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Muskingum County's COVID cases fall 19.1%; Ohio cases holding steady
Ohio reported 23,436 new cases of coronavirus in the week ending Sunday, from 24,067 the week before of the virus that causes COVID-19.
Ohio ranked 15th among the states where coronavirus was spreading the fastest on a per-person basis, a USA TODAY Network analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the latest week coronavirus cases in the United States increased 10.8% from the week before, with 654,873 cases reported. With 3.51% of the country's population, Ohio had 3.58% of the country's cases in the last week. Across the country, 16 states had more cases in the latest week than they did in the week before.
Muskingum County reported 208 cases and zero deaths in the latest week. A week earlier, it had reported 257 cases and one death. Throughout the pandemic it has reported 28,715 cases and 301 deaths.
Perry County reported 126 cases and zero deaths in the latest week. A week earlier, it had reported 67 cases and zero deaths. Throughout the pandemic it has reported 9,384 cases and 129 deaths.
Within Ohio, the worst weekly outbreaks on a per-person basis were in Jackson County with 577 cases per 100,000 per week; Gallia County with 515; and Guernsey County with 468. The Centers for Disease Control says high levels of community transmission begin at 100 cases per 100,000 per week.
Adding the most new cases overall were Cuyahoga County, with 2,372 cases; Franklin County, with 2,038 cases; and Hamilton County, with 1,442. Weekly case counts rose in 39 counties from the previous week. The worst increases from the prior week's pace were in Clermont, Stark and Lucas counties.
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Across Ohio, cases fell in 48 counties, with the best declines in Cuyahoga County, with 2,372 cases from 2,562 a week earlier; in Franklin County, with 2,038 cases from 2,214; and in Greene County, with 275 cases from 397.
In Ohio,
zero people were reported dead of COVID-19 in the week ending Sunday. In the week before that, 13 people were reported dead.A total of 3,049,546 people in Ohio have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began, and 39,406 people have died from the disease, Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the United States 94,190,979 people have tested positive and 1,043,840 people have died.
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Ohio's COVID-19 hospital admissions rising
USA TODAY analyzed federal hospital data as of Sunday, Aug. 28. Likely COVID patients admitted in the state:
- Last week: 2,322
- The week before that: 2,155
- Four weeks ago: 2,222
Likely COVID patients admitted in the nation:
- Last week: 66,008
- The week before that: 66,216
- Four weeks ago: 72,118
Hospitals in 20 states reported more COVID-19 patients than a week earlier, while hospitals in 21 states had more COVID-19 patients in intensive-care beds. Hospitals in 25 states admitted more COVID-19 patients in the latest week than a week prior, the USA TODAY analysis of U.S. Health and Human Services data shows.
The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Johns Hopkins University and the Centers for Disease Control. If you have questions about the data or the story, contact Mike Stucka at mstucka@gannett.com. | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/news/2022/08/29/gda-covid-19-state-2022-08-29-oh-pzan/65461261007/ | 2022-08-29T18:37:10Z | zanesvilletimesrecorder.com | control | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/news/2022/08/29/gda-covid-19-state-2022-08-29-oh-pzan/65461261007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ace of Trades: A small town girl with big dreams
Education transformed Michelle Ball Shaver's life
NEW CONCORD – She grew up in a small town – with big dreams.
“I was a country girl from a small town,” confirmed Michelle Ball Shaver. “I was a tomboy and loved fishing, camping and floating the creek.
“Growing up, I didn’t love school,” she added. “However, it came easy to me, and I worked hard to get good grades. I wanted to go to college so I could get out of the small town. At that age, it felt suffocating to me. I wanted to be a traveling journalist covering stories around the world. I grew up during Desert Storm, and I marveled at the journalists covering the conflict, and thought that was what I wanted to do.
“My high school graduation class had 90 kids, so it was small,” she continued. “The idea of going to a large school was intimidating, especially since I’m an introvert. When I visited colleges, I loved Otterbein because it was small, yet close to the city. I had the best of both worlds. I chose public relations. I wasn’t entirely sure what it was, but in the end, it was a great choice.”
Today, Ball Shaver is executive director of strategic marketing and communications at Muskingum University.
“There were several reasons why I wanted to join Muskingum,” she said. “First, the university serves the Appalachian region. As someone who was raised in that culture and had the opportunity to get a degree, I knew the university was a valuable resource to this area. Second, it feels like coming home. The campus, nestled in the rolling hills, is beautiful. The texture of the landscape and the close-knit community is welcoming. Finally, having attended a small, private college for my undergraduate degree, I know how extraordinary they are. The faculty and staff get to know each other and the students. Students get the attention they need and deserve.”
Ball Shaver grew up in the “suburbs” of Chillicothe, as she put it. “However,” she clarified, “we spent most of our time at my grandparents’ house in Knockemstiff.” (An unincorporated area southwest of Chillicothe) She graduated from Paint Valley High School in Bainbridge in 1991, then earned a degree in public relations and communications from Otterbein University in 1995 and a master’s in public policy and management from the John Glenn College at Ohio State in 2009. After working in both the private and public sectors, she joined Muskingum in April 2021.
“Michelle has brought incredible energy and expertise to our strategic marketing and communications division,” assessed Dr. Susan S. Hasseler, president of Muskingum University. “Her extensive experience in higher education, deep commitment to students and to our region, and wonderful sense of humor have made her an invaluable member of Muskingum’s leadership team.”
“My path to academia was not intentional,” Ball Shaver responded, “but I do believe it was somewhat destined. My sister and I were first-generation college students. Growing up in a small, blue-collar town, I’ve experienced first-hand the value of a college education.
“My life was transformed through education,” she summed, “and now I get to help others have that same opportunity.”
For more information about Muskingum University, log on www.muskingum.edu.
About the seriesAces of Trades is a weekly series focusing on people and their jobs – whether they’re unusual jobs, fun jobs or people who take ordinary jobs and make them extraordinary. If you have a suggestion for a future profile, let us know at trnews@zanesvilletimesrecorder.com. | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/news/local/2022/08/29/ace-of-trades-a-small-town-girl-with-big-dreams/10199012002/ | 2022-08-29T18:37:16Z | zanesvilletimesrecorder.com | control | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/news/local/2022/08/29/ace-of-trades-a-small-town-girl-with-big-dreams/10199012002/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Victor Goines, an acclaimed musician and educator, will become president and CEO of Jazz St. Louis on on Sept. 19.
Goines’ tenure succeeds that of Gene Dobbs Bradford, who led the Grand Center-based organization for 23 years before leaving in December to lead the Savannah Music Festival in Georgia..
Goines said he remembers when Jazz St. Louis got its start in the Willard Hotel. He said the city has a vibrant jazz scene he is eager to promote.
“Jazz is alive and everywhere, and we want people to see this city for what it is,” Gaines said in a statement. “It’s up to us to push the boundaries by listening to the various communities and meet them where they are with music.”
Goines brings with him impressive credits both onstage and in the classroom.
He’s played clarinet with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra since 1993, under the leadership of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, who recommended him for the St. Louis job. Goines also led the Jazz Studies department at Northwestern University for 14 years, after seven years building the Juilliard School’s jazz studies program. He has been an education consultant to Jazz at Lincoln Center since 1995.
Bradford led Jazz St. Louis through a period of growth, including a $10 million renovation and expansion of the club known as Jazz at the Bistro into the Harold and Dorothy Steward Center for Jazz, complete with education and rehearsal studios and an onstage sound system considered perhaps the finest in St. Louis.
“As we look to the future of Jazz St. Louis, we are thrilled to have Victor at the helm with his extensive knowledge and connections to the jazz world," Bill Higley, chair of the Jazz St. Louis board of directors, said in a statement.
Goines was born in New Orleans. He will continue his career as a live performer and recording artist while leading Jazz St. Louis.
This article was originally published in St. Louis Public Radio. The original article can be found here. | https://www.stlamerican.com/business/business_news/jazz-st-louis-picks-jazz-musician-victor-goines-as-its-president-and-ceo/article_d20c5326-279b-11ed-bea1-ef97170d27f0.html | 2022-08-29T18:38:38Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/business/business_news/jazz-st-louis-picks-jazz-musician-victor-goines-as-its-president-and-ceo/article_d20c5326-279b-11ed-bea1-ef97170d27f0.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Marian Middle School announced the appointment of Sandra Morton, MEd., MBA, as the school’s new principal. Marian is a Catholic middle school with a focus on breaking the cycle of poverty through exceptional education. Morton is pursuing a master’s in education leadership from the University of Missouri–St. Louis and holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix. She previously served as principal at St. Louis Catholic Academy and held several leadership positions at Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School, including director of admissions, dean of students, technology coordinator, business teacher, and writing lab instructor.
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When Charles Diggs, Jr., won election to Congress in Michigan’s 13th District in 1954, he launched nearly seven decades in which the city of Detroit had at least one Black member of Congress. That’s likely to change this year. Because of redistricting, Detroit no longer has majority-Black congressional districts
And in the first primary election with newly drawn district lines, a Black candidate did not win the Democratic contest in the heavily Democratic 13th. That means the city is likely to lack Black representation in Congress for the first time in decades.
Redistricting is robbing Black candidates and voters of hard fought for opportunities they have had for years. In Detroit, new districts merged Black areas of the city with white neighborhoods across 8 Mile Road.
The city stands to lose Black representation in Congress and have less representation in the state legislature. Knowing what the impact could be, voters have spoken out forcefully against the new redistricting maps from pulpits to street corners to the state capitol and even before the state courts.
Sadly, Michigan is not alone. The New York Times reported in August that this year, “judges in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Ohio have found that Republican legislators illegally drew those states’ congressional maps along racial or partisan lines, or that a trial very likely would conclude that they did.” But elections are moving forward anyway.
We’ve all heard about the restrictive voter suppression laws that far-right state legislatures are passing. We’ve heard about the crackdowns on voting hours and mail-in voting, and even on giving food and water to voters in long lines. But we don’t hear enough about redistricting as another weapon being used to intimidate voters and keep us from exercising our constitutional rights. It is erasing us from Congress and state legislatures. We need to call it out and challenge it where we see it.
Calling out and challenging means organizing, litigating, and legislating. It means supporting national and local organizations that unite communities against racist gerrymandering and seek justice in the courts. They might not win every case, but advocacy and activism are essential to righting this wrong.
We must also keep voting, running for office, and educating. People For the American Way, houses an African American Religious Affairs network that has reaffirmed for more than a decade that “every election matters and every vote counts” --and that includes primaries. For Black ministers in our network, voting and civic participation are acts of faith and so much more.
As Reverend Dr. Steve Bland, Jr., pastor of Liberty Temple Baptist Church in Detroit said, “It’s not about left or right. Splitting Detroit into two districts was an insult. But we have faith and must “deal with our self-interest by voting in every election.”
I know that a lot of media coverage of this summer’s primaries has focused on one big question: will Trump-style, MAGA candidates win or lose? But there’s another question that needs to be asked: how harmful are the impacts of redistricting on our communities in this year’s elections and those to come? The current reality dictates that we do not sit out any election. We need to resolutely register, educate, motivate, and turn out voters. In every election. Every time.
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APGA Tour Championship winner Kamaiu Johnson becomes the first player to win the World Wide Technology Player Development Program bonus pool reward with his victory in the Mastercard APGA Tour Championship at TPC San Antonio recently.
Johnson, Willie Mack III, Marcus Byrd, Andrew Walker and Ryan Alford – all part of the WTT Player Development Program as top young players on the circuit – will divide $20,000 in bonus pool money based on their performance this year in the APGA Tour season-long Lexus Cup Point Standings.
Johnson earned the bonus pool top prize of $7,500 after his birdie on the closing hole led to a one-stroke victory in the Mastercard APGA Tour Championship. He finished 7-under-par for the tournament and his final round 67 gave the Florida resident low round honors for the event. The win also made Johnson the winner of the season-long Lexus Cup Point Standings competition.
Johnson made international news in 2021 due to his unique backstory of perseverance and when his exemption into the PGA TOUR’s Farmers Insurance Open was scuttled by a positive COVID-19 test. The dream-shattered narrative drew massive media attention and the PGA TOUR and its sponsors responded by offering Johnson exemptions into three tournaments later last year. | https://www.stlamerican.com/sports/national_sports/golfer-kamaiu-johnson-wins-first-world-wide-technology-bonus-pool-reward/article_fcb83242-27c4-11ed-81e1-0b9a4ecf421e.html | 2022-08-29T18:38:49Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/sports/national_sports/golfer-kamaiu-johnson-wins-first-world-wide-technology-bonus-pool-reward/article_fcb83242-27c4-11ed-81e1-0b9a4ecf421e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
“Seeing them celebrate on our floor; that is an image, a memory, a feeling, probably never ever forget." - Jayson Tatum on watching Golden State celebrate its NBA Finals title in Boston.
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PUNE, India, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ACCSCIENT, LLC headquartered in Dallas, Texas, USA, has announced the acquisition of Vyom Group (comprising of Vyom Labs, Cogniwize, and Omnepresent) and DxSherpa, through its parent entity. This acquisition will expand ACCSCIENT's global presence to over 3,000 technical resources in addition to expanding its reach into the markets of Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia.
"The addition of Vyom Group and DxShpera to the ACCSCIENT family strengthens our digital business capabilities while also expanding our global reach beyond our established foothold in the Americas. As a combined entity, we can expand how we support our clients and partners throughout the entire digital ecosystem with both services and technology solutions." said Andre Wu, Senior Partner at ACCSCIENT.
"After meeting so many leaders at Vyom Group and DxSherpa, I am excited to welcome everyone into the ACCSCIENT family where they will find our culture and values to be aligned to theirs and they will be part of an ecosystem where the empowerment of people has been the cornerstone of our success for 25 years. We encourage our people to pursue excellence at whatever they wish within the ACCSCIENT ecosystem." said Sravan Vellanki, ACCSCIENT Chairman.
Vyom Group was founded in 2003 by Prasad Patwa and Uday Birajdar. Since inception, they have become a leading service provider for BMC software, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Microsoft, Snowflake, Mendix and other industry leading platforms by providing professional and managed services. With over 1,500+ team members, Vyom Group has established itself as an innovative and client-focused provider of digital transformation services to a global client base.
"At the Vyom Group, our evolution has been cultivated around our core value of V-Co-Create. This has helped us create great value for our customers, partners, and employees. Today, as we join hands with ACCSCIENT, we are excited to leverage our collective capabilities and geographical presence to accelerate business growth, provide a wider landscape of meaningful opportunities for all stakeholders, professional growth for the employees, and a wider and deeper portfolio of services and solutions for our customers." said Uday Birajdar, co-founder of Vyom Labs.
ACCSCIENT continues to expand the breadth of its capabilities across the entire digital ecosystem as both a provider of services and software solutions. Enabled by the depth of its technical teams working from multiple global locations, ACCSCIENT provides its clients with industry leading practitioners, agile delivery models, and optimized economics to ensure their digital business outcomes are achieved.
ACCSCIENT has been advised in this transaction by LegaLogic Consulting, Pune, India and Focus Bankers, Washington, DC. Vyom Group has been advised by DSK Legal and Palanca Capital. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
About ACCSCIENT
ACCSCIENT headquartered in Dallas Texas, USA, is a portfolio of globally based companies that provide services, solutions, and talent, focused on helping enterprises achieve digital transformation. ACCSCIENT delivers a multi-faceted portfolio of expertise in the leading technology platforms for domains such as automation, cybersecurity, service management, ERP, cloud, and modern application development. ACCSCIENT also provides industry leading solutions and business services for the aerospace and financial services verticals. With the ability to leverage resources across the globe, ACCSCIENT provides its clients with a powerful combination of industry leading skills, economic flexibility, and a client-centric experience.
ACCSCIENT was formed in 2017 as a partnership between FutureTech Holding Company based in Atlanta since 2005, and Alaris Equity Partners, based in Calgary, Canada, public since 2008.
About Vyom Group
Founded by Prasad Patwa and Uday Birajdar in 2003 in Pune, India, the Vyom Group (comprising of Vyom Labs, Cogniwize, and Omnepresent) is a partner of BMC software, Salesforce, Mendix and other leading technologies, providing consulting and implementation services. DxSherpa Technologies is a pure-play Premier ServiceNow partner that delivers consulting, implementation, and managed services with over 300 dedicated team members.These companies have a client base in South East Asia, North America, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, and India, establishing itself as a leading digital transformation solutions provider for large and mid-sized enterprises.
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Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen drove brilliantly on Sunday at the 2022 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix, moving from 14th on the grid to first place by the end of the race.
Fellow Red Bull driver Sergio Perez came in second some 17.8 seconds behind to help bring home his team’s fourth one-two finish of the year, while pole-sitter Carlos Sainz finished third for Ferrari, approximately 26.8 seconds behind the winner.
When the lights turned green at a sun-drenched Spa-Francorchamps, Sainz comfortably kept the lead despite the best attempts of Perez, who also started at the front of the grid. Alpine’s Fernando Alonso and Mercedes-Benz AMG’s Lewis Hamilton were soon able to pass Perez, but an aggressive move by Hamilton saw the Mercedes driver come into contact with Alonso. It was the end of the race for Hamilton on the first lap, and a lap later there was a safety car period after Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas spun out while trying to avoid the Williams of Nicholas Latifi.
Meanwhile Verstappen, who topped Saturday’s qualifying, started the race at 14th due to a penalty for swapping in a new power unit. The reigning world champion was already in eighth place after the race resumed on lap three following the exit of the safety car, and by lap eight he was third, with Perez and Sainz still ahead.
Perez later handed second position to Verstappen, and Sainz eventually lost the lead spot to Verstappen by lap 19. Sainz then also lost second place to Perez just two laps later due to the sheer pace of the Red Bull cars.
Mercedes’ George Russell finished fourth after starting at fifth, while Alonso, despite his early setback, managed to finish the race in fifth.
It was another bad day for Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. Debris entered one of his car’s brake ducts early in the race, causing an unscheduled pit stop and dropping the driver to 17th place. However, he was able to move up to sixth place by the end of the race.
As a result of the weekend’s action, Verstappen’s lead in the 2022 Drivers’ Championship extended further, with the Red Bull driver now sitting on 284 points. Perez has moved back into second with 191 points, while Leclerc is now in third with 186 points. In the Constructors’ Championship, Red Bull leads with 475 points, versus the 357 of Ferrari and 316 of Mercedes. The next race on the calendar is the Dutch Grand Prix scheduled for the coming weekend.
Below are the full results from the 2022 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix:
1) Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing
2) Sergio Perez, Red Bull Racing +17.841 seconds
3) Carlos Sainz, Ferrari +26.886 seconds
4) George Russell, Mercedes-Benz AMG +29.140 seconds
5) Fernando Alonso, Alpine +73.256 seconds
6) Charles Leclerc, Ferrari +74.936 seconds
7) Esteban Ocon, Alpine +75.640 seconds
8) Sebastian Vettel, Aston Martin +78.107 seconds
9) Pierre Gasly, AlphaTauri +92.181 seconds
10) Alexander Albon, Williams +101.900 seconds
11) Lance Stroll, Aston Martin +103.078 seconds
12) Lando Norris, McLaren +104.739 seconds
13) Yuki Tsunoda, AlphaTauri +105.217 seconds
14) Zhou Guanyu, Alfa Romeo +106.252 seconds
15) Daniel Ricciardo, McLaren +107.163 seconds
16) Kevin Magnussen, Haas +1 lap
17) Mick Schumacher, Haas +1 lap
18) Nicholas Latifi, Williams +1 lap
NC) Valtteri Bottas, Alfa Romeo – DNF
NC) Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes-Benz AMG – DNF
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Nearly a half million people crowded into camps after losing their homes in widespread flooding and the climate minister warned Monday that Pakistan is on the “front line” of the world’s climate crisis after unprecedented monsoon rains wracked the country since mid-June, killing more than 1,130 people.
The rains stopped more than two days ago, and floods in some areas were receding. But Pakistanis in many parts of the country were still wading through waters that filled their homes or covered their town’s streets as they struggled with how to deal with the damage to homes and businesses.
In one of the worst single incidents of the flooding, at least 11 people were killed Monday when a boat that volunteer rescuers were using to evacuate two dozen people capsized in the flood-swollen waters of the Indus River near the southern city of Bilawal Pur, media reported. An unknown number were still missing from the capsizing.
Climate Minister Sherry Rehman and meteorologists told The Associated Press that new monsoons were expected in September. Monsoons have hit earlier and more heavily than usual since the start of summer, officials say — most recently with massive rains last week that affected nearly the entire country.
Pakistan is accustomed to monsoon rains and flooding, Rehman said, but not like this.
“What we saw recently in the last eight weeks is unrelenting cascades of torrential rain that no monsoon has ever brought with it ever before,” she said.
The heavy rains are the latest in a series of catastrophes that Rehman said are exacerbated by climate change, including heatwaves, forest fires and glacial lake outbursts. The damage reflects how poorer countries often pay the price for climate change largely caused by more industrialized nations. Since 1959, Pakistan is responsible for only 0.4% of the world’s historic CO2 emissions. The U.S. is responsible for 21.5%, China for 16.5% and the EU 15%.
“Climate knows no borders and its effects can be disproportionately felt,” Rehman said. “When you see low pressure systems coming from the Bay of Bengal, they hit us before anyone is. So we’re on the front line of a global crisis.”
The National Disaster Management Authority said floods this summer have killed more than 1,136 people and injured 1,636 as well as damaging 1 million homes. At least 498,000 people in the country of 220 million are in relief camps after being displaced, it said. Many more displaced are believed to be living with relatives, friends or outside.
International aid was starting to flow into Pakistan, and the military was helping distribute aid to remote areas and evacuate those who had lost their homes. Authorities were starting the long effort of rebuilding roads and restarting railways. The floods destroyed more than 150 bridges and numerous roads have been washed away, making rescue operations difficult.
In the southeastern town of Shikar Pur not far from the Indus River, Rehan Ali dug up bricks from the collapsed walls of his home, nearly completely destroyed by lashing storms and waters that raged through. His family’s possessions were strewn around outside.
The 24-year-old laborer said he cannot rebuild without government help and can’t work now because of the turmoil. “I don’t even have anything to feed my family. I lost everything. I don’t know where to go. God help me,” he said.
Arif Ullah, an official at the Pakistan Meteorological Department, told the AP that more rains will continue to lash parts of Pakistan next month.
Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Monday said the rains so far have been the heaviest Pakistan has seen in three decades.
“I saw floodwater everywhere, wherever I went in recent days and even today,” Sharif said in the town of Charsadda in the northeast of the country. Some 180,000 people in the town have been evacuated after the Swat River overflowed and swamped nearby communities.
Sharif has said the government would provide housing to all those who lost their homes.
But many of the displaced have lost not just homes, but also crops and businesses.
“I am sitting with my family in a tent, and how can I go out to work? Even if I go out in search of a job, who will give me any job as there is water everywhere,” asked Rehmat Ullah, a flood victim in Charsadda.
Zarina Bibi said soldiers evacuated her by boat. She broke down in tears as she recounted how her house collapsed in the floods.
“We were given a tent and food by soldiers and volunteers,” she said. “Floodwater will recede soon, but we have no money to rebuild our home.”
At least 6,500 soldiers were deployed to help, and authorities said they were using military planes, helicopters, trucks and boats to evacuate people from marooned people and deliver aid to them.
However, many displaced complained they were still waiting for help. Some said they got tents but not food.
Pakistani authorities say this year’s devastation is worse than in 2010, when floods killed 1,700 people. Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, Pakistan’s military chief, said Sunday that his country may take years to recover. He appealed to Pakistanis living abroad to generously donate to the flood victims.
Cargo planes from Turkey and the United Arab Emirates began the flow of international aid, landing in Islamabad on Sunday with tents, food and other daily necessities. The United Nations will launch an international appeal for Pakistani flood victims on Tuesday in Islamabad.
The flood wreckage has hit Pakistan at a time when the country faces one of its worst economic crises, narrowly avoiding a default. Later on Monday, the International Monetary Fund’s executive board approved the release of a much-awaited $1.17 billion for Pakistan, Pakistan’s Information Minister Maryam Aurangez told the AP. The announcement was a big relief for the country.
Pakistan and the IMF originally signed the bailout accord in 2019. But the release of a $1.17 billion tranche had been on hold since earlier this year, when the IMF expressed concern about Pakistan’s compliance with the deal’s terms under former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government.
Last week, the United Nations in a statement said that it has allocated $3 million for U.N. aid agencies and their partners in Pakistan to respond to the floods and this money will be used for health, nutrition, food security, and water and sanitation services in flood-affected areas, focusing on the most vulnerable.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart filed a motion on Monday to dismiss a lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission in June that accused the nation’s largest retailer of allowing its money transfer services to be used by scam artists, calling it an “egregious instance of agency overreach.”
In its lawsuit, the FTC alleged that for years, Walmart failed to properly secure the money transfer services offered at its stores, stealing “hundreds of millions of dollars” from customers. The agency said Walmart didn’t properly train its employees, failed to alert customers, and used procedures that allowed fraudsters to cash out at its stores. The FTC had asked the court to order Walmart to return money to consumers and to impose civil penalties on the company.
In a 41-page document, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division, Walmart laid out a number of what it called legally flawed claims, including that the agency lacked “constitutionally valid authority to sue for money or injunctive relief.” It said that the FTC is trying to hold Walmart liable for the criminal actions of completely unrelated third-party fraudsters even as Walmart has embraced a number of steps to stop such scamming.
Walmart argued that the agency is trying to contort a regulation called the Telemarketing Sales Rule that was aimed to go after telemarketers and those who actively help them but that Walmart is neither. Walmart also took issue with the FTC’s claim that Walmart allegedly engaged in an “unfair” act or practice, or any ongoing or imminent misconduct under Section 5 of the FTC Act.
“To be clear, Walmart is now—and always has been—dedicated to its customers and shares the FTC’s goal of protecting customers from fraudsters,” the Walmart filing said. “But this lawsuit is an egregious instance of agency overreach.”
Walmart stores let shoppers to transfer money using three providers — MoneyGram, Ria Financial Services, and Western Union Co.
Walmart, based in Bentonville, Arkansas, said it has developed and implemented a host of anti-fraud measures—including customer warnings and employee trainings. Based on data available to Walmart, out of nearly 200 million money-transfer transactions processed at its U.S. namesake stores between 2015 and 2020, less than 0.08% were reportedly the product of fraud, according to the Walmart filing. And it said that some of that reported fraud may not be fraud at all, making the actual fraud rate even smaller.
In its argument by Walmart that the FTC overreached in its authority, Walmart cited a April 2021 Supreme Court case that makes it difficult for the agency to engage in a long-time practice of seeking to recover ill-gotten gains from individuals or companies that steal from consumers. As a result of the ruling, the agency will now have to rely on other lengthier and more complicated legal maneuvers to recoup dollars from defrauded individuals.
FTC officials couldn’t be immediately reached for comment.
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BERLIN (AP) — The head of the European Union’s executive branch and Germany’s chancellor on Monday pledged a reform of the continent’s electricity market to help bring down power prices that have been pushed higher by skyrocketing gas prices.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a speech in Bled, Slovenia, that soaring electricity prices “are now exposing the limitations of our current electricity market design.”
“It was developed for different circumstances,” von der Leyen said. “That is why we are now working on an emergency intervention and a structural reform of the electricity market.”
