were fascinated by my long legs, and that I'm so tall and I have fiery red hair and, and it was like it almost made that OK," Ward told Yahoo. "People would come up and like pat you on the ass or like give you a little pinch or say, 'Oh, look how hot you are. Look at your tits.'"
Ward described her time on Boy Meets World as “very confusing” due to conflicting messages she received from the producers about appealing to male viewers while also seeming chaste. "If I was on a show, like Boy Meets World, I could be sexy. I could wear a sheet with little feathers on it in nude pictures that I had for my boyfriend — that's fine," she said, describing the plot from an episode in which Rachel's friends share a racy photo of her as a prank. "If I ever wore anything like that, or did anything suggestive like that in real life, Disney and producers and Hollywood would've come down on me. Especially the [creator], Michael Jacobs — he was very adamant about me being chaste and the good girl."
“It was just very confusing,” she said. “It hindered my sexual exploration and finding out who I was for a very long time.”
Ward has worked in the porn industry since 2006, becoming the number one adult creator on Patreon soon after launching her account and going on to star in professional porn productions a year and a half later. Ward said that transitioning from Hollywood to the adult entertainment industry has freed her from the pressure women face as they age. “That was a scary prospect back in the early 2000s, to think, 'Oh my God, you're done. You're going to be done very soon.' So it was also kind of like a race, but men could stay around forever, and they did. And they still do…Hollywood is very hard on aging, but I have felt less of that stigma in porn."
Ward hopes her journey inspires others to live their truth, whatever that may be. "It's scary to forge your own path, but it's the only way that you're going to be happy. It doesn't have to be porn. That's my more scandalous side," she said. "I didn't just switch overnight. It's about making conscious efforts and decisions over time to get to a place that you want to be, embracing your truth. I want people to embrace their truth and just live how they want to live and be who they want to be. People are attracted to that." | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/boy-meet-world-actress-turned-porn-star-says-hollywood-is-very-confusing | 2022-08-26T15:34:42Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/boy-meet-world-actress-turned-porn-star-says-hollywood-is-very-confusing | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The world will be staying in Westeros for the foreseeable future. House of the Dragon has been renewed for a second season, HBO announced on Friday. This news comes as no surprise, considering the show’s premiere episode debuted to record-breaking numbers for HBO, luring more than 20 million viewers across platforms—the largest audience for any new original series in network history.
“We are beyond proud of what the entire House of the Dragon team has accomplished with season one,” Francesca Orsi, executive vice president of HBO programming, said in a statement. “Our phenomenal cast and crew undertook a massive challenge and exceeded all expectations, delivering a show that has already established itself as must-see-TV.”
The highly anticipated prequel series centers on the Targaryen family and takes place about 200 years before Emilia Clarke’s Daenerys Targaryen ascended the iron throne. Given that only a single episode has dropped, it’s unclear which cast members from House of the Dragon will reprise their roles for the second season. The show primarily centers on the fifth king of Westeros, Viserys I (Paddy Considine), and his daughter, Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Milly Alcock)—although no beloved characters are safe on Thrones.
“There’s a lot of opportunity for expansion,” author George R. R. Martin previously told Vanity Fair of adapting his 2018 novel, Fire & Blood, for this spinoff. “That’s what we’ll find a lot of in the series. [What co-creator] Ryan [Condal] and his team of writers have been doing great so far is to do an expansion that does not contradict the book. I mean, you can add a lot of things. You can add scenes. You can even add some characters. But you can’t do anything that affects the structure—or otherwise, three or four books later, you’re going to be in trouble.”
Listen to the Still Watching: House of the Dragon podcast, and sign up to receive a weekly “Westeros Update” in your inbox. | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/house-of-the-dragon-has-been-renewed-for-season-2-after-a-single-episode | 2022-08-26T15:34:48Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/house-of-the-dragon-has-been-renewed-for-season-2-after-a-single-episode | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
For much of his presidency, Joe Biden has been careful in his comments about the GOP. He's called out the elements within the party that have allowed Donald Trump to put a “dagger at the throat of democracy,” as he put it earlier this year, and there was a reportedly six month research project headed by Biden adviser Anita Dunn that resulted in the attack line “ultra MAGA.” But he's largely avoided the kinds of sweeping denunciations that could further inflame the tensions he sought to tamp down upon taking office. That appears to be changing; as it has become clear that Republicans never had any interest in his vision of national “unity,” Biden has dialed up the rhetoric, and on Thursday delivered his harshest rebuke of the GOP yet.
"What we’re seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of extreme MAGA philosophy,” Biden told Democratic donors in the Washington area Thursday. “It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the — I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism.”
At a separate event Thursday, Biden said Trump’s party doesn’t “just threaten our personal rights and economic security…They’re a threat to our very democracy,” he said. “They embrace…political violence. They don’t believe in democracy.”
The right obviously went into outrage mode after the “semi-fascist” remark: A spokesman for the Republican National Committee called Biden's comments “despicable" in a statement to news outlets, while others likened it to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 “basket of deplorables” dig against Trump and his base.
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But with GOP candidates running on explicitly antidemocratic platforms — including with Trump-loyal election deniers like Doug Mastriano, Mark Finchem, and Kari Lake seeking control over the election process — and with the party's all-out devotion to Trump, and flirtations with political violence, it’s hard to know what else to call it.
The comments reflect the president’s more assertive approach in recent weeks. For much of the summer, he and his party seemed adrift — unable to move on their legislative agenda, and appearing helpless in the face of the backsliding the GOP seems intent on ushering in. But Biden and the Democrats have enjoyed a late summer surge, with a series of legislative victories and bolder leadership from the White House — including with the long-anticipated student loan forgiveness plan he announced this week.
Asked by a reporter to answer to a Republican critique of the proposal — that student loan forgiveness would be “unfair” to those who had already paid off their debt — Biden shot back with a barb about the tax cuts his predecessor had implemented: “Is it fair to people who in fact do not own multi-million dollar businesses…to see one of these guys getting all the tax breaks? Is that fair?” Biden said. Later, his White House used the official Twitter account to call out its Republican critics, including Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz, for their Paycheck Protection Program loans that had been forgiven.
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It's not that Biden hasn't called out Republican hypocrisy before or warned of the threats the party represents to democracy. But he's begun to do so with the kind of forcefulness needed to fully capture how far gone the GOP is at this point. “It’s not hyperbole,” Biden told supporters Thursday. “Now you need to vote to literally save democracy again.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/biden-condemns-gop-semi-fascism | 2022-08-26T15:34:54Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/biden-condemns-gop-semi-fascism | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
There’s something about Twitter that inspires its employees, investors, and rival CEOs to produce highly quotable quips. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg once said the company was “like a clown car that drove into a gold mine and fell in”—a line I liked so much that I almost used it for the title of a book. Investor Peter Thiel once said, “You could throw a grenade into the Twitter offices after five o’clock, and the only person you would kill would be the cleaning lady,” referring to its employees’ alleged tendency to cut out early. (Thiel also once remarked, “It’s a horribly mismanaged company—probably a lot of pot-smoking going on there.”) Inside Twitter, employees had their own darkly humorous ways of reconciling the company’s manifest dysfunction with the continued popularity of its product. “Twitter succeeded in spite of itself,” they used to joke. And my personal favorite: “Twitter is the company that can’t kill itself.”
This past week Twitter seemed hell-bent on proving every one of its naysayers right—and then some. The week began with Elon Musk subpoenaing former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify in the lawsuit the social network filed against the SpaceX founder after he backed out of buying the company for $44 billion. Musk, who withdrew his bid after accusing Twitter of misrepresenting the number of spam and fake accounts on its service, wants Dorsey to say under oath whether he was aware of the issue.
For most companies, that would have been enough drama for a year. For Twitter, it was just another Monday. On Tuesday, it emerged that Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, Twitter’s former security chief, had filed a whistleblower complaint with the United States government, alleging that the social network’s executives deceived federal regulators about their meager efforts to fight spam and hackers. He accused the company of violating the terms of a 2010 settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, in which Twitter had promised to put in reasonable safeguards to protect private messages and tweets, according to The Washington Post. In May, the FTC fined Twitter $150 million for “breaking its privacy promises,” but Zatko alleged in his complaint that Twitter is still falsely claiming that it has a solid security plan.
By Wednesday, Zatko had been subpoenaed by the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify about the goings-on inside Twitter. As the week progressed, other regulators jumped on board, including Ireland and France, two national data-protection authorities in the European Union, both of which said they were also investigating the bombshell whistleblower report.
Not bad for 72 hours.
What happens next at Twitter is anyone’s guess. Maybe Trump creates a fake Twitter account and tweets the nuclear codes he stashed at Mar-a-Lago. Or maybe Twitter manages to make it 24 hours without more bad news. Of these two scenarios, it’s hard to say which is less likely. With the whistleblower report, the lawsuit against Musk, and the possibility of Dorsey’s private messages about the proposed sale being aired at a public hearing, it feels like Twitter is headed for some kind of disaster scenario—one that may allow the company to kill itself at last.
Among the insiders I’ve spoken to, including numerous former and current Twitter employees and advisers, the consensus seems to be that a complete and utter reset is the only thing that can pull the company out of its existential crisis. What does that look like? Letting Musk walk away from the deal that he clearly doesn’t want anything to do with, firing the entire board of directors for its abysmal oversight over the past half decade, and, most importantly, relieving CEO Parag Agrawal of his duties. (More on that in a moment.) Oh, and telling employees to return to the office—many still choose to work from home, long after many other tech companies began requiring employees to show up in person.
Mind you, I don’t think any of this will happen, and neither do the people I spoke to. But what has become clear is that Agrawal, who was Twitter’s chief technology officer before ascending to the role of CEO, is in way over his head.
After news broke about the whistleblower, for example, Agrawal sent an email to employees that read like it had been pulled right out of the What Not to Do in a PR Crisis handbook—and that (duh!) was immediately leaked on Twitter. “I know this is frustrating and confusing to read, given Mudge was accountable for many aspects of this work that he is now inaccurately portraying more than six months after his termination,” Agrawal wrote in the letter. In other words: This isn’t true, but if it is, it’s his fault, not mine. As one former Twitter executive said to me, “Not a good look for Agrawal.”
The complaint filed by Zatko also makes Agrawal look worse than anyone else at the company. It alleges that after Dorsey “stepped down” in November 2021 (as I’ve reported, Dorsey was actually pushed out), Zatko informed the board that “protections for sensitive user data were weaker than they had been told.” It was then, according to the complaint, that Agrawal fired Zatko. (While Twitter declined requests for comment regarding allegations against Agrawal, Rebecca Hahn, Twitter’s global vice president of communications, told media outlets, “Mr. Zatko was fired from Twitter more than six months ago for poor performance and leadership, and he now appears to be opportunistically seeking to inflict harm on Twitter, its customers, and its shareholders.”)
To be fair, the chaos at Twitter long preceded Agrawal. I should know: I’ve spent my career documenting it. But over the last six months, the insanity has reached a crescendo, and Agrawal’s actions have sometimes fanned the flames. When the Musk deal was falling through, Agrawal decided to post a Twitter thread challenging the billionaire’s assertions around bots. Musk responded by daring Agrawal to debate him publicly. Turns out that starting a public pissing match with the world’s reigning king of Twitter pissing matches isn’t such a great idea.
On top of that, as the whistleblower noted, Agrawal allegedly once suggested that Twitter strike a deal with Russia around censorship and surveillance on the social platform so that the beleaguered social network could grow its user base there. (Twitter is currently heavily restricted and censored in Russia.) The whistleblower report also alleges that India, China, and Nigeria all sought to force Twitter to hire agents who could be used as leverage—which, if true, could be the most damning revelation of all.
On Wednesday, Agrawal and Twitter executives tried to restore a semblance of order at an all-hands meeting. In typical Twitter fashion, audio of the meeting soon leaked to Reuters. Executives could be heard noting that Twitter’s employee attrition is now at a staggering 18.3%—fueled, naturally, by the endless drama the company finds itself enmeshed in. “We have never made a material misrepresentation to a regulator, to our board, to all of you,” Agrawal said in the meeting while defending the company from the whistleblower allegations.
The problem for Agrawal and Twitter is that Zatko is actually a very reliable and reputable narrator. He’s spent his life defending security, winning numerous security awards (yes, they’re a thing), and running security for Microsoft and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Twenty-four years ago he made a lasting impression at one of the most famous tech hearings in American history, when a group of seven hackers from L0pht Heavy Industries told Congress that the internet desperately needed better security. “If you’re looking for computer security, then the internet is not the place to be,” said Zatko, then a 27-year-old with flowing curly hair worthy of a biblical prophet. The internet, he noted, could be taken completely offline within 30 minutes “by any of the seven individuals seated before you.” That hearing has since become folklore, inspiring alternate-timeline fantasies of the tech utopia we’d inhabit today if Congress had only listened. Something tells me that when Zatko goes before Congress next month, Agrawal, his former boss, will be the one sitting in the hot seat. | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/twitter-whistleblower-elon-jack-agrawal | 2022-08-26T15:35:00Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/twitter-whistleblower-elon-jack-agrawal | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Well, there’s unofficially one more week left of summer. Labor Day will soon draw the curtain on these unending days, these expansive nights. It can be a melancholy time of year, one that hits you a little unexpectedly because everything is still so bright. Some turn to self-improvement to fend the feelings off. They buy pencils and books. They order a new outfit or get a haircut. They look forward.
Like Pete Davidson, for example. Davidson is looking forward. He’s self-helping. He’s in a moment of transition right now. He and his honey, Kim Kardashian, broke up recently, and he joined the Great Resignation and left Saturday Night Live. It’s a natural moment of reflection for him. He’s headed into a new season of his life.
“Pete is focusing on himself and his career right now and trying to make himself happy,” a completely anonymous source told Us Weekly. “He’s got a huge career ahead of him and has a ton of irons in the fire post-SNL.”
So, since he’s looking forward, I suppose that means Hollywood’s lothario isn’t looking to his left and right in order to find his next object of affection. He’s famously a girls guy—a guy who always has a girl—so it would stand to reason that he’d be on the prowl, as it were. But he’s reportedly not dating, and that deserves a headline.
“He has a hugely ambitious streak,” Us Weekly’s source added. “Pete wants to continue his stand-up comedy routine, challenge himself with new acting roles. He enjoyed the experience in Australia a lot, really bonded with the cast and crew, and is excited about the future.” (He was filming Wizards! down under when the breakup announcement hit the wires.)
So not even Martha Stewart can pull Davidson away. Not Jennifer Coolidge. Not even that newly single monarch across the Atlantic. (The popular joke was that the twentysomething should go older with his next pairing.) September is almost here, and it’s all work, work, work for this guy. No play at all! He better be careful, you know. He could come dangerously close to being a dull boy. | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/pete-davidson-not-dating | 2022-08-26T15:35:07Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/pete-davidson-not-dating | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ever since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s relationship was revealed in 2016, their romance has captivated the world. But for Harry and Meghan, their journey from full-time working members of the British royal family to Montecito-based media moguls and philanthropists has been a highly personal affair of the heart. Seven years later, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are the proud parents of Archie and Lilibet, and cofounders of the Archewell Foundation and Archewell Productions. A timeline of their relationship charts their path from senior royals to California dreamers who are committed to their shared vision and each other. “Personally, I love a great love story,” Meghan told Vanity Fair in 2017.
So do we.
July 2016: Harry and Meghan’s First Date
In July 2016, Prince Harry and Meghan, an actor on the popular TV show Suits, are set up on a blind date, likely by their mutual friend Misha Nonoo, who believes they both have “huge hearts.” Harry and Meghan meet at London’s exclusive Soho House, and he is immediately smitten with her beauty and intelligence. “I’m going to have to up my game here,” he thought to himself, according to a post-engagement interview. “Sit down and make sure I got good chat!” For her part, an amazed Meghan asked a friend the next day, “Do I sound crazy when I say this could have legs?”
Late Summer 2016: The Trip to Africa
In late summer 2016, Harry whisks Meghan off on a surprise trip to Botswana. The trip cements their relationship and compatibility. “It’s this love of adventure and sharing these exciting experiences that brought them so close together in the first place,” a close friend of the couple’s told the authors of Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family. “The fact that they’re both as happy just throwing on a backpack and going out to explore…I honestly think these experiences will never stop for them.”
November 2016: Prince Harry’s Plea
In November 2016, media speculation over Harry and Meghan forces Kensington Palace to confirm their relationship. In the same statement, a furious Harry also accuses the press of harassing Meghan.
October 2017: Meghan Appears on the Cover of Vanity Fair
Meghan appears on the October 2017 cover of Vanity Fair and discusses her relationship with Harry for the first time, reportedly angering palace officials. “We’re a couple. We’re in love,” she says in the article. “I’m sure there will be a time when we will have to come forward and present ourselves and have stories to tell, but I hope what people will understand is that this is our time. This is for us. It’s part of what makes it so special, that it’s just ours.”
November 2017: The Engagement Announcement
Harry and Meghan announce their engagement on November 27, 2017. In their first joint interview, Meghan gushes about Harry’s proposal at Nottingham Cottage on the grounds of Kensington Palace. “It was just so sweet and natural and very romantic,” she recalls. “He got on one knee. As a matter of fact, I could barely let [him] finish proposing. I was like, ‘Can I say yes now?’”
May 2018: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Wed
On May 19, 2018, the newly named Duke and Duchess of Sussex wed at St. George’s Chapel on the grounds of Windsor Castle. The star-studded ceremony is attended by everyone from Elton John and George and Amal Clooney to Harry’s ex-girlfriends Chelsy Davy and Cressida Bonas. The British royal family is out in full force, while Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, is the only member of her family in attendance.
May 2019: The Birth of Archie
On May 6, 2019, the Duchess of Sussex gives birth to the couple’s first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor. “I have the two best guys in the world,” she tells reporters, “so I’m really happy.”
October 2019: The Cracks Appear
In October 2019, the documentary Harry & Meghan: An African Journey is released, leading to extensive speculation that all is not well between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the rest of the British royal family. When journalist Tom Bradby asks how Meghan is handling her new life, she responds honestly: “Any woman, especially when they’re pregnant, you’re really vulnerable, so that was made really challenging. And then when you have a newborn, you know.… So you add this on top of just trying to be a new mom or trying to be a newlywed. And also, thank you for asking, because not many people have asked if I’m okay. But it’s a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes.”
January 2020: Megxit
In January 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex shock the world when they announce they intend “to step back as ‘senior’ members of the royal family and work to become financially independent.” A month later, Queen Elizabeth releases a statement emphasizing that “Harry, Meghan, and Archie will always be much-loved members of the family.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/prince-harry-meghan-markle-relationship | 2022-08-26T15:35:13Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/prince-harry-meghan-markle-relationship | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
According to professional polo player Nacho Figueras, his old friend Prince Harry finally met his match in his wife Meghan Markle.
Figueras, who competed against his longtime pal at the Sentebale Polo Cup on Thursday in Colorado, revealed that he feels like the Duke of Sussex now has the family he's always dreamt of. The polo player explained to People, “[My wife] Delfi and I have known Harry for a very long time. I know firsthand how much he wanted to have a family. He found an amazing teammate, or partner, in Meghan. They love each other very much; their children are lovely.”
Figueras has also gotten ample opportunity to catch up with the Duke of Sussex this year as they have been playing together on the Los Padres team at the Santa Barbara Polo Club. “Being able to be with them for the last two months only made me happier—seeing them be a lovely family with their kids and their dogs, and that's really what he always wanted,” he added. “I'm very happy for them.” The Argentinian player noted that getting to compete as teammates with Harry has also made their friendship stronger than ever. “Being able to play with him for two months in a real competition with the Los Padres team was a dream come true for me, and maybe for him too—we should ask him,” Figueras joked. “We got to spend a lot of time together on the field, off the field with our families. We really bonded more than we've ever bonded before, being able to be with him so much.” Plus, it doesn't hurt that the royal is also “very competitive. He plays very well, he rides very well—it's an honor to be his teammate.”
The professional polo player first met Harry in 2007 at a charity match benefiting Sentebale, the organization founded by the royal in 2006 along with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho to help children in Southern Africa affected by poverty, inequality, and HIV/AIDS. Most recently, the charity has also turned its attentions to helping alleviate the effects of COVID-19 and the pandemic. Figueras said that, “From day one, I saw how committed he was to his charity. Fast forward 15 years, I've been to Lesotho with him a few times, and I've seen what great work the charity does and how important it is for a lot of kids, how committed he is, how much he really cares about it.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/prince-harry-nacho-figueras-found-amazing-teammate-meghan-markle-lovely-family | 2022-08-26T15:35:16Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/prince-harry-nacho-figueras-found-amazing-teammate-meghan-markle-lovely-family | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In a time when happiness seems like an endangered species, Tenci brings us music that dares to cry out for nothing short of elation. Front and center are Jess Shoman's vocals, bending notes just shy of a yodel, and complemented by the Chicago quartet's fuzzy, warbled guitar interplay. With a steady, marching rhythm for its foundation, and lyrics that straightforwardly avow, "I didn't know I had to wait / To fill my cup / I won't wait, I won't wait, I won't wait / To fill my cup," Tenci shows no pretense in driving home the theme of unbridled joy. Overall, "Two Cups" delights with a sound that is as quirky as it is charming.
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(NewsNation) — Teachers in 2021 earned 23.5% less than comparable college graduates, a new record, according to new data.
The Economic Policy Institute, or EPI, has been tracking teacher wage trends over the past 18 years, and its analysis of 2021 data concludes that teacher pay has remained relatively flat since 1996. Moreover, teachers make considerably less than peers working in other industries.
The report released this month further adds to conversations surrounding teacher pay and overall classroom funding. Just this week, educators in the largest school district in Ohio went on strike over disagreements about pay and learning conditions.
The EPI data, pulled from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows that the average weekly wages of public school teachers was $1,348 in 2021, slightly higher than $1,319 in 1996. By comparison, other college graduates brought in, on average, $2,009 a week in 2021.
The report’s author, Sylvia Allegretto, wrote that the disparity highlights the stagnation of teacher pay over the last quarter-century.
“The wages of nonteacher college graduates jumped by 13.5% from 1996 to 2002 during an unusual time of exceptional wage growth among low-, middle-, and high-wage earners,” Allegretto said. “But inflation-adjusted wages of teachers did not grow strongly during this period, in part because teacher pay is often set by long-term contracts, and public-sector wages are not as volatile as private-sector wages.”
The Institute also analyzed what it calls a teacher “wage penalty,” which measures how much less teachers are paid relative to other college graduates. In 2021, the penalty hit a record-high 23.5%, meaning that on average, teachers earned 76.5 cents on the dollar compared with other college grads working in other professions.
“Generally, the teacher wage penalty has been on a worsening trajectory since the mid-1990s,” Allegretto wrote.
In 1979, women teachers actually earned a “premium,” making on average 6.5% more in weekly wages than their nonteacher peers. The wage penalty is worst among men, who made 35% less than their nonteacher peers in 2021.
The disparities exists nationwide. A teacher wage penalty is present in each state, with the largest gap in Colorado, where teachers make 35.9% less than nonteachers. The smallest wage penalty is in Rhode Island at 3.4%.
“The picture that continues to emerge is one of a long-steep relative erosion of teacher wages,” Allegretto wrote. “Among those students who would like to dedicate their careers to teaching, many are undoubtedly choosing to forgo a public school teaching career in lieu of a better-paying career choice.” | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/teacher-pay-stuck-in-the-1990s-analysis-finds/ | 2022-08-26T15:39:44Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/teacher-pay-stuck-in-the-1990s-analysis-finds/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — When fighting erupted between Israel and the hard-line Palestinian militant group, Islamic Jihad, here earlier this month, the battle lasted just three days but it took a heavy toll: Gaza's Health Ministry said 49 Palestinians were killed, including 17 children.
The Israeli military said it was targeting Islamic Jihad members for allegedly planning or executing attacks on Israelis. Israel says it killed 20 militants and acknowledges killing several civilians. Islamic Jihad responded to the attacks by firing more than 1,100 rockets, according to Israel, which said some of the rockets killed Gazan civilians when the projectiles fell short and landed in Gaza.
People in Gaza say they believe the violence, and duration, would have been even worse had the larger, ruling militant group, Hamas, gotten involved. But in a change of tack, Hamas sat this one out.
Since the fighting — the deadliest in Gaza since last year's 11-day war — residents are having difficult discussions about the roles of the militant groups.
Most Gazans support resistance against Israel for its treatment of Palestinians, and the militants do have active supporters. But many residents are frustrated at the groups over problems like unemployment and deep poverty. And some analysts see a rift forming between Hamas and Islamic Jihad, even though they project unity.
People want a say when war erupts
"Where is the role of the people when these factions go to war?" asks Ahmed, a 37-year-old who wants to only use his first name to speak freely without fear of reprisals from militants. "The people should have a say ... because we end up paying the price."
Ahmed is sipping tea with friends in a park in Gaza City. The park and surrounding streets have gone totally dark — because the severe power shortage often leads to blackouts here.
Ahmed says he's in favor of Palestinian resistance, but he blames Islamic Jihad for escalating the latest conflict in order to make a deal with Israel and free some of its prisoners.
He was glad to see Hamas stay out of the fighting. "It's possible Hamas finally realized that war brings nothing but destruction," he says.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad: partners and rivals
Hamas took over Gaza from the Palestinian Authority about 15 years ago, leading Israel to impose heavy restrictions on goods and people transiting Gaza's borders. Hamas has fought multiple wars against Israel.
Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad are listed as terrorist organizations by the United States, the European Union, Israel and other governments. The groups share some common ideology; analysts say they both want to create an Islamic Palestinian state — something many in Gaza support. Neither group recognizes Israel's existence.
Their official line has been to present a unified front.
Yet some Gazans accuse Hamas of abandoning Islamic Jihad, even as Israel targeted the group's leaders this month. Israel called the operation a success that severely set back Islamic Jihad.
On Monday, Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders met to discuss bilateral relations and released a joint statement affirming their unity, saying that "the resistance is the strategic choice in confronting the occupation."
However, the rivalry between the two has never been more obvious, according to Tholfekar Swairjo,a political analyst who previously was a spokesman for a secular leftist Palestinian movement and now offers commentary in local media.
"First of all, Hamas wants to protect its authority in the Gaza Strip," he says. "There is boiling anger in the streets against the Hamas movement. They are blamed for the very low quality of life in Gaza, and so now they don't want to engage in any war that would increase the level of anger against them from the Palestinians."
Swairjo says Hamas couldn't jeopardize recent understandings with Israel that would bring economic relief to Gaza. Thousands of Palestinians from Gaza are now allowed to work in Israel, and there has also been an increase in goods and supplies going into Gaza.
Islamic Jihad — considered more hard-line — views that as selling out.
"Islamic Jihad say economic incentives that Israel has offered to Gaza has become a knife to the neck of the armed resistance," Swairjo says.
The two militant groups are also in competition for supporters. And according to Swairjo, Hamas has lost some of its recruiting momentum to Islamic Jihad.
Unlike Hamas, which participates in elections and now governs, Swairjo says, Islamic Jihad has no political ideology or even goals beyond fighting Israel. And that can attract a lot of different groups, from Islamists to secular and leftist followers.
Gazans lose hope in their future
For many Gazans, however, there's no difference between Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
At a crowded seaside terrace, 32-year-old Reham is smoking a water pipe known as a hookah with friends. She gave NPR her first name only, to be able to speak frankly about politics without fear of militant groups.
"Most Gazans have stopped believing in Hamas and the others," she says. "You know why? Because they don't feed us, they don't provide anything. You have to depend on yourself. How can we build a future with these guys? And all the back to back wars?"
The presence of the militant groups is also threatening and divisive, she adds. The fighters are often targeted by the Israelis, and civilians who live near them can become casualties.
"People have started to be afraid of where they are living, who their neighbors are, what their political leanings might be," Reham says. "It's affecting community relationships."
She and many others think it's foolish to expect stability in Gaza.
"There is no guarantee for anything in Gaza," she says. "We don't know when or why or how the war happens."
All that's known is, when war happens, she says, no one is safe, regardless of politics.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.klcc.org/npr-news/2022-08-26/palestinians-grow-frustrated-with-militants-in-gaza-and-a-rift-could-be-forming | 2022-08-26T15:39:59Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/npr-news/2022-08-26/palestinians-grow-frustrated-with-militants-in-gaza-and-a-rift-could-be-forming | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Drugmakers failed to report quality issues to FDA
Half of the drugmakers required to report information about significant quality problems with products they shipped failed to do so between 2018 and 2021, Axios' Adriel Bettelheim writes about a new FDA report on pharmaceutical quality.
