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- German DAX futures flat
- UK FTSE futures +0.2%
That said, we are seeing risk tones pick up a little as S&P 500 futures are now up 16 points, or 0.4%, to the highs for the day. That comes after a fairly flattish start in Asia trading earlier. It's still early in the day though as the US CPI data release will be the main decider in setting the tone for the rest of the day/week. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurostoxx-futures-flat-in-early-european-trading-20220913/ | 2022-09-13T07:27:13Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurostoxx-futures-flat-in-early-european-trading-20220913/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
- HICP +8.8% vs +8.8% y/y prelim
No changes to the initial estimates as German inflation keeps on the high side last month. Be wary of a further spike in September though as government subsidies expired on 31 August, which may see a rise in price pressures this month. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/germany-august-final-cpi-79-vs-79-yy-prelim-20220913/ | 2022-09-13T07:27:15Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/germany-august-final-cpi-79-vs-79-yy-prelim-20220913/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NBC partners foundation to train women on entrepreneurial skills
In a bid to accelerate the economic inclusion of women in Nigeria, the Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) Ltd, has partnered with Karis & Eleos Hand of Hope Foundation to train 1000 women on viable entrepreneurial skills across eight states of the federation.
The first set of beneficiaries numbering 200 have been trained in Lagos, with seven other states set to benefit from the initiative. The intervention, tagged #NBCEmpowerHer, is being implemented under the Company’s recent 1 million euros donation to support communities through social impact programs.
Speaking during the closing ceremony of the program in Lagos, Corporate Affairs & Sustainability Director at NBC, Ekuma Eze, reiterated the Company’s commitment to promoting the economic empowerment of women in Nigeria.
“We owe our success story to Nigeria, which is the birthplace of the Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company and, more specifically, to the women who represent a sizeable chunk of our distribution network. We recognize that women are the pillars that hold every community together, and empowering them is central to every sustainable society,” he said.
Explaining the rationale behind the initiative, Ekuma added: “After over 70 years of refreshing Nigeria, we considered it expedient to give back to our communities as a celebration of our shared heritage. This initiative is one of the several interventions we are implementing across Nigeria, around key focus areas, including Youth and Women Empowerment, Recycling, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.”
Speaking earlier on the initiative, Executive Director of Karis & Eleos Hand of Hope Foundation, Bukola Bamiduro, said: “Many women in our communities are largely marginalised. Karis & Eleos was founded because we believe that by training women, we can make a difference in our communities. We are grateful to have partners like NBC who believe in us and our vision to improve the lives of women and make them bankable.”
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Through the partnership, the #NBCEmpowerHer initiative would reach 1,000 women across 8 states in Nigeria, including Lagos, Oyo, Kano, Rivers, Imo, Borno, Edo and the Federal Capital Territory. Women of all ages have been trained in vocational skills including baking, makeup, shoe making, amongst others. They have also been exposed to relevant business management tools, including how to promote their enterprises on social media, and basic bookkeeping.
At the closing ceremony, which held in Lagos, beneficiaries were provided with startup kits for their businesses. In addition, NBC supported 25 beneficiaries to join the Company’s network of retailers and further assisted them with opportunities to access seed capital.
Commending NBC on the initiative, the First Lady of Lagos State, Mrs Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, who was represented by the wife of Ojodu Local Government Chairman, Mrs Odumbaku Abimbola, stated that the Company’s effort will go a long way in alleviating poverty and boosting the local economy through the empowerment of SMEs.
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Prior +73k; revised to +77k July ILO unemployment rate 3.6% vs 3.8% expected Prior 3.8% July employment change 40k vs 128k expected Prior 160k July average weekly earnings +5.5% vs +5.4% 3m/y expected Prior +5.1% July average weekly earnings (ex bonus) +5.2% vs +5.0% 3m/t expected Prior +4.7% The jobless rate declined to 3.6% and that is a positive point to take note of while early estimates of payrolled employees for August shows a monthly increase, up 71,000 from July, to a record 29.7 million. That said, total hours worked is seen dropping in the three months to July by 3.5 million hours to 1.04 billion hours - that is still 11.1 million hours below pre-pandemic levels.
Meanwhile, pay growth continues to come in strong but has been declining in real terms and that says a lot about the current situation as inflation
Inflation
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
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The United Nations Independent Expert on the Enjoyment of all Human Rights of Older Persons, Dr Claudia Mahler, has called on the Federal Government to step up efforts in the payment of pension to older persons.
Mahler made the call on Friday in Abuja at a news conference on her 12-day experiences in Nigeria to assess issues concerning older persons.
“In my 12 days in Nigeria, I have been to Abuja, Lagos, Ibadan and Makurdi where I met with different stakeholders, civil servants, agencies, CSOs and older persons themselves.
“My visit was to assess the level of enjoyment of human rights of older persons. From estimation, in 2050, there might be 25.3 million older persons in Nigeria.
“You can see there is a huge demographic change; that is why I came to Nigeria to raise awareness, because the demography change is a global issue.
“Social protection and pension is an issue. I was informed that many older persons wait for a long time, sometimes for years, to get their pension allowances.
“That is why I also urge the Federal Government to step up its efforts to ensure the establishment of a strong, inclusive and steady protection system, including payment of pension allowances to all older persons who are entitled,” Mahler said.
She said other issues that she observed were ageism which had to do with widespread negative stereotypes against older persons and healthcare for older persons.
According to her, most people in Nigeria see older persons as beneficiaries who should be taken care of.
“But I can assure you that older persons are entitled to human rights for the rest of their lives.
“I also observed that healthcare for older persons is still scarce. They go to the General Hospital for treatment by personnel that may not have the capacity to deal with illnesses peculiar to older persons.
“And sometimes, older people wait a long time to see a medical doctor. At times, they face serious obstacles to get the right treatment.
“However, Nigeria has a strong economy in Africa and the country has a commitment to a legal and implementable framework on issues concerning the protection of older persons.
“The National Senior Citizens Centre (NSCC) Act is the first law in the African State which protects human rights of older persons and it has mainstreamed older persons into all areas of policy,” she said.
She said NSCC has been doing a lot on working with stakeholders on ground to get first hand information and bring effective and inclusive programmes to older persons.
“I was very happy to see that NSCC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency and many others to include healthcare services to older persons in the rural areas.”
Mahler stressed that Nigeria was diverse in language, culture and geography, adding that her report would be submitted in September 2023 to the Human Rights Council.
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...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES...
.A south swell may briefly push surf heights to advisory levels
along south facing shores through tonight.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Surf 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...Through 6 AM HST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
and strong longshore and rip currents making swimming difficult
and dangerous.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Beachgoers, swimmers, and surfers should heed all advice given by
ocean safety officials and exercise caution.
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HAWAII (KITV)- The Department of Education has announced a new plan which offers free bus rides for high school students. The Expanding Ridership To Educate Students In Schools", or EXPRESS program as it is called, is expected to begin later this fall, possibly as early as October.
The reason cited for the new benefit, is because there's a bus driver shortage. The DOE says they are short 100 To 150 drivers. Out of 50 applicants who applied at a recent recruitment event, only 6 made the cut. The new ridership program will end up helping those in middle and elementary school as well.
The public bus ride to and from school for high school students is becoming a reality. The DOE's new EXPRESS plan that gives those older teens free rides, is set to be active sometime in October.
“The idea is if we can get the majority of our 6,000 high school students on a public bus versus a school bus, we can re-allocate those resources to elementary and middle schools, “ said DOE Student Transportation Services Branch Administrator Emily Evans.
The Department of Education says it's suffering right now when it comes to school bus drivers. Some routes have even been cancelled. “ We had to do 8 on Maui, and you know on Kauai we had to do 5. But on Oahu we've been able to consolidate most of the routes instead of closing them,” said Evans.
“My friend says there's not enough room. You have to stand up. No one likes to stand up. Some times its late. He’s says he misses his bus sometimes,” said high school student Matthew O'Callaghan. He says his friends who ride the school bus constantly complain. He however takes the public bus. And he's excited it's going to be free under the EXPRESS plan. “I feel like a lot more people will ride the bus. Because who doesn't want something free,” said O’Callaghan.
“Developing transit as a habit early on, as part of a student's education is part of developing good habits into adulthood. So we see this as a great opportunity to develop new transit riders for later in life," said Jon Nouchi from the Department of Transportation Services.
“The program would make a difference for me because I would probably ride the bus more. Because its free and convenient for me,” said high school student Cameron Hill. She is one of those in favor of the change.
There are however some concerns from students, about going from a school bus to a public bus. “Taking the bus can be scary with strangers and stuff, personally at a bus stop I was harassed. And it was actually scary times,” said high school student Stacy Cabusas.
Right now those who come from income challenged homes can often get a HOLO card. Those students will be eventually phased into the EXPRESS plan. The new EXPRESS cards have the advantage of being active through July.
Honolulu transportation officials are asking HOLO card users to register their cards online in order to suss out less than 100 defective cards that were recently issued.
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...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES...
.A south swell may briefly push surf heights to advisory levels
along south facing shores through tonight.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Surf 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...Through 6 AM HST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
and strong longshore and rip currents making swimming difficult
and dangerous.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Beachgoers, swimmers, and surfers should heed all advice given by
ocean safety officials and exercise caution.
&&
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- It's a been a years-long ongoing battle over an offensive license plate seen on Oahu roads. And now the owner is finally taking a stand.
Edward Odquina, the owner of the "F-C-K-B-L-M" license plate, is now suing the City and County of Honolulu.
After initially approving the plates, the City admitted the approval was a mistake -- and recalled the plates.
After more than a year, and multiple letters from the city, Odquina has still refused to return the plates.
The City suspended his registration, and recently approved taking legal action to get the plates back.
Odquina claims his First Amendment rights are being violated.
The city wouldn't comment on Odquina's lawsuit, citing pending litigation.
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...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES...
.A south swell may briefly push surf heights to advisory levels
along south facing shores through tonight.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Surf 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...Through 6 AM HST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
and strong longshore and rip currents making swimming difficult
and dangerous.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Beachgoers, swimmers, and surfers should heed all advice given by
ocean safety officials and exercise caution.
&&
Monday Evening Weather Forecast: September 12, 2022
HONOLULU (KITV4) – Trade wind conditions Tuesday with lighter winds and higher rain chances midweek.
Tonight, a few passing trade wind showers. Partly cloudy skies. Lows in the middle 70s.
Tuesday, some passing showers focused windward and mauka in the morning. Windward spots will see partly sunny skies. Expect sunny skies leeward. East winds 10-20 mph.
Highs in the low to middle 80s windward with highs close to 90 leeward.
Lighter winds Wednesday – Friday. An disturbance will bring a higher rain chance especially in the afternoon for central and leeward spots Thursday and Friday. Some pockets of heavier downpours will be possible.
North: 0-2 ft
West: 2-4 ft
South: 3-5 ft
East: 2-4 ft
A fading south and east swell Tuesday.
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More Than 50 Million People Globally Are Now Trapped in Modern Slavery: ILO Report
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“Forced me to clean or else she will kill me.“
“I had to leave the situation or be killed. I know I can never return home because I am considered a dead person for breaking the culture and bringing shame to the families. According to my father,
I am dead.“
The first account voices the experience of a 25-year-old migrant worker, who was subjected to coercion and threat by her employers while working in a garment factory. The second comes from a female survivor who escaped three forced child marriages. Both narratives are forms of modern slavery that continue to persist centuries after slavery was legally abolished across the world. But there remains a form of slavery that was never codified in law that continues to persist: Now, a survey shows that the number of people vulnerable to modern slavery has increased by almost 25% over the last five years itself.
These are the findings of a new report by the International Labor Organization, which outlines how modern slavery spares no region, gender, or socioeconomic background. The rise is, in part, due to the Covid19 pandemic and the situations of confinement and economic deprivation it engineered globally. On any given day, as many as 50 million people globally are trapped, abused, and subjected to inhumane conditions. While there is no legal definition afforded to the practice, modern slavery “refers to situations of exploitation that a person cannot refuse or leave because of threats, violence, coercion, deception, and/or abuse of power.” It included both forced labor (which can be imposed both in the private sector and by the state) and forced marriages.
“The scourge of modern slavery has by no means been relegated to history,” the new report noted. The prevalence of modern slavery in India echoes a part of this number: on any given day in 2016, nearly eight million people were living in modern slavery, according to Global Slavery Index estimates.
The number of people at the mercy of forced marriage, debt bondage, slavery, slavery-like practices, and human trafficking was found to be highest in Asia, with as many as 2,93,49,000 people stuck in modern slavery. This amounts to almost 6.8 persons in every 1,000 persons living in vicious conditions.
We already know forced marriage and child marriage are astonishingly common, and have only increased during the pandemic. More than six million more women and girls have reportedly been pushed into it since 2016. “Shuttered schools, isolation from friends and support networks, and rising poverty have added fuel to a fire the world was already struggling to put out,” UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said last year.
The report found that 86% of cases of forced labor were documented in private sector industries like carpet weaving, textile and garment manufacturing, manual scavenging, brick kilns, construction, agriculture, and domestic work, along with commercial sexual exploitation. Here, the main form of coercion came in the form of employers deliberately withholding wages and abusing their power by threatening to dismiss the worker. The rest comes from state-sanctioned exploitation, in the form of abuse of prison labor (for instance, imposing compulsory work on people convicted of non-political crimes or as a way to discriminate against racial or religious groups, such as the grave human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims in China) or through conscription in the military. As such, the report forces us to consider institutionalized forms of slavery that exist in plain sight — such as the use of prison labor and compulsory army enlistment.
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Two things stand out in the report. One is the stark rise in the numbers over the last five years, which can be attributed to the pandemic. “Covid19 has exacerbated the underlying drivers of all forms of modern slavery, including forced marriage, which often is linked to economic hardship,” the report noted. This is because the socio-economic turmoil led to “increased global unemployment, increased indebtedness, and an increase in extreme global poverty for the first time in two decades.”
Earlier this year, Indian activists expressed concerns about rising human trafficking in India, with Assam recording the most number of cases. School closures, lack of government infrastructure to support education, and unemployed remained the primary reasons. “People from within communities are trafficking children, women, and youths in the name of jobs as laborers outside. Those trafficked would only get to know what will happen to them only after they reach their destinations,” said Digambar Narzary, chairperson of Kokrajhar-based Nedan Foundation, an anti-trafficking NGO. Girls and women were also being sold as “brides” or for surrogacy purposes.
Two, is the aspect of added vulnerability, for women, children, and migrant workers who are doubly oppressed due to intersectional disadvantages. About 90% of human trafficking cases in India impact people from marginalized castes, tribal groups, and from religious and gender minorities.
The situation was already dire. People from Odisha are stuck working in hazardous brick kilns across the country, as destroyed forests and falling agriculture are compelling people to migrate to different states. Moreover, in 2016, a report found that 351 out of 743 spinning mills were using bonded labor schemes (Sumangali schemes). Reports over the years paint a dismal picture of working conditions. These were summarized as follows by the Global Slavery Index:
“Fraudulent recruiters reportedly target families in economically disadvantaged rural areas of India and persuade the parents to send their daughters to spinning mills with promises of good working conditions… In these mills, young women are subject to exploitative labor practices, including restriction of movement, removal of mobile phones, and withholding wages and other payments, in return for the prospect of a lump sum of money. They work 60 hours per week year-round and cannot refuse overtime. Workers are therefore bound to their employer as changing employers would mean losing their promised lump sum.”
Even for people from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, the systemic inadequacies in the form of lack of identity documents, access to healthcare, low literacy, and poor working, and living conditions, increase their “vulnerability and reduce their ability to escape exploitation,” as experts have noted. The dirge of manual scavenging plays out in an artificially constructed ecosystem of neglect. The 2011 Socio-Economic Caste Census identified 1,82,505 households with the primary occupation of manual scavenging, but the number is significantly higher — a fact and problem the Indian government continues to deny.
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Bonded labor in India is another form of modern slavery that stems from casteist roots, and continues to persist due to poverty, social marginalization, and the government’s unwillingness to address the practice and its underlying causes, Manav Gupta and Kashish Gupta wrote. As a result, “protections are weakened, giving unscrupulous employers more opportunities to restrict and remove poor workers’ freedom through debt, surveillance, and threats.” For instance, the overall funds allocated for bonded labor rehabilitation decreased by 61% in the year 2018-19. The researchers added that the Ministry of Labour and Employment had not spent “a single rupee on their rehabilitation in 2019-2020.”
The present numbers — even though jarring in their scale — then by no means are modern revelations. They once again present a sober and sobering evidence of exploitative working conditions which has been allowed to exist by the state, the government, and people’s ignorance.
The path forward requires tenacity. Some recommendations in the report include instituting a gendered lens to rights and policies, investing in girls’ and women’s education and employment opportunities, and building ecosystems of support at different checkpoints. Equally important is extending social protection and welfare measures, more so for people in the informal economy, like migrant workers. Multiple reports show how a lack of official identity documents — in the form of Aadhaar or bank documents — reduced migrant workers’ ability to access basic social welfare, which in turn traps them in a cycle of debt and destitution.
“We know what needs to be done, and we know it can be done … but governments cannot do this alone,” said the ILO’s director general, Guy Ryder. “Trade unions, employers’ organizations, civil society, and ordinary people all have critical roles to play.” Having underscored that, it is equally important for governments to not defang these organizations of their power to enact change. | https://theswaddle.com/more-than-50-million-people-globally-are-now-trapped-in-modern-slavery-ilo-report/ | 2022-09-13T07:35:56Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/more-than-50-million-people-globally-are-now-trapped-in-modern-slavery-ilo-report/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Why Interacting With People From Diverse Cultures Can Make Us More Empathetic
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Friendships are potent in their ability to offer support and solidary. But they may also help nullify social biases by influencing how we empathize, and more importantly, who we empathize with. To put it simply: bias against people from different social identities can be changed, and even reversed.
“White students who had spent extended time in China showed stronger neural responses to pain expressions on Asian faces compared to white faces,” noted PsyPost. describing a new study that found how greater social exposure to people from diverse backgrounds can undo the social conditioning that may have played a part in making us biased against them.
Published in the journal Neuropsychologia, the study used brain imaging to establish its findings. The researchers looked at a small dataset of 35 white students from North America and eastern Europe who were studying in China. First, the researchers identified the neural networks in people’s brains that light up when they feel empathy. Then, they assessed the impact of people’s socio-cultural experiences on their ability to empathize with people from a different race, as compared to the one they belong to.
Students, who had spent just two to four weeks in China, on seeing images depicting pained expressions on the faces of both white and Asian people, reacted more strongly to the former — suggesting their in-group favoritism was still active. However, when students who had spent six to 36 weeks in China saw the same images, they were moved more by the pained expressions on the faces of Asian people — indicating that their in-group favoritism was no longer active.
In general, we know that people are more receptive to the emotions — and pain — of those who are like us, in comparison to say people from other racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds. “Racial ingroup favoritism in empathic brain activity has been widely observed and is associated with biased behavior toward same-race and other-race individuals,” explained first author Yuqing Zhou from the School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences at Peking University in Beijing. Past research also attests to it — perhaps, our evolutionary underpinnings are to blame here.
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This favoritism is deleterious, for it feeds into systemic discrimination in a social order based on inequities. More so, in a globalized world, where with greater immigration and blending of cultures and races, this favoritism, of sorts, can result in discrimination even without one intending to be biased. An unconscious bias by a judge in a legal matter, for instance, against someone of a marginalized identity could impede justice. Similarly, a doctor’s bias, no matter how unintended it might be, can determine a patient’s fate.
Naturally, then, undoing the brain’s inherent favoritism is key. The good news is that it’s possible: repeated interactions with individuals from different racial backgrounds, as the present study showed, made it possible to dismantle people’s inherent biases.
“I think the major take-home message is ingroup favoritism of empathy could be changed and importantly, even reversed… [I]t is important to understand how racial ingroup favoritism could be changed through daily sociocultural experiences. This would help with the development of the future intervening approach to reduce racial ingroup favoritism,” noted Zhou.
While the study focused primarily on racial biases, its findings can be extended across the spectrum of biases people hold towards those who aren’t “like them” — be it in terms of race, culture, ethnicity, or even gender and sexuality. Explaining how greater exposure to diverse cultures can boost empathy, a past article noted: “[A]n American college student who has studied abroad in Spain might have more cultural empathy towards Spanish customs and values after a five-month immersion in their culture [than] an American student who has not had this experience.”
In other words, with greater exposure comes greater empathy. And the latter is instrumental to a healthy, functional, and inclusive society since it is among the strongest tools we may have to tackle systemic inequality and unconscious bias.
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The findings then reinforce the need for greater diversity in educational institutions and offices to increase people’s exposure to cultures and ethnicities.
Besides boosting empathy, diverse classrooms can also enrich students’ education, and allow their outlooks to be molded by a range of perspectives — thereby promoting personal growth too. And in workplaces, as experts believe, diversity can boost creativity, innovation, and productivity. Moreover, research suggests that diverse workplaces are 35% more likely to reap greater financial returns than non-diverse ones. Basically, diverse workplaces are a win-win — for companies, of course, and more importantly, for society.
The same can be applied to encourage greater representation in the media, too. Past research on LGBTQ+ representation in the media, for instance, has shown that non-LGBTQ+ people exposed to LGBTQ+ depictions became almost 50% more accepting of the community, than responders who had not seen them represented in the media. Being able to connect with the joys and sorrows of people from different cultures, sexualities, and races can, perhaps, allow us to empathize with them more.
And after all, as one article explained: “[Cultural e]xposure isn’t only accomplished through travel. It can also be achieved by watching documentaries, reading academic articles, or asking questions of those of different cultural backgrounds.”
Indeed, not everyone can afford to be a globetrotter. Neither can every individual exercise complete control over how diverse their classrooms or workplaces are. What many (certainly not all) people can, however, do is try to connect with people from diverse backgrounds online (safely, of course) if not in person. Possibly the most inexpensive solution, though, is befriending people from different socioeconomic — if not cultural — backgrounds. As research has shown, that, too, can bridge gaps. | https://theswaddle.com/why-interacting-with-people-from-diverse-cultures-can-make-us-more-empathetic/ | 2022-09-13T07:36:03Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/why-interacting-with-people-from-diverse-cultures-can-make-us-more-empathetic/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PASAY, Philippines, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The SM Store saw a resurgence in its fashion department buoyed by the return of crowds in stores and malls with the lifting of community restrictions.
Dhinno S. Tiu, The SM Store Executive Vice President for Operations and Sales Support said that The SM Store's fashion categories that include clothes, shoes, bags, accessories and beauty, ended the second quarter on a high note, reaching 95% of pre-pandemic sales.
"The resurgence of fashion has been driven by more energized spending as the economy reopens. To meet this vibrant demand, we ensure that we provide relevant and up-to-date merchandise and constantly innovate to address the Filipino shopper's ever-changing needs," Mr. Tiu said.
The trends that have emerged in the years under a pandemic leaned towards comfortable lounge garments coupled with active wardrobe choices when people opted to ride their bikes to work during the lockdowns. Children are also due for a much-needed change of wardrobe coming off a two-year growth spurt. And as face-to-face classes resumed, there was also an increase in demand for school essential items such as shirts, uniforms, shoes, bags, and stationery supplies.
With the younger generation in mind, The SM Store developed a 'Tee Bar,' that showcases a selection of T-shirts featuring whimsical and creative designs. The demographic known for its quick and expert grasp on technology can also indulge in the assortment of gadget categories from earphones to gaming keyboards, sure to aid a distance learning class or a piece of upgraded equipment for one's next gaming session.
Welcoming the shifting trends amid the resurgence of shopping, SM Retail reported an increase of 18% in its revenues to PHP163.7 billion in the first half of 2022. SM Retail's net income also grew by 91% to PHP7.0 billion due to optimized cost efficiencies across all retail formats.