The continent’s electricity market is underpinned by a “merit order” system in which the power stations offering the cheapest electricity are tapped first, but prices are determined by the last and most expensive power stations to be tapped — at present, those using gas, whose price has risen sharply following cuts in supplies by Russia to several European countries amid the war in Ukraine.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, visiting Prague on Monday, said that the question of how the European electricity market can be redesigned “so that we no longer have to bear these high prices we are currently seeing” took up much of his meeting with Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, whose country currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency. He said that “we will act together quickly.”
“It is necessary for us to make structural changes that contribute to prices sinking again quickly and there being a sufficient offer” of electricity, Scholz said at a news conference. He added that “there is great readiness to change something, and that seems to me to be very much mutual among the heads of state and government in Europe.”
“Clearly what is currently being asked as a market price does not reflect supply and demand in the proper sense,” he said.
Speaking earlier in Berlin, a German economy ministry spokeswoman said that the idea is to keep the principle of the “merit order” system, “but do away with the negative effects the merit order has, so that the high gas prices can no longer impact immediately and automatically on electricity prices.”
The aim is for customers to benefit from cheaper production prices for renewable energy, for example, spokeswoman Beate Baron said.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — An influential Shiite cleric announced Monday that he would resign from Iraqi politics, prompting hundreds of his angry followers to storm the government palace and sparking clashes with security forces in which at least 10 protesters were killed.
Protesters loyal to cleric Muqtada al-Sadr pulled down the cement barriers outside the government palace with ropes and breached the palace gates. Many rushed into the lavish salons and marbled halls of the palace, a key meeting place for Iraqi heads of state and foreign dignitaries.
Iraq’s military announced a nationwide curfew and the caretaker premier suspended Cabinet sessions in response to the violence. Medical officials said at least 15 protesters were wounded by gunfire and a dozen more were injured by tear gas and physical altercations with riot police.
Iraq’s government has been deadlocked since al-Sadr’s party won the largest share of seats in October parliamentary elections but not enough to secure a majority government. His refusal to negotiate with his Iran-backed Shiite rivals and subsequent exit from the talks has catapulted the country into political uncertainty and volatility amid intensifying intra-Shiite wrangling.
Iraq’s majority Muslim population is split into two sects, Shiites and Sunnis. Under Saddam Hussein, the Shiites were oppressed until the U.S.-led invasion reversed the political order. Now the Shiites are fighting among themselves, with the dispute centering around power and state resources but also influence over the Shiite street.
To further his political interests, al-Sadr has wrapped his rhetoric with a nationalist and reform agenda that resonates powerfully among his broad grassroots base of supporters who hail from Iraq’s poorest sectors of society and have historically been shut out from the political system.
Many were first followers of his father, a revered figure in Shiite Islam. They are calling for the dissolution of parliament and early elections without the participation of Iran-backed Shiite groups, which they see as responsible for the status quo.
During Monday’s clashes, Saraya Salam, a militia aligned with al-Sadr gathered in the capital’s Tahrir Square to “protect” protesters, one of its commanders said.
An Associated Press photographer heard gunshots being fired in the capital and saw several protesters bleeding and being carried away. It was not immediately clear who fired the gunshots.
A senior medical official confirmed at least 10 protesters were killed by gunfire. The number was also confirmed by the Sadrist media office, which provided a list of 10 names.
Iraq’s caretaker premier said he would open an investigation into the shootings and said the use of live ammunition against protesters was forbidden.
Protests also broke out in the Shiite-majority southern provinces, with al-Sadr’s supporters burning tires and blocking roads in the oil-rich province of Basra and hundreds demonstrating outside the governorate building in Missan.
Iran considers intra-Shiite disharmony as a threat against its influence in Iraq and has repeatedly attempted to broker dialogue with al-Sadr.
In July, Al-Sadr’s supporters broke into the parliament to deter his rivals in the Coordination Framework, an alliance of mostly Iran-aligned Shiite parties, from forming a government. Hundreds have been staging a sit-in outside the building for over four weeks. His bloc has also resigned from parliament. The Framework is led by al-Sadr’s chief nemesis, former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
This is not the first time al-Sadr, who has called for early elections and the dissolution of parliament, has announced his retirement from politics — and many dismissed Monday’s move as another bluff to gain greater leverage against his rivals amid a worsening stalemate. The cleric has used the tactic on previous occasions when political developments did not go his way.
But many are concerned that it’s a risky gambit and are worried how it will impact Iraq’s fragile political climate. By stepping out of the political process, al-Sadr is giving his followers, most disenfranchised from the political system, the green light to act as they see fit.
Al-Sadr also commands a militia and maintains a great degree of influence within Iraq’s state institutions through the appointments of key civil servant positions. His Iran-backed rivals also have militia groups.
Iraq’s military swiftly announced a nationwide curfew beginning at 7 p.m. It called on the cleric’s supporters to withdraw immediately from the heavily fortified government zone and to practice self-restraint “to prevent clashes or the spilling of Iraqi blood,” according to a statement.
“The security forces affirm their responsibility to protect government institutions, international missions, public and private properties,” the statement said.
Iraq’s caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi also demanded that al-Sadr call on his followers to withdraw from government institutions.
The U.N. mission in Iraq said Monday’s protests were an “extremely dangerous escalation,” and called on demonstrators to vacate all government buildings to allow the caretaker government to continue running the state.
It urged all to remain peaceful and “refrain from acts that could lead to an unstoppable chain of events.”
“The very survival of the state is at stake,” the statement said.
Al-Sadr announced his withdrawal from politics in a tweet, and ordered the closure of his party offices. Religious and cultural institutions will remain open, it said.
The true motivations behind al-Sadr’s announcement appeared to be a reaction to the retirement of Shiite spiritual leader Ayatollah Kadhim al-Haeri, who counts many of al-Sadr’s supporters as followers.
In a surprise announcement Sunday, al-Haeri said he would be stepping down as a religious authority for health reasons and called on his followers to throw their allegiance behind Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rather than the Shiite spiritual center in Iraq’s holy city of Najaf.
The move was a blow to al-Sadr, who despite harboring ambitions to be a religious authority lacks the scholarly credentials to be an ayatollah. Al-Haeri, who resides in the Iranian holy city of Qom, once provided him with the legitimacy he lacked by designating al-Sadr as his representative in Iraq. He cut ties shortly after with the cleric, but continued to enjoy the support of his followers.
By calling on his followers to side with Khamenei, al-Haeri brought on a crisis of legitimacy for al-Sadr.
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I was unable to watch Sunday’s Marquette men’s soccer match live when it started, which led to me looking at the clock and saying “oh, hey, match already started” and pulling up the live stats on my phone.
It was 2-1 Marquette.
In the ninth minute.
As I looked at my phone and said “oh dang,” the scored changed.
To 3-1 Marquette. In the 12th minute.
So, yeah, it was a wild one in the sun and humidity at Valley Fields, wild in the fun way, and at the end of 90 minutes, Marquette picked up the win with a final score of 6-1 over Utah Tech. The Golden Eagles are now 1-1-0 on the year after their season opening loss to Tulsa on Thursday evening.
Okay, so seeing as Marquette outshot UT 24-6 by the final horn, the margin on the scoreboard was indicative of how the game went, but also the game was kind of bananas for the first 12 minutes as four of the six total shots in the game went in the net. Here’s Zyan Andrade opening things up less than 120 seconds in:
2 | GOAL MARQUETTE!
— Marquette Soccer (@marquettesoccer) August 28, 2022
Zyan Andrade finds the back of the net on the assist from Abdoul Karim Pare early on to get us rolling. #WeAreMarquette pic.twitter.com/HIJaFptr3n
Honestly, the assist by Pare is almost more impressive than Andrade getting underneath it to knock it in. Look at that pop up pass tight into the net as he twists around the defender! That’s nuts!
About a minute later, Beto Soto had a shot saved by Utah Tech keeper Cuba Grant, which is an awesome name, and less than 90 seconds after that, the Trailblazers knotted the match at one each. No video exists, at least not that I’m aware of, as the FloFC feed went out for a while, and the replay picks up after Tech’s goal. Their description of it on their website credits sloppy play by Marquette’s backline and heads up action by Lucas Rogers to tip a backpass into the net.
So the match is 4:30 old and there are two goals. Amazingly, it took twice that amount of time for the next goal to come in, and it went to Pare to add to his point total on the day.
9 | Abdoul Karim Pare with the first goal of his college career!
— Marquette Soccer (@marquettesoccer) August 28, 2022
MU 2 - UT 1 pic.twitter.com/FJkPdMg5Ch
That looks like bad luck on the defender’s part as he did tip it away from Pare, but he also tipped it straight up into Pare’s head thus allowing his run to continue. At that point, all the LSU Shreveport transfer had to do was get the keeper to commit to a defensive decision.
Onwards to the 12th minute, where super senior Lukas Sunesson made his presence felt.
12 | Marquette with a THIRD goal, this time it's Sunesson on the helper from Mirsberger!
— Marquette Soccer (@marquettesoccer) August 28, 2022
MU 3 - UT 1 pic.twitter.com/YqsVwo87RG
It’s a great defensive play at midfield to take possession and superb heads up play by Alex Mirsberger to slot the pass directly to Sunesson’s feet to give him a chance to essentially turn and fire. Great work all around by everyone!
FINALLY the match calmed down. Mathematically speaking, it had to, because four total goals in less than 12 minutes is bonkers.
Still, Marquette’s fourth came before the half hour mark, and it was Andrade saying “hey, Karim, I’m not letting you lead this match in points.”
26 | ZYAN ANDRADE!!
— Marquette Soccer (@marquettesoccer) August 28, 2022
Zyan scores his second of the contest on the assist from freshman Mitar Mitrovic to extend the MU advantage.
MU 4 - UT 1 pic.twitter.com/utbfLl9cty
And shouts to Mitar Mitrovic for sacrificing his body to get the ball to Andrade for the strike.
Marquette was somehow not done in this half. Brooklyn Merl, a graduate student coming in from Germany, scored his first goal in a Marquette uniform in the 44th minute. No clip of that one, but it’s in the replay. Yet again, a great turnover created at midfield and one hell of a twisting pass by Noah Madrigal to throw it out in front of Merl to give him a chance to slot it home.
5-1 at the intermission, and Marquette holding a 10-5 lead in shots and holding the Trailblazers to just one shot after Andrade’s second goal in the 25th minute.
The second half was all Marquette all the way as they outshot Utah Tech 14-1 even while holding a 5-1 lead and could then, in theory, just play keep away for 45 minutes and win. No goals for most of the time, although backup keeper Jacob Zimmerman had to make four saves just to keep things at a four goal margin.
Merl pulled himself even with Andrade in the goals department in the 84th minute, helped out by Sunesson and Mitrovic to make it 6-1.
84 | Brooklyn Merl again! The German scores his second goal of the match, assisted by Sunesson and Mitrovic to extend the MU lead.
— Marquette Soccer (@marquettesoccer) August 28, 2022
MU 6 - UT 1 pic.twitter.com/GX0cT7qsLs
Outstanding play by Mitrovic to gain possession at midfield, great work to get it to Sunesson, and the captain took advantage of the keeper being drawn to him to set up his new teammate for his second goal of the game instead of forcing a shot of his own.
After that early flub, keeper Ludvig Malberg made two saves, one in each half, to keep Utah Tech to just one goal in the match. While MU’s field players obviously did a lot of work to help him out by limiting them to just six total shots, Malberg needed a good recovery game after allowing four goals against Tulsa on Thursday. It certainly looks like he’s going to be Marquette’s keeper as the season goes along since he got the first two starts, but I guess we’ll see what happens there.
Up Next: Just one match for the Golden Eagles over the next week. It’ll be a Friday night home date, and they’ll be renewing an Old Big East rivalry along the way. South Florida will come to town for a 7pm Central time kickoff at Valley Fields. The Bulls are 0-1-1 so far this season with a scoreless draw at home against Florida Gulf Coast and a 1-0 loss at #24 North Carolina. USF was picked to finish sixth in the AAC this season, where Tulsa is the favorite. | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/8/29/23326705/marquette-golden-eagles-mens-soccer-recap-utah-tech-trailblazers-andrade-pare-sunesson-merl | 2022-08-29T18:50:39Z | anonymouseagle.com | control | https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2022/8/29/23326705/marquette-golden-eagles-mens-soccer-recap-utah-tech-trailblazers-andrade-pare-sunesson-merl | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — At least 11 people were killed in Madagascar when police opened fire on a mob demanding that officials turn over to them four suspects held for allegedly kidnapping a child with albinism and killing the mother.
A crowd of about 300 to 400 angry residents gathered at the police station demanding the release of the four suspects so the crowd could deal with them. Police refused and fired tear gas to disperse the crowd. When the mob kept advancing on the station, police opened fire.
“The gendarmes tried everything to avoid a confrontation or violence. They set up a security perimeter around the gendarmerie barracks and they told the crowd that we could talk to prevent bloodshed,” Gen. Andry Rakotondrazaka, commander of the national gendarmerie, said later Monday.
He said many of those in the crowd carried large machetes, other weapons with blades and sticks. When they threw stones at the police, the police opened fire, Rakotondrazaka said.
He said the killings are being investigated.
But the deputy of Ikongo district, Jean Brunelle Razafintsiandraofa, when reached by telephone said that he thought the protesters were not armed.
Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina in a post on Facebook said he was sad to hear the news of that people were killed. He appealed for calm and confirmed the incident would be investigated.
More than a dozen kidnappings, assaults and murders of people with albinism have been reported in the past two years in various parts of Madagascar, according to figures published by UNICEF in March 2022.
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Even a year after the U.S. and allied forces withdrew from Afghanistan, Kabul is still falling for many Afghans. That’s the premise of a new podcast that relies on ordinary Afghans to tell the story of the withdrawal.
Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks to the host of “Kabul Falling,” Nelufar Hedayat, about the podcast.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Some conservative groups across the country are pressuring public and school libraries to ban books they deem unsuitable for their children. Those books often focus on gender identity and race.
Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks to Kimber Glidden, a librarian in Idaho who resigned last week in protest against these groups’ attempts at censorship.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Here & Now‘s Lisa Mullins speaks with Derek Thompson, staff writer at The Atlantic, about why the American dream has become elusive for many and the secret to reclaiming it.
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The Massachusetts man whose love for his soldier son inspired Lee Brice’s award-winning song “I Drive Your Truck” has died. After Paul Monti’s son Jared was killed in Afghanistan in 2006, Paul began his quest to honor Jared and others who served. He started Operation Flags For Vets, decorating soldiers’ graves with flags on Memorial and Veterans Day. But it was during an interview with former Here & Now producer Alex Ashlock that he spoke the words that may become his lasting legacy.
Ashlock joins host Lisa Mullins to talk about Paul Monti’s charity work, his impact and the song that his love inspired.
Paul Monti and the truck (Alex Ashlock/Here & Now)
Jared Monti grave (Alex Ashlock/Here & Now)
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Some economists argue that one-time forgiveness of student loans will create an expectation that the same thing will happen again: Loans will be forgiven in the future. And they say that expectation will drive up tuition prices.
Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd talks with Beth Akers, an economist specializing in higher education with the American Enterprise Institute.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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In 2010, Richards recounted how he woke up just long enough to record the famous opening riff of "Satisfaction" on a cassette player he'd placed next to his bed: "I actually dreamt the damned thing."
Copyright 2022 Fresh Air
In 2010, Richards recounted how he woke up just long enough to record the famous opening riff of "Satisfaction" on a cassette player he'd placed next to his bed: "I actually dreamt the damned thing."
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In 2010, Richards recounted how he woke up just long enough to record the famous opening riff of "Satisfaction" on a cassette player he'd placed next to his bed: "I actually dreamt the damned thing."
Copyright 2022 Fresh Air
In 2010, Richards recounted how he woke up just long enough to record the famous opening riff of "Satisfaction" on a cassette player he'd placed next to his bed: "I actually dreamt the damned thing."
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The young Scottish classical guitarist Sean Shibe defies expectations. His new album is titled Lost & Found – and one thing he apparently lost was his traditional, nylon-strung classical guitar. What he found instead was a sleek black Mexican Fender Stratocaster.
The album is a fully plugged-in affair, without a trace of the standard Spanish classics or Bach transcriptions many guitarists thrive on. Instead, Shibe artfully gathers over a millennium's worth of compositions, which, on the surface, may seem like odd bedfellows.
And if you think electric guitars are only for shredding and blasting big noise, think again. In Shibe's arrangement of "Peace Piece," by jazz pianist Bill Evans, the textures are gauzy and the colors are muted. I've rarely heard an electric guitar sound so featherlight.
The 30-year-old Edinburgh native, who studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, likes to keep his listeners on their toes. Last year, he released an album of Iberian and French music that glowed with crepuscular introspection. On the cover, Shibe appeared monk-like with a freshly shorn head. The booklet photos showed him, clippers in hand, lopping off his thick locks.
Lost & Found flows with a chameleon-like duality. Shibe's inspiration comes via the enigmatic 18th-century poet and printmaker William Blake, whose metaphysical work plays with opposites and disguise. "A radical searching for the revelatory," is how Shibe sums up Blake in the album booklet. "The illustrations that accompany his writings disregard convention and present a vital auteurship of craft and philosophy," he adds. In that spirit, electric guitars don't sound like themselves on Lost & Found. And Shibe himself, perhaps mirroring some of Blake's paintings, appears androgynous on the album cover, swathed in a pink tulle dress.
Another touchstone of mysticism, represented by two tracks on the album, is the medieval abbess Hildegard von Bingen, whose piece "O Choruscans Lux Stellarum" gets a megawatt makeover. In place of sacred vocals, Shibe offers a psychedelic swirl of celestial light — a kind of "star-way to heaven."
Shibe thinks of his new album as an "overflowing toy box" of compositions, but actually it unfolds like a clever mixtape. Music by Meredith Monk, Chick Corea and Olivier Messiaen rub elbows with Julius Eastman and Moondog, the Viking-clad composer who, beginning in the 1940s, performed on the streets of Manhattan and slept in doorways. His lighthearted love song "High on a Rocky Ledge," thanks to Shibe's refined strumming, takes on the gravitas of a solemn prayer.
Throughout the album, the guitar substitutes for other instruments by way of Shibe's crafty, and reliably tasteful, arrangements. Yet there is one piece meant to be played on electric guitar — Continuance, music written for Shibe by the rising young British composer Daniel Kidane. Meditative chords that float like clouds are pierced with beams of multi-colored light. The ethereal sounds emanate from the other electric guitar Shibe deploys on the album, a 35th anniversary edition of a PRS Custom 24-08.
Lost & Found is a beguiling album, where music of innocence and experience interlace. And where a masterful, mercurial artist, compels us to question what a "classical guitarist" should sound like in 2022.
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Serena Williams takes the court Monday night for her first match of what's anticipated to be her last U.S. Open.
Williams will face Danka Kovinic at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows in New York City — the site of Williams' first U.S. Open win in 1999, when she was 17.
Earlier this month, Williams, now 40, announced her plans to retire from tennis, after a decades-long career in which she dominated and transformed the women's game and that includes 23 Grand Slam singles titles.
"With her powerful serve and return of serve and athleticism, she really set that standard in the women's game," NPR's Tom Goldman told Morning Edition.
"Her story of the early years in Compton, California, with sister Venus, under the tutelage of their dad, 'King Richard,' now of movie fame, that all became part of her legend and paved the way for more young people of color to pursue what had traditionally been a white sport," Goldman said. "And she brought more people of color into the stands to watch as well."
As she prepared to take the court Monday, Williams received tributes from fellow athletes and fans, including a spot on the cover of Time magazine.
Williams has won six U.S. Open singles championships, the last in 2014. On paper, she is the overwhelming favorite on Monday night, with a 20-0 record in U.S. Open first-round matches — without dropping a set since 2001, according to the U.S. Open.
But Williams is currently ranked 605th for singles, returning to play only recently after battling injuries. Her opponent, 27-year-old Kovinic of Montenegro, is ranked 80th.
Williams has only played four matches this year, and only won one, sports commentator Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media told Weekend Edition.
"She really is, probably for the first time in her life, an underdog" to win the U.S. Open, Bryant said. "But boy, what a magical fairy tale story if she can come to New York and pull off some magic."
After she retires from tennis, Williams will continue her pioneering ways and focus on developing a venture capital firm she formed eight years ago.
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MERRYVILLE, La. (AP) — Search crews found the body of a little boy Monday miles from the Louisiana sandbar where he was swept away by the Sabine River while playing in shallow water and three men drowned trying to save him, the sheriff said.
Beauregard Parish Sheriff Mark Herford did not release the boy’s name or age but described him as very young.
He identified the men who drowned trying to save him as Troy M. McCollough, who lived nearby in the Junction community, Kelly Bailey of Hornbeck, and Austin Scott of DeRidder. Bailey was engaged to the boy’s mother, the sheriff said, and Scott was his best friend. McCollough just happened to be there, Herford said.
“They’re heroes and should be remembered that way,” Herford said.
Herford says the child was playing in shallows by a sandbar near Merryville and was swept away by the river. His body was found Monday at a spot Herford estimated was several miles downriver.
The sheriff said he is working with the parish police jury to get warning signs posted.
“I’ve been with the sheriff’s office since ’92. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stood in this exact same spot and worked drownings,” he said, adding: “That spot is deadly.”
The current and depth vary widely with power generation from Toledo Bend, and a week of rains made the current even stronger than usual, Herford said.
He said one man’s body was found late Saturday and the other two Sunday morning. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/young-boy-3-men-who-tried-to-save-him-die-in-river/ | 2022-08-29T18:53:20Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/young-boy-3-men-who-tried-to-save-him-die-in-river/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10 inches on its own, according to a study released Monday.
Zombie or doomed ice is ice that is still attached to thicker areas of ice, but is no longer getting fed by those larger glaciers. That’s because the parent glaciers are getting less replenishing snow. Meanwhile the doomed ice is melting from climate change, said study co-author William Colgan, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
“It’s dead ice. It’s just going to melt and disappear from the ice sheet,” Colgan said in an interview. “This ice has been consigned to the ocean, regardless of what climate (emissions) scenario we take now.”
Study lead author Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Greenland survey, said it is “more like one foot in the grave.”
The unavoidable ten inches in the study is more than twice as much sea level rise as scientists had previously expected from the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet. The study in the journal Nature Climate Change said it could reach as much as 30 inches (78 centimeters). By contrast, last year’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report projected a range of 2 to 5 inches (6 to 13 centimeters) for likely sea level rise from Greenland ice melt by the year 2100.
What scientists did for the study was look at the ice in balance. In perfect equilibrium, snowfall in the mountains in Greenland flows down and recharges and thickens the sides of glaciers, balancing out what’s melting on the edges. But in the last few decades there’s less replenishment and more melting, creating imbalance. Study authors looked at the ratio of what’s being added to what’s being lost and calculated that 3.3% of Greenland’s total ice volume will melt no matter what happens with the world cutting carbon pollution, Colgan said.
“I think starving would be a good phrase,” for what’s happening to the ice, Colgan said.
One of the study authors said that more than 120 trillion tons (110 trillion metric tons) of ice is already doomed to melt from the warming ice sheet’s inability to replenish its edges. When that ice melts into water, if it were concentrated only over the United States, it would be 37 feet (11 meters) deep.
This is the first time scientists calculated a minimum ice loss — and accompanying sea level rise — for Greenland, one of Earth’s two massive ice sheets that are slowly shrinking because of climate change from burning coal, oil and natural gas. Scientists used an accepted technique for calculating minimum committed ice loss, the one used on mountain glaciers for the entire giant frozen island.
Pennsylvania State University glaciologist Richard Alley, who wasn’t part of the study but said it made sense, said the committed melting and sea level rise is like an ice cube put in a cup of hot tea in a warm room.
“You have committed mass loss from the ice,” Alley said in an email. ”In the same way most of the world’s mountain glaciers and the edges of Greenland would continue losing mass if temperatures were stabilized at modern levels because they have been put into warmer air just as your ice cube was put in warmer tea.”
Although 10 inches doesn’t sound like much, that’s a global average. Some coastal areas will be hit with more, and high tides and storms on top of that could be even worse, so this much sea level rise “will have huge societal, economic and environmental impacts,” said Ellyn Enderlin, a geosciences professor at Boise State University.
Time is the key unknown here and a bit of a problem with the study, said two outside ice scientists, Leigh Stearns of the University of Kansas and Sophie Nowicki of the University of Buffalo. The researchers in the study said they couldn’t estimate the timing of the committed melting, yet in the last sentence they mention, “within this century,” without supporting it, Stearns said.
Colgan responded that the team doesn’t know how long it will take for all the doomed ice to melt, but making an educated guess, it would probably be by the end of this century or at least by 2150.
Colgan said this is actually all a best case scenario. The year 2012 (and to a different degree 2019 ) was a huge melt year, when the equilibrium between adding and subtracting ice was most out of balance. If Earth starts to undergo more years like 2012, Greenland melt could trigger 30 inches (78 centimeters) of sea level rise, he said. Those two years seem extreme now, but years that look normal now would have been extreme 50 years ago, he said.
“That’s how climate change works,” Colgan said. “Today’s outliers become tomorrow’s averages.” | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/zombie-ice-from-greenland-will-raise-sea-level-10-inches-study-finds/ | 2022-08-29T18:53:26Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/zombie-ice-from-greenland-will-raise-sea-level-10-inches-study-finds/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NORRIDGE, Ill, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Central Baptist Village (CBV), a senior retirement community in Norridge, hosted a legislative visit with Senator Robert Martwick, (D), 10th Illinois District, for a morning of conversation and Q&A with residents and staff. Following the visit, Senator Martwick met separately with CBV's Chief Executive Officer Dawn Mondschein and Administrator Anna-Liisa LaCroix to discuss workforce issues, healthcare regulations, and other issues pertinent to the senior living industry.
"We were honored to host Senator Martwick today and thrilled to give our residents this opportunity to talk directly with an important voice in Illinois government," said CEO Mondschein. "We have a very special community here at Central Baptist Village, and we're so proud that Senator Martwick could experience it first-hand. We hope that today's visit puts a 'face' on the senior living industry and helps advance the important legislative topics that can contribute to providing an exceptional level of care for our residents."
Serving in the Illinois Senate since 2019, Senator Martwick was raised in Norridge and is a former Trustee of the Village of Norridge. He has been active in his local community his entire life and was raised in a family that valued civic and political involvement. Prior to his appointment to the Illinois State Senate, Martwick served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 2013-2019, representing the 19th House District.
Originally established in Chicago in 1896, Central Baptist Village relocated to Norridge and has been firmly rooted in its local community since 1956. CBV is situated on a beautiful, 10-acre campus boasting beautifully tended gardens with courtyard patios, pond, gazebo, arbors and walking paths. CBV is home to approximately 200 senior residents.
Angela Schnepf, President of LeadingAge Illinois, also participated in today's legislative visit. LeadingAge Illinois is one of the largest and most respected associations of non-profit providers serving older adults in Illinois.
Central Baptist Village is a senior retirement community offering independent living apartments, assisted living, memory care, short-term rehabilitation, and CMS 5-star rated skilled nursing. A senior living community unlike any other, CBV's residences, programs, and care are exceptional, award-winning, and progressive. As a non-profit organization, CBV is empowered to lead from the heart, not the bottom line. For more information, visit www.cbvillage.org.
For more information, contact
Mary Dalton
708.583.8527
mdalton@CBVillage.org
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — People in and around Mississippi’s capital city were bracing for possible flooding as the Pearl River was approaching a crest after last week’s heavy rainfall.