Why it matters: The so-called field alert reports (FARs) are a key barometer of drug plant quality and are used to assess the risk to the public and the adequacy of a company's response.
What they found: 49.1% of the 1,143 sites eligible to submit a FAR didn't over the four years the FDA reviewed.
- More than six in 10 were foreign plants, and the plants reviewed had a median of three new drug applications.
- 97% of sites that did submit a FAR submitted at least one follow-up report on the quality problem and corrective actions.
Go deeper: FARs have to be submitted within three days of when a manufacturer receives information that a drug or its labeling may be mistaken for another product.
- Reporting is also required when manufacturers learn about bacterial contamination, significant chemical or physical deterioration or any failure of a batch to meet specifications laid out in a drug application, per Regulatory Focus.
Flashback: The FDA during the Trump administration imposed tougher safety and testing requirements, with a focus on raw ingredients.
- Reasons generally cited for problems range from poor quality controls to weak management oversight. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/26/drugmakers-fda-report-quality-problems | 2022-08-26T15:41:24Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/26/drugmakers-fda-report-quality-problems | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Why more people are enrolling in Medicare Advantage plans
As Medicare's open enrollment season approaches, it's possible a majority of seniors will choose a Medicare Advantage plan for next year rather than traditional Medicare, according to a KFF report.
Why it matters: Medicare Advantage has been growing quickly thanks to promises of capped out-of-pocket costs, vision and dental benefits, and perks like fitness classes.
- But as Axios previously reported, while the private alternatives to traditional Medicare coordinates care for people within a narrower network of doctors and hospitals, promises of saving taxpayer dollars have not panned out.
In 2022, nearly half of (48%) eligible Medicare beneficiaries, or 28.4 million people out of 58.6 million Medicare beneficiaries overall, are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/26/medicare-advantage-enrollment-growing | 2022-08-26T15:41:48Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/26/medicare-advantage-enrollment-growing | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Growing up in Southern California, Lindsay Davenport dreamed of competing in the Olympics just like her father did. After a successful career, not only did she win an Olympic Gold Medal, but won three Grand Slam championships. She also has been inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Now, the former champion joins TopCourt to teach you the fundamentals needed to excel in today's game and shares her journey with you.
What you can expect from Davenport's TopCourt class:
Drills: Davenport teaches five personally selected drills that are made to enhance your game and make you a more well-rounded player, just like they did for her. In her first drill, "Rapid Fire Hand Feeds," Davenport goes over the keys to developing a big, powerful forehand utilizing this quick progressive drill by going from baseline to baseline from a dead ball feed. One of Davenport's biggest pet peeves when watching tennis is seeing a player wait for short balls and not get to the ball quickly enough.
Her "Short Ball Recognition Drill" was made for this and helps you train your mind and body to react and get to a short ball as early and quickly as possible. Her "Attack and Volley" drill similarly practices recognizing when your opponent is in trouble and encourages moving forward to finish the point off with a volley. Her "FH Footwork and Spacing" drill was made to teach you the importance of perfect footwork and body spacing when you are on the move using your forehand as a weapon. Lastly, you can learn to take your opponent's angles away and use depth through the middle of the court with Davenport's "Defense/Offense Drill."
Stories: In a series of nine "Episodes," you will learn all about Davenport and her decorated and exciting journey through the pros. She starts her story by sharing how she found the sport of tennis by accident but had an immediate love for the game. That love and dedication led her to a professional career at a young age, where she saw the challenges of managing both traditional school and life on the road traveling to Grand Slams and other tournaments.
As her journey in the pros continued, Davenport talks about how at 22 years old, she was looked at as the "best player without a Slam." By the end of the 1998 US Open, that was no longer the case, and she now began her race with Martina Hingis for the World No.1 ranking. Achieving that top spot, Davenport opens up and tells the story and what was going through her mind when she became the top-ranked player in the world. She also shares stories about memorable moments in her life, like when she became an Olympian and overcame her battles with playing on grass by beating Stefanie Graf at Wimbledon. You will also learn what Davenport would tell a younger version of herself and her perspective as a player, parent and coach. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2759770/topcourt-with-lindsay-davenport-how-to-develop-a-big-powerful-forehand | 2022-08-26T15:43:18Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2759770/topcourt-with-lindsay-davenport-how-to-develop-a-big-powerful-forehand | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(NewsNation) — Researchers studying the composition of tattoo inks have discovered that those used in the United States may contain cancer-causing chemicals.
In the study presented this week at an American Chemical Society conference, Dr. John Swierk said little is known about the chemical composition of inks, which are mostly unregulated in the U.S.
During their analysis of inks, Swierk and his team discovered the presence of ingredients that were not listed on the label. In one case, ethanol was not listed, but the chemical analysis showed it was present in the ink.
“Every time we looked at one of the inks, we found something that gave me pause,” Swierk said in a news release from the American Chemical Society. “For example, 23 of 56 different inks analyzed to date suggest an azo-containing dye is present.”
It’s those azo pigments that raise concerns.
While they cause no health problems when chemically intact, bacteria or ultraviolet light can degrade azo pigments into a compound that is a potential carcinogen, according to the Joint Research Centre.
The European Union has recently cracked down on tattoo inks, placing a ban on certain blue and green pigments. Americans should assume that those pigments of concern are in their tattoo inks, Swierk said at the conference.
“I think it’s important to note that those particular pigments, Blue 15:3 and Green 7, have been used in tattooing for a very long time,” he said. “While the EU’s data is a concern, it’s not a definite. Much like with everything involving tattooing, it’s incumbent on consumers and artists to make a decision about their particular comfort level and then proceed accordingly.”
In addition to ink ingredients, Swierk and his team noted a red flag in particle sizes, with some measuring as small as 100 nanometers.
“When you get down to that size regime, you start to have concerns about nanoparticles penetrating into cells, getting into the nucleus of those cells, doing damage and causing cancer that way,” Swierk said.
After the team has conducted more tests and their research is peer-reviewed, it will be posted on their website.
“With these data, we want consumers and artists to make informed decisions and understand how accurate the provided information is,” Swierk said. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/tattoo-inks-may-have-cancer-causing-chemicals-study-shows/ | 2022-08-26T15:43:42Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/tattoo-inks-may-have-cancer-causing-chemicals-study-shows/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tokyo: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty on Friday became the first Indian pair to win a medal in the men's doubles competition at the World Championships, but H S Prannoy's impressive run ended in agony as he went down narrowly in the men's singles quarterfinals here.
Satwik and Chirag, the world No. 7 pair, which had claimed the Commonwealth Games gold medal earlier this month, stunned the local favourites and defending champions Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi 24-22, 15-21, 21-14 in an hour and 15 minutes to claim its maiden medal at the prestigious tournament.
It is India's second World Championships medal in the doubles event with Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa claiming a bronze way back in 2011 in the women's section.
Overall, it's India's 13th medal at the showpiece with P V Sindhu winning five, including a gold in 2019, and Saina Nehwal (silver and bronze) claiming two. Kidambi Srikanth (silver), Lakshya Sen (bronze), B Sai Praneeth (bronze) and Prakash Padukone (bronze) are the other medallists.
It could have been double delight for the country but China's Zhao Jun Peng had other plans as he broke the Indian hearts with a 19-21, 21-6, 21-18 win over former world No. 8 Prannoy, who went down on one knee with his head hanging in disappointment after the gut-wrenching loss.
Earlier, M R Arjun and Dhruv Kapila's fine run also ended after the Indian pair lost 8-21, 14-21 to three-time champions Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan in another men's doubles quarterfinals.
Having assured themselves of at least a bronze, Satwik and Chirag will now face the sixth-seeded Malaysian pair of Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik in the semifinals.
Satwik and Chirag came out with a lot of intent as they dominated the proceedings early on to establish a lead of 12-5 in the first game but the Japanese pair reeled off seven points on the trot to eke out a 16-14 advantage.
However, the Indian duo fought tooth and nail to ensure it had the advantage after the opening game.
Takuro and Yugo made a strong comeback in the second game after breaking off at 9-9.
With the match hanging in the balance, the Indians once again found its bearings as the two strengthened their defence and mounted an attack to lead 11-5 at the interval.
Satwik and Chirag then extended the lead to 14-8 before they were called for a fault for touching the net during a return. The duo lost the point but soon managed to put that behind, leading 16-9.
Yugo produced some sensational shots, including a powerful smash and a cross court return, to keep the Japanese duo's chances alive with three points.
Two shots going wide from the Japanese pair put India a couple of points away from the win at 19-13.
The Indians then grabbed seven match points with another superb return which their opponents failed to negotiate.
A tad nervous, Satwik faltered on his serve but Yugo sent the shuttle to the net as Chirag let out a cry in celebration.
In the men's singles, Prannoy had raised hopes of a medal after he outwitted two-time former champion Kento Momota and compatriot and last year's bronze medallist Lakshya Sen.
But it wasn't to be as the 30-year-old squandered an opening game advantage and a slender 11-10 lead in the decider to again sign off at the quarters, following his last eight finish in Spain in 2021. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/other-sports/2022/08/26/bwf-world-championships-satwiksairaj-reddy-chirag-shetty-doubles-semis-prannoy.amp.html | 2022-08-26T15:43:43Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/other-sports/2022/08/26/bwf-world-championships-satwiksairaj-reddy-chirag-shetty-doubles-semis-prannoy.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tokyo: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty on Friday became the first Indian pair to win a medal in the men's doubles competition at the World Championships, but H S Prannoy's impressive run ended in agony as he went down narrowly in the men's singles quarterfinals here.
Satwik and Chirag, the world No. 7 pair, which had claimed the Commonwealth Games gold medal earlier this month, stunned the local favourites and defending champions Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi 24-22, 15-21, 21-14 in an hour and 15 minutes to claim its maiden medal at the prestigious tournament.
It is India's second World Championships medal in the doubles event with Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa claiming a bronze way back in 2011 in the women's section.
Overall, it's India's 13th medal at the showpiece with P V Sindhu winning five, including a gold in 2019, and Saina Nehwal (silver and bronze) claiming two. Kidambi Srikanth (silver), Lakshya Sen (bronze), B Sai Praneeth (bronze) and Prakash Padukone (bronze) are the other medallists.
It could have been double delight for the country but China's Zhao Jun Peng had other plans as he broke the Indian hearts with a 19-21, 21-6, 21-18 win over former world No. 8 Prannoy, who went down on one knee with his head hanging in disappointment after the gut-wrenching loss.
Earlier, M R Arjun and Dhruv Kapila's fine run also ended after the Indian pair lost 8-21, 14-21 to three-time champions Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan in another men's doubles quarterfinals.
Having assured themselves of at least a bronze, Satwik and Chirag will now face the sixth-seeded Malaysian pair of Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik in the semifinals.
Satwik and Chirag came out with a lot of intent as they dominated the proceedings early on to establish a lead of 12-5 in the first game but the Japanese pair reeled off seven points on the trot to eke out a 16-14 advantage.
However, the Indian duo fought tooth and nail to ensure it had the advantage after the opening game.
Takuro and Yugo made a strong comeback in the second game after breaking off at 9-9.
With the match hanging in the balance, the Indians once again found its bearings as the two strengthened their defence and mounted an attack to lead 11-5 at the interval.
Satwik and Chirag then extended the lead to 14-8 before they were called for a fault for touching the net during a return. The duo lost the point but soon managed to put that behind, leading 16-9.
Yugo produced some sensational shots, including a powerful smash and a cross court return, to keep the Japanese duo's chances alive with three points.
Two shots going wide from the Japanese pair put India a couple of points away from the win at 19-13.
The Indians then grabbed seven match points with another superb return which their opponents failed to negotiate.
A tad nervous, Satwik faltered on his serve but Yugo sent the shuttle to the net as Chirag let out a cry in celebration.
In the men's singles, Prannoy had raised hopes of a medal after he outwitted two-time former champion Kento Momota and compatriot and last year's bronze medallist Lakshya Sen.
But it wasn't to be as the 30-year-old squandered an opening game advantage and a slender 11-10 lead in the decider to again sign off at the quarters, following his last eight finish in Spain in 2021. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/other-sports/2022/08/26/bwf-world-championships-satwiksairaj-reddy-chirag-shetty-doubles-semis-prannoy.html | 2022-08-26T15:43:45Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/other-sports/2022/08/26/bwf-world-championships-satwiksairaj-reddy-chirag-shetty-doubles-semis-prannoy.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
If the HOA president’s role is misunderstood, the result can be very serious board dysfunction, as well as stress and risk for the president.
First, it is critical to understand that the role and power of the HOA president are dramatically different than that of a for-profit corporate president. The typical for-profit president is hired to be the boss and can hire and fire, create or terminate contracts and otherwise run the show. On the other hand, the HOA’s boss is not the president but is on the HOA board.
Corporations Code Section 7210 confirms the chain of command for HOA corporations – “the activities and affairs of a (non-profit mutual benefit) corporation shall be conducted and all corporate powers shall be exercised by or under the direction of the board.”
In a for-profit corporation, the day-to-day running of the business is typically the responsibility of the president, along with hiring and firing staff and vendors. However, in most HOAs, the day-to-day execution of board decisions is executed by the association’s professional manager, as is permitted by the same Section 7210.
The association president has just one vote on the board, and that vote is no more valuable than any other director. Directors who always automatically defer to the president are not fulfilling their responsibility to the association, which needs each director to contribute. So, “super-directors” do not exist in the HOA world – each director is just as important as each of the others.
HOA presidents often feel that it is their responsibility to instruct the HOA’s manager, employees or vendors on how they should perform their jobs, but they do not have the authority to do so unless the board gives it to them.
By taking the “boss” role, a president is often outside their authority and disrespects the board that is the actual authority. Furthermore, most boards hire professional managers and their role is to handle vendors and HOA employees.
Presidents who go beyond their role often experience burnout and frustration due to all the extra time they put in the job (unnecessarily, if the HOA has a manager). Worse yet, they are exposed to liability because they are no longer just making decisions (which directors do) but are actively supervising (which managers do). Such a president also could be acting without corporate authority and exposed to personal liability for corporate commitments made without board approval.
Good HOA presidents understand the boundaries between board work and management work. They act as team leaders, not dictators. They help lead the board as a team of equals to stay focused on the decisions at hand, moving deliberations along smoothly and efficiently, but also graciously, fairly, and respectfully. They model respect for all directors, even when they disagree, and set the tone of meeting conduct for all attendees.
HOA presidents are appointed in an open board meeting (no, presidents are not “personnel” so that does not qualify for closed session). Presidents normally serve at the pleasure of the board and may be replaced at any time and without cause in an open and properly noticed board meeting.
Good presidents are key to healthy associations and bad presidents bring discouragement, frustration, and risk to the manager, board colleagues, and themselves. So, keep the good ones!
Kelly G. Richardson, Esq. is a Fellow of the College of Community Association Lawyers and Partner of Richardson Ober LLP, a California law firm known for community association expertise. Submit column questions to Kelly@roattorneys.com.
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LAWRENCE, Mass. , Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The five hundred unionized nurses of Lawrence General Hospital (LGH), who are represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA), overwhelmingly voted in favor of ratifying their new three-year contract yesterday, August 25.
The ratification comes after 14 months of contract negotiations, 12 of which included a federal mediator. The tentative agreement for the now-ratified contract was reached in the early morning hours of July 28, just hours ahead of a planned informational picket by the nurses that was then called off.
The RNs, who have worked tirelessly to care for the people of Greater Lawrence through the two-plus years of the pandemic — often at great personal risk and with limited resources — have long been aware of the unique challenges facing both the hospital and its surrounding community. Lawrence had the distinction of having one of the highest rates of COVID-19 throughout the pandemic, a scenario that was further complicated by the fact that its residents earn, on average, far below the state's median household income and often struggle with access to basic resources as a result.
LGH nurses, with support from the MNA, have repeatedly pointed out to hospital administrators, local community leaders, and state and federal elected officials that "every single social predictor affecting health outcomes points to the need for maximum healthcare funding and resources to be directed to the greater Lawrence area."
"We talk forever about social determinates of health, and of lifting up immigrant gateway communities, and the public health crisis affecting people of color," said MNA co-chairperson and RN Laurie Spheekas. "We talk. But when it comes to doing, why does LGH remain in such constant and desperate need of federal and state funding? It must change."
"To all the government officials who have been struggling with us to direct the funding this hospital and community need, thank you," added Spheekas. "For those who have not yet joined us, please get on board. It's the only way to help and protect the people of this vibrant and important city."
Contract Highlights
The new agreement includes numerous workplace enhancements and improvements, including:
Staffing Improvements
Charge nurses will not have a patient assignment in the ICU and on the medical/surgical and telemetry units during the day and evening shifts. In addition, charge nurses will have no more than three patients during the night shifts. This is expected to significantly improve patient care conditions at Lawrence General as it will allow charge nurses to coordinate the overall needs of patients and nurses, as well as the workflow on each individual floor/unit. It will also allow the charge nurses to assist colleagues with more complex cases, while also picking up patient assignments should staff become overburdened.
Wages that Will Improve Nurse Recruitment and Retention
- For regular RNs, the elimination of a 20-year "tenure requirement" that previously stalled members on the wage scale at Step 19.
- Retroactive pay
- Over the three-year contract, regular nurses will see wage improvements of between 5% and 6.5% depending on their step placement. Per diem nurses will also see wage increases of up to 6.5%, with a marked improvement to the lower portion of that scale in the hopes that it will help recruit and retain newer nurses to the hospital.
Health Insurance
- Access to the health insurance program for part-time nurses working at least 20 hours per week
- Expansion of some "Tier 1" services which will provide nurses with more healthcare options/choices
- Preservation of the plans existing costs and benefits through 2024
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Are you looking for something to do this weekend? We’ve got you covered. Here’s a list of things you can do today, Saturday and Sunday without leaving Hardin County. If you’re looking for more area fun, check out our online calendar.
Football season kicks off
The 2022 football season kicks off for all area teams tonight (Friday). Iowa Falls-Alden will host Clear Lake at Cadet Field with kickoff slated for 7:30 p.m. There will be a tailgate ahead of time starting around 5 p.m. where fans and parents are encouraged to bring a dish to share. The game will air on KIFG 95.3 with a pregame show ahead of time. South Hardin will welcome Grundy Center to Eldora with a start time at 7 p.m. and AGWSR will play Belmond-Klemme in Ackley at 7 p.m.
Walk to end Alzheimer’s
A Walk to End Alzheimer’s is planned for Saturday, Aug. 27 starting at the Estes Park Band Shell (Iowa Falls). Registration will begin at 8 a.m. and the event kicks off with a ceremony at 8:45 a.m. The walk will begin at 9 a.m. and participants may walk in-person or virtually.
Back to School bash
To celebrate one year of business, Uncle Jay’s Barbering Company is holding a back-to-school event from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 27 at Estes Park in Iowa Falls. Jerrae Lindsey, owner of Uncle Jay’s, will be offering free haircuts to school aged children. There will be free backpacks with school supplies, free food, music and more. The event is free and open to the public.
First ever Alien Walk
In honor of the 40th anniversary of the movie “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” there will be an alien walk through Iowa Falls. The event will begin at the Center for the Performing Arts (510 Stevens St.) at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 27. Cost is $7 and includes a meal, walk and special showing of “E.T.” There will also be a special guest judge in attendance, Andrew Fuller, winner of “Is it Cake?” on Netflix.
Help support local family with lunch
Alexus and Roger Kyte, of Ackley, welcomed micro-preemie twins Cora and Marshall in Nov. 2021. Born at 23 weeks, the infants spent months in the NICU and their parents drove back and forth to Sioux Falls, S.D. to visit. With one home and both with health concerns, there are plenty of expenses. There is a benefit planned to help the couple on Sunday, Aug. 28 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Eldora. There will be a meal, starting at 10:30 a.m., of beef burgers, salads and desserts for a freewill donation. | http://www.timescitizen.com/kifg/get-out-in-the-greenbelt/article_38b11e48-247e-11ed-95f9-c76d06ca3851.html | 2022-08-26T15:52:24Z | timescitizen.com | control | http://www.timescitizen.com/kifg/get-out-in-the-greenbelt/article_38b11e48-247e-11ed-95f9-c76d06ca3851.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Steamboat Rock resident Ed Bear was inducted into the Iowa 4-H Hall of Fame during a ceremony at the 4-H Exhibits Building at the Iowa State Fair on Sunday, Aug. 21.
Ed Bear of Steamboat Rock was inducted into the 2022 Iowa 4-H Hall of Fame during a ceremony at the 4-H Exhibits Building at the Iowa State Fair on Sunday, Aug. 21. Ninety-eight Iowa counties participated this year and selected 133 inductees for their outstanding service and dedication to 4-H. Inductees or their surviving family members were presented a certificate by the Iowa 4H Foundation President, Julie McGonegle, State 4-H Program Leader, Debbie Nistler, as they were introduced on stage.
“Ed Bear of Steamboat Rock, Iowa, is a true example of a Hardin County 4-H Alum who continues to give back in any way he can," said Lori Hardman, Hardin County Extension Youth Coordinator. “Growing up around auctions and becoming an auctioneer himself, Ed has volunteered to assist with the 4-H auctions at fair for many decades, serving as one of the founding members of the Ribbon Auction Committee today. Hardin County 4-H thanks Ed for his years of service and giving back to Hardin County’s youth. He has truly made a difference in many lives, and we are proud to call him one of our own!”
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Hardin County farmers Raymond and Katherine Stockdale documented crop damage by Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline surveyors who walked through their bean field earlier this month.
Raymond and Kathrine Stockdale live on a farm northeast of Iowa Falls and have been notified that both Summit Carbon Solutions and Navigator CO2 Ventures pipeline companies plan to criss-cross their property.
Because of this, the Stockdales have been diligently attending pipeline meetings, filing complaints with the Iowa Utilities Board, and handing out fliers, in the hopes it will help to change the IUB’s decision on approving the pipeline construction. They have also refused to sign any easements.
If Summit can not follow Iowa Law when it comes to something as straight forward as surveying, will they follow any Iowa law if this project is permitted? Summit representatives have misquoted the number of easements signed to KCCI, they do not have anywhere near what they stated. Look at Iowa land records to confirm this. Thank you to the vast majority of fellow Hardin County landowners who will not sign easements!
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Senior Teah Miller (left) and freshman Nakia Ollivierre lead the Iowa Falls-Alden/AGWSR Cadet girls out of the starting grid at the Cadet Invite Thursday. The Cadets finished second at Maynes Grove, led by the winning performance by Ollivierre.
Colton McDonald's 30th-place run led the South Hardin Tiger boys at the Cadet Invite on Thursday. The run at Maynes Grove was the season opener for both area teams.
The Iowa Falls-Alden/AGWSR Cadet freshman from AGWSR led all area runners in the season opening Cadet Invite at Maynes Grove. She ran the Franklin County park track in 19:35.5, beating a pair of two-time Cadet State qualifiers in the process.
Those two, Teah Miller and Abby Harding finished third and sixth respectively. Another freshman, Demi Beaubien, finished eighth while Elizabeth Kielty ran to 30th. That all added up to a second place team finish with 48 points, 15 behind winner Clear Lake in the 10-team field which ran both varsity and junior varsity at the same time.
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Bright spots were few and far between for an Iowa Falls-Alden team looking to bounce back from a season opening loss to South Hardin.
Traveling to Huxley to face a good Ballard (1-0) squad, the Cadets made too many mistakes and for the most part, were not competitive in a 25-8, 25-13, 25-13 loss.
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There are no gimmie games on the Ellsworth Community College football schedule. One of the toughest assignments came right out of the gate for first-year head coach Kory Vaught.
The Panthers hit the road to take on defending NJCAA Division III and preseason top ranked College of DuPage. ECC was able to do some good things against the Chaparrals before falling by a 48-25 final.
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USDA scattering rabies vaccines for wildlife in 13 states
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has begun scattering millions of packets of oral rabies vaccine from helicopters and planes over 13 states from Maine to Alabama.
The major aim is to keep raccoons from spreading their strain of the deadly virus to states where it hasn’t been found or isn’t widespread, said field trial coordinator Jordona Kirby.
The USDA is also continuing tests of a vaccine approved in Canada to immunize skunks as well as raccoons, said Kirby of Wildlife Services, which is part of the agriculture department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
Rabies is spread through an infected animal’s saliva, usually through bites. However, saliva that gets into the eyes, nose or mouth can also infect someone, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Thirteen people in South Carolina were considered potentially exposed in March because they had bottle-fed or given medicine to a sick calf that turned out to have rabies, said Dr. Michael Neault, the state veterinarian.
Globally, the virus kills 60,000 people a year, most bitten by dogs, the World Health Organization states.
That’s about the same number that get shots to prevent rabies in the U.S. after being bitten or scratched by an infected or possibly infected animal, according to the CDC.
State and local pet vaccination laws mean the virus is mostly spread by wildlife in the U.S.
The national rabies control program started in 1997 in Texas, where coyotes were spreading the canine variant of the virus, Kirby said.
She said vaccine drops eliminated that variant in 2004. Three years later, the CDC declared the nation free of canine rabies.
That doesn’t mean unvaccinated pets are safe. Canine rabies is among more than 20 variants — seven found in terrestrial mammals and more than 13 in species of bats, said rabies control program coordinator Richard Chipman.
A bite from an animal infected with any variant can make any other mammal sick. Scratches occasionally do so, since animals lick their paws.
A three-year program in Arizona and New Mexico eliminated a bat rabies strain in foxes, Kirby said. And Texas, with help from USDA, dropped 1.1 million baits along the Mexican border in January to keep coyotes from bringing the canine variant back.
Raccoons are the main rabies reservoir in 18 states along and near the East Coast and skunks in 21 others, according to data from 2020, the latest year available.
Bats made up 31% of the nearly 4,500 animals found with rabies in 2020. But since nearly all of the 40-plus bat species found in the U.S. eat insects and the rest drink nectar or eat fruit, oral vaccines would be much trickier.
Some scientists have speculated that bats could be vaccinated during hibernation, perhaps with a fine mist or with a gel that could be transferred from bat to bat, Chipman said. Early research is testing the idea in vampire bats, which live in Mexico and Central and South America and might spread such a vaccine within a colony by grooming each other.
Rabid wildlife isn’t just a rural problem. A rabid fox on Capitol Hill was caught less than 24 hours after the first report in April. By then, about a half-dozen people had reported bites or nips to U.S. Capitol Police, but others may have gone to other agencies, a Capitol Police spokesperson said by email.
Raccoon rabies campaigns started in August in parts of northern Maine, western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and southwestern Virginia. The 348,000 Raboral V-RG baits in Maine and 535,000 in the three other states are being dropped from planes in rural areas and from vehicles in urban and suburban areas.
In all, about 3.75 million packets — coated with a fishmeal attractant or encased in 1-inch (2.5-centimeter) fish meal cubes — will be distributed in nine states, ending when 1.1 million are dropped in Alabama in October.
The vaccine has been found safe for more than 60 kinds of animals including domestic dogs and cats. Eating a large number of vaccine packets might give dogs an upset stomach but wouldn’t cause any permanent problem, APHIS says.
About 3.5 million doses of the experimental vaccine Onrab are being distributed in parts of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Tennessee — which also are getting the approved vaccine — plus four other states.
Onrab comes in blister packs with green, marshmallow-flavored coating. Wildlife Services hopes it may be approved next year in spite of lingering pandemic-related delays.
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The premier technology company focusing on the Service Supply Chain has added to its leadership team during this pivotal time of global growth.
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Baxter Planning, a pioneer and recognized leader in Service Supply Chain parts planning, optimization, and execution software solutions, today announced that Mårten Gustafsson will join the company as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).
Mårten brings vast experience in driving go-to-market strategies for global technology companies. Being a technology executive with more than twenty years of experience within multiple industries across the globe, Mårten aligns with Baxter Planning's passion for leading high-performing teams to help companies realize value with Baxter Planning's solutions.
"I am thrilled to welcome Mårten to Baxter Planning's leadership team as we globally scale our customer-base, expand our product line, and increase partnership with existing customers," said Chuck Moeling, Baxter Planning CEO. "Mårten's proven track record of excelling as a go-to-market leader makes him a perfect fit for our team."
"Baxter Planning has proven itself a leader in the Service Supply Chain and I'm honored to join this team,'' stated Mårten Gustafsson. "I look forward to building upon the team's existing passion for generating business-critical value for our clients around the globe. Effective Service Parts Management is essential for our clients' abilities to reduce cost, risks, and carbon footprint while simultaneously increasing margins and improving customer satisfaction.''