Considering its impact on the environment, SM Retail pioneered the initiative SM Green Finds. As part of the company's advocacy for responsibly made products, the program aims to provide sustainable options to consumers while showcasing local artisans and producers. These products are marked by a Green Finds badge at your favorite SM Store.
SM continues to adapt and evolve to provide customers with the best value, complete, and most diverse offerings to serve them wherever and however they want to shop.
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- Kabuki x Virtual Singer x NTT's ICT Technology -
TOKYO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Cho Kabuki" presented by Shochiku Co., Ltd. will be streamed from Kyoto, Japan, to foreign countries over the internet from 12:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 5, to 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, October 11 (JST). It is an extraordinary Japanese stage performance that fuses Kabuki, a traditional Japanese theatre with more than 400 years of history, and a globally popular virtual singer that leads Japan's pop culture, as well as Japan's cutting-edge technology.
Images: https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/release/202209025924?p=images
The "Cho Kabuki" stage performance will co-star Nakamura Shido, a charismatic figure in the Kabuki world, and virtual diva Hatsune Miku. The impassioned Kabuki performance to be staged and recorded live at Kyoto's Minamiza Theatre, the most historic Kabuki theatre in Japan, on September 25, 2022, will be subsequently streamed online for audiences around the world with realistic sensations and English subtitles.
About Kabuki and "Cho Kabuki" (English): https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/attach/202209025924-O1-s37sD5av.pdf
About the Minamiza Theatre, Kyoto: https://www.kabukiweb.net/theatres/minamiza/
Promotional video for "Cho Kabuki" stage performance (in Japanese): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO_K0PQBzNQ
Tickets for watching the video stream are on sale at Zaiko: https://shochiku-bd.zaiko.io/e/chokabuki2022
On-demand program details
- Program title:
Cho Kabuki "TOWA NO HANA HOMARE NO ISAOSHI"
For details: https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/prwfile/release/M102017/202209025924/_prw_PA2fl_dpTMSps5.pdf
- Cast:
Nakamura Shido (Kabuki actor)
Hatsune Miku (virtual singer)
- What:
An on-demand streaming event of "Cho Kabuki 2022 Powered by NTT," recorded live at the Minamiza Theatre in Kyoto, Japan.
*This is a recording of the performance on September 25 (Sun.) starting at 3:30 p.m. (JST).
*Streamed with English subtitles.
*The streaming will cover countries and regions across the world except Mainland China and Japan (available in Hong Kong and Macau).
- When:
From 12:00 a.m., October 5 (Wed.), to 11:59 p.m., October 11 (Tue.) (JST)
- Time:
On demand, around 1 hour and 30 minutes in running time.
- Cost:
JPY2,000 (tax excl.)
- Register at Zaiko: https://shochiku-bd.zaiko.io/e/chokabuki2022
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LUND, Sweden, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Safeture AB has signed a partnership agreement with Amarante International, one of France's leading providers of security advisory and management services.
Through the agreement, Safeture has quickly gained several new customers. Large companies such as Airbus, Lufthansa and Corsair, part of TUI, will be able to access Safeture technology in the future.
The innovative platform provider for travel and employee security provided by Safeture is now also active in France on a large scale. The SaaS company's services are offered through its new partner Amarante International. Amarante is one of the leading providers of security advisory and management services in France.
Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Paris, the company employs 1 250 people in 20 offices worldwide. Amarante's services include risk analysis, crisis management, security awareness training and personal protection. In addition to the European Union, governmental organizations, and internationally active corporations such as the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) such as BASF, Schindler, Givaudan, Layher and Airbus. Amarante's clients also include many tourism companies such as the airline Corsair, which belongs to TUI, or the French branch of Lufthansa.
"Security in global mobility becomes more and more important for our customers and the demands get higher with ever-increasing complexity. We realized that to continue to leverage our business, we want to partner with the best," says Amarante CEO Alexandre Hollander.
"We got a call from Amarante after they had screened suitable providers in the market and then it was a swift process from the first demo to finalization of the agreement. In our discussions, we covered how Amarante could leverage their business with Safeture, migration of customers, post-sales, integration of risk intelligence onto the platform and much more. The first joint customer was up and running within days and are already looking into several joint tender requests as of now," says Magnus Hultman, CEO of Safeture.
Safeture operates a fully cloud-based platform on travel security, risk and crisis management and emergency communication. The central components of the platform are the Safeture Management Tool, with which companies can locate their employees anywhere in the world, communicate with them and support them in crises, and the Safeture App. It offers users a real-time alert system on security-related issues in their environment and, using the Emergency Button, the possibility to call for help in an emergency with one click. The app includes various other features such as country information, medical databases, flight information, currency converters, and e-learning.
Alexandre Hollander and Magnus Hultman
About Amarante:
Created in 2007 by former executives of the French armed forces, Amarante celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2022. With 1,250 employees in more than 20 countries, the group is now a leading operator in the security market in France and abroad.
For additional information, visit www.safeture.com or contact:
Safeture CEO Magnus Hultman: +46 706 00 81 66. Magnus.hultman@safeture.com
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On August 31, 2022 at approximately 3:00 pm, Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office detectives obtained arrest warrants charging 31-year-old Christopher Clay Garrison with Second Degree Murder (TCA 39-13-210 / Class A Felony) in relation to the Fentanyl overdose death of a 36-year-old woman in Hamilton County, Tennessee on October 18, 2021.
Police say the incident occurred near the 2000 block of Rock Bluff Road in Hixson, Tennessee.
Charges were brought following a ten month investigation by the HCSO’s Investigative Services into the death upon where evidence was obtained implicating Garrison had supplied the woman with Fentanyl leading to her overdose death. The woman was the mother of two young children during the time of her death.
On September 1, 2022 at approximately 7:30 pm, the Lake View Police Department in Alabama conducted a warrant service on Garrison and were able to take him into custody at his residence in Lake View, Alabama, without incident on the Hamilton County charges.
Following Garrison’s arrest by the Lake View Police Department, HCSO detectives responded to Alabama and were able to interview Garrison in relation to this investigation.
Upon conducting Garrison’s interview and additional follow up investigation, additional evidence was obtained which supported the HCSO’s investigation and eventual outcome of this case.
Garrison is currently in custody in Alabama at the Tuscaloosa County Jail (Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office) awaiting extradition to Hamilton County, Tennessee.
Defendant, Christopher Clay Garrison, has been charged with the following criminal charges:
- Second Degree Murder (TCA 39-13-210 / Class A Felony) In relation to the Fentanyl (Schedule II Controlled Substance) Overdose Death of 36 year old victim.
- Identity Theft (TCA 39-14-150 / Class D Felony)
- Forgery over $1,000 (TCA 39-14-114 / Class E Felony)
- Theft of Property over $1,000 (TCA 39-14-103 / Class E Felony)
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McCallie students launched a 9/11 website last year to share unique perspectives from around the world on how people saw the tragic events unfold twenty-one years ago.
The students weren't even alive when this happened. They've learned so much about the weight of that day just by talking in depth to everyday people.
Friday hit home for some students after laying nearly 3,000 flags outside the school's chapel to represent the lives lost that day.
"Before it was just a story, something that happened, and I couldn't conceptualize it. There were two buildings that used to be there and now they weren't. Now it's like 3,000 people are dead and there's all these stories behind it,” said David Moseley, a senior at McCallie School.
Everyone has their own stories on how 9/11 unfolded. But for children born after 2001, they have to learn second hand.
Dr. Duke Richey, the AP U.S. History Teacher at McCallie, is helping those students understand the significance of that day in our country.
"The stories did not need to be someone who was in New York City, or the Pentagon, or what have you, but just every day people's perspectives,” Dr. Richey said.
For years, Dr. Richey has asked students to interview someone on 9/11 and write a paper on it. Last year Dr. Richey and his students launched a website with twenty different stories. Since, they have released one a week and have seventy-one total on the site.
"It's been great to hear from alums and from parents how much they've enjoyed reading these stories,” Dr. Richey told us.
Several students said the interviews they did made the day more real for them.
"She remembered seeing the second tower get hit. She was there, she was watching it on TV. She went home crying to her parents, and I got to experience all of this second hand as she's telling it to me. And then I experienced it again when I wrote it down on my computer, and I like, I was crying a little bit. It was horrifying,” Moseley told us.
Vibin Vellanki is the editor of the site. He's read pretty much all the stories on there and says it's interesting hearing all the perspectives.
"People had a lot of different reactions. Some of them might be more horrific and heavy, and some almost felt unaffected. It's still something that played out in people's minds,” Vellanki, a senior at McCallie, said.
You can visit the website here: https://www.mccallie.org/911project or visit their Instagram page at McCallie911Project. | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/mccallie-students-launched-9-11-website-one-year-ago/article_7b8bc2e4-32bc-11ed-a09a-83a6b3e9455a.html | 2022-09-13T07:52:59Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/mccallie-students-launched-9-11-website-one-year-ago/article_7b8bc2e4-32bc-11ed-a09a-83a6b3e9455a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The McMinn Regional Humane Society needs help finding fosters after rescuing over 30 dogs from a hoarding situation.
Over the weekend, the McMinn County clinic staff and volunteers went to assess a hoarding situation. After assessment by the clinic staff, they knew that they couldn't just leave without removing some of the dogs from the current living conditions.
The first trip, the team removed 21 small dogs from the property.
They have found foster homes for a few but the majority still need to be placed.
All dogs have received vaccinations, flea/tick treatment, have been bathed, and all except one are under 20 lbs. All 21 dogs that were removed all appear healthy and well fed, and very social (just nervous).
There are approximately 12-15 dogs still on the property.
The humane society says it cannot remove these dogs until it finds fosters for them and/or get the dogs we already removed, into homes. The dogs remaining on the property are a mix of large and small breeds.
If you are interested in fostering, you MUST fill out a foster application on our website, www.mrhumane.org.
The humane society asks those interested in fostering to put "21 dogs" as the name of the dog(s) you are interested in. They also ask that you have a working voicemail so that the coordinator may reach you.
It may be a day or two until you hear back. | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/mcminn-humane-society-urgently-needs-fosters-after-rescuing-over-30-dogs-from-hoarding-situation/article_71f5d6f2-32bc-11ed-9389-ab3e6884a582.html | 2022-09-13T07:53:05Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/mcminn-humane-society-urgently-needs-fosters-after-rescuing-over-30-dogs-from-hoarding-situation/article_71f5d6f2-32bc-11ed-9389-ab3e6884a582.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Good Monday. What a gorgeous way to start the week! We are still 10 days away from the official start to fall, but I'm already seeing pumpkins and mums for sale in the roadside markets, and the nice weather has us all fall-minded. This evening will be stellar with clear skies and low humidity. temps will fall from the 70s into the 60s.
Lows Tuesday morning will drop into the low to mid-50s in the valley, but in the higher elevations, we will fall all the way into the upper 40s! Tuesday afternoon will be excellent in the low 80s with sunshine and low humidity.
We will see the temp and humidity slowly climbing through the rest of the week, but it will still remain sunny and pleasant through the weekend.
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Inside of the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport, TSA security checkpoints are being upgraded to increase safety for travelers.
The current x-ray machines that scan carry-on luggage and bags only show two-dimensional graphics.
Which means extra bag checks and longer TSA security lines the upgrade machines will provide three-dimensional images.
“The CT technology allows us to rotate the image and use different functions that the technology has to screen the property to make sure it is free of any prohibited items or threats, which means there will be less bag checks for passengers,” Ryan Lierow said.
Ryan Lierow is the Transportation Security Manager for TSA at the Chattanooga Airport.
He expressed that the upgrade is a win-win for travelers and TSA.
“Passengers will get to leave in their liquid, gels, and aerosols, and electronics inside of their properties. It is a win-win for everybody because it has increased security capability on our end,” Lierow said.
Tuesday through Thursday of September 12 and 19th week, there will only be one line for security while the new technology is being installed.
“We do ask passengers to give themselves plenty of time. TSA still recommends the two hours early, but we are doing all that we can to mitigate the additional wait times. We do ask that passengers give themselves enough time to get through and also if they can check as much property as possible. It will streamline the process for everyone involved until the installation is complete,” Lierow said.
Everything is expected to be back to normal inside of that Chattanooga Airport on September 23rd.
“Of course with new technology, the officers may have a little additional time to get use to the technology. However, because of the capability that the technology gives us we believe that will have minimum impact,” Lierow said. | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/tsa-adding-security-boost-to-increase-traveler-safety/article_9962c03a-32dd-11ed-8fc9-ff9c74789ec7.html | 2022-09-13T07:53:29Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/tsa-adding-security-boost-to-increase-traveler-safety/article_9962c03a-32dd-11ed-8fc9-ff9c74789ec7.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
President Joe Biden and members of his Cabinet have been in touch with the unions and companies involved in the high-stakes freight-rail labor negotiations, as alarm about a possible strike continues to grow inside the administration.
Top White House officials have been closely watching US freight rail labor negotiations, keenly aware that any strike would create significant economic and political risk for the Biden administration. For months, officials have sought avenues to forestall a strike that would threaten to cripple critical arteries of the US economy, but those efforts have grown more intense -- and elevated -- in recent days as the Friday deadline for an agreement looms.
About 60,000 union members who work for the railroad are set to go on strike, including the engineers and conductors who make up the two-person crews on each train. Even though 45,000 other union members belong to unions that have reached tentative deals with the railroads, a strike by engineers and conductors would bring the freight rail system, which carries nearly 30% of the nation's freight, to a grinding halt.
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, who delayed a scheduled departure for Ireland over the matter, has played a central role in urging an agreement between labor unions and freight rail operators, and administration officials have made clear that a strike represents an unacceptable outcome for the US economy.
Walsh's efforts, which included a call on Sunday for the parties to reach a resolution ahead of Friday's deadline, are just part of the dozens of calls and meetings Cabinet and administration officials have had between the two parties in an effort to find a resolution, officials said.
Biden's National Economic Council has consistently held meetings on the issue, according to a White House official. Biden has been personally briefed on the status of the talks and is "closely following the actions of his Cabinet and economic team in this space," the official said.
Biden prevented a strike two months ago by imposing a cooling off period during which a panel he appointed, known as a Presidential Emergency Board, looked at the disputed issues in the negotiations and issued a recommended settlement.
That 60-day cooling off period is due to expire at 12:01 a.m. ET Friday, and Biden does not have the power to prevent a strike at that time. Only Congress can act to prevent a work stoppage, either by imposing a deal on the two sides or to extending the current cooling off period.
The PEB recommended multiple annual raises back to July 2020, when the previous contract had been set to expire. They would give workers an immediate 14% raise, as well as additional back pay for the hours they worked since 2020. There would be more raises going forward, resulting in a 24% pay increase over the five-year course of the contract that would run from 2020 to 2024, as well as annual cash bonuses of $1,000.
The PEB's wages recommendations are somewhat less than the unions requested and somewhat more than management had previously offered.
The administration's efforts to avert a strike continued on Monday, with Biden and his top Cabinet officials taking a direct role in conversations to try and find a pathway to end the impasse, the official said.
The economic risks of a work stoppage are substantial for a backbone element of US food and energy supplies. But so too is the political risk for Biden and Democrats, who have ridden a wave of momentum from major legislative victories and signs of deceleration in record-high inflation two months before the midterm elections.
"I know that the administration, the White House, is closely monitoring the negotiations, and we certainly hope that they will be successful in avoiding a damaging supply shock to the economy," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."
This story has been updated with the latest number of rail workers who could strike.
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President Joe Biden sought to deliver a unifying speech in Boston on Monday focused on his "Moonshot" initiative to reduce cancer deaths in the United States -- a stop that's part of a ramped up travel schedule highlighting his administration's accomplishments ahead of the midterm elections.
Biden told an audience at Boston's John F. Kennedy Library and Museum that his goal is to cut cancer death rates by at least 50% in the next 25 years. The President also said he wants to "create a more supportive experience for patients and families."
The President -- who lost his son to brain cancer -- spoke in personal, passionate terms about his goal, which he called "bold, ambitious" and "completely doable."
"Cancer does not discriminate red and blue. It doesn't care if you're Republican or Democrat. Beating cancer is something we can do together," the President said discussing the administration's efforts to cut the number of deaths from cancer in the United States in half over the next 25 years.
Biden's speech came on the 60th anniversary of Kennedy's original "Moonshot" speech, in which he unveiled his goal of landing a man on the Moon.
"When he set that goal, he established a national purpose that could rally the American people in a common cause and he succeeded," Biden said of Kennedy. "Now, in our time, on the 60th anniversary of his clarion call, we face another inflection point. And together, we can choose to move forward with unity, hope and optimism. And I believe we can usher in the same unwillingness to postpone -- the same national purpose that will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills to end cancer as we know it and even cure cancers once and for all."
To "break the logjams" in Congress, Biden said he would use his authorities as President to increase funding for cancer research.
The President also announced that Dr. Renee Wegrzyn will become the inaugural director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, which is a new agency that aims to "drive biomedical innovation that supports the health of all Americans." He is also expected to sign an executive order that will launch a National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative, the White House said.
'We're finally going to make infrastructure begin to work'
The midterm elections are less than 60 days away, and Biden's travel to Boston is his latest effort aimed at capitalizing on the political momentum spurred by recent legislative achievements and dropping gas prices.
Earlier Monday, the President highlighted projects made possible by the bipartisan infrastructure law at Boston Logan International Airport's Terminal E. New spending from the infrastructure law, he said, will create more than 5,000 jobs and expand capacity and increase accessibility at the airport.
Biden, at the airport, stressed the importance of competing with other countries like China in addition to rebuilding the nation's infrastructure.
"We risk losing our edge as nation to China, and the rest of the world is catching up. That stops now, with investments like we're celebrating here today," the President said.
Biden said: "Folks, America invented modern aviation. But we've allowed our airports to lag behind our competitors. Today, not a single solitary American airport, not one, ranked in the top 25 in the world. The United States of America. Not one airport ranks in the top 25 in the world. What in the hell's the matter with us? It means commerce, it means income, it means security."
The investments in the airport include $50 million to modernize Terminal E and $12 million to improve roadways. The President said in addition to being frustrating and inconvenient for passengers, traffic jams and delays on airport runways cause air pollution that harms the environment and directly affects neighboring communities.
Biden told reporters Monday ahead of his trip to Boston: "We're finally going to make infrastructure begin to work. We're making a major investment as you know, up in a great city with an airport that is really behind the times, as most are. And we're going to be spending a lot of money and we're going to get it done quickly, and we're going to go all through America making our airports the best in the world."
'People are beginning to focus on what's going on'
On Monday evening, the President also participated in a reception for the Democratic National Committee hosted at the home of Jonathan Lavine, the co-managing partner of Bain Capital.
In remarks at the event, according to reporters in the room, the President ticked off what he sees as his administrative accomplishments -- including major legislative wins, lower gas prices and a reduction in inflation. He also sought to highlight how the nation is at an "inflection point" in history.
"The fact is that extreme Republicans are going to take us backward," Biden said, adding that "there's a lot at stake and we have to choose a different path."
Biden warned the group, "If we lose the House and lose the Senate, it's going to be a really difficult two years. I'll be spending more time with the veto pen."
The President pointed to a poll showing that his approval rating had improved, but added, "I don't know how that holds."
"But I know ... people are beginning to focus on what's going on," he continued. "We have to stay in the game. We have to stay in a big way. ... There's a lot at stake. ... I don't want to start from scratch again."
The event hosted approximately 40 attendees and was expected to raise $2 million for the DNC and the Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund, according to a DNC official.
Biden's schedule for the rest of the week, as outlined by the White House, includes a celebration at the White House for the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act -- a $750 billion health care, tax and climate bill -- as well as a trip to the key battleground state of Michigan.
This story has been updated with additional details.
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(CNN) -- The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards, which celebrate the best television shows and performances of they year, will be presented Monday.
Here is everything you need to know ahead of TV's big night.
The host
Kenan Thompson will take center stage as this year's host, live from the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles. This is Thompson's first time hosting the Emmys but he has been nominated six times.
"Being a part of this incredible evening where we honor the best of the television community is ridiculously exciting, and to do it on NBC — my longtime network family — makes it even more special," Thompson said in a statement when his hosting gig was announced. "Like all TV fans, I can't wait to see the stars from my favorite shows."
The nominees
"Succession" earned the most nominations of any show, earning a total of 25 nods, including one for outstanding drama, as well as outstanding lead actor nominations for Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong. "Ted Lasso" led the comedy category, earning 20 nominations, including one for outstanding comedy series. Star Jason Sudeikis is nominated for outstanding lead actor, while Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein and Hannah Waddingham are among the supporting actor nominees. "Hacks" and "Only Murders In the Building" earned 17 nominations each, rounding out the list of top five nominated programs. Click here for a complete list of the nominees.
How to watch
The Emmy Awards will air on NBC at 8 p.m. E.T but it will also stream on Hulu, YouTube TV and live on NBC's streaming service Peacock.
CNN's Sandra Gonzalez contributed to this report.
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Britt Reid, the former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach, pleaded guilty Monday to driving while intoxicated in connection with a crash last year that left a 5-year-old girl with a brain injury.
The girl, Ariel Young, suffered a severe traumatic brain injury, a parietal fracture, brain contusions and subdural hematomas in a three-vehicle crash on February 4, 2021. Authorities found that she and another child were in a disabled vehicle on Interstate 435 in Kansas City, Missouri, when Reid's Dodge Ram -- going 84 mph less than two seconds before impact -- struck the vehicle, sending the two children to the hospital.
A post-accident test showed Reid's blood alcohol concentration to be at .113, which is more than 40% greater than Missouri's legal limit.
"Mr. Reid accepted responsibility for his actions," said J.R. Hobbs, Reid's attorney. "Mr. Reid continues to be remorseful for his conduct and hopes that his plea brings some sense of justice to all he has affected."
Under a plea agreement, Reid will face a maximum of four years in prison, although the judge could sentence him to less time. If he had been found guilty by a jury, Reid could have faced up to seven years in prison, Hobbs told CNN.
"A representative of the victims' family told the court they didn't favor the agreement," the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office acknowledged in a news release.
The Chiefs reached a financial agreement with Ariel's family in November, saying that the team will provide the girl with "world-class medical care and long-term financial stability" for the "rest of her life."
Reid's contract with the Chiefs was not renewed following their Super Bowl LV loss in February 2021. His sentencing is scheduled for October 28.
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Americans are beginning to learn how funds from the bipartisan infrastructure package passed by Congress late last year will help improve their roads, bridges and airports.
Billions of dollars in federal funds have been awarded to specific infrastructure projects and doled out to states across the country over the past 10 months.
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which was signed into law in November 2021, will provide $550 billion of new federal investments over five years, touching everything from bridges and roads to the nation's public transit, broadband, water and energy systems.
Passed with bipartisan support, the law marks one of the biggest wins for President Joe Biden, who touted the new spending at Boston Logan International Airport on Monday. The administration as well as members of Congress are eager to show off the various projects the federal money will help build as the midterm elections approach.
Some of the infrastructure money is distributed through what's known as formula programs, which deliver funds directly to states that decide how to disburse the money. Other pots of money are available through competitive grant programs that require state and local agencies to apply for funds to be used for specific projects.
Most of the programs are funded annually so that communities that weren't selected for money this year aren't out of luck and can apply in the future.
Here are four projects that have been awarded federal money so far.
Renovating Terminal E at Boston Logan International Airport
The Boston Logan International Airport has received $62 million from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act this year. It's one of 85 airports across the country that received a grant from the infrastructure law's Airport Terminal Program, which will award nearly $1 billion annually for five years.