Officials said about 100 to 150 homes in the Jackson area could be impacted by Monday night. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said Monday on Twitter that the river was predicted to crest at 35.5 feet (10.8 meters). The agency said that would just avoid hitting the major flood stage level of 36 feet (10.97 meters).
“Roads are still flooded. We ask that you don’t return home until your local officials say it’s safe to do so,” the agency said.
Some Jackson residents started moving furniture and appliances out of their homes late last week. Others were stocking up on sandbags. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency had deployed 126,000 sandbags to act as water barriers in preparation for flooding.
Two years ago, torrential downpours caused the Pearl River to reach 36.7 feet (11.2 meters) and Jackson homes in the hardest-hit neighborhoods were filled with dirty, snake-infested flood water.
Oscar Day, an inventory control worker at a sandbag distribution site, said Jackson residents started preparing their homes for potential flood damage earlier than in 2020.
“A lot of people took the heat last time,” Day said Sunday.
The Red Cross opened a temporary shelter at the Jackson Police Department Training Academy.
The floodwaters in Mississippi arrive after severe flooding caused death and destruction in Kentucky last month. Those floods caused at least 39 deaths and robbed thousands of families of all of their possessions. Nearly a month later, residents are wrestling with whether to rebuild at the place they call home or to start over somewhere else. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national/ap-mississippi-residents-brace-for-flood-as-river-reaches-crest/ | 2022-08-29T18:53:39Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national/ap-mississippi-residents-brace-for-flood-as-river-reaches-crest/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HOUSTON (AP) — A man evicted from a Houston apartment house set fire to the building to lure tenants from their homes then shot five of them — killing three — before officers fatally shot him as firefighters battled the blaze, authorities said.
The attack happened at about 1 a.m. Sunday in a mixed industrial-residential neighborhood in southwest Houston. Police and fire crews responded to the apartment house after reports of the fire, police Chief Troy Finner said.
The gunman opened fire, possibly with a shotgun, on the other tenants as they emerged from the house, Finner said. Two were dead at the scene, and one died at a hospital. Fire teams rescued two other wounded men, who were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, he said.
Michael James told Houston TV station KPRC that he was returning home from work when he was shot in the back.
“I saw the house was on fire, and I saw flames, so I called 911,” James said. “I didn’t get through, so I turned my back and headed back out the driveway. And all of a sudden, boom.”
The man opened fire as the firefighters battled the fire, forcing them to take cover until police officers spotted the prone gunman and fatally shot him, Finner said.
Finner said no firefighters or officers were wounded.
“I’ve seen things I have not seen before in 32 years, and it has happened time and time again,” Finner said. “We just ask that the community come together.”
A neighbor, Robin Ahrens, told the Houston Chronicle that he heard what he initially thought were fireworks as he prepared for work.
“I’m just fortunate that I didn’t go outside because he probably would have shot me too,” he told the newspaper.
He said the shooter, who had colon cancer, was behind on his rent, jobless and was recently notified that he was being evicted.
“Something must have just hit him in the last couple of days really hard to where he just didn’t care,” he said. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national/ap-police-evicted-houston-man-kills-3-sets-fire-to-lure-them/ | 2022-08-29T18:53:53Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national/ap-police-evicted-houston-man-kills-3-sets-fire-to-lure-them/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As a leader in the insurance technology space, DRC will showcase highly configurable and cloud-provisioned automation capabilities for Specialty Insurance Carriers and MGAs
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Research Corporation (DRC), an industry leading provider of cloud-provisioned enterprise solutions for the P&C and Specialty insurance industry, is excited to announce its Specialty Category Gold Sponsorship of InsureTech Conference Vegas 2022, one of the world's largest insuretech events, taking place from September 20-22 in Las Vegas.
As a Specialty Category Sponsor, DRC will showcase cloud-provisioned, full-platform solutions that are made to address the complex needs in the specialty insurance industry. DRC's technology is committed to processing the highly unique risks and extensive data sets that are always present in the category. DRC boasts over 50 years in the industry, which gives specialty and E&S insurers the advantage of leveraging the intersection between modern technological prowess and mature industry expertise.
"We are super excited to be selected as the Specialty category sponsor. We really feel that this exemplifies the strength and flexibility of our configurable submission handling all the way through to our solid foundation in insurance framework processing," said Rob Whitton, Vice President of Business Development at DRC.
ITC Vegas is one of most comprehensive and expansive gathering of insurtech companies among other industry leaders. The event is a stage for groundbreaking software solutions, like the DRC Insurance Platform, that enrich the policyholder, underwriter, actuary, and business leader experience. If you would like to learn more about DRC's technology offerings, DRC will be at booth 2969 at this year's event.
DRC provides innovative, cloud-based, enterprise solutions to P&C insurance companies looking to boost their business development efforts, reduce administrative overhead, and accelerate speed-to-market for their products through automation. RS X Rating, DRC's no-code rating solution, gives actuaries the ability to configure powerful automation functions without IT assistance, and to price risks and model products, no matter how complex, all through a familiar Microsoft Excel® interface. DRC's flagship product is the DRC Insurance Platform, a full-service policy administration system, including portals, quoting, billing, claims, and advanced analytics, powered by RS X Rating, and engineered to streamline internal processes and empower business users within a secure and robust enterprise ecosystem. DRC has remained committed to total customer satisfaction throughout its 50-year history, and its clients, running the gamut of size and scope from large global carriers to regional start-ups, continue to rely on DRC's trusted solutions to manage over $7 billion in written premium. To learn more about DRC, visit www.decisionresearch.com
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Mostly sunny and warmer today. Morning temperatures in the 50s-60s, near 80 by noon and afternoon highs in the low-mid 90s.
The return of heat and record-breaking temperatures start tomorrow. A strong ridge of high pressure over the desert southwest will build north sending upper 90s-low 100s into eastern WA/OR Tuesday-Friday. A weak upper level low of the north coast of CA will send a weak disturbance into the southern Blues of OR Tuesday afternoon. This may trigger a stray shower/t-storm that could drift into the southern foothills, but chances are very small - 10%. Another weak disturbance will move through the ridge on Wednesday with a slight chance for a stray shower/t-storm over the central Cascades. Everyone else will remain hot and dry with highs in the low 100s. Winds look to increase Friday in the Kittitas Valley and this will increase the fire danger.
Models are showing a little cooling trend this weekend as a dry cool front pushes the ridge east. Highs dropping into the low-mid 90s, but this is STILL 10 degrees above average. Breezy to gusty winds develop next Monday and this will elevate the fire danger across the viewing area. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/another-heat-up/article_eb0c5046-279c-11ed-8f14-a79e54d35e16.html | 2022-08-29T18:54:21Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/another-heat-up/article_eb0c5046-279c-11ed-8f14-a79e54d35e16.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TRI-CITIES, Wash.-
The Department of Energy (DOE), the Hanford site, and local law enforcement agencies are reminding drivers to be wildlife aware while driving this fall.
Fall is mating season for deer and they may be more active near roadways.
Some basic tips can keep you safe while driving, including being extra cautious in the early morning or evening hours, following the posted speed limit, and if you see one deer or elk, always assume there are more nearby.
This video is part of a series highlighting a community-wide traffic safety campaign as part of the DOE's efforts to support the health and safety of Hanford site workers and the local community.
"By expanding our strong safety focus and culture beyond our site, and into our community, the Hanford team can contribute to making the Tri-Cities a safe place for everyone," said Brian Vance, manager of the DOE Office of River Protection and Richland Operations office. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/be-wildlife-aware-while-driving-this-fall/article_91dc1fb0-279c-11ed-b994-8b914a6381c3.html | 2022-08-29T18:54:27Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/be-wildlife-aware-while-driving-this-fall/article_91dc1fb0-279c-11ed-b994-8b914a6381c3.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BETHESDA, Md.-
The Huffy Corporation is recalling its Blues Clues foot-to-floor ride on toys because children may fall forward while riding the toy, posing an injury hazard.
According to the United States Product Safety Commission, there have been 19 reports of injuries related to the toy.
Parents with the Blues Clues foot-to-floor rider model #55061 should not let their kids play with it and should contact the Huffy Corporation at 800-872-2453 for recall instructions. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/blues-clues-ride-on-toys-recalled-after-children-fall/article_10f7fe18-27a2-11ed-833b-93abeb5a929f.html | 2022-08-29T18:54:33Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/blues-clues-ride-on-toys-recalled-after-children-fall/article_10f7fe18-27a2-11ed-833b-93abeb5a929f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON, D.C.-
On Friday, August, 26th, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) announced the awarding of $28.9 million to several industry and university projects for research that will advance clean hydrogen technology.
"DOE is investing in projects that will help bring down the cost of producing clean hydrogen, increase its availability as an affordable, low-carbon fuel for power production, and generate good paying jobs," said Jennifer Granholm, Secretary of Energy.
According to the DOE, hydrogen is a clean fuel that, when combined with oxygen in a fuel cell or burned in a gas turbine, can be used to produce electricity with only water and heat as by-products.
Projects featured in the new DOE funding include:
The development of technology to advance clean hydrogen production.
The further development of existing natural gas to hydrogen processes.
Improved leak detection technology for hydrogen pipelines.
Options for safe hydrogen storage. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/doe-awards-29-million-for-clean-hydrogen/article_ddbdc228-27a4-11ed-9a73-9f7ef940202d.html | 2022-08-29T18:54:39Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/doe-awards-29-million-for-clean-hydrogen/article_ddbdc228-27a4-11ed-9a73-9f7ef940202d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KENNEWICK, Wash.-
Kennewick Police responded to a weapons complaint in the 600 block of S. Beech Street around 8:50 Sunday night.
According to a press release, Officers found multiple shell casings, but no gun or suspect at the scene.
Officers checked the surrounding area for injuries and damaged property, but found neither.
The Kennewick Police department says this appears to be a targeted incident.
Anyone with any information on this investigation should call the non-emergency dispatch number at 509-628-0333 and reference case #22-061534. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/kpd-searching-for-sunday-shooter/article_2cbe946a-27aa-11ed-86af-736c6e23d31e.html | 2022-08-29T18:54:45Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/kpd-searching-for-sunday-shooter/article_2cbe946a-27aa-11ed-86af-736c6e23d31e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SALEM, Ore.-
Oregon Governor Kate Brown and United States Senator Ron Wyden have released statements following Sunday's shooting at a Safeway in Bend.
In a Monday morning news release, Governor Brown said that, "every Oregonian should be able to go to a grocery store without the fear of gun violence. While there is still much we don't know, Oregon State Police are working with local authorities to respond to and investigate this tragic event."
Senator Wyden tweeted, "the Oregonians who went to shop or to work at the Bend shopping center where last night's mass shooting happened need our thoughts and actions. America can't just shrug its shoulders at another mass shooting with loves ones grieving the loss of family and friends." | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/oregon-leaders-respond-to-sundays-bend-shooting/article_c698b88c-27c2-11ed-8bb8-4be2a58df1a8.html | 2022-08-29T18:54:51Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/oregon-leaders-respond-to-sundays-bend-shooting/article_c698b88c-27c2-11ed-8bb8-4be2a58df1a8.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TOKYO (AP) — Major South Korean battery maker LG and Japanese automaker Honda are investing $4.4 billion in a joint venture in the United States to produce batteries for Honda electric vehicles in the North American market, the two companies said Monday.
The plant’s site is still undecided, but construction will begin in early 2023, with mass production of advanced lithium-ion battery cells to start by the end of 2025, they said. It’s likely to be near Marysville, Ohio, or Greensburg, Indiana, where Honda has huge factories that make its most popular models such as the Accord, CR-V and Civic.
The joint venture is to be set up this year, with the closing of the deal subject to regulatory approval.
“Our joint venture with Honda, which has significant brand reputation, is yet another milestone in our mid- to long-term strategy of promoting electrification in the fast-growing North American market,” said LG Energy Solution Chief Executive Youngsoo Kwon.
The plant will produce batteries exclusively for Honda vehicles assembled in North America, including the company’s Acura luxury brand, according to a joint statement.
Honda’s joint venture plant is part of a larger trend of automakers announcing U.S. battery factories as they try to establish a domestic supply chain for the next generation of vehicle propulsion. Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Hyundai-Kia, Stellantis and VinFast have announced plans for 10 U.S. battery plants.
A new U.S. law gives them even more incentive to build batteries in North America. It includes a tax credit of up to $7,500 that could be used to defray the cost of purchasing an electric vehicle. But to qualify for the full credit, the electric vehicle must contain a battery built in North America with 40% of the metals mined or recycled on the continent.
“Honda is working toward our target to realize carbon neutrality for all products and corporate activities the company is involved in by 2050,” said Honda Chief Executive Toshihiro Mibe.
LG, a leading manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and power systems, already makes them in joint ventures with U.S. automakers General Motors and Ford Motor Co., as well as South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, but has operations across the world, including the U.S., China and Australia.
Demand for electric vehicles is expected to grow in the U.S. and many other nations because of concerns about climate change and pollution, as well as rising gas prices. All of the world’s top automakers are strengthening their EV lineups.
LMC Automotive, a Detroit-area consulting firm, expects EVs to be 5.6% of U.S. new vehicle sales this year, rising to more than 36% by 2030. Globally, LMC says 8.6% of new vehicle sales will be electric this year, and that will jump to 33% by 2030.
Honda is working with GM to co-develop electric vehicles including a Honda and Acura SUVs. The Honda is expected to go on sale in early 2024, followed soon by the Acura luxury brand. Honda also has said it plans to make its own electric vehicles later this decade.
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AP Auto Writer Tom Krisher contributed from Detroit. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/tech-news/ap-lg-honda-to-set-up-us-joint-venture-to-make-ev-batteries/ | 2022-08-29T18:54:55Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/tech-news/ap-lg-honda-to-set-up-us-joint-venture-to-make-ev-batteries/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PASCO, Wash.-
The Tri-Cities Airport is reminding all rideshare drivers that they must obtain a For-Hire Business License from the city of Pasco to operate within the city, including picking up or dropping off passengers at the airport.
All For-Hire drivers must submit a copy of their current For-Hire Business License to the airport administration office. Drivers must also be able to produce their license when requested by airport staff.
For-Hire business licensing ensures that drivers operate a vehicle that has passed inspection, carries proper insurance, and is affiliated with a licensed company, such as Uber or Lyft.
Applications for Pasco's For-Hire Business Licenses can be found here. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/rideshare-drivers-must-have-a-business-license-at-tc-airport/article_ce84b3ec-27be-11ed-96d4-2ff97d9fd65a.html | 2022-08-29T18:54:57Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/rideshare-drivers-must-have-a-business-license-at-tc-airport/article_ce84b3ec-27be-11ed-96d4-2ff97d9fd65a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
YAKIMA, WA - Yakima County Sheriff's Office got some new Axon 7 Tasers last week that is now connected to deputies' Axon Body Cameras.
"Any use of force there is a chance of injury when it's applied, but chances of serious injury using the taser is very minimal," said Dct. Michael Williams from Yakima County Sheriff's Office.
The tasers turn on the body cameras to start recording just like their gun.
"When our safety switch is turned on or off they activate the blue tooth and our camera turns on," said Det. Williams.
Dct. Williams told me in his career he's gotten shocked by a taser a few times, even though it hurts for 5 seconds when getting shocked...he'd rather use his taser than his gun out in the field.
"You're out of breath, you feel like you've done a good work out but you're fine and that's the whole point of that," he said.
The tasers trigger pull is designed to have a similar feel to a gun, so deputies can use muscle memory when using it.
"The feel of firing this new technology taser 7, it almost feels like firing a pistol," said Dct. Williams. "Like a 22 caliber pistol."
In training, Deputies are taught to announce they are about to shoot a taser.
"There is a loud noise when it does get projected from the device so having that in there and saying 'taser taser taser' it lets the other officers know that you're not using a weapon," said Lt. Aaron Wuitschick from Yakima County. "That the taser is about ready to be deployed or just was deployed."
The new tasers are bright yellow which will help deputies differentiate their weapons in highly intense situations when they need to quickly grab their taser or their gun. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/ycso-new-tasers-connected-to-new-body-cameras/article_3ea90592-279c-11ed-9b60-ef2cd37751f2.html | 2022-08-29T18:55:03Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/ycso-new-tasers-connected-to-new-body-cameras/article_3ea90592-279c-11ed-9b60-ef2cd37751f2.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Which fishing shirt is best?
The best fishing shirts are comfortable, breathable and nonrestrictive, so you can move about as needed throughout the day. They should also be quick-drying and, ideally, able to wick away water and sweat. For fishing trips that involve a lot of exposure to the sun, the shirt should also have a high enough UPF rating to protect your skin from potential burns. A top fishing shirt is the Columbia PFG Terminal Tackle UPF 50 Long-Sleeve Fishing Shirt.
What to know before you buy a fishing shirt
Comfort, flexibility and breathability
Whether you enjoy fishing for recreation or commercial purposes, your clothes should be comfortable for the activity and environment. One advantage of fishing shirts is that they are usually lightweight and somewhat stretchy. This keeps them from getting in the way as you cast the line, reel in the fish and more. It also sets these shirts apart from standard T-shirts, which are sometimes designed more with style than practicality in mind.
Unlike regular shirts, fishing shirts are also typically more breathable than others. Most are made to let air through them, which is often essential for those who fish in hotter climates. Many of these shirts have built-in vents or perforated holes strategically placed throughout the shirt, such as in the back or under the arms. These vents let air circulate more freely and prevent heat and moisture from getting trapped against the skin.
Moisture-wicking
Most athleticwear has moisture-wicking properties, which can move moisture from the skin to the outer layer of the fabric. Once the moisture reaches the outer material, it can dry more quickly than if it was trapped against the skin. This prevents you from feeling clammy, hot or sticky.
Moisture-wicking does not mean the shirt is waterproof, though. For example, if the garment is soaked in water or sweat, it can still take time to dry fully.
Protection
Most fishing shirts offer at least basic protection from environmental factors such as the sun. Some of this is achieved with long sleeves, thicker materials and full coverage, but many modern shirts also have built-in ultraviolet protection.
Certain high-performance fishing shirts have an ultraviolet protection factor rating of at least 50. The higher the number, the greater the percentage of the fabric blocking the sun’s rays and protecting the skin.
Even if you choose a shirt with ultraviolet protection, it’s still wise to wear sunscreen if you plan to be outdoors for a while. You can also wear a sun hat, sunglasses and a lightweight undershirt for additional protection.
Besides sun protection, some fishing shirts also are water-resistant, which can help keep your skin dry longer. This is especially helpful when wading into waist-deep water or reeling in larger fish that tend to splash.
What to look for in a quality fishing shirt
Material
Many fishing shirts, including performance ones, are made from synthetic materials such as polyester. These fabrics are great for outerwear and athleticwear because they are usually:
- Moisture-wicking
- Stretchy
- Lightweight
- Breathable
- Tear-resistant
- Shrink-resistant
- Quick-drying
- Long-lasting
- Resistant to pilling
Some fishing shirts consist of other materials, such as:
- Wool: Wool is breathable, moisture-wicking and easy to clean. It’s usually found in warmer, heavier garments.
- Cotton: Low-maintenance, breathable and hypoallergenic, cotton is a good choice for casual activities, especially in cooler temperatures. It doesn’t wick away moisture well, though. Depending on the shirt’s thickness, it could also tear more easily than other materials.
- Nylon or spandex blends: Some athletic attire uses a blend of materials, such as nylon or spandex, to make the clothes stretchier. These garments are often less restrictive and more resistant to tearing.
Consider the environment, temperature and type of fishing you’re going to do when choosing the right clothes.
Size and fit
When choosing the right shirt for fishing, look at the size and fit. In terms of fit, there are several options, including:
- Slim fit
- Classic fit
- Regular fit
The fit mainly determines how the shirt conforms to the wearer’s body. It can also affect the garment’s comfort in key areas, such as around the upper back, chest and under the arms. Not every manufacturer lists the fit, so keep this in mind.
As for size, fishing shirts come in virtually every size, including:
- Extra-small
- Small
- Medium
- Large
- Extra-large
- Extra-extra-large
Most shirts come with a sizing chart you can use to compare different options and find the best one for you. If you’re not sure which size to select, measure around the widest part of your:
- Shoulders
- Arms (run the tape measure across the top of your shoulders, ending at the wrist or where you want the shirt cuff to be)
- Chest
- Waist (start about an inch below the belly button)
Sleeves
There are short-sleeved and long-sleeved fishing shirts. Choose longer sleeves if you want more environmental protection or if it’s chilly out. If you’d prefer something nonrestrictive or expect to get your arms wet frequently, go with shorter sleeves.
Pockets
A few shirts for fishing come with two to six pockets. These are usually water-resistant and can hold important accessories such as a cell phone, wallet or keys. Some have zippers or buttons.
Style
Some of these shirts are button-ups, while others are pullovers. You can also find shirts with larger or smaller collars, which can affect coverage at the neck and serve an aesthetic purpose.
Color and pattern
These shirts come in many colors and prints, such as:
- Bright, dark, neutral or pastel colors
- Solid colors
- Patterns, such as stripes or checkers
How much you can expect to spend on a fishing shirt
Fishing shirts cost $15-$45, on average. Those on the higher end are typically made with performance and protection in mind.
Fishing shirt FAQ
What other accessories should I get for fishing?
A. Besides having the right outerwear, such as the shirt and pants or shorts, wear closed shoes, sunglasses and a sun hat. Consider wearing wader pants with closed pockets if you plan on getting wet.
How long do fishing shirts last?
A. This depends on material and environment. Fishing in saltwater, for example, can cause the garment to deteriorate more quickly than if you were to fish in freshwater. A high-quality performance shirt should last for months or even years with proper care.
What is the best fishing shirt to buy?
Top fishing shirt
Columbia PFG Terminal Tackle UPF 50 Long-Sleeve Fishing Shirt
What you need to know: This heavy-duty shirt is durable and offers excellent protection from the sun, making it perfect for all-day fishing trips.
What you’ll love: It features Omni-Shade, which blocks UVA and UVB rays, and Omni-Wick technology, which can remove moisture and keep the skin cool. With a UPF 50 rating, it can also help prevent sunburns. It comes in 18 sizes ranging from extra-small to 6XL.
What you should consider: The shirts run large.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top fishing shirt for the money
Baleaf Long-Sleeve Shirt UPF 50+ Quick-Dry Fishing Shirt
What you need to know: Lightweight, stretchy and durable, this shirt can last a long time for recreational fishing.
What you’ll love: It’s available in 25 colors and comes in seven sizes, from extra-small to 3X-large. It’s polyester, making it moisture-wicking, fast-drying and reliable for athletic wearers. It also has UPF 50 sun protection. Design options include pullovers and zippers.
What you should consider: The shirt is not shrink-resistant.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Paramount Outdoors Eag Elite Short-Sleeve Button-Down Performance Fishing Shirt
What you need to know: With a UPF 50 rating, this performance shirt is ideal for anyone who wants all-day comfort in any environment.
What you’ll love: It has laser perforated holes in the back and sides for maximum breathability. Plus, it’s polyester and spandex, so it’s quick-drying, stretchy and moisture-wicking. With a button-down style, you can wear this shirt when not fishing as well. It comes in coastal blue and silver.
What you should consider: It has limited pockets.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Despite the opening night loss against Ohio State, Kansas soccer has bounced back in a sure-fire way, now picking up its third straight win after taking down the Drake Bulldogs 3-1 on Sunday.
The star of the game was, without a doubt, junior forward Shira Elinav. In the 10th minute, Elinav put the Jayhawks on the board for the early 1-0 lead, but also went on to pick up another goal in the second half. In the 57th minute, freshman forward Saige Wimes took control and passed to Elinav for what would be Elinav’s second goal for the day. With Wimes being credited with her first career assist, Sunday’s game was the Elinav’s first multi-goal game in her time at Kansas.
For the 2021 season, Elinav ranked 2nd in goals on the team with four, and is now already one goal away from matching that for this season after just four games. As the Jayhawks look to improve from last year’s 7-11-1 season, Elinav is emerging as an early factor in what has the potential to be an up year for the soccer program.
Elinav’s offensive success was supported by freshman defender Assa Kante’s goal in the 35th minute, assisted by sophomore midfielder Olivia Winter. Kante’s goal was the first of her career while sporting the crimson and blue.
Coming off of her start against Iowa, in which she posted a career-high seven saves in a shutout, senior goalkeeper Melania Pasar started in the net for the Jayhawks and held the Bulldogs to just one goal as the senior defended for all ninety minutes of the match, putting up two saves on Drake’s three shots on goal.
Following Sunday’s win, head coach Mark Francis spoke highly of the team’s depth being put on display during the game.
“We had a lot of girls come off the bench today and give us minutes. It was a really good overall performance from the group and it was nice to score more than one goal,” Francis said.
Up next, the Jayhawks face the Purdue Boilermakers on International Student Night at home on Sept. 1. Kick-off will be at 7 p.m. at Rock Chalk Park while being broadcasted on Big 12 NOW on ESPN+ and Jayhawk Sports Network. | https://www.kansan.com/sports/kansas-soccer-takes-third-straight-game-in-3-1-win-against-drake/article_ce4d8764-2764-11ed-91d0-0ff2c96a5583.html | 2022-08-29T19:05:02Z | kansan.com | control | https://www.kansan.com/sports/kansas-soccer-takes-third-straight-game-in-3-1-win-against-drake/article_ce4d8764-2764-11ed-91d0-0ff2c96a5583.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A typical birthday celebration might include things like dinner and gifts you can buy at the store— but Jessica Honnell of Russellville wanted something closer to her heart this year.
In life, we've all had to make some tough choices, a concept Honnell is all too familiar with.
"Last September, my family was in a car accident," Honnell said.
The accident would forever change her family's life after her husband, Wes Honnell, died from a traumatic brain injury as a result of it.
"He was the love of my life [and] the most precious gift that God has ever given to me," Honnell described.
Still, in a clearly stressful situation, Honnell made the choice to donate Wes's organs in hopes that his legacy would continue to live on.
"His heart, and he donated tissue and like many different organs," Honnell said.
Just about everyone's eyes were filled with tears on the day Jessica met the man who received her husband's heart.
David Beaird, the recipient, said that he couldn't quite put into words how grateful he was for this family.
He had congestive heart failure for about four years and his condition gradually worsened over time.
"On a good day, I might be able to walk 10 [or] 15 feet where I'd have to stop and rest for a couple of minutes," he explained.
Recently, his cardiologist gave him a startling prognosis of six months to live if he didn't get a heart transplant.
After a first failed attempt, Beaird finally found a donor.
"You cannot express enough gratitude," Beaird said, emotionally. "Like I said, she gave me a new leaf in life."
On Saturday, family and friends watched as Honnell listened to Beaird's heartbeat for the first time.
"I had many nights of laying my head on my husband's chest and hearing his heartbeat, so even though he's in heaven, now it felt very familiar and a safe place," Honnell recalled.
Her birthday is on Monday and she said that all she wanted was to hear her husband's heartbeat again and meet the recipient of his heart.
While it might not bring the love of her life back, Honnell said that she was just happy Beaird has another chance to continue to live his life.
"Two families became one today and in a really beautiful way and I'm just grateful for that," Honnell said.
Since his heart transplant, Beaird has made major improvements— he's able to hunt fish and soon will be able to walk his daughter down the aisle.