Mårten joins at a time of record growth for Baxter Planning as the company recently launched its second product, is preparing to launch its third product, and continues to serve organizations with complex Service Parts Management requirements.
In addition to Mårten joining as CRO, Phillip Kennedy has been named Baxter Planning's first Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Phillip will lead the Marketing Team, focusing on delivering world-class customer experiences, increasing Baxter Planning's name recognition throughout the industry, and more.
Prior to Baxter Planning, Mårten worked for PTC, Dassault Systemés, and Syncron, driving significant growth and business expansion opportunities. As CRO, Mårten leads Baxter's global go-to-market team to drive new customer value and help some of the biggest companies in the world realize true Service Supply Chain transformation. Mårten holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Uppsala University. He will report directly to Chuck Moeling, CEO and will focus on growing Baxter Planning's global footprint.
Founded in 1993, Baxter Planning became the first company to provide a dedicated global Service Supply Chain software and service solution. Their software is developed based on proven best practices, industry expertise, and a partnership with customers to automate inventory planning. Their Total Cost Optimization methodology replaces spreadsheets and manual processes to deliver the best service level at the lowest possible cost. As a worldwide leader in Service Supply Chain software, Baxter Planning helps customers plan billions in service parts inventory every day. For more information, visit www.baxterplanning.com.
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A Rhea County student athlete was injured Thursday at a football contest between Ocoee Middle and Rhea County Middle School.
The student was airlifted to Erlanger, and was released Friday morning, according to Bradley County Schools.
He is expected to make a full recovery.
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A federal magistrate judge on Thursday ordered the Justice Department to release by noon ET Friday a redacted version of the affidavit it filed with the court when it obtained approval for a warrant to search former President Donald Trump's Florida home earlier this month.
In the document, the investigators who are probing the handling of classified documents from Trump's White House would have had to lay out for the judge why they thought there was probable cause for a crime and that evidence existed of that crime at the Florida resort.
Here's what we know about what's about to unfold:
DOJ files proposed redactions under seal: The Justice Department submitted the redactions it believes the affidavit will need if the judge were to release it. With that, the department will also submit legal arguments for why those redactions are necessary.
"The United States has filed a submission under seal per the Court's order of Aug. 22," a DOJ spokesman said. "The Justice Department respectfully declines further comment as the Court considers the matter."
Several media outlets filed a request that the brief containing the DOJ's legal arguments to be filed publicly with redactions, but the judge has taken action on that request.
Judge satisfied with DOJ's arguments for parts that will be kept private: The judge said last week that the department had not yet convinced him that the entire affidavit needs to remain under seal. But he has still left himself a little room to change his mind, depending on what the department tells him in this latest round of secret filings.
He wrote in an opinion released Monday that "the present record" did not justify "keeping the entire Affidavit under seal." He also wrote that "at this point" he wasn't buying the Justice Department's argument that once all the needed redactions were made, they would be "so extensive that they will result in a meaningless disclosure."
"[B]ut I may ultimately reach that conclusion after hearing further from the Government," he wrote then.
With his later order okaying the affidavit's release, Reinhart said that he had reviewed the affidavit, the DOJ's proposed redactions, and its brief explaining the proposed redactions.
The government convinced him, he said, that portions of the affidavit should remained sealed because "disclosure would reveal (1) the identities of witnesses, law enforcement agents, and uncharged parties, (2) the investigation's strategy, direction, scope, sources, and methods, and (3) grand jury information."
He concluded that the government had met "its burden of showing that its proposed redactions are narrowly tailored to serve the Government's legitimate interest in the integrity of the ongoing investigation and are the least onerous alternative to sealing the entire Affidavit."
But the judge took into account factors favoring transparency: As Reinhart wrote in Monday's opinion, the Justice Department has already conceded that the warrant involves "matters of significant public concern."
"Certainly, unsealing the Affidavit would promote public understanding of historically significant events," Reinhart said. "This factor weighs in favor of disclosure."
The historical significance of the Mar-a-Lago search also made Reinhart skeptical of another argument the DOJ was making: that the work that will go into making redactions will burden department resources, and could set a precedent that will create similar disruptions and burdens in other cases.
"Particularly given the intense public and historical interest in an unprecedented search of a former President's residence, the Government has not yet shown that these administrative concerns are sufficient to justify sealing," the judge wrote.
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Confessions of a Community College Dean
In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990s moves into academic administration and finds himself a married suburban father of two. Foucault, plus lawn care.
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And Then There Were 2
Dropping off The Girl at college.
On Thursday, The Wife and I dropped off The Girl at college. She’s our youngest.
Now it’s just us and the dog.
It went as well as I could have asked. We did our major goodbyes on Wednesday night, so Thursday could be devoted to driving, unpacking and driving back. I stuffed the Mazda to within an inch of its life so we could squeeze everyone and everything into one car. The travel gods had mercy on us and spared us rough traffic, which isn’t a given on I-95 on a weekday morning.
Unlike our experience at UVA a few years ago with TB, the process at Maryland was quick and easy. I had expected long lines of cars unloading, but arrival times had been staggered enough that we were able to pull right up. Even the weather cooperated.
TG is in a triple that looks like it was designed as a double, so my initial impression upon arrival was that there was no way everything would fit. Somehow, it did. Her roommates seem very much like her: as she put it, “we’re all tall, smart, progressive women.” (At 5'9", she’s the shortest of the three.) Within less than two hours, the room went from uninhabited to fully organized. I’m sure they’ll add bells and whistles, but it already looks established.
One roommate is the daughter of Anne Hofmann, an English professor at Frederick Community College whom I knew a little from Twitter. She and TW hit it off at orientation in July, and they picked up right where they left off on Thursday. She graciously invited us to join her and her family for lunch afterward at a terrific Vietnamese restaurant, which was the perfect way to break up the day. We went back to campus afterward to explore a bit, take a few pictures and say our goodbyes before TG started her new adventure.
I had expected to be an emotional wreck at the final goodbye. (The phrase I kept using was “quivering mass of Jell-O.”) And while there was a slight catch in my throat at the end, TG was so palpably excited that it was hard to feel anything but excitement for her.
TG has always had a strong independent streak. That’s not a euphemism for anything; it’s just accurate. She has a clear sense of herself, a strong moral compass and a blend of ambition and ethics that makes us proud. Our parenting philosophy from the beginning has been that it was our job to prepare the kids to leave us. By that measure, we’ve succeeded with both kids. TB has thrived at college, and TG has been straining at the confines of high school (and home) for some time. She’s so ready, and so excited, that mooning over our loss would have seemed churlish. Her excitement was contagious.
I’ll admit to some quiet moments on the drive home.
For a few reasons, TG’s nickname in the family for years has been “Bird.” Bird is ready to leave the nest and fly. That’s what birds do. It’s supposed to happen.
If the nest feels a little empty now, well, that’s supposed to happen, too.
Godspeed, little Bird. It’s your time to fly. You’re ready.
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Soldiers assigned to Hardrock and Bulldog Company, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), conduct a Support by Fire Live Fire Exercise on August 26, 2022, at Babadag Training Area, Romania. 101st units will support V Corps mission to reinforce NATO’s eastern flank and engage in multinational exercises with partners across the European continent to reassure our Nations allies. (U.S. Army Photo by 2nd Lt. Stacey Shaw, 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, Unit Public Affairs Representative.)
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Between the cities of Huntington Beach and Irvine, Little Saigon boasts the largest Vietnamese American population outside of Vietnam itself. This thriving community—which has over 200,000 residents—formed shortly after the Fall of Saigon and the official end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Drawn by the warm Southern California climate and (at the time) cheap housing, recently arrived refugees from the former Republic of Vietnam flocked to the city of Westminster, where they began to open businesses and restaurants along Bolsa Avenue and Brookhurst Street. Westminster officials and then–California governor George Deukmejian designated the area as the Little Saigon Tourist Commercial District in 1988.
Over three decades later, Little Saigon’s borders have expanded into the neighboring cities of Garden Grove, Fountain Valley, and Santa Ana, and the district boasts thousands of thriving establishments with plenty of delectable restaurant options and places to shop. This guide to Little Saigon will give you pointers on where to go, what to do, and, most importantly, where to eat in this endlessly intriguing Vietnamese American neighborhood of Orange County.
What to eat
Phở 79
No trip to Little Saigon would be complete without a steaming bowl of phở. This unassuming neighborhood spot was thrust into the limelight after snagging a coveted James Beard Award in 2019, but Phở 79’s fragrant noodle soup has been drawing crowds since its opening in 1982 in Garden Grove, just east of Westminster. Prepare for a small wait before you can sample the beef broth, rich with fragrant, complex aromatics—be sure to top off your bowl with a healthy dose of bean sprouts, basil, and culantro. Pair it with a cup of strong cà phê sữa đá, or Vietnamese iced coffee.
Van’s Bakery
After polishing off a bowl of phở, head across the road for dessert. Packed with all sorts of treats, including traditional Vietnamese bánh da lợn (steamed layer cakes flavored with pandan), crispy, golden bánh cam (sesame balls), and European-style pastries and cakes, Van’s offers an array of flavors sure to satisfy any sweet tooth. Plan to arrive early, as many customer favorites disappear from shelves by the afternoon.
Tân Hoàng Hương
Tân Hoàng Hương Sandwiches sells dozens of Vietnamese dishes from locations all over Orange County, but most customers go in for the bánh mì. Visit the original Fountain Valley location on Euclid Street and try its barbecue pork and pâté bánh mì, which is topped with pickled veggies and fresh cucumbers and piled inside pillow-soft baguettes. Grab a strong iced coffee for a caffeine burst to stave off any potential carb coma.
Brodard Restaurant
The often out-the-door lines attest to the quality of Brodard’s fare. The menu covers Vietnamese cuisine from all over the country, including bún bò huế (a spicy beef salad that originated in central Vietnam) and bò kho (a beef stew that was heavily influenced by Chinese foodways), as well as fusion offerings like seared ahi tuna rolls and lemon pepper chicken. Plus, don’t forget to try Brodard’s renowned fresh spring rolls, the restaurant’s most popular dish.
Nếp Cafe
Nếp Cafe, a popular brunch spot, is best known for its cà phê trứng, or egg coffee, which consists of robusta coffee topped with a fluffy cap of whipped egg yolks and condensed milk—it’s creamy, sweet, and decadently delicious. However, its food options are nothing to sniff at either. Consider ordering the bánh mì chảo (a filet mignon platter), which can be garnished with a savory piece of bone marrow, or uni toast, which features sea urchin roe sourced from Santa Barbara.
What to do
Celebrate Tết
Chúc mừng năm mới! Tết Nguyên Đán (Vietnamese New Year) marks the most important holiday in the Vietnamese calendar, and local celebrations kick off with a bang in late January or early February depending on the lunar calendar. In the weeks leading up to the holiday, Phước Lộc Thọ shopping center (more on this place later) hosts an open-air flower market, similar to annual markets in Vietnam, to ring in the new year. The community celebrates with a Bolsa Avenue parade featuring lion dances, floats, and marching bands. The Union of Vietnamese Students Association also hosts an annual Tết Festival in nearby Costa Mesa, showcasing Vietnamese culture and food during one jam-packed weekend.
Museum of the Republic of Vietnam
Open Thursday through Sunday at the corner of Brookhurst and Bolsa, the Museum of the Republic of Vietnam is touted as the first and only institution in the world that focuses on the Republic of Vietnam. Also known as South Vietnam, the United States–backed nation formed alongside the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) following the 1954 Geneva Accord, which aimed to temporarily divide the country at the 17th parallel. However, North and South Vietnam remained separated over a decade of bloody warfare until a 1975 offensive ended the Vietnam War and established the current regime. Most residents of Little Saigon hail from what was once South Vietnam.
Pop by the museum to view the revolving exhibits or to listen to a lecture about the Vietnam War and the circumstances that brought hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese immigrants to Orange County. Admission is free, although donations are welcome.
Vietnam War Memorial
Visit the Sid Goldstein Freedom Park to see the local Vietnam War Memorial. The monument features statues of a South Vietnamese and an American soldier, with South Vietnam’s distinct striped flag and the U.S. flag flying above. Equipped with an eternal flame to commemorate those lost during the war, the memorial is the perfect spot to reflect on the intertwining histories of South Vietnam and the United States. There’s also a nearby playground to occupy younger visitors.
Phước Lộc Thọ
Opened by renowned developer Frank Jao in 1987, Phước Lộc Thọ, or the Asian Garden Mall, is one of Little Saigon’s oldest and most successful businesses. With over 200 stores under the mall’s iconic green roof, customers can purchase traditional medicines, custom áo dài clothing, and more here. On summer weekends, a bustling night market attracts visitors with street food like barbecue pork skewers and whole dried squid, as well as song and dance performances.
Chùa Điều Ngự Buddhist Temple
Although early waves of Vietnamese refugees predominantly practiced Catholicism, the prevailing religion of French-influenced South Vietnam, a substantial Buddhist population has since immigrated to the States and established a foothold in Little Saigon. Recently updated with pagodas, a traditional temple building, and a nine-foot-tall Buddha statue, Chùa Điều Ngự Buddhist Temple opens its doors both to Buddhists and novices seeking to learn more about the religion. Brave the crowds during Lunar New Year to watch special ceremonies and enjoy food from local vendors.
Where to stay
Ayres Hotel
One of the top-rated hotels in the Little Saigon area, Ayres Hotel provides clean, comfortable rooms with a boutique flair. Take time to cool down at the pool, or catch the complimentary breakfast buffet to fuel your adventures for the rest of the day.
Book Now: From $230, expedia.com
Great Wolf Lodge
Located two miles from Disneyland in Garden Grove, the Great Wolf Lodge offers the perfect stay for families with little ones who might not want to spend their days exploring museums and shopping centers. Guests can unwind at the 14-slide indoor water park, soak in one of four pools, or participate in the many kid-friendly activities like dance parties and arts and crafts.
Book Now: From $300, expedia.com
How to get there
Like much of Orange County, Little Saigon is best reached and navigated by car and is about a 45-minute drive from LAX (traffic permitting). Most destinations will have ample free parking spots, although you can also find street parking on busier days.
To get to Little Saigon via public transport, catch a ride on one of the Orange County Transit Authority’s bus routes. Coming from outside county lines? Amtrak and Metrolink trains make stops in the surrounding cities of Santa Ana, Anaheim, and Orange. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/little-saigon-orange-county | 2022-08-26T16:02:52Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/little-saigon-orange-county | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The City of Tallahassee and Florida State University (FSU) police departments are working diligently to provide a safe and enjoyable experience for the visitors who come to enjoy home football games.
To help fans plan, information is below about the game day traffic pattern.
Pre-Game
Fans are encouraged to use the following roadways to access parking on and around FSU's campus.
- From the north, use Stadium Drive for parking on the west side of Doak Campbell Stadium and Macomb or Bronough streets to Pensacola Street for parking on the east side of Doak Campbell.
- From the east, use Pensacola or Gaines streets.
- From the west, use Pensacola or Tennessee streets to Stadium Drive.
- From the south, use Lake Bradford Road.
The traffic signals along Pensacola Street between Duval St and Chieftan Way will be set to "flash" before the game to give priority to westbound traffic headed toward Doak Campbell Stadium. Tallahassee Police Department (TPD) officers will be on post along this route two hours prior to the game. Traffic signals at intersections near Doak Campbell Stadium could be controlled by TPD as much as eight hours before the start of the game.
Motorists traveling through the area who are not headed to the game should expect delays due to the traffic control pattern from two hours before kickoff until approximately 30 minutes after kickoff (weather delays not included), especially along Macomb and Copeland streets. If possible, motorists are advised to use Ocala Road and Monroe Street for north-south travel to avoid the pre-game traffic pattern near Doak Campbell Stadium.
On three weekends during the season, there are home games at both Florida State and Florida A&M universities. Vehicle traffic will be heavy, especially on Tennessee Street, Pensacola Street, South Monroe Street, Gaines Street, Lake Bradford Road and Orange Avenue before and after games. Fans are advised to allow extra time for travel to ensure early arrival to the games.
Spirit Express Bus Service
The Spirit Express bus service from the Tucker Civic Center WILL NOT be available this season.
Seminole Booster parking lots are:
- Warrior Booster Lots: 12, 13, 17, 19, 25-29
- Tomahawk Booster Lots: 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 16, 21-23
- Silver Chief Booster Lots: 5, 8, 15
- Golden Chief Booster Lots: 1-6
If you are parking in Seminole Booster lots 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 or 14, please approach the stadium from the east via Pensacola Street. If you are parking in Booster lots 1, 2, 3, 4 or 18, please approach the stadium from the east via Gaines Street or the west from Pensacola Street. If you are parking in Booster lots 25 or 13, the most direct route will be to take West Tennessee Street to Woodward Avenue. All non-Booster-lot traffic is encouraged to use either Tennessee Street or Lake Bradford Road to look for general parking directions using the free SeminoleSafe App (see below for more information about the app).
For further assistance navigating the area, fans can download the Waze Traffic App via SeminoleSafe. All game day traffic routes, pregame and postgame, are entered into the app to provide the most direct routes, taking into consideration detours, closures and congestion.
Post-Game
After the game is finished, Pensacola Street east of the stadium will possibly be modified to flow one-way for eastbound traffic only, heading away from the stadium. Traffic signals along Pensacola Street from Champions Ways to Duval Street will "flash" to give priority to traffic heading eastbound. St. Augustine Street between Varsity Drive and South Monroe Street will continue to flow one-way for eastbound traffic only and continue out Apalachee Parkway, helping to carry additional traffic away from the stadium. There will be a detour established to keep fans leaving the game on Madison Street flowing continuously out Apalachee Parkway. Southbound traffic on Monroe Street will be routed east on College Avenue, south on Franklin Blvd./East Lafayette Street and west on Gaines Street back to Monroe Street. Northbound traffic on Monroe Street will be routed east on Gaines Street, north on East Lafayette Street/Franklin Blvd. and west on College Avenue back to Monroe Street. Fans heading away from the stadium on Gaines Street eastbound will be directed south onto Monroe Street.
To give fans priority in leaving the area following the game, northbound traffic will not be allowed on Springhill Road/Lake Bradford Road from Orange Avenue to Gaines Street, nor will southbound traffic be allowed on Stadium Drive from Tennessee Street.
Motorists traveling through the area should expect delays due to the traffic control pattern from some time in the fourth quarter until approximately one hour after the end of the game (weather delays not included), especially along Macomb, Copeland, Duval, Bronough and Monroe streets. Motorists hoping to avoid post-game traffic, especially for north-south travel, are advised to use Ocala Road and Monroe Street.
COLLABORATION:
The City of Tallahassee and Florida State University participate in numerous meetings throughout the spring in preparation for football season. The following are several initiatives for the games:
- TPD will provide coordination with all traffic lights along Pensacola, Saint Augustine, Madison, Gaines, Stadium and Duval streets, as well as Lake Bradford Road.
- A gate has been installed on the corner of Varsity Drive and St. Augustine Street for Lot 14 (Intramural Fields). This will allow for better pedestrian access.
- More signage will be posted at multiple locations. Banners will be hung along Pensacola Street, as well as additional signs placed along all the routes.
- TPD will be on post along Pensacola Street two hours prior to the game. TPD will also take control of the lights and intersections once all personnel are on post.
Fans are encouraged to arrive early and plan for some delays. Please follow directions from law enforcement while traveling to and from the game.
FAMU and FSU share home game days on September 24, October 1 and October 29.
The SeminoleSafe App is the official mobile safety tool of Florida State University. Fans can refer to the SeminoleSafe App under tab GAME DAY GUIDE for real-time updates and additional information for home football games from direct turn-by-turn directions to their designated Booster or general parking lot, clear bag policy and instructions, prohibited items inside the stadium and real-time weather data on campus. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/tallahassee-and-fsu-police-offer-tips-for-a-safe-game-day | 2022-08-26T16:03:38Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/tallahassee-and-fsu-police-offer-tips-for-a-safe-game-day | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ASHFORD, Wash. — Officials with the National Park Service said the body of a 52-year-old Canadian man was recovered after he fell while climbing Mt. Rainier on Monday.
In a news release, park officials said Chun Hui Zhang of Surrey, British Columbia, was on a private recreational summit climb with friends when he took what witnesses described as a "substantial fall" while descending the Disappointment Cleaver route on the mountain's south side.
Officials said mountain climbing guides and park rangers tried to locate Zhang but were unsuccessful.
Rangers found and extricated Zhang's body with a helicopter on Tuesday, officials said.
According to the NPS website, the mountain, which is an active volcano, sits 14,410 feet above sea level.
CBS News reported, citing National Park Service data, that as of this year, more than 400 people have perished in Mount Rainier National Park, with 25% of those deaths occurring while climbing the mountain. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/body-of-canadian-man-recovered-after-he-fell-while-climbing-mount-rainier | 2022-08-26T16:03:50Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/body-of-canadian-man-recovered-after-he-fell-while-climbing-mount-rainier | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Customers shopping at Family Dollar may soon notice lower prices.
“Competitive pricing at Family Dollar will over the long term enhance our sales productivity and profitability, and ultimately our opportunity to accelerate store growth," said Mike Witynski, president and CEO of Dollar Tree Inc., which acquired Family Dollar.
The company will also invest in the type of products Family Dollar offers and sprucing up its stores.
"Combined with improvements in merchandising and store standards, we believe we are putting our best foot forward at a time when customers are coming to us to help them navigate difficult times," Witynski said.
The new pricing strategy forced the company to lower its full-year earnings forecast. However, Witynski believes the strategy will pay off in the long run.
"We are confident these pricing and other investments will generate very attractive returns over the long term," he said. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/family-dollar-plans-to-slash-prices | 2022-08-26T16:03:56Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/family-dollar-plans-to-slash-prices | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
JUPITER, Fla. — Taylor Grant, a fourth-grade student, is glad to talk about her summer vacation, her teacher for the new school year and her favorite subject in the classroom, but she gets tense when asked how she feels the night before a test.
"Scared and nervous," she said.
"You just want to pull all that anxiety off your kids and put it on yourself," Taylor's mom, Stephanie Grant, added.
At times, Taylor has felt so nervous before a test that she didn't want to go to school.
Alli Lebowitz, a licensed therapist and social work supervisor for the pediatric emergency department at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital, said she often helps young people through test anxiety.
"A lot of it is related to the pressure of wanting to do well on a test and perform to a certain level that they're either putting on themselves or they're feeling from family or friends or even from the school setting," she said.
Research published with the National Library of Medicine suggests up to 40% of U.S. students struggle with test anxiety.
Lebowitz said there are signs to look for, such as a child complaining of a headache or stomach ache. They may also indicate they are nauseous or extremely tired before a test or while prepping. She said to pay attention to any personality changes.
"Talk about it. Sit down and have a conversation," Lebowitz said about normalizing the topic of test anxiety in the home. She added that it's important to make good sleep habits and nutrition priorities all year, but especially around test time.
Lebowitz said it's critical for recall and memory to have a designated study space in the home that's free of distractions.
"It creates an environment where they feel empowered to really be diving into the material and focusing on it and it takes away the distraction of just laying in bed and studying," she said. "They can also build their confidence when they start to connect the studying is leading to good performance is leading to better grades is leading to less test anxiety."
Grant said it helps her children to take short breaks during test prep. She added that her children benefit from a quick bike ride or walk outside.
In extreme cases of test anxiety, Lebowitz said kids might refuse to go to school, get physically sick or become paralyzed while taking a test. At that point, it's important to talk to a doctor immediately. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/how-to-help-kids-curb-test-anxiety | 2022-08-26T16:04:02Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/how-to-help-kids-curb-test-anxiety | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DULAC, La. — One year after Hurricane Ida slammed into the tiny town of Dulac, Louisiana, longtime resident Penny Verdin is still homeless and living in a mobile home provided by FEMA. The single mother of two is unsure when exactly she'll be able to rebuild her destroyed home.
"Every single day you see the scars of what Hurricane Ida did," Verdin said.
The Category 4 hurricane caused $65 billion in damage nationwide, killing 155 people. For those impacted by the storm, scars still remain a year later.
"I thought I would be able to be in my house by now, but I’m not even close," Verdin added about the rebuilding process.
The emergency of those early days has subsided and so have donations. What storm victims say they need now are building materials.
"We don’t need food or water, it’s building materials and the manpower to put our houses up," Verdin noted.
The damage across this town of 798 is still visible on most street corners. Father Antonio of Farrugia of the Holy Family Catholic Church in Dulac says residents' patience is starting to wear thin.
"We are trying to rebuild the spiritual life of people," he said.
And then, there’s the waiting. Father Farrugia believes it could be two to three years before they get enough funding from FEMA to rebuild his church.
"The most stressful thing for us is waiting for the bureaucratical things to go through," he added.
That’s not to say they aren’t moving forward here. So far, this church has helped rebuild six homes for parishioners with another half-dozen on the way.
"The next crisis is the FEMA trailers. They are slowly being plucked away and people need to find housing after that," he said. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/one-year-after-hurricane-ida-many-storm-victims-are-still-homeless | 2022-08-26T16:04:21Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/national/one-year-after-hurricane-ida-many-storm-victims-are-still-homeless | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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DESERT CENTER, Calif. (AP) — The main highway from Los Angeles to Phoenix was damaged by a flash flood that washed out part of the road through the Southern California desert in the latest bout of punishing monsoonal thunderstorms that have hit the region this summer.
The newest round of flooding started Wednesday evening, damaging a roadway that was part of a detour past a repair project along eastbound Interstate 10 near the small community of Desert Center, about 165 miles (265 km) east of Los Angeles.
Traffic in both directions was halted initially, but westbound lanes for motorists heading from Arizona to California reopened later.
All eastbound traffic was diverted until the California Department of Transportation managed to reopen one lane of the highway that was being repaired.
Officials recommended that people heading from Southern California use Interstates 8 or 40, which are major detours.
Photos posted by Caltrans showed water rushing through a deep gouge in the pavement of the highway. Flooding also affected other roads in the region, including State Routes 177, 78 and 62.
A flash flood in the same area in July 2015 washed out a bridge on the eastbound side of I-10 and eroded the ground under the westbound bridge.
The interstate was closed for nearly a week for repair of the westbound bridge, which then carried traffic on single lanes in each direction. The eastbound side did not reopen until September.
The National Weather Service said more flooding was possible through Thursday throughout a large swath of Southern California’s mountains and deserts.
Flash floods earlier this summer badly damaged roads in Death Valley National Park, the Mojave National Preserve and on the southern side of Joshua Tree National Park.
Officials called the Aug. 5 deluge in Death Valley historic. Hundreds of visitors were initially stranded by floodwaters and debris-covered roads. It took about two weeks for the park to reopen its most popular areas. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-desert-flooding-damages-los-angeles-to-phoenix-highway/ | 2022-08-26T16:11:31Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-desert-flooding-damages-los-angeles-to-phoenix-highway/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 36 |
DESERT CENTER, Calif. (AP) — The main highway from Los Angeles to Phoenix was damaged by a flash flood that washed out part of the road through the Southern California desert in the latest bout of punishing monsoonal thunderstorms that have hit the region this summer.
The newest round of flooding started Wednesday evening, damaging a roadway that was part of a detour past a repair project along eastbound Interstate 10 near the small community of Desert Center, about 165 miles (265 km) east of Los Angeles.
Traffic in both directions was halted initially, but westbound lanes for motorists heading from Arizona to California reopened later.
All eastbound traffic was diverted until the California Department of Transportation managed to reopen one lane of the highway that was being repaired.
Officials recommended that people heading from Southern California use Interstates 8 or 40, which are major detours.
Photos posted by Caltrans showed water rushing through a deep gouge in the pavement of the highway. Flooding also affected other roads in the region, including State Routes 177, 78 and 62.
A flash flood in the same area in July 2015 washed out a bridge on the eastbound side of I-10 and eroded the ground under the westbound bridge.
The interstate was closed for nearly a week for repair of the westbound bridge, which then carried traffic on single lanes in each direction. The eastbound side did not reopen until September.
The National Weather Service said more flooding was possible through Thursday throughout a large swath of Southern California’s mountains and deserts.
Flash floods earlier this summer badly damaged roads in Death Valley National Park, the Mojave National Preserve and on the southern side of Joshua Tree National Park.
Officials called the Aug. 5 deluge in Death Valley historic. Hundreds of visitors were initially stranded by floodwaters and debris-covered roads. It took about two weeks for the park to reopen its most popular areas. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-desert-flooding-damages-los-angeles-to-phoenix-highway/ | 2022-08-26T16:11:31Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-desert-flooding-damages-los-angeles-to-phoenix-highway/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 36 |
DETROIT (AP) — California will require all new cars, trucks and SUVs sold in the state to run on electricity or hydrogen by 2035 in an ambitious move away from gasoline-powered vehicles and the pollution they emit.