A majority of the funds will be used to modernize the airport's Terminal E, which has become a source of congestion and flight delays due to prolonged taxi times and idling of aircraft, as well as inefficient passenger processing. The renovations will expand the terminal's capacity, replace the HVAC system, expand the baggage claim area to accommodate gate expansions and rehabilitate the existing ticket counter area, gates and jet bridges.
The funds will also go toward improvements to the roadways that airplanes use to circulate the airport.
Adding a berth at Port Tampa Bay
Port Tampa Bay in Florida has been awarded a $12.6 million grant to construct a new berth at its satellite facility known as Port Redwing that will provide room for three large ships to be docked simultaneously.
The project will help alleviate supply chain challenges and is expected to create more than 800 full-time jobs, according to the Department of Transportation.
The money was awarded from the department's Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity program, known as RAISE. It's one of several grant programs that communities can apply to for funding for specific road, bridge, transit, rail, port or intermodal transportation projects. More than $2.2 billion was awarded this year for 166 projects across the country.
Constructing a pedestrian bridge in Phoenix
Phoenix was awarded $25 million to construct a long-proposed pedestrian and bicycle bridge across the Rio Salado River.
The bridge will provide residents of the South Phoenix community who don't own cars a safe way to access the jobs, schools and services located in the city's downtown area. The bridge also will offer a convenient connection to the South Central Light Rail Extension, which is currently under construction.
The project was funded by a RAISE grant.
Installing a snow-melting system in New Hampshire
The Department of Transportation has awarded $19.5 million to the city of Berlin, New Hampshire, so that it can rehabilitate roads, sidewalks and municipal parking areas, as well as install a new snow-melting system in the downtown area. The system will utilize waste heat from a nearby renewable fuel-powered electrical generation plant.
Berlin, a rural community of about 10,000 people, receives an average of seven feet of snow a year. Local officials say the new snow-melting system will help make the downtown area more accessible for residents and visitors, as well as reduce vehicle crashes and pedestrian slips and falls.
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Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles was charged with murder with a deadly weapon in the stabbing death of Las Vegas investigative journalist Jeff German, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.
In the chilling case that has raised concerns about press freedoms in the United States, German was found dead with multiple stab wounds outside his home on September 2. DNA found underneath German's fingernails and surveillance footage helped police link Telles to the killing, authorities have said.
According to the criminal complaint filed in Clark County court, Telles "did willfully, unlawfully, with malice aforethought, kill Jeffrey German, who was 60 years of age or older, with use of a deadly weapon."
The complaint alleges Telles, 45, stabbed German "multiple times about the body." Authorities believe Telles was "lying in wait" for German, noting the murder to be "wilfull, deliberate and premediated," the complaint alleges.
CNN, which obtained the complaint Monday afternoon, has reached out to Telles' attorney.
Telles's next court appearance is scheduled for Tuesday. He is being held without bail.
According to Cpt. Dori Koren with the Las Vegas police department's homicide bureau, the suspect approached German's home and went to the side of the house. German came outside soon after and went to the side of the home, where investigators believe an altercation occurred and German was stabbed multiple times, Koren said last week.
Telles, who lost reelection in June, was identified as a person of interest early in the investigation, as authorities discovered neighborhood surveillance footage capturing a vehicle seen at Telles' house before and after German's killing, Koren said. The vehicle, registered to Telles' wife, was also seen at German's house at the time of his death.
German was working on a story about Telles the week he was killed, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Earlier this year, Telles was the subject of articles that detailed his oversight of his office, and German reported Telles created a hostile work environment and carried on an inappropriate relationship with a staffer.
Telles denied the reports, the Review-Journal said. First elected to the office in 2018, Telles lost his bid for reelection in a June Democratic primary and his term ends in January.
Killings of journalists are rare in the United States, and murders of journalists in retaliation for their work even more so, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Eight journalists have been murdered in the US since 1992, when the non-profit began keeping track, including four in a mass shooting in 2018 in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette newspaper in Maryland, it said.
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A wall of smoke from the Mosquito Fire in the Sierra Nevada mountains is creating hazardous conditions in Northern California, choking the air with smoke as strong winds complicate firefighting efforts.
The smoke's impact was most visually clear in a time-lapse video posted by the NWS in Reno, Nevada. The video was taken from inside the NWS Reno office and shows the smoke from the Mosquito Fire in California flowing into the area over about one to two hours on Sunday, said meteorologist Heather Richards.
The smoke, which has created unhealthy to hazardous air quality, is expected to linger in the Tahoe Basin and Reno area through Monday, the weather service said.
"It smells really smoky. It looks really hazy. There's not an ounce of blue in the sky," Pam Malone of Folsom, a city within the parameters of the fire, told CNN affiliate KCRA-TV. Malone told the affiliate she was limiting her time outdoors because of the unhealthy air quality.
The rapidly growing blaize, which started September 6, is currently the largest fire burning in the state and only 10% contained. It had already consumed 46,587 acres in both El Dorado and Placer counties as of Monday, according to Cal Fire.
Nationwide, 92 active large wildland fires have torched nearly 728,000 acres -- the majority of them burning in northwestern states, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
Sweltering under rising temperatures, drought-ravaged Western states have become hotbeds of thirsty, dry brush that can fuel more volatile wildfires that burn hotter and for longer.
As numerous fires ravaged Western states, air quality alerts were in place across much of Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
Skies turned orange and hazy in parts of Oregon over the weekend as winds carried smoke from the multiple fires burning in the state.
The smoke was so thick in Washington that it blocked some solar radiation and created temperatures that were lower than anticipated, according to the NWS in Spokane.
Smoke can irritate the eyes and lungs and worsen some medical conditions. Those facing the highest risk are infants and young children, people with heart or lung disease, older adults and pregnant people. Many residents were told to stay inside if possible, keep windows and doors closed and avoid strenuous outdoor activity.
Recent studies have shown that being exposed to both extreme heat and wildfire smoke at the same time can worsen the health risks, and that's expected to become more of a threat, UCLA researchers said in a study published last month.
"Rising global temperatures and more frequent extreme heat events are expected to increase wildfire size and intensity, signaling a growing public health threat from concurrent heat-smoke exposure," researchers wrote.
Where the fires are burning
In Oregon -- which had 19 active wildfires Monday, according to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management -- containment of the Cedar Creek Fire dropped from 12% to 0% as the fire exploded in size over the weekend, now swallowing more than 86,000 acres in very steep and difficult to access terrain. A lightning storm August 1 sparked the fire.
Driven by strong easterly winds, triple-digit temperatures and dry fuels, flames breached containment lines that firefighters have for weeks worked to build.
Evacuations were ordered in Lane and Deschutes counties as the fire advanced, making wind-driven runs and threatening 2,230 homes and 443 commercial structures.
On Sunday, fire officials said extreme weather from the past two days was easing, temperatures have started to cool and shifting winds have calmed.
However, the blaze was still expected to advance through heavy fuels, officials said.
As wildfires tore through the parched lands, Oregonians were also contending with power shutoffs. Thousands of customers in Oregon, including those in the suburbs of Portland, were without power for part of the weekend as Pacific Power implemented Public Safety Power Shutoffs to reduce wildfire risk as winds picked up.
In Washington, where 16 fires were active Monday, the National Weather service warned of hazardous air quality in several areas across the state through Monday.
In California, residents saw both record rainfall and record heat in the same week, as what used to be Tropical Storm Kay made a rare close pass to the state amid a record-breaking heat wave.
The lingering showers brought isolated flooding to some parts of Southern California, but also helped firefighters. Aided by ample moisture, rainfall and cooler temperatures, crews battling the Fairview Fire managed to shore up containment of the 28,307-acre blaze to 53% by Monday.
The fire -- which broke out last Monday in Riverside County and grew quickly -- has killed two civilians and injured a third, destroyed 35 buildings and forced thousands to evacuate, according to Cal Fire.
On Saturday, a pilot and two fire personnel were injured when a helicopter assigned to the Fairview Fire crashed in a residential backyard while attempting to land at a local airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Some evacuation orders were reduced to warnings Sunday as scattered showers slowed the fire's spread, officials said. Full containment of the blaze was expected by Saturday, according to Cal Fire.
In Idaho, the Moose Fire, about 17 miles north of the town of Salmon, was 125,925 acres Monday with 37% containment, according to Inciweb, a clearinghouse for US fire information. Dry and unstable conditions and potential gusty winds over the next day could increase fire behavior, officials said.
The California and Nevada National Guard has sent two C-130 aircraft "equipped with modular airborne fire fighting systems," to Idaho to combat the ongoing wildfires in the state, a release from the National Guard said Monday. The modular airborne fire fighting systems on the planes can "drop up to 3,000 gallons of fire retardant in less than 10 seconds across a quarter-mile line," the National Guard said.
The aircraft and crews arrived at Boise Airport on Friday and were requested by the National Interagency Fire Center.
There was marginal risk for excessive rainfall through the overnight hours for parts of Southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Monday, the moisture in Southern California is forecast to spread to the north, bringing rain to northwest Arizona before heading into Nevada by Tuesday. A flood watch is already in effect for eastern Nevada from Tuesday through Wednesday night, CNN Meteorologist Robert Shackelford said.
Meanwhile, isolated dry storms are possible for northern Nevada Monday, which could spark new fires in that area, according to Shackelford. Also, eastern Montana is expected to see elevated fire weather risk due to 15 mph winds and very dry air.
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A Texas woman who allegedly left a series of threatening messages on the voicemail of a federal judge overseeing one of former President Donald Trump's legal fights in Florida was arrested last week, according to court documents.
Tiffani Shea Gish, of Houston, left three voicemails for Aileen Cannon, a federal judge in the Southern District of Florida who was nominated by Trump in 2020, according to court documents. Cannon is handling the former President's request for a special master to review documents and other items the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago last month.
In the voicemails, Gish threatened to have Cannon assassinated in front of her family for "helping" the former president, court documents say.
"Donald Trump has been disqualified long ago, and he's marked for assassination. You're helping him, ma'am," Gish allegedly said one of the voicemails.
"He's marked for assassination and so are you," she said, according to court documents, telling Cannon to "stand the f*ck down or get shot."
In other messages, Gish, who identified herself on the messages as "Evelyn Salt," said that she was "in charge of nuclear for the United States Government" and claimed that Trump had some responsibility for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Gish is facing two federal charges, including influencing a federal official by threat and interstate communications with a threat to kidnap or injure. She has not yet entered a formal plea, and a lawyer for Gish did not immediately respond to request for comment.
Investigators traced Gish's cell phone number and interviewed her through the window of her home in Houston, and she admitted to having left the voicemails, according to court documents.
The US Secret Service was aware of previous threats Gish had made towards Trump, prosecutors say.
Federal officials have seen a dramatic increase in the number of threats since the search at Mar-a-Lago last month, CNN has reported. Violent threats have surfaced online against Attorney General Merrick Garland, and the biography and contact information of the federal magistrate judge who signed the Mar-a-Lago search warrant had to be wiped from a Florida court's website due to threats.
FBI officials also have reported an "unprecedented" number of threats and that individual agents involved in the search have faced doxxing attempts, law enforcement sources told CNN.
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Amtrak on Monday said it canceled three long-distance train routes in advance of a looming railroad union strike that is threatening to hobble the nation's economy.
The train operator, which is not a party in the labor dispute, said in a statement that a strike that could begin Friday "could significantly impact" its intercity passenger rail service, since it operates almost all of its 21,000 route miles outside the Northeast Corridor "on track owned, maintained, and dispatched by freight railroads."
To avoid the scenario of passengers being stranded in the event of a worker strike, Amtrak said, it was preemptively canceling Tuesday departures for its Western U.S.-focused Empire Builder, California Zephyr and the Southwest Chief routes. The rail line said it was phasing in additional schedule "adjustments" as needed.
Most travel in Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and related branch lines to Albany, N.Y., Harrisburg, Penn., and Springfield, Mass. would not be affected by a strike, the company said. It added that its East Coast Acela express line would continue to operate a full schedule, and only a small number of Northeast Regional departures would be impacted.
Freight rail workers are threatening to strike for higher pay, more generous paid leave, and a renegotiation of strict attendance policies and broader working conditions. A White House official told The Associated Press Monday that President Joe Biden and members of his Cabinet have been in touch with both sides in order to avert a strike. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh attended negotiations Sunday, the AP said.
A national rail strike "would be an economic disaster — freezing the flow of goods, emptying shelves, shuttering workplaces and raising prices for families and businesses alike," Suzanne Clark, the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said Monday. The Association of American Railroads trade group has estimated that shutting down the railroads would cost the economy $2 billion a day. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/amtrak-cancels-3-long-distance-routes-citing-significant-impact-from-potential-railroad-strike/article_e5b4ee66-331b-11ed-96b1-53c3efbb2265.html | 2022-09-13T08:12:17Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/national/amtrak-cancels-3-long-distance-routes-citing-significant-impact-from-potential-railroad-strike/article_e5b4ee66-331b-11ed-96b1-53c3efbb2265.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KENNEWICK, Wash. — The Mid-Columbia Libraries is hosting a plethora of programs and events in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, which is from September 15 to October 15 each year. Events are meant to honor the history, culture and contributions of Latinos, according to the press release.
FULL SCHEDULE
Thursday, September 15
Lecture at Kennewick Library, 7 p.m.
Dr. Erasmo Gamboa will present “The Braceros Who Came to Washington to Help Win World War” in English, offering Spanish interpretation. It will be accompanied by the “Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964” exhibit through the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
Saturday, September 17
Hispanic Heritage Film Festival at Kennewick Library, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Foreign language films from Latin America and Spain that have won awards will be shown with English subtitles. All films are rated for mature audiences.
Sunday, September 18
Hispanic Heritage Film Festival at Kennewick Library, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Foreign language films from Latin America and Spain that have won awards will be shown with English subtitles. All films are rated for mature audiences.
Thursday, September 29
Poetry reading at Othello Library, 6:30 p.m.
Othello native and author Ricardo Ruiz will do a bilingual poetry reading of “We Had Our Reasons / Teníamos Nuestras Razones.”
Thursday, October 6
Poetry reading at Pasco Library, 6:30 p.m.
Othello native and author Ricardo Ruiz will do a bilingual poetry reading of “We Had Our Reasons / Teníamos Nuestras Razones.”
Thursday, October 13
Author visit at CBC Gjerde Center, 7 p.m.
The Mid-Columbia Reads literary festival will feature the New York Times bestselling author of “Mexican Gothic,” Silvia Moreno-Garcia, in English with Spanish and ASL interpretation options. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/mid-columbia-libraries-to-host-multiple-events-for-hispanic-heritage-month/article_65c3bc6e-332a-11ed-bfa2-9bf6586f62b5.html | 2022-09-13T08:12:20Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/mid-columbia-libraries-to-host-multiple-events-for-hispanic-heritage-month/article_65c3bc6e-332a-11ed-bfa2-9bf6586f62b5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Marc Lajoie is one of five Tri-City Americans players that will be attending NHL camps before the start of the WHL season.
Lajoie will be heading to the rookie camp for the Los Angeles Kings, one year after getting an opportunity to attend the Las Vegas Golden Knights camp and is excited for the experience.
"Try to learn as much as I can. Obviously the NHL is the highest level so I can take as much as I can from there and bring it down to here. Obviously I'll come back with more confidence, a year older. Just take as much from there and bring it on to here."
Other Americans that will get an NHL look at rookie camps are Parker Bell, Jalen Luypen, Adam Mechura and Tomas Suchanek.
Lajoie says this is one of many reasons that this team has a chance to have a special season.
"We kinda gotta stick to the system and process that Stu's teaching us this year. If we stay consistent and listen to our coaches and play to our structure, we'll have a good chance do that."
The Americans will host a multi-team preseason tournament this upcoming weekend at the Toyota Arena.
The first regular season game is September 23rd. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/sports/tri-city_americans/lajoie-among-americans-at-nhl-rookie-camps/article_dca24fa6-3318-11ed-a4de-d39a44f0d33d.html | 2022-09-13T08:12:23Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/sports/tri-city_americans/lajoie-among-americans-at-nhl-rookie-camps/article_dca24fa6-3318-11ed-a4de-d39a44f0d33d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KENNEWICK, Wash. - Nighttime closures at the US 395 and Hildebrand Boulevard intersection will start September 12 around 8 p.m., continuing through the week. Full lane closures will be in place each night starting at 8 p.m., then reopened the next morning at 6 a.m.
Expect reduced speed limits, warning signs and a flagger-controlled intersection around the work zone.
"Traveling at lower speeds, having patience and obeying warning signs and flagging operations benefits all users of the roadway and ensures everyone's safety," said the press release.
The closure is for a Washington State Department of Transportation upgrade to the traffic signals. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/traffic/nightly-lane-closures-around-us-395-and-hildebrand-this-week/article_47e5cbe4-3323-11ed-99b8-1be8cfd17843.html | 2022-09-13T08:12:23Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/traffic/nightly-lane-closures-around-us-395-and-hildebrand-this-week/article_47e5cbe4-3323-11ed-99b8-1be8cfd17843.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SELAH, Wash. -- The light rain and cooler temperatures are promising, but wildfires seem to get bigger and stay longer year after year, said the Selah Fire Department deputy chief Mickey Gillie. He said unhealthy air quality is nothing new to people who live in the Pacific Northwest.
"This is what we call the fifth season, the smoke season," said Deputy Fire Chief Gillie. "We know this is just kind of part of life now."
To check the air quality where you live, click here. Just enter your zip code and get tips to stay healthy.
The state's department of natural resources fights about 900 wildfires every year. 70 percent of them are in Eastern Washington, according to its website.
"We're doing good right now and I don't want to jinx it so I'm crossing my fingers," said Deputy Fire Chief Gillie.
People should still prepare for a wildfire evacuation lasting at least three days, said Yakima Valley Emergency Management officials. They said pack important documents, like passports and birth certificates, medications and emergency money. People can pack personal comfort items if time allows.
"Material things [like the] pictures I have in the home, some of those are irreplaceable," said Deputy Fire Chief Gillie.
Yakima County may extend its burn ban through October, which means wildfire danger and poor air quality may be sticking around too.
"As it gets higher to the hazardous side, stay indoors, especially if you have small children, if you're an older adult or if you have things like heart or lung issues," said Deputy Fire Chief Gillie.
The Selah Fire Department is looking for volunteer/paid on-call members. Deputy Fire Chief Gillie said people no longer need to live in the response area. Online applications are due Oct. 14th. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/yakima/this-is-the-time-of-year-where-it-really-gets-bad-said-the-selah-deputy/article_e60668b4-3324-11ed-adce-5ffd1a54be48.html | 2022-09-13T08:12:24Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/yakima/this-is-the-time-of-year-where-it-really-gets-bad-said-the-selah-deputy/article_e60668b4-3324-11ed-adce-5ffd1a54be48.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Delhi: Veteran wicketkeeper-batter Dinesh Karthik on Monday shared a heartfelt message on social media after being included in the Indian squad for the T20 World Cup in Australia.
Karthik, who made another India comeback with his stellar run in the IPL 2022, has been playing the role of a finisher for Royal Challengers Bangalore and the national team. Given his impressive strike rate and finishing prowess, the selection committee picked him in India's 15-member squad for the upcoming global event.
After the team announcement, Karthik expressed his happiness on Twitter and wrote, "Dreams do come true".
The 37-year-old has also been picked in the squad for the home series against Australia and South Africa. He had earlier mentioned that the motivation to play for India remains as strong as ever.
"The bigger vision was to play for the country. I know there is a World Cup around the corner. I want to be part of that World Cup desperately and help India cross the line," Karthik had said.
"It's been a long time since India won a multi-nation tournament. I want to be that person who is helping India do that. For that, you need to prepare differently, you need to be aware of so many things and try to be that player where people stand up and notice you and say, 'hey this guy is doing something special and I wanted to be that guy," he had added. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/13/dreams-do-come-true-says-dk.html | 2022-09-13T08:15:52Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/13/dreams-do-come-true-says-dk.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Pakistani fans be unforgiving and none knows it better than Hasan Ali. The pacer was forced to apologise after dropping Mathew Wade in the semifinal of last year's T20 World Cup. Wade made the most of the reprieve to take the Aussies home in a thrilling chase.
Shadab Khan, easily the best fielder in the Pakistan team, was at the receiving end of online abuse after he dropped Bhanuka Rajapaksa twice in the Asia Cup final against Sri Lanka in Dubai on Sunday. Rajapaksa made Pakistan pay dearly as his unbeaten 71 off 45 balls powered the Lankans to 170/6 which turned out to be a match-winning total.
Ali took to Twitter to remind all the supporters about Shadab's fielding skills. The short video shows some stunning catches, a couple of direct hits and a sensational save by Shadab on the boundary line. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/13/hasan-ali-reminds-pakistan-fans-how-good-shadab-khan-is-video.amp.html | 2022-09-13T08:15:58Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/13/hasan-ali-reminds-pakistan-fans-how-good-shadab-khan-is-video.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
London: South African coach Mark Boucher will leave his post after the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia later this year to pursue "other opportunities in line with his future career and personal objectives", officials said on Monday.
The announcement came hours after South Africa lost their three-match Test series in England.
Former wicketkeeper Boucher, who played 147 Tests for South Africa, has been in the role since December, 2019 and had been contracted until the end of the 2023 50-over World Cup in October next year.
"We would like to thank Mark for the time and effort he has invested in South African cricket as the head coach over the past three years," Cricket South Africa CEO Pholetsi Moseki said in a media statement.
"He has helped navigate us through some rough waters following the departures of so many senior players through retirement and has helped lay some strong foundations for the next generation of Proteas.
"We are extremely grateful to him for the work he has done and would like to wish him well with the next chapter of his career."
Boucher has generally won praise for improving South Africa’s Test and white-ball cricket, though the recent five-day series in England was woeful for the batsmen with no quick fix to that problem in sight.
The highlight of his tenure to date was a home Test series win over India in January, which has helped South Africa reach second place in the ICC Test World Championship table.
Boucher will be at the helm for the limited overs side on their India tour before the Twenty20 World Cup, after which the red-ball side will travel to Australia for three Tests starting in December by which time a new coach will be in place. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/13/south-african-coach-boucher-to-step-down-after-t20-world-cup.amp.html | 2022-09-13T08:16:10Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/13/south-african-coach-boucher-to-step-down-after-t20-world-cup.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
London: South African coach Mark Boucher will leave his post after the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia later this year to pursue "other opportunities in line with his future career and personal objectives", officials said on Monday.
The announcement came hours after South Africa lost their three-match Test series in England.
Former wicketkeeper Boucher, who played 147 Tests for South Africa, has been in the role since December, 2019 and had been contracted until the end of the 2023 50-over World Cup in October next year.
"We would like to thank Mark for the time and effort he has invested in South African cricket as the head coach over the past three years," Cricket South Africa CEO Pholetsi Moseki said in a media statement.
"He has helped navigate us through some rough waters following the departures of so many senior players through retirement and has helped lay some strong foundations for the next generation of Proteas.
"We are extremely grateful to him for the work he has done and would like to wish him well with the next chapter of his career."
Boucher has generally won praise for improving South Africa’s Test and white-ball cricket, though the recent five-day series in England was woeful for the batsmen with no quick fix to that problem in sight.
The highlight of his tenure to date was a home Test series win over India in January, which has helped South Africa reach second place in the ICC Test World Championship table.
Boucher will be at the helm for the limited overs side on their India tour before the Twenty20 World Cup, after which the red-ball side will travel to Australia for three Tests starting in December by which time a new coach will be in place. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/13/south-african-coach-boucher-to-step-down-after-t20-world-cup.html | 2022-09-13T08:16:16Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/13/south-african-coach-boucher-to-step-down-after-t20-world-cup.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Two years ago the sky above my San Francisco Bay Area home was a dark pumpkin orange from wildfire smoke. The air smelled of wood fire, and gray ash covered my car. Today the bay’s waters are dark brown from a harmful algal bloom and the air smells of decay and dead fish.