All of this, of course, was only made possible thanks to Honnell and doctors at ARORA, an organ donation and tissue bank in Arkansas.
The staff here were able to help Honnell through the process.
To learn more about how you can get involved, visit ARORA's website. | https://www.krem.com/article/life/heartwarming/russellville-woman-meets-recipient-husbands-organ/91-7999746b-0872-4f43-8f1a-27c44357816a | 2022-08-29T19:07:36Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/life/heartwarming/russellville-woman-meets-recipient-husbands-organ/91-7999746b-0872-4f43-8f1a-27c44357816a | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SPOKANE, Wash. — Two new fellowship-trained transplant physicians are joining the Providence Kidney & Pancreas Transplant Center as part of an expansion of the hospital's transplant program.
Providence announced Monday that Dr. Nasir Khan and Dr. Nathalie Jean will join the multidisciplinary transplant team at Providence. Their role will include caring for patients with late-stage pancreas disease or kidney failure and supporting patients throughout their entire care journey, according to a release from Providence.
“This is great news for our community because it means we can help more people waiting for an organ transplant,” Dr. Rebecca Mallo, Providence Medical Group chief medical officer, said in a written statement. “Providence has one of the most successful transplant programs in the nation because of our experienced, diverse care team. We are excited to see it grow with the addition of Dr. Khan and Dr. Jean.”
Khan will serve as the director of the transplant medicine program at Providence. He attended the Yale School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic and practiced emergency medicine in Australia before moving to the United States. There, he focused on transplant nephrology, which refers to the primary consultant for both types of kidney transplants, and internal medicine. He also served as an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas.
Jean completed her training with the University of Chicago's transplant program. She is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and has practiced medicine for nearly 20 years.
Providence is one of less than 200 hospitals in the United States that is capable of performing multi-organ transplants and is the only transplant program of its kind between Seattle and Minneapolis.
More information on the program can be found here.
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With a pencil drawing of her grandfather as a soldier in Vietnam, Emma McGrath of Barker placed fourth in New York state in the National VFW Auxiliary's 2021-2022 "Young Americans" creative patriotic art contest.
McGrath is a 2022 graduate of Barker High School. Her artwork, "Thousand Yards 'Til Home," pays homage to the wartime military service of her grandfather, Paul Franke of Barker.
This was the accompanying description of her contest entry: "My piece speaks to the experiences and hardships that our soldiers bear. We often think of the soldiers who have not returned home, but even those who return physically may never truly be home again in their minds. Their experiences forever will remain a part of them, and shape their lives more than we could ever imagine. The distant look in a soldier's eye, the stare that lasts a thousands yards, and the set of their shoulders hints at their bravery and the sacrifices they have made. These soldiers may not consider themselves to be heroes, but those of us who have heard their stories and know of their selfless bravery would insist otherwise."
McGrath entered the contest through the Lockport-based VFW Post 2535 Auxiliary.
She is now attending Niagara University. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/community/barker-graduates-sketch-advanced-in-vfw-auxiliary-art-contest/article_5a005322-27b5-11ed-ba1c-5335b25c3647.html | 2022-08-29T19:12:44Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/community/barker-graduates-sketch-advanced-in-vfw-auxiliary-art-contest/article_5a005322-27b5-11ed-ba1c-5335b25c3647.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Lockport Municipal Building is serving as a cooling station until 7 p.m. today, due to the National Weather Service’s issue of a heat advisory. The forecasted high temperature is 92 degrees. Anyone who needs refuge from the heat may report to Lockport Police Department, off Niagara Street, for entry.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — From fire departments to governments, from school districts to corporations, from local utilities to grassroots organizers around the world, Twitter at its best is a tool to get a message out quickly, efficiently, directly.
It’s also a constant risk-and-reward calculation.
A recent bombshell whistleblower report from Twitter’s former head of security alleges that the social media company has been negligently lax on cybersecurity and privacy protections for its users for years. While worrisome for anyone on Twitter, the revelations could be especially concerning for those who use it to reach constituencies, get news out about emergencies and for political dissidents and activists in the crosshairs of hackers or their own governments.
“We tend to look at these companies as large, well-resourced entities who know what they’re doing — but you realize that a lot of their actions are ad hoc and reactive, driven by crises,” said Prateek Waghre, policy director at the Internet Freedom Foundation, a digital rights nonprofit in India. “Essentially, they’re often held together by cello tape or chewing gum.”
Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, who served as Twitter’s security chief until he was fired early this year, filed the complaints last month with federal U.S. authorities, alleging that the company misled regulators about its poor cybersecurity defenses and its negligence in attempting to root out fake accounts that spread disinformation. Among Zatko’s most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had put stronger measures in place to protect the security and privacy of its users.
Waghre said the allegations in the complaint about India — that Twitter knowingly allowed the Indian government to place its agents on the company payroll where they had “direct unsupervised access to the company’s systems and user data” — were particularly worrisome. He also pointed to an incident earlier this month where a former Twitter employee was found guilty of passing along sensitive user data to royal family members in Saudi Arabia in exchange for bribes.
The consequences of privacy and security lapses can range from inconvenience and embarrassment — such as when an Indiana State Police account was hacked and tweeted “poo-poo head” earlier this year — to much worse. In October 2021, a Saudi humanitarian aid worker was sentenced to 20 years in prison because of an anonymous, satirical Twitter account that the kingdom says he ran. It’s possible that the case is linked with the men accused of spying on behalf of the kingdom while working at Twitter.
As an advocate for dissidents and others detained in Saudi Arabia, Bethany Al-Haidari has been concerned for years about Twitter’s user privacy safeguards. The new whistleblower allegations make her all the more worried.
“Given what we know about how social media is used around the world, that is incredibly problematic,” said Al-Haidari, who works for The Freedom Initiative, a U.S.-based human rights group. The possibility of hackers or governments exploiting the alleged cybersecurity lapses at Twitter to get users’ identities, private messages or other personal information “is quite disturbing to me,” she said.
Chinese-Australian artist and activist Badiucao, who regularly publishes art that criticizes the Chinese Communist Party, expressed concern about the whistleblower’s allegations, noting that many users provide their phone numbers and emails to Twitter.
“Once that personal information is leaked, it could be used to trace your identity,” he said. Badiucao said he regularly receives death threats and propaganda from what appears to be bot or spam accounts.
But the artist plans to keep using Twitter, saying it’s probably the best option Chinese-speaking activists and artists have for a “shelter for free speech.”
Twitter says the whistleblower claims present a “false narrative” about the company and its privacy and data security practices, and that the claims lack context. “Security and privacy have long been company-wide priorities at Twitter and will continue to be,” the company said in a statement.
Despite the heightened concerns sparked by Zatko’s claims, none of the groups The Associated Press spoke to this week plan to stop using Twitter. Security experts say while the whistleblower’s claims are alarming, there’s no reason for individual users to delete their accounts.
High-profile Twitter users and world governments may be at greater risk than average users, experts say. In 2020, for instance, Twitter suffered an embarrassing hack by a teenager who accessed the accounts of then-President Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg and a number of tech billionaires including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Musk is currently embroiled in a battle with Twitter as he tries to back out of a $44 billion deal to buy the company.
Yet another security incident raised alarms for Jennifer Grygiel, a Syracuse University communications professor who follows Twitter closely. In 2017, a Twitter customer support worker deactivated then-President Donald Trump’s account for a few minutes during their last day on the job. While the account was restored quickly, Grygiel said, the incident showed how vulnerable Twitter was when it comes to governments, heads of state and military branches that use the platform.
“Am I surprised and shocked by the whistleblower’s allegations? I’m not,” said Trav Robertson, chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party, which uses Twitter to communicate with about 18,700 followers. But he argues that it’s especially important for people not to assume that “the constant attacks on our emails, our databases, our Twitter accounts, our Facebooks” are the new normal. “When we become desensitized to it, we fail to be proactive,” he said.
At the City of Denver’s fire department, public information officer JD Chism acknowledges concern over security issues. But the department has to weight that risk against the way Twitter has become integral to communicating emergencies to the public. The department’s Twitter feed hosts real-time updates on fires and consequent road closures and injuries, alongside retweets from other agencies warning of dangers such as flash floods.
For now, the department will keep using Twitter as it always has, Chism said, “It’s good for taking care of people, and that’s what we are here for.” | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/tape-or-chewing-gum-twitters-lapses-echo-worldwide/ | 2022-08-29T19:16:03Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/tape-or-chewing-gum-twitters-lapses-echo-worldwide/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 27 |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — From fire departments to governments, from school districts to corporations, from local utilities to grassroots organizers around the world, Twitter at its best is a tool to get a message out quickly, efficiently, directly.
It’s also a constant risk-and-reward calculation.
A recent bombshell whistleblower report from Twitter’s former head of security alleges that the social media company has been negligently lax on cybersecurity and privacy protections for its users for years. While worrisome for anyone on Twitter, the revelations could be especially concerning for those who use it to reach constituencies, get news out about emergencies and for political dissidents and activists in the crosshairs of hackers or their own governments.
“We tend to look at these companies as large, well-resourced entities who know what they’re doing — but you realize that a lot of their actions are ad hoc and reactive, driven by crises,” said Prateek Waghre, policy director at the Internet Freedom Foundation, a digital rights nonprofit in India. “Essentially, they’re often held together by cello tape or chewing gum.”
Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, who served as Twitter’s security chief until he was fired early this year, filed the complaints last month with federal U.S. authorities, alleging that the company misled regulators about its poor cybersecurity defenses and its negligence in attempting to root out fake accounts that spread disinformation. Among Zatko’s most serious accusations is that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement by falsely claiming that it had put stronger measures in place to protect the security and privacy of its users.
Waghre said the allegations in the complaint about India — that Twitter knowingly allowed the Indian government to place its agents on the company payroll where they had “direct unsupervised access to the company’s systems and user data” — were particularly worrisome. He also pointed to an incident earlier this month where a former Twitter employee was found guilty of passing along sensitive user data to royal family members in Saudi Arabia in exchange for bribes.
The consequences of privacy and security lapses can range from inconvenience and embarrassment — such as when an Indiana State Police account was hacked and tweeted “poo-poo head” earlier this year — to much worse. In October 2021, a Saudi humanitarian aid worker was sentenced to 20 years in prison because of an anonymous, satirical Twitter account that the kingdom says he ran. It’s possible that the case is linked with the men accused of spying on behalf of the kingdom while working at Twitter.
As an advocate for dissidents and others detained in Saudi Arabia, Bethany Al-Haidari has been concerned for years about Twitter’s user privacy safeguards. The new whistleblower allegations make her all the more worried.
“Given what we know about how social media is used around the world, that is incredibly problematic,” said Al-Haidari, who works for The Freedom Initiative, a U.S.-based human rights group. The possibility of hackers or governments exploiting the alleged cybersecurity lapses at Twitter to get users’ identities, private messages or other personal information “is quite disturbing to me,” she said.
Chinese-Australian artist and activist Badiucao, who regularly publishes art that criticizes the Chinese Communist Party, expressed concern about the whistleblower’s allegations, noting that many users provide their phone numbers and emails to Twitter.
“Once that personal information is leaked, it could be used to trace your identity,” he said. Badiucao said he regularly receives death threats and propaganda from what appears to be bot or spam accounts.
But the artist plans to keep using Twitter, saying it’s probably the best option Chinese-speaking activists and artists have for a “shelter for free speech.”
Twitter says the whistleblower claims present a “false narrative” about the company and its privacy and data security practices, and that the claims lack context. “Security and privacy have long been company-wide priorities at Twitter and will continue to be,” the company said in a statement.
Despite the heightened concerns sparked by Zatko’s claims, none of the groups The Associated Press spoke to this week plan to stop using Twitter. Security experts say while the whistleblower’s claims are alarming, there’s no reason for individual users to delete their accounts.
High-profile Twitter users and world governments may be at greater risk than average users, experts say. In 2020, for instance, Twitter suffered an embarrassing hack by a teenager who accessed the accounts of then-President Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg and a number of tech billionaires including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Musk is currently embroiled in a battle with Twitter as he tries to back out of a $44 billion deal to buy the company.
Yet another security incident raised alarms for Jennifer Grygiel, a Syracuse University communications professor who follows Twitter closely. In 2017, a Twitter customer support worker deactivated then-President Donald Trump’s account for a few minutes during their last day on the job. While the account was restored quickly, Grygiel said, the incident showed how vulnerable Twitter was when it comes to governments, heads of state and military branches that use the platform.
“Am I surprised and shocked by the whistleblower’s allegations? I’m not,” said Trav Robertson, chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party, which uses Twitter to communicate with about 18,700 followers. But he argues that it’s especially important for people not to assume that “the constant attacks on our emails, our databases, our Twitter accounts, our Facebooks” are the new normal. “When we become desensitized to it, we fail to be proactive,” he said.
At the City of Denver’s fire department, public information officer JD Chism acknowledges concern over security issues. But the department has to weight that risk against the way Twitter has become integral to communicating emergencies to the public. The department’s Twitter feed hosts real-time updates on fires and consequent road closures and injuries, alongside retweets from other agencies warning of dangers such as flash floods.
For now, the department will keep using Twitter as it always has, Chism said, “It’s good for taking care of people, and that’s what we are here for.” | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/tape-or-chewing-gum-twitters-lapses-echo-worldwide/ | 2022-08-29T19:16:03Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/business-news/tape-or-chewing-gum-twitters-lapses-echo-worldwide/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 27 |
NEW YORK (AP) — For one day, movie tickets will be just $3 in the vast majority of American theaters as part of a newly launched “National Cinema Day” to lure moviegoers during a quiet spell at the box office.
The Cinema Foundation, a non-profit arm of the National Association of Theater Owners, on Sunday announced that Sept. 3 will be a nationwide discount day in more than 3,000 theaters and on more than 30,000 screens. Major chains, including AMC and Regal Cinemas, are participating, as are all major film studios. In participating theaters, tickets will be no more than $3 for every showing, in every format.
Labor Day weekend is traditionally one of the slowest weekends in theaters. This year, the August lull has been especially acute for exhibitors. Cineworld, which owns Regal Cinemas, cited the scant supply of major new releases in its recent plans to fill for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
But, if successful, National Cinema Day could flood theaters with moviegoers and potentially prompt them to return in the fall. Before each showing, ticket buyers will be shown a sizzle reel of upcoming films from A24, Amazon Studios, Disney, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Neon, Paramount, Sony Pictures Classics, Sony, United Artists Releasing, Universal, and Warner Bros.
“After this summer’s record-breaking return to cinemas, we wanted to do something to celebrate moviegoing,” said Jackie Brenneman, Cinema Foundation president, in a statement. “We’re doing it by offering a ‘thank you’ to the moviegoers that made this summer happen, and by offering an extra enticement for those who haven’t made it back yet.”
After more than two years of pandemic, movie theaters rebounded significantly over the summer, seeing business return to nearly pre-pandemic levels. Films like “Top Gun: Maverick,”“Minions: Rise of Gru,”“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and “Jurassic World Dominion” pushed the domestic summer box office to $3.3 billion in ticket sales as of Aug. 21, according to data firm Comscore. That trails 2019 totals by about 20% but exhibitors have had about 30% fewer wide releases this year.
Organizers of National Cinema Day described the event as a trial that could become an annual fixture. While some other countries have experimented with a similar day of cheap movie tickets, the initiative is the first of its kind on such a large scale in the U.S. | https://www.wpri.com/entertainment-news/coming-to-a-theater-near-you-3-movie-tickets-for-one-day/ | 2022-08-29T19:16:09Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/entertainment-news/coming-to-a-theater-near-you-3-movie-tickets-for-one-day/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Taylor Swift took home the top prize at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday before she closed out the show with a surprisingly big announcement: Her new album.
“I thought it would be a fun moment to tell you that my new album comes out Oct. 21,” said Swift after she won video of the year for her project “All Too Well: The Short Film” (10 minute version), which claimed best long form video and direction. “I will tell you more at midnight.”
Swift said on social media that her upcoming 10th studio album would be called “Midnights,” which she says will involve “stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life.” Her upcoming album comes after she released “Folklore” and “Evermore.” Both projects came out five months apart two years ago. “Folklore” won album of the year at the 2021 Grammy Awards.
The pop star’s reveal came at the end of her acceptance speech where she praised the other women in the category — which included Doja Cat and Olivia Rodrigo.
“I know with every second of this moment that we wouldn’t be able to make this short film if it weren’t for you – the fans,” she said. “I wouldn’t be able to re-record my albums if it wasn’t for you. You emboldened me to do that.”
Swift spoke earlier about creating her first short film, giving thanks to several including actors Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien who starred in the project.
“We put our entire hearts into this,” Swift said.
Rapper Jack Harlow made his mark throughout the entire show. He kicked off the show with a performance inside a mock airplane walking down aisle while performing his hit song “First Class,” which was sampled by Fergie’s “Glamorous.” The rapper joined Fergie onstage — who wore a sparkling silver dress with the red words “First Class” — while she sang her 2006 jam.
“Thank you to Fergie for coming out with me tonight and clearing this song,” said Harlow after “First Class” won the award for song of the summer later in the show. “The beauty of this song is that people don’t realize it’s so hip-hop because of the sampling. To bring Fergie into the mix in this way means the world to me. It’s truly full circle. ‘Glamorous’ was one of the most important songs of my childhood.”
Johnny Depp made a surprise appearance as the Moon Man nearly three months after the verdict in his defamation trial with his former wife Amber Heard. The 59-year-old actor appeared to float from the ceiling while wearing the iconic astronaut outfit with his face digitally inserted into costume’s helmet.
“And you know what? I needed the work,” Depp told the audience at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
Lizzo had Taylor Swift dancing out of her seat while she performed her new single “2 Be Loved (Am I Ready).” Lizzo won an award for video for good for “About Damn Time.”
Harlow’s name was called to come right back onstage to collect the show’s first award for his guest appearance on Lil Nas X’s song “Industry Baby,” which won for best collaboration, art direction and visual effects. Harlow, Lil Nas X and Kendrick Lamar each entered the awards tied for leading nominees with seven apiece.
“This one is for the champions,” said Lil Nas X before Harlow thanked him for the collaboration on the chart-topping single.
Harlow, in addition to performing and winning awards, joined LL Cool J and Nicki Minaj as the show’s hosts.
Minaj performed a medley of her career’s biggest hits from “Roman’s Revenge,” “Chun-Li,” “Moment 4 Life,” “Beez in the Trap,” “Anaconda” and “Super Bass.” After her set, the rapper accepted the show’s Video Vanguard award, which MTV has said she’s receiving for her artistry, barrier-breaking hip-hop and status as a global superstar. The honor is named after Michael Jackson.
During her acceptance speech, Minaj paid tribute to other music icons such as Jackson, Whitney Houston and Lil Wayne. She spoke about the importance of mental health.
“I wish people took mental health seriously, even when you think they have the perfect lives,” said Minaj, who later won best hip-hop for her song “Do We Have a Problem?” featuring Lil Baby.
Harry Styles won album of the year for “Harry’s House.” He was unable to attend the awards due to his show at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Bad Bunny performed his hit “Titi Me Pregunto” from Yankee Stadium after he won artist of the year.
“I have been saying it and I always believed from the beginning that I could become great,” he said. “That I could become one of the biggest stars in the world without having to change my culture, my language, my jargon. I am Benito Antonio Martínez from Puerto Rico to the whole world, thank you!”
Eminem and Snoop Dogg brought the metaverse to the VMAs as the duo performed “From the D 2 The LBC,” which was featured on Eminem’s greatest hits album “Curtain Call 2.”
The Red Hot Chili Peppers took the stage as the recipients of the Global Icon award after being introduced by Cheech & Chong as their “favorite band of all time.” The band — which consists of Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith and John Frusciante — performed several songs including their classic “Can’t Stop” from the the group’s 2002 album “By the Way” and their recent hit “Black Summer,” which won best rock.
Flea made a speech about his love for human beings along with cockroaches, trees and dirt. Smith, the band’s drummer, dedicated the award to Taylor Hawkins, the late Foo Fighters drummer who died early this year.
“I dedicate this to Taylor and his family,” he said. “I love them and I miss him every day.”
Madonna, who is the most awarded artist in MTV history with 20 wins, became the only artist to receive a nomination in each of the VMAs five decades. She earned her 69th nomination for her 14th studio album “Madame X.” | https://www.wpri.com/entertainment-news/taylor-swift-wins-top-prize-announces-new-album-at-vmas/ | 2022-08-29T19:16:15Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/entertainment-news/taylor-swift-wins-top-prize-announces-new-album-at-vmas/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Proud Boy sentenced to over 4 years for Jan. 6 actions
A Washington, D.C., man was sentenced to 55 months in federal prison on Monday for his actions throughout the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the Department of Justice announced.
Why it matters: Joshua Pruitt, 40, pleaded guilty in June to a charge of obstruction of an official proceeding by entering the Capitol with other rioters before he was arrested the night of Jan. 6 for violating a curfew.
- After his prison sentence, Pruitt will be under three years of supervised probation and must pay $2,000 in restitution.
- Prosecutors had requested the federal judge to sentence Pruitt to five years in prison.
What they're saying: Pruitt apologized for his actions on Jan. 6 in court on Monday and said he was "not happy" the riot occurred, though he said he still believed former President Trump won the election he actually lost to President Biden.
- "I did believe the election was stolen. I still do," Pruitt said at the sentencing hearing, according to NBC News.
- "I broke the law, bottom line, regardless of whether I'm right or wrong on my feelings," he added.
The big picture: More than 860 people have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the riot, including over 260 individuals charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement, the Justice Department said, adding that its investigation is ongoing.
Go deeper: Jan. 6 rioter sentenced to nearly 4 years for assaulting police | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/29/proud-boy-jan-6-riot-election | 2022-08-29T19:16:16Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/29/proud-boy-jan-6-riot-election | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The former Celebrity cruise ship Celebrity Horizon has arrived at the Aliaga ship-breaking yard in Turkey to be broken up as scrap metal. The vessel with the distinctive shape has been sitting at an anchorage in Greece for the last two years, awaiting her fate.
Horizon, as she was called for the last couple of years, was last operational in 2020 for Pullmantur Cruises. As the Royal Caribbean part-owned cruise line filed for financial reorganization in 2020, CEO Richard Fain stated that the vessel, along with the other ships in Pullmantur’s fleet, would be sold.
Celebrity Horizon Arrives In Turkey To Be Scrapped
After a week’s journey, the 1990-built cruise ship Celebrity Horizon arrived in Aliaga, Turkey, where she will slowly be broken up as scrap metal. She becomes the next in a long line of cruise ships that have been scrapped in the last two years.
The cruise ship with the distinctive and unusual exterior sailed for Celebrity cruises for fifteen years. Built in 1990 at the world-famous Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany, she was the first-ever new-build ship for Celebrity Cruises.
The 46,811 gross tons Celebrity Horizon had space for some 1,828 passengers at double occupancy. The vessel had played a role in several initiatives for parent company Royal Caribbean. This includes undergoing five name changes, and sailing for several different operators focused on the European cruise markets.
Busy Service After Celebrity Cruises
After sailing from 1990 to 2005 for Celebrity, she was transferred to a newly formed cruise line, Island Cruises, which focussed on the UK-family market. After some extensive refits, the Horizon operated in the Caribbean and Mediterranean through 2008, when Royal Caribbean Group pulled out of Island Cruises.
The vessel was transferred to Pullmantur Cruises, focused on Spanish-speaking guests, for the first time in 2009, a company she sailed for as Pacific Dream from 2009 to 2010, and renamed Horizon again in 2010. In 2012, the ship was transferred again.
Another new venture for the Royal Caribbean Group, CDF Croisières de France, operating under Pullmatur Group, took over operations from Pullmatur in 2012. Sailing as l’Horizon with a focus on the French market, she operated in the Caribbean and Northern Europe through 2017.
In 2017, Pullmatur closed offices in France and CDF Croisières de France ceased operations. Sailing again for Pullmantur, Horizon operated for a short period in the middle east before the pandemic simultaneously brought the end to Pullmantur and Horizon.
Since the start of the pandemic, Horizon has been sitting at anchor in Greece, awaiting a new operator. With record-high steel prices, the choice was made to scrap the 32-year-old cruise ship.
On August 25, 2022, the ship left her anchorage in Eleusis under tow from two tug boats sailing toward Turkey. She joins several other cruise ships that have been sold for scrap in the last two years. Most recently, this included the former Cunard Princess, which arrived in Aliaga in July of this year.
Earlier this year, the former Norwegian Cruise Line ship Seaward was beached; Carnival Sensation was beached, and Carnival Cruise Line announced it had started preparations for the departure of Carnival Ecstacy. | https://www.cruisehive.com/former-celebrity-cruise-ship-to-be-scrapped-in-aliaga-turkey/79983 | 2022-08-29T19:18:16Z | cruisehive.com | control | https://www.cruisehive.com/former-celebrity-cruise-ship-to-be-scrapped-in-aliaga-turkey/79983 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MSC Cruises is easing its protocols on departures from the U.S. that sail to the Caribbean and the Bahamas starting in September. It will become even easier for guests to cruise when it comes to testing and vaccination requirements.
Guests should note that the cruise line is adhering to different protocols for guests based in the United States and guests based outside of the country.
MSC Makes Caribbean and Bahamas Cruising Easier For U.S. Residents
Starting September 1, 2022, MSC Cruises will be making it much easier for everyone based in the United States to enjoy a cruise to the Caribbean and the Bahamas. The Switzerland-based cruise company will be updating its health and safety protocols, which include relaxed testing and vaccination measures.
For cruises to the Caribbean or the Bahamas from a U.S. homeport, MSC Cruises will no longer require guests to be fully vaccinated to be able to sail, if they are a resident of the country. The company now states that vaccinations are recommended but no longer required.
Besides the vaccination requirements being dropped, guests who have been fully vaccinated will no longer need to provide a negative test result before the start of the cruise. The same applies here as with vaccinations – testing is highly recommended but not required. Guests with fully vaccinated status will still need to show proof of their vaccinations upon boarding.
Guests who have not been fully vaccinated are now allowed to sail as long as they provide a negative test result. This can be either a NAAT test or an antigen test, taken within three days of embarkation. Children younger than two years old do not need to provide a negative test result.
The change in protocols follows several other major cruise lines which have made changes in recent weeks. Those changes follow the decision from the CDC to let go of the Voluntary Program for cruise ships earlier this year.
Requirements for Non-U.S. Residents Remain Unchanged
Guests who are not a U.S. resident but who sail from a U.S. homeport are not included in the new protocols effective September 1.
These guests must comply with the older regulations, which include a full vaccination requirement for all guests ages 12 and older. Regardless of the vaccination status, guests two years old and up should provide proof of a negative test, which can be either a NAAT or antigen test, taken within three days of embarkation.
MSC Cruises does recommend that all guests eligible for a booster shot get one before their cruise.
Three Ships Cruising From the United States
MSC Cruises currently has two cruise ships sailing from a US-based homeport and will add a third in the coming month.
MSC Divina sails from Port Canaveral, Florida, on a series of cruises to the Caribbean, ranging in length from seven to 11 days long. The ship focuses mainly on the Western Caribbean, with calls to Cozumel and Costa Maya, with a call to the cruise line’s private island in the Bahamas, Ocean Cay Marine Reserve, included in each voyage.