The requirements come in phases starting in 2026, and it will take 13 years for them become fully effective. But there are many challenges to meeting them.
EVs now cost substantially more than gas-powered vehicles. There are shortages of precious metals needed for their batteries. The U.S. has little battery manufacturing capacity.
But a lot can change in 13 years. Here’s what we know about the problem areas and what’s being done about them:
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WILL AUTOMAKERS BE ABLE TO MAKE ENOUGH ELECTRIC VEHICLES?
More than likely. During the first half of this year, electric vehicle sales accounted for about 15% of California’s new vehicle market. New vehicle sales in the state normally run around 2 million per year. That’s roughly a 1.5 million difference that has to be made up by 2035. But almost every day, automakers are announcing new EV models, battery factories and assembly plants. Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Hyundai-Kia, Stellantis and VinFast have announced plans for 10 U.S. battery plants.
“New plants are coming in and old plants are being converted,” said Sam Fiorani, vice president of AutoForecast Solutions. “The plans are in place for a large amount of vehicles being ready for the U.S. and global markets.”
The big ifs, though, are whether there will be enough precious metals, such as lithium, to make the batteries, and whether EV prices will come down quickly enough. Laurie Holmes, senior manager of government affairs for Kia, told California officials Thursday that the industry could have difficulty meeting sales targets. She urged the state to support incentives for consumers to buy EVs and to help build out a charging system.
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CAN THE ELECTRIC GRID HANDLE THE LOAD?
The California Energy Commission expects electric vehicles to add only a small amount of power use in the next 10 years. The commission estimates that 3.7 million light-duty electric vehicles will be in use in the state in 2030, and they will account for only about 2.6% of electricity use during peak hours. David Reichmuth, a senior engineer for the Union of Concerned Scientists, said EV charging can be timed to off-peak hours, especially during the day when wind and solar power are more available. Utilities will be able to send messages to cars to start or stop charging depending on electricity demand, he said.
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WON’T ELECTRIC VEHICLES BE TOO EXPENSIVE FOR MANY PEOPLE?
That’s possible, although prices are coming down, and they are expected to get lower as costs are spread out among more vehicles and new battery chemistries are developed that don’t use many expensive precious metals. Currently most U.S. EVs are targeted at higher-income luxury or pickup-truck buyers and start at $40,000 or more, beyond the reach of many. But prices are starting to come down. For instance, General Motors says it will offer a small Chevrolet SUV with a starting price tag of around $30,000 that’s expected to get close to 300 miles (500 kilometers) per charge. The federal government next year will offer $7,500 tax credits for EVs made in North America, bringing purchase prices down. And California is offering cash, rebates and special financing for low-income buyers. Also, EV buyers will save on fuel and maintenance costs.
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DO EVS REALLY POLLUTE LESS, GIVEN MANUFACTURING AND MINING OF METALS FOR BATTERIES?
Multiple studies, including some by the Massachussets Institute of Technology, say yes. While there is pollution from mining, EVs are so much cleaner than gas vehicles on the road that it only takes a short time for them to make up for the mining. A study released this summer by the Union of Concerned Scientists looked at lifetime emissions, including the manufacturing process.
“Altogether, the lifetime emissions for an electric car or and electric pickup are less than half that of a gasoline vehicle,” Reichmuth said. The gap between gas and electric will grow as more electricity comes from renewable sources such as wind and solar, he said.
“There’s nothing that we’re going to do when it comes to aggressively promoting electrification that will be worse for the planet than burning fossil fuels,” said Margo Oge, chair of the International Council for Clean Transportation and a former top U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official.
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WILL OTHER STATES FOLLOW CALIFORNIA?
Currently 17 other states have adopted California’s greenhouse gas emissions requirements, most on the coasts. In total they account for about 40% of all U.S. new vehicle sales. The state of Washington has already started the process to follow the EV sales requirements, and others are expected to. It will take the other states longer to go through the process, and many don’t have the electric vehicle demand or charging infrastructure that California does.
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Ronayne reported from Sacramento, California. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-explainer-california-ev-requirements-face-some-obstacles/ | 2022-08-26T16:11:38Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-explainer-california-ev-requirements-face-some-obstacles/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 44 |
DETROIT (AP) — California will require all new cars, trucks and SUVs sold in the state to run on electricity or hydrogen by 2035 in an ambitious move away from gasoline-powered vehicles and the pollution they emit.
The requirements come in phases starting in 2026, and it will take 13 years for them become fully effective. But there are many challenges to meeting them.
EVs now cost substantially more than gas-powered vehicles. There are shortages of precious metals needed for their batteries. The U.S. has little battery manufacturing capacity.
But a lot can change in 13 years. Here’s what we know about the problem areas and what’s being done about them:
___
WILL AUTOMAKERS BE ABLE TO MAKE ENOUGH ELECTRIC VEHICLES?
More than likely. During the first half of this year, electric vehicle sales accounted for about 15% of California’s new vehicle market. New vehicle sales in the state normally run around 2 million per year. That’s roughly a 1.5 million difference that has to be made up by 2035. But almost every day, automakers are announcing new EV models, battery factories and assembly plants. Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Hyundai-Kia, Stellantis and VinFast have announced plans for 10 U.S. battery plants.
“New plants are coming in and old plants are being converted,” said Sam Fiorani, vice president of AutoForecast Solutions. “The plans are in place for a large amount of vehicles being ready for the U.S. and global markets.”
The big ifs, though, are whether there will be enough precious metals, such as lithium, to make the batteries, and whether EV prices will come down quickly enough. Laurie Holmes, senior manager of government affairs for Kia, told California officials Thursday that the industry could have difficulty meeting sales targets. She urged the state to support incentives for consumers to buy EVs and to help build out a charging system.
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CAN THE ELECTRIC GRID HANDLE THE LOAD?
The California Energy Commission expects electric vehicles to add only a small amount of power use in the next 10 years. The commission estimates that 3.7 million light-duty electric vehicles will be in use in the state in 2030, and they will account for only about 2.6% of electricity use during peak hours. David Reichmuth, a senior engineer for the Union of Concerned Scientists, said EV charging can be timed to off-peak hours, especially during the day when wind and solar power are more available. Utilities will be able to send messages to cars to start or stop charging depending on electricity demand, he said.
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WON’T ELECTRIC VEHICLES BE TOO EXPENSIVE FOR MANY PEOPLE?
That’s possible, although prices are coming down, and they are expected to get lower as costs are spread out among more vehicles and new battery chemistries are developed that don’t use many expensive precious metals. Currently most U.S. EVs are targeted at higher-income luxury or pickup-truck buyers and start at $40,000 or more, beyond the reach of many. But prices are starting to come down. For instance, General Motors says it will offer a small Chevrolet SUV with a starting price tag of around $30,000 that’s expected to get close to 300 miles (500 kilometers) per charge. The federal government next year will offer $7,500 tax credits for EVs made in North America, bringing purchase prices down. And California is offering cash, rebates and special financing for low-income buyers. Also, EV buyers will save on fuel and maintenance costs.
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DO EVS REALLY POLLUTE LESS, GIVEN MANUFACTURING AND MINING OF METALS FOR BATTERIES?
Multiple studies, including some by the Massachussets Institute of Technology, say yes. While there is pollution from mining, EVs are so much cleaner than gas vehicles on the road that it only takes a short time for them to make up for the mining. A study released this summer by the Union of Concerned Scientists looked at lifetime emissions, including the manufacturing process.
“Altogether, the lifetime emissions for an electric car or and electric pickup are less than half that of a gasoline vehicle,” Reichmuth said. The gap between gas and electric will grow as more electricity comes from renewable sources such as wind and solar, he said.
“There’s nothing that we’re going to do when it comes to aggressively promoting electrification that will be worse for the planet than burning fossil fuels,” said Margo Oge, chair of the International Council for Clean Transportation and a former top U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official.
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WILL OTHER STATES FOLLOW CALIFORNIA?
Currently 17 other states have adopted California’s greenhouse gas emissions requirements, most on the coasts. In total they account for about 40% of all U.S. new vehicle sales. The state of Washington has already started the process to follow the EV sales requirements, and others are expected to. It will take the other states longer to go through the process, and many don’t have the electric vehicle demand or charging infrastructure that California does.
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Ronayne reported from Sacramento, California. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-explainer-california-ev-requirements-face-some-obstacles/ | 2022-08-26T16:11:38Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-explainer-california-ev-requirements-face-some-obstacles/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 44 |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A coalition of environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday over its refusal to regulate some older coal ash dumps, claiming they are polluting air and groundwater.
A lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington D.C. seeks to compel the agency to review and revise regulations it says are “inadequate to protect human health and the environment” from the solid waste produced by coal-burning power plants.
The EPA first began regulating coal ash disposal in 2015, prompted by the 2008 collapse of a six-story earthen dam outside a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant in Kingston, Tennessee. The disaster released more than a billion gallons of coal ash sludge onto 300 surrounding acres (about 121 hectares), knocking homes off their foundations and fouling the Emory River.
When EPA was crafting its coal ash regulations, many of those concerned about the possible health effects of the ash hoped the agency would declare it to be hazardous waste. That didn’t happen, but EPA did create special rules for its disposal. They included location restrictions, liner requirements to prevent groundwater contamination and groundwater monitoring to detect leaks.
Not all coal ash disposal sites were included in the new regulations, however. EPA specifically exempted landfills that stopped receiving new waste before the rule went into effect. Since then, many of the regulated landfills that require groundwater monitoring have subsequently reported unsafe levels of arsenic and other chemicals in nearby groundwater. The lawsuit posits that older, unregulated landfills must also be polluting and should be regulated.
In addition, the contamination from the older landfills could be masking problems at newer landfills that are often on the same property, the lawsuit states. That’s because the operators of the regulated landfills don’t have to address groundwater contamination if they can show that it is coming from another source.
Neither the TVA nor the EPA responded to a request for comment on Thursday morning.
The lawsuit spotlights Bull Run power plant in Clinton, Tennessee, which is also run by TVA, the nation’s largest public utility.
The site contains three separate but adjacent coal ash landfills. One closed in 1992. The second closed in 2015 — just before the EPA regulations took effect. The third opened in 2015 and is an active landfill. Even though the groundwater at the new landfill shows significantly high levels of boron, sulfate and other chemicals, TVA does not have to take action because an engineering report attributes the contamination to “pre-existing groundwater conditions.”
One of the plaintiff groups is Tennessee-based Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment. Member Todd Waterman said in a telephone interview that he has seen friends who helped clean up the Kingston coal ash spill sicken and die. Now he is worried about what the ash at the Bull Run plant could be doing to his drinking water.
“I’m deeply concerned for my community,” he said in a phone interview about the plant scheduled to shut down next year. “I don’t want TVA to just walk away from that plant and leave all that contamination in place.”
Other plaintiffs include the Hoosier Environmental Council in Indiana, the Indiana State Conference and the LaPorte County Branch of the NAACP, Clean Power Lake County in Illinois, and several national groups including the Sierra Club and Earthjustice, which filed the suit.
The EPA is required to review and, if necessary revise, regulations like those for coal ash disposal every three years, something it has failed to do, according to the lawsuit. Plaintiffs are asking the judge to order a review of the regulations, especially the exemption for older coal ash landfills. They estimate there are close to 300 landfills exempt from regulation in 38 states.
“Regulations addressing these landfills would prevent exposure to deadly coal ash constituents, protect drinking water sources and aquatic ecosystems, and lead to much needed cleanups nationwide,” the lawsuit states. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-groups-sue-environmental-protection-agency-over-coal-ash/ | 2022-08-26T16:11:45Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-groups-sue-environmental-protection-agency-over-coal-ash/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 34 |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A coalition of environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday over its refusal to regulate some older coal ash dumps, claiming they are polluting air and groundwater.
A lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington D.C. seeks to compel the agency to review and revise regulations it says are “inadequate to protect human health and the environment” from the solid waste produced by coal-burning power plants.
The EPA first began regulating coal ash disposal in 2015, prompted by the 2008 collapse of a six-story earthen dam outside a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant in Kingston, Tennessee. The disaster released more than a billion gallons of coal ash sludge onto 300 surrounding acres (about 121 hectares), knocking homes off their foundations and fouling the Emory River.
When EPA was crafting its coal ash regulations, many of those concerned about the possible health effects of the ash hoped the agency would declare it to be hazardous waste. That didn’t happen, but EPA did create special rules for its disposal. They included location restrictions, liner requirements to prevent groundwater contamination and groundwater monitoring to detect leaks.
Not all coal ash disposal sites were included in the new regulations, however. EPA specifically exempted landfills that stopped receiving new waste before the rule went into effect. Since then, many of the regulated landfills that require groundwater monitoring have subsequently reported unsafe levels of arsenic and other chemicals in nearby groundwater. The lawsuit posits that older, unregulated landfills must also be polluting and should be regulated.
In addition, the contamination from the older landfills could be masking problems at newer landfills that are often on the same property, the lawsuit states. That’s because the operators of the regulated landfills don’t have to address groundwater contamination if they can show that it is coming from another source.
Neither the TVA nor the EPA responded to a request for comment on Thursday morning.
The lawsuit spotlights Bull Run power plant in Clinton, Tennessee, which is also run by TVA, the nation’s largest public utility.
The site contains three separate but adjacent coal ash landfills. One closed in 1992. The second closed in 2015 — just before the EPA regulations took effect. The third opened in 2015 and is an active landfill. Even though the groundwater at the new landfill shows significantly high levels of boron, sulfate and other chemicals, TVA does not have to take action because an engineering report attributes the contamination to “pre-existing groundwater conditions.”
One of the plaintiff groups is Tennessee-based Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment. Member Todd Waterman said in a telephone interview that he has seen friends who helped clean up the Kingston coal ash spill sicken and die. Now he is worried about what the ash at the Bull Run plant could be doing to his drinking water.
“I’m deeply concerned for my community,” he said in a phone interview about the plant scheduled to shut down next year. “I don’t want TVA to just walk away from that plant and leave all that contamination in place.”
Other plaintiffs include the Hoosier Environmental Council in Indiana, the Indiana State Conference and the LaPorte County Branch of the NAACP, Clean Power Lake County in Illinois, and several national groups including the Sierra Club and Earthjustice, which filed the suit.
The EPA is required to review and, if necessary revise, regulations like those for coal ash disposal every three years, something it has failed to do, according to the lawsuit. Plaintiffs are asking the judge to order a review of the regulations, especially the exemption for older coal ash landfills. They estimate there are close to 300 landfills exempt from regulation in 38 states.
“Regulations addressing these landfills would prevent exposure to deadly coal ash constituents, protect drinking water sources and aquatic ecosystems, and lead to much needed cleanups nationwide,” the lawsuit states. | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-groups-sue-environmental-protection-agency-over-coal-ash/ | 2022-08-26T16:11:45Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/ap-business/ap-groups-sue-environmental-protection-agency-over-coal-ash/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 34 |
The Vineyard's Ginny Mellish takes first UMF women'y record for Collette Bisson in her special to 310-3 over St Thomas last Tuesadverary 4 to 7 .\nthe VUIIARY MAGA WO-YOGII I II ROCKFORD, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kicked off her Back-To-School Tour in Rockford on Friday.
The state of Michigan says the tour will center around getting kids up to speed and bolstering their mental health as the 2022–23 school year begins.
We're also told the tour will address school staffing.
This comes after Governor Whitmer signed bipartisan legislation establishing the largest student investment in the state's history.
Watch the kickoff event here:
Parents, state representatives, educators and more attended the kickoff event. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/kent/governor-whitmer-launches-back-to-school-tour-in-rockford | 2022-08-26T16:12:43Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/kent/governor-whitmer-launches-back-to-school-tour-in-rockford | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A small town in Ukraine resisted Russian soldiers thanks to its mayor and her bicycle.
"This is my means of transportation which I was riding all through the Russian occupation. I needed it to go about all my territory." Halyna Kozarchenko told French media outlet BFM-TV.
Kozarchenko is the mayor of Fenevychi, a town just outside Kyiv with less than 1,000 residents.
The news outlet reported that she is credited with negotiating with Russian soldiers during their 39-day occupation.
Despite the presence of enemy soldiers, Kozarchenko proudly flew the Ukrainian flag at town hall every day, the news outlet reported.
“This flag has survived the whole time we were under the Russian occupation," she told the news outlet. "It’s such a tough nut to crack. It is a tough flag. People woke up in the morning and saw the flag. They said, ‘everything’s fine, and the flag is flying.’” | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/bicycle-riding-ukrainian-mayor-patrolled-towns-streets-during-russian-occupation | 2022-08-26T16:12:55Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/bicycle-riding-ukrainian-mayor-patrolled-towns-streets-during-russian-occupation | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Four years before Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 people at a Florida high school, therapists at another school wrote a letter to his psychiatrist saying he was fixated on guns and dreamed of killing others and being covered in blood, testimony at his penalty trial showed Thursday.
Dr. Brett Negin, testifying for the defense, said he never received it.
Negin and another psychiatrist who treated Cruz in the decade leading up to the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School testified during Thursday’s abbreviated court session about the various medications he was given for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and other issues. Both said under cross-examination by prosecutors they never saw anything that would have led them to believe he was capable of mass murder.
But Negin, who treated Cruz from 2012 into August 2017, was then shown by the defense a June 2014 letter written to him by a psychiatrist and therapist at Cross Creek School, a campus attended by students with emotional and behavioral problems.
Dr. Nyrma N. Ortiz and therapist Rona O’Connor Kelly’s two-page letter addressed to Negin says Cruz, then 15, was experiencing extreme mood swings, adding, “He is usually very irritable and reactive.” They said he is “inappropriately” obsessed with guns and the military, defiant, verbally aggressive toward his teachers, paranoid and places the blame on others for the problems he creates.
“At home, he continues to be aggressive and destructive with minimal provocation,” the two wrote. He destroyed a television after losing a video game, punched holes in walls and used sharp objects to cut up the furniture and carve holes in the bathroom. He had a hatchet that he used to chop a dead tree in the back yard, but his mother reported she could no longer find it.
Cruz shared at school “he dreams of killing others and is covered in blood.”
The two said he had been assessed for hospitalization, but that never happened. They said they were writing Negin so he could adjust Cruz’s medication.
Negin testified Thursday he never received the letter and no one followed up with him when he didn’t respond. He said Cross Creek’s typical procedure if the staff was having problems with one of his patients was to have a counselor come to his office with the student and parents to discuss the issue.
“This did not happen one time with Mr. Cruz,” Negin said.
Negin also testified that in 2013 he wrote a letter for Cruz’s mother supporting his voluntary hospitalization. That also never happened.
Office and home numbers for Ortiz were disconnected. O’Connor Kelly did not immediately respond to an email Thursday seeking comment.
The defense is trying to show that Cruz, 23, had a long history of mental health issues that were never fully treated. He pleaded guilty in October to the murders — the trial is only to decide whether he is sentenced to death or life without parole.
The defense is trying to overcome the prosecution’s case, which ended earlier this month. It featured surveillance video of Cruz, then 19, mowing down students and staff with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle as he stalked a three-story building for seven minutes, photos of the aftermath and a jury visit to the building.
For Cruz to receive a death sentence, the seven-man, five-woman jury must be unanimous. If one juror votes for life, that will be his sentence.
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Associated Press writer Freida Frisaro in Fort Lauderdale contributed to this report. | https://www.wpri.com/news/breaking-news/ap-top-news/ap-letter-school-shooter-fixated-with-guns-dreamed-of-killing/ | 2022-08-26T16:13:45Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/breaking-news/ap-top-news/ap-letter-school-shooter-fixated-with-guns-dreamed-of-killing/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a stark message Friday: The Fed will likely impose more large interest rate hikes in coming months and is resolutely focused on taming the highest inflation in four decades.
Powell also warned more explicitly than he has in the past that the Fed's continued tightening of credit will cause pain for many households and businesses as its higher rates further slow the economy and potentially lead to job losses.
“These are the unfortunate costs of reducing inflation,” he said in a high-profile speech at the Fed's annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole. “But a failure to restore price stability would mean far greater pain.”
Investors had been hoping for a signal that the Fed might soon moderate its rate increases later this year if inflation were to show further signs of easing. But the Fed chair indicated that that time may not be near.
After hiking its key short term rate by three-quarters of a point at each of its past two meetings — part of the Fed's fastest series of rate increases since the early 1980s — Powell said the Fed might ease up on that pace “at some point” — suggesting that any such slowing isn't near.
Powell said the size of the Fed’s rate increase at its next meeting in late September — whether one-half or three-quarters of a percentage point — will depend on inflation and jobs data. An increase of either size, though, would exceed the Fed’s traditional quarter-point hike, a reflection of how severe inflation has become.
The Fed chair said that while lower inflation readings that have been reported for July have been “welcome,” “a single month’s improvement falls far short of what the Committee will need to see before we are confident that inflation is moving down.”
He noted that the history of high inflation in the 1970s, when the central bank sought to counter high prices with only intermittent rate hikes, shows that the Fed must stay focused.
“The historical record cautions strongly against prematurely” lowering interest rates, he said. “We must keep at it until the job is done.”
Powell's speech is the marquee event of the the Fed's annual economic symposium at Jackson Hole, the first time the conference of central bankers is being held in person since 2019, after it went virtual for two years during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since March, the Fed has implemented its fastest pace of rate increases in decades to try to curbinflation, which has punished households with soaring costs for food, gas, rent and other necessities. The central bank has lifted its benchmark rate by 2 full percentage points in just four meetings, to a range of 2.25% to 2.5%.
Those hikes have led to higher costs for mortgages, car loans and other consumer and business borrowing. Home sales have been plunging since the Fed first signaled it would raise borrowing costs.
In June, the Fed's policymakers signaled that they expected their key rate to end 2022 in a range of 3.25% to 3.5% and then to rise further next year to between 3.75% and 4%. If rates reached their projected level at the end of this year, they would be at the highest point since 2008.
Powell is betting that he can engineer a high-risk outcome: Slow the economy enough to ease inflation pressures yet not so much as to trigger a recession.
His task has been complicated by the economy's cloudy picture: On Thursday, the government said the economy shrank at a 0.6% annual rate in the April-June period, the second straight quarter of contraction. Yet employers are still hiring rapidly, and the number of people seeking unemployment aid, a measure of layoffs, remains relatively low.
At the same time, inflation is still crushingly high, though it has shown some signs of easing, notably in the form of declining gas prices.
At its meeting in July, Fed policymakers expressed two competing concerns that highlighted their delicate task.
According to minutes from that meeting, the officials — who aren't identified by name — have prioritized their inflation fight. Still, some officials said there was a risk that the Fed would raise borrowing costs more than necessary, risking a recession. If inflation were to fall closer to the Fed's 2% target and the economy weakened further, those diverging views could become hard to reconcile.
At last year's Jackson Hole symposium, Powell listed five reasons why he thought inflation would be “transitory.” Yet instead it has persisted, and many economists have noted that those remarks haven't aged well.
Powell indirectly acknowledged that history at the outset of his remarks Friday, when he said that, “at past Jackson Hole conferences, I have discussed broad topics such as the ever-changing structure of the economy and the challenges of conducting monetary policy."
“Today," he said, “my remarks will be shorter, my focus narrower and my message more direct.” | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/fed-reserve-interest-rate-hikes-are-likely-in-coming-months/507-cae74ddb-34d0-4f07-a85e-242fd8951f25 | 2022-08-26T16:13:55Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/fed-reserve-interest-rate-hikes-are-likely-in-coming-months/507-cae74ddb-34d0-4f07-a85e-242fd8951f25 | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 56 |
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a stark message Friday: The Fed will likely impose more large interest rate hikes in coming months and is resolutely focused on taming the highest inflation in four decades.
Powell also warned more explicitly than he has in the past that the Fed's continued tightening of credit will cause pain for many households and businesses as its higher rates further slow the economy and potentially lead to job losses.
“These are the unfortunate costs of reducing inflation,” he said in a high-profile speech at the Fed's annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole. “But a failure to restore price stability would mean far greater pain.”
Investors had been hoping for a signal that the Fed might soon moderate its rate increases later this year if inflation were to show further signs of easing. But the Fed chair indicated that that time may not be near.
After hiking its key short term rate by three-quarters of a point at each of its past two meetings — part of the Fed's fastest series of rate increases since the early 1980s — Powell said the Fed might ease up on that pace “at some point” — suggesting that any such slowing isn't near.
Powell said the size of the Fed’s rate increase at its next meeting in late September — whether one-half or three-quarters of a percentage point — will depend on inflation and jobs data. An increase of either size, though, would exceed the Fed’s traditional quarter-point hike, a reflection of how severe inflation has become.
The Fed chair said that while lower inflation readings that have been reported for July have been “welcome,” “a single month’s improvement falls far short of what the Committee will need to see before we are confident that inflation is moving down.”
He noted that the history of high inflation in the 1970s, when the central bank sought to counter high prices with only intermittent rate hikes, shows that the Fed must stay focused.
“The historical record cautions strongly against prematurely” lowering interest rates, he said. “We must keep at it until the job is done.”
Powell's speech is the marquee event of the the Fed's annual economic symposium at Jackson Hole, the first time the conference of central bankers is being held in person since 2019, after it went virtual for two years during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since March, the Fed has implemented its fastest pace of rate increases in decades to try to curbinflation, which has punished households with soaring costs for food, gas, rent and other necessities. The central bank has lifted its benchmark rate by 2 full percentage points in just four meetings, to a range of 2.25% to 2.5%.
Those hikes have led to higher costs for mortgages, car loans and other consumer and business borrowing. Home sales have been plunging since the Fed first signaled it would raise borrowing costs.
In June, the Fed's policymakers signaled that they expected their key rate to end 2022 in a range of 3.25% to 3.5% and then to rise further next year to between 3.75% and 4%. If rates reached their projected level at the end of this year, they would be at the highest point since 2008.
Powell is betting that he can engineer a high-risk outcome: Slow the economy enough to ease inflation pressures yet not so much as to trigger a recession.
His task has been complicated by the economy's cloudy picture: On Thursday, the government said the economy shrank at a 0.6% annual rate in the April-June period, the second straight quarter of contraction. Yet employers are still hiring rapidly, and the number of people seeking unemployment aid, a measure of layoffs, remains relatively low.
At the same time, inflation is still crushingly high, though it has shown some signs of easing, notably in the form of declining gas prices.
At its meeting in July, Fed policymakers expressed two competing concerns that highlighted their delicate task.
According to minutes from that meeting, the officials — who aren't identified by name — have prioritized their inflation fight. Still, some officials said there was a risk that the Fed would raise borrowing costs more than necessary, risking a recession. If inflation were to fall closer to the Fed's 2% target and the economy weakened further, those diverging views could become hard to reconcile.
At last year's Jackson Hole symposium, Powell listed five reasons why he thought inflation would be “transitory.” Yet instead it has persisted, and many economists have noted that those remarks haven't aged well.
Powell indirectly acknowledged that history at the outset of his remarks Friday, when he said that, “at past Jackson Hole conferences, I have discussed broad topics such as the ever-changing structure of the economy and the challenges of conducting monetary policy."
“Today," he said, “my remarks will be shorter, my focus narrower and my message more direct.” | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/fed-reserve-interest-rate-hikes-are-likely-in-coming-months/507-cae74ddb-34d0-4f07-a85e-242fd8951f25 | 2022-08-26T16:13:55Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/fed-reserve-interest-rate-hikes-are-likely-in-coming-months/507-cae74ddb-34d0-4f07-a85e-242fd8951f25 | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 56 |
NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has begun scattering millions of packets of oral rabies vaccine from helicopters and planes over 13 states from Maine to Alabama.
The major aim is to keep raccoons from spreading their strain of the deadly virus to states where it hasn't been found or isn't widespread, said field trial coordinator Jordona Kirby.
The USDA is also continuing tests of a vaccine approved in Canada to immunize skunks as well as raccoons, said Kirby of Wildlife Services, which is part of the agriculture department's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
Rabies is spread through an infected animal’s saliva, usually through bites. However, saliva that gets into the eyes, nose or mouth can also infect someone, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Thirteen people in South Carolina were considered potentially exposed in March because they had bottle-fed or given medicine to a sick calf that turned out to have rabies, said Dr. Michael Neault, the state veterinarian.
Globally, the virus kills 60,000 people a year, most bitten by dogs, the World Health Organization states.
That's about the same number that get shots to prevent rabies in the U.S. after being bitten or scratched by an infected or possibly infected animal, according to the CDC.