Both incidents, like the heat dome California’s been suffering under for several weeks, have links to climate change. It used to be that climate emergencies happened somewhere else. But now they’re coming to a neighborhood near you.
We could have prevented it, but we failed to do what was required.
With the Inflation Reduction Act in August, President Joe Biden signed the first major climate bill in U.S. history. We need to view its provisions and incentives less as putting an end to heat waves, wildfires and algal blooms and more as triage — doing what we can while we can to salvage what we might.
I remember reporting from the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro when the U.S. delegation promised to reduce America’s carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000 (then-Sen. Al Gore called that pitiful).
Five years later, while trying to save another climate agreement in Kyoto, Japan, then-Vice President Gore pledged to reduce U.S. emissions to 1990 levels by 2010.
The Inflation Reduction Act could potentially produce a 40% reduction of greenhouse gases by 2030, based on 2005 emissions (16% higher than 1990’s). But the 10 hottest years in recorded history all occurred since 2005, and the heat already built into the system makes it unlikely that we will limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the difference between dangerous and catastrophic impacts. This summer has given us a hint of what catastrophic climate conditions look like.
In the past several months, wildfires, “thousand-year” floods, megadroughts and heat waves have raged in northern China and North America, in Europe, India, Pakistan and Africa. Thousands of people have died of heatstroke or drowned in massive floods. Hundreds of thousands are facing imminent starvation or migration.
In August, a new study showed that wildfires are now consuming twice as much global tree cover as they did in 2001, converting forests from carbon sinks into carbon emitters, marking a “fire-climate feedback loop,” one of the warming accelerants that scientists have long warned about.
As major climate effects move from risk to inevitability, our challenge is to do all we can to not only reduce emissions, but also to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere by every means at our disposal.
The global average atmospheric level of carbon dioxide (a major greenhouse gas) set a new high in 2022: 421 parts per million versus the 280 parts per million before coal- and oil-fired industrialization began scaling up in the 1800s.
Among the options for resetting those figures: planting more urban and wild forests, including marine mangrove, seaweed and kelp forests, and transitioning to “regenerative agriculture” by building healthy soils, rich in earthworms, bugs and bacteria, that can absorb vast amounts of carbon dioxide.
The hope is that if we commit the remainder of this century to a new human enterprise of green transition and restoration, there might still be 10% of today’s tropical reefs and redwoods left at the end of the century along with remnant populations of wildlife, plus sufficient foodstuffs for a human population that increases by about 1% yearly and has more than doubled since the first Earth Day in 1970.
Some of today’s economic trends and social movements, including the movement to divest from fossil fuel companies and direct capital to renewables instead, offer a modicum of hope that “too little” and “too late” can still translate into “do more” and “never say never.”
The market for clean energy, for example, has exploded in the last five years so that now new solar and wind energy is overall cheaper (and more job intensive) than fossil fuels. Plus the demand for green infrastructure and production that the new Inflation Reduction Act is likely to supercharge, along with state-level actions such as California’s ban on the sale of new gasoline cars after 2035, could create a new wave of green innovation and action — a positive climate feedback loop.
It might be too late to turn the tide against global disaster and extinction, but we don’t know because it’s not that easy to read the future. The first 1990 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for example, badly underestimated what we’d likely be seeing by the 2020s. Perhaps the crises we’re living through today make it hard to see what triage could still salvage.
We know we all lose if we don’t capitalize on — and move well beyond — the climate incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act. We have little choice. It will take an all-out effort to defend our home planet and ourselves, come what may. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/commentary-our-too-little-too-late-climate-action-means-triage-more-than-prevention/article_b60671ba-324b-11ed-9b24-0f9eb0d297f1.html | 2022-09-13T08:17:17Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/commentary-our-too-little-too-late-climate-action-means-triage-more-than-prevention/article_b60671ba-324b-11ed-9b24-0f9eb0d297f1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
To the editor — As a regular trail user, I read with interest the Sept. 11 article on Rocky Top Trails.
It seems the public would benefit from a coordinated plan among the “wide variety of entities” who share ownership and management responsibilities at Rocky Top.
Maybe Yakima County could conduct a community planning effort?
SUSAN FAIRBROOK PAOLELLA
Yakima | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-county-led-effort-might-benefit-rocky-top-trails/article_50111084-324d-11ed-9d28-4bf0d47ddc0b.html | 2022-09-13T08:17:23Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-county-led-effort-might-benefit-rocky-top-trails/article_50111084-324d-11ed-9d28-4bf0d47ddc0b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
To the editor — I am looking for intellect, ingenuity, integrity, efficiency, hard work and non-partisanship in our county commissioners.
Angie Girard has demonstrated all of these qualities, and more, in her work with Pacific Northwest University. Unfortunately, the incumbent has exhibited little of these important character traits in her short term in office.
Let’s get back to a county commission that serves the business and interests of the people of the county and not the interests of party or personal ideology.
Let’s elect Angie Girard to the Yakima County Commission, District 1.
BILL BOSCH
Yakima | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-girard-would-bring-county-back-to-serving-the-people/article_ae486784-324c-11ed-b3e7-97a8f79c3aff.html | 2022-09-13T08:17:29Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-girard-would-bring-county-back-to-serving-the-people/article_ae486784-324c-11ed-b3e7-97a8f79c3aff.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Donald Trump made the ludicrous claim, without any creditable proof, that the presidential election was stolen from him in 2020. He knew that it was not, but he began his campaign of repeating and perpetuating the lie over and over again.
Ultimately his loyal followers, including senators, legislators and state officials, began to believe the lie. It is well documented in history, including church history, that the more you repeat a lie the more credible it appears as if it were the truth.
It appears as if Trump will again seek election in 2024. We are beginning to get a glimpse of his campaign platform. It appears as if he is proclaiming himself to be leader of the world to bring peace to all who will bow down and worship him as the divine savior.
Sound familiar? In the end times Satan will deceive the people of the world into believing that he is Lord. Every living person must pay homage to him or die.
Today seemingly intelligent people are persuaded to believe the lie. They vow unfeigned allegiance to Trump. Will Trump become the antichrist as the thresholds of democracy around the world are destroyed?
CHARLES ROBINSON
Prosser | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-the-trump-platform-sounds-chillingly-familiar/article_e3f16aa6-324d-11ed-a066-abe30ac3deda.html | 2022-09-13T08:17:35Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-the-trump-platform-sounds-chillingly-familiar/article_e3f16aa6-324d-11ed-a066-abe30ac3deda.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SEATTLE — The full-throated boos for their former quarterback at the beginning of the night turned into gleeful chants for their new quarterback by the end of it.
“Ge-no, Ge-no, Ge-no,” a healthy assemblage of the remaining crowd of 68,695 at Lumen Field chanted as Geno Smith left the field, arms giddily waving, after Seattle’s stunning 17-16 win over Denver and Russell Wilson Monday night.
But while Smith was something of a revelation in going 23-for-28 with for 195 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions in his first opening-day start in eight years, it was a never-say-die defense that ultimately proved the difference in this one with three second-half goal-line stands.
Well, that and a decision by Denver coach Nathaniel Hackett that is sure to be questioned all season.
As he’d done so often in his decade in Seattle, Wilson — who was booed during pregame warmups, booed when he jogged onto the field before the game and booed when he took midfield for the coin toss — had Denver marching down the field in the final moments, ready to steal another win in the fourth quarter. He pulled off 20 fourth-quarter wins here as a Seahawk, and for a few tense moments, it looked like he might leave town with one more.
But after the Broncos ran a play that snapped with 1:11 left, Wilson completing a nine-yard pass to running back Javonte Williams to set up fourth-and-5 at the Seattle 45, the Broncos let the clock run down to 20 seconds — despite having all of their timeouts.
Denver then called time and sent out kicker Brandon McManus for a 64-yard field goal, which would have tied for the second-longest field goal in NFL history.
Surely many were thinking — Denver gave up three players, five draft picks and forked over a contract worth up to $245 million to Wilson just to take him out with the game on the line?
Even Pete Carroll wondered what was going on.
“I was surprised they took Russ out there at the end,” Carroll said. “We weren’t thinking field goal there. We were thinking it was fourth down and they were still going for it. So it gave us a chance to win the game on that play. So we were fortunate the guy didn’t make the kick. He kicked the hell out of the ball.”
Indeed, the kick appeared long enough but drifted left and no good, allowing Seattle to escape.
Wilson didn’t question the call, saying “I don’t think it was the wrong decision.”
But when the kick fell no good, it allowed the Seahawks to come away with a regular-season win that probably felt better than any other for Carroll in his 13 years with the Seahawks.
And not just because it gave the Seahawks the opening salvo in what will be a yearslong debate over whether Seattle did the right thing in trading Wilson.
Carroll wouldn’t admit the win was validating in any way because of the trade, but surely in a quiet moment Monday night he felt some.
But maybe just as satisfying to Carroll is the way Seattle got the win with smart, tough, gritty play throughout.
First, Smith threw TD passes on two of Seattle’s first four drives to give the Seahawks an early lead — and ultimately, all the points they would get — completing his first 13 passes and 17 of 18 in the first half.
“The moment came to him and he was ready for it,” Carroll said of Smith.
Smith happily said later that “people wrote me off but I never wrote back.” Of the crowd chanting throughout the game and even as he left the field, Smith said, “Tonight was just electric, and to see how it ended up was great.”
With the offense hibernating in the second half — just 37 yards on 18 plays — it was the defense that proved almost LOB-esque on a night when Richard Sherman was on the sidelines before the game and K.J. Wright raised the 12th Man flag.
“It felt like a Seahawks reunion,” Smith said of all the former players in attendance.
On three straight drives in the second half Denver — trailing 17-13 on all three — drove to Seattle’s 3-yard-line or closer and got just three points out of it.
The first came on a fourth-and-1 when Quandre Diggs led a charge of defenders to stuff Melvin Gordon, who then fumbled trying vainly to reach the ball over the goal line with Michael Jackson making the recovery.
The second came on Denver’s next possession when Williams lost the ball as he was tackled behind the line on a third-and-goal at the 1, with Uchenna Nwosu credited with the forced fumble and Jackson again getting the recovery.
On the next drive, Denver got to the 3, and briefly appeared to have scored a go-ahead TD before it was called back due to an illegal motion penalty — one of 12 against the Broncos on the night — ultimately forcing a field goal.
“The belief in our guys to keep hanging down near the goal line for an incredible could of sequences down there,” Carroll said. “Some great group plays that made that happen. Just fantastic stuff.”
No one may have been happier at the way Seattle kept Denver out of the end zone than defensive end Shelby Harris one of three players the Seahawks got from Wilson.
Harris said in an NFL Network that “that’s what happens when you trade one of your best D-linemen to the other team.”
Later in the locker room, he said: “This is what we hang our heads on. You can get as many yards as you need, but you’re not going to get in and we showed that today.”
Music, to be sure, to Carroll’s ears as he has insisted throughout the offseason that he can fashion a team that can be successful even without Wilson — even if he insisted that it wasn’t beating Wilson that made the night special.
“That’s the kind of football we have to play,” Carroll said. “Our special teams were spectacular covering kicks and all with the way they flew and the hits that they made and the celebrations that rose the sidelines up and the fans and all that kind of stuff. That’s validating. The way we coach, the expectations that we have, the belief that we can win on Monday night regardless of what everybody else thought. You know, prime time again. That’s validation in those regards, but not from maybe something else that you are talking about.” | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/professional_sports/seahawks/seahawks-defense-delivers-in-17-16-win-over-russell-wilson-and-the-broncos/article_d5309350-3321-11ed-bbfa-f7c3a5611da5.html | 2022-09-13T08:17:48Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/professional_sports/seahawks/seahawks-defense-delivers-in-17-16-win-over-russell-wilson-and-the-broncos/article_d5309350-3321-11ed-bbfa-f7c3a5611da5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SEATTLE — Seahawks safety Jamal Adams, who suffered a season-ending shoulder injury a year ago and missed time in training camp with a broken finger, is now dealing with another ailment, a knee injury that coach Pete Carroll called “serious.”
“He hurt his knee tonight,” Carroll said. “Not a typical knee injury. His quadriceps tendon got damaged some tonight. He got hurt, so it’s a serious injury.”
Carroll didn’t offer a timeline, but his statement and tone made it clear that Adams, injured on a sack of Russell Wilson in the second quarter, is likely out for a while.
Adams’ teammate and good friend, Quandre Diggs, spoke solemnly of Adams’ plight after the game.
“It sucks man,” said Diggs, who spent the offseason recovering from a leg injury. “This guy has had a hell of a camp, a hell of an offseason. We hate to see it, especially with Jamal being one of my closest friends. It’s tough. We kind of had the same offseason, just rehab and trying to get back to being the leaders of this team and the leaders of this defense. It’s hard to imagine.”
Adams was injured on a play that snapped with 9:31 to play in the second quarter in which he blitzed and hit Wilson as he threw.
The pass fell incomplete, and the Broncos had to punt after their second possession.
After leaving the field, Adams was examined in the blue tent for a few minutes and then carted off the field with the team then announcing he was doubtful to return. The injury appeared to be to Adams’ left knee.
As with many starters, Adams did not play in the preseason, and Monday’s game was his first action since suffering a shoulder injury Dec. 5, 2021, against the 49ers.
Adams had the middle and ring finger on his left hand fused in the offseason, surgeries he hoped would make for a fully healthy 2022 season, his third with the Seahawks and first on a four-year extension paying him up to $72 million. Adams played just 12 games each of his first two seasons with the Seahawks due to injuries after missing just two games in his first three NFL seasons with the Jets.
Adams was hurt on a play in which Seattle went with a three-safety look, with Adams lining up as essentially a linebacker and Josh Jones playing as the other deep safety alongside Quandre Diggs.
Jones took over as the other safety with Adams out.
Seattle has two other safeties on its roster in veteran Ryan Neal and undrafted rookie free agent Joey Blount.
Adams, who turns 27 on Oct. 17, was acquired for a package that included Seattle’s first-round picks in 2020 and 2021. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/professional_sports/seahawks/seahawks-safety-jamal-adams-has-serious-injury/article_af7a0dfa-3324-11ed-b0c1-1f5e1fde0c71.html | 2022-09-13T08:18:00Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/sports/professional_sports/seahawks/seahawks-safety-jamal-adams-has-serious-injury/article_af7a0dfa-3324-11ed-b0c1-1f5e1fde0c71.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
People who recently arrived in Teton Valley often ask when to expect the cold temperatures and snow to begin. Sometimes they ask in eager anticipation of some skiing or fall hunting, and sometimes they ask in fear for their garden, but curiosity about when the change will happen is always high this time of year. When do we need to start stocking up on our Cheetos?
The calendar tells us that meteorological autumn began on September 1, which means we’re already into it. But the fall that most of us know and love, astronomical fall as defined by the fall equinox, doesn’t begin until next week on September 22nd. Those people familiar with Teton Valley’s weather will tell you that those dates don’t amount to a hill of beans. Every year is different as far as when and how fast fall arrives and how long it lasts before winter sets in.
If the first hard freeze that ends the gardening season means the beginning of fall to you, we got a taste of that late last week. Even in this little valley, temperatures can vary quite a bit from place to place just a few miles apart. Your garden may be just fine while mine is probably the one frosted and brown. Last year, that first freeze held off until the 20th of September, while the year before, it happened on the 8th of the month.
In 2019, the mercury at the airport in Driggs dipped barely below freezing on September 18 and 29th before the bottom dropped out, and we hit the low 20s on September 30th. The year before that, it was September 21, 2018 that first frosted the wings of the planes at the airport. In 2017, it was September 22. So, going by the last several years, late September is a good candidate for your own personal autumn to begin. But wait, there’s more. In both 2016 and 2015, the first freeze at the airport happened on September 6th. This year’s freeze for some on the 9th wasn’t so unusual after all.
While the first freeze often happens suddenly after a warm spell, like it did this year, you can usually watch the first measurable snow creeping down from the mountains around us. That will be later. If that is your measure of the beginning of fall, that usually occurs next month. However, in 2017, the first snow fell on September 16. So once again, be ready for anything any time as we enter the months when Teton Valley turns from green to gold to white, sometimes in a hurry. | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/weatherblog/is-it-fall-yet/article_c9c0586e-324c-11ed-bdc4-e7b53fd49d74.html | 2022-09-13T08:18:10Z | tetonvalleynews.net | control | https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/weatherblog/is-it-fall-yet/article_c9c0586e-324c-11ed-bdc4-e7b53fd49d74.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Queen dies: King Charles III could adopt new approach on UK, says former First Minister Jack McConnell
The new King will place a new emphasis on Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in a bid to unite the UK, former First Minister Jack McConnell has predicted.
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He highlighted how Charles III had flown to Edinburgh immediately after making his first address as King to parliamentarians at Westminster and is now due to visit the other two devolved nations, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Lord McConnell, who was Labour First Minister from 2001 until 2007, said the Queen had embraced change inside the United KIngdom during her reign, attending the first meeting of the Scottish Parliament and regularly meeting First Ministers.
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But in a TV interview after attending the thanksgiving service for the Queen at St Giles Cathedral he said: "It’s not just the Queen over the years who has had that relationship with Scotland. Prince Charles, as he was then – King Charles now – has also been a regular visitor to Scotland. He loves Scotland in the same way.
"And I think it’s really fitting this week that he has come straight from Westminster to Edinburgh and then on to Cardiff and Belfast, showing that the whole United Kingdom can come together at this moment – and I think that will be a way of working, if you like, that he will want to continue in the years to come."
Asked if he expected Charles to be a “modernising monarch”, Lord McConnell said he already was. “He and Queen Camilla are a different kind of couple, they have a different kind of relationship with the country and a different kind of relationship with each other. Change is upsetting and unsettling, but it can also be a positive force for good and it will be really interesting to see in the next few years just what he brings to the monarchy and what Camilla brings to it by his side.” | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/the-queen-dies-king-charles-iii-could-adopt-new-approach-on-uk-says-former-first-minister-jack-mcconnell-3841033 | 2022-09-13T08:25:47Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/the-queen-dies-king-charles-iii-could-adopt-new-approach-on-uk-says-former-first-minister-jack-mcconnell-3841033 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Land of the Giants: Hearts' possession plan to counter Riga FS in Latvia
Physiotherapy work at Riga FS might be relentless during this European adventure. Players complaining of sore backs from stooping to walk out of the Skonto Stadium tunnel will be fairly common.
Hearts step into Land of the Giants on Wednesday, 24 hours ahead of the Europa Conference League Group A second matchday. Opponents RFS – Rīgas Futbola Skola to use their full title – are a group of physical specimens whose brute strength and intimidating presence helped earn a draw at Fiorentina last week. Enough said.
RFS stage European ties at Skonto’s home ground because their LNK Sporta Parks stadium is too small. It is comparable in standard to Riccarton’s public pitches with small stands and a capacity of just 2,300. Hence RFS moving across the Daugava River to host continental opposition.
Players towering well above 6ft tall might struggle getting through the aforementioned tunnel, but thereafter they stride around purposefully in their adopted European arena. RFS are Latvian champions, regulars in UEFA competition and know the territory well. Hearts should be wary.
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“They are a very well-organised team,” said the Edinburgh club’s manager, Robbie Neilson. “They switch between a back three and a back four but they have real physicality. Their back three, goalkeeper, centre midfielders and striker are all well over 6ft tall.
“It’s real physical presence, they are good at set-plays and defend very deep. They have a threat in wide areas when they break, so it’s another test for us. It will be different to the Istanbul game because I don’t expect Riga to dominate possession as much as Istanbul do. It’s up to us to keep possession and break them down.”
A 4-0 home defeat by Istanbul Basaksehir just last week provided Neilson and his squad with a rude awakening to the ruthless nature of European group-stage football. RFS won’t show any mercy.
Managed by the former Latvian internationalist Viktors Morozs, they dropped from Champions League to Conference League over the summer. Morozs himself stands 6ft 1in tall and prioritises physicality in his teams, however they can also execute an incisive counter-attack on the ground.
Brazilian forward Emerson Santana Deocleciano links well with 6ft 2in Serbian striker Andrej Ilic, a 22-year-old product of Partizan Belgrade’s youth academy, in a 3-4-3 formation. Behind them is where height and physique could overpower more diminutive Jambos like Cammy Devlin, James Forrest and Barrie McKay.
Riga’s first-choice defence comprises Vitalijs Jagodinskis at 6ft 3in, a 30-year-old Latvian internationalist, plus 6ft 4in Elvis Stuglis, who is 29 and also a Latvian internationalist. Then there is the hulking 6ft 6in Slovenian Ziga Lipuscek, who is 25.
Both wing-backs are 6ft tall – the 25-year-old Latvian internationalist Vladislavs Sorokins and 31-year-old Czech internationalist Petr Maraes.
In case any of the above are unavailable, two sizeable Latvian caps will deputise. Kaspars Dubra is 31 and 6ft 3in, while Vitalijs Maksimenko is 31 and 6ft 1in. Maksimenko carries experience of British football after playing for Kilmarnock on loan from Brighton and Hove Albion.
In midfield, RFS are anchored by 6ft 4in Serbian internationalist Stefan Panic and 6ft 1in Croatian Tomislav Saric. They are aged 29 and 32 respectively and have been around the European block a few times.
For appropriate good measure, both goalkeepers are also 6ft 3in – 33-year-old Lithuanian internationalist Vytautas Cerniauskas and 36-year-old Latvian internationalist Pavels Steinbors.
The two reserve centre-backs, Dubra and Maksimenko, both played on Monday as a much-changed RFS team beat Spartaks 3-0 in the Latvian Virsliga. Clearly Europe is a bigger priority.Riga are eager to prove they are more than sacrificial Pot 4 lambs in this section. Ilic’s goal in Florence was a decent start.
“It was an amazing result,” said Neilson. “They were very disciplined, camped in and hit on the break with the front three. Getting a point was massive for them. There are areas where they look good but there are also areas we feel we can get at.
“At this level, I don’t think there is such a thing as whipping boys. Those teams get whittled out in the qualifiers. Riga have a lot of international players with different countries, they have played about 25 European games since we last played in Europe in 2016.
“They have that experience in their group so we need to be respectful of that. If we play well, we are confident we can take something.”
Most of Riga’s starting line-up picks itself but injuries have prevented Hearts enjoying anything like the same consistency. Craig Halkett and Alan Forrest are injury doubts, Kye Rowles, Liam Boyce and Beni Baningime are out with longer-term issues.
“We have missed consistency of selection at the back, that’s been the problem for us,” admitted Neilson. “I don’t think we’ve gone two games in a row with the same defensive line at any point this season.
“That always makes it difficult but that’s just the way it is at the moment given the injuries we have picked up. Hopefully with guys getting back we will have a bit more consistency in that area.”
The Basaksehir result should help inexperienced Hearts learn quicker in the European environment. “Yes, massively,” agreed Neilson. “We have spoken about maintaining our discipline in these European games, especially in the middle of the park.
“If you are a bit too open then these good teams just pop the ball round about you. There is a lot of stuff to learn from it.
“It’s part and parcel of football and we have to take it on the chin. We need to keep fighting away. We played against a very good team, the scoreline at the end was disappointing, but we need to realise we are playing at a very high level. It’s one that we need to aspire to.
“You can’t be too negative on it. Obviously, there is negativity in there because we want to perform better for the full 90 minutes. It’s a big learning curve for everyone.” | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/hearts/land-of-the-giants-hearts-possession-plan-to-counter-riga-fs-in-latvia-3840886 | 2022-09-13T08:26:01Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/hearts/land-of-the-giants-hearts-possession-plan-to-counter-riga-fs-in-latvia-3840886 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LUND, Sweden, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alfa Laval has acquired BunkerMetric, a Scandinavian software company that develops advanced decision support tools for marine bunker vessels. The acquisition is part of Alfa Laval's strategy to expand its digital marine service offering and will be part of the recently acquired StormGeo, a global leader in weather intelligence software and decision support services.