MSC Seashore is operating 7-night Eastern and Western Caribbean cruises from Port Miami. The 170,412 gross tons, 4,540-passenger Seaside EVO-class cruise ship sails to San Juan, St Thomas, Puerto Plata, Grand Cayman, Ocho Rios, Cozumel, and more.
From October 7, MSC Meraviglia will begin operations from Port Canaveral, sailing on cruises ranging from five to seven days, which can be combined to cruises 14 days long. MSC Meraviglia, a 171,000 gross tons cruise ship with space for 4,500 guests, will sail to the Bahamas and the Western Caribbean. | https://www.cruisehive.com/msc-cruises-eases-protocols-for-sailings-to-the-bahamas-and-caribbean/79959 | 2022-08-29T19:18:22Z | cruisehive.com | control | https://www.cruisehive.com/msc-cruises-eases-protocols-for-sailings-to-the-bahamas-and-caribbean/79959 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In a quiet shift of beverage offerings, Norwegian Cruise Line has switched from PepsiCo to Coca-Cola sodas. Guests onboard different Norwegian Cruise Line ships have noticed the change in recent weeks, which is now hinted at on the cruise line’s website.
Changing Soda Companies
Norwegian Cruise Line ships will now be serving Coca-Cola soft drink products, including Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, and more. The exact beverages offered aboard individual ships will likely depend on the supplies and stock availability as the switch is made, as well as different drinks’ popularity and the ability to meet demand.
For years, Norwegian Cruise Line has offered exclusively PepsiCo products (Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Sierra Mist, Mountain Dew, etc.). Now, recent guests have noted Coca-Cola products being served onboard different Norwegian cruise ships, including Norwegian Breakaway, Norwegian Epic, and Norwegian Joy.
Recent renderings of Norwegian Prima have also shown what appear to be Coca-Cola products stocked in bars, but this is far from definitive confirmation of the company’s complete beverage options and may just be for representational purposes.
Coca-Cola products were noted as available during the christening festivities for Norwegian Prima on Saturday, August 27 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
This changeover will likely include different options not only for soft drinks, but also bottled water, which is typically supplied by the same soda company that provides the carbonated beverages. PepsiCo’s bottled water is Aquafina, while Coca-Cola’s bottled water is Dasani.
Teas and sports drinks available onboard Norwegian ships may also change as the soda options are switched.
Why the Change?
There has been no official announcement or explanation offered for the shift in soda offerings for Norwegian Cruise Line. These types of changes are often made based on negotiations between beverage providers and the cruise line, with exclusive suppliers offering greater incentives and profit margins in different markets.
It is not unusual for different venues such as theme parks, sports stadiums, hotel chains, or similar markets to offer just one brand of cola beverage, or to switch to a different company when fiscally viable.
It is possible that recent supply chain issues may be a factor in this change, though such temporary disruptions do not usually have as long-lasting impacts as completely changing the available drink brands.
Norwegian Cruise Line’s website – which previously listed beverage options from the PepsiCo brand – now uses generic terms such as “cola” “diet cola” and “lemon lime soda” when describing its beverage packages. While this could indicate a permanent change, it could also be a sign of more flexible options depending on available supplies.
Soda Wars
The choice between Coke and Pepsi can be a contentious one for dedicated soda drinkers. While some people claim the two beverages have no discernable differences between them, many soda connoisseurs can easily taste which drink is Coke and which is Pepsi.
Pepsi products are generally regarded as sweeter, while Coke products tend to have a bolder flavor with more “bite” to the taste.
Because of these differences, cocktails that include a cola or lemon-lime soda as part of the mix can taste markedly different depending on whether Coke or Pepsi is used.
Which Cruise Lines Serve Which Sodas
Different cruise lines have different soda options available to guests. Carnival Cruise Line, for example, used to serve Coca-Cola products exclusively, but switched to PepsiCo products in January 2020.
Disney Cruise Line, on the other hand, has an exclusive partnership with Coca-Cola aboard all its ships, including the line’s brand new flagship, Disney Wish. This is not surprising, considering Coca-Cola products are also served in Disney theme parks.
Royal Caribbean International also serves Coca-Cola products, including the popular Freestyle machines that permit guests to create unique flavor combinations.
Some cruise lines may offer both types of beverages, depending on which market or region a specific ship is sailing in and which drinks are available in that area.
Cruise passengers who have a specific taste preference for either Coke or Pepsi should investigate which soft drinks different cruise lines offer before booking.
If the drinks aren’t to their taste, many cruise lines do permit guests to carry on limited quantities of alternative beverages, but policies and permitted amounts vary by cruise line.
According to their Cruise FAQ, however, Norwegian Cruise Line does not permit guests to bring aboard any beverages, either in carryon or checked luggage, a policy which has been in place since July 2016. The only exceptions are purified water for medical devices or infant formula, or sealed wine bottles subject to security screening and a corkage fee. | https://www.cruisehive.com/norwegian-cruise-line-switches-to-coca-cola-products/79026 | 2022-08-29T19:18:28Z | cruisehive.com | control | https://www.cruisehive.com/norwegian-cruise-line-switches-to-coca-cola-products/79026 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (KITV4) – Hawaii Food Bank officials said they are facing a double-whammy with a demand for their services increasing as well as the price of the food they give out.
The CEO and President of Hawaii Food Bank, Amy Marvin, said food costs increased by more than 10% in 2022.
“We are seeing more and more families show up to our food distribution sites. Many families were barely able to make ends meet during the pandemic but with these economic hardships, they now need help. At the same time, our food prices are going up to provide these free services,” said Marvin.
She also said the organization can really stretch $1. Every $1 donated can cover more than two meals.
“What we have to do now is, when we buy food, we have to raise more money than we typically aim for to cover these new costs,” said Neill Char, board member at Hawaii Food Bank.
The organization held a gathering outside Water Front Plaza on Saturday to accept both food and cash donations.
They said another goal they have is food rescue. They urge residents to bring in fresh food from home that might go to waste. They also work with local grocery stores to recue fresh produce.
"It was really great for us to give these food items to people who need them especially right now because when we go shopping for ourselves, everything is really high. The cost of food, gas and everything else is high," said Jonathan Sypert, a food donor.
If you’re interested in donating or volunteering at Hawaii Food bank, visit their website at Hawaiiafoodbank.org or call 808-836-3600. | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/hawaii-food-bank-facing-double-whammy-rising-food-costs-higher-demand-for-services/article_3e998ca8-2674-11ed-afee-038d47633fb3.html | 2022-08-29T19:19:10Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/hawaii-food-bank-facing-double-whammy-rising-food-costs-higher-demand-for-services/article_3e998ca8-2674-11ed-afee-038d47633fb3.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (KITV4) – Dozens of mental healthcare workers are back on strike indefinitely until Kaiser Permanente reaches an agreement with their workers on a set contract and new protocols to attract more mental health professionals.
"Kaiser is woefully and egregiously understaffed. It’s to an extent if you want to get mental health care, you are waiting months to get a first time visit and then another several months to get a second. However, Kaiser is making millions of dollars off of providing health coverage and isn’t," said Dr. Rachel Kaya, licensed psychologist at Kaiser Maui Lani Medical Office.
Dr. Kaya said she's worked at Kaiser Maui Lani for more than 12 years and was never offered a contract. She is flying in from Maui early morning to join the first protest outside the Kaiser Honolulu Medical Office.
One of the goals is for Kaiser to commit to hiring a set number of new employees.
"Unfortunately, Kaiser’s approach to hiring more therapists is they want to offer less pay and cut some benefits to attract new hires," said Andrea Kumura, licensed clinical social worker, Kaiser behavioral health services.
According to a state report, there are 2,700 active licenses for mental health workers. The union says only 57 of them work at Kaiser, serving 266,000 patients.
Kaiser Permanente declined an interview but released the following statement:
“It is disappointing the National Union of Healthcare Workers has again called on our dedicated and compassionate mental health professionals to walk away from their patients in Hawaii at a time when the need for mental health care is so critical. Kaiser Permanente and the NUHW are negotiating an initial contract. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this event may cause."
The strikes start Monday and will be rotating locations around the islands. | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/mental-healthcare-workers-for-kaiser-permanente-in-hawaii-to-go-on-strike/article_68945030-274e-11ed-8c10-a7a8e5f13e31.html | 2022-08-29T19:19:16Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/business/mental-healthcare-workers-for-kaiser-permanente-in-hawaii-to-go-on-strike/article_68945030-274e-11ed-8c10-a7a8e5f13e31.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (KITV4) - Trade winds will weaken to start the work week. Humid conditions will prevail with partly to mostly cloudy skies and scattered showers. Highs 84 to 92. Trade winds 10 to 15 mph, with localized land and sea breezes.
The trades will weaken today, allowing localized land and sea breezes to become common in the more sheltered leeward areas through mid week. Clouds and showers will focus over windward areas during the night and early morning hours, then transition over to the island interiors and leeward areas each afternoon through Wednesday. A disturbance aloft will keep showers a bit more active over the western islands through Tuesday, with drier more stable conditions overspreading the entire state Tuesday night and Wednesday. Moderate trade winds will return for the latter part of the work week, and we should also see an increase in trade wind showers as a mid-level trough moves through. A more typical mainly windward and mauka focused shower pattern is expected late Friday through next weekend, with moderate trades prevailing.
Small surf is anticipated for all shores through the week. Trades will continue to ease today, giving way to local land and sea breeze conditions later today through Wednesday. A return of breezy trades through the second half of the week will lead to increasing surf along east facing shores.
Do you have a story idea? Email news tips to news@kitv.com | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/monday-weather-trade-winds-weaken-humid-conditions-prevail/article_87c550c6-27a8-11ed-8bbd-1b8baae56262.html | 2022-08-29T19:19:22Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/monday-weather-trade-winds-weaken-humid-conditions-prevail/article_87c550c6-27a8-11ed-8bbd-1b8baae56262.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tristan Hamm, founder of adventure experiences company ‘Revived-Outdoors’ is on a mission to change the way people experience travels to Hawaii.
Where a world of geotagging and social media is in many ways ruining beautiful local locations, Revived Outdoors company founder Tristan Hamm is on a mission to educate and inspire the right means of travel through his various humanitarian initiatives on Oahu and beyond to various travel destinations across the United States.
Hamm collaborated with several brands that want to help recover revive people who need a trip to revive themselfves…whether on the mainland or here in Hawaii! These companies are donating to those people bringing them to Hawaii or people from Hawaii vacaying in Utah for an adventure experience All ON THE HOUSE!
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Tristan Hamm, founder of the adventure experiences company “Revived-Outdoors” is on a mission to change the way people experience travels to Hawaii and beyond.
Hamm is using what he learned while living in Hawaii to impact millions of people online and across the world with his Revived Outdoors adventures.
Tristan Hamm, Revived Outdoors,
“My mission is to focus on the spiritual impact that these places can have on people. Infect these people with them. Give back to these people with these trips and experiences,” Hamm said.
“I believe the aloha spirit is really essential to all our trips. It’s something that fills every single person who comes on our retreats. Whether they have a break through by integrating themselves with the animals or if they were rock climbing and overcame a fear of heights,” he added.
Hamm says he is on a mission to change the way people experience travels to Hawaii and to other destinations.
“We take people from the mainland and bring them to Hawaii, and we educate them about the right way to experience Hawaii -- any location not only Hawaii. Exploring not exploiting. Not geotagging,” he said.
Revived Outdoors is now offering free trips to anyone who is in need of an adventure. These are 7-day retreats in Oahu and Utah. Hamm is collaborating with several brands who are sponsoring these revivals.
“To help people who are challenged during COVID, maybe mentally, physically, financially, and actually donate to those people to bring them to Hawaii, bring them to Utah, give them a free adventure experience all on the house. Completely cover their flights, their stay, everything. What they’re brought home with is what really matters. Our goal is to revive people we don’t know what people are going through we are all going through something,” Hamm said.
To apply, search for Tristan Hamm’s Instagram @tristanhamm and nominate yourself or a friend who could use a revival experience. Each month he will announce a free trip winner.
Cynthia is an award-winning journalist who returned to Hawaii as an Anchor/Reporter/MMJ from Houston. She is a graduate of the University of Hawaii with a B.A. and M.B.A. DM her on IG @CynthiaYipTV to share stories. | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/revived-outdoors-changing-the-way-people-experience-travel-to-hawaii-and-beyond/article_79c068de-2709-11ed-8a96-37b95da97bf7.html | 2022-08-29T19:19:28Z | kitv.com | control | https://www.kitv.com/news/local/revived-outdoors-changing-the-way-people-experience-travel-to-hawaii-and-beyond/article_79c068de-2709-11ed-8a96-37b95da97bf7.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Republican Allan Fung is going on the air Tuesday with his first campaign TV ad in the race to replace Congressman Jim Langevin, as GOP leaders step up their efforts to capture a seat they haven’t held since 1990.
Fung’s campaign confirmed he has reserved $268,000 of TV time, mostly on local broadcast stations, to air the 60-second introductory spot over the next three weeks. Fung faces no opponents in the Sept. 13 primary, unlike Democratic frontrunner Seth Magaziner.
The commercial — produced by Convergence Media, Fung’s media consultants — is a high-energy spot that shows Fung getting ready for work, then spending the day in Cranston, where he served as mayor from 2008 to 2020. It also highlights his support for law enforcement and lower gas prices.
Magaziner — who has held a wide lead over his Democratic primary rivals in public polling this summer — has been on the air since Aug. 1. The only other 2nd District candidate airing TV ads is Democrat Sarah Morgenthau.
Magaziner, Morgenthau, David Segal and Joy Fox will meet for a live televised debate Tuesday at 8 p.m. on WPRI 12.
The one survey in the 2nd District general election so far, commissioned in June by The Boston Globe and Suffolk University, found Fung at 45% and Magaziner at 39%. In the weeks since, Democrats’ hopes for the midterms have been buoyed by the backlash against the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade and a small uptick in President Biden’s job approval rating.
Magaziner had a major financial advantage over Fung as of June 30, the last time the candidates filed reports with the Federal Election Commission. Magaziner had $1.7 million on hand, while Fung had $762,000. House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy headlined a fundraiser for Fung in Jamestown earlier this month.
Ted Nesi (tnesi@wpri.com) is a Target 12 investigative reporter and 12 News politics/business editor. He co-hosts Newsmakers and writes Nesi’s Notes on Saturdays. Connect with him on Twitter and Facebook | https://www.wpri.com/news/elections/fung-set-to-air-first-tv-ad-in-bid-for-congress/ | 2022-08-29T19:20:18Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/elections/fung-set-to-air-first-tv-ad-in-bid-for-congress/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Laptops and tablets are replacing the classroom library.
Almost 60% of teachers say they’re now using e-books in the classroom.
Parents are using technology at an even higher rate.
It’s a decision that can save money.
“We would go broke trying to keep enough paper books for our family,” said Virginia Clinton-Lisell, an education researcher and professor at the University of North Dakota.
She noted that a subscription to an online library could be relatively cheap at a time when an average children’s book costs $10.
E-readers also give students access to resources that can’t be found in a paper book.
“If they come to a word they don’t know, they’ve learned, ‘Oh, if I take the mouse and hang over the word, I can get a pop-up, and it’ll pronounce the word for me,’” said Tanya Marshall, an educator and curriculum designer who operates The Butterfly Teacher.
But technology does have downsides.
Several studies indicate that information from e-books may not stick like paper books.
“Reading from paper is more efficient,” said Clinton-Lisell. “You can understand more in the same amount of time than reading from screens.”
In one study, teenagers who read paper books had test scores about three percent higher than their peers who read mainly e-books.
“Screens tend to be assisted with light, superficial tasks, like texting and checking social media,” said Clinton-Lisell. “When you’re holding a device that you can read from, it can also, in your mind, be a toy.”
Clinton-Lisell said some preliminary research indicates the retention issue may be more pronounced in textbooks or other “required reading.”
It is less noticeable when people are reading for pleasure.
Marshall, who works primarily with the lower grades, said she’s noticed that today’s readers have a bit more trouble maintaining focus.
Before e-readers, kids “needed to have more stamina to stick with it and get through a full story,” Marshall said. “Now, there’s an expectation that we’re going to fly through it.”
Most experts agree that parents should choose paper books when they can.
However, since that isn’t an option for some parents, the most important thing is to ensure your child is reading.
“It doesn't matter if it's an e-reader or a printed book,” said Marshall. “If the kid thinks it's boring, if it has nothing to do with what they like, they're not going to read it.” | https://www.katc.com/news/national/e-books-offer-cost-advantage-but-retention-may-suffer | 2022-08-29T19:20:38Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/e-books-offer-cost-advantage-but-retention-may-suffer | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WILLIAMSPORT, Penn. — A champion has been crowned in the Little League World Series.
On Sunday, Hawaii captured the coveted title of Little League World Series champions after they defeated Curacao 13-3 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Sunday's win marks the fourth time Hawaii has won the LLWS, the Associated Press reported.
ESPN reported that back-to-back homers from Kekoa Payanal and Kama Angell in the first inning helped boost the team to win in just four innings.
The Associated Press reported that Hawaii outscored opponents 60-5 during their championship run, even playing some games without their manager Gerald Oda who sat out due to COVID-19.
Curacao scored first when Davey Jay-Rijke hit a single, but noticed no one was covering second, so he bolted around the bases, eventually making it home after a wild pitch advantage, ESPN reported.
But it was all Hawaii after that, the Associated Press reported, with Angell sealing the team's dominant performance with a game-clinching single to score Esaiah Wong in the fourth.
Under Little League rules, a team wins if it leads by 10 or more runs after four innings, the Associated Press reported.
According to ESPN, Hawaii's Jaron Lancaster pitched Sunday brilliantly, striking out 10 batters and only allowing three hits and three runs. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/hawaii-wins-4th-llws-title-by-defeating-curacao-13-3 | 2022-08-29T19:20:51Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/hawaii-wins-4th-llws-title-by-defeating-curacao-13-3 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
IKEA is recalling nearly 2,100 espresso makers sold throughout the U.S. due to possible burn and injury hazards.
While the machines have not caused any reported injuries in the United States, four have been reported worldwide. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the recalled espresso makers with the stainless-steel safety valve “can burst and expel hot contents, posing burn or other injury hazards to consumers.”
The CPSC said there have been 16 reported incidents of espresso machines bursting.
Consumers with recalled products are encouraged to return them to IKEA for a refund. The products were generally sold for $19.99 from 2020 through 2022. Original proof of purchase is not required for a refund, IKEA said.
The products bear a date stamp between 2040 and 2204. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/ikea-recalls-espresso-maker-says-product-has-burn-hazard | 2022-08-29T19:20:57Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/ikea-recalls-espresso-maker-says-product-has-burn-hazard | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Nearly a half million people crowded into camps after losing their homes in widespread flooding and the climate minister warned Monday that Pakistan is on the “front line” of the world's climate crisis after unprecedented monsoon rains wracked the country since mid-June, killing more than 1,130 people.
The rains stopped more than two days ago, and floods in some areas were receding. But Pakistanis in many parts of the country were still wading through waters that filled their homes or covered their town's streets as they struggled with how to deal with the damage to homes and businesses.
Climate Minister Sherry Rehman and meteorologists told The Associated Press that new monsoons were expected in September. Monsoons have hit earlier and more heavily than usual since the start of summer, officials say — most recently with massive rains last week that affected nearly the entire country.
Pakistan is accustomed to monsoon rains and flooding, Rehman said, but not like this.
“What we saw recently in the last eight weeks is unrelenting cascades of torrential rain that no monsoon has ever brought with it ever before,” she said.
The heavy rains are the latest in a series of catastrophes that Rehman said are exacerbated by climate change, including heatwaves, forest fires and glacial lake outbursts. The damage reflects how poorer countries often pay the price for climate change largely caused by more industrialized nations. Since 1959, Pakistan is responsible for only 0.4% of the world’s historic CO2 emissions. The U.S. is responsible for 21.5%, China for 16.5% and the EU 15%.
“Climate knows no borders and its effects can be disproportionately felt," Rehman said. "When you see low-pressure systems coming from the Bay of Bengal, they hit us before anyone is. So we’re on the front line of a global crisis.”
The National Disaster Management Authority said floods this summer have killed more than 1,136 people and injured 1,636 as well as damaging 1 million homes. At least 498,000 people in the country of 220 million are in relief camps after being displaced, it said. Many more displaced are believed to be living with relatives, friends or outside.
International aid was starting to flow into Pakistan, and the military was helping distribute aid to remote areas and evacuate those who had lost their homes. Authorities were starting the long effort of rebuilding roads and restarting railways. The floods destroyed more than 150 bridges and numerous roads have been washed away, making rescue operations difficult.
In the southeastern town of Shikar Pur not far from the Indus River, Rehan Ali dug up bricks from the collapsed walls of his home, nearly completely destroyed by lashing storms and waters that raged through. His family’s possessions were strewn around outside.
The 24-year-old laborer said he cannot rebuild without government help and can’t work now because of the turmoil. “I don’t even have anything to feed my family. I lost everything. I don’t know where to go. God help me,” he said.
Arif Ullah, an official at the Pakistan Meteorological Department, told the AP that more rains will continue to lash parts of Pakistan next month.
Prime Minister Shabaz Sharif on Monday said the rains so far have been the heaviest Pakistan has seen in three decades.
“I saw floodwater everywhere, wherever I went in recent days and even today,” Sharif said in the town of Charsadda in the northeast of the country. Some 180,000 people in the town have been evacuated after the Swat River overflowed and swamped nearby communities.
Sharif has said the government would provide housing to all those who lost their homes.
But many of the displaced have lost not just homes, but also crops and businesses.
“I am sitting with my family in a tent, and how can I go out to work? Even if I go out in search of a job, who will give me any job as there is water everywhere,” asked Rehmat Ullah, a flood victim in Charsadda.
Zarina Bibi said soldiers evacuated her by boat. She broke down in tears as she recounted how her house collapsed in the floods.
“We were given a tent and food by soldiers and volunteers,” she said. “Floodwater will recede soon, but we have no money to rebuild our home.”
At least 6,500 soldiers were deployed to help, and authorities said they were using military planes, helicopters, trucks and boats to evacuate people from marooned people and deliver aid to them.
However, many displaced complained they were still waiting for help. Some said they got tents but not food.
Pakistani authorities say this year’s devastation is worse than in 2010, when floods killed 1,700 people. Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, Pakistan’s military chief, said Sunday that his country may take years to recover. He appealed to Pakistanis living abroad to generously donate to the flood victims.
Cargo planes from Turkey and the United Arab Emirates began the flow of international aid, landing in Islamabad on Sunday with tents, food and other daily necessities. The United Nations will launch an international appeal for Pakistani flood victims on Tuesday in Islamabad.
The flood wreckage has hit Pakistan at a time when the country faces one of its worst economic crises, narrowly avoiding a default. Later on Monday, the International Monetary Fund’s executive board approved the release of a much-awaited $1.17 billion for Pakistan, Pakistan's Information Minister Maryam Aurangez told the AP. The announcement was a big relief for the country. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/pakistan-floods-leave-wrecked-lives-half-million-in-camps-over-1-000-dead | 2022-08-29T19:21:09Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/pakistan-floods-leave-wrecked-lives-half-million-in-camps-over-1-000-dead | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Unretiring isn’t new, but the professions older Americans are coming back to are not the same.
It’s taking on new meaning for people like Robert Harris and Christine Smith. Both of them decided to go back to work but pursue a different field: trucking.
“I was just sitting around the house all day getting fat and I just got tired,” recalled Harris. “I thought I gotta get out and do something.”
Harris used to work in a factory as a crane operator.
Smith left a corporate job some time ago and help raise her grandchildren. She decided to go to trucking school to help make ends meet.
“I feel like once I’ve achieved this, the horizon opens for me to make choices, to save money, to establish a legacy, a foundation.”
After dipping below usual levels of 3% during the beginning of the pandemic, unretirements are back, according to data from Indeed.
There were similar trends in unretirement coming out of the Great Recession. Once the labor market heated up, more retirees were lured back onto the job, suggesting the employment market may have more to do with unretiring than inflation or lessening concerns about the COVID-19 virus.
But this time, more retirees are planning to return to work in an industry different than the one they left. Resume Builder found 58% of retirees are making the switch.
While the financial benefits of working longer are clear, the health effects are not. A review of literature published over the last decade on employment found mixed health results in those over 64. The review found extending working life may have some benefits or a neutral effect but more so in men, those working part-time, and those working in higher-quality jobs.
Extending working life in a full-time job or in a less rewarding role may have adverse physical and mental health effects. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/study-finds-unretirement-isnt-healthy-for-everyone | 2022-08-29T19:21:27Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/study-finds-unretirement-isnt-healthy-for-everyone | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After a decade of research, Bridgestone is starting to create tires with a new, more sustainable source: a desert shrub called guayule.
Native to northern Mexico and southwestern U.S., guayule is a heat-tolerant source of natural rubber that can be used to make tires, according to Bridgestone. Natural rubber can be extracted from guayule’s branches, bark, and roots, and it can be farmed with existing crop-row equipment, according to the company.
Cultivating guayule helps diversify the world’s natural rubber supply, and allows Bridgestone to produce more of the material locally for the U.S. market. The company hopes to commercialize guayule rubber in tires by 2030, but has already undertaken some proof-of-concept steps.
In 2012 Bridgestone broke ground on a guayule processing and research center in Mesa, Arizona. The facility now sends rubber from plants grown at a Bridgestone-operated farm in Elroy, Arizona, to a facility in Akron, Ohio, where it’s made into tires. Racing tires, that is.
Firestone Firehawk tires from the Bridgestone-owned Firestone brand containing guayule rubber debuted at the Indianapolis 500 in May, and were used for the first time in racing conditions at the IndyCar Music City Grand Prix in Nashville earlier in August. Guayule rubber was used in the sidewalls of the alternate tire for that race. These are higher-grip, but faster-wearing tires teams have the option to use on street and road courses alongside primary and rain tires.
Bridgestone is looking at other possible uses for guayule rubber in both racing and passenger-car tires in 2023 as the company looks to commercialize the material. Bridgestone spokesman Davis Adams told Motor Authority the company isn’t ready to announce what kind of tire it will select for that first commercial application, noting Bridgestone’s catalog extends well beyond car tires. The company makes tires for everything from huge mining trucks to airplanes.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Texas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto O’Rourke said Sunday that he had cleared his campaign schedule after receiving treatment at a San Antonio hospital for an unspecified bacterial infection.
In a statement tweeted Sunday by his campaign, O’Rourke said he sought treatment at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio after feeling ill Friday.
Intravenous antibiotic infusions improved his symptoms, O’Rourke said.
“While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at home in El Paso in accordance with the doctors’ recommendations,” he said. “I am sorry to have had to postpone events because of this, but (I) promise to be back on the road as soon as I am able.”
O’Rourke continues to trail Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in opinion polls before the Nov. 8 general elections. | https://www.wspa.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-illness-interrupts-orourke-campaign-for-texas-governor/ | 2022-08-29T19:22:50Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-illness-interrupts-orourke-campaign-for-texas-governor/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Texas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto O’Rourke said Sunday that he had cleared his campaign schedule after receiving treatment at a San Antonio hospital for an unspecified bacterial infection.
In a statement tweeted Sunday by his campaign, O’Rourke said he sought treatment at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio after feeling ill Friday.
Intravenous antibiotic infusions improved his symptoms, O’Rourke said.
“While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at home in El Paso in accordance with the doctors’ recommendations,” he said. “I am sorry to have had to postpone events because of this, but (I) promise to be back on the road as soon as I am able.”