State and local pet vaccination laws mean the virus is mostly spread by wildlife in the U.S.
The national rabies control program started in 1997 in Texas, where coyotes were spreading the canine variant of the virus, Kirby said.
She said vaccine drops eliminated that variant in 2004. Three years later, the CDC declared the nation free of canine rabies.
That doesn’t mean unvaccinated pets are safe. Canine rabies is among more than 20 variants — seven found in terrestrial mammals and more than 13 in species of bats, said rabies control program coordinator Richard Chipman.
A bite from an animal infected with any variant can make any other mammal sick. Scratches occasionally do so, since animals lick their paws.
A three-year program in Arizona and New Mexico eliminated a bat rabies strain in foxes, Kirby said. And Texas, with help from USDA, dropped 1.1 million baits along the Mexican border in January to keep coyotes from bringing the canine variant back.
Raccoons are the main rabies reservoir in 18 states along and near the East Coast and skunks in 21 others, according to data from 2020, the latest year available.
Bats made up 31% of the nearly 4,500 animals found with rabies in 2020. But since nearly all of the 40-plus bat species found in the U.S. eat insects and the rest drink nectar or eat fruit, oral vaccines would be much trickier.
Some scientists have speculated that bats could be vaccinated during hibernation, perhaps with a fine mist or with a gel that could be transferred from bat to bat, Chipman said. Early research is testing the idea in vampire bats, which live in Mexico and Central and South America and might spread such a vaccine within a colony by grooming each other.
Rabid wildlife isn't just a rural problem. A rabid fox on Capitol Hill was caught less than 24 hours after the first report in April. By then, about a half-dozen people had reported bites or nips to U.S. Capitol Police, but others may have gone to other agencies, a Capitol Police spokesperson said by email.
Raccoon rabies campaigns started in August in parts of northern Maine, western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and southwestern Virginia. The 348,000 Raboral V-RG baits in Maine and 535,000 in the three other states are being dropped from planes in rural areas and from vehicles in urban and suburban areas.
In all, about 3.75 million packets — coated with a fishmeal attractant or encased in 1-inch (2.5-centimeter) fish meal cubes — will be distributed in nine states, ending when 1.1 million are dropped in Alabama in October.
The vaccine has been found safe for more than 60 kinds of animals including domestic dogs and cats. Eating a large number of vaccine packets might give dogs an upset stomach but wouldn't cause any permanent problem, APHIS says.
About 3.5 million doses of the experimental vaccine Onrab are being distributed in parts of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Tennessee — which also are getting the approved vaccine — plus four other states.
Onrab comes in blister packs with green, marshmallow-flavored coating. Wildlife Services hopes it may be approved next year in spite of lingering pandemic-related delays. | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/usda-distributing-rabies-vaccine-for-wildlife/507-4479072f-d059-49b6-9a62-51ee062a0b78 | 2022-08-26T16:14:01Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/usda-distributing-rabies-vaccine-for-wildlife/507-4479072f-d059-49b6-9a62-51ee062a0b78 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FURNAS COUNTY, Neb. (AP) — Authorities in Nebraska are trying to determine who released 16 million gallons of water by opening a dam on an irrigation channel one night this month — and why.
The puzzling water release from the Cambridge Canal reduced the flow to some 18,000 acres of crops and jeopardized expensive irrigation equipment, according to Brad Edgerton, the general manager of the Frenchman Cambridge Irrigation District that runs the nearly 48-mile-long waterway.
The canal was flowing at its normal rate of 150 cubic feet per second when Edgerton checked on his computer on the night of Aug. 13, but by the following morning the flow had been cut in half. Something had happened at the canal’s dam near the town of Cambridge, about 200 miles west of Lincoln.
Edgerton drove there and discovered that someone had wrenched open the dam’s two 10-foot sluice gates, sending the precious water down the Republican River. He estimates that about 50-acre-feet of water was lost during the roughly eight hours that the gates were open, and that the water was worth around $2,600 based on the $52-per-acre-foot price that farmers pay.
“It was an unfortunate situation. In the scheme of things, it wasn’t a lot of water, but it was an inconvenience,” he said.
Edgerton scrambled to notify farmers downstream about the problem, called the sheriff and contacted the Bureau of Reclamation to get more water released from the Harry Strunk Reservoir to replenish the canal.
Furnas County Sheriff Doug Brown told the Lincoln Journal Star that he could only guess why someone would release the water.
“There are a lot of different scenarios and theories,” he said. “But there is no evidence to lean one way or another, so all theories are still viable.”
Edgerton said he thinks the sheriff is following up on every rumor he hears but so far is stumped.
“I don’t believe they’re any closer to solving it,” he said Thursday.
It’s not clear if any state law governs the act of releasing canal water back into a river — or provides penalties — but Furnas County Attorney Patrick Calkins said he’ll try to find one if the sheriff does find out who grabbed the hand crank wheel from where it hung nearby and used it to open the gates.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Two Florida residents have pleaded guilty in a scheme to peddle a diary and other items stolen from President Joe Biden’s daughter to the conservative group Project Veritas for $40,000, prosecutors said Thursday.
Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander “sought to profit from their theft of another person’s personal property,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement.
Harris, a 40-year-old from Palm Beach, and Kurlander, 58, of nearby Jupiter, face the possibility of up to five years in prison. They pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport stolen property across state lines.
Harris’ lawyer, Sam Talkin, said she “has accepted responsibility for her conduct and looks forward to moving on with her life.” Kurlander’s lawyer, Florian Miedel, declined to comment.
While authorities didn’t identify anyone in the case except the defendants, the details of the investigation have been public for months.
Ashley Biden, the president’s daughter, was moving out of a friend’s Delray Beach, Florida, home in spring 2020 when she stored the diary and other belongings there, prosecutors said in a court filing.
They said Harris then moved into the same room, found the items and got in touch with Kurlander, who enthused in a text message that he would help her make a “ton of money” from selling it, adding an expletive before “ton.”
The two initially aimed to sell some of the purloined property to then-President Donald Trump’s campaign, but a representative turned them down and told them to take the material to the FBI, according to the court papers.
The campaign “can’t use this,” Kurlander explained to Harris in a September 2020 text message, adding: “It has to be done a different way.”
Their next stop was Project Veritas, which paid for the two to bring some of the material — including the diary and a digital device with family photos — to a New York luxury hotel, prosecutors said.
Project Veritas staffers met with Kurlander and Harris in New York and agreed to pay an initial $10,000, saying more money could come if they retrieved more of Ashley Biden’s items from the home, partly in order to authenticate the diary, according to the court filing.
Back in Florida, Kurlander texted Harris a blunt assessment of what would come of the exchange, prosecutors said.
“They are in a sketchy business and here they are taking what’s literally a stolen diary and info … and trying to make a story that will ruin” Ashley Biden’s life and possibly affect the impending presidential election, he wrote, according to the court papers. He added that the two needed “to tread even more carefully” and get “anything worthwhile” out of the Delray Beach house, according to the court papers.
Prosecutors said Kurlander and Harris took Ashley Biden’s stored tax documents, clothes and luggage as Kurlander pressed Project Veritas in a message to commit to a bigger payout: “We are taking huge risks. This isn’t fair.”
A Project Veritas staffer soon flew to Florida, the employee shipped the items to New York and the group paid Harris and Kurlander $20,000 apiece, prosecutors said.
Project Veritas identifies itself as a news organization. It is best known for conducting hidden camera stings that have embarrassed news outlets, labor organizations and Democratic politicians.
“Project Veritas’s news gathering was ethical and legal” in the diary affair, the group said in a statement Thursday. The organization said earlier that it turned the journal over to law enforcement after receiving it from “tipsters” who maintained that it had been abandoned in a room.
“A journalist’s lawful receipt of material later alleged to be stolen is routine, commonplace and protected by the First Amendment,” Project Veritas added Thursday.
Neither Project Veritas nor any staffers have been charged with a crime.
The FBI searched the group’s New York offices and the homes of some of its employees as part of the investigation. A court in New York appointed a former federal judge to review material that was seized in those searches, so as to ensure that investigators couldn’t look at material protected by journalistic or attorney-client privileges.
Generally, media organizations aren’t culpable for receiving material that might have been stolen, if they weren’t involved in the theft. But there can be criminal liability for orchestrating theft and then knowingly paying for stolen material.
“There is no First Amendment protection for the theft and interstate transport of stolen property,” the U.S. attorney’s office wrote in a court filing last year.
O’Keefe has said that Project Veritas ultimately could not confirm that the diary belonged to Ashley Biden. The group did not publish information from it.
He added that there was “no doubt Project Veritas acted appropriately at each and every step.”
Ashley Biden, a 41-year-old social worker, is the daughter of the president and of first lady Jill Biden. His eldest daughter and his first wife were killed in a 1972 car accident.
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Derek Chauvin has been moved from a Minnesota state prison where he was often held in solitary confinement to a medium-security federal prison in Arizona, where the former police officer convicted in George Floyd’s killing may be held under less restrictive conditions.
Chauvin was taken Wednesday from a maximum-security prison in a Minneapolis suburb, where he often spent most of his day in a 10-by-10-foot cell, to the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
The Tucson facility houses 266 inmates, both male and female, as part of a larger complex that includes a high-security penitentiary and a minimum-security satellite camp.
Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Randilee Giamusso declined to detail the circumstances of Chauvin’s confinement, citing privacy, safety and security concerns.
Experts said earlier that Chauvin was likely to be safer in the federal system. It typically houses less-violent inmates, and he’d be less likely to mix with inmates he had arrested or investigated as a Minneapolis police officer.
“It’s dangerous to be an officer in any prison,” former U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger said after Chauvin was sentenced last month. “It’s even more dangerous in state prison because of the nature of the inmate population. There are gangs, for example. And police officers just don’t do well there. Those risks are reduced in a federal prison.”
The federal prison system does house many high-profile inmates, but it is also plagued by gangs and chronic violence. The entire federal prison system was put on a nationwide lockdown in January after two inmates were killed and two others were injured during a gang altercation at a federal penitentiary in Texas.
The Bureau of Prisons has also faced increasing scrutiny of violent incidents and serious misconduct in its ranks. Associated Press investigations have uncovered abuse, neglect and leadership missteps, including rampant sexual abuse by workers, severe staffing shortages, inmate escapes and the mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chauvin was sentenced last month in U.S. District Court in St. Paul to 21 years on federal civil rights charges after pleading guilty in an agreement with prosecutors. He was already serving 22 1/2 years for his conviction in state court on murder and manslaughter charges; a condition of the agreement called for the sentences to be served concurrently and in federal prison.
Chauvin, who is white, killed Floyd by pinning the unarmed Black man to the pavement with his knee for 9 1/2 minutes as bystander video captured Floyd struggling to breathe and crying out for help. Floyd was suspected of passing a counterfeit bill at a nearby grocery store.
Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020, touched off a firestorm of protests around the world and refocused attention on police brutality and racism.
U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson suggested when sentencing Chauvin that he be placed near family who live between Iowa and Minnesota. But federal officials are not bound by judicial requests.
Last month Magnuson also sentenced ex-Minneapolis police Officer J. Alexander Kueng to three years in prison and former Officer Tou Thao to 3 1/2 years on criminal civil rights charges related to the Floyd killing. They intend to appeal their sentences. Earlier in July, former officer Thomas Lane was sentenced to 2½ years. He’s been ordered to report to a low-security federal prison camp in Colorado later this month.
The three former officers were on trial at the same time three men were in court in Georgia, facing federal hate crime charges in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, who was Black. They were eventually convicted.
Two of the men agreed to plead guilty in the case in exchange for serving their sentences in federal prison, saying they feared for their safety in state prison. The judge rejected the deal in part because Arbery’s family strongly opposed it.
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CAMP SIMBA, Kenya – U.S. National Guard Soldiers assigned to B Troop, 2nd Squadron, 183rd Cavalry Regiment, Task Force Red Dragon, Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa held a Spur Ride August 20, 2022, in Manda Bay, Kenya.
Twenty-eight servicemembers, including two members of the U.S. Air Force, were divided into four teams to participate in physically and mentally challenging events for the chance to become a spur holder.
The spur ride consisted of physical training events, an obstacle course, rifle and pistol live-fire, weapons familiarization and testing stations, reconnaissance and medical evacuation lanes, and a night call for fire and crew-served weapons live-fire event. During all this, spur candidates moved nearly everywhere on foot and were quizzed by spur holders on basic warrior tasks.
The Order of the Spur is a tradition that reaches back to the beginning of the U.S. Cavalry.
New troopers were assigned a horse with a shaved tail to let those around know that they were
just beginning their journey as a cavalryman and were not yet proficient in their skills as a horseman. Today, those service members who set out to earn their spurs are nicknamed “shave-tails,” while those conducting the event are referred to as spur holders.
“The spur ride is a U.S Cavalry tradition that traces its roots back hundreds of years,” said U.S. Army Capt. Ronnie Brown, B Troop commander. “The event tests young cavalrymen physically and mentally to validate their skills as experts in their craft. In all senses, it is a rite of passage and we continue the tradition of testing U.S Cavalrymen in their quest to earn their spurs.”
The event began at 5 a.m. with an equipment showdown, to make sure each spur candidate had what they needed to complete the course. “Shave tails” dumped the contents of their rucksacks, held items above their head, and prepared for a long an extensive day in pursuit of their spurs.
One of the main focuses of the spur ride is teamwork. Shave-tails must stick together during these high-stress and rigorous events, finishing all activities together while under the scrutinizing gaze of the squadron spur holders. Teams are graded on their performance throughout the event.
“This is the pinnacle of being a cavalry soldier,” said U.S. Army Sgt. Bryan Skipworth, a spur candidate with B Troop. “You want to reaffirm that you know your skills. It is certainly a once-in-a-lifetime experience to be able to do the spur ride in Kenya.”
The event culminated with a night crew served weapons live-fire, utilizing night vision capabilities, call for fire with infrared illuminating mortar projectiles, and firing the M320 grenade launcher with 40mm high explosive rounds. Afterward, the spur candidates ruck marched from the live-fire range back to Camp Simba where they received their spurs and enjoyed some much-earned accolades from their fellow service members.
“This was an amazing opportunity for our Troopers,” Brown said. “There are very few, if any, that can say they earned their spurs in Africa. The quality of this event is a direct reflection of the high-caliber non-commissioned officers planning the event. I could not be more proud of what the participants and cadre accomplished.”
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DENVER (AP) — On the last day of voting in Colorado’s June primary, a poll worker sent to wipe down a voting machine found a concerning error message on its screen: “USB device change detected.”
The machine, used to mark ballots electronically, was taken out of use and an investigation launched. The message raised concerns that a voter had tried to tamper with it by inserting an off-the-shelf thumb drive.
The incident heightened concerns among election officials and security experts that conspiracy theories related to the 2020 presidential election could inspire some voters to meddle with — or even attempt to sabotage — election equipment. Even unsuccessful breaches, like the apparent one in the county south of Colorado Springs, could become major problems in the November general election, when turnout will be greater and the stakes higher — causing delays at polling places or sowing the seeds of misinformation campaigns.
Activists who promote the false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump have been traveling the country peddling a narrative that electronic voting machines are being manipulated. They have specifically targeted equipment made by Dominion Voting Systems, which has filed several defamation lawsuits and said that post-election reviews in state after state have shown its tallies to be accurate.
“This is yet another example of how lies about Dominion have damaged our company and diminished the credibility of U.S. elections,” company spokesperson Stephanie Walstrom said in a statement to The Associated Press.
Despite no evidence of widespread fraud or manipulation in the 2020 election, the voting machine conspiracies have sunk in with a wide swath of Republican voters. Many of them have berated county commissions throughout the country, seeking to ditch voting equipment in favor of hand-marking and hand-counting all ballots.
The incident in Pueblo County highlights a troubling reality, that any voter propelled by conspiracy theories could try to tamper with voting machines.
“You get people motivated and activated, and who knows what they are going to come up with to fight machines they don’t trust,” said election technology expert Kevin Skoglund.
While it’s difficult to stop such vigilante attempts, experts say the nation’s election infrastructure is well-positioned to detect them quickly, as the Colorado county was able to do. Not only does election security involve layers of defenses, but a majority of the country now uses hand-marked paper ballots. That means an accurate tally can be reached in case something does go wrong and the results questioned.
Perhaps more concerning is what could happen during the time election officials are investigating a suspected attack and working to validate the results. That’s when people can exploit the uncertainty and sow doubt about the election outcome.
“We’ve got so many layers of security and protections that have built over years,” said Michigan’s Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. “The bigger threats are outside infiltration, as opposed to the machines themselves, and that’s what we’re trying to prepare for — because that’s the greatest system of unknowns.”
False claims by Trump and his allies that the 2020 presidential election was rigged have been widely debunked and discredited, with no evidence of widespread fraud or manipulation substantiated nearly two years after the election. Numerous judges, some appointed by Trump, dismissed lawsuits filed after the election, while Trump’s own attorney general said the Justice Department found no fraud that would have changed the results.
Lies about the 2020 election have led to security breaches at some local election offices, including one in Mesa County, Colorado. Authorities in a handful of states are investigating whether officials provided access to their voting systems to conspiracy theorists.
Those concerns are adding to worries about the physical security of the machines, which should never be left unsecured. At polling places, the workers are trained to keep a close eye on equipment and flag anything suspicious.
Election officials also use locks and tamper-evident seals, so it becomes apparent if someone has tried to access voting equipment. Trigger alerts make machines inoperable if someone tries to tamper with them, which is what happened in Colorado on June 28.
Late in the afternoon, poll workers at the Pueblo County vote center heard noises coming from a voting booth. When a poll worker went to investigate and clean the machine, they saw the error message and notified a supervisor. Law enforcement and state election officials were immediately told of the incident.
What triggered the error message is part of the security protocols that protect voting machines.
Election officials can take measures to ensure that unauthorized devices don’t infect voting equipment. They can configure their systems to recognize only proprietary devices, such as USB drives from the voting system manufacturer, or employ a system that allows connections only with devices containing a pre-authorized digital signature.
If someone attempts to insert any unauthorized USB device, an error message appears, and the machine won’t work unless someone with administrator-level access overrides it.
In the Pueblo County case, the tamper-evident seal on the voting machine appeared to be disturbed. The case remains under investigation, and prosecutors are reviewing evidence.
This year, Colorado lawmakers broadened the definition of tampering with election equipment and strengthened the penalty for it. Formerly a misdemeanor offense with a penalty of up to 364 days in jail, it is now a felony punishable by up to three years in prison.
“Lies about America’s elections are causing security risks,” said Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold. “Any actor who tries to subvert the will of the people should be held responsible under the law.”
Federal officials have been working with those on the state and local levels to improve their security defenses since voting systems were designated as “critical infrastructure” after the 2016 election — along with banks, dams and nuclear power plants.
State and local election officials who weren’t already doing so have added locks, video camera surveillance of equipment storage locations and door access cards to limit those who can enter secure areas. Other security steps include limiting access to voting equipment to only those who need it and ensuring that sensitive systems are not connected to the internet.
“I have high confidence that jurisdictions are putting the necessary tools in place to be able to prevent and detect any kind of nefarious activities,” said Kim Wyman, who leads election security efforts at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
In Pueblo County, election officials are preparing for every possibility during the November general election. Gilbert “Bo” Ortiz oversees elections as the clerk and recorder in Pueblo County, which Trump narrowly won in 2016 but lost four years later.
Ortiz sees a bit of irony in efforts by those who question the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, whether it’s flooding his office with record requests, demanding recounts or attempting to tamper with equipment.
“All they are doing is proving the integrity of our system,” Ortiz said.
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Cassidy reported from Atlanta.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Paul Goldschmidt slugged his 32nd and 33rd homers to highlight a five-RBI performance and position himself in the Triple Crown discussion, helping the St. Louis Cardinals roll to an 8-3 win Thursday over the Chicago Cubs.
Goldschmidt increased his NL-leading RBI total to 105 and also leads the NL in batting average (.339). He is second to Kyle Schwarber of the Phillies (35) in home runs, and Thursday was the the third time this season Goldschmidt had a multi-homer game and the 23rd time in his career.
“If something like that (the Triple Crown) happened, it would be a miracle,” Goldschmidt said. “So to think that’s realistic is probably pretty far-fetched. It would be amazing, but to think that’s a goal for anyone is a crazy standard.”
Goldschmidt, Corey Dickerson and Tommy Edman collected three hits apiece as the NL Central-leading Cardinals won for the 10th time in their last 12 games and concluded a 6-2 trip.
Dickerson set an expansion-era franchise record for consecutive hits — 10 in 10 consecutive plate appearances. He sparked a three-run first inning with an RBI single for his ninth consecutive hit, breaking the previous mark of eight held by Curt Flood (1964, 1968), Felix Jose (1991) and Fernando Tatis (1998).
The Cardinals collected 16 hits even without slugger Nolan Arenado, who returned to St. Louis to attend the birth of his first child. But that was plenty of support for Dakota Hudson (7-6), who pitched a season-high seven innings of five-hit ball.
The Cubs lost for the fourth time in six games. Starter Marcus Stroman (3-6) gave up 11 hits and five runs, all earned, in five innings. It was one more hit than he’d surrendered against them on June 3.
“It looked like it just took (Stroman) a minute to get going, and I don’t think he found that rhythm out of the stretch,” Cubs manager David Ross said. “He was in (the stretch) a lot. They were jumping on him early in the count sometimes.”
Nolan Gorman followed Dickerson’s first-inning hit with an RBI single, and Tyler O’Neill capped it with a sacrifice fly.
Goldschmidt hit a two-run single in the fourth off Stroman, then smacked a solo shot that landed near the top of the left-field bleachers off Sean Newcomb in the sixth and had a two-run shot in the eighth off Kervin Castro.
Cubs left fielder Ian Happ provided the bulk of the Cubs’ offense, hitting a double and scoring on a throwing error by Edman in the second, and following that with an RBI single in the third. Happ also hit a double that eluded right fielder Lars Nootbaar to score Nico Hoerner in the eighth.
THE LAST DANCE
Neither Albert Pujols nor Yadier Molina were in the lineup in their final visit to Wrigley Field.
Pujols, 42, an 11-time All-Star who ranks fifth all-time with 693 career home runs, and nine-time Gold Glove winner Molina, 40, were presented with Wrigley scoreboard panels with their numbers in a pregame ceremony.
“This guy has beat up on this club for a lot of years, and I wanted him to taste it one more time,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said of his failed attempt to give Pujols a pinch-hitting appearance in the ninth inning.
NO-GO TO TORONTO
The Cubs expect three to four players won’t travel to Toronto for a three-game series starting Monday, Cubs’ President of Business Operations Jed Hoyer said. The names of the players will be disclosed Sunday in Milwaukee.
Canada’s government states that all visitors must be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to enter the country.
“You want to play at full strength all the time, but we have to make certain decisions in order to make sure we’re able to fill out a roster and be competitive up there,” Hoyer said. “It’s not something we look forward to. It’s not idea. But it’s also baseball in 2022 when you go to Toronto.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cubs: C Willson Contreras (sore left ankle) missed his third consecutive start but is expected to return as soon as Friday. … RHP Adbert Alzolay (right shoulder strain) was scheduled to throw a bullpen session Thursday at Triple-A Iowa. … RHP Manny Rodriguez (right elbow strain) is scheduled to pitch this weekend for Iowa. Rodriguez has struck out five in his last two outings for Iowa.
TRANSACTIONS
Cardinals: RHP Ryan Helsley will rejoin the team Friday, manager Oliver Marmol said. Helsley was placed on the restricted list following the birth of his wife Alex’s first child.
UP NEXT
Cardinals: Will start LHP Jose Quintana (4-5, 3.45 ERA) Friday night at Atlanta. Quintana allowed four runs (two earned) in a season-low 2 2/3 innings in a 6-4 win Sunday over the Diamondbacks.
Cubs: Will start LHP Justin Steele (4-7, 3.25) Friday night at Milwaukee. Steele pitched six shutout innings Sunday in a 5-2 loss to the Brewers.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — It seemed only fitting that, one day after Hall of Fame quarterback Len Dawson’s family announced his death at the age of 87, the Kansas City Chiefs played the Green Bay Packers on Thursday night in a preseason rematch of the first Super Bowl.
It was that title game on a sunny January day in 1967 when many fans first saw “Lenny the Cool.”
Televised simultaneously by CBS and NBC from Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the inaugural meeting of the champions of the powerful NFL and upstart AFL was close into the second half. But that’s when the Vince Lombardi’s powerful Packers pulled away for a 35-10 victory over an exhausted Dawson and his plucky bunch of Chiefs.
Dawson would get his Super Bowl ring, of course. He led the Chiefs back three years later, where Kansas City would beat the Minnesota Vikings in the final championship game staged before the NFL and AFL merged together.
“As a child, I just remember being on the Chiefs’ field and looking up at Len,” Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt recalled. “Of course, as a child, all the players were huge and he was one of the smaller ones of the group. But he was the one with the ‘it’ factor. He was the leader of the team. And I remember looking at him like that.”
Not surprisingly, the Chiefs found plenty of ways to remember Dawson on Thursday night.
Patrick Mahomes, who became close to Dawson in recent years, wore a hoody with his predecessor’s image on the back of it. The Chiefs’ helmets carried his No. 16 on them. And on the Chiefs Radio Network, where Dawson flourished in a second career as a Hall of Fame broadcaster, stories of Dawson flowed during a lengthy pregame tribute.
Elsewhere in Kansas City, the fountains outside historic Union Station were specially lit to celebrate his life.
Perhaps most poignantly, though, Mahomes trotted onto the field for the only time all game — the Chiefs’ first offensive possession — and lined up his players in the same kind of stacked huddle that Dawson employed.
The Chiefs took a delay of game penalty, Mahomes trotted off the field and the preseason game resumed.
“I’ve had people reach out to me and say, ‘Hey, I cheered for the Chiefs because of Len Dawson when I was a little kid, even though I didn’t live in Kansas City,” said the 57-year-old Hunt, whose father Lamar Hunt helped found the AFL along with the Chiefs, who began play as the Dallas Texans before moving north a year after Dawson arrived.
The young Hunt remembers growing up in the locker room in the 1970s, and how Dawson always kept an eye out for him.
“He’s synonymous with the success of the early Chiefs organization, and those early teams that really helped establish the Chiefs in the American Football League,” Hunt said. “But when you step back and think about him in terms of Kansas City, he is synonymous as someone who cared about the community and finding ways to give back.”
Dawson, who was also known to millions for his work on HBO’s iconic “Inside the NFL,” had been in declining health the past few years. He went into hospice care on Aug. 12 before dying this week with his wife, Linda, by his side.
While he had stepped back from the public spotlight, Dawson remained a revered figure around Arrowhead Stadium, where the television broadcast booth was named in his honor. Much of his memorabilia is on display in the team’s Hall of Fame, and his name hung between former teammates Mike Garrett and Bobby Bell in the stadium’s ring of honor.
“I probably didn’t appreciate it at the time because I was fairly young,” Hunt said, “but I’ve come to appreciate it over the last 20 or 30 years — when I run into someone who is not from Kansas City but they’re a fan of pro football, they will frequently bring up Len Dawson’s name. That’s who they remember from those early Chiefs.”
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- J Alley Studios today announces a studio gallery showing in LA's Arts District of the work by photographer Jeremiah Alley on Saturday, September 10, 2022, from 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm.
The first West Coast and first solo showing of the artwork, Exhibition of the (Un)seen will inspire viewers to reimagine what could be as they journey through J Alley's photography; a disentanglement of objects that strive to disrupt conventional views of architecture and cityscapes.
"My entire goal is to allow viewers to really make an almost unconscious choice to see the world around them differently after absorbing these images. This selection of my work seeks to understand the foggy distance between chaos and mystery; to clear the field of expectation and see the familiar in a new way," J Alley says of the images in the (Un)seen series.
Given J Alley's innovative techniques, intense curiosity and adventurous spirit, patrons should anticipate a series of architectural abstract portraits showing a playful wonder of light, movement, and structure as they walk through time and space. They'll view non-traditional visions that rearrange the world by bringing together shapes and elements in a single, unedited exposure.
Jeremiah Alley is a professional photographer and mixed-media artist whose techniques include photography, videography, and collage as he explores the boundaries between the imagined and the real. A US Air Force Veteran and former student at Brooks Institute of Photography, his fine art has been showcased in shows in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn and Chicago in 2021 with Saatchi Art's The Other Art Fair.