BunkerMetric, headquartered in Denmark, supports ship operators in finding the best bunker procurement plan and improving voyage margins by using sophisticated algorithms. The optimization tools, together with StormGeo's advanced route services, will enable ship owners to streamline operations to help them improve their bottom line. BunkerMetric's procurement optimization tool will become a subscription service within StormGeo's existing offering.
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If one thing in our chaotic world is certain, it’s that TV is so good right now. That much is clear from the 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards, where Oprah joined a who’s who of television stars to present the award for Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie to Michael Keaton for Dopesick.
This year, Oprah’s decision to present was partially in support of her newest collaborator, Reginald Hudlin. Just days before the Emmys, Oprah premiered her newest documentary, Sidney, at the Toronto International Film Festival. Hudlin is Sidney’s director and also a producer of this year’s Emmys.
Oprah brought down the house outfitted in a white floor length Ralph Lauren tuxedo suit—which she actually pulled from her own closet. She paired that with the lowest heel possible—“cause I’m done with high heels and hurting feet,” Oprah revealed to us. “The day finally comes when you realize you don’t have to suffer foot torture to look good. That comes with maturity, folks.” The look was topped off with a lengthy, sparkling braid. “You heard of diamonds on the soles of your shoes?” Oprah said of the hairstyle. “I like this, little diamonds in your hair.”
As she presented the award—walking out to a standing ovation, no less—Oprah used the moment to share how rare it is to win an Emmy Award. Prior to the ceremony, Oprah reflected on the speech, sharing: “I was happy to open. The writers came up with some meaningful words that I thought gave a lovely perspective about the odds of actually winning an Emmy.”
Oprah's words emphasized how special this honor truly is: “There are eight billion people on this planet, but only 25 Emmys to be given out tonight,” she began. “Your chances of winning? 300 million to one.” What Oprah said next is something she’s certainly familiar with. “How do you win one? It starts with a dream. A dream strong enough to endure the knockdowns and rejections.” She then recognized that all the nominees had been through that process—but what sets them apart is they “got back up.” Her words of wisdom before announcing the winner: “There is one thing you can never lose, and that's the belief in yourself.”
The six nominees in the category Oprah announced represent some of the best: Colin Firth for The Staircase, Andrew Garfield for Under the Banner of Heaven, Oscar Isaac for Scenes From a Marriage, Michael Keaton for Dopesick, Himesh Patel for Station Eleven, and Sebastian Stan for Pam & Tommy. After winning, Michael Keaton asked Oprah, “You’ve got about 90 of these, don’t you?” before sharing his gratitude for his family’s support.
Before Oprah headed home, she told us how fleeting of a moment it was. “You spend hours and hours—three hours in traffic, hours in makeup, hours and hours, and it’s, what, 45 seconds on stage? And then it’s done.” But it’s truly a valuable experience in the end: “When Sheryl Lee Ralph won Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in Abbott Elementary, she reminded us to never stop believing. That makes it all worth it. Thanks Sheryl!”
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The more positive risk mood is also helping the pound as it stays in the hunt for a third straight day of gains against the dollar. The UK labour market report earlier saw the unemployment rate fall to 3.6% - its lowest since 1974. That is helping cable find a bit of a lift towards the 38.2 Fib retracement level at 1.1737. That will be a notable resitance point before 1.1800 with the US CPI data in focus today.
As much as the fall in the jobless rate is a positive takeaway, UK pay growth continues to fall rather sharply and is something that warrants attention as inflation grips the economy. The graph here depicts a better picture of the situation.
Going back to GBP/USD, the pair has been on a major downtrend since the turn of the year in a fall from 1.3600 to near 1.1400 earlier this month. There are some positive developments growing for the pound amid fiscal relief to deal with the energy crisis and perhaps the BOE sticking its neck out to really combat inflation pressures.
That said, the Fed is also sitting in the same boat and has more leeway and leverage to work with as compared to the BOE. That will continue to keep a bit of policy divergence - or at least the potential for it - pressure on the outlook for cable.
From a technical perspective, there might be a bit scope for a correction higher now but I would wager that will invite more short positions to follow especially if we move closer to the key trendline resistance (white line) near 1.2000. But first, buyers will also have to get past 1.1800 and some notable Fib levels as seen above. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/gbpusd-holds-higher-after-uk-unemployment-rate-hits-48-year-low-20220913/ | 2022-09-13T08:58:51Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/gbpusd-holds-higher-after-uk-unemployment-rate-hits-48-year-low-20220913/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
OYSADA, ILRI partner to boost livestock production in Oyo
AS parts of efforts targeted at meeting up with the booming demand for livestock consumption in the country, as well as developing livestock farming in the state, Oyo State Agribusiness Development Agency (OYSADA) in partnership with International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) recently organised a one-day workshop on livestock development.
Participants at the workshop identified tax reduction, adequate data for livestock, capacity building, and adequate security as panaceas to improve livestock development in the country.
Speaking on the theme of the workshop, “Developing Evidence-Based Plans, Policies and Investment Options In The Livestock Sector, Country Director for International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Nairobi Kenya, with the Head Office at International Institute of Tropical Agriculture IITA Ibadan, who doubles as technical partner agency for OYSADA, Dr.Tunde Adegoke Amole, condemned the livestock importing culture of the country and called for commercial livestock production to boost the internally generated revenue of the state.
He said “when talking about livestock generally, people are of the opinion that it is not a thing of the south-west, they always think is an occupation for the Fulani people, they thought of people from somewhere else, but I can tell you we have livestock from the state.
Adegoke further said:”In fact apart from Lagos the highest level for point of consumption of livestock is Oyo state, so we are looking at if the people of the state are consuming livestock at such, they should also have the capacity to produce livestock, gone are the days they say our climate is not supporting the livestock production, things have changed in the state, livestock is growing in the state.
“The dairy farmers here just confirmed that they collected 40,000 litres of milk and that is from Oyo state alone, and that is the largest in all over West Africa as a whole, so we are here to discuss how to develop a road map for the livestock, to develop a milestone, a strategic development, to know where we are as far as livestock is concerned in the state, we must understand where we are in terms of livestock production and productivity and what is our desired future goals. Amole said.
Discussants at the event held at IITA, Ibadan, a lecturer at the Department of Animal Science, University of Ibadan, Professor Olugbenga Ogunwole and a general manager of a diary-producing company, Adekunle Olayiwola in their separate views, lamented the totality of various levies charged at a different level of government stressing overtaxing of food items would unnecessarily push up the cost of production.
Professor Olugbenga and Mr Adekunle also stressed the need for finance and data for proper planning, good roads and urged the government to bring in extension officers for the improved livestock sector.
In his words, the Director General of Oyo State Agricultural Development Agency, who doubles as Executive Assistant to Governor Makinde on Agribusiness, Dr. Debo Akande maintained that the programme was put together to design a strategic plan for Oyo state to improve its livestock sector.
Akande noted that the action and direction of the present government is yielding results as statistics recently released by NAERLS, indicated that between 2019-2020, the crop production is higher than what has been doing since 2013 while the size of land the state is cultivating for four crops cumulatively has grown by 40,000 hectares of land.
He said, “The essence of this workshop is to bring together all the actors on livestock, more than often when we talk about agriculture we focus always on crops and we think is high time we start engaging ourselves around livestock, we’ve also realised that beyond the general strategy that we have on agribusiness and agriculture in the state, we don’t have a specific strategic document on livestock, we need to review all the policies to see how that policy can benefit the modern livestock value chain in business and to see how we can also expand the state economy through robust livestock production.
“Oyo state government is highly interested to do all that is possible to see more of our youths in agribusiness either in crop production or livestock. We will continue to support our small hold farmers on this value chain and to also ensure we bring into fold again diverse actors and investors in the area of livestock, that is what we are doing here today.”
“Today we have business people, we have people on cattle rearing, we have people on goat rearing, piggery rearing, some investors, scientists, and we have one of the best researchers on livestock anchoring this international livestock institute along with international Tropical Institute that are partner with Oyo state and this is exactly what Governor Oluwaseyi Makinde has always been clamoring for, that we should ensure we take advantage of our comparative and competitive advantage in the state and use it to run our agribusiness and to run and expand our economy.” Akande said.
Dr. Akande also used the event to analyse the mandate of OYSADA in the state, as well as the gains achieved so far.
He said, “since the inception of this government, the Ministry of agriculture and rural development in the state continues to do what its been doing all these while traditionally focusing on the small hold farmers that is there engagement, their diverse area and they still remain to be, the issue of extension services, where they have a directorate now, while this OYSADA seated under the office of the governor is established to drive investment in agriculture to the state, and to support the development and the growth of youths around diverse value chain of agriculture and these are different things entirely.
“At OYSADA we are focusing on what is been doing, we are focusing on the new frontiers not as if that we are removing and creating a new frontiers and this agency is now leading the front for the state, the recent statistics has shown the directions within this government led by governor Makinde, just last week I got a letter from NAERLS that showed that between 2019 and 2020 our crop production has been higher than what we have been doing since 2013 and this is a data from the federal government.
“Beyond the crop production that we mentioned earlier such as Cassava, Soybean, Maize, and Yam, the data also showed that the size of land that we are cultivating cumulatively between all these crops has grown between another 40,000 hectares of land now if we have to work with FAO statistics that showed that small hold farmers can only use between 0.5 to 0.7 hectares of land it shows that this growth cannot be small hold farmers because with 40,000 hectares you will probably need up to 80,000 farmers as in new farmers to have grown.”
“This showed that the level of investment that is coming from crop production by large and small medium enterprises is coming from the state and this attest to the agribusiness approach and the policies we’ve been talking about, beyond the fact that we are having the emerging processing companies that probably many of you have seen many of them coming but the land that we are cultivating is growing and this to me is a big news from 2019 to 2021 that is what we have as a record. Akande stressed.
Earlier, The Deputy Director General, IITA, Dr Ken Dashiell represented by Sore Zaina described the conference as timely in view of population growth, calling on government to put Infrastructure in place and right technology for livestock sector to meet the needs of the people.
The programme which had in attendance academia, livestock farmers, investors, researchers, and policy makers, also have in attendance Miyetti Allah association among others, provided an opportunities for stakeholders to rub minds together and fashion out ways for better livestock production.
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How ‘Bad Mothers’ Were the Victims All Along
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“I pushed past everyone and opened the bathroom door — it was ridiculous; the locks on that door didn’t even work — and there she was, standing, pacing, holding the sleeping baby. She was dressed for a night out, in Louboutins. The bath is running. You could see the light filling up the bathroom from the choppers. I told her she needed to let Jayden go, and, as she’s about to hand me the kid, the firemen blow things up. They take the kid and bring a gurney and strap her down. She didn’t say anything. She was just looking at me, staring at me.”
Sam Lutfi, a Hollywood operator, recounted the moment Britney Spears was forced into a psychiatric facility. The events leading up to her imprisonment and punishingly long conservatorship had to do with the cultural fixation on her parenting skills. The court of public opinion, judging by her conduct, had a verdict: she was a bad mother, unfit to take care of her children. And at the behest of abusive family members with their own motives, the state took her away, separating her from her own children — even as she held on to them for dear life up until the final moments.
In the aftermath of her newfound freedom today, Spears is once again finding herself having to vouch for her own mothering skills. The cultural fixation on bad mothers has long demonized women for showing lesser “maternal instincts” when it comes to their children. But a recent cultural reset — in the wake of Britney’s conservatorship and films like The Lost Daughter, based on Elena Ferrante’s novella of the same — shows that when women speak about motherhood, the idea of a “bad mother” quickly falls apart.
Society invests its most weighty ideas into motherhood, such that the role itself becomes too heavy a cross to bear. Nation states, Earth, ships, and ideas that instill a sense of place, loyalty, protection, and most importantly, belonging, are all imbued with motherhood. “Woman is an infinite, untrodden territory of desire which at every stage of historical determinism, men in search of material for utopias have inundated with their desires,” wrote Klaus Theweleit. Many nationalist movements, including India’s own, relied upon the construction of an ideal version of womanhood — of which motherhood was an essential part. There is no room for mothers to be anything but ideal women; indeed, being a mother made someone the idealized woman of mythology. Even a cursory scan of the kind of motherhood that popular culture upheld shows how anything less than a self-effacing, self-sacrificial women isn’t worthy of being called a mother at all — inducing guilt in any who may want to clutch their own individuality.
Being a mother didn’t have to be so hard. But induction into motherhood necessarily means induction into the norms of womanhood constructed by larger forces — almost too big for any one person to comprehend. When someone becomes a mother, they accede to an unspoken code of conduct becoming of good women themselves — abandoning their own desires, needs, and personhood in service of a new human that they’ve brought into the world. It makes motherhood one of the most political sites in history: almost all countries, India included, attempt to legislate bodies into a version of motherhood that has little to do with birthing a child, and everything to do with policing the conduct of a person.
When Britney was imprisoned for more than a decade in her own body, it was her motherhood she was denied access to. Her children had to be kept safe from her — all because she didn’t behave the way she was meant to. Bad mothers in pop culture are ubiquitous — with women caricatured as cold, evil, and distasteful for not upholding the constructs foisted upon them. Motherhood then involves forfeiting the right to make mistakes, to be irresponsible, carefree, or even self-interested. Many have noted how neoliberal feminism has warped the definition of empowerment to impose a double burden on women with ambition, while stripping away public funding into services that involve communities coming together for the upkeep of children.
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‘The Lost Daughter’ Unravels the Myth of the ‘Good Mother’
“The expectation that the mother is primarily responsible for the children and family home disfigures our relationships,” writes Rebecca Asher, in Shattered: Modern Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality. Arguably, it’s the relationship that women have with themselves that’s the first casualty of motherhood — leading to a silent, keening anger that bubbles just underneath the surface. And sometimes, the anger bursts forth — leading to an immediate revocation of the right to motherhood, as if it never belonged to mothers themselves.
As more women speak, however, it quickly becomes clear that bad mothers are simply victims of a punishing regime of gender — one that compels women to bend over backward for others but never themselves. Avni Doshi’s novel Burnt Sugar explores this with caustic dispassion — laying bare the tragedy at the heart of motherhood that steers people into destructive choices. In the novel, Tara, who neglected her daughter Antara while following her frenzied passion for a baba (godman) would sometimes “bang her body against the wall and scream silently to herself,” in coping with the unbearable weight of motherhood.
Big Little Lies, a show that intertwines the lives of mothers in a crisis of individuality, shows how motherhood can stifle someone to suffocating proportions. “In Celeste, we realize how far the inevitability of motherhood, and the absolute, all-consuming joy it supposedly brings, has been thrust into women’s psyche — that it has made being remotely dissatisfied with being a mother feel like a personal affront to the kids themselves,” Rajvi Desai wrote for The Swaddle earlier. In Reese Witherspoon’s Madeleine, we see a quintessential good mother’s cracks — she’s not as successful as she might have expected, despite adhering to the script of good motherhood. It makes her confront what she’s lost along the way, in trying to live up to a construct that was arguably never meant to be attainable.
Even historical archives outside the realm of fiction show how “bad” mothers were often mothers in need, pain, or in some form of oppressive institution. Black women were demonized as “welfare queens” and often had their children taken from them; motherhood coalitions in the West further took responsibility for lesbian mothers whose husbands tried to “terminate their motherhood status through the courts.”
In thinking about bad mothers, listening to the mothers speak shows how the judgement that falls upon women for being less than perfect often comes not just from outside, but even from within. There’s perhaps no better treatise on the question of bad motherhood than The Lost Daughter, which forces us to consider that all mothers may actually be bad mothers — for no single mother may want burden they’re entrusted with. Even when, on the outside, they seem fine. “I loved them too much and it seemed to me that love for them would keep me from becoming myself,” says Leda, the novella’s complicated mother who makes a decision early in her life that may have been good for her, but bad for her children. Who’s to say if she was at fault? It was a systemic failure at play that forced her and, in real life, countless women to pit their own lives against those of their children.
Recognizing bad mothers as victims, then, would be to recognize the catch-22 situation that all mothers are forced into by default. The system is designed in such a way that one’s own interests can never align with those of one’s children — as a woman, choosing the former over the latter is to invite the harshest indictment upon one’s personhood. In society, it’s bad enough to be a bad person — but it’s even worse to be a bad mother. But when the bad mothers speak, the cracks in the world at large begin to show. | https://theswaddle.com/how-bad-mothers-were-the-victims-all-along/ | 2022-09-13T09:07:29Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/how-bad-mothers-were-the-victims-all-along/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
IFS solution will provide Hitachi Zosen Inova with full support for construction, operation & maintenance of sustainable energy plants
LONDON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IFS, the global cloud enterprise software company, today announced that global cleantech company Hitachi Zosen Inova has selected IFS Cloud to support its mission-critical enterprise resource planning (ERP) processes.
Hitachi Zosen Inova operates in energy from waste and renewable gas. The company has their roots in Switzerland, where it was established in 1933. Since 2010 it has been part of the Hitachi Zosen Corporation, one of Japan's largest industrial and engineering firms, and now has 1700 employees.
Sustainability is at the heart of Hitachi Zosen Inova's operations - the company helps their clients recover useful materials contained in waste and dispose of non-recyclable waste hygienically and safely, generating renewable energy to reduce the use of raw materials and fossil fuels through state-of-the-art technologies that support modern and holistic waste management.
Hitachi Zosen Inova develops projects with their clients and draws on its experience as a general engineering, procurement and construction contractor to build and deliver complex turnkey plants and system solutions for thermal and biological energy-from-waste recovery, gas upgrading and power to gas. The company also offers comprehensive after-sales services for operators of existing plants and are expanding their business model to offer operation and maintenance of the plants they build.
To support their global transformation goals, Hitachi Zosen Inova selected IFS Cloud. A lack of transparency and visibility as well as inefficient and non-coherent work and reporting processes across the group didn't support the company's growth strategy and goal of becoming a key player in the global energy market. Hitachi Zosen Inova needed a project-centric ERP solution to replace their complex and fragmented system landscape (SAP and many small applications with different interfaces) and support the full project lifecycle of their operations, including bidding, design, procurement, finance, engineering, construction, services, manufacturing and logistics elements.
IFS Cloud will provide Hitachi Zosen Inova with a modern cloud-based platform, which will accelerate the company's transformation and digitalization. With IFS' cloud technology, Hitachi Zosen Inova will have complete end-to-end visibility and control. IFS' extensive project management capabilities will support Hitachi Zosen Inova in realising their expansion strategy - entering new markets, expanding service offerings across operations and maintenance, and retrofitting projects that deliver complete customers satisfaction on time and on budget.
Finally, IFS Cloud's unique industry functionality will enable Hitachi Zosen Inova to excel across all areas of the business, remove operational silos and connect teams to deliver best practice - all through the innovative user interface IFS Aurena. The IFS Cloud implementation will be supported by Arcwide and will be rolled out across 13 countries.
"We selected IFS Cloud to harmonize our global business operations, an important step in supporting our vision to be a key player in the global energy market. Having a single view of our data across the entire business enables us to get better operational visibility and thereby optimize our processes and support our growth strategy, as we can deliver more projects more efficiently", says Gilles Burckel, Director Business Unit Controlling EfW at Hitachi Zosen Inova.
"We are delighted that Hitachi Zosen Inova has selected IFS Cloud for its OneERP Transformation Strategy. As a global organization it's imperative that Hitachi Zosen Inova can simplify and streamline their operational processes to improve efficiency, project delivery and profitability. IFS understands the increasing demand for sustainable power sources and services and supports Hitachi Zosen Inova's journey. We are happy to welcome Hitachi Zosen Inova into our hero customer program - which will see us working together to make the improbable possible", says Vincent Carvalho, COO Northern and Central Europe at IFS.
About Hitachi Zosen Inova
Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) is a global cleantech company operating in energy from waste (EfW) and renewable gas. We develop projects with our clients and then draw on our experience as an engineering, procurement and construction contractor to deliver complex turnkey plants and system solutions. We also offer comprehensive, expert and reliable after-sales services for operators of existing plants. The proximity to our clients is important to us. That is why you will find us not only in Zurich, but wherever you need us. https://www.hz-inova.com/
About IFS
IFS develops and delivers cloud enterprise software for companies around the world who manufacture and distribute goods, build, and maintain assets, and manage service-focused operations. Within our single platform, our industry specific products are innately connected to a single data model and use embedded digital innovation so that our customers can be their best when it really matters to their customers-at the Moment of Service™. The industry expertise of our people and of our growing ecosystem, together with a commitment to deliver value at every single step, has made IFS a recognized leader and the most recommended supplier in our sector. Our team of 5,000 employees every day live our values of agility, trustworthiness, and collaboration in how we support our 10,000+ customers. Learn more about how our enterprise software solutions can help your business today at ifs.com.
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...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES...
.A south swell may briefly push surf heights to advisory levels
along south facing shores through tonight.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Surf 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...Through 6 AM HST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
and strong longshore and rip currents making swimming difficult
and dangerous.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Beachgoers, swimmers, and surfers should heed all advice given by
ocean safety officials and exercise caution.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) - The Department of Education has announced a new plan to offer free bus rides for high school students.
The "Expanding Ridership To Educate Students In Schools", or EXPRESS program, is expected to begin later this fall, as early as October.
The reason cited for the new benefit, is due to a bus driver shortage. The DOE says they are short 100 to 150 drivers.
Out of 50 applicants who applied at a recent recruitment event, only 6 made the cut. The new ridership program will end up helping those in middle and elementary school as well.
The public bus ride to and from school for high school students is becoming a reality. The DOE's new EXPRESS plan that gives those older teens free rides, is set to be active sometime in October.
“The idea is if we can get the majority of our 6,000 high school students on a public bus versus a school bus, we can re-allocate those resources to elementary and middle schools, “ said DOE Student Transportation Services Branch Administrator Emily Evans.
The Department of Education says it's suffering right now when it comes to school bus drivers. Some routes have even been cancelled. “ We had to do 8 on Maui, and you know on Kauai we had to do 5. But on Oahu we've been able to consolidate most of the routes instead of closing them,” said Evans.
“My friend says there's not enough room. You have to stand up. No one likes to stand up. Some times its late. He’s says he misses his bus sometimes,” said high school student Matthew O'Callaghan. He says his friends who ride the school bus constantly complain. He however takes the public bus. And he's excited it's going to be free under the EXPRESS plan. “I feel like a lot more people will ride the bus. Because who doesn't want something free,” said O’Callaghan.
“Developing transit as a habit early on, as part of a student's education is part of developing good habits into adulthood. So we see this as a great opportunity to develop new transit riders for later in life," said Jon Nouchi from the Department of Transportation Services.
“The program would make a difference for me because I would probably ride the bus more. Because its free and convenient for me,” said high school student Cameron Hill. She is one of those in favor of the change.
There are however some concerns from students, about going from a school bus to a public bus. “Taking the bus can be scary with strangers and stuff, personally at a bus stop I was harassed. And it was actually scary times,” said high school student Stacy Cabusas.
Right now, those who come from income challenged homes can often get a HOLO card. Those students will be eventually phased into the EXPRESS plan. The new EXPRESS cards have the advantage of being active through July.
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...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES...
.A south swell may briefly push surf heights to advisory levels
along south facing shores through tonight.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Surf 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...Through 6 AM HST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
and strong longshore and rip currents making swimming difficult
and dangerous.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Beachgoers, swimmers, and surfers should heed all advice given by
ocean safety officials and exercise caution.
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Monday is the anniversary of Isabella Ariel Kalua disappearance. The 6-year-old Waimanalo girl was reported missing by her parents.
The case brought out a community to search for the girl.
After her parents were charged with her murder, it also brought out calls for changes to the state's foster care system.