O’Rourke continues to trail Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in opinion polls before the Nov. 8 general elections. | https://www.wspa.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-illness-interrupts-orourke-campaign-for-texas-governor/ | 2022-08-29T19:22:50Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-illness-interrupts-orourke-campaign-for-texas-governor/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
What is the best way to keep kids cool during youth football season?
Whether it’s exploring a playground or participating in youth sports, getting outside and being active is vital for kids. While physical activity offers a ton of health benefits, it’s equally as important to keep track of the temperature. One sport that is known to be especially grueling in the heat is youth football. On top of high temps, athletes also have to deal with additional pads and a football helmet, which can raise their core temperature further. So, whether you’re a coach or have a child in youth football, these tips will keep kids safe a cool in the heat.
Tips to keep kids cool
Heat affects over 700 people per year, per the CDC, so keeping kids cool also ensures their safety. The CDC also points out that the risk of heat exhaustion is at its highest during high-humidity days because sweat doesn’t evaporate as quickly. Here are a few tips to keep kids cool.
Hydrate
While sweating on a hot day is essential for cooling down your body, excess sweat means you’re losing fluids. To combat the loss of fluids, hydrate, and then hydrate again. While sugary drinks should be kept to a minimum, sports drinks with electrolytes and sodium are also important to replace the lost electrolytes and refuel muscles.
Wear loose-fitting clothing
Tight clothing doesn’t let sweat evaporate and naturally cool your body, which is why loose-fitting clothing works best to keep your body cool.
Cool down the body’s pulse points
The eight pulse points on the body are the temples, the back of the neck, behind the elbows and knees, the wrists, inside of the thighs and ankles and the top of the feet. Cooling down these pulse points with a cooling towel, ice pack or misting fan will also cool off your blood and lower your body temperature.
Offer shade
While shade doesn’t lower body temperature, it does make the air feel up to 15 degrees cooler than in the sun.
Signs of heat exhaustion in kids
According to the CDC, here are signs of heat exhaustion to watch out for:
- Cold, pale or clammy skin
- Fast and weak pulse
- Nausea or vomiting
- Muscle cramps
- Dizziness
- Headache
- Passing out
Best products to keep kids cool
Under $20
Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry-Touch Sunscreen With Broad Spectrum SPF 70
Sunscreen is essential to keep kids safe in the heat, and this option is broad spectrum SPF 70. It’s also water-resistant, so it won’t come off when they sweat. Sold by Amazon and Ulta
O2Cool Deluxe Handheld Water Misting Fan
This handheld misting fan is perfect for grueling practices on hot days. It’s battery-powered and can be easily changed on the go if the batteries die, making it ideal for travel. The super fine mist is refreshing on a hot day, and the soft blades are safe for fingers. Sold by Amazon
Mission Original Cooling Towel
When activated with water, this towel instantly cools to 30 degrees below the average body temperature in only 30 seconds. Also, the fabric features UPF 50 sun protection that blocks 98% of the sun’s UV rays, and it’s entirely chemical-free. Plus, it’s machine-washable and reusable and will never lose its cooling ability. Sold by Amazon
Beautify Beauties Spray Bottle
Continually misting youth players during practices or games is a great way to help them cool off. This bottle sprays a continuous mist with a single pump and is entirely aerosol-free. It even sprays when held upside down and features total air isolation in the bottle to eliminate contamination. Sold by Amazon
Under $30
Under Armour Boys’ Tech Big Logo Short-Sleeve T-Shirt
Since it’s made of Under Armour’s Tech fabric which is moisture-wicking and quick-drying, this t-shirt wicks away sweat to keep kids cool. It has a soft, natural feel, and it’s machine-washable. As a bonus, the material is also made with recyclable and traceable polyester and re-uses five bottles per shirt. Sold by Amazon
Gatorade Non-Slip Gx Squeeze Bottles
Never run out of water during games and practice, thanks to this re-fillable Gatorade bottle. It has a custom DIY ring to write a name, a leak-proof lid and a squeezable contour lid. The best feature of this bottle is its pod piercer, which allows kids to electrolyte pods directly into their water to stay hydrated. Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Gatorade Gx Hydration Sports Drink Concentrate Pods
During hot and humid days, athletes sweat out electrolytes that are vital for hydration. With these sports drink concentrate pods, kids can replace the electrolytes they lost and recover faster. Just add it to your Gatorade Gx squeeze bottle and start the essential hydration process. Sold by Amazon
Misting Fan With Flexible Tripod
Since athletes are busy and tired, they might not have time to hold a misting fan. This option features a flexible tripod that tightly grips to chairs and canopies or can stand independently on the grass. Plus, the rechargeable battery can be charged in four hours and lasts up to six hours. Sold by Amazon
TrekProof Ice Pack Reusable Hot and Cold Therapy Gel Wrap
This three-piece ice pack set can be worn on the forehead, elbows, ankle or back to provide cooling relief. It comes with an adjustable velcro closure comfort strap that fits everyone and is covered in a skin-safe fabric. Just keep it in the freezer and take it out before practice or games on hot days. Sold by Amazon
High-end
Igloo Portable Sports Cooler Dispenser
Staying hydrated is one of the best ways to ensure kids remain cool during practice, and this cooler dispenser holds five gallons of water or Gatorade. A few features include a keeper cord that affixes the lid to the cooler, a pressure fit lid that won’t trap dirt or mold and reinforced handles for strength and durability. Sold by Amazon
Mastercanopy Durable Ez Pop-Up Canopy Tent
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HOUSTON (AP) — Astros ace Justin Verlander left Sunday’s game against Baltimore after three scoreless innings because of right calf discomfort.
The right-hander, a leading candidate for the AL Cy Young Award, lowered his major league-leading ERA to 1.84. He allowed three hits and struck out six.
The 39-year-old Verlander had Tommy John surgery in 2020 and missed all of last season. Entering Sunday’s matchup with the Orioles, he was 8-0 with a 1.35 ERA in his last 10 starts.
Verlander threw 60 pitches, including 39 for strikes. He allowed consecutive singles to Cedric Mullins and Adley Rutschman in the first, and then struck out the next three batters.
He was replaced by Seth Martinez in the fourth with the game scoreless.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A 64-year-old man from Florida, Gary Dean Artman, was officially charged Monday afternoon in the 1996 sexual assault and murder of a West Michigan woman.
Artman appeared in Kent County's 63rd District Court Tuesday to be arraigned on charges of open murder, felony murder, and 1st-degree criminal sexual conduct.
He faces the possibility of life in prison if convicted.
During the brief hearing, Judge Sara Smolenski asked Artman about his life before being arrested.
He said he was living in White Springs, Florida, in a home owned by some friends.
Artman was working as a flatbed trucker with Dixie Transport when he was arrested recently in Mississippi.
When Judge Smolenski asked Artman if he had any questions, he asked, "What's going to happen?"
His bond was set at $1,000,000 cash.
He is charged with the assault and strangulation of Sharon Hammack, who was 30 at the time of her death.
Hammack was discovered by investigators on October 3, 1996, on 76th St SE, between Patterson Ave. and Kraft Ave. in Caledonia Township.
Kent County Sheriff Michelle LaJoye-Young, along with Prosecutor Chris Becker, announced their findings at a press conference on August 22.
"Since the 1990s, we have had various task forces that have worked to try to resolve cold cases cases that for whatever reason, technology or lack of witnesses, or lack of resources, were not able to be solved when they first happened," Sheriff LaJoye-Young explained at the press conference.
“We remember the person whose life was cut short, and the impact they still have on their family, on their friends, on the people around them. That's why we continue to work cold cases to the best of our abilities throughout all these years.”
They utilized the services of Identifiers International, who work cases using genetic genealogy, to link Artman to the case.
"Our expertise in forensic genetic genealogy is complemented by its experience with both Microarray and Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) pipelines for processing even the most challenging DNA samples," their website reads.
"What truly makes Identifinders different is our versatility and personal attention to the cases that we investigate."
Prosecutor Chris Becker said at the press conference that they could not get into the details of how they arrived at Artman's DNA.
"For all the resources and everything we could do at that point in time, we couldn't solve it then," Becker explained.
"It had to take, you know, progression of the technology that we have in terms of DNA to be able to bring a solution to this case."
Identifinders International also assisted in the February 2022 arrest of Patrick Wayne Gilham for the 1987 murder of Roxanne Leigh Wood in Niles.
When Hammack was murdered back in 1996, there was talk in the media that the person responsible for her death could be involved in other similar killings.
Reports from 1996 say a task force was put together, made up of 6 police agencies, to investigate the murders of 9 women.
"All nine were white women, most had dark hair and many of them had been strangled," an Associated Press article from 1996 reads.
"In each case, police are facing difficulties in finding a killer. Three bodies were so decomposed, investigators didn't know how they died."
Investigators were tight-lipped at the August 22 press conference about whether or not they believed Artman could be responsible for any more murders.
“Once somebody has been identified as participating in a crime like this, the next thing that we're going to do is work cooperatively to vet this as being a viable suspect for other cases,” Sheriff LaJoye-Young said.
“Because of his ability to traverse many states, due to his type of occupation, it's certain that it wouldn't be just excluded to Michigan, that we should consider him as a possible candidate. So they'll reach out to other organizations who might have open cases.”
Artman will be back in court on September 12 for a probable cause hearing. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/64-year-old-officially-charged-in-1996-cold-case-murder-of-grand-rapids-woman | 2022-08-29T19:24:16Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/64-year-old-officially-charged-in-1996-cold-case-murder-of-grand-rapids-woman | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Seattle Storm are the lowest remaining seed in the postseason and came in looking to steal at least one of the first two road games against the top-seeded Las Vegas Aces in the WNBA semifinals.
Mission accomplished.
Jewell Loyd scored 26 points, including Seattle’s final six, and the Storm edged the Aces 76-73 on Sunday to take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-five series in front of a Las Vegas playoff-record crowd of 9,944.
Loyd made a go-ahead free throw with 1:16 to play, then a jumper for a three-point lead with 34 seconds remaining before the Storm held on for the win. She had 10 of Seattle’s 16 points in the fourth quarter.
“It wasn’t just me, it was a team effort for sure,” Loyd said. “It helps when you have really good teammates … you believe in them, they believe in you. That’s the biggest thing for us, is that each of us have to stay confident in what we do and what we can bring to the team. That’s been the key for us.”
Associated Press MVP Breanna Stewart had 24 points and six rebounds for the fourth-seeded Storm, while Tina Charles added 13 points and franchise playoff-record 18 rebounds.
“We knew that this was going to be tough. These games against Vegas have been tough all regular season and previous seasons, and we have a lot of respect for their players and what they do,” Stewart said. “We knew that coming here to their home court, we wanted to obviously try to steal one, we wanted to get one and get our momentum going in the right direction.”
Chelsea Gray scored 21 points for the Aces. Kelsey Plum added 20, but missed a tying 3-point attempt with 2.9 seconds to play.
Jackie Young finished with 11 points but Aces star A’ja Wilson was held to just eight on 3-of-10 shooting.
Seattle controlled much of the game, leading through the first 3 1/2 quarters after building a 12-point lead in the first half.
Las Vegas didn’t enjoy its first lead until the fourth quarter, when veteran guard Riquna Williams’ 3-pointer from the corner made it 65-64 with 6:09 left.
The Storm wasted no time in attacking early, as they built a 15-4 lead midway through the first quarter. Seattle got balanced scoring, with five players contributing, including Ezi Magbegor coming off the bench to add four.
Las Vegas struggled to find any sort of rhythm, as a pop-and-shot approach left them with a paltry 5-of-18 (27.8%) shooting performance in the first quarter. Both Wilson and Plum went scoreless while the Storm held a 26-15 lead after one.
“I thought we played tight, especially in the first quarter,” Aces coach Becky Hammon said. “We played like the world was on our shoulders.”
The Aces responded with a much better defensive effort and seemed to be much more comfortable attacking the rim to climb back into the game.
Led by Wilson, the Aces used a 12-4 run to cut Seattle’s lead to 30-27. Stewart took over from that point, scoring nine of her team’s points during a quarter-ending 13-9 run to send the Storm into the locker room with a 43-36 halftime lead.
BROKEN RECORD
In addition to Charles’ record-breaking night, retiring Sue Bird had 12 assists and no turnovers. Her final assist gave her a WNBA-record 342 in the playoffs. Lindsay Whalen had 341 in 82 games. Bird broke the record in 57.
NOT SO FAST, VEGAS
Taking a page out of the Aces’ playbook, the Storm outscored Las Vegas 16-0 in fast-break points. Seattle also held the edge with second-chance points, 5-0.
GUCCI ROW
The stars came out for the series opener, joining Aces owner Mark Davis and Raiders tight end Darren Waller, fixtures at home games all season. Also in attendance were women’s basketball Hall of Famer Ann Meyers Drysdale, Raiders coach Josh McDaniels, Los Angeles Clippers coach Ty Lue, Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard, UFC president Dana White, Golden Knights goalie Logan Thompson, and Governor Steve Sisolak.
UP NEXT:
The Storm and Aces play Game 2 in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
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Laptops and tablets are replacing the classroom library.
Almost 60% of teachers say they’re now using e-books in the classroom.
Parents are using technology at an even higher rate.
It’s a decision that can save money.
“We would go broke trying to keep enough paper books for our family,” said Virginia Clinton-Lisell, an education researcher and professor at the University of North Dakota.
She noted that a subscription to an online library could be relatively cheap at a time when an average children’s book costs $10.
E-readers also give students access to resources that can’t be found in a paper book.
“If they come to a word they don’t know, they’ve learned, ‘Oh, if I take the mouse and hang over the word, I can get a pop-up, and it’ll pronounce the word for me,’” said Tanya Marshall, an educator and curriculum designer who operates The Butterfly Teacher.
But technology does have downsides.
Several studies indicate that information from e-books may not stick like paper books.
“Reading from paper is more efficient,” said Clinton-Lisell. “You can understand more in the same amount of time than reading from screens.”
In one study, teenagers who read paper books had test scores about three percent higher than their peers who read mainly e-books.
“Screens tend to be assisted with light, superficial tasks, like texting and checking social media,” said Clinton-Lisell. “When you’re holding a device that you can read from, it can also, in your mind, be a toy.”
Clinton-Lisell said some preliminary research indicates the retention issue may be more pronounced in textbooks or other “required reading.”
It is less noticeable when people are reading for pleasure.
Marshall, who works primarily with the lower grades, said she’s noticed that today’s readers have a bit more trouble maintaining focus.
Before e-readers, kids “needed to have more stamina to stick with it and get through a full story,” Marshall said. “Now, there’s an expectation that we’re going to fly through it.”
Most experts agree that parents should choose paper books when they can.
However, since that isn’t an option for some parents, the most important thing is to ensure your child is reading.
“It doesn't matter if it's an e-reader or a printed book,” said Marshall. “If the kid thinks it's boring, if it has nothing to do with what they like, they're not going to read it.” | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/e-books-offer-cost-advantage-but-retention-may-suffer | 2022-08-29T19:24:34Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/e-books-offer-cost-advantage-but-retention-may-suffer | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Authorities in Hawaii continue investigating after an elderly patient died and a paramedic was severely injured when an ambulance caught fire and apparently exploded outside a hospital last week.
According to Honolulu Emergency Medical Services, the Associated Press reported that the incident occurred around 8 p.m. Wednesday as an ambulance pulled up to Adventist Castle Health in Kailua.
"We had an ambulance tonight for reasons we don't understand catch on fire, possibly explode, prior to entering the hospital," Honolulu Emergency Services Director Dr. Jim Ireland told the news outlet. "This is something I've never seen before."
The Associated Press reported that a 91-year-old man and the 36-year-old paramedic were in the back of the ambulance when the apparent explosion occurred.
Officials said the patient, who initially called 911 and was being transported to the hospital, died inside the ambulance, the news outlet reported.
Ireland told the news outlet that the ambulance driver, who was in front of the ambulance when the incident occurred, was not injured.
According to the Associated Press, the injured EMT, a 10-year veteran, was initially treated at Adventist Castle Health, but was then taken to Straub Burn Unit, a city and county news release said.
USA Today reported that the Honolulu Fire Department is investigating the cause of the fire.
CNN reported that neither the patient nor the paramedic's names had been released. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/officials-possible-ambulance-explosion-outside-hawaii-hospital-leaves-patient-dead-paramedic-injured | 2022-08-29T19:24:53Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/officials-possible-ambulance-explosion-outside-hawaii-hospital-leaves-patient-dead-paramedic-injured | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Nearly a half million people crowded into camps after losing their homes in widespread flooding and the climate minister warned Monday that Pakistan is on the “front line” of the world's climate crisis after unprecedented monsoon rains wracked the country since mid-June, killing more than 1,130 people.
The rains stopped more than two days ago, and floods in some areas were receding. But Pakistanis in many parts of the country were still wading through waters that filled their homes or covered their town's streets as they struggled with how to deal with the damage to homes and businesses.
Climate Minister Sherry Rehman and meteorologists told The Associated Press that new monsoons were expected in September. Monsoons have hit earlier and more heavily than usual since the start of summer, officials say — most recently with massive rains last week that affected nearly the entire country.
Pakistan is accustomed to monsoon rains and flooding, Rehman said, but not like this.
“What we saw recently in the last eight weeks is unrelenting cascades of torrential rain that no monsoon has ever brought with it ever before,” she said.
The heavy rains are the latest in a series of catastrophes that Rehman said are exacerbated by climate change, including heatwaves, forest fires and glacial lake outbursts. The damage reflects how poorer countries often pay the price for climate change largely caused by more industrialized nations. Since 1959, Pakistan is responsible for only 0.4% of the world’s historic CO2 emissions. The U.S. is responsible for 21.5%, China for 16.5% and the EU 15%.
“Climate knows no borders and its effects can be disproportionately felt," Rehman said. "When you see low-pressure systems coming from the Bay of Bengal, they hit us before anyone is. So we’re on the front line of a global crisis.”
The National Disaster Management Authority said floods this summer have killed more than 1,136 people and injured 1,636 as well as damaging 1 million homes. At least 498,000 people in the country of 220 million are in relief camps after being displaced, it said. Many more displaced are believed to be living with relatives, friends or outside.
International aid was starting to flow into Pakistan, and the military was helping distribute aid to remote areas and evacuate those who had lost their homes. Authorities were starting the long effort of rebuilding roads and restarting railways. The floods destroyed more than 150 bridges and numerous roads have been washed away, making rescue operations difficult.
In the southeastern town of Shikar Pur not far from the Indus River, Rehan Ali dug up bricks from the collapsed walls of his home, nearly completely destroyed by lashing storms and waters that raged through. His family’s possessions were strewn around outside.
The 24-year-old laborer said he cannot rebuild without government help and can’t work now because of the turmoil. “I don’t even have anything to feed my family. I lost everything. I don’t know where to go. God help me,” he said.
Arif Ullah, an official at the Pakistan Meteorological Department, told the AP that more rains will continue to lash parts of Pakistan next month.
Prime Minister Shabaz Sharif on Monday said the rains so far have been the heaviest Pakistan has seen in three decades.
“I saw floodwater everywhere, wherever I went in recent days and even today,” Sharif said in the town of Charsadda in the northeast of the country. Some 180,000 people in the town have been evacuated after the Swat River overflowed and swamped nearby communities.
Sharif has said the government would provide housing to all those who lost their homes.
But many of the displaced have lost not just homes, but also crops and businesses.
“I am sitting with my family in a tent, and how can I go out to work? Even if I go out in search of a job, who will give me any job as there is water everywhere,” asked Rehmat Ullah, a flood victim in Charsadda.
Zarina Bibi said soldiers evacuated her by boat. She broke down in tears as she recounted how her house collapsed in the floods.
“We were given a tent and food by soldiers and volunteers,” she said. “Floodwater will recede soon, but we have no money to rebuild our home.”
At least 6,500 soldiers were deployed to help, and authorities said they were using military planes, helicopters, trucks and boats to evacuate people from marooned people and deliver aid to them.
However, many displaced complained they were still waiting for help. Some said they got tents but not food.
Pakistani authorities say this year’s devastation is worse than in 2010, when floods killed 1,700 people. Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, Pakistan’s military chief, said Sunday that his country may take years to recover. He appealed to Pakistanis living abroad to generously donate to the flood victims.
Cargo planes from Turkey and the United Arab Emirates began the flow of international aid, landing in Islamabad on Sunday with tents, food and other daily necessities. The United Nations will launch an international appeal for Pakistani flood victims on Tuesday in Islamabad.
The flood wreckage has hit Pakistan at a time when the country faces one of its worst economic crises, narrowly avoiding a default. Later on Monday, the International Monetary Fund’s executive board approved the release of a much-awaited $1.17 billion for Pakistan, Pakistan's Information Minister Maryam Aurangez told the AP. The announcement was a big relief for the country. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/pakistan-floods-leave-wrecked-lives-half-million-in-camps-over-1-000-dead | 2022-08-29T19:24:59Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/pakistan-floods-leave-wrecked-lives-half-million-in-camps-over-1-000-dead | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Unretiring isn’t new, but the professions older Americans are coming back to are not the same.
It’s taking on new meaning for people like Robert Harris and Christine Smith. Both of them decided to go back to work but pursue a different field: trucking.
“I was just sitting around the house all day getting fat and I just got tired,” recalled Harris. “I thought I gotta get out and do something.”
Harris used to work in a factory as a crane operator.
Smith left a corporate job some time ago and help raise her grandchildren. She decided to go to trucking school to help make ends meet.
“I feel like once I’ve achieved this, the horizon opens for me to make choices, to save money, to establish a legacy, a foundation.”
After dipping below usual levels of 3% during the beginning of the pandemic, unretirements are back, according to data from Indeed.
There were similar trends in unretirement coming out of the Great Recession. Once the labor market heated up, more retirees were lured back onto the job, suggesting the employment market may have more to do with unretiring than inflation or lessening concerns about the COVID-19 virus.
But this time, more retirees are planning to return to work in an industry different than the one they left. Resume Builder found 58% of retirees are making the switch.
While the financial benefits of working longer are clear, the health effects are not. A review of literature published over the last decade on employment found mixed health results in those over 64. The review found extending working life may have some benefits or a neutral effect but more so in men, those working part-time, and those working in higher-quality jobs.
Extending working life in a full-time job or in a less rewarding role may have adverse physical and mental health effects. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/study-finds-unretirement-isnt-healthy-for-everyone | 2022-08-29T19:25:11Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/study-finds-unretirement-isnt-healthy-for-everyone | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Businesses in one of the trendiest sections of San Francisco are threatening to withhold tax payments unless the city takes action in removing homeless people from the area, claiming that their presence has hurt their bottom line.
The Castro Merchants Association, an umbrella group representing some local 125 businesses in the Castro District, wrote a letter to city officials earlier this month outlining their demands, according to SFGATE.
The group wants the city to allocate 35 shelter beds for “mentally ill and substance-abusing individuals who have taken up residence in the Castro.”
The city is also being asked to provide monthly data on the services that are offered or provided to the homeless population that has set up shop in the area.
Castro businesses, famed for catering to the LGBT community, also want the city to formulate a plan as to what to do with those who refuse services.
Dave Karraker, the co-president of the Castro Merchants Association, told SFGATE that if these demands aren’t met, the group membership will consider punitive steps, including possibly withholding tax payments.
“Whatever they’re doing isn’t working,” Karraker, who co-owns a gym with two locations in the area, told SFGATE.
“It isn’t leading to a noticeable difference in the conditions in the Castro as it relates to the drug addicted and the mentally ill.”
Karraker said that since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic more than two years ago, qualify of life has noticeably slipped in the area.
“We’re just seeing constant vandalism, constant drug use in public, people passed out on the sidewalk, people having psychotic breakdowns, and it’s just not something a small-business owner should have to deal with,” Karraker said.
He said that 35 shelter beds would be more than enough to cover the amount of unhoused who are “constantly causing issues” in the area.
“That list is typically between 20 and 25 people. So we knew if we got 35 beds, we’d be able to cover those people,” Karraker said.
Terrance Alan, another co-president of the association and the owner of Cafe Flore and Flore Dispensary, told KTVU-TV that his businesses’ windows have been smashed 11 times and that several homeless people have been living on the streets for more than a decade.
“Every day we wake up and have to help people on the street,” Alan said.
“We have to clean up feces on the street. We have to clear our people from doorways, so we can open our businesses.”
“It’s not fair,” said Alan.
City officials responded to the group’s letter by saying that there was no legal mechanism for the city to set aside shelter beds for homeless people from a designated neighborhood.
“However, we greatly appreciate hearing from community members about what they are seeing on the streets and will continue to work with the Castro community to improve conditions for all in the Castro,” according to joint letter from the San Francisco Department of Public Health and the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.
Karraker accused city officials of focusing its homeless response to neighboring districts like the Tenderloin, which has had the effect of “pushing people into the Castro.”
But experts said that the homeless who have gravitated to the Castro feel safer there because they identify as LGBTQ.
The Castro, which is centrally located between historic areas such as Mission District and Haight-Ashbury, is one of the nation’s first-ever gay and lesbian cultural and residential areas in the US. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/29/fed-up-san-francisco-businesses-vow-to-stop-paying-taxes-over-homeless-problem/ | 2022-08-29T19:33:24Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/29/fed-up-san-francisco-businesses-vow-to-stop-paying-taxes-over-homeless-problem/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A hearing in the double murder trial of a prominent South Carolina attorney accused of killing his wife and son turned into a shouting match Monday as both sides squabbled over what prosecutors called “million-dollar” evidence.
The argument was just the latest twist in the case of Alex Murdaugh, the once-powerful legal scion who also stands accused of stealing more than $8 million from clients, co-running a $2 million money laundering and drug ring, and trying to arrange his own death so his surviving son could collect a $10 million life insurance policy.
Murdaugh’s defense team on Monday got Judge Clifton Newman to order prosecutors to turn over evidence they’ve been trying to keep secret, South Carolina newspaper The State reported.
Newman also issued a protective order — barring much of the materials from public dissemination — after prosecutor Creighton Waters made the strange claim that some of the evidence against Murdaugh is worth “over a million dollars to an unscrupulous hand.”
Murdaugh defense attorney Dick Harpootlian — who is also a sitting South Carolina state senator — accused prosecutors of attempting to try his client in secret.
“Objection your honor! …. I object to the state trying to hijack this proceeding,” Harpootlian shouted over Waters. “Your honor! I am not done! If I could be heard… and not be interrupted by the state as they continue to hijack this case!
“Every time we turn around [prosecutors] are trying to hide something,” he yelled.
No information was given explaining the nature of the evidence in question.
Murdaugh, 54, is accused of using a rifle and a shotgun to kill his wife, Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and their 22-year-old son Paul Murdaugh. Their bodies were found last June near a dog kennel at their home in Islandton, a small town with only about 70 residents in the central part of the state.
Alex Murdaugh — a fourth-generation lawyer from a powerful southern legal family — has pleaded not-guilty to the slayings. He placed the initial 911 call, frantically telling a dispatcher he’d returned home to find the bullet-riddled bodies of his loved ones.
Investigators have said they found blood spatter on Murdaugh’s clothing and video that places him near the scene of the crime.
A date has not yet been set for the double murder trial, but it is expected to begin in January. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/29/fight-erupts-over-million-dollar-evidence-in-attorney-alex-murdaughs-double-murder-case/ | 2022-08-29T19:33:30Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/29/fight-erupts-over-million-dollar-evidence-in-attorney-alex-murdaughs-double-murder-case/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A blaze broke out at the historic P.J. Clarke’s restaurant in Midtown on Sunday night, officials said.