For press inquiries and viewing information about Exhibition of the (Un)seen, please visit the J Alley Studios press website at https://www.jalleystudios.com/press-unseen
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Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Friday directed the state police to ensure law and order at Adani Port's transhipment port project site at Vizhinjam in Thiruvananthapuram district where the fisherfolks are holding protests alleging unscientific construction.
The court, while considering a plea filed by Adani Ports seeking police protection from those protesting against the construction of the port, also issued notice to the protesters.
Considering the matter, the high court directed the police to make sure that law and order is kept intact in the area and posted the matter for Monday for further consideration.
When the matter was taken up, the counsel for the state government informed the court that there was no need for deploying central forces in the area and submitted that necessary steps have been taken at various levels for solving the problem.
The state government also turned down the Central government counsel's offer expressing readiness for CISF security project, if the state government seeks for it.
The Adani Group, in its plea has stated that the ongoing agitation by fishermen was a threat to the life of its employees and the government was not taking any action in this regard despite making representations.
It prayed for a court direction to the state government to provide adequate police security to the project.
Meanwhile, a representative of the Thiruvananthapuram archdiocese of the Latin Catholic Church, which is spearheading the agitation, rejected Adani Port's claim that law and order is affected in the area.
Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly, V D Satheesan alleged that there was no difference in the stands taken by the Adani Port and the state government on the protesters' demand.
A large number of fisherfolk have been protesting outside the main entrance of the multi-purpose seaport, located at nearby Mulloor, since last week pressing their seven-point charter of demands including halting the construction work and to conduct a coastal impact study in connection with the multi-crore project.
The protesters have been alleging that the unscientific construction of groynes, the artificial sea walls known as "pulimutt' in local parlance, as part of the upcoming Vizhinjam port was one of the reasons for the increasing coastal erosion in the district.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had recently said that his government was considering providing rented accommodation to rehabilitate the displaced fisherfolk and the District Collector of Thiruvananthapuram has been entrusted with the task which includes fixation of rent.
He also claimed that the state government has launched a Rs 2,450 crore worth project to rehabilitate the fisherfolk displaced due to coastal erosion and CRZ regulations. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/26/kerala-hc-on-vizhinjam-port-protest.amp.html | 2022-08-26T16:18:29Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/26/kerala-hc-on-vizhinjam-port-protest.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Friday directed the state police to ensure law and order at Adani Port's transhipment port project site at Vizhinjam in Thiruvananthapuram district where the fisherfolks are holding protests alleging unscientific construction.
The court, while considering a plea filed by Adani Ports seeking police protection from those protesting against the construction of the port, also issued notice to the protesters.
Considering the matter, the high court directed the police to make sure that law and order is kept intact in the area and posted the matter for Monday for further consideration.
When the matter was taken up, the counsel for the state government informed the court that there was no need for deploying central forces in the area and submitted that necessary steps have been taken at various levels for solving the problem.
The state government also turned down the Central government counsel's offer expressing readiness for CISF security project, if the state government seeks for it.
The Adani Group, in its plea has stated that the ongoing agitation by fishermen was a threat to the life of its employees and the government was not taking any action in this regard despite making representations.
It prayed for a court direction to the state government to provide adequate police security to the project.
Meanwhile, a representative of the Thiruvananthapuram archdiocese of the Latin Catholic Church, which is spearheading the agitation, rejected Adani Port's claim that law and order is affected in the area.
Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly, V D Satheesan alleged that there was no difference in the stands taken by the Adani Port and the state government on the protesters' demand.
A large number of fisherfolk have been protesting outside the main entrance of the multi-purpose seaport, located at nearby Mulloor, since last week pressing their seven-point charter of demands including halting the construction work and to conduct a coastal impact study in connection with the multi-crore project.
The protesters have been alleging that the unscientific construction of groynes, the artificial sea walls known as "pulimutt' in local parlance, as part of the upcoming Vizhinjam port was one of the reasons for the increasing coastal erosion in the district.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had recently said that his government was considering providing rented accommodation to rehabilitate the displaced fisherfolk and the District Collector of Thiruvananthapuram has been entrusted with the task which includes fixation of rent.
He also claimed that the state government has launched a Rs 2,450 crore worth project to rehabilitate the fisherfolk displaced due to coastal erosion and CRZ regulations. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/26/kerala-hc-on-vizhinjam-port-protest.html | 2022-08-26T16:18:36Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/26/kerala-hc-on-vizhinjam-port-protest.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys left tackle Tyron Smith is expected to return at some point this season after sustaining a torn left hamstring that also injured the knee, team owner and general manager Jerry Jones said Thursday.
Jones said during an appearance on ESPN that he wasn’t sure if Smith’s injury would require surgery but that the eight-time Pro Bowler would return late in the season.
A person with knowledge of the injury, which happened in practice Wednesday night, said Smith had a torn hamstring with a knee fracture that resulted from the tendon pulling away from the bone. ESPN first reported the injury.
Speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because there was no official announcement of the injury, the person said it appeared Smith would be sidelined until December.
Smith was injured during 11-on-11 drills when he went to engage linebacker Leighton Vander Esch about 5 yards downfield before crumpling to the turf. He walked off the field without help and later walked past reporters outside the locker room.
The 31-year-old Smith has been hampered mostly by back, neck and ankle injuries in recent years. Smith has missed at least three games each season since 2016. He played just two games in 2020 before season-ending neck surgery.
Rookie first-round pick Tyler Smith could replace him. Tyler Smith has been working at left guard but was the starting left tackle at Tulsa. He missed both practices this week with an ankle injury.
“We’ve played a lot of games without Tyron,” Jones said on ESPN. “Not as successfully as we do with him. But in the meantime we’ve got a guy named Tyler Smith who’s come on the scene.”
The injury is a major blow to an offensive line that was already in transition.
The Cowboys were counting on Smith and five-time All-Pro right guard Zack Martin as the anchors for a unit that is young and relatively inexperienced at the other three spots. Dallas probably just added a fourth spot to that concern.
Josh Ball, a fourth-round pick last year, has replaced Tyron Smith at times during training camp this year. Ball missed all of his rookie season with an ankle injury.
If Tyler Smith moves to left tackle, third-year player Connor McGovern is the likely choice at left guard. Before Tyron Smith’s injury, McGovern, who missed all of his rookie year with a torn pectoral muscle, was expected to start ahead of Tyler Smith. Tyler Biadasz, another third-year player, is the center.
Without Tyron Smith, quarterback Dak Prescott is missing the veteran blocker on his blind side and two other starters from last year’s line while moving on without top receiver Amari Cooper, who was traded to Cleveland in a cost-cutting move in the offseason. CeeDee Lamb is taking over the No. 1 receiving role from Cooper.
The defending NFC East champs, who lost a wild-card game at home to San Francisco in January, open the season with two tough home games. The opener is against Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sept. 11 before Joe Burrow and the AFC champion Cincinnati Bengals visit.
“I like where we are relative to our skill positions and frankly, our challenge is in our offensive line,” Jones said. “The offensive talent has got to step up with the recognition that we can’t count on what you might have had up there.”
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Thrissur: In a shocking incident, a youth killed his mother by strangling her on Friday.
The deceased has been identified as Shobhana (54). Her son Vishnu (24), a tanker lorry driver, surrendered at the Vellikulangara police station here shortly after the crime.
He also admitted to throwing a gas cylinder on his mother's head.
The incident took place in East Thrissur. According to preliminary information, a dispute over financial issues is what likely led to the murder.
Vishnu lived with his mother and stepfather. Police is also gleaning whether there had been rifts in the family after the mother's remarriage.
The incident comes shortly after another similar shocking event wherein a daughter killed her mother by poisoning her. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/26/son-kills-mother-thrissur.amp.html | 2022-08-26T16:18:42Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/26/son-kills-mother-thrissur.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thrissur: In a shocking incident, a youth killed his mother by strangling her on Friday.
The deceased has been identified as Shobhana (54). Her son Vishnu (24), a tanker lorry driver, surrendered at the Vellikulangara police station here shortly after the crime.
He also admitted to throwing a gas cylinder on his mother's head.
The incident took place in East Thrissur. According to preliminary information, a dispute over financial issues is what likely led to the murder.
Vishnu lived with his mother and stepfather. Police is also gleaning whether there had been rifts in the family after the mother's remarriage.
The incident comes shortly after another similar shocking event wherein a daughter killed her mother by poisoning her. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/26/son-kills-mother-thrissur.html | 2022-08-26T16:18:48Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/26/son-kills-mother-thrissur.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Patrick Beverley is returning to Los Angeles, this time joining LeBron James and the Lakers.
A fan favorite when he played for the Clippers, Beverley was acquired from the Utah Jazz on Thursday in exchange for guard Talen Horton-Tucker and forward Stanley Johnson.
“Woke up a Laker!!! Its On!!!” Beverley wrote in a Tweet that included purple and gold heart emojis.
He averaged 9.2 points, 4.1 rebounds and 4.6 assists for Minnesota last season while starting 54 of 58 games and helping the Timberwolves make the playoffs. He ended up in Utah as part of a multi-player deal when the Jazz sent Rudy Gobert to Minnesota in early July.
“We are thrilled to add Patrick Beverley’s toughness and competitive spirit to our team,” general manager Rob Pelinka said. “We’re confident that Patrick’s ‘3-and-D’ style will fit in nicely with the other pieces of our roster and align perfectly with Coach (Darvin) Ham’s philosophy of hard work and smart play.”
The 34-year-old guard from Chicago is known for his ferocious defense that makes him popular with home crowds and a thorn to opposing players. The three-time NBA All-Defensive team member played for the Clippers from 2017-21 until he was traded to Memphis and then to the Wolves nine days later.
“I used to hate Patrick Beverley when he played against my Lakers lol but now I love him because he’s on our team and he’s going to help my Lakers get to the playoffs!” tweeted Lakers great Magic Johnson.
Beverley played for Houston from 2012-17.
Horton-Tucker played three seasons with the Lakers, averaging 9.3 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.6 assists in 131 games, mostly off the bench.
Johnson began last season with the South Bay Lakers of the NBA’s developmental league before signing three separate 10-day contracts with the big-league club. He was signed by the Lakers for the rest of the season in late January. In 48 games, he averaged 6.7 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.7 assists.
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Artemis: When is the Launch, how to watch it and everything else you need to know about humanity’s return to the Moon
The ambitious project aims to land astronauts on the lunar surface for the first time since 1972.
NASA is ready to kick-start an exciting new era of space exploration by launching the first mission in its Artemis programme. Artemis 1 aims to demonstrate new rocket technology that will be key in achieving the ultimate goal of the project: returning astronauts to the Moon for the first time since 1972.
“This is a mission that truly will do what hasn’t been done and learn what isn’t known,” says Mike Sarafin, Artemis 1 mission manager at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
“It will blaze a trail that people will follow on the next flight, pushing the edges of the envelope to prepare for that mission.”
On Artemis 1 an uncrewed capsule called Orion will journey around the Moon. Artemis 2 will see a crew orbit the Moon without landing, followed by Artemis 3 carrying the first female astronaut and astronaut of colour to the lunar surface later this decade.
This time the space agency plans to maintain a permanent presence on the Moon. In the words of one of the project’s chief engineers, “to advance from a 20th-century Moon shot to a 21st-century Moon stay.”
If all goes to plan then Artemis could eventually become as famous as Apollo in the annals of space history.
How to watch the Artemis 1 launch
If you can’t make it to Florida to see it in person, NASA is launching The Artemis Real-time Orbit Website (AROW) on Sunday 28th August that will allow you to track the mission’s every move.
“[It’s] a really powerful way to engage with the mission and understand the scope of what NASA is trying to accomplish with Artemis 1,” says Seth Lambert, the Orion programmer who created AROW.
Further details will be announced on the @NASA_Orion Twitter feed on Sunday 28 August.
When to tune in to the Artemis launch
Artemis 1 will launch from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida - most of the Apollo missions launched from 39A, but that is currently being leased by Elon Musk's SpaceX.
On Monday 22nd August NASA officials conducted a flight-readiness review.
“We are go for launch, which is absolutely outstanding,”said NASA’s Robert Cabana at a press conference after the review. “This day has been a long time coming.”
The Artemis programme began in 2017 and the first launch window opens on the morning of Monday 29th August between 08:33 and 10:33 local time - that's between 13:33 and 15:33 BST.
Should any last minute technical issues arise, or if the weather doesn’t play ball, there are further possible launch windows on the 2nd and 5th September.
What is the Space Launch System?
One of the most impressive parts of Artemis 1 is the brand new mega rocket that will loft it into space: the Space Launch System - or SLS for short.
“SLS is the most powerful rocket NASA has ever built,” says former acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk. “[It's] an incredible feat of engineering and the only rocket capable of powering America’s next-generation missions.”
SLS will accelerate the Orion capsule to speeds of nearly 40,000 km/h and generate 15 per cent more thrust than the famous Saturn V rocket that sent the Apollo astronauts to the Moon. It’s powered by four RS-25 engines, with each one weighing as much as an elephant and standing as high as a double decker bus.
When it launches with the Orion capsule on top, the whole structure will be almost 100 metres tall. That’s the equivalent of two Olympic size swimming pools or taller than the Statue of Liberty. It will weigh more than 2600 tonnes - about the same as 20 blue whales. It is capable of delivering 27 tonnes of payload to an orbit beyond the Moon. They’ll tweak the configuration when it comes to sending a human crew, ramping up the total payload to 38 tonnes.
Each launch costs over $2 billion and the whole project has cost $23 billion.
What is the Orion capsule?
The Orion capsule, named after the famous constellation in the night sky, is designed to be a home away from home for the next generation of astronauts. It comes in three key parts, the main one being the Crew Module. There's space for four astronauts – one more than the crews of three who flew on the original Apollo moon landing missions.
It'll definitely be cosy in there as the module has an overall habitable capacity of just nine cubic metres. That's only about 60 per cent of the volume you'll find in the back of a Transit van.
Yet it is the Service Module, designed and built by the European Space Agency, that does most of the work. It provides the propulsion to fling Orion out of Earth orbit and on a rendezvous path with the Moon. The Service Module will also supply water and air to the crew on later Artemis missions (Artemis 1 is uncrewed).
The final part of Orion is no less important. Space travel is dangerous, with a history of emergencies on launch. The Launch Abort System can react within milliseconds and quickly blast the Crew Module away from the rocket and launch pad for a safe splashdown in the ocean.
What’s on board the Orion capsule and why?
Without any astronauts on board Artemis 1, there is space to include other 'passengers' in the Crew Capsule.
Commander Moonikn Campos is a mannequin being used to measure the effects of accelerations and vibrations on future human astronauts. Named after Arturo Campos, an engineer who helped to save the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, he is pictured here in the commander’s seat of Orion wearing an Orion Crew Survival System flight suit - the same uniform that will be worn by the Artemis 2 and 3 crews.
A pair of anatomically correct torso analogues named Helga and Zohar positioned onboard Orion will be used to study the effects of radiation on the human body during lunar flight. They are made of materials specifically designed to mimic bones, soft tissue and organs.
And here are just some of the quirky things that will fly around the Moon as part of the Artemis 1 Official Flight Kit:
- A doll of the cartoon character Snoopy, decked out in the iconic NASA orange jumpsuit, will act as a zero gravity indicator.
- The European Space Agency have chosen Sean the Sheep, from Aardman's Wallace and Gromit series, as their toy. “Although it might be a small step for a human, it’s a giant leap for lambkind,” says David Parker, ESA’s Director for Human and Robotic Exploration. Sean travelled across Europe and the US to “train” for the mission and his journey was documented and presented in a series of ESA blog posts leading up to the launch as part of their media campaign.
- Lego is getting in on the action, too. Four mini figures – Kate, Kyle, Julia and Sebastian – will fly on Artemis 1. "Our hope is that including Kate and Kyle in this space mission will excite students about the possibilities of STEAM careers and engage them in their own learning journey," said Esben Stærk, president of LEGO Education.
- A moon rock sample and an engine bolt from Apollo 11, tying Artemis to Apollo. This follows a long standing tradition as Neil Armstrong took a piece of the Wright Brothers' first successful aircraft to the Moon in 1969.
The Artemis 1 flight path
After hurtling towards the Moon for several days, Orion will travel within 100 kilometres of the lunar surface. This allows mission controllers to use the Moon's gravity to fling Orion out to a distant orbit some 70,000km beyond the Moon. After six days of collecting valuable data from orbit, the return home begins.
It will travel back towards the Moon's surface to get another kick in the direction of the Earth. The plan is to splash down in the sea close to a recovery ship off the coast of Baja, California. A team of divers will inspect the spacecraft before it is hauled back to shore, completing a four-to-six-week, two-million-km round trip.
What's next for the Artemis mission?
If everything goes smoothly with Artemis 1 then four astronauts will fly on the next mission, Artemis 2, currently scheduled for launch in May 2024. The plan is to fly around the back of the Moon and return to the Earth. The crew will set the record for the furthest humans have ever travelled into space.
Next, Artemis 3 is the one for the history books. In 2026 astronauts will land on the Moon for the first time since Gene Cernan became the last person to leave the lunar surface back in 1972. Two astronauts will spend a week close to the Moon’s South Pole and conduct experiments including prospecting for lunar water. Another two will stay in lunar orbit.
In August 2022 NASA shortlisted thirteen potential landing sites, all within six degrees of the lunar South Pole.
“Several of the proposed sites within the regions are located among some of the oldest parts of the Moon, and together with the permanently shadowed regions, provide the opportunity to learn about the history of the Moon through previously unstudied lunar materials,” says Sarah Noble, Artemis lunar science lead for NASA’s Planetary Science Division.
Then it will be time to build a permanent presence away from Low Earth Orbit. The key goal of this mission, Artemis 4, is to help build Gateway - a space station in orbit around the Moon. Currently slated for 2027, it would act as a staging post for future trips to the lunar surface.
Who are the Artemis astronauts?
We don’t know exactly who is flying yet, but we do have some limited information. The Artemis 2 crew will consist of three NASA astronauts and a colleague from the Canadian Space Agency. It will be the first time a non-NASA astronaut has left Low Earth Orbit.
The crew of Artemis 3 hasn’t been publicly revealed either, but NASA have promised to land the first female astronaut and first astronaut of colour on the Moon. They will come from the wider Artemis team, a collection of 18 astronauts - 9 women and 9 men - already revealed by NASA. Half of them have never flown into space before. Arguably none are household names yet, but that will surely change.
Artemis astronaut Kate Rubins, who became the first scientist to sequence DNA in space back in 2016, perhaps put it best when she said: “"When we're having dark times, to think of the fact that we might have people on the planet able to look up and know that there's humans on the moon... I can't even describe what kind of benefits that might [bring].”
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Actress and Strictly winner Rose Ayling-Ellis wants all televisions shows be subtitled to help improve access and representation for deaf individuals. Currently, channels are not required to subtitle 100% of their programmes.
Speaking during the Alternative MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Hythe's Ayling-Ellis - who is deaf - said media watchdog Ofcom stated "decisions on regulations are made on the basis of affordability and audience size, and occasionally technical difficulties". She went onto say during the event whether viewers would accept only having sound on 80% of their TV shows.
The 27-year-old said it was time for all shows to have subtitles. Ayling-Ellis said: "So, to all channels still subtitling less than 100%, please fix your problem and to all broadcasters, please think about your audience."
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She also spoke about the "countless barriers" she has faced to get her career off the ground. She said: "My reality isn’t always nice. It is not nice when my access is compromised.
"It is not nice to realise my presence is a token. It is not nice when my favourite TV shows don’t have subtitles. t is not nice to feel frustrated and unheard."
Ayling-Ellis first found fame when she landed the role of Frankie Lewis in EastEnders, although she recently announced she is leaving the soap opera. Her profile rose even more last year when she became the first deaf contestant on Strictly Come Dancing, which she went onto win with dance partner Giovanni Pernice.
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Nearly 30million households are to receive an energy bill discount in several payments starting October 2022 of £400. They will be paid in six instalments with a discount of £66 applied to energy bills in October and November.
This will then rise to £67 each month from December through to March 2023. The non-repayable discount will be provided on a monthly basis regardless of whether consumers pay monthly, quarterly, or have an associated payment card, Birmingham Live reports.
For those who rent and do not pay for their energy directly, your landlord should pass on the saving. The scheme comes as the energy price cap is expected to hit between £4,200 and £6,000 in the first quarter of 2023.
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According to the Government, all households with a domestic electricity connection in Great Britain are eligible for the £400 discount, so there is no need to contact energy suppliers. Here is what the energy suppliers are saying about the payments.
E.ON and npower
E.ON has an extensive webpage detailing information on the energy bill discount, here. The energy giant helpfully answered some of the most frequently asked questions regarding the discount.
Why can't I have the full £400 now?
"The government is giving energy suppliers the money in 6 monthly instalments to pass onto customers, so it’s not possible to get the full amount all in one lump sum."
Will this impact my Warm Home Discount payment?
"No, the Warm Home Discount scheme is completely separate. Please look out for more details about next winter's scheme year."
Can I have the money refunded into my bank account instead?
"The money is being set aside by the government to help with winter bills and the upcoming price cap, therefore the money should go towards paying for energy.
In line with our credit refund policy we would need a meter reading so we can bill you up to date and understand your true balance.
We can refund the credit as long as this doesn't put you into arrears. However, it's important to note the increase in cost will likely mean any credit built up now will be used towards winter usage, so refunding that now may impact you later in the year and into the beginning of next year."
British Gas
On the upcoming energy bill discount, British Gas commented: "We know this is a difficult time for some of our customers. We're providing the information...based on our best understanding at the time of publication. Please also read the updated cost of living factsheet on the gov.uk site"
"Many households are missing out on benefits they are entitled to. The Bounce Back Checklist provided by the British Gas Energy Trust details the main benefits and schemes to help you increase your income - whether you're working or not. There's quick links and details of how to apply. The government is urging eligible pensioners to claim Pension Credit to help with cost of living."
The British Gas energy Trust provides valuable information to consumers and can help you getting further discounts. It is not exclusively for British Gas customers, so every consumer should take a look at available support.
EDF
"Your payments will automatically be paid so there is no need to call us," EDF say. "If you only have a gas account with EDF, payments will come from whoever supplies your electricity. Your electricity supplier may make payments in a different way."
For pre-payment customers, you will be required to redeem your vouchers by providing your ID. Full details including expiry dates will be provided when you receive the vouchers from the Post Office.
The Energy Bills Support Scheme is only one part of the cost of living funding the government are offering households. EDF are encouraging customers to find out more about other schemes you may be entitled to here.
Ovo Energy
With millions set for the energy bill discount, Ovo Energy has warned of fraudsters posing as energy companies.
"We're aware that scam Energy Bills Support Scheme emails and text messages are being sent to customers. You can see examples here. We'll never ask for your bank details, so please be extra careful not to give them to anyone. If you think you might have been a victim of a scam or fraud, there's advice on what to do on the government's website."
Thousands have reported receiving text messages claiming to be from suppliers telling customers they are eligible for £400 off their bills and they must click a link to receive it. However, this is a scam.
Scottish Power
Scottish Power has detailed how the energy bill discount will be paid into accounts on their community message board.
One user posted a detailed breakdown of how the £400 will be deposited:
"Customers paying by direct debit, either monthly or quarterly, will see an automatic deduction off those bills.
Those with smart pay as you go meters will see an automatic monthly top-up added to their account, meaning they will have to add less credit to their meter for the total energy they use.
But those with older non-smart prepayment devices will not get this money automatically.
Instead, they will receive an energy bill discount voucher in the first week of each month, via text, email or in the post. Customers will have to redeem these in person at their usual top-up point, such as a local Post Office."
SSE
SSE has listed other schemes customers could be eligible for. The Fuel Direct scheme helps to pay your energy bills directly from your benefits, the support is overseen is by the Department for Work and Pensions and you're eligible if you receive:
- Income-Based Jobseeker's Allowance
- Income Support
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- Pension Credit
- Universal Credit (but only if you're not working)
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Shares of online search behemoth Alphabet (GOOG)(GOOGL) are attempting to stage a recovery from a 30% decline from peak to trough. Alphabet stock continues to be a glimmer of value in big tech. Unlike other fallen FAANG darlings, Alphabet is not facing an existential crisis in need of a pivot. With so much going for the firm, from YouTube to its resilient search business, it’s really hard to pass it up at around 22 times trailing earnings.
I view it as outstanding value in the big-tech space and continue to remain incredibly bullish as the firm looks to outdo its social-media rivals in ads come the recession.
A Rare Earnings Miss, but Nothing Wrong with Alphabet Stock
Alphabet is fresh off a rare second-quarter miss, but there was nothing fundamentally wrong with the firm as it moved through the same slate of macro headwinds as most other firms. The search and cloud segments continued to flex their muscles and could remain resilient going into a period of economic contraction. Further, the incredibly strong greenback posed a major issue for the FAANG behemoth.
Google’s ad revenues grew nearly 12%, while YouTube witnessed 13.5% growth. These are not outstanding growth numbers by any stretch of the imagination. However, compared to the social-media firms that saw their ad businesses get crushed in recent quarters, Alphabet remains a steady ship. As social-media firms struggle to find their footing following Apple’s (AAPL) devastating privacy update, I’d look for Alphabet to take share in ads, not just in search, but in YouTube.
YouTube isn’t just a place to watch funny videos. It’s a wide-moat firm that’s become impossible to replicate, given the swelling magnitude of content. The management team could leave YouTube alone, and it’d still be an essential cash cow for Alphabet. In any case, Alphabet is continuing to invest in YouTube in an effort to make the old-time internet app new again through the eyes of users.
YouTube Shorts Appears to be One of the Best Answers to TikTok
YouTube Shorts isn’t just short video clips. The interface is social-media-like and has been growing at a rapid rate since going live around two years ago. Shorts now generates tens of billions of views per day. That’s unreal growth from a feature that could grow to become superior to Meta Platforms’ Reels and TikTok.
With the move away from social media feeds and towards video, YouTube is in a great spot to outgrow rivals in the space. Undoubtedly, TikTok is a video-based social-media app that’s taken the world by storm. Though TikTok is arguably the hottest right now, there’s not much stopping a rival from replicating its features.
At the end of the day, there’s nothing truly unique about TikTok that rivals can’t copy. Meta Platforms has already made its own TikTok-like offering, with Reels. With such a deep-rooted foundation in video, with many influencers, and the addition of YouTube Shorts, it seems like Alphabet will already has its own answer to TikTok.
As YouTube continues to improve upon YouTube Shorts, one has to think that the tables will turn in its favor.
As I noted in prior pieces, federal regulators have taken aim at China-owned TikTok. If they get their way, TikTok may be pushed aside, providing a massive boon to YouTube Shorts and Reels.
Considering the tight integration with its existing videos, I think YouTube Shorts could be the next big thing after TikTok.
Even if YouTube Shorts is to grow no further, YouTube is a timeless platform that won’t be subject to the same competitive pressures as some of the trendier apps out there like Meta’s Facebook.
Alphabet Wants a Piece of the Streaming Market
YouTube isn’t just a terrific platform to make a lateral move into social media. YouTube is reportedly hard at work on a “channel store” where users can shop for various streaming services. Indeed, the inclusion of such apps within the YouTube ecosystem could enhance engagement. Indeed, YouTube wants to get in on streaming at its moment of weakness.
After pulling the plug on creating original content a while back, it’s clear that Alphabet wants to see a clearer path to economic profits before jumping aboard the content-spending mouse wheel — a term I coined previously.
If YouTube ever decides to get back into content creation (its FAANG rivals have already been in the space for quite some time), it has a pretty solid foundation to do so.
Is GOOG Stock a Buy or Sell?
GOOG stock has a Strong Buy consensus rating based on 11 Buys assigned in the past three months. The GOOG stock price target of $144.64 implies 28.6% upside potential. Analyst price targets range from a low of $132.50 per share to a high of $165 per share.
Takeaway – Shares of Alphabet are Value Hiding in Plain Sight
You don’t need to look far to find great value in the tech sector. Alphabet seems absurdly cheap relative to the growth drivers it has under the hood. While a recession could dampen a few quarters, it will not take long before the firm is back to its old market-beating ways. YouTube is a great response to TikTok, and its search and cloud businesses continue to be on the right side of a secular trend. In short, Alphabet is firing on all cylinders, and further innovations could add to its dominance. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/heres-why-alphabet-stock-is-an-outstanding-value-play | 2022-08-26T16:22:21Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/heres-why-alphabet-stock-is-an-outstanding-value-play | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Smart EV maker NIO Inc. (NIO) has provided an update on its independent internal review of the allegations made by short-seller Grizzly Research in June about the company exaggerating its numbers. In response, NIO had set up an independent committee of its Board of directors to review the allegations. The committee had also roped in an international law firm and a forensic accounting firm to assist in the process.