Over the past few years, there has actually been a drop in the number of children in the state's foster care program. Part of that is because the state provides more support services to keep children in their own homes, but the system still faces a number of challenges.
Hilo resident Joe O'Connell was a foster child as he was growing up.
As an adult, he has been making a difference in the lives of dozens of foster children.
"I saw there was a big need for foster parents. Sometimes the kids you work with don't have homes to go to and it just breaks your heart. So Kawai Saniatan and I decided to become foster parents about seven years ago," said O'Connell.
There are challenges facing Hawaii's foster families, including a shortage of staff who can help when caregivers need it most.
"They are in crisis when dealing with kids and their behaviors and all the trauma. To help them cope with that -- is really challenging," said Kintaro Yonekura, the Asst. Program Development Administrator with DHS' Child Welfare Services.
"There needs to be more social workers - the positions are there but we need people to apply," added O'Connell.
The state says there are 50 vacant positions statewide, some of those include social workers.
"We need more social workers to help even out the case load, and get more eyes on the families in the homes," said Yonekura.
A bill that would have allowed for more monitoring of foster families was passed by lawmakers this legislative session but vetoed by Governor David Ige.
Foster families and support service providers say that oversight is important.
"Making sure we have regular checkups and people go in the home. Making sure the workers see how the dynamics between kids and parents are interacting. That is key because it can prevent things from escalating," said Jonathan Mendoza, a Foster Family Trainer with Catholic Charities.
While there are challenges for the state's foster care system, parents in the program say it comes with some very rewarding benefits.
"The rewards are holidays, like Christmas, when the former foster kids come back to the home and we make a day of it," said Saniatan.
"Some of the rewards come 20 years later. When the kids are in the community and adults themselves and they come up to you and say, 'Sorry Uncle, I gave you such a hard time. But now i have kids can i have them come and spend time with you and have you teach them?'" said Mendoza.
The state has seen a decrease in children entering foster care since 2019. Even though the numbers have been dropping there is still a need for qualified foster families. If you would like to learn more about becoming a foster parent, you can go to https://rcg.hawaii.gov/
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...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES...
.A south swell may briefly push surf heights to advisory levels
along south facing shores through tonight.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Surf 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...Through 6 AM HST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
and strong longshore and rip currents making swimming difficult
and dangerous.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Beachgoers, swimmers, and surfers should heed all advice given by
ocean safety officials and exercise caution.
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FILE - The sun sets behind telescopes on July 14, 2019, at the summit of the Big Island's Mauna Kea in Hawaii. A working group tasked by the state Legislature to come up with recommendations for a new management plan for Hawaii's tallest peak and its affiliated telescopes released the first draft of its proposal Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)
Gov. David Ige today submitted the names of eight nominees for the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority to the Hawaii State Senate for confirmation. The Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority was established by statute via Act 255 (HB2024). The authority is tasked with managing Mauna Kea Lands.
“I want to thank these individuals for stepping forward. Through this new stewardship model, I believe we can find a way for science and culture to coexist on Mauna Kea in a mutually beneficial way,” said Gov. Ige.
The eight nominees are:
Kamanamaikalani Beamer: An individual with ʻāina (land) resource management expertise and specific experience with Hawaiʻi island‑based management.
Gary Krug: An individual who is recognized as possessing expertise in the fields of pre-school through 12th-grade public education or post-secondary education.
Rich Matsuda: A representative from a list of three names submitted by Mauna Kea Observatories.
John Komeiji: An individual with business and finance experience who has previous administrative experience in managing a large private-sector business.
Pomaikai Bertelmann: An individual who is a lineal descendent of a practitioner of Native Hawaiian traditional and customary practices associated with Mauna Kea.
Joshua Mangauil: An individual who is a recognized practitioner of Native Hawaiian traditional and customary practices.
Paul Horner: An individual from a list of three names submitted by the President of the Senate.
Michelle “Noe Noe” Wong-Wilson: An individual from a list of three names submitted by the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
In addition to the eight names submitted to the Senate for confirmation, three ex-officio, voting members will serve on the Authority, as follows:
The chairperson of the board of land and natural resources, or the chairperson's designee. This position is currently held by Chair Suzanne Case.
The mayor of the County of Hawaii, or the mayor’s designee. Mayor Mitch Roth has designated Douglass Shipman Adams, director, research and development management.
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...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES...
.A south swell may briefly push surf heights to advisory levels
along south facing shores through tonight.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Surf 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...Through 6 AM HST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
and strong longshore and rip currents making swimming difficult
and dangerous.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Beachgoers, swimmers, and surfers should heed all advice given by
ocean safety officials and exercise caution.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- It's a been a years-long ongoing battle over an offensive license plate seen on Oahu roads. And now the owner is finally taking a stand.
Edward Odquina, the owner of the "F-C-K-B-L-M" license plate, is now suing the City and County of Honolulu.
After initially approving the plates, the City admitted the approval was a mistake -- and recalled the plates.
After more than a year, and multiple letters from the city, Odquina has still refused to return the plates.
The City suspended his registration, and recently approved taking legal action to get the plates back.
Odquina claims his First Amendment rights are being violated.
"People take some concern with regard to what they percieve to be the specific message here, but remember that free speech covers all speech, it doesn't matter whether or not you agree with the message or whether or not you find it offensive, rough speech, offensive speech is free speech," says Kevin O'Grady, the attorney representing Odquina in the suit.
The city wouldn't comment on Odquina's lawsuit, citing pending litigation.
A hearing on some of the motions in the case is set for October 18th.
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IDnow is supporting IATA to simplify the passenger journey through digital identity
MUNICH, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IDnow, a leading European identity proofing platform provider, is pleased to announce its participation in the International Air Transport Association's (IATA) Accelerate@IATA 2022 accelerator program. IDnow is working with IATA and its members, providing expertise and regulatory know-how in the field of identity proofing and digital identity. Together, IATA and IDnow are working on the shared goal of making flying more seamless and low-touch for passengers, while lowering fraud risks for airlines.
IATA is the trade association for the world's airlines, representing some 290 airlines or 83% of total air traffic. As a leading industry association, IATA is shaping industry standards and the future of aviation.
Through the Accelerate@IATA program, IDnow is contributing to the IATA One ID working group. The goal of IATA One ID is to set industry standards that further streamline the passenger journey with digitalization of admissibility and a contactless process through secure biometric enabled identification. Under the One ID vision, upon completing document checks remotely, passengers will be able to arrive at the airport ready to fly and proceed through each airport touchpoint via simple biometric recognition. The objective is to achieve a truly interoperable global system across airports, airlines and governments.
IDnow is collaborating with airlines and other technology providers members of the IATA Think Tank on a white paper about the application of digital identity in the air travel industry. In parallel, a proof of concept is being developed to show how digital identity can support people with reduced mobility with traveling, and airlines and airports to prioritize the required staff for the necessary support.
"We are very pleased to have IDnow participation in the heart of industry innovation conversations. IDnow brings their expertise on the secure decentralized digital identity to support the airline industry for the journey to customer-centricity." – Kat R. Morse, Senior Manager Innovation, Partnerships and Events at IATA.
"We understand that in the modern air travel industry, digital identities have a huge potential to shape a whole new traveler experience. From lowering the fraud risk for airlines, to creating a more seamless and low-touch experience for passengers and offering a GDPR compliant solution for storing and sharing of biometric pictures for airports and other players – Digital identity is the key. We are excited and proud to have been selected by IATA to work together and to partner with some of the most prestigious airlines of the world to shape the future of air travel", says Michael A. Binner, Director Digital Identity at IDnow.
About IDnow
IDnow is a leading identity proofing platform provider in Europe with a vision to make the connected world a safer place. The IDnow platform provides a broad portfolio of identity verification solutions, ranging from automated to human-assisted from purely online to point-of-sale, each of them optimized for user conversion rates and security.
In 2021, IDnow acquired the French market leader for identity technology, ARIADNEXT, and the German identity Trust Management AG, enabling IDnow to offer its customers one of the broadest identification solutions through a single, integrated platform.
The company has offices in Germany, United Kingdom, France, and Dubai and is backed by renowned institutional investors, including Corsair Capital and Seventure Partners. Its portfolio of over 900 international clients, spans a wide range of industries, and includes leading international players, such as Western Union, UBS, Sixt and Munich Re, as well as digital champions like N26, Solarisbank, wefox and Tier mobility.
UK press contact at IDnow:
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NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of the stock of Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT) between June 8, 2019 and May 25, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than November 7, 2022.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Medtronic securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Medtronic class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8603 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than November 7, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Medtronic's product quality control systems were inadequate; (2) Medtronic had failed to comply with numerous regulations regarding risk assessment, corrective and preventive action, complaint handling, device recalls, and reporting of adverse events; (3) these failures increased the risk of regulatory investigation and action; (4) as a result of the company's misconduct, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") would delay the approval of additional Medtronic MiniMed devices, including the MiniMed 780G; (5) these delays in product approvals, as well as the Company's need to improve its quality control systems, would negatively affect Medtronic's financial performance and cause it to fall further behind its competitors; and (6) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' statements about the company's business, operations, and prospects lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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LONG BEFOON MILLA's death it is certain some time ago: and that time seems much longer since as he fell to a disturbs, than many persons and those which are grown more disaffected with government. And indeed upon some late articles against us the said CLAYNE had a principal influence : in what is in him consists his title : because if we must stand upon principles they can now produce for their support not other than such titles only or rather WEST MICHIGAN — The forecast from FOX 17 Meteorologist Candace Monacelli: A cool start to the morning with a few hit or miss rain chances possible again today. A low-pressure system continues to rotate over the state of Michigan through this afternoon / evening. We'll get a "taste of fall" with this passing system as temperatures will dive into the lower 70s. West Michigan will dry out with sunshine and rebounding temperatures Wednesday through Friday. 80s are back in the forecast this weekend along with rain chances again starting on Sunday. Stay up to date with the latest forecast by downloading our FOX 17 Weather App!
TODAY: The chance for stray showers especially in the morning, otherwise becoming partly cloudy. West northwest winds from 5 to 10 mph. Highs in the lower 70s.
TONIGHT: Partly cloudy and cool. West northwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Lows in the mid 50s.
WEDNESDAY: Mostly sunny skies. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
THURSDAY: Mostly sunny skies. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
FRIDAY: Mostly sunny skies. Highs in the upper 70s.
SATURDAY: Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
SUNDAY: Partly cloudy with a few rain chances. Highs in the lower 80s.
For the latest details on the weather in West Michigan, head to the FOX 17 Weather page. | https://www.fox17online.com/weather/todays-forecast/todays-forecast-partly-cloudy-with-a-few-stray-showers-possible | 2022-09-13T09:18:18Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/weather/todays-forecast/todays-forecast-partly-cloudy-with-a-few-stray-showers-possible | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. Airmen assigned to the 424th Air Base Squadron and Soldiers with USAG Benelux and 39th Strategic Signal Battalion perform an orientation flight in a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft, on Chièvres Air Base, Belgium, Aug. 02, 2022. (U.S. Army video by Pierre-Etienne Courtejoie) | https://www.dvidshub.net/video/857113/orientation-flight-chievres-air-base-b-roll | 2022-09-13T09:25:26Z | dvidshub.net | control | https://www.dvidshub.net/video/857113/orientation-flight-chievres-air-base-b-roll | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Katelyn Landry and her husband welcomed their second baby boy, Leighton.
They were excited about embarking on this new chapter.
Labor and Delivery went well; there was just a little hiccup when it came to Leighton's newborn screening.
"The newborn testing showed that he had hearing but that one ear was just slightly below hearing," Katelyn said.
Katelyn brought Leighton to specialists as she tried to get a handle on the abnormal screening. Through genetic testing, the Landry found out that Leighton has a rare disorder called Usher Type 1C. The "C" strand of Type 1 is the French/Acadian strand of the Usher Syndrome.
"We had no idea this was in our family history, nor did we know it existed. We got that confirmation in January and hit the ground running--talking to all of the Mamas and families."
Katelyn did all she could to help her little boy learn how to communicate with others. She put him in sign language classes and eventually qualified for cochlear implants.
"He got them in July," Katelyn said. "July was when he got the surgery done and we just got them activated three weeks ago, so he just got his hearing and he's doing phenomenal."
The moments following the first time Leighton heard a noise for the first time is something the Landry's will always cherish.
"Just such a relief to see him react to that beep and then he got to hear all of our voices... that was amazing in itself, too."
While the type of strand that Leighton has could eventually cause him to go blind, Katelyn said their family will just take it one day at a time and enjoy these little victories as they come.
For more information on Usher Syndrome 1C you can go to:
https://www.ushonesee.com/
More information about this disorder and the Usher Community here in Acadiana is also included in the link.
There is still time to sign up for the Ush One See 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run. Just head to the link below for all you need to know heading into the event.
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WHAT TO KNOW TODAY
NEW from THE TRACE: Ghost gun retailers have already found a way around new federal regulations. In August, a new ruling from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives took effect, requiring retailers to serialize kits of gun parts, and background check anyone who buys them. But the ruling requires serialization only for complete firearm kits — if retailers sell the parts separately, the new ruling will not apply. “This is sort of the standard pattern,” Stanford University law and economics professor John Donohue told Alain Stephens. “The industry fights regulation, then guts regulation, and at the very least, leaves themselves an easy workaround.” Read our report here.
Credit card companies to categorize gun sales. Visa announced Saturday that it plans to start categorizing purchases made at gun shops, a major victory for gun control advocates who have long sought another way to track suspicious firearms sales. American Express and Mastercard later announced they would follow suit, with each company set to adopt the International Organization for Standardization’s new merchant code for gun sales.
Shares at Smith & Wesson fall. The gunmaker’s stocks fell Friday morning after the company reported that demand for its weapons had dropped to pre-pandemic levels. The gunmaker reported $84.4 million in sales during its fiscal first quarter — a 69% decrease from the same time last year. The dip offers some of the earliest indication that demand for guns is easing following the pandemic’s record surge. As of September 1st, though, gun sales estimates from the National Instant Criminal Background Check system suggested consistently elevated levels.
An old elastic mill in Boston becomes the nation’s top gun hub. The former elastic mill in Littleton, Massachusetts, hosts 80 licensed firearms dealers and manufacturers — 23 more than the zip code with the next highest concentration of gun stores. According to The Boston Globe, many of the Mill’s businesses openly defy Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s assault weapons ban, announced in 2016. According to the Globe, the Mill’s longtime property manager, Jack Lorenz, even has a saying: “Healey language is not spoken at the Mill.”
Holstered gun of Milwaukee officer fires. A Milwaukee Police Department officer’s weapon fired while in its holster Saturday evening, according to the department, striking another officer in the leg. The shooting is not the first among Milwaukee police, who have previously complained about the reliability of their service weapons — the Sig Sauer P320. Last October, the city’s local ABC station reported that Milwaukee Police Department pistols fired on their own twice in the previous six months.
Six killed and 28 injured by guns in Chicago over the weekend. A man was shot after a collision with a vehicle and two men were shot at one of the city’s transit authority stations. Among the injured were seven teenagers. The violence brings Chicago’s yearly homicide total up to 474, still fewer than the number of people killed in the city this time last year, according to The Chicago Tribune.
DATA POINT
62.5 — The percentage increase in mass shootings in Texas since Governor Greg Abbott legalized permitless carry in the state last year. [Reform Austin] | https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/credit-track-guns-texas-sales/ | 2022-09-13T09:32:29Z | thetrace.org | control | https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/credit-track-guns-texas-sales/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOS ANGELES: The Emmy awards, the highest honors in television, were handed out at a live ceremony in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday morning (Indian time). Following is a list of winners in key categories.
Best Drama Series: 'Succession'
The third season of the HBO drama 'Succession' secured the best drama series award at the 74th annual Television Academy Awards. The drama centres on the Roy family, the dysfunctional owners of Waystar RoyCo, a global media and entertainment conglomerate, who are fighting for control of the company amid uncertainty about the health of the family's patriarch, Logan Roy. Earlier in 2020, the drama won the best drama series award for its second season
Best Comedy Series: 'Ted Lasso'
Ted Lasso' starring Jason Sudeikis was in competition with 'Abbott Elementary', 'Barry', 'Curb Your Enthusiasm', 'Hacks', 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel', 'Only Murders in the Building' and 'What We Do in the Shadows' in the Comedy series category. Last year too, the series won the award in the same category.
The series follows Ted Lasso, an American college football coach who is hired to coach an English soccer team in an attempt by its owner to spite her former husband. Lasso tries to win over the skeptical English market with his folksy, optimistic demeanor while dealing with his inexperience in the sport.
Best Limited or Anthology Series: 'The White Lotus'
Originally intended as a six-part limited, 'The White Lotus' is an American comedy-drama anthology series. It follows the guests and employees of the fictional White Lotus resort chain, whose stay becomes affected by their various dysfunctions. The first season is set in Hawaii and the second season will be set in Sicily.
Best Comedy Actor: Jason Sudeikis for 'Ted Lasso'
'Ted Lasso' star Jason Sudeikis took home his second Emmy for best actor in a comedy series at the 74th annual Television Academy Awards. "Oh nuts," Sudeikis said on Monday night while accepting the award from 'Law & Order: SVU' stars Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay, reports 'Variety'.
"I have sat at home and watched awards shows, my mom loves awards shows, and I always bust people's walls that get up here and say 'I didn't think I had a chance'," the actor said.
Best Comedy Actress: Jean Smart for 'Hacks'
Jean Smart won for 'Hacks' Season 2, which aired on HBO Max beginning in May. The show was renewed for a third season in June shortly after the second season debuted. This is Smart's second consecutive win in the category after her victory for 'Hacks' Season 1 last year. She has been nominated for 12 Emmy Awards throughout her career with five wins, counting this and last year's win.
Best Drama Actor: Lee Jung-jae for 'Squid Game'
Actor Lee Jung-Jae's impeccable performance in the globally popular South Korean survival drama show 'Squid Game' has earned him the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series honour at the 74th annual Television Academy Awards. Jung-Jae was up against names such as Jason Bateman ('Ozark'), Brian Cox ('Succession'), Bob Odenkirk ('Better Call Saul'), Adam Scott ('Severance') and Jeremy Strong ('Succession').
Best Drama Actress: Zendaya for 'Euphoria'
Actress-singer Zendaya, has become the youngest two-time Emmy winner in history with the 'Euphoria' Lead Actress win. She is also the first Black woman to win Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series twice at the Primetime Emmy Awards.
While giving her speech, the 26-year-old thanked the cast and crew of 'Euphoria', as well as those who talked about their addiction stories with her.
"My greatest wish for 'Euphoria' was that it could help heal people, and I just want to say thank you to everyone who shared their story with me," she said.
Best Actor, Limited Series or Movie: Michael Keaton for 'Dopesick'
Hollywood star Michael Keaton took home the Emmy for Best Actor in a Limited Anthology Series at the 74th Television Academy Awards, for his role in Hulu's critically acclaimed 'Dopesick' series.
He was up against Colin Firth in 'The Staircase', Andrew Garfield in 'Under the Banner of Heaven', Oscar Isaac in 'Scenes from a Marriage', Himmesh Patel in 'Station Eleven', and Sebastian Stan in 'Pam & Tommy', reports Collider.
Best Actress, Limited Series or Movie: Amanda Seyfried for 'The Dropout'
Amanda Seyfried lifted the trophy for the Best Lead Actress in a Limited Series for the Hulu show 'The Dropout' at the awards. "This is a really nice feeling," she said.
The actress, who won praises for her portrayal of disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in 'The Dropout', was nominated with Julia Garner ('Inventing Anna'), Margaret Qualley ('Maid'), Sarah Paulson ('Impeachment: American Crime Story'), Lily James ('Pam & Tommy') and Toni Collette ('The Staircase'). | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/09/13/emmy-awards-74-annual-television-succession-ted-lasso-the-white-lotus-winners-list.html | 2022-09-13T09:38:47Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/09/13/emmy-awards-74-annual-television-succession-ted-lasso-the-white-lotus-winners-list.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Atlantic Ocean:
Tuesday: SW 5-15 knots. Seas: 3-4 feet.
Wednesday: Small Craft Advisory Possible. NW 10-20 knots. Seas: 3-4 feet.
Chesapeake Bay:
Tuesday: Small Craft Advisory after 8pm. W 5-15 knots. Waves: 1 foot.
Wednesday: NW 5-10 knots. Waves: 1 foot.
Delaware Bay:
Tuesday: W 5-10 knots. Seas: 1-2 feet.
Wednesday: NW 5-15 knots. Seas: 1-2 feet. | https://www.wboc.com/marine-forecast-for-tuesday-september-13-2022/article_c833bf3a-3338-11ed-bb3a-dbaa809bea19.html | 2022-09-13T09:39:52Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/marine-forecast-for-tuesday-september-13-2022/article_c833bf3a-3338-11ed-bb3a-dbaa809bea19.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
DOVER, Del. (AP) - Democratic Party voters in Delaware are set to decide whether the incumbent state auditor, who is awaiting sentencing on criminal charges for corruption, deserves a chance at reelection in November.
The Democratic primary for auditor is the only statewide race on Tuesday’s ballot, which also features several legislative contests.
Auditor Kathy McGuiness was found guilty in July of three misdemeanors - official misconduct, conflict of interest and noncompliance with procurement rules - but the jury acquitted her on felony charges of theft and witness intimidation. The judge later tossed the procurement conviction in a post-trial ruling but upheld the other two convictions. They carry presumptive sentences of probation.
McGuiness is being challenged by Lydia York, an attorney who has been endorsed by the state Democratic party and was one of its presidential electors in 2016. McGuiness is the first statewide elected official in Delaware convicted on criminal charges while in office.
Campaign finance reports show York is raising and spending more money than McGuiness in their primary contest. As of Sept. 5, York reported raising $62,415 and spending $62,095.26 since establishing a campaign committee in late May, while McGuiness reported raising $33,770 since January and spending $43,574.19.
In other races Tuesday, there's a five-way Democratic primary in state Senate District 14 to replace Bruce Ennis of Smyrna, who is retiring after 40 years in the legislature. Ennis has been a lone conservative Democratic voice in the state Senate for years. On the Republican side, Dover-area incumbent Sen. Colin Bonini faces two primary challengers in District 16 as he tries to keep the seat he has held for 27 years.
In the state House, six Democratic incumbents, including two members of a progressive wave that shook up the party in 2020, are facing primary challengers. There's also a four-way Democratic primary for the Dover seat left open by Rep. Andria Bennett’s retirement. Rep. Bryan Shupe of Milford is the only House Republican facing a primary challenge.
Regardless of Tuesday’s results, there is little danger that Democrats will lose control of the House or Senate in November. | https://www.wboc.com/news/democrat-primary-for-auditor-tops-primary-races-in-delaware/article_1dc65d58-333a-11ed-807d-77ec96f72ef6.html | 2022-09-13T09:39:58Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/democrat-primary-for-auditor-tops-primary-races-in-delaware/article_1dc65d58-333a-11ed-807d-77ec96f72ef6.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Forecast Updated on Tuesday, September 13, 2022, at 3:50am by WBOC Meteorologist Mike Lichniak
Today: A lingering shower or storm early in the morning leads to a partly to mostly sunny afternoon. Highs: 81-86. Winds: W-NW 5-15 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Lows: 58-68. Winds: NW 5-20+ mph.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny. Highs: 77-83. Winds: NW 5-20+ mph.
Wednesday Night: Clear. Lows: 55-65. Winds: N 5-10 mph.
Thursday: Sunny. Highs: 77-83. Winds: N 5-10 mph.
Friday: Sunny. Highs: 78-84. Winds: NE 5-10 mph.