The FDNY responded to the saloon’s 138-year-old location at East 55th Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan just after 9 p.m., said a Fire Department rep.
Firefighters reported “smoke from [the] restaurant” and “fire in [the] wall,” the FDNY said.
A dozen units with 60 firefighters responded to the restaurant, which started operating in the building in 1884.
The blaze was knocked down by 9:40 p.m., and no injuries were reported.
The FDNY said the cause remained under investigation Monday — but a restaurant representative told The Post in an e-mail that it was a “small electrical fire.
“Contrary to news reports that seem to suggest it was second only to the Great Chicago Fire, we had very little damage and no injuries,” the rep said. “Our electricians are repairing the system, making sure it’s safe.
“The bar should be open by 9 p.m. this evening and the dining room in a few days, hopefully.
“We’ve been here 138 years and counting — we’re going to keep having fun and keep being the PJ’s you know and love,” the rep added. | https://nypost.com/2022/08/29/fire-breaks-out-at-historic-p-j-clarkes-restaurant-in-nyc/ | 2022-08-29T19:33:36Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/08/29/fire-breaks-out-at-historic-p-j-clarkes-restaurant-in-nyc/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Podcaster Joe Rogan pushed his listeners to “vote Republican” while taking Democratic Party leaders to task over their policies related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The comedian slammed COVID-19 lockdowns and other restrictive measures during a discussion with NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers on an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” released last Saturday.
Rogan and Rodgers each pointed to measures taken in some Democrat-led states to limit outdoor dining and beach access as COVID-19 cases surged as an example of missteps — with the latter referencing California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s infamous outing at the French Laundry restaurant even as the state implemented restrictions.
“I hope there’s lessons learned in this because this is a new thing,” Rogan said. “We had never had this before. No one that was alive today had ever experienced a true pandemic and I’m hoping that now that this is over, people are going to recognize that some serious errors were made and not repeat those.”
“As far as compensation for all of those people that were forced to close their businesses and keep their doors shuttered and lost everything they had worked for decades to build — no, they’re just going to be angry.”
“So what do you tell those people?” Rodgers asked.
“Vote Republican,” a laughing Rogan responded. “That’s what a lot of them are going to do anything.”
Mediaite earlier reported on Rogan’s remarks.
Both Rogan and Rodgers have faced backlash over the last year for their outspoken skepticism regarding COVID-19 vaccines. Rogan’s critical remarks about the COVID-19 vaccine notably sparked calls for a boycott of Spotify by those who accused him of spreading misinformation.
Meanwhile, Rodgers triggered outrage after telling reporters during the 2021 NFL season that he was “immunized” against COVID-19 — only to later admit that he was unvaccinated after testing positive for the virus and being forced to sit out a game.
Rogan continued with his point, citing Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as an example of a politician who, in his view, had taken the right approach to handling the pandemic.
The podcast host, who moved to Texas from California in 2020, referenced an Associated Press article noting that 1 million voters across 43 states had switched allegiance to the Republican Party over the previous year.
“You look at guys like Ron DeSantis, who kept Florida open and had some pretty reasonable policies in terms of what to do about COVID,” Rogan said. “He mapped it out on television. He was widely criticized for this.”
Rogan expressed support for DeSantis as a potential 2024 presidential candidate in June, asserting the Florida governor “would work as a good president” and citing his COVID-19 policies.
“What he’s done for Florida has been admirable,” Rogan said.
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Apparently, Nick’s cannon never gets tired of blasting off.
On the red carpet at the 2022 VMAs Sunday, “Wild ‘N Out” siren Justina Valentine spoke candidly about the show’s fertile frontman Nick Cannon, who announced the impending birth of his tenth child last week.
“One thing about Nick, he doesn’t vacation and neither does his junk,” Valentine, 35, told The Post after jokingly being asked if Cannon, 41, planned to launch a “Wild ‘N Out” day-care center for his brood.
On Thursday, Cannon and former beauty pageant queen Brittany Bell, 34, revealed on Instagram that they are expecting their third child, which will be his tenth, together.
The pair already have a 5-year-old son, Golden, and a 1-year-old daughter, Powerful Queen.
“He’s a hard-working man, across the board,” Valentine added with a chuckle.
And she isn’t the only lady in Cannon’s life to poke fun at his rampant fruitfulness.
Abby De La Rosa — who gave birth to his most recent set of twins, Zion and Zillion Cannon, in June 2021 and is currently pregnant with their third child — joked that the “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” star is siring an entire generation.
“Move over Kardashians, ‘Gen C’ is taking over baby,” penned De La Rosa, 32, as the in-text caption of an Instagram Story following Cannon and Bell’s virtual pregnancy announcement.
She re-posted a clip from comedian Brian Moller, who wisecracked that Cannon’s 10 (and counting) kids might eventually “take on the Kardashians for world supremacy.”
“And they said millennials aren’t having kids,” quipped Moller. “They’re not, Nick’s having them all!”
Cannon’s incessant seed-spilling notwithstanding, he seems to be making an effort to spend quality time with his growing gaggle of little ones.
Earlier this month, he and De La Rosa treated their twin boys to an outing at a tropical butterfly habitat.
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Chaos would be an understatement to describe the final few laps of Chris Buescher’s afternoon at Daytona International Speedway, as he was in the mix of running for the lead – one of numerous drivers needing a win for a playoff berth – but was ultimately caught up in a multi-car incident that transpired after rain fell in turn one.
Inclement weather was the story of the weekend, which ironically was partly the reason for Buescher and multiple others’ afternoons coming to an early halt. Buescher didn’t see his day end without a valiant effort, though. He finished 13th in stage one and was well inside the top five for a good portion of the green-flag action.
After qualifying on Friday was cancelled due to storms, the rule book set the lineup with Buescher slotted eighth in the Fifth Third Bank Ford. Saturday night saw storms dominate the sky, with ultimately enough rain to postpone the regular-season finale to Sunday at an unprecedented time of 10 a.m. ET.
The timing worked out well enough as the field saw the track for the first time all weekend Sunday morning. Buescher initially maintained inside the top-10 for the opening laps and was able to avoid the first incident at lap 30 that ultimately sent his teammate Brad Keselowski to the garage.
With a one-lap shootout to the completion of stage one, Buescher crossed the line 13th. He was back in the top five with 100 to go, but finished 29th in stage two. Then, just after the stage three green flag, another multi-car crash occurred, but Buescher avoided heavy damage and only required fresh tires and some cosmetic work.
He avoided another incident at lap 125 running 12th, and from there had solid position as he restarted eighth with 30 to go. The caution immediately came out after that restart when he was scored seventh, at which point storms were imminent at the track. The field restarted with 26 to go with Buescher in fourth, as all patience was out the window with rain seconds from falling.
Buescher made the moves he needed and was within striking distance, but when rain fell in turns one and two with 21 to go, the field went sliding in every direction, with the No. 17 unfortunately turning right into the outside wall, ending his day.
The focus now shifts to the final 10 races of the season with Darlington Raceway up next on the schedule. Race coverage next Sunday night is set for 6 p.m. ET on USA, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
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Harrison Burton and the No. 21 DEX Imaging team brought a fast Ford Mustang to Daytona International Speedway for the Coke Zero Sugar 400, but after being among the contenders for the win for the majority of the race, Burton was among a host of drivers eliminated by a wreck caused by a quick downpour with 23 of 160 laps left to run.
Burton came close to steering his DEX Imaging Mustang past the crash but was collected anyway. He wound up 19th in the final running order.
Burton started the race from 29th place on Sunday morning after rain postponed the scheduled start Saturday night. He began moving forward not long after the drop of the green flag. He was in 16th place after 15 laps and inside the top 10 on Lap 28.
He dodged a wreck with five laps remaining in the first Stage. Lining up in third place for a one-lap sprint to the finish of the first Stage, he ended that 35-lap segment in third place, earning eight points.
After making a pit stop during the Stage break, Burton was in 20th place when the green flag flew to restart the race. Twenty laps later he was back in the top 10 and by Lap 68 he was back in third place.
He moved up one spot after a green flag stop for two tires and fuel at Lap 79.
He returned to the track in sixth place but was shuffled to 14th at the end of Stage Two. Burton avoided serious damage to his DEX Imaging Mustang as several multi-car crashes occurred around him, until the biggest of those incidents occurred with 23 laps to go. Burton was among the 12 drivers knocked out of the race when rain hit the track just as the pack entered Turn One.
Eddie Wood said that despite the disappointing finish, he was proud of Burton, crew chief Brian Wilson and the rest of the No. 21 team.
“Brian and the crew did a great job,” Wood said. “They unloaded with a lot of speed, and Harrison did a good job of putting it to work on the race track.”
Wood said that while Burton and the team will not be among the 16 teams that start the Playoffs, which begin next weekend at Darlington Raceway, there still are goals to be accomplished.
“There are still some points positions that can be gained, and they’re important to us,” Wood said. “And we want to keep building this team.”
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Marc-Antoine Camirand scored a brilliant second-place finish after a fast-paced race, Saturday, as the NASCAR Pinty’s series was on the short road course of Circuit ICAR in Mirabel. His teammate at Paillé Course//Racing Andrew Ranger secured a solid top-five finish.
Marc-Antoine Camirand was coming to Circuit ICAR in Mirabel as the points leader, and he wanted a strong outing to increase his lead in the drivers’ standings. Qualifying was canceled due to rain in the morning and the starting grid was set according to owner points standings. Starting from pole, Camirand led the field for seven laps, before he had to concede the top spot. He kept running a very fast pace during the 70-lap race.
“I felt that my GM Paillé/Chevrolet Canada n°96 Camaro was very fast, but not enough to catch up on Lacroix. I tried to stay out of trouble to secure championship points,” stated Camirand.
During both restarts, he was caught in traffic and lost a few track positions but managed to climb back to the second spot in no time. He kept putting pressure until the end of the race, pulling away from the rest of the field, but couldn’t reach the leader.
“My car was a little bit too loose at the end of the race. I was keeping a fast pace, but I was not able to battle for the first place. We are very happy with this podium finish. This is just what we needed and we are heading to CTMP with momentum,” Camirand concluded.
Camirand’s second place at ICAR secures his position in the drivers’ standings with two races left in the NASCAR Pinty’s championship. Unofficially, Camirand heads to the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park 23 points ahead second place.
Andrew Ranger also scored a well-fought fifth-place finish at the end of the General Tire 125. Sixth on the starting grid, he was able to climb to the third spot and was trying to catch up on his Paillé Course//Racing teammate Camirand.
He had two strong restarts, taking the lead momentarily after the second one with 15 laps to go. Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to hold off his opponents and dropped to the fifth place.
“It was a good restart, but I couldn’t hold them off after that. I tried to keep a fast pace during the whole race, as the leaders were running very quick lap times. Overall, I’m happy with that top-five finish,” said the driver of the GM Paillé/Chevrolet Canada n°27 Camaro.
Paillé Course//Racing, with drivers Marc-Antoine Camirand and Andrew Ranger, will be back on track as soon as next weekend, as the NASCAR Pinty’s series returns to Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.
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Darlington Raceway announces rising country music entertainer Josiah Siska to sing the National Anthem in advance of the first race of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, the 73rd running of the Cook Out Southern 500 on Sunday, Sept. 4.
“We are proud to welcome one of the rising stars in country music, Josiah Siska, to share the National Anthem prior to the crown jewel Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway,” said Kerry Tharp, Darlington Raceway President. “Before the green flag waves to start the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, we look forward to our loyal race fans uniting to honor our nation with Josiah.”
"I am thrilled to get to sing the national anthem for NASCAR's playoff race at the Cook Out Southern 500 on Labor Day weekend in Darlington,” said Siska. “It's gonna be incredible. I’ve never been before and I’m so excited that I’ll get to see the race! I love America, I love our freedom, and I can't wait to sing our country’s national anthem for everybody on race day."
Released on Aug. 26, Siska’s debut EP Three Chords at a Time (Black River) is a testament to his love of storytelling and of writing the story itself. Siska co-wrote five of the seven songs with his "Nashville family" and featured some of Music City's best songwriters on the other two. Included on the EP is his otherworldly upcoming single, "3 Tequila Floor," the title track and the rowdy fan favorites "Honky-Tonk" and "Come On Down."
With the support of his family and friends, Siska moved to Nashville when he turned 18. Seemingly already knowing how Music City works, a longtime family friend connected Siska to a significant part of his future. When Josiah met Mark Miller, the frontman of Sawyer Brown, he nurtured that fateful connection until it grew into a mentorship that ultimately led him to his recording, publishing, and management deals.
Naturally gifted storytellers like Josiah Siska prove that it starts with having something to say and sharing it in a way that captivates. Siska's musical influences are vast due to a combination of Christian music, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra playing in the house, along with his mother singing many classic country songs from female artists like Tammy Wynette, Tanya Tucker, and Barbara Mandrell. But those songs faded into the background when Siska stumbled across country and rock "classics" online, discovering greats including Waylon Jennings, Keith Whitley, and of course, Johnny Cash.
For more information and tour dates, visit josiahsiska.com and follow Josiah Siska on Instagram, Facebook, Twitte
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Commanders’ Robinson says he had surgery after shooting
ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Washington Commanders rookie running back Brian Robinson Jr. said Monday he underwent surgery a day after being shot in what the NFL team described as an attempted robbery or carjacking.
Robinson posted to social media from a hospital that surgery went well and thanked followers for their prayers, which the team passed along on its official Twitter account. Coach Ron Rivera after practice said doctors have been positive, but added there’s no timeline for Robinson’s return to the football field.
“He was in a really good place,” said Rivera, who visited Robinson at the hospital Sunday night along with owners Dan and Tanya Snyder, team president Jason Wright, running backs coach Randy Jordan and players.
“The doctors were very positive with him, and he was very positive, as well. We’re very fortunate. He’s very fortunate. It was a very unfortunate situation, but he’s doing well and it’ll be a matter of time before he’s back out here.”
A report by District of Columbia police indicated Robinson was shot in one of his legs by two suspects. The 23-year-old former Alabama player was taken to MedStar Washington Hospital Center with what the team called non-life-threatening injuries.
“It’s sad,” defensive captain and fellow Alabama product Jonathan Allen said. “Young guy. You never want to see something like that happen. By the grace of God, he’s OK. It’s not life-threatening, and he’s going to be OK, so that’s really what’s the most important thing right now.”
Rivera gathered players for a team meeting before practice Monday, 13 days before the start of the regular season. Robinson impressed since Washington drafted him in the third round and looked to have earned a starting job.
“He’s exactly the kind of guy that we want, and he’s exactly the kind of guy that we needed,” Allen said. “We’re really excited about him.”
Rivera wore an orange shirt to signify his support for measures to curb gun violence and spoke about the subject. He said Robinson was in the wrong place at the wrong time just trying to get a meal when the incident happened outside a popular Washington establishment.
The veteran coach, who was watching film of Robinson along with Jordan when he learned what happened, said Robinson “sounded pretty optimistic and positive, considering his circumstances.”
“Everything’s been very positive so far,” Rivera said. “It’s just about the healing process and once he’s well enough to get out on the field, then the doctors will have to clear him, obviously, and then we’ll go from there.”
The concern about Robinson extended beyond Washington to Tuscaloosa, where he played five seasons for Alabama.
“Obviously that’s something that’s really sad,” Crimson Tide quarterback Bryce Young said. “Me individually and us as a team, I think we’re just sending our prayers and our love to B-Rob and his family in a tough time like this.”
Alabama coach Nick Saban said he tried to call before then texting Robinson and relayed similar optimism as Rivera.
“We’re glad that this is not something that is critical to his future or putting his life in jeopardy in the short term,” Saban said.
“He’s doing well relative to the information that we have, even to the point where they think he may be able to come back and play at some point in the season. We’re hopeful for that and keep our fingers crossed.”
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AP reporters Mike Balsalmo and John Zenor contributed.
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Delivery of Aug. 29 Coloradoan and USA TODAY delayed in Fort Collins area
Delivery of the Monday, Aug. 29, print edition of the Fort Collins Coloradoan and USA TODAY in the Fort Collins area will be delayed by one day due to an unexpected issue at the USA TODAY Network's Colorado printing facility in Pueblo.
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Those with concerns or questions are invited to call our customer service line at 800-424-0063. Thank you to our valued subscribers for your support of local journalism in Fort Collins. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Fort Collins police search for victims in reported shooting near CSU campus early Saturday
Fort Collins police are investigating a reported shooting just east of the Colorado State University campus early Saturday morning.
The reported shooting stemmed from a large disturbance from a party near the intersection of Garfield and Remington streets — just south of the Best Western University Inn — just after 1 a.m., according to a Facebook post from Fort Collins police.
Police say preliminary information indicates at least one and possibly two people were shot, but when officers arrived on scene no shooting victims were found on scene. Police are still trying to locate any victims in this case, according to the agency's Saturday morning Facebook post.
Police have not released any additional information about this incident as of Monday afternoon.
Anyone with information about this incident can contact Detective Stuart Music at 970-416 2575 or share any information anonymously by contacting Larimer County Crime Stoppers at 970-221-6868.
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Parents raise concerns over Poudre School District’s proposed public comment policy
After having no official guidelines in place in place for how the public can participate in its meetings, the Poudre School District Board of Education is set to vote on new rules Tuesday.
A section of those proposed guidelines, which would have prohibited speakers from making comments on behalf of someone else, prompted several parents to share concerns at the board's most recent meeting Aug. 23.
After discussion, the board indicated it would take that rule out of the proposed policy.
“For the sake of being inclusive to those with disabilities, I feel compelled to let you know there are several disabilities that might limit an individual's ability to make public comments themselves,” said Dani Lawrence, who has two children in PSD schools, one of whom is visually impaired, she said.
Lawrence illustrated her point by saying there are several groups of community members who may need someone to deliver comments for them, including people with autism, ADHD, anxiety and other mental health issues. Lawrence also noted her repeated requests to the board to have a sign language interpreter at meetings.
“Folks shouldn’t have to request accommodation from the district to participate in a public meeting,” Lawrence said. ”They still deserve to be considered in this public space.”
The original proposed public participation guidelines stated that “only the current speaker is permitted to be at the podium, unless a minor wishes to be accompanied by the minor’s parent/guardian.” However, an addition to the regulations goes on to state: “Translators and other individuals needed as an accommodation may accompany the speaker.”
The policy didn't specifically say what accommodations are and are not allowed. It also stipulated, “during community comment, speakers shall not stand in place of another, i.e. read a statement on behalf of another individual.”
Lawrence concluded her public comments with a call to action for the board.
“With a 59% graduation rate for special needs students in this district, it is past time for PSD to make cultural changes toward inclusion that are long overdue. The board has an opportunity to send a powerful message that everybody’s voice matters, even those who can’t use theirs.”
Other PSD parents and community members said the policy would impact teachers in the district who may want to participate anonymously.
"For two years I have been reading anonymous statements because teachers were afraid for their jobs, but still wanted to be heard," said Kelly Holdridge, a PSD parent and advocate.
More:Poudre School District increases pay, sick leave as teachers leave at alarming rates
PSD board members amend policy to address concerns
The board ultimately decided to strike the “no stand-in” policy from the guidelines entirely after hearing parents' concerns.
“I don’t think it’s been an issue. It can actually be helpful,” board member Nate Donovan said. “I do believe teachers may not feel comfortable speaking in a public meeting, especially if they’re in disagreement with some of the things that are happening in the district.”
Board member Jim Brokish agreed, saying he was in favor of allowing people to stand in for other public participants.
Board member Carolyn Reed said she was on the fence about the no stand-in policy but ultimately remained in favor of keeping it in the guidelines. Reed said she was initially in favor of the policy to alleviate some of the confusion that comes with anonymous statements, like not being able to follow up on the issue or the inability to confirm details of incidents discussed in public comments.
“Not letting people stand in is not the way to fix that,” Reed said.
Board Vice President Kristen Draper said she wasn’t sure how the board would be able to provide feedback to those who speak through a stand-in. However, she ultimately agreed that the policy was not necessary.
Board President Rob Petterson said while he was still in favor of the no stand-in policy, he recognized a majority of the board would prefer to remove the item. Petterson agreed to update the guidelines to remove the policy.
The board will officially vote to adopt the public participation guidelines at Tuesday’s board meeting. Following guidance from the Aug. 23 discussion, this version will likely omit the no stand-in policy, though the official guidelines had not yet been released as of early Friday afternoon. Ahead of the official vote, the board will have another opportunity to discuss the policy.
Recent:Are snow days over? Not quite, but here's what PSD's new remote learning flexibility means
Here's a look at the rest of the board's proposed guidelines:
- Board members generally won’t respond to speakers. If they do, the speaker will not be allowed a rebuttal.
- Comments should be constructive to the operation of the school system, the district's goals or the education of PSD students.
- Those who wish to participate will be required to sign up in advance.
- Each speaker will have the same amount of time to speak, which will be determined at the start of each meeting and will depend on how many people are signed up to speak.
- Public comment generally shouldn’t last more than 45 minutes. Time allotted for each speaker will likely be between 2 and 3 minutes.
- Anyone who violates the rules will be given a warning. The board can remove speakers from the room if they continue to violate the rules.
- Audience members are not allowed to bring posters or signs into the board room because they can be distracting. Signs and posters are permitted outside of the building.
- Audience members should be respectful to speakers during public comment and should not make comments out of turn. Audience members can also be removed for violating the rules.
The following are things speakers are not allowed to do:
- Solicit funds in any way
- Advertise, promote products or services for sale or purchase
- Comment on subjects not related to the district, its schools, its operation or education in general
- Use vulgar or obscene language or imagery
- Engage in harassing speech against any individual
- Discuss information relating to confidential student matters, unless the speaker is talking about their own child
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On the rise: National experts predict CSU football to start turnaround in 2022
The Colorado State football team is, finally, trending in the right direction.
That’s the consensus from national experts in predictions and betting odds before the 2022 season kicks off.
No one is getting carried away, with most expecting CSU to hover around the .500 mark, but all seem to think the Jay Norvell era is likely to be successful.
That’s music to the ears of fans after a years-long train wreck, including a 3-9 season last year.
Here’s a look at the national view of the Rams.
Phil Steele
Phil Steele’s College Football Preview magazine has long been considered the standard of previews and predictions, and he’s on the Rams bandwagon.
“The Rams make my coveted Most Improved list and get to a bowl,” Steele writes. He picks the Rams fourth in the Mountain Division of the Mountain West and has CSU as his 15th “most improved” team.
More:8 CSU football players who need to shine for a successful 2022 season
Athlon Sports
Athlon also ranks the Rams fourth in the Mountain Division, but “the Rams might be in for a quick rebound in ’22.”
The Athletic
The site also picks CSU fourth in the Mountain Division (that ranking is basically a consensus across the board, including in the MW media poll). The Athletic ranked all 131 FBS teams and has the Rams at 110 after finishing last season at 118.
More:Coloradoan Sports and Brady Hull team up for second season of 'Rams Weekly' on KFKA
ESPN
The Football Power Index has CSU 114th in the country with an expected win total ranging from 4.7 to 7.3, based on its formula. ESPN’s SP+ ranking system sets the over/under for wins at 5.6 and says there’s a 54% chance for the over.
ESPN reporter Mark Schlabach predicted that CSU will face Washington in the Frisco Bowl.
Betting odds
The Draft Kings win/loss line for CSU is at 5.5. Vegas Insider also sets it at 5.5, with an in-house betting expert predicting five wins.
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Fort Collins sports fans, here's how we'll cover our high school teams, athletes this year
Labor Day is imminent, football is back under the Friday Night Lights and that means fall is practically here.
And with that, a whole new crop of local high school sports and athletes are ramping up their seasons.
High school sports are a cornerstone of what we do here in the Coloradoan Sports section, and that sentiment rings truer than ever with new Poudre School District institutions Timnath and Wellington high schools starting their athletic programs this year.
Summer isn't just a time for athletes to get better. We're always looking to do the same here, and the Coloradoan's experienced reporters, Kevin Lytle, Kelly Lyell and I, have reflected on what we do and how we do it to make improvements in our coverage.
As the games get going again, we've mapped out how we'll cover local sports for the 2022-23 school year.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — As the sun set in Wyoming, U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney described her blowout loss as the beginning of a more consequential step in her political career. She summoned Abraham Lincoln, who lost elections for the House and Senate and still went on to become one of the nation’s most accomplished presidents.
But in the days since, would-be supporters in key states have openly expressed skepticism about a Cheney presidential run, even one solely designed to block Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
In fact, Republican voters and local officials in three of the states that matter most in presidential politics — Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina — believe the soon-to-be-unemployed congresswoman has little path to relevancy in a 2024 presidential primary, never mind a path to victory. Some sympathizers fear she would actually help Trump if she runs.
Such is the colossal political challenge ahead for Cheney, a Republican seeking to transform a 37-percentage-point home-state loss into a national campaign to destroy Trump’s White House ambitions. There is no precedent for what she hopes to accomplish.
“The Republican Party is a lot more diverse than it’s given credit for, and there will be some number of people who find her, and her message, appealing, but that is far from saying that there would be a warm reception, or a large reception,” said Micah Caskey, a Republican state representative in South Carolina. “I don’t see a Liz Cheney candidacy as being viable.”
In the hours after she conceded her Wyoming congressional primary to a little-known Trump acolyte, Cheney’s team transferred leftover campaign funds into a new entity she named “The Great Task,” borrowing a phrase from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. She vowed to devote the weeks before the November midterms to defeating Trump loyalists who continue to promote the lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
“I will be doing whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office,” Cheney told NBC’s “Today” show. She acknowledged she is thinking about a 2024 presidential run. “I’ll make a decision in the coming months.”
Cheney, the 56-year-old daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has not ruled out running in 2024 as a Republican or an independent. But those close to her now believe an independent run would likely attract more support from Democrats than Republicans, which would undermine her goals. Therefore, if she runs, it would almost certainly be as a Republican.
Her team believes that Cheney would enter the 2024 Republican contest as the undisputed leader of the anti-Trump lane, which could include the likes of Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. The Cheney name is universally known, they note, and she enjoys a national fundraising base that brought in more than $15 million for her failed reelection bid. She would also have the support of her father and maintains close ties to former President George W. Bush, who hosted a fundraiser for Cheney last fall.
She will continue to play a leading role in the House investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection, which is set to host another round of hearings in September.
Despite those factors, there has been little sign of enthusiasm for Cheney in the states most likely to decide the next GOP presidential nomination.
Voters were openly celebrating her loss at the Iowa State Fair, a must-stop for presidents and presidential contenders ever since the state began hosting the nation’s opening presidential primary contest a half-century ago.
“It’s celebration day at the Iowa Republican Party. Liz Cheney is outta here!” crowed Debra Wyna, a Des Moines-area GOP volunteer and 57-year-old retired salon owner. “Liz Cheney is a swamp monster.”
Other voters who stopped by the GOP booth were less pointed than Wyna but no less dismissive of Cheney’s political ambitions.
“I’m never going to vote for her because I believe she betrayed the Republican Party by voting to impeach President Trump,” said Janet Diers, a 67-year-old retired special education teacher from rural western Iowa.
Gentry Collins, a veteran Iowa and national Republican operative who opposes Trump, said he has “great respect” for Cheney, but he doesn’t see how she wages a viable campaign for president.