The review is now “substantially” complete, and the committee has “concluded that these allegations were not substantiated.”
When Do NIO Earnings Come Out?
In another development, NIO is set to report its second-quarter numbers before the market opens on September 7. The Street expects NIO to report a net loss per share of $0.17 for the period.
In the last eight quarters, NIO has failed to surpass consensus estimates only three times. In the comparable year-ago period, it reported a net loss per share of $0.06 versus the analysts’ expectations of a net loss per share of $0.09.
Furthermore, the company is gearing up to hit the Chinese market with its ES7 SUV and the European market with its ET7 electric sedan. The vehicle deliveries in Europe could potentially boost NIO’s numbers in the fourth quarter.
Is NIO Stock a Buy?
Shares of the company are up ~8% over the past five days, and analysts are seeing a further 62.4% upside based on a Strong Buy consensus rating and an average NIO stock price target of $33.04. Deutsche Bank’s Edison Yu is even more optimistic about NIO with a Buy rating and a price target of $45, which points to a massive 120.5% potential upside. The analyst feels the market is yet to fully take cognizance of NIO’s expanding global footprint.
Closing Thoughts – NIO Stock is Starting to Emerging from Challenges
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What is a ballad?
Discover what makes a traditional ballad
Today, the word ballad perhaps brings to mind the work of popstars, with power ballads and love ballads aplenty from the likes of Bonnie Tyler, Meat Loaf and many more. However, traditionally, the term ballad refers to any spoken poem or song that tells a story in short stanzas, and it is a style that dates back to the Middle Ages, at least.
The word ballad itself has its roots in the Latin word ‘ballare’ (to dance) and an old French word for ‘dancing song’ (ballade). Like most modern pop songs, traditional ballads often dealt with matters of the heart, but some were also dedicated to historic triumphs and disasters, among other themes. These types of ballads could be categorised as folk songs today, their narratives often relaying important themes relevant to the time they were written.
Typically learnt by listening and repeating, some lyrics may have been written down but the melodies were less likely to be. In fact, some set different ballad lyrics to the same well-known tune, making them easier for people to learn and replicate. However, it is due to the oral nature of passing on ballads to future generations that many have been lost and forgotten over the centuries.
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What is a countertenor?
Discover what a countertenor is and the range they sing
What is a countertenor?
Generally speaking, music ranges are split between soprano, alto, tenor and bass, with the soprano range containing the highest notes and bass containing the lowest. As men’s voices tend to be naturally lower than women’s, adult male singers generally fall within the tenor and bass ranges (though most likely tenor). However, men who are able to manipulate their vocal cords to sing in the higher registers – i.e., those above the range of a tenor – are known as countertenors.
What range does a countertenor sing?
Countertenors are, give or take, able to sing the same range of notes as female contralto and mezzo-soprano singers. Contralto falls within the alto range and is the lowest range of female voices, while mezzo-sopranos are somewhere between altos and sopranos, not being able to hit the lowest notes of the former range nor the highest notes of the latter.
So, how do the different ranges compare? Roughly speaking, a tenor’s range runs from C3 (an octave below middle C) to G4 (the G above middle C). A countertenor’s range goes from around G3 to E5, while an alto ranges from F3 to D5, a mezzo-soprano from A3 to F5 and a soprano from C4 (middle C) to A5.
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A guide to Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture, also known as Fingal's Cave
You've probably heard this piece, but when and why did Felix Mendelssohn write it? And does it tell a story? Here is everything you need to know about the Hebrides Overture (or is it Fingal's Cave?)
Let's clear this up right now: what is this piece actually called?
When Felix Mendelssohn completed a draft of the work in 1830 he called it Die einsame Insel or The Lonely Isle. Two years later he renamed it Die Hebriden (The Hebrides). But here's the thing: In 1834 Breifkopf & Härtel published the the orchestral parts as Die Hebriden but the score as Fingals Höhle'(Fingal’s Cave) - and the confusion stuck. In the UK, we generally refer to it as The Hebrides. But it's best just to pick a side and run with it. Probably.
Was it actually inspired by a trip to Fingal's Cave?
Yes. Mendelssohn and his friend Karl Klingemann travelled to England in 1829, and then went on to Scotland, where the composer painted and sketched his way around the country. As part of the trip, he travelled to the Hebrides Islands off the west Coast and visited the island of Staffa - known for its puffins and its atmospheric cave. With its echoing acoustics, which emphasised the sound of rumbling waves, Fingal's Cave made a deep impression on Mendelssohn, who later sent his sister Fanny a postcard, with the work's opening theme, that read: 'In order to make you understand how extraordinarily the Hebrides affected me, I send you the following, which came into my head there.'
Does it tell a story?
Although it is a piece of programme music, it doesn't tell a specific story. Rather, Mendelssohn's aim was to set a scene: to capture the swell and feel of the Atlantic, and the sound of waves crashing against rocks.
If it's an overture, where's the rest of the opera?
Aha. So, although it is an overture, it's a concert overture, meaning that it's a standalone work with no opera attached to it. Which is perhaps a shame: as a potential curtain-raiser for an opera, it's a pretty promising one.
How easy was it to write?
Actually, not very easy at all. Despite his initial flash of inspiration, Mendelssohn spent the next three years wrestling with his score, completing at least two versions of it in the meantime. In 1832 he wrote to his sister that he still did not consider it finished: 'The middle part, forte in D major, is very stupid, and savours more of counterpoint than of oil and seagulls and dead fish.'
When was it finally ready then?
The revised version - in which the 'very stupid' middle section had been replaced - was ready for its first performance in London at the Philharmonic Society in May 1832.
In a nutshell, can you guide me through the music?
There are two key themes in this overture, the first - played initially by the violas, cellos and bassoons - being the one that Mendelssohn sent to his sister Fanny. Dark and majestic, it conjures up the grandeur of the cave, and is developed in several ways that pay homage to the seascape. The second theme, meanwhile, is more lyrical, and captures the rolling of the waves. It builds to a huge climax, whereupon the material becomes a lot more turbulent. But the storm abates, and the music ends with a sense of tranquility.
One random fact?
Mendelssohn, apparently was very seasick on his trip to Fingal's Cave. His friend Klingemann wrote that he got 'along better with the sea as an artist than as a human being with a stomach.'
Recommended recordings?
Sir John Eliot Gardiner with the London Symphony Orchestra
Joseph Swensen with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Edward Gardner with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Authors
Hannah Nepilova is a regular contributor to BBC Music Magazine. She has also written for The Financial Times, The Times, The Strad, Gramophone, Opera Now, Opera, the BBC Proms and the Philharmonia, and runs The Cusp, an online magazine exploring the boundaries between art forms. Born to Czech parents, she has a strong interest in Czech music and culture. | https://www.classical-music.com/features/works/mendelssohns-hebrides-overture-fingals-cave/ | 2022-08-26T16:31:33Z | classical-music.com | control | https://www.classical-music.com/features/works/mendelssohns-hebrides-overture-fingals-cave/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Actor Narain who was last seen in Kamal Haasan's 'Vikram' and his wife Manju Haridas are expecting their second child soon. The actor announced the news on the couple's 15th wedding anniversary.
Taking to social media, Narain wrote, "On this special day of our wedding anniversary, happy to share the good news that we are expecting a new member in our family soon'.
The actor who made his entry into Mollywood with Adoor Gopalakrishnan's 'Nizhalkuthu', got recognition as a hero acting in Sathyan Anthikad's hit film 'Achuvinte Amma' starring Meera Jasmine.
Narain debuted in Tamil with 'Chithiram Pesuthadi' after which he worked mostly in Kollywood. His role in Lal Jose's classmates was also very well appreciated.
Narain married Malayalee Manju in 2007. Their elder daughter Thanmaya is now 14 years old.
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Princess Astrid International Music Competition announces its winners
First prize went to Hong-Kong-born, British conductor Alvin Ho
The Princess Astrid International Music Competition, based in Trondheim, Norway, has announced this year's winning conductors.
First prize went to the 29-year-old Hong-Kong-born, British conductor Alvin Ho, who received 160,000 NOK (€15000) as well as a future concert engagement with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra. A past recipient of the Bruno Walter Conducting fellowship at the Cabrillo Contemporary Music Festival and Farber Karajan Conducting Fellowship at the Salzburg Festival, Ho was recently named Assistant Conductor of Naples Philharmonic Orchestra.
Second prize of 50,000 NOK was awarded to the 33-year old Australian-British conductor Toby C Thatcher, while third prize of 25,000 NOK went to the 32-year-old Chinese conductor Junping Qian.
The winners - selected from 12 contestants - were announced following a final in which each of the contestants conducted Anna Clyne's Masquerade, a piece inspired by the 18th century promenade concerts in London's amusement parks, where people from all walks of life were entertained by music, acrobatics, exotic street performers, dancers, fireworks and costume balls.
Sitting on the jury were Han-Na Chang (TSO's chief conductor), Jasper Parrott, Peter Szilvay, Daniel Turcina, Anna-Maria Helsing, Anna Clyne and Elise Båtnes.
Established in 1953, the competition is a biennial event for under-35s that rotates between violin and conducting.
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Authors
Hannah Nepilova is a regular contributor to BBC Music Magazine. She has also written for The Financial Times, The Times, The Strad, Gramophone, Opera Now, Opera, the BBC Proms and the Philharmonia, and runs The Cusp, an online magazine exploring the boundaries between art forms. Born to Czech parents, she has a strong interest in Czech music and culture. | https://www.classical-music.com/news/princess-astrid-conducting-competition-announces-its-winners/ | 2022-08-26T16:31:39Z | classical-music.com | control | https://www.classical-music.com/news/princess-astrid-conducting-competition-announces-its-winners/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Writer-director duo Pushkar-Gayatri is back with the Hindi version of the much-celebrated cop-criminal saga 'Vikram Vedha', considered one among the cult films of South India. The teaser of the Hindi 'Vikram Vedha' starring Hrithik Roshan, replacing Vijay Sethupathi as Vedha, and Saif Ali Khan in place of R Madhavan as Vikram, fetched 1.9 crore views within 48 hours of its release, which is 89 lakh more than what the trailer of the original version released in 2017 could garner till date.
Comparing the teasers gives a feeling that Pushkar-Gayatri compromised on the rawness of the original Tamil version and opted for ruggedness while replanting their crime-karma saga in the Bollywood-verse. The casting itself sparked the suspicion that the film would be an action-owned narration, unlike the Tamil original, which was more character and situation driven. The remake teaser only reassures the notion.
The desaturated colour scheme of the Tamil version has been given up for a more upbeat orange and teal colour scheme in the remake. The frames are more lit up, and we tend to miss the cat and mouse play between black and white, light and shadows, which was a crucial element in the Tamil version.
The give and take between the cop and the criminal sitting across a table became iconic the moment the 'Vikram Vedha' Tamil trailer was released on YouTube on Jun 22, 2017. What gave legendary status to the interaction between a handcuffed Vedha and Vikram with a stoic demeanour was not just the politics it dished out but the way the actors rendered it. In the sixth second of the trailer itself, Vijay Sethupathi's Vedha asks Vikram: 'Oru kathai sollata, sar?' (Can I tell you a story, sir?). R Madhavan's Vikram replies with utter disdain: 'Onne maathri alungalkellam ore kathai thaane...' (Guys like you have only one story to say, right?). However, the teaser of the Hindi version opens with Hrithik Roshan's Vedha asking the question to Saif Ali Khan's Vikram, but we never get to hear Vikram's response. Instead, the teaser gives Vedha to qualify the question, which is another factor that casts questions about how much directors Pushkar and Gayatri diluted the film. However, the wait has begun! | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/08/26/vikram-vedha-pushkar-gayatri-vijay-sethupathi-hrithik-roshan-madhavan-saif-ali-khan.amp.html | 2022-08-26T16:31:56Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/08/26/vikram-vedha-pushkar-gayatri-vijay-sethupathi-hrithik-roshan-madhavan-saif-ali-khan.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Writer-director duo Pushkar-Gayatri is back with the Hindi version of the much-celebrated cop-criminal saga 'Vikram Vedha', considered one among the cult films of South India. The teaser of the Hindi 'Vikram Vedha' starring Hrithik Roshan, replacing Vijay Sethupathi as Vedha, and Saif Ali Khan in place of R Madhavan as Vikram, fetched 1.9 crore views within 48 hours of its release, which is 89 lakh more than what the trailer of the original version released in 2017 could garner till date.
Comparing the teasers gives a feeling that Pushkar-Gayatri compromised on the rawness of the original Tamil version and opted for ruggedness while replanting their crime-karma saga in the Bollywood-verse. The casting itself sparked the suspicion that the film would be an action-owned narration, unlike the Tamil original, which was more character and situation driven. The remake teaser only reassures the notion.
The desaturated colour scheme of the Tamil version has been given up for a more upbeat orange and teal colour scheme in the remake. The frames are more lit up, and we tend to miss the cat and mouse play between black and white, light and shadows, which was a crucial element in the Tamil version.
The give and take between the cop and the criminal sitting across a table became iconic the moment the 'Vikram Vedha' Tamil trailer was released on YouTube on Jun 22, 2017. What gave legendary status to the interaction between a handcuffed Vedha and Vikram with a stoic demeanour was not just the politics it dished out but the way the actors rendered it. In the sixth second of the trailer itself, Vijay Sethupathi's Vedha asks Vikram: 'Oru kathai sollata, sar?' (Can I tell you a story, sir?). R Madhavan's Vikram replies with utter disdain: 'Onne maathri alungalkellam ore kathai thaane...' (Guys like you have only one story to say, right?). However, the teaser of the Hindi version opens with Hrithik Roshan's Vedha asking the question to Saif Ali Khan's Vikram, but we never get to hear Vikram's response. Instead, the teaser gives Vedha to qualify the question, which is another factor that casts questions about how much directors Pushkar and Gayatri diluted the film. However, the wait has begun! | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/08/26/vikram-vedha-pushkar-gayatri-vijay-sethupathi-hrithik-roshan-madhavan-saif-ali-khan.html | 2022-08-26T16:32:03Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/08/26/vikram-vedha-pushkar-gayatri-vijay-sethupathi-hrithik-roshan-madhavan-saif-ali-khan.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“We can’t currently meet the demand,” says auto industry rep. of new EV tax credits
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The Biden administration wants half of all cars on the road to be electric by 2030.
The price for an average new electric vehicle is $66,000 dollars according the Kelley Blue Book. One goal of the new Inflation Reduction Act is to make electric cars more affordable, thanks to tax credits.
The new car credit will offset up to $7,500 of a new electric vehicle’s cost.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says the credit is meant to help middle income families make the jump to electric.
Buttigieg said, “if you make millions, you won’t be eligible for this tax credit. Again, i think you’re going to be just fine.”
Some vehicles are eligible for the credit now, but that might change starting January 1st, 2023. The Inflation Reduction Act will add new regulations on sourcing and assembling batteries for electric cars, which the auto industry says will be a big problem.
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation is an industry group which represents most of the largest American and foreign car companies.
The group’s president, John Bozzella, wrote in an August blog post, “The $7500 credit might exist on paper, but no vehicles will qualify for this purchase incentive over the next few years.”
The group unsuccessfully urged Congress to phase-in the battery component requirements gradually.
Bozella also wrote, “While we work to unlock supplies of critical minerals and ramp up battery production at home, we can’t currently meet the demand for these materials on our own. That’s the reality.”
Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who worked on the new law’s legislative framework with Democratic leaders, defended the requirements. After the bill’s signing by President Joe Biden, Manchin said his bigger goal with the legislation was to building the American supply chain.
“I’m not I’m not a fan of the credits, okay. I’m a fan of basically building a supply chain here,” Manchin said. “We went into basically making sure that used cars, used EVs would get $4000. So that was the thing we compromised on.”
Niskanen Center climate policy expert, Kristin Eberhard, say the smaller $4,000 credit for used electric vehicles may be leaned on more until the auto industry catches up with the new car requirements.
Eberhard said, “So it could be that there’s more activity in the used EV market starting next year as people realize they can’t get the one that they want for the, you know, with the new subsidy.”
Resources:
List of qualifying electric vehicles
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Westfield fire leaves four injured, destroys home
WESTFIELD – Four first responders were injured in a three-alarm house fire Thursday afternoon on Prospect Street, said Westfield Fire Chief Michael Duelks.
Town firefighters responded around 4:11 p.m. to 745 Prospect St. on reports of a fully involved structure fire, authorities said, and upon arrival they reported heavy fire on all floors of the single-family 2 ½-story home, authorities said.
Firefighters searched the home, confirming all residents had already evacuated. Town police helped evacuate the owners' pets from the rear yard, Duelks said.
Four first responders were injured; one was treated on the scene, and the rest were transported to the hospital, authorities said.
The fire was under control after about an hour with firefighters working into the evening hours. The Red Cross assisted residents in relocation as the building was deemed uninhabitable, Duelks said.
The cause of the fire is under investigation. | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/crime/2022/08/26/westfield-house-fire-prospect-st/65458327007/ | 2022-08-26T16:42:43Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/crime/2022/08/26/westfield-house-fire-prospect-st/65458327007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Polluted sites in Central Jersey focus of state lawsuits looking to force cleanup
TRENTON – The state filed lawsuits to force the environmental cleanups of three contaminated properties in Middlesex Borough, Linden and Rahway.
The environmental justice lawsuits were filed in communities which are considered overburdened under New Jersey’s Environmental Justice Law because they have significant low-income, minority, and/or limited English proficiency populations.
The suits target the S. Burger Wire and Tubing site on Lincoln Boulevard in Middlesex Borough; a former coal ash disposal site earmarked for redevelopment on Tremley Point Road in Linden and a former service station on Lawrence Street in Rahway.
“Everyone, no matter where they are from or how they look, is entitled under our laws to live in an environment free from pollution,” Acting Attorney General Matthew Platkin said in a press release. “Pollution harms us all, but not equally. In New Jersey and across the nation, there is a shameful legacy of environmental injustice, but the Murphy Administration is committed to changing that here in New Jersey. Today’s enforcement actions are the latest example of that continuing commitment.”
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Lawsuits were also filed in connection with sites in Newark, Camden, Ewing and Elmwood Park. An additional lawsuit centers on a blueberry farm and processing operation in Hammonton where the owner allegedly has not complied with state Department of Environmental Protection orders to stop using four unsafe drinking water wells and two unpermitted septic systems.
In Middlesex Borough, the four-count lawsuit centers on soil and groundwater contaminated with PCE, TCE and cis-1,2-dichloroethene. Defendants in the lawsuit are two corporate entities – 277 Lincoln Holdings, LLC and 277 Lincoln Boulevard, LLC.
From approximately 1956 through 2003, according to the lawsuit, S. Burger Wire and Tubing manufactured fine round metal wire and tubing on the site. After the company stopped operations in 2003, soil and groundwater contamination were detected on the site in 2003 and 2004.
In 2005, 277 Lincoln Holdings entered into a Remediation Agreement with the state DEP and purchased the property
Thirteen years later in 2018, an evaluation of neighboring properties was performed and found traces of PCE and TCE in soil gas vapor samples taken at a nearby home.
The lawsuit alleges that after 277 Lincoln Holdings agreed to clean up the property, it was never done.
A successor owner of the property – 277 Lincoln Boulevard, LLC – also entered into an agreement with DEP in 2019 to remediate the site, but failed to honor its commitment, the lawsuit charges.
The complaint alleges violations of the state’s Spill Compensation and Control Act and the Industrial Site Recovery Act, and seeks penalties against both 277 Lincoln Holdings and 277 Lincoln Boulevard for failing to meet their clean-up obligations.
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In Linden, the state is seeking to collect $597,000 in civil penalties owed to the DEP for illegal dumping at a former coal ash disposal site earmarked for redevelopment on Tremley Point Road. Defendants in the lawsuit are D.T. Allen Contracting Co., Dredge Management Associates, and the companies’ owners/managing members, Greg Allen and Dan Allen.
According to the lawsuit, the defendants violated the Solid Waste Management Act by dumping large amounts of contaminated fill at the 4050 Tremley Point Road site between 2015 and 2018.
The fill was supposed to be “clean” fill for use in capping and containing mounds of coal ash once disposed on the property. Instead, the defendants allegedly imported massive amounts of contaminated fill in violation of the law and DEP directives.
The lawsuit alleges the tainted fill contained elevated levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), along with lead and arsenic.
In 2016, the DEP issued two Notices of Violation against the defendants who two years later signed an Administrative Consent Order to resolve the matter
However, the lawsuit alleges, they sold the property and walked away without meeting their remediation obligation under the consent order.
In 2021, the DEP issued a formal Demand for Stipulated Penalties to collect the $597,000 owed by the defendants.
But they never responded and have not paid the agreed-upon penalties, according to the lawsuit.
In Rahway, the lawsuit names former service station owners and operators B & S Oil Corporation, Guraya Oil Corporation, and one individual, Sukwinder Kaur.
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The suit alleges there were four documented discharges of gasoline and diesel fuel into the soil while the service station was open. Exposure to gasoline and diesel fuel can cause dizziness, nausea, harm to internal organs and damage to cognitive functions.
In 2015, the owners and operators entered into an agreement with the DEP accepting responsibility for remediating the contamination.
But to date, the lawsuit alleges, they have failed to do so.
In the lawsuit, the DEP seeks an order compelling the defendants to remediate the site and asks the court to impose civil penalties.
“In New Jersey, we are confronting the historic injustices that have burdened low-income and minority communities with a disproportionate amount of pollution,” Commissioner of Environmental Protection Sean LaTourette said in the press release. “Our commitment to furthering the promise of environmental justice sometimes demands that we take legal action to correct the legacy of pollution that underserved communities have endured. Lawsuits like those we are announcing today are an important message to polluters: treat every New Jersey community as though it were your own by leaving your neighbors and their environment better than you found them.”
Email: mdeak@mycentraljersey.com
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Edison Senior Center to remain closed for months for fire repairs
EDISON – Plans to reopen the Edison Senior Center on Woodbridge Avenue appear to remain uncertain, though the Township Council awarded an emergency contract for a new fire suppression system in the building.
The holdup could be the availability of supplies for the work.
Business Administrator Sonia Alves-Viveiros said the contract awarded Wednesday to Allied Fire and Safety based in Neptune will move the project forward, but she hasn't been given a timeline because of the availability of supplies. She said it will take a couple of months for the building to reopen.
"I know it's a little dicey. We are restructuring where the services are being offered," she said.
The Edison Senior Center closed nearly a month ago after a bathroom renovation project revealed that the connection to the fire suppression system had deteriorated to the point that it needed to be replaced. The building was closed for all in-person activities on July 29.
On Wednesday the Township Council approved an emergency $115,000 contract for Allied Fire and Safety to replace the building's fire suppression system.
Councilman Richard Brescher has said a recent reinspection by the Edison Fire Department also uncovered emergency lights that were not working, problems with exit signs, missing components on the fire alarm panel and the sprinkler system turned off.
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The fire department deemed the building a hazard and it was closed.
Brescher said the issues with leaks in the sprinkler system and the pipes had not been addressed for years.
"We knew the system was broken and we didn't do anything," Brescher said earlier this week, adding he wants to know what the township is doing about the other issues with the building.
At Wednesday's meeting one resident questioned how much money would be needed to fix the senior center and another resident asked whether the suspension of the fire chief is related to the issues at the senior citizen building. Council President Joe Coyle declined to discuss the personnel matter.
Meanwhile the township is looking into using the Clara Barton First Aid Center to host senior events while the Woodbridge Avenue building remains closed.
One woman mentioned her senior club had met in a small room in the Clara Barton section which was shared with the Clara Barton Social Club. She said the arrangement worked and everyone was accommodating. She added staff from the senior center arranged for members of her group to remove their supplies from lockers in the senior center to their new temporary meeting place.
Another resident asked the council is look into why, with the center closed, the meals for the Meals on Wheels program have to be picked up in Sayreville which delays the delivery in Edison. She questioned if the meals could be picked up somewhere closer, like Woodbridge.
Senior Center staff have been relocated to the William Toth Health Center on Idlewild Road. The township has plans to expand that facility by 2,000 square feet and rename it the Toth Health and Senior Center and provide programming similar to the activities at the Woodbridge Avenue senior center.
Questions and updates about senior services can be obtained by calling 732-248-7345 and following Edison Township Government Facebook page.
Email: srussell@gannettnj.com
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Blue Jays' top pitching prospect Ricky Tiedemann set to face Somerset Patriots
BRIDGEWATER – It’s somewhat scary to think of how good Austin Wells could be.
For the opposition, that is.
The Somerset Patriots catcher has done well to get acclimated to Double-A since his highly anticipated promotion in early July. But, despite hitting .259 with seven homers and 22 RBI in his first 36 games -- including two separate RBI singles in Somerset’s 3-2 win over the New Hampshire Fisher Cats on Wednesday night – the 23-year-old knows he’s only scratching the surface of what he can do at the plate.
“I definitely know there’s more in there, and I can do a lot better,” Wells said after Wednesday night’s game.
“I’m just trying to bring that every day and find those couple games where it starts to really click together leading towards the end of the season. … I still don’t feel like I’m really back to where I was to start the year, I’m still trying to find that rhythm, but I’m trying to grind through every (at-bat) that I can. The more (at-bats) that I’m getting, the more comfortable I feel with my swing and coming back from missing some time. I think where I’m at is good, but I want to be better.”
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The No. 87-ranked prospect in all of baseball according to MLB Pipeline, Wells got out of the gate slow in Somerset, getting just one hit in his first 17 at-bats. Since then, he put together a 16-game hitting streak between July 10 and Aug. 4, recorded 10 multi-hit contests, and largely played well behind the dish, at least for now squashing the perpetual questions of whether he can stick at the position long-term.
Blue Jays’ top pitching prospect Ricky Tiedemann looms
One of the top pitching prospects in all of baseball is set to take the mound at TD Bank Ballpark this weekend.
The consensus top-ranked arm in a Toronto Blue Jays minor league system full of premium pitching, 20-year-old left-handed pitcher Ricky Tiedemann is set to get the start for the Fisher Cats when they face the Patriots on Friday night.
A third-round pick last year who just turned 20 on Aug. 18, Tiedemann has seen a meteoric rise through the system in just his first professional season; he’s combined for a 5-4 record and 2.26 ERA in 17 starts across three different levels of the minors, with a stunning 115 strikeouts in his first 75.2 career innings.
Using a fastball that’s now touching 98 mph, as well as a hard slider and changeup that scouts describe as a “plus” pitch, the 6-foot-4, 220-pounder has made a lot of progress in a short amount of time after getting skipped entirely in the 2020 MLB Draft and instead attended Golden West Community College (California) for a year to remain draft eligible.
“A lot went into it,” Tiedemann told MyCentralJersey.com
“Getting drafted by a good organization, that’ll get you the right resources and everything is going to go well. As soon as I got drafted, I got put on a good program with the Blue Jays, and I think it showed pretty early on, fortunately, that I was able to take it all in and do well with it. It’s shown early on in my first year professionally, but I’ve got to keep going with it.”
Currently ranked baseball’s No. 29 prospect by Baseball America – just below Brett Baty (26), Zac Veen (27) and Triston Casas (28), who have all come through the visiting clubhouse in Bridgewater the past two years -- he’s set to face No. 10 Anthony Volpe on Friday, reuniting the two teammates at the most recent Futures Game at Dodger Stadium, which was a homecoming of sorts for the Long Beach, California native.
“I loved it,” he said. “That was in my hometown, so my whole family came out and watched, and it was a really cool experience. I got to see the best players in the game, and it was fun to go out there and compete against them.” | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/baseball/patriots/2022/08/26/ricky-tiedemann-toronto-blue-jays-somerset-patriots/65420021007/ | 2022-08-26T16:43:01Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/baseball/patriots/2022/08/26/ricky-tiedemann-toronto-blue-jays-somerset-patriots/65420021007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FOOTBALL WEEK 0 BLITZ: Big Central Conference high school football coverage HQ
Football season makes its return this weekend, and MyCentralJersey.com is back to bring you coverage of the Big Central Football Conference and our local independent schools with this weekend’s Media Blitz.
A full schedule of games can be found below. Final scores of those contests, as well as links to stories and other coverage will be updated on this page throughout the weekend.
MyCentralJersey.com's team of photographers and reporters will be staffing multiple games this weekend and providing complete coverage of all this weekend's action.