The cold front has not cleared Delmarva as of the time of writing this update on the web and will lead to a lingering chance of showers and storms early this morning. The good news is that things will be improving throughout the day on Tuesday as the sky will start to clear out nicely once the front arrives and the wind shifts out of the north and west later today. This will set us up for a nice stretch of weather for the foreseeable future. Temperatures on Tuesday should reach the mid 80s in some places due to our morning temperatures starting in the 60s and low 70s as it should still be on the humid side to start the day.
High pressure controls the forecast for the rest of the workweek and for the weekend with very comfortable conditions for most of bike week on Delmarva. Temperatures in the 70s and low 80s from Wednesday through Saturday with morning temperatures in the 50s most mornings these days. The wind will eventually start to turn out of the southeast and south over the weekend. This will lead to warming temperatures with highs in the mid 80s by Sunday and Monday with this wind.
This ridge of high pressure is going to be staying put for a long time as indications right now are hinting at no real chance of any precipitation over the next ten days. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/forecast-summary/lingering-shower-or-storm-this-morning-leads-to-great-weather-ahead/article_98e8365c-3338-11ed-9830-1f7b383f007e.html | 2022-09-13T09:40:04Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/forecast-summary/lingering-shower-or-storm-this-morning-leads-to-great-weather-ahead/article_98e8365c-3338-11ed-9830-1f7b383f007e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to David Ambroz about his memoir which delves into his childhood, his mother's mental illness and abuse, hunger and homelessness, and of profound love for his siblings.
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NPR's Rachel Martin talks to David Ambroz about his memoir which delves into his childhood, his mother's mental illness and abuse, hunger and homelessness, and of profound love for his siblings.
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Typo-prone texters, rejoice: The newest Apple iOS now allows users to edit – and even unsend – messages sent via iMessage.
If you, like me, have been known to need follow-up messages with asterisks correcting errors – or worse, to send messages to the wrong people entirely – iOS 16 comes with a simple fix: Simply tap and hold on the message you've sent then choose "edit" or "undo send."
Users can edit any message up to five times, and they have 15 minutes to edit the text after sending it. (Apple reportedly decreased this time limit after feedback that the feature could be abused.) Your recipient will be able to see a history of your changes.
You'll have even less time to unsend a message – just two minutes – and the person on the receiving end will be able to see that you've deleted a message.
Some other important notes: The features are only available on Apple devices. They only work when the recipient is another Apple user. And they work best if the person receiving your message has also installed iOS 16 (otherwise, users will see a list of every version of the text message you have edited).
Messages sent to users of Android phones, in other words, cannot be edited or unsent. (Apple does not make iMessage available on other phones and has long refused to adopt a newer text messaging standard called RCS that would allow more feature-rich conversations with non-Apple users.)
If you find those restraints too limiting, consider a third-party messaging app: Telegram and Viber have long had the option to edit messages, and even more services allow users to unsend or delete messages, including Instagram, WhatsApp and Signal. All are available on both Apple and Android phones.
The new iOS comes with a host of other features, including customizable lock screens and more sharing options. iPhone users can download the update at any time. iPad users will have to wait until October.
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In July 1995, weather reports in Chicago started warning residents about an incoming heat wave. It was going to be hot – around 100 degrees – but nothing that was unheard of for a Chicago summer.
That heat wave turned out to be one of the deadliest in recorded U.S. history.
More than 1,000 people died across the larger region. In Chicago, Black residents made up half the deaths. Many were older people who had succumbed inside their homes, as they tried to ride out the sweltering heat.
The heat wave's heavy toll was largely due to its high humidity. In muggy, humid air, the human body struggles to cool off, because sweat doesn't evaporate as well.
As heat waves get more frequent, longer and more intense with climate change, disaster experts say the country's current heat warning system is falling short. Many heat waves are deceptively deadly, but traditional weather forecasts often don't capture the full extent of the risk.
The National Weather Service's main heat alert system, the heat index, may be leading the public to misjudge the dangers. It shows how humidity makes the temperature feel hotter, but only for a person sitting in the shade, leaving out outdoor workers and others who spend hours in the sun.
New research also shows the heat index may also be underestimating the effect of temperatures on the human body as they get more extreme, low-balling the hazard from heat.
"We're seeing people die needlessly," says Kristie Ebi, a professor at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington. "We certainly need a better understanding of how to communicate to people that, in fact, they do need to take action."
Dangerous heat is more than just the temperature
Humans have a powerful mechanism to keep themselves cool, not shared by much of the animal kingdom. Sweating reduces our core temperature, since it carries heat away when it evaporates from our skin.
Without evaporation, humans are out of luck. And in humid air, it's much harder for sweat to evaporate effectively.
"Only sweat that evaporates has any ability to cool the body," says Larry Kenny, professor of physiology at Penn State University. "When it gets close to the humidity of the sweat on the skin, it can no longer evaporate."
When high heat and humidity pass a threshold where almost no evaporation takes place, people can die within a matter of hours, even just sitting in the shade.
The heat index shows the full danger, but only for people in the shade
To capture the real impact of a heat wave, the National Weather Service uses its heat index. It portrays what the temperature and humidity really "feel like" to the human body. So if the temperature is 88 degrees and the humidity is at 75%, it really feels like 103 degrees.
The calculations are based on seminal research from 1979, which models how humans physiologically handle heat. But the equations leave out an important factor: sunlight.
The heat index only shows what temperatures feel like in the shade, without the added heat from standing in the sun.
"When you're in direct sunlight, it can feel about 15 degrees warmer," says Kimberly McMahon, public weather services program manager at the National Weather Service. "If you're doing vigorous physical activity and you are in direct sunlight, not to mention, say you are over blacktop as opposed to standing above grass, the heat can have a different impact."
That means the heat index isn't applicable for outdoor workers, sports teams and other groups who must spend hours in the sun. Using the current heat index could lead them to underestimate the danger they're in.
The heat index is also modeled on how a healthy person responds to heat – and a specific one at that: 5 foot 7 inches and 147 pounds. Other groups - older people, pregnant people and those with chronic health conditions - have a much harder time coping with heat and are much more susceptible to its effects.
Heat index also lowballs the impact of higher temperatures for everyone
As pivotal as the heat index research was, it had a flaw. It models how humans physiologically feel heat, but at higher temperatures, the model broke down and it couldn't calculate the effects of high heat and humidity. To complete the heat index, the National Weather Service extrapolated using the lower temperature to fill in the gaps for the higher temperatures.
New research suggests that method doesn't capture how much more dangerous higher temperatures can be. UC Berkeley researchers David Romps and Yi-Chuan Lua worked with the original model to allow it to calculate higher temperatures.
They found the National Weather Service's current heat index is underestimating the effect of high heat by as much as 28 degrees. One example: in the 1995 Chicago heat wave, the heat index at the time showed the temperature and humidity felt like 124 degrees. Romps says using a corrected heat index, conditions actually felt like 141 degrees, putting the human body under an immense amount of cardiovascular stress.
"Using the correct heat index would allow us to identify those handful of times where the heat is so severe that it is pushing our bodies close to the breaking point," Romps says. "What's so important about it is that we can identify the times where the warnings really need to be made with clarity, and people really need to pay attention."
The National Weather Service says it's currently reviewing the results of Romps' research.
"We're trying to always learn more and take into consideration how we can improve not just our communication on heat, but how we can improve the different heat stress indicators," McMahon says . "So we are working with the CDC, EPA and as well as many other of our federal partners to continue to try to find better and more widespread ways of alerting the general public, our emergency managers and our decision makers."
Convincing the public that heat is more than a nuisance
For many, heat is all too common in the summertime and seems like more of a nuisance than a real danger. But climate change is making heat waves hotter, longer and more frequent.
"These are outside of people's envelope of experience and they don't expect them," says Ann Bostrom, professor of environmental policy at the University of Washington. "So in those kinds of contexts, it's very difficult for people, understandably, to understand the risks they're exposed to."
In addition to the heat index, the National Weather Service releases an "excessive heat warning" when a heat wave gets dangerous. But critics say that language is too general and not specific enough for vulnerable groups.
"There is a big difference between knowing it's hot and knowing what I need to do individually," Ebi says. "We do need to work better on the messaging."
The weather service is piloting a new kind of heat alert in the Western U.S., known as HeatRisk. It provides heat alerts at four different levels, with specific warnings for who is at risk. It also takes into account how long a heat wave has been going on, as well as whether people are enduring high nighttime temperatures, giving them little respite.
Last week, California also approved a first-of-kind bill that requires the state to develop a heat wave ranking system, which will establish warnings based on the health impacts of heat on vulnerable populations.
Disaster experts say even the most targeted messages aren't useful unless they're actually reaching people. A key step is working with local groups to reach vulnerable populations, like senior centers, neighborhood groups or church groups.
As temperatures keep rising, even cities that aren't known for blistering summers will need to begin that kind of planning.
"It's not just the hottest cities that need to be addressing heat," says Sara Meerow, associate professor at Arizona State University who works on heat. "Communities everywhere do. Places that have not had to worry as much about excessive heat need to now."
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U.S. wants global powers to agree not to blow up satellites in space
Modern communication and navigation depend on sophisticated satellites in space — and world leaders are trying to come up with rules that would prevent each other from blowing up those tools.
Why it matters: Simply testing an anti-satellite weapon can create dangerous debris, even leaving aside the consequences if a potential future conflict played out in space.
- Efforts to come up with international rules for how space should be used have stalled in the UN for more than a decade.
- But experts say the increasingly important role of satellites across industries and vast swathes of life could soon spur countries to advance protective measures on the international stage.
Driving the news: A UN working group is meeting in Geneva this week to try to address how best to establish rules that would reduce the potential for conflicts in orbit.
- U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris announced last week that the U.S. will put forth a resolution at the UN General Assembly calling on countries to stop testing destructive, direct-ascent anti-satellite weapons.
- In April, Harris announced the U.S. would no longer test anti-satellite weapons. Canada, Japan and New Zealand have also stated they won't test these types of weapons.
- "Our goal is that this resolution is adopted with the broadest possible support," the State Department's Monica Medina said during the National Space Council meeting last week.
Background: Destructive anti-satellite tests have left parts of Earth's orbit littered with debris in recent years.
- Space debris moves at more than 17,000 miles per hour. Even paint-chip-sized bits of junk can be devastating because of their speed.
- Russia conducted an anti-satellite test in 2021, blowing up its own satellite with a missile and creating thousands of pieces of space debris. Some of that space junk threatened to hit the International Space Station.
- India, China and the U.S. have also performed destructive anti-satellite weapons tests.
The stakes are highest for the U.S. — and increasingly China — both of which have sophisticated satellites that underpin their military activity.
- But other countries have also started to increasingly rely on space for everyday life, potentially leading to a groundswell of support for establishing rules that would keep Earth's orbit safe for use.
Yes, but: Not all nations see eye-to-eye on defining the biggest threats.
- The U.S. views reckless behavior — like testing destructive anti-satellite weapons that can create space debris — as a primary threat.
- But Russia and China say they are concerned about weapons placed in space, which is the focus of a treaty the countries proposed in the UN.
Between the lines: There are other, non-destructive means of messing with enemy satellites — from jamming to dazzling — which leave them temporarily disabled and are harder to attribute to a bad actor.
- Russia carried out a cyber attack on Viasat one hour before invading Ukraine.
What to watch: Whether nations can find far-reaching common ground around weapons testing remains to be seen.
- "It is possible this week could become more contentious as they discuss various concepts of what threats to space are," the Secure World Foundation's Victoria Samson, who is in Geneva for the meeting this week, tells Axios. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/13/anti-satellite-weapons-tests-ban | 2022-09-13T09:44:39Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/13/anti-satellite-weapons-tests-ban | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The midterms are just weeks away, but for some the battle over the 2020 presidential race rages on. Conservative activists are asking for 2020 voting documents from officials in Ohio and elsewhere.
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The midterms are just weeks away, but for some the battle over the 2020 presidential race rages on. Conservative activists are asking for 2020 voting documents from officials in Ohio and elsewhere.
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Hospitals mark up discounted cancer drugs at much as 11 times, report says
Safety net hospitals are marking up the cost of drugs they buy through the government's discount drug program by as much as 11 times the cost, according to a new report provided first to Axios by the Community Oncology Alliance (COA).
Why it matters: It's the latest evidence of how providers can benefit from the federal 340B drug pricing program, which provides discounted medicines to ensure access to low-income patients.
- Those markups ultimately drive up the cost of care for cancer patients by thousands of dollars — particularly those with high-deductible health plans or who are paying cash, the oncology group says.
What they're saying: "This program has turned into literally an unbelievable cash cow," said Ted Okon, executive director of the COA.
Zoom in: The COA examined self-reported drug pricing data for 49 of the top acute care hospitals in 340B that see a disproportionate share of poor patients.
- Based on the assumption of they were receiving a 34.7% discount on the average sales price of the drugs, the median markup of the oncology drugs studied was 4.9 times hospitals' acquisition costs.
- The lowest average markup was for the leukemia drug Kymriah (3.2 times). The highest was Faslodex, for breast cancer (11.3 times).
- The price that 340B hospitals charge insurers relative to their purchase price is substantially higher for commercial insurance compared to Medicare
- “They’re marking up drug prices that are already high by an excessive amount," Okon said. "What that means regardless of what the government may do in saying they’re going to bring down drug prices by negotiating is hospitals are going to mark them up even more.”
The big picture: 340B hospitals have been facing increasing scrutiny over how they pocket savings from drug purchases that are supposed to be passed on to low-income patients.
- Another report out yesterday by the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest found hospitals were reaping 340B revenue without providing commensurate charity care.
Reality check: Both of those groups are partially funded by the pharmaceutical industry, which is forced to provide those drugs at a discount. The industry has been fighting to change the 340B program and as we reported yesterday, drugmakers have been scaling back their participation in recent years.
- Hospital groups such as the American Hospital Association strongly defend the program, saying the "340B discounts help hospitals devote more resources to services and programs for vulnerable communities and increase access to prescription drugs for low-income patients." | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/13/hospitals-cancer-drugs-mark-up-report | 2022-09-13T09:45:04Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/13/hospitals-cancer-drugs-mark-up-report | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. military civil engineers and members of the Timor-Leste Defense Force repair the ceiling in a classroom during renovations on a school as part of Pacific Angel 22-4 in Baucau, Timor-Leste, Sept. 12, 2022. The operation, scheduled for Sept. 12-17, will focus on capacity building through health services outreach, engineering civic action program construction projects and subject matter expert exchanges. Pacific Air Forces participates in PAC ANGEL 22-4 in order to advance interoperability and build upon established partnerships between our military forces and our allies and partners. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Breanna Christopher Volkmar)
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220830-N-MZ836-1067 BALTIC SEA (Aug. 30, 2022) The Swedish patrol vessel HMS Malmo (P12), front, the Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44), left, and the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24) sail in formation during a photo exercise with the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) Aug. 30, 2022. The Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group and embarked 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, under the command and control of Task Force 61/2, is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied and partner interests. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jesse Schwab)
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A contentious policy for transgender students drew dozens of parents to the Gardner Edgerton Board of Education meeting on Monday night.
A new proposal was up for discussion following a divisive plan introduced in July, which would have required students to use the name, pronouns and restrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificates.
Former and current students in attendance on Monday said the proposed policy did not go far enough to protect transgender students.
“You are putting my friends at risk. You are putting the people I care about at risk. Students know what they need, and that is acceptance. If they can't have it at home, they need it at school,” said Elizabeth Fiedler, a senior at Gardner Edgerton High School.
The revised policy would still require students to use the restroom or locker room that corresponds with their “gender assigned at birth,” or use a unisex facility. However, it also states staff should address students by their preferred name and pronouns.
Under the guidance, a transgender student or their parent would need to notify a district administrator or counselor that they want to be recognized in a consistent manner with their gender identity. It would also require parents of students under 18 to be notified, unless the district determined otherwise after consultation with its attorney.
Ahead of the meeting, the ACLU of Kansas said the policy wasn’t sufficient at providing teachers and staff guidance on how to handle a situation where a student doesn’t want their identity disclosed to their family.
“Revealing a student’s sexual orientation or gender identity to their parents can lead to those students experiencing physical abuse or being kicked out of their homes,” the ACLU said in a letter to the school board.
The ACLU also warned the board that the policy could violate federal anti-discrimination laws and students’ equal protection rights. It noted that there are no state or federal statutes that make schools require students to use the restrooms or locker rooms that correspond with their sex assigned at birth.
Beyond legal concerns, several parents, teachers and community members also told the board that the proposed policy could further alienate and harm the mental health of transgender students, who already face higher rates of suicide.
Still, other parents spoke in support of the board’s original proposal, which would have also included discipline for students who violated its policies. Some parents also expressed concerns that teachers or administrators would potentially not be required to disclose their child’s gender identity.
“We need to have a baseline of trust with the staff and teachers that have so much influence on our children. A policy that allows or encourages teachers to hide things about my child is unacceptable,” said Melissa Hershey, the mother of two sons in the district.
After more than an hour of public comment, Superintendent Brian Huff said the board sought to create “a safe, welcoming environment” for students.
“We're a public school. We invite everybody to come. We want to provide a good educational environment for all students, and we want to provide a good work environment for all of our staff,” Huff said. “So we have a lot of balancing and a lot of competing interests when it comes to a situation like this.”
Huff said making a final policy is going to be a long process and will include more input. The board did not take a vote on a policy at Monday’s meeting, but is working on a survey to send to staff on the issue. | https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-09-13/you-are-putting-my-friends-at-risk-kansas-school-districts-proposed-transgender-policy-sparks-division | 2022-09-13T09:51:06Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-09-13/you-are-putting-my-friends-at-risk-kansas-school-districts-proposed-transgender-policy-sparks-division | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Despite Missourians' displeasure with the state's abortion ban, it doesn't seem to be affecting their voting habits. A St. Louis University and YouGov poll found that 75% of Missouri voters believe that there should be exceptions for rape and incest, yet Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who enacted the ban, maintains a significant lead in the race for U.S. Senate. St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum outlines these discrepancies.
The 988 hotline was created to assist those who are in mental health crises. After the hotline's introduction, Missouri saw a 30% increase in callers to crisis help centers. Despite its success, some advocates question if the hotline will continue to be funded in the long term. St. Louis Public Radio's Sarah Fentem reports.
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The Kansas City Council in late August passed a climate plan intended to drive the city toward a more sustainable future, with goals of becoming “climate neutral” by 2040. Stakeholders from the community worked Kansas City’s 133-page Climate Protection and Resiliency Plan for two years, but it was adopted not as a set policy for the city to follow, but as a road map.
That’s because a 2021 Missouri law ties the hands of cities in some respects as they seek to reduce their dependence on coal-powered electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The law, which passed the legislature as HB 734, prohibits cities and municipalities from adopting any policies that remove access to a utility service based on the type of energy it provides.
Missouri’s law prevents cities from changing utility hookup requirements in things like their building codes. For example, a city in Missouri can no longer pass an ordinance banning new buildings from using natural gas.
Called a preemption law, the concept is supported by natural gas utilities nationwide as more cities seek to adopt legislation in an effort to reduce carbon emissions.
Missouri’s gas companies, including Spire, which serves the Kansas City area, testified in support of the 2021 preemption law. But advocates in support of Kansas City’s climate plan across the state say the move is detrimental to the state’s long-term success in mitigating the effects of climate change.
Robin Ganahl, chair of the city’s climate protection steering committee and leader of KC Mothers Out Front, told The Beacon that the threat of the preemption bill was present throughout the climate plan drafting process. She said the committee is confident the proposed plan falls within the state statute.
“We knew that we could not include a strategy in the plan to pass an ordinance to ban natural gas in new buildings,” Ganahl said. “So that was taken off the table as a tool that the City Council could use.”
Groups against the preemption law claimed before its passage that it “would slow down the deployment of clean energy technologies, prevent localities from leading the way on building decarbonization, and keep Missourians hooked on fossil fuels — even if there is strong local support for climate action and clean energy.”
A nationwide trend to preempt climate action
As states like California and Washington act to limit the use of certain types of energy, Missouri and others are moving in the opposite direction. Missouri is one of 20 states that have passed laws preempting cities from restricting access to fossil fuels. Bills introduced in 2021 in Utah and Georgia had almost identical language to the Missouri legislation.
According to an S&P Global report, the 20 states accounted for 30% of U.S. residential and commercial gas consumption in 2019.
Rep. Ron Hicks, a Republican from Defiance, introduced a version of the bill in 2021. He said the bill did not come from a constituent concern, but was inspired by actions taken in other states to scale back on certain forms of utility usage.
“It was not based on a problem that I have in my constituency in my district. No one has come to me and said there’s a problem,” Hicks said during the February 2021 hearing. “What we’re trying to do is just step and stay ahead of situations and just make this a level playing field for all. There’s no way one entity is going to supersede another or anything like that.”
In testimony on Hicks’ plan, the American Petroleum Institute outlined its support for the measure.
“Bans on natural gas would prevent Missouri families from using a domestically produced, clean, affordable and reliable fuel source to heat their homes and cook their food,” the group said in written testimony. “It is imperative that natural gas is able to remain a part of the climate solution and that policymakers and regulators work with the industry to ensure access to reliable and affordable American energy.”
Sanderson, who also sat on the city’s climate protection steering committee, said the preemption law makes it more difficult for cities to address their own issues and contradicts the idea of local control.
“At the city and local level, they’re supposed to be able to pass building codes, have a baseline of energy efficiency,” she said. “That was always their responsibility, but the state legislature ended up coming in and making it so the city can’t legally do that with regards to electrification and gas.”
Federal funds provide potential incentives
The Inflation Reduction Act, a large piece of legislation recently passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden, is giving climate activists hope of working around Missouri’s preemption law.
The plan will invest $369 billion into energy security and climate change. Biden’s administration says the plan will reduce carbon emissions by 40% nationwide by 2030, create manufacturing jobs in domestic “clean energy” and allocate $60 billion toward environmental justice measures.
Ganahl and Sanderson both said the new federal law will supply cities with extra funding to provide incentives for things like retrofitting homes, installing heat pumps and making other energy-efficient changes.
Sanderson said the committee repeatedly touted the potential of the Inflation Reduction Act and the funding that will come with it as Kansas City’s climate plan was in the works. “We’ve got this opportunity, we’ve got this chunk of change to make switching from gas to electric easier for mid- to low-income houses,” she said.
Ganahl said providing education and incentives around electrification is the best way to encourage long-term planning for metro families.
“People need to know that if they need to replace a stove, water heater, furnace or AC unit even in the next five years, that for climate and affordability they should be looking at modern, efficient electric alternatives like heat pumps in place of AC units, heat pump water heaters and induction stoves,” she said. The city, to the extent it can, should be helping people afford to make that change so that we stay on track to get to net zero by 2040.”
Missouri has entertained other preemption laws to thwart climate-friendly efforts by cities. In 2015, the legislature barred cities from banning or requiring a fee for the use of paper or plastic bags in grocery stores. The legislature overrode then-Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of the measure.
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Elijah Mitchell expected to miss two months with knee injury [report]
“The 49ers running back is expected to miss two months according to Adam Schefter of ESPN. Mitchell’s MRI on Monday revealed he sustained a sprained MCL in his knee. It is believed he injured the knee while blocking during Deebo Samuel’s touchdown in the second quarter of Sunday’s game, when a Bears defender rolled into the back of his legs.”
“San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan spoke with reporters via a conference call on Monday, the day after the team’s 19-10 loss to the Chicago Bears. Here is everything he had to say.”
Branch: 49ers game review: It’s way too early to panic, but that was really ugly (paywall)
“OK, it’s one game. But was that a bit ominous? The Bears are so bereft of talent that they recently signed an NFL-high seven players off waivers, but the 49ers’ charity helped them resemble The Monsters of the Midway during the late-game spree. It’s not time to panic. But a home loss to the Seahawks in Week 2? Then you can feel free to freak out.”