“Where do the votes come from? Maybe she aggregates the anti-Trump vote, but that’s not enough,” said Collins, a former political director for the Republican National Committee. “She’s my kind of Republican, but I don’t see an opening.”
It was much the same across New Hampshire, which traditionally hosts the nation’s second Republican primary contest.
While the state prides itself on ushering in presidential candidates every four years, Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, who has mocked Trump, declined an opportunity to welcome a prospective Cheney campaign when given the opportunity.
“The governor has given no thought or consideration as to who may or may not run for president in 2024,” Sununu spokesperson Ben Vihstadt said. “He is solely focused on the midterms in less than 100 days, and firmly believes every second spent speculating about 2024 is a waste of time.”
Early presidential primary jockeying has been underway for several months. And the first Republican presidential announcement could come any time. Trump is weighing whether to declare his presidential intentions before or after the midterms.
Republican presidential prospects have been flocking to Iowa and New Hampshire for months already. The visitors include former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Sen. Tom Cotton and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is another frequent name discussed by local Republican primary voters, though he has yet to make an appearance.
Cheney herself delivered a speech in New Hampshire late last year, declaring that Trump was at war with the rule of law.
Caskey, the South Carolina state representative, believes Trump may be vulnerable in a small Republican field, but a large Republican field would divide the anti-Trump vote and help Trump claim his party’s nomination again.
“I think Donald Trump is the odds-on favorite to win if he runs, but I don’t think he has an assured path to victory,” Caskey said. “I think the more candidates that get involved, the more likely it is that he succeeds.”
Matthew Bartlett, a veteran New Hampshire Republican operative who worked in Trump’s State Department but quit after the Jan. 6 insurrection, said there’s plenty of buzz across the state about presidential candidates — save one.
“Not one person is talking about Liz Cheney,” Bartlett said. “I don’t think she knows what she’s doing.”
Nationally, around 7 in 10 Republicans continue to support Trump. That number may have jumped in the days after the FBI executed a search warrant at his Florida estate, though critics note that Trump’s multiple legal entanglements could ultimately damage his standing. Cheney, meanwhile, is lumped near the bottom with Pompeo and Haley, among others, in early public polling.
Voters tend to agree with the political professionals.
Claire Potter wore a Cheney T-shirt on a recent trip to Conway, New Hampshire, to “express my admiration as a Democrat” for the position she has taken against Trump. Potter, a history professor at The New School in New York, also donated $25 to the Cheney campaign.
Just don’t expect her to vote for Cheney in 2024.
“I don’t hope that she runs for president,” Potter said. “I think that could be really dicey in terms of keeping Trump out of the White House. But I trust her political instincts around what she does next.”
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Associated Press writer Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed to this report. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/liz-cheney-in-2024-deep-skepticism-emerges-in-key-states/ | 2022-08-29T19:53:06Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/liz-cheney-in-2024-deep-skepticism-emerges-in-key-states/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Hill) – For seven weeks, Harry Dunn sat in the same seat before the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.
Cameras pointed in his direction snapped photos of his every reaction as details of the insurrection were shared with the public.
Dunn looked on, not paying the photographers any mind. He was there for one reason: to hear the truth.
Dunn, who is Black, was thrown into the spotlight in the weeks following the attack.
The Capitol Police officer’s testimony before Congress detailed the horrors he faced on Jan. 6, 2021, from facing down the mob’s deluge of racial hatred to wondering if he’d make it home alive that night.
“What people have to realize is that I’m not only a police officer, but I’m a victim,” Dunn told The Hill. “I’m an American citizen who cares about this country and wants to see it do right. I’m a patriot. I’m a voter. I’m a taxpaying citizen. This is my country and I deserve to know the truth and make sure this doesn’t happen again.”
As Congress prepares to reconvene in September Dunn said he’ll be back in the chamber to watch, listen and wait for that truth as the Jan. 6 panel heads toward its conclusion.
An imposing figure standing at 6 foot 7, Dunn, 38, speaks passionately but kindly. He’s unafraid to share his opinion and occasionally, when especially fired up, he’ll let an f-bomb or another swear word slip. But he’s also quick to laugh and keep things lighthearted.
After working as a club bouncer and security officer, Dunn began his career with the U.S. Capitol Police nearly 15 years ago — a surprising move for someone who didn’t know much about politics.
“I wasn’t a big follower of politics,” Dunn said. “I didn’t know what the certification of an election was and all that stuff when I first started. As I got older and went along in making this my career, I started learning more.”
He’d never imagined something like Jan. 6 would happen, something he admits with an incredulous laugh.
Dunn was no stranger to protest, as handling them was just part of a Capitol Police officer’s job
But he’d never had to fear for his life at one before.
“While it was going on, [officers] were thinking about survival, and keeping everybody else safe and doing our job effectively,” he said. “I wasn’t focused on politics.”
Dunn was wearing a steel chest plate weighing about 20 pounds and carrying an M-4 rifle during the attack. But in an interview with The New York Times, he recalled how being armed almost didn’t matter.
“I got my gun pointed at these guys, and I can’t concentrate on one person,” Dunn said. “But 100 people could concentrate on me. And they could take me out right here on this stage. How long is it before I get shot?”
It wasn’t just the sense of physical harm that hovered over Dunn’s mind. He and other police also had to face down unbridled racism.
In his testimony before Congress, Dunn said he had never been called the N-word while wearing his Capitol Police uniform. That changed on Jan. 6.
When Dunn told people in the mob that he had voted for Joe Biden, he said a “torrent” of racial epithets rained down.
“One woman in a pink ‘MAGA’ shirt yelled, ‘You hear that, guys, this n—– voted for Joe Biden,’ Dunn testified. “Then the crowd, perhaps around twenty people, joined in, screaming ‘Boo! Fucking n—–!’”
He went on to recount how, in the following days, he heard similar stories from other Black officers, including one who told Dunn that in his 40 years of life he had never been called the N-word to his face until Jan. 6.
Some members of the crowd carried “Blue Lives Matter” flags and told Dunn they “didn’t want to hurt” him. They claimed they were actually there to support him and his fellow officers.
“I don’t think their objective was to hurt police officers, but they knew that we would be trying to stop them from their ultimate goal and we were in their way,” Dunn told The Hill. “We were collateral damage.”
It’s these memories that have resurfaced for Dunn over the last few months as he watched the Jan. 6 committee investigate the attack.
Dunn has sat in the same seat at every hearing to serve as “a reminder to [the committee] that my job is to hold them accountable, to get justice, to get the truth about what happened that day and make sure that it doesn’t happen again.”
“It’s never easy hearing f—ed-up things that happened to you,” Dunn added. “But it’s necessary.”
The hearings have been a “vindicating” experience for Dunn, who said he knew many of the details, like Trump’s alleged confrontation with Secret Service officers in an SUV, before they became public based on what he saw and heard from his fellow officers.
For details he didn’t know — such as Trump watching his supporters’ violence from inside the White House — Dunn said he wasn’t surprised, but it still felt like a “betrayal … knowing that this person, whose job is to protect you and protect this country, just sat by.”
Dunn commended media outlets for broadcasting and reporting the hearings and keeping the public informed but said he’s now looking toward what the repercussions of those details could be.
“The January 6 committee is doing a fantastic job of just laying out facts,” said Dunn, who wants to see some of those involved in the attack behind bars. “They’re laying out everything that the former president did and I think it’s laying a roadmap for the Justice Department to go forward with.”
Since sharing his experience with the Jan. 6 committee, Dunn has become something of a celebrity. He has over 141,000 followers on Twitter. His feed is interspersed with moments of levity and inspiring quotes. He tweets about the investigation, speaks out against police brutality and advocates for mental health awareness and treatment. His tweets receive anywhere from a few hundred to several thousand likes and retweets.
While a hero to his supporters, he has also come under attack. Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson called Dunn an “angry left-wing political activist.”
Dunn is dismissive of such criticism and says he’s not concerned with his critics.
“I am angry. I am left-wing because I’m a registered Democrat, and if an activist is somebody who brings about attention to change then … I’ll be that,” he said.
Dunn has never wavered in his commitment to the police force. To him, remaining on the job is the ultimate win against the insurrectionists.
“I believe what I’m doing is right and what I did is right,” said Dunn. “I’m not being persuaded into quitting or stepping down because they felt a certain kind of way. I’m not letting them win.”
Dunn added he’s focused on speaking his truth and the “humbling” support he receives from hundreds of others every day.
“I know what it’s like for individuals to feel like they don’t have a voice,” he said. “If my message, my voice, my fight, inspires them, I’m more than honored to continue to keep doing it.” | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/i-deserve-to-know-the-truth-capitol-police-officer-harry-dunn-is-ever-present-at-jan-6-hearings/ | 2022-08-29T19:53:16Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/i-deserve-to-know-the-truth-capitol-police-officer-harry-dunn-is-ever-present-at-jan-6-hearings/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(NEXSTAR) – As the cost of higher education rises, it may be even more important to you to know you’re getting your money’s worth.
After updating its methodology, Niche released a new ranking Monday of the “best value” colleges in the country. This year, Niche says it dropped outdated data sets and adopted new ways to evaluate whether a school is considered a good value, such as earnings one year after graduation, percent of graduates employed two years post-graduation, and how quickly alumni’s wages are growing.
Niche’s new calculations land elite colleges at the top of its “best value” list, including several Ivy League schools and prestigious technology institutes.
While these schools may be a “good value” for graduates who land high-paying jobs, none of the top schools are considered cheap. The California Institute of Technology in Southern California, which ranks No. 1 on Niche’s list, has a stunningly high estimated cost of attending per year: $83,598 when you factor in tuition, room and board, and books. (The school reports about half of undergraduate attendees are receiving some amount of need-based financial aid.)
Few public colleges rank among the list of best value schools despite their typically lower prices. Georgia Institute of Technology is the highest ranking public school in the country on the list at No. 15. In-state tuition at the school is $10,258, but jumps up to $31,370 for non-Georgians.
Below are the top 25 schools on Niche’s list of “Best Value Colleges in America.”
Find Niche’s full ranking of schools on their site.
With the cost of attending school so high, it’s easy to see why so many end up with hefty student loans. Tens of millions of Americans are about to see their bills drop by $10,000 or $20,000 after President Joe Biden announced his long-awaited student loan forgiveness plan last week.
When exactly the loan forgiveness will be issued is still a work in progress, but the Biden administration says it will be made available before the payment pause ends at the end of the year. | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/new-list-of-best-value-colleges-released-is-your-alma-mater-on-it/ | 2022-08-29T19:53:19Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/new-list-of-best-value-colleges-released-is-your-alma-mater-on-it/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10 inches on its own, according to a study released Monday.
Zombie or doomed ice is ice that is still attached to thicker areas of ice, but is no longer getting fed by those larger glaciers. That’s because the parent glaciers are getting less replenishing snow. Meanwhile the doomed ice is melting from climate change, said study co-author William Colgan, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
“It’s dead ice. It’s just going to melt and disappear from the ice sheet,” Colgan said in an interview. “This ice has been consigned to the ocean, regardless of what climate (emissions) scenario we take now.”
Study lead author Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Greenland survey, said it is “more like one foot in the grave.”
The unavoidable ten inches in the study is more than twice as much sea level rise as scientists had previously expected from the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet. The study in the journal Nature Climate Change said it could reach as much as 30 inches (78 centimeters). By contrast, last year’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report projected a range of 2 to 5 inches (6 to 13 centimeters) for likely sea level rise from Greenland ice melt by the year 2100.
What scientists did for the study was look at the ice in balance. In perfect equilibrium, snowfall in the mountains in Greenland flows down and recharges and thickens the sides of glaciers, balancing out what’s melting on the edges. But in the last few decades there’s less replenishment and more melting, creating imbalance. Study authors looked at the ratio of what’s being added to what’s being lost and calculated that 3.3% of Greenland’s total ice volume will melt no matter what happens with the world cutting carbon pollution, Colgan said.
“I think starving would be a good phrase,” for what’s happening to the ice, Colgan said.
One of the study authors said that more than 120 trillion tons (110 trillion metric tons) of ice is already doomed to melt from the warming ice sheet’s inability to replenish its edges. When that ice melts into water, if it were concentrated only over the United States, it would be 37 feet (11 meters) deep.
This is the first time scientists calculated a minimum ice loss — and accompanying sea level rise — for Greenland, one of Earth’s two massive ice sheets that are slowly shrinking because of climate change from burning coal, oil and natural gas. Scientists used an accepted technique for calculating minimum committed ice loss, the one used on mountain glaciers for the entire giant frozen island.
Pennsylvania State University glaciologist Richard Alley, who wasn’t part of the study but said it made sense, said the committed melting and sea level rise is like an ice cube put in a cup of hot tea in a warm room.
“You have committed mass loss from the ice,” Alley said in an email. ”In the same way most of the world’s mountain glaciers and the edges of Greenland would continue losing mass if temperatures were stabilized at modern levels because they have been put into warmer air just as your ice cube was put in warmer tea.”
Although 10 inches doesn’t sound like much, that’s a global average. Some coastal areas will be hit with more, and high tides and storms on top of that could be even worse, so this much sea level rise “will have huge societal, economic and environmental impacts,” said Ellyn Enderlin, a geosciences professor at Boise State University.
Time is the key unknown here and a bit of a problem with the study, said two outside ice scientists, Leigh Stearns of the University of Kansas and Sophie Nowicki of the University of Buffalo. The researchers in the study said they couldn’t estimate the timing of the committed melting, yet in the last sentence they mention, “within this century,” without supporting it, Stearns said.
Colgan responded that the team doesn’t know how long it will take for all the doomed ice to melt, but making an educated guess, it would probably be by the end of this century or at least by 2150.
Colgan said this is actually all a best case scenario. The year 2012 (and to a different degree 2019 ) was a huge melt year, when the equilibrium between adding and subtracting ice was most out of balance. If Earth starts to undergo more years like 2012, Greenland melt could trigger 30 inches (78 centimeters) of sea level rise, he said. Those two years seem extreme now, but years that look normal now would have been extreme 50 years ago, he said.
“That’s how climate change works,” Colgan said. “Today’s outliers become tomorrow’s averages.” | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/zombie-ice-from-greenland-will-raise-sea-level-10-inches-study-finds/ | 2022-08-29T19:53:39Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/national/nexstar-media-wire/zombie-ice-from-greenland-will-raise-sea-level-10-inches-study-finds/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP)- A Maryland man affiliated with the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Monday to more than four years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol, where authorities say he encountered Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer as his armed security detail led the New York Democrat to safety.
Joshua Pruitt, 40, was one of the few Capitol rioters to come face-to-face with a member of Congress during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by a mob of Donald Trump supporters, according to federal prosecutors.
“One look at Pruitt, and the leader of Senator Schumer’s security detail immediately saw the threat and hustled the 70-year-old senator down a hallway, having to change their evacuation route on a dime,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexis Loeb wrote in a court filing ahead of Monday’s hearing.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Pruitt to four years and seven months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release, according to Bill Miller, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia.
Prosecutors had recommended a five-year prison sentence for Pruitt, a Silver Spring, Maryland, resident who has worked as a bartender and personal trainer. They described him as an aspiring Proud Boys member whose intimidating figure made him an “ideal recruit” for the group on Jan. 6.
The leader of Schumer’s security detail told the FBI that their encounter with Pruitt was a harrowing, unforgettable moment. Pruitt was advancing and only seconds from reaching Schumer when the security detail turned and ran with the senator away from an elevator and back down a ramp, detail members said.
“At the end of the ramp, officers closed and locked the doors. The security detail and (Schumer) pursued a secondary evacuation route. Once the doors were being closed, Pruitt turned around and retraced his steps,” Loeb wrote.
Pruitt and other prospects and recruits of the local Proud Boys chapter often used encrypted communications to discuss storming the Capitol, civil war and confrontations with police, according to prosecutors. They said Pruitt wanted to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6.
“He personally forced a 70-year-old Senator to run and find another path to safety. Among all the rioters who stormed the Capitol, it is a notorious distinction,” Loeb wrote.
Defense attorney Robert Jenkins Jr. said there is no “direct evidence” that Pruitt coordinated with Proud Boys members to attack the Capitol. Pruitt didn’t face a conspiracy charge.
“He admits that as the events unfolded Mr. Pruitt became overwhelmed by his emotions and true belief that the election results were polluted by fraud,” Jenkins wrote. He sought a three-year prison sentence for Pruitt.
Jenkins’ 10-page sentencing memo doesn’t address Pruitt’s encounter with Schumer, now Senate Majority Leader.
Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes founded the Proud Boys in 2016. Group members call it a politically incorrect men’s club for “Western chauvinists.” Before the Capitol riot, they were best known for street brawling with antifascist activists at rallies and protests.
Dozens of Proud Boys leaders, members and associates have been charged with Capitol riot-related crimes. Some, including former Proud Boys national chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, have been charged with seditious conspiracy for what authorities say was a plot to forcibly oppose the lawful transfer of presidential power.
Prosecutors called Pruitt a “one-man symbol of the angry mob at the Capitol that day.” Many of the police officers guarding the Capitol on Jan. 6 remembered him as an instigator, according to prosecutors.
“Wearing a tactical glove with knuckle pads and a cut-off t-shirt with the logo of the ‘Punisher’ — an antihero known for dispensing violent vigilante justice — Pruitt made a calculated choice to use his thickly muscled appearance to communicate to the police that they faced a dangerous person,” Loeb wrote.
Pruitt was on probation and wearing an ankle monitor on the day of the riot. He initially was arrested on the night of Jan. 6 for violating a curfew imposed by the mayor of Washington, D.C. He has been jailed since a judge ordered his pretrial detention in January 2022.
Pruitt pleaded guilty in June to a felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding, the joint session of Congress for certifying President Joe Biden’s victory over Trump, the Republican incumbent.
More than 860 people have been charged with federal crimes for their conduct on Jan. 6. Approximately 400 of them have pleaded guilty or been convicted after a trial. Over 240 Capitol riot defendants have been sentenced, with roughly half of them getting terms of incarceration ranging from seven days to over seven years. | https://www.wboc.com/news/maryland-rioter-who-encountered-senator-gets-over-4-years-in-prison/article_772ac69a-27c8-11ed-97a1-37c6759d75bb.html | 2022-08-29T19:59:24Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/maryland-rioter-who-encountered-senator-gets-over-4-years-in-prison/article_772ac69a-27c8-11ed-97a1-37c6759d75bb.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SALISBURY, Md. – Wicomico County on Monday announced the winners of its 2022 photo contest.
A record number of entries were again submitted for this year’s contest, following a record in 2021. A committee selected the winners from more than 400 entries.
The first-place photo, by Nic Kuvshinoff, is of a kayaker by the Wetipquin bridge. Second place was awarded to Ethan Thompson for his photo of fireworks over the water in Quantico. Jenifer Prokofiew’s photo of a sunset over the water in Nanticoke earned third place.
Winners will receive cash prizes and the opportunity for their photos to be displayed on the Wicomico County website and in the next published visitors guide. Kuvshinoff’s photo will also be featured in a Wicomico County's e-newsletter.
To view all of the winning photos, visit www.WicomicoTourism.org and go to “Photo Contest” under the “General Information” tab. | https://www.wboc.com/news/wicomico-county-announces-2022-photo-contest-winners/article_796bb418-27ba-11ed-a0fc-378deb1fd931.html | 2022-08-29T19:59:30Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/wicomico-county-announces-2022-photo-contest-winners/article_796bb418-27ba-11ed-a0fc-378deb1fd931.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. Air Force Col. Michael Parks briefs a group of children during the Kids Understand Deployment Operations event, on Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, August 27, 2022. This was Parks' first time leading a chalk for a KUDOS event. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Staff Sgt. Jasmine Czajka)
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Malmstrom Air Force Base and Great Falls Public Schools leadership pose for a group photo in front of the GFPS Early Learning Family Center Aug. 29, 2022, in Great Falls, Mont. GFPS and Malmstrom have partnered on several education initiatives including the new transitional kindergarten program offered at the Early Learning Family Center. (U.S. Air Force photo by Heather Heiney)
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District is employing emergency authority to remove remaining portions of Green River Lock and Dam 6, near Brownsville, Kentucky, which is obstructing Green River.
Currently, the remaining portions of Green River Dam 6 are obstructing a navigable waterway and presenting a safety hazard to members of the public using the river recreationally. As such, USACE Louisville District has authority to remove the remaining portions of Green River Dam 6 via Section 20 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899.
Under an interagency support agreement between USACE and the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife Service, most of Green River Dam 6 was removed in spring 2017.
“After the dam failed in November 2016 and posed significant safety concerns, USACE worked in partnership with USFWS to remove the dam,” said Chris Wernick, Louisville District project manager. “At the time, flows in the Green River as well as the impoundment effects from Green River Lock and Dam 5 made the complete removal of Green River Dam 6 impossible.”
With the partial removal of Green River Dam 5 near Roundhill, Kentucky, this summer and existing low water conditions, the remaining elements of Green River Dam 6 have now been exposed and can be fully removed from the river.
“Public safety is our number one priority,” Wernick said. “We are working closely with our partners to eliminate this safety hazard as quickly as possible. In the interim, we would like to remind the public to exercise caution and avoid this stretch of the Green River.”
USFWS will begin work river as soon as water levels reach an optimal level for work to commence and is scheduled to be complete within 2 weeks, as long as weather conditions and water levels are favorable. Removal efforts are dependent on weather and low water levels.
For more information, contact the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District Public Affairs Office at (502) 315-6767.
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Planning for big-ticket purchases can save big bucks
Combine sales calendar and tracking apps for best price
Published: Aug. 29, 2022 at 1:57 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
If you have a big-ticket purchase pending, the experts at the financial website NerdWallet said there are a few things you can do to make it more affordable.
First, shop the biggest sale weekends of the year:
- Memorial Day, July Fourth and Labor Day Weekend are the best times for deals on appliances, furniture, and mattresses.
- Televisions typically see their lowest prices in late January and early February.
Use tools to track prices:
- Amazon Assistant lets you know if Amazon offers a lower price when you’re shopping elsewhere.
- Honey browser extension pulls coupons from across the web.
- Coupon Cabin alerts you to cash back.
Know when your state has a sales tax holiday:
- Tax free categories and length of sales vary so check your state government’s website for details
Slowly build up an emergency fund:
- Helps with an unexpected purchase of an expensive item.
- To start, try to put aside $25 a paycheck.
NerdWallet also has a guide for the best sales items by month.
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- Q2 Revenue up 14% QoQ and 36% YoY to a Record $22.4 Million -
- Q2 Adjusted EBITDA up 64% QoQ and 95% YoY to a Record $10.2 Million, with $4.3 Million of
Cash from Operations -
- Reaffirms 2022 Guidance of $90-$95 Million of Revenue and $25-$28 Million of
Adjusted EBITDA -
MIAMI, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Cansortium Inc. (CSE:TIUM.U) (OTCQX: CNTMF) ("Cansortium" or the "Company"), a vertically-integrated cannabis company operating under the Fluent™ brand, today announced financial and operating results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022. Unless otherwise indicated, all results are presented in U.S. dollars.
"We generated a record quarter of results in Q2, highlighted by double-digit revenue growth, margin expansion and a material increase in adjusted EBITDA and cash flow generation," said CEO Robert Beasley. "The investments we have made to add scale and improve cultivation in Florida are paying dividends. Our Sweetwater indoor cultivation facility is now fully operational and the yields in our Tampa facility have doubled from the start of 2022, all of which has led to dramatically improved productivity at the store level and a consistent increase in new patient count. In fact, revenue in Florida was up 16% from Q1 without adding a single new store during the quarter."
Beasley continued: "I am very proud of what our team has accomplished this year, however we still have significant room to grow. We remain on track to open 4-5 new stores in Florida by year-end, and the final phase of our cultivation expansion in Tampa is nearly complete. We expect product from this new space to hit shelves in the next couple of months, just in time for one of our strongest periods of the year in Florida as we enter the holidays."
Q2 2022 Financial Highlights (vs. Q2 2021)
- Revenue increased 36% to $22.4 million compared to $16.5 million.
- Florida revenue increased 33% to $18.8 million compared to $14.2 million.
- Adjusted gross profit1 increased 40% to $15.0 million or 67.0% of revenue, compared to $10.7 million or 65.1% of revenue.
- Adjusted EBITDA increased 95% to $10.2 million or 45.4% of revenue, compared to $5.2 million or 31.7% of revenue.
- Cash from operations increased significantly to $4.3 million compared to cash used of $(0.7) million.
- At June 30, 2022, the Company had approximately $8.9 million of cash and cash equivalents and $69.3 million of total debt, with approximately 252.3 million fully diluted shares outstanding (based on treasury stock method and share price on July 31, 2022).
Operational Highlights
- In Florida, the Company anticipates opening 4-5 new stores by the end of 2022. All of these locations are currently under contract and going through construction.
- In Pennsylvania, the Company opened its third dispensary in Annville in April.
- In August, the Company discontinued its operations in Michigan due to unfavorable market conditions. By ceasing operations in Michigan, Cansortium is expected to save approximately $0.5 million in operating expenses per year.
- As highlighted in the chart below, the Company has experienced ten consecutive quarters of revenue growth in addition to material improvements in adjusted EBITDA, reaching record levels for both metrics.
2022 Outlook
The Company continues to expect revenue in 2022 to range between $90-$95 million, reflecting an approximate 42% increase from 2021 at the midpoint. Cansortium also continues to expect adjusted EBITDA in 2022 to range between $25-$28 million, reflecting an approximate 35% increase from 2021.
Conference Call
The Company will host a conference call and live audio webcast today at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time to discuss its financial and operational results, followed by a question-and-answer period.
Date: Monday, August 29, 2022
Time: 4:30 p.m. Eastern time
Toll-free dial-in number: (800) 319-4610
International dial-in number: (604) 638-5340
Conference ID: 10020139
Link: Cansortium Conference Call
Please call the conference telephone number 5-10 minutes prior to the start time. An operator will register your name and organization. If you have any difficulty connecting with the conference call, please contact Elevate IR at (720) 330-2829.
The conference call will also be available for replay via the News & Events section of the Company's investor relations website at https://investors.getfluent.com/.
About Cansortium Inc.
Cansortium is a vertically-integrated cannabis company with licenses and operations in Florida, Pennsylvania and Texas. The Company operates under the Fluent™ brand and is dedicated to being one of the highest quality cannabis companies for the communities it serves. This is driven by Cansortium's unrelenting commitment to operational excellence in cultivation, production, distribution and retail. The Company is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
Cansortium Inc.'s common shares trade on the CSE under the symbol "TIUM.U" and on the OTCQX Best Market under the symbol "CNTMF". For more information about the Company, please visit www.getfluent.com.
Forward-Looking Information
Certain information in this news release may constitute forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation and may also contain statements that may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "targets", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "an opportunity exists", "is positioned", "estimates", "intends", "assumes", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate" or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might", "will" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved". In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections, or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent the Company's expectations, estimates, and projections regarding future events, plans or objectives, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of the Company's control.
Forward-looking information is necessarily based on many opinions, assumptions, and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this news release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the factors described in the public documents of the Company available at www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date of this news release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
For further information: www.getfluent.com.
Company Contact
Robert Beasley, CEO
(850) 972-8077
investors.getfluent.com
Investor Relations Contact
Sean Mansouri, CFA
Elevate IR
(720) 330-2829
investors@cansortiuminc.com
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