Week zero coverage plan:
FRIDAY, AUG. 26
♦ Beatwriter Andy Mendlowitz has coverage of Friday night’s emotional Timber Creek at St. Thomas Aquinas game. Follow him on Twitter @Andy_Mendlowitz for live updates
♦ Greg Tartaglia of our sister paper, The Bergen Record, has coverage of Friday night’s Bridgewater-Raritan at Passaic Tech meeting. He’s on Twitter @NJTags13
♦ Reporter Josh Rosenfeld will provide coverage of Friday's Governor Livingston at New Providence meeting. He’s got live updates on Twitter @JoshPRosenfeld.
♦ Reporter Harry Frezza will provide complete coverage of North Hunterdon’s trip to Hunterdon Central, with live updates @TheFrez56
♦ Reporter Donovan Hugel will have coverage as New Brunswick visits Colonia, with live updates on Twitter @DonoHugel
SATURDAY, AUG. 27
♦ Beatwriter Simeon Pincus has coverage of Saturday’s Mastery Charter at Somerville game. Follow him on Twitter @SimeonPincus for live updates
Also, correspondent Marcus Borden will provide live updates, in-game video highlights and postgame interviews from Friday’s Timber Creek/St. Thomas game, Saturday’s Highland Park/Metuchen meetings, and Saturday’s Edison vs. Cedar Creek game at Ocean City HS. Follow him on Twitter @bordenfb4ever
In addition, our staff will provide full write-ups of every other game in the Big Central Conference and our local independent teams in our weekly roundup
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ADDITIONAL COVERAGE
For insight and analysis into this week’s contests, check out our picks columns from Courier News football beat writer Simeon Pincus and Home News Tribune football beat writer Andy Mendlowitz.
Also, check this week's team rankings for the Big Central Football Conference Top 15
Stay with MyCentralJersey.com throughout the year for the most comprehensive coverage of the Big Central Football Conference.
WEEK ZERO SCHEDULE AND SCOREBOARD
Friday, Aug. 26
Keyport at Manville, 5:30 p.m.
Bridgewater-Raritan at Passaic Tech, 6 p.m.
Governor Livingston at New Providence, 6 p.m.
Irvington at Woodbridge, 6 p.m.
New Brunswick at Colonia, 6 p.m.
Timber Creek at St. Thomas Aquinas, 6 p.m.
Watchung Hills at Bayonne, 6:30 p.m.
J.F. Kennedy at Carteret, 7 p.m.
Montgomery at Robbinsville, 7 p.m.
North Hunterdon at Hunterdon Central, 7 p.m.
North Plainfield at Scotch Plains-Fanwood, 7 p.m.
Overbrook at Bernards, 7 p.m.
Trenton at Old Bridge, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 27
Highland Park at Metuchen, 1 p.m.
Mastery of Camden at Somerville, 1 p.m.
Bishop Eustace at Spotswood, 2 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 28
Edison at Cedar Creek, 5 p.m. | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/08/26/nj-football-week-0-blitz-big-central-conference-football-coverage-hq/65457728007/ | 2022-08-26T16:43:26Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/08/26/nj-football-week-0-blitz-big-central-conference-football-coverage-hq/65457728007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Justice Department on Friday finally released a heavily redacted affidavit justifying the unprecedented FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate earlier this month.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who approved the warrant that led to the FBI’s Aug. 8 raid, had ordered the unsealing of the blacked-out affidavit by 12 p.m.
“The government is conducting a criminal investigation concerning the improper removal and storage of classified information in unauthorized spaces, as well as the unlawful concealment or removal of government records,” the 38-page affidavit started.
The eagerly awaited release came after the department had tried to fight it, insisting it comprised key details that were “highly likely to compromise future investigative steps” into whether the 45th president illegally kept classified information at Mar-a-Lago.
However, after reviewing the DOJ’s proposed redactions, the judge on Thursday ordered the release in an acknowledgment of the extraordinary public interest in the historic investigation.
“The government has met its burden of showing that its proposed redactions are narrowly tailored to serve the government’s legitimate interest in the integrity of the ongoing investigation and are the least onerous alternative to sealing the entire affidavit,” Reinhart insisted in his ruling.
The blacked-out sections hide many key unanswered questions about the Aug. 8 raid, during which officials say 11 sets of classified documents, including information marked at the top secret level, were retrieved.
That includes hiding the identities of witnesses and key details about the “strategy, direction, scope, sources and methods” of the investigation that sparked a huge political firestorm.
Trump, 76, had instead repeatedly demanded the full, unredacted document be released.
On Thursday, he insisted he was “as innocent as a person can be.”
The FBI carried away more than 20 boxes from Mar-a-Lago, with 11 sets of classified government records, some labeled “top secret.”
The search was part of a federal investigation into whether Trump illegally removed and kept documents from the White House when he left office in January 2021 and whether he tried to obstruct the government’s investigation.
The documents the FBI seized were in addition to 700 pages worth of classified records the National Archives recovered from Mar-a-Lago in January, some of which entailed Special Access Program materials, a reference to security protocols reserved for the country’s most closely-held secrets.
Attorney General Merrick Garland later confirmed he had personally approved the extraordinary raid.
However, President Biden insisted this week that he “didn’t have any advance notice” of the raid on his predecessor.
“None, zero, not one single bit,” he said.
Trump has filed a separate civil case asking another judge to halt the FBI’s review of the seized records pending the appointment of a special master to independently review them for materials that could be protected under executive privilege, a legal principle that lets a president shield some information.
With Post wires | https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/affidavit-behind-trump-mar-a-lago-raid-finally-released/ | 2022-08-26T16:44:50Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/affidavit-behind-trump-mar-a-lago-raid-finally-released/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
An Alabama teenager miraculously survived getting hit in the chest by lightning on her very first day of classes at the University of West Florida — leaving her with serious burns and causing her Apple Watch to explode.
Emma Eggler, 18, had only moved to Pensacola over the weekend and was struck on her first day on campus Monday, she told WEARTV.
“I did not feel anything at all, really. I just woke up on the ground,” Eggler told the local station.
“I was more embarrassed because I thought I tripped and fell on the ground. Then, I realized I couldn’t move, I couldn’t speak and I couldn’t do anything,” she told WKRG in a separate interview.
A senior who rushed to help, Nelson Libbert, recalled telling the teen how strong she was — and how she was having “a tough first day.”
Doctors later told Eggler that “the lightning went through really close to my heart,” and she likely only avoided a heart attack because of her young age.
“My shirt was completely open because of the lightning strike. It melted to me,” she told WEARTV.
The bolt caused second-degree burns on her chest and stomach, as well as her wrist after her Apple Watch exploded.
It traveled right through to her left foot, leaving holes in her sock and shoes, she said, revealing her initial fear that she was paralyzed was fortunately unfounded.
“A lot of doctors told me I should buy a lottery ticket because I was so lucky,” she told WEARTV.
Her mom, Erin Eggler, told the station, “We definitely feel like God performed a miracle for her. That is the only explanation for why she is still here with us.” | https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/lightning-strikes-teen-on-first-day-of-college-in-florida/ | 2022-08-26T16:45:50Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/lightning-strikes-teen-on-first-day-of-college-in-florida/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
East Africa’s telecom leader, Safaricom, announced on Thursday the appointment of Cynthia Karuri-Kropac as its new Chief Enterprise Business Officer. The appointment will be made effective 1 September 2022.
She is set to replace Joseph Wanjohi, who has been serving in the post in an acting capacity since May of this year. Wanjohi was appointed as interim chief earlier in the year after incumbent Kris Senanu departed the telecom after less than a year after joining.
Kurari-Kropac will be jumping to Safaricom from US-based telecommunications titan AT&T, the world’s best-earning telecom group.
AT&T raked in revenues upwards of $156-billion according to their report for the year ended in June 2022.
Safaricom, in comparison, pulled in $3.6-billion in revenue for the year ended in March 2022. Most of which were from its M-PESA fintech product.
Previous to her new appointment at Safaricom, she served as AT&T’s Senior Director, Enterprise Mobile and IoT Technologies. She had been at the US carrier for the last 19 years.
“With over 20 years experience in the telecommunications sector, Cynthia has a wealth of knowledge in various crafts, including business strategy, industrial IoT, enterprise technology solutions, executive advisory & decision support, operational excellence & process reengineering,” said Safaricom in a statement about the new appointment.
Kurari-Kopac holds a Bachelor in Finance from the University of Toledo and an MBA with a specialization in Finance and Financial Management from Kent State University, both of which are in Ohio, USA.
She has reportedly won several awards for various achievements, including recognition by Women of Color Magazine as a “Rising Star in STEM.”
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Wanted woman found in Perry County
NEW LEXINGTON − The Perry County Sheriff's Office Special Investigations Unit reported locating and apprehending a woman wanted by authorities on a warrant from Athens County.
Deputies said an anonymous tip was received at 12:35 p.m. Wednesday that Jessica Davis was in a camper. The special investigations unit responded to the site and after several minutes of negotiation was able to take Davis into custody without incident at 1:15 p.m. She was transported to the Athens County Sheriff's Office.
Davis has been wanted for community control violations since March 2021 related to original charges of identity fraud and multiple counts of drug possession.
Crop walk, age breakfast planned
ZANESVILLE − The Ohio State University Extension Office of Muskingum County is holding a crop scout walk to look at rows of corn and soybean agriculture and pest management issues from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at 310 Hicks Road. State extension entomology specialists Kelley Tillmon and Andy Michel will be part of this free program. To reserve a spot, contact Clifton Martin at 740-454-0144.
A Muskingum Ag Network Breakfast will be at 8 a.m. Sept. 6 at Friendly Hills Camp and Conference Center. Cost is $9. Guest speaker is Brady Campbell, small ruminant extension specialist.
Ables having furnace giveaway
ZANESVILLE −Ables Inc. of Zanesville is accepting nominations through Oct. 21 for its sixth annual Heat for Our Heroes furnace giveaway. Winners will be announced on Nov. 11.
Active duty military, veterans or surviving spouses can win a new electric or gas furnace. Go to heatforourheroes.com/Nominations to make a nomination.
Civil War Roundtable meeting
ZANESVILLE − The Zanesville Civil War Roundtable will meet at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26 at the Stone Academy Museum, 115 Jefferson St.
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An upcoming Dadeville restaurant has encountered a problem, city leaders say.
Mayor Jimmy ‘Frank’ Goodman announced earlier this week that a planned Guthrie's franchise now faces construction issues. According to Goodman, the fast-food chain contacted him Tuesday, August 23, in which the owner explained that development on the Dadeville store location has stalled.
“I talked to the owner this afternoon, and they are having issues getting the windows and doors for the Guthrie's they want to build,” he said.
Furthermore, the Guthrie's construction site grapples with an additional roadblock as a residential house currently occupies the building zone.
Goodman addressed city council members regarding the delay during a scheduled meeting that same day, describing the issues as only a temporary setback.
“He promised it should be here, and that it is still on, but he is having problems,” Goodman said.
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Rumblings that the chicken-finger franchise expanded to the city began during April of 2021 when the Dadeville City Council rezoned property specifically for the business development.
Over a year later, Goodman noted that the new business will finally advance once the company resolves development issues.
The Guthrie's will be located along U.S. Highway 280 specifically at 127 Day Street next to Jack's. In the months ahead, Goodman explained that the company will clear the construction site so that development can begin this fall.
“They will demo this house around October or November so it can go ahead and get started,” Goodman said.
Guthrie's, headquartered in Auburn, has 36 locations mostly in the southeast. Dadeville's location will be drive-through only.
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Here & Now‘s Celeste Headlee speaks with Liane Randolph, chair of the California Air Resources Board, about the state’s plan to phase out new sales of gasoline-powered cars by 2035.
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We regularly answer frequently asked questions about life during the coronavirus crisis. If you have a question you'd like us to consider for a future post, email us at goatsandsoda@npr.org with the subject line: "Weekly Coronavirus Questions." See an archive of our FAQs here.
Ah, the start of a new school year. Maybe you're one of millions of Americans who have started mingling with peers in the dorms and suddenly find yourself sniffling and wondering if you have COVID-19.
Or you're just getting back from your summer vacation and the back of your throat has a worrisome itch.
You consider taking an at-home rapid test, but you have lots of questions. With new FDA recommendations on testing, how many times should you test for a definitive result? And, how infectious are you if the positive line is faint? And what if the test turns positive — but only after an hour?
We posed your questions to the experts: Dr. Abraar Karan, infectious disease researcher at Stanford; Meriem Bekliz, virologist at the University of Geneva; and Dr. Preeti Malani, professor of medicine at the University of Michigan. Here's the scoop:
So I caught COVID-19 and after 10 days I'm still testing positive. But the line on my rapid test is really faint now compared to a week ago. What's the deal? Exactly how contagious am I?
"The faintness or darkness of the line probably has some correlation to degree of infectiousness especially early on [during the infection]," says Karan.
So if the line is faint, that could mean your risk of accidentally passing the virus on to others is low.
"Some people may not be infectious because the tests could be picking up viral debris from a waning infection," says Bekliz.
But don't rip off your mask just yet: There could be other reasons for a faint line.
There is "some room for error" with those rapid tests, Karan says. You're sticking a cotton swab up your nose and hoping to snare some virus. A faint line could mean you've collected less virus this time around. Maybe you swabbed for less time or in only one nostril when your test instructions say to swab both.
"In general, a darker line is a result of more virus [on the swab]," says Malani. "But antigen tests are not especially sensitive, so even with a negative test, you can be contagious."
So the bottom line, say our experts: If you're testing positive – even with a faint line — you should behave as if you are contagious.
If there's any hint of a positive line, Bekliz recommends you continue to wear a mask, work from home if possible and generally limit contact with other people.
Last week I tested positive for COVID-19 and went through the recommended 5 days of isolation and additional 5 days of masking. How many times do I need to test negative before it's OK to assume I'm virus-free?
Figuring out when it's OK to ease up on your safety measures after catching COVID-19 can be tricky.
If you suspect that you may have COVID but haven't tested positive yet, the FDA now recommends serial testing, which means you should repeat your home test after 48 hours to make sure you aren't accidentally getting a false negative test.
And what should you do if you already tested positive and want to know when you're finally negative?
"The recommendations for serial testing are for people that have been exposed and are trying to diagnose themselves," says Karan. "They're saying to repeat the test after a day or two, but not if your first test is already positive and you're testing to become negative."
Once you have tested positive and your body starts clearing the virus, a negative rapid test should be a pretty good indication you're no longer infectious, so long as you follow the test protocols correctly and wait an appropriate amount of time before testing.
"If it's been like five days [since the onset of symptoms], and the test is negative, then I would feel good about that," says Karan. "If the test is negative one or two days after symptoms start, then I would maybe think you didn't get a good sample and should test again."
While that's reassuring, there wasn't agreement among our experts about exactly what to do. While Karan says one negative test after an appropriate amount of time is good enough, Malani says you should take two just to be sure.
"Usually you want a couple negative tests," says Malani. "If you have two negative antigen tests, that's really helpful."
So that first negative test is likely a good sign, but taking an additional test 24 hours later is a great way to confirm the result and rule out errors in testing.
I was feeling a bit off and took a COVID-19 test. After 15 minutes it looked like the test was negative. But when I came back to check the test an hour later a positive line had appeared! Then I retested three times and they all came back negative. Does this mean I could have COVID-19?
This is a pretty unusual circumstance, our experts say, but one that could potentially indicate bad news.
"The tests aren't really meant to be read an hour later," says Malani. "But it would be a little bit concerning for someone who has symptoms and has their test turn positive later."
Each test kit has its own recommended timeframe for reading the test. BinaxNOW and iHealth kits say you should read the test after 15 minutes, but not after 30 minutes. INDICAID test kits say you should read the test after 20 minutes, but not after 25 minutes. Reading the test after the recommended time frame could lead to a false positive.
However, Karan agrees that "it would be less likely to be a false positive if someone's having symptoms and we're at a time when there's a high amount of virus being spread."
Following the FDA recommendation to test at least twice and waiting 48 hours between tests can help determine your true COVID-19 status as well.
"My advice would be to probably stay put and not expose anyone, and then perhaps repeat the test," Malani says. "Now, if you're feeling great the next day and your test is negative, maybe it was nothing."
Or simply "assume you're positive if you have symptoms," Karan says. "Try to get a PCR test and retest again [at home] in the next few days. If the PCR test is negative, you're probably OK."
No matter the circumstances, if you're worried that you could have COVID-19, our experts think your best bet is to repeat your at-home test over a couple of days. So if you want to ace COVID Testing 101 this school year, just remember that two negative tests are better than one.
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Local, state leaders meet with Biden on abortion access
President Biden met with state and local leaders Friday to discuss what it would take to protect and expand access to abortions and reproductive health care.
Driving the news: Friday is Women’s Equality Day, and the Biden administration marked it as a "day of action" on reproductive rights focused on bolstering access to reproductive care for women who live in states that are restricting abortion access.
- Local and state leaders told Biden how their respective states could protect access to abortions and what the federal government could do to help.
- The event did not include any major policy announcements or updates.
What they said: Biden said he wanted Congress to codify Roe v. Wade, but Democrats lack the votes in the Senate to do so.
- "I'm optimistic that we will get to a place where we're already making your voices heard," Biden said. He urged people to vote in November.
- Durham, N.C., Mayor Elaine O’Neal told Biden that more should be done to investigate reproductive rights for men, including talking about getting rid of medications like Viagra and medical procedures for men that "will help them not to contribute to the making of a child."
- Judge Lina Hidalgo of Harris County, Texas, criticized her state's trigger law that went into effect Thursday.
State of play: The Department of Health and Human Services also invited states to apply for 115 Medicaid waivers to increase the access to reproductive care, according to a letter the department sent Friday.
- HHS officials stated in the letter that any current or future abortion restriction laws "do not negate providers’ responsibilities to comply with federal laws protecting access to emergency health care."
- Biden recently signed two executive orders to protect access to reproductive care.
Worth noting: HHS released a report Friday laying out what actions should be taken to help ensure reproductive rights access.
- The report came in response to Biden's executive order aimed at protecting abortion access after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
- "HHS has been and will continue to take concrete action, like today’s invitation to states, that will protect women’s access to reproductive care, including abortion,” Becerra said in a statement.
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The hottest game on mobile right now got a boost from TikTok
Survivor.io is mobile gaming’s latest out-of-nowhere success, topping iOS and Android charts throughout August. It got there with an eyebrow-raising gameplay concept and popular ads on TikTok.
Why it matters: Mobile is the game industry's biggest market, but chart-topping hits are often big surprises that call for some sleuthing about how they blew up.
Details: Survivor.io puts players in control of a tiny warrior who automatically attacks swarms of enemies as they approach. The player races to upgrade their fighter’s firepower to keep up.
- The game took the #1 slot across iOS and Android on August 12 and has held the top spot since, according to tracking firm data.ai. It was ranked #504 just two days prior.
- It's been downloaded an estimated 4.15 million times.
Driving the news: Video game consultancy group Naavik has noted that Survivor.io has been heavily advertised on TikTok and suggests it's "one of the first success cases for games x TikTok ads."
- TikTok lists a Survivor.io spot as one of its top 10 ads for the past week (69k likes, 1k comments).
- It lists four Survivor.io ads among the 10 top-performing gaming ads for the same period.
The big picture: For avid PC gamers, Survivor.io may remind them of the equally captivating late 2021 breakout hit Vampire Survivors, but without the vampires.
- The similarities suggest Survivor.io is yet another lucrative mobile copycat, but it technically precedes the PC darling.
- Version history for Survivor.io indicates the app was released in some regions back in September 2020. It was updated repeatedly until its global launch this month. It’s unclear how much the game changed over time and whether it always played as it does now.
- Whatever the case, it's definitely not the first of its type. The maker of Vampire Survivors says he drew inspiration from Android game Magic Survival, which launched in 2019.
Between the lines: Survivor.io is developed by Gorilla Game Studio and published by Habby, which had another hit game with auto-firing combat Archero in 2019.
- Reps for Habby did not reply to requests for comment.
- While the game is dominating in the U.S., it's still been topped worldwide by a handful of other mobile games, including Free Fire and Subway Surfers.
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PreciTaste gives kitchens a taste of efficiency
PreciTaste, an AI-powered kitchen management system, will use $25 million in fresh funds to bring big food brands onto its roster as it helps restaurants tackle the labor shortage.
Why it matters: As restaurants face a labor crunch and mounting costs, digital tools that help kitchens run as efficiently as possible are garnering interest and investment.
Driving the news: PreciTaste, whose technology platform serves fast-casual and quick-service restaurant kitchens, closed a $25 million Series A this month.
- The raise was co-led by Melitas Ventures and Cleveland Avenue.
- Danny Meyer-backed growth equity fund Enlightened Hospitality Investments and Monogram Capital Partners participated.
Details: The new capital will fund software rollouts for existing customers and help onboard new users.
- “We have almost a waiting list of big brands that really want to join in,” CEO Ingo Stork-Wersborg tells Axios.
- The company currently has over 1,500 food AI deployments. “And we're growing fast,” Stork-Wersborg says.
How it works: PreciTaste uses machine learning and AI to monitor food quantity (and quality) in quick-service restaurants.
- Its software adjusts to kitchen workflows to make cooking and ingredient preparation recommendations to ensure order accuracy and freshness.
What they're saying: “We've seen that a crew of five people in the kitchen can now do a job that previously was done by seven people in the kitchen,” Stork-Wersborg says.
- PreciTaste helps restaurants “become more efficient and navigate the current labor shortage crisis," he says.
- “Because we're helping them to increase throughput, they can serve the customers faster,” he says, thereby enabling them to drive more sales.
What’s next: Stork-Wersborg hopes PreciTaste’s platform will gain enough “cooking experience” to manage different and more complex menu items that you wouldn’t typically see in chain restaurants.
Of note: PreciTaste's ability to calculate order demand means kitchens cook only as much food as they need to — which will help address the persistent issue of discarded food.
- “We help them assess demand so accurately that we are cutting down food waste significantly,” Stork-Wersborg says.
- Restaurants further save money as they avoid ordering a surplus of ingredients.
- “Even in the greatest recessions, people need to eat [and] they may need to be more economical, which is both driving towards what we do,” he says. | https://www.axios.com/pro/retail-deals/2022/08/26/precitaste-25m-kitchen-efficiency | 2022-08-26T17:13:55Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/pro/retail-deals/2022/08/26/precitaste-25m-kitchen-efficiency | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kerala players Rohan S Kunnummal and Basil Thampi have been selected to the South Zone squad for the Duleep Trophy.
The South Zone selection committee that met in Kochi named a 15-member squad to be captained by Hanuma Vihari with Mayank Agarwal his deputy.
Devdutt Padikkal and Manish Pandey are two other exciting names in the South Zone squad. The Duleep Trophy is scheduled to be held in Tamil Nadu from September 8 to 25.
South Zone Squad: H Vihari (cap), Mayank Agarwal (vc), Rohan Kunnummal, Devdutt Padikal, Manish Pandey, B Inderjit, Eknath Kerkar, Ricky Bhui, Sai Kishore, K Gowtham, Basil Thampi, Ravi Teja, V C Stephen, Tanay Tyagarajan, Lakshay Garg | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/08/26/duleep-trophy-south-zone-squad-rohan-kunnummal-basil-thampi.amp.html | 2022-08-26T17:14:59Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/08/26/duleep-trophy-south-zone-squad-rohan-kunnummal-basil-thampi.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The end of summer is sentimental for many reasons. But if you’re an outdoor music lover, the end of summer wraps up the season of festivals, alfresco concerts, and time spent outside in general. Because we’re thankfully not quite to the end of summer yet, today’s five Instagram accounts highlight illustrators with a similar style to music festival posters and concert advertisements. They’re thoughtful, edgy, and each shares a hint of rock concert nostalgia.
Lauren Martin | @laurenmartin_studio
New York City artist and illustrator Lauren Martin has an Instagram account inspired by nature and the mundane, but rooted in humor. Plus, when Martin isn’t working on designing new illustrations, she plays synth and guitar in Frankie Cosmos, proving that her nostalgic, music poster-inspired designs are truly ingrained in her ethos. Each of Martin’s works feels reminiscent of miniature cartoons, with humor at the core of each piece. There’s an uplifting, light sentiment to her feed that’s absolutely appreciated in a world overwhelmed by the negative.
Lily McNeil | @lilynilly.art
If Jimi Hendrix posters were crafted with a richer, darker color palette, they would easily fit within the flow of Lily McNeil’s Instagram feed. Her work is beautifully distinctive, and highlights unusual circumstances and vignettes that still feel grounded and relaxed. The dark color hues create an aura of sophistication, where the subjects feel more youthful. Using the same shades throughout her portfolio makes each piece distinctively part of McNeil’s beautiful collection of works.
Andrew McGranahan | @andrew_mcgranahan
San Diego artist Andrew McGranahan has a psychedelic-inspired Instagram feed motivated by ancient history, science fiction, and surrealism. You can see an influence of ’70s music poster design through the bright, high-contrast colors and beautifully textured patterns. McGranahan’s work is highly visual, and each piece invites interest in the design process and deeper contextual meaning.
Jordan Warren | @jordanwarrenvisuals
Jordan Warren is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator from the UK, and when he’s not designing, he’s making music. After graduating a design program in 2020, Warren has since worked with international clients that include Sony Music Nashville, Hitco, North Bend Film Festival, and Eeasy Records. Because of his passion for music, it makes sense that each of Warren’s Instagram posts is inspired by the auditory in some shape or form, from a massive 3D sun playing the saxophone to Spotify Canvas animations.
Nathan Walker |@atpcdesign
Nathan Walker, also known as All The Pretty Colors, is an Austin-based designer with a wide range of focuses, including brand development, animation, mural design, web design, packaging, and illustration. You can definitely feel a thread of southern charm, character, and wit throughout their Instagram feed, with dreamy cocktail illustrations, a big focus on sports-inspired works, and wonderfully wistful color palettes. Walker’s reels are also notable for highlighting the creation process of their illustrations. | https://www.printmag.com/follow-friday/these-five-creators-will-add-a-summer-music-festival-feel-to-your-instagram-feed/ | 2022-08-26T17:14:59Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/follow-friday/these-five-creators-will-add-a-summer-music-festival-feel-to-your-instagram-feed/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DENVER, Colo. — There's some groundbreaking new research that's shedding light on how diseases such as hepatitis, pneumonia and malaria can be worsened by climate change. More than half of the known human pathogenic diseases can actually be affected, scientists are finding.
For years, scientists have said climate and health are related. As the co-director of the University of Colorado School of Medicine's climate and health program, Rosemary Rochford says the newest findings can be alarming.
"Slowly over the last, since 2010 or so, you start seeing more and more studies trying to bring this point together and see what's happening with climate and health," Rochford said. "The numbers are very jarring."
She's referring to a new research paper published by the University of Hawaii at Mãnoa.
"I think it's a really important paper raising awareness, it's called what's a systematic review. They pulled in a lot of studies from around the world," Rochford said.
Erik Franklin is one of the faculty researchers for this project.
"We found by looking at some of the predictive global climate change models, that these things would increase in frequency, they would increase in magnitude or strength in the coming years," Franklin said
They took former research about climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and droughts, and found that greenhouse gas emissions are intensifying them. That, in turn, affects more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases.
"Our concerns emerged once we started to see the results. When you talk about over half of the 375 diseases that we identified or could identify, over half of those would have a negative impact from a climate hazard meaning climate change in the future will basically have an increased problem with these diseases," Franklin said.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a reminder of how our society can be affected by disease.
"It was just sobering. You kind of just have to sit back and grasp the massive health system implications for humans around the globe," Franklin said.
This is why he says prevention is key.
"We really need to attack the problem from a proactive approach which means decreasing and minimizing greenhouse emissions as soon as possible. That's to try and turn the tap off on what's leading to these negative disease outcomes," Franklin said.
"It tells us that we need to pay attention to it and we need to think about what interventions we can do," Rochford said.
While the findings may feel detrimental, Rochford says we need to focus on how scientists can intervene.
"We now have interventions to help prevent that disease so we want to know what diseases can be impacted by climate change but we also want to remember we can also have tools that can help us prevent those diseases," Rochford said.
Until now, research hasn't quantified the total threat of climate change on pathogenic diseases.
"What's novel about this work and what's also kind of scary, as far as our group knows, this is the most comprehensive attempt, to look at all of the, both a list of most of the hazards and all of these diseases," Franklin said.
This paper is the start of a new chapter, truly grasping the relationship between climate and disease. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/new-study-sheds-light-on-how-diseases-can-be-worsened-by-climate-change | 2022-08-26T17:15:04Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/new-study-sheds-light-on-how-diseases-can-be-worsened-by-climate-change | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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