“Rookie right guard Spencer Burford did not allow any quarterback pressures in his NFL debut, and left guard Aaron Banks also graded out well as a run-blocker and in pass protection, according to Pro Football Focus. Banks allowed two quarterbacks pressures.”
Trey Lance’s rainy inaccuracy, Talanoa Hufanga’s big splash: 49ers minutia minute (paywall)
“He’s going to process, he’s going to see the open guy and miss him,” [Steve] Young said. “So if you miss four the first game, miss two the next week, and then miss none. Just constant development on that part of the game, because that’s the part that’s unfinished — in a big way. All of it has to be experienced.”
Who were PFF’s highest- and lowest-graded 49ers players vs. Bears? Plus snap counts
“Talanoa Hufanga, SS, 90.8, 58 snaps”
Branch: Amid collapse of 49ers’ defense, Talanoa Hufanga was a notable bright spot (paywall)
“He’s taken me under his wing and has legit shown me things I’ve never seen in football before,” Hufanga said. “Just to get the perspective from a guy that’s been to the Pro Bowl and really understands the safety spot, it was blessing to be with him today.”
Ian Rapoport breaks down likelihood of Cowboys trading for Jimmy
“If Dak is out two months and Cooper Rush can’t do it maybe they trade for Garoppolo,” Rapoport continued. “But I don’t know if it makes sense to trade a premium draft pick for what could be like a month of games.”
Jerry Rice: Trey Lance not to blame for 49ers’ loss to Bears
“I think he’s only going to get better. Look at some of the throws he made to Brandon Aiyuk and some of the other receivers, guys. We need to dial [the quarterback debate] back just a little bit.”
“Nick Bosa and Samson Ebukam both registered sacks while Javon Kinlaw succeeded in creating interior pressure early and rookie edge rusher Drake Jackson made some strong plays against the run.” | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/13/23350418/49ers-news-geno-smith-seattle-seahawks-nick-bosa-pass-rush-trey-lance-rain-chicago-bears-monsoon-nfl | 2022-09-13T09:55:46Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/9/13/23350418/49ers-news-geno-smith-seattle-seahawks-nick-bosa-pass-rush-trey-lance-rain-chicago-bears-monsoon-nfl | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Dingdong (Cayman) Ltd. (NYSE: DDL) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of persons who purchased, or otherwise acquired, Dingdong American Depository Shares pursuant or traceable to the F-1 registration statements and related prospectus on Form 424B4 issued in connection with Dingdong's June 2021 initial public stock offering.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: October 24, 2022
No obligation or cost to you.
Learn more about your recoverable losses in DDL:
https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/dingdong-class-action-loss-submission-form?id=31575&from=4
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: According to the filed complaint, the registration statement and prospectus used to effectuate the Company's initial public offering misstated and/or omitted facts concerning Dingdong's so-called commitment to ensuring the safety and quality of the food it distributes to the market. For example, despite claiming that it applies "stringent quality control across [its] entire supply chain to ensure product quality to [its] users," Dingdong sold food past its sell-by date. Consequently, Dingdong was, in fact, no better at providing or assuring access to "fresh" groceries than the supermarkets, traditional Chinese wet markets, or traditional e-commerce platforms it repeatedly claimed to be displacing. Moreover, the foregoing conduct subjected Dingdong to an increased risk of regulatory and/or governmental scrutiny and enforcement, all of which, once revealed, were likely to negatively impact Dingdong's business, operations, and reputation.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Dingdong you have until October 24, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Dingdong securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the DDL lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/dingdong-class-action-loss-submission-form?id=31575&from=4.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of 17 Education & Technology Group Inc. (NASDAQ: YQ) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of persons or entities who purchased or otherwise acquired publicly traded 17EdTech securities pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus issued in connection with 17EdTech's December 2020 initial public offering.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 19, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that 17 Education & Technology Group Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) 17EdTech's K-12 Academic AST Services would end less than a year after the Company's initial public offering; (2) as part of its ongoing regulatory efforts, Chinese authorities would imminently curtail and/or end 17EdTech's core business; and (3) as a result, defendants' statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in 17EdTech you have until September 19, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased 17EdTech securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the YQ lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/17-education-technology-group-inc-loss-submission-form?id=31565&from=4.
J. Klein, Esq. represents investors and participates in securities litigations involving financial fraud throughout the nation. The Klein Law Firm is a boutique litigation firm with experience in a wide range of areas including securities law, corporate finance and commercial litigation. Since 2011, our experienced attorneys have achieved superior results for our clients with a personalized focus. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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(Note: As I have done in past elections, I am running a series of Q&As for Democratic judicial candidates. This is intended to help introduce the candidates and their experiences to my readers. This year it’s mostly incumbents running for re-election, so it’s an opportunity to hear that talk about what they have accomplished. I am running these responses in the order that I receive them from the candidates. For more information about these and other Democratic candidates, including links to interviews and Q&As from the primary and runoff, see the Erik Manning spreadsheet.)
1. Who are you and in which court do you preside?
Judge Sonya Heath, 310th District Court.
2. What kind of cases does this court hear?
Family.
3. What have been your main accomplishments during your time on this bench?
Implementing Zoom hybrid hearings. Especially for the CPS cases where we have had a huge increase in parental participation.
4. What do you hope to accomplish in your courtroom going forward?
Setting up a better type of e-hearing system (an online calendaring system).
5. Why is this race important?
District Court Family judges have the ability to take your children, your property and your freedom. You want someone with a good grasp of the law and even temperament.
6. Why should people vote for you in November?
As the incumbent I have been on bench 4 years. I have been at work on a regular basis for our County’s families. People need their day in Court. Some people just need to be heard so they can move on with their lives. My own children are grown now, but I have lived what most of the people coming before me are going through. I was a single parent, unfortunately divorced, adopted a child, and went back and forth on custody three times with my children’s father. I bring experience both with the law and real life that make me suited for this bench. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106714 | 2022-09-13T10:08:20Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106714 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The coverage rate for routine childhood vaccines – or the percentage of kids getting them – dropped during the COVID-19 pandemic and have yet to recover, according to statistics from the Texas Department of State Health Services.
Health care providers said many families skipped doctor’s visits during the pandemic to avoid exposure to the virus. But the drop is also due to a rise in “conscientious exemptions,” or parents and guardians who refuse to get their children vaccinated for religious, moral or philosophical reasons.
While anti-vaccine movements have existed since the smallpox vaccine debuted in the early 1800s, some worry the pushback against the COVID-19 vaccine may have a detrimental effect on the uptake for routine childhood immunizations, too.
“I think that, certainly, [the pandemic] is a good explanation for this,” said Terri Burke, the executive director of the Houston nonprofit The Immunization Partnership. “But there is no question that the vaccine hesitancy, skepticism, misinformation [and] disinformation that circulates around the COVID vaccine has bled over into childhood vaccines.”
A study published in the journal Vaccine found that from 2019 to 2020, immunization rates fell 47 percent among 5-month-olds and 58 percent among 16-month-olds.
Texas did see a slight increase in vaccination rates earlier this year, but they still remain below pre-pandemic levels, said Tasmiah Nuzhath, a Texas A&M School of Public Health doctoral candidate who led the study. That’s a concern because regardless of the reason, a lower percentage of vaccinated children means heightened for outbreaks of a disease like the measles, she said.
“Even a few-percentage dip in vaccination rates will put children at risk of getting sick, and could affect community protections against serious diseases,” Nuzhath said.
[…]
In the Houston area, there are some signs that coverage rates may be slowly recovering from the pandemic. The HOPE Clinic, for example, had a large demand for the shots before students returned to school this fall, Clinical Director Kara Green said.
The Immunization Clinic in Stafford has also seen more children coming in for their vaccines this year, but coverage rates are “still not where [they] should be,” Nursing Director Yvette Cheeks said.
During the 2011-12 school year, coverage rates were at least 97.4 percent for each of the routine vaccines required for kindergarten students, and at least 96.6 percent for each required for seventh grade. By 2021-22, rates fell to a range of 93.5 percent to 95.9 percent for kindergarten, and 91.9 percent to 98 percent for seventh grade.
Some of the decline can be attributed to children who haven’t gotten their shots yet, but may do so later. Those “delinquency” rates topped 3 percent for the chickenpox, polio and DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis) vaccines for kindergarten and around 6 percent for the meningitis and DTaP vaccines for seventh grade.
It’s also due to a rise in conscientious exemptions. Ten years ago, the chickenpox vaccine for kindergarten had the highest rate of conscientious objections at 0.8 percent. By last year, rates hit at least 2.1 percent for each kindergarten vaccine and at least 1 percent for each seventh grade vaccine.
Those percentages may not seem like a lot, but they represent an increase from 28,432 conscientious objections across Texas in 2011-12 to 85,726 last year, according to TDSHS statistics.
Green and Cheeks believe coverage rates could increase through better access to the vaccines. Both the HOPE Clinic and the Immunization Clinic offer vaccines to lower-income and uninsured patients.
However, Green noted that the HOPE Clinic sees families cancel their child’s vaccine appointment due to issues such as a lack of transportation, or not having child care for their other children. Pop-up vaccination clinics at Houston schools or other community sites could help increase uptake, she said.
“I think if we make it easier for families to get these things done, then we really open up a lot of opportunities,” she said.
We need to do everything we can to make sure that all needed vaccines are easily available to all that want them. That’s a bigger problem that can be solved locally, but we have to try. Anyone can claim to be “pro-life”, but unless you’re pro-getting-lifesaving-shots-into-kids-arms, you’re just full of hot air. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106958 | 2022-09-13T10:08:27Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106958 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Good idea, ought to have some effect, but changing the overall culture and philosophy about transportation in Texas is a very big lift.
Opponents of some of Texas’ largest transportation projects are unifying their messaging, pushing state highway officials to think differently about metro regions, where road widening can claim hundreds of homes and businesses, and urging them to consider alternatives to automobiles rather than adding more lanes.
“If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result, then the Texas transportation system is insane,” said Robert Storch, an El Paso resident opposed to a plan to widen Interstate 10 in the city.
Led by organizers from Houston with the Stop TxDOT I-45 effort, protesters from most of the state’s biggest cities descended last week on the Texas Department of Transportation’s Austin headquarters, where officials approved a 10-year $85 billion plan for state road projects. The aim, organizers said, was to send a Texas-wide message to a statewide agency by focusing on the root issue of freeway design in urban areas.
“People in communities should have the right to decide what mobility means for them,” said Ann Zadeh, executive director of Community Design Fort Worth and a former City Council member and mayoral candidate.
In many Texas metros, Zadeh said, the focus needs to shift from traffic flow to “mending the divisions” those freeways caused, especially in low-income and minority neighborhoods.
That case can be better made if it comes from numerous sources, said El Paso County Commissioner David Stout, an opponent of the state’s plans to widen I-10 through the downtown of the West Texas gateway city.
“I think it is important to come together because we are talking about the same agency and the same issues,” Stout said.
Among the projects drawing alarm:
- Houston’s $9.7 billion-plus project to widen I-45 from downtown Houston north to Beltway 8, which will add two managed lanes in each direction and rebuild the downtown freeway system and the obsolete interchange with Loop 610.
- Austin’s $4.9 billion rebuild of I-35 through the heart of the capital, which would replace the clogged two-tier freeway with a single buried road that adds two carpool lanes in each direction. Opponents have said this will divide the city further.
- El Paso’s planned widening of I-10 through the downtown area, which would build on overall widening of the freeway to the New Mexico border meant to facilitate border trade and ease traffic.
- Dallas’ proposed I-345 redesign to bury the freeway between downtown and Deep Ellum, which opponents have called unnecessary. They have advocated for removing the freeway entirely.
Each of the projects is aimed at addressing growing traffic congestion, enjoys political support from the regional planning officials in the major metro areas, and has years of TxDOT-driven study to justify its design.
But opponents argue that they also are based on doing things largely the way TxDOT always has done them in metro regions that are becoming more urban. They also say those regions’ residents and some leaders are clamoring more for housing closer to jobs, maintained sidewalks and frequent transit instead of ever-expanding freeways.
“What could we do positively in our communities with $10 billion,” I-45 critic Walter Mallet told the Texas Transportation Commission on Tuesday.
I’m a little surprised that this kind of coordination hadn’t happened before, but I’m glad to see it now. Given that TxDOT has already approved that $85 billion in spending, I’m not sure how much can be accomplished at this time, but it’s worth trying. To me, the big prize here would be electing Beto O’Rourke Governor, because that would allow him to start naming new people to the Texas Transportation Commission, and I feel very confident saying that we’re going to keep getting the same old thinking on the TTC for as long as we have the same old people serving as Commissioners. I know I sound like a broken record, but it really is the case that very little will change in this state until we start electing different people to office. I mean, why not try it and see? What do we have to lose? | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106968 | 2022-09-13T10:08:34Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106968 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Beach City purchasing new rescue truck for village fire department
The Independent
Beach City Village Council
Sept. 6 meeting
KEY ACTION: Approved the purchase of a 2023 Road Rescue truck for the fire department from Burgess Ambulance of Loudonville.
DISCUSSION: The cost cannot exceed $300,000. The truck is expected to arrive in 2024. According to village Clerk Deb Rentsch, all the fire department loans will be paid in full by May 2024, except for the new truck.
In another matter, officials will conduct interviews for the assistant finance and utility clerk position.
OTHER ACTION:
- Passed an ordinance for the sale of a property at 312 Third Ave. NE. A complaint was also heard about the property needing mowed.
- Heard once the tri-annual lead and copper testing is completed, plans are to begin replacing water meters in the village.
- Learned sealed bids to sell properties at 303 E. Main St. and another along Manchester Avenue are being accepted. Bids are due by Sept. 16. Council has the right to reject all bids.
- Passed an ordinance authorizing the village to accept sealed bids for two Chevrolet Silverados, a 1998 Cadillac Eldorado and a 1987 Monte Carlo.
- Accepted the resignation of Erik Vuchkovich from the fire department, effective immediately.
FOR YOUR INFO:
- The 11th annual Beach City 5K will be at 9 a.m. Sept. 17. Registration forms are available at Village Hall, post office and online.
- The Community Improvement Corporation will show the "Wizard of Oz" at 7 p.m. Oct. 1 in the community park.
- The fire department will host a chicken barbecue at 3 p.m. Oct. 22 at the first station. Cost is $12. The meal includes one-half chicken, baked beans, applesauce, roll and dessert. Carryout is available.
UP NEXT: Meets at 7 p.m. Sept. 19 in Village Hall.
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St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Massillon plans spaghetti supper Thursday
The Repository
MASSILLON − St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church will have a spaghetti supper from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday Sept. 15. Reservations are encouraged at 330-833-3183, but walk-ins will be welcome.
Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 for children younger than 6, or a family maximum of $20. The community is welcome. A raffle will be held. Proceeds will benefit St. Timothy’s Church outreach programs to help feed the hungry locally.
St. Timothy’s Church is at 226 Third St. SE. The parking lot entrance is on Oak Avenue, and the parish hall entrance is on the parking lot side of the building.
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For years, the Lexus brand has been almost synonymous with its bestseller, the RX crossover SUV. The egg-shaped RX enjoyed so much success that its admirers became copiers, and the RX itself became overshadowed by the copies.
With the outgoing fourth-generation RX, Lexus courted a more youthful demo by slapping on a giant spindle grille, folding in as many body creases as an origami crane, and floating a roof. Teenagers with crustaches have pulled off better takes on edgy youth.
Lexus pulled out the razor and trimmed the redesigned 2023 Lexus RX to split the difference between its ovoid past and recent spunk. More importantly, the changes to the fifth-generation bestseller go beyond skin deep.
Enticing new shoppers (in their 40s) without alienating core fans (in their 60s), the 2023 Lexus RX comes in six trims, four powertrains, three hybrid options, two all-wheel-drive systems, and a more versatile platform that’s new to the RX. The 3.5-liter V-6 is gone for good, but the 350 designation remains for a new generation.
Most of the changes occur behind the RX’s tamer design. Its new TNGA-K platform shared widely in the Toyota family is both stiffer and 198 lb lighter, and it influences the packaging and design. Regardless of the drivetrain and battery packs, the gas and hybrid models have nearly the same interior proportions as last year, except the cargo volume has blossomed from 32.6 cubic feet to 46.2 cubic feet with the seats down. The seven-seat RX L model won’t return this year.
Lexus pulled back the A-pillar and windshield an inch and trimmed the rear overhang by 2.4 inches, yet the wheelbase extends by that same difference. It makes the nose appear longer, and the rear more compact and muscular. The hood dips down into what used to be the top of the massive chrome-framed spindle grille. It’s melting now, and spreads out past the frame as if frozen in aero motion. Rounded wheel arches and a curving body line represent the smoother flow of the RX.
2023 Lexus RX 500h F Sport Performance
This iteration of the RX F Sport first introduced on the outgoing model takes a bigger step closer to the performance suggested by its name. It employs a 2.4-liter turbo-4 with a 6-speed automatic transmission and a motor generator. A 107-hp motor and inverter power the rear axle, and the motor is fed by the brand’s tried-and-true nickel-metal hydride battery. Together, this new system produces 366 hp and 406 lb-ft of torque.
With no direct mechanical connection between the axles, the 500h can adjust torque to the axles to optimize the driving mode. In Sport mode at launch, the torque shifts from that of a front-wheel-drive crossover to a 40/60 split favoring the rear axle. It steadies the weight transfer and helps the 500h reach a 0-60 mph time in 5.9 seconds, according to Lexus.
It’s spirited and surprisingly spry, but there were a couple of instances where I wanted a couple more gears in the 6-speed automatic. Shifting down into second gear when going heavy on the throttle takes a long beat that can interrupt on-ramp fantasies. It was more tolerant of the upshifts, letting me stay in second gear until about 56 mph, which was ideal up the hills on the interior of the California coast. But when downshifting, it stayed in third gear until about 45 mph no matter how I flicked the paddles. Coming around a bend into a valley left me hunting for more grunting, but that’s picking nits as there was plenty of passing power for everyday use.
It couldn’t fully shed the physics of its 4,751-lb profile, but the four degrees of rear-axle steering made a difference sashaying through the higher speed valley sweepers. At lower speeds, the rear wheels turn in the opposite direction of the fronts to make parking easier or to hone a three-point turn into one point.
Eco, Normal, Sport, and Custom modes change the throttle response, and Eco mode feels as if you’re stepping on a sponge. Each mode can be customized for Sport or Normal settings for the powertrain, suspension, and steering, but it’s best to set it before driving hard because the drive modes are only accessible through the touchscreen.
Still, with the Direct4 AWD system and adaptive dampers on its front strut and multi-link rear suspension, the RX500h feels more composed than any of its predecessors. It remains quiet and chill in the RX way, but now it has the option to be injected with more performance chops.
It’s a tempting alternative to the Acura MDX Type S, and sportier than any SUV from Infiniti, Lincoln, or Cadillac. (We’ll exclude the Escalade-V because it’s ridiculous.) It only gets a Lexus-estimated 27 mpg combined, but for efficiency over performance, check out the RX 350h.
2023 Lexus RX 350h
Like the 500h, the RX 350h comes standard with all-wheel drive. Unlike the 500h, it was built for efficiency mainly. Lexus targets a mpg stat line of 37 mpg city, 34 highway, and 36 combined, compared to the 30 mpg combined in the last model.
The 3.5-liter V-6 is replaced with a 2.5-liter inline-4 dual-motor hybrid system used in everything from the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid to the forthcoming Toyota Crown. In the RX 350h, it makes 246 hp and 233 lb-ft of torque (down from 308 hp and 247 lb-ft in the 2022 model). It pairs with a CVT that’s innocuous around town, but for any rushed driving it keeps the engine high in the rev range and fills the cabin with the kind of complaining that’s unbecoming of an RX. Lexus quotes a 0-60 mph time of 7.4 seconds, but we’d recommend taking it easy for good fuel economy and quiet cruising.
Its on-demand all-wheel-drive system can split the torque 50/50, but it defaults to front-wheel drive. A Trail mode splits the torque to both axles and brake-based torque vectoring controls wheel slip in turns. We didn’t go off road, and with just 8.1 inches of ground clearance and tires made for pavement, it’s best to stay on pavement.
2023 Lexus RX 350
Standard with front-wheel drive but available with all-wheel drive, the RX 350 opens the door for more performance and less efficiency at a lower expected price than the other models. The base RX 350 uses a 2.4-liter turbo-4 that makes 275 hp and 317 lb-ft of torque.
After a bit of turbo lag, the 350 responded sharply and the 8-speed automatic transmission flicked through gears without hesitation. With the engine allowed to climb into the 6,000-rpm range, there was never a doubt when passing trucks and tourists, including on uphill grades. Available AWD comes with paddle shifters for more driver control and a 0-60 mph time of 7.2 seconds, compared to 7.6 seconds with FWD
F Sport Handling models come with AWD and adaptive dampers that better helped the RX maintain its composure than in back-to-back testing without it. The RX 350 is both stronger and smoother than the RX 350h, and the new F Sport Handling might be the sweet spot in the RX lineup once pricing is finalized.
Lexus RX 450h+ plug-in hybrid
It’s still unclear when the first plug-in hybrid for the RX will go on sale in the U.S., and I was only treated to brief 10-minute loops of a pre-production Euro-spec model, so a lot remains unknown. But it’s very quiet.
The RX 450h+ shares a 18.1-kwh battery and plug-in hybrid powertrain with the smaller NX450h+ and the Toyota RAV4 Prime. It has a 2.5-liter inline-4 and two-motor hybrid system to power the front wheels, and a dedicated motor at the rear axle for AWD.
Driving in EV mode, the RX 450h+ was not as quick off the line as other PHEVs, but it made a seamless shift between gas and electric power. It also had the EV drive mode buttons on the console, which would be preferred for the drive modes in the 500h. It also had power seat buttons on the inside of the front passenger seat, so anyone in any of the five seating positions could adjust the front passenger seat, same as in Genesis models.
Aside from how it drives, the RX 350 compels for its boodle of standard features. It comes with 19-inch alloy wheels, a wi-fi hotspot, a 12-speaker sound system, six USB ports, a sunroof, and a 9.8-inch touchscreen with wireless smartphone connectivity, though most models get a 14.0-inch touchscreen. Underneath the screen, Lexus provides actual climate dials, which is always nice. Options range from lush leather and suede trimmed seats to ash bamboo wood trim and a heated wood steering wheel.
Lexus equips every RX with pushbutton door handles that might not make the best first impression, but they appeal over time with their quiet effortlessness. Something that took me longer to get used to were the blank four-way controllers on either side of the steering wheel. They control icons that appear in the instrument cluster or in the head-up display when equipped (the visibility for either is not doused by the sun). To increase the adaptive cruise control speed, for one example, gently rest your thumb on the up arrow to activate that function then press the up arrow like a normal button to increase the speed. The compact design lets Lexus house a lot of info within the steering controls, including some features that may not be available yet, but it takes a learning curve that exceeded my day with the RX.
The redesigned 2023 Lexus RX casts a much wider net than its predecessor with four powertrains that give the crossover four distinctive personalities. Every demographic appreciates the power of choice.
Lexus paid for airfare and lodging for Motor Authority to bring you this firsthand report.
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Investment trusts have a long history, being considered closed-ended investment vehicles that hold a specific number of shares.
If you’re seeking a portfolio with the right mix of assets, investment trusts can provide you with that. Several investment trusts have proven their ability to drive dividend growth for five decades, while others have time and again fared better than some of the open-ended funds.
Investment Trusts
Explained
Investment trusts or closed-end trusts are collective investments that pool investors’ money to hold a diversified portfolio. They are usually publicly traded companies that aim to turn a profit by buying other assets.
The number of securities in a portfolio can vary with an investment trust. Sometimes, the portfolio can have around 30 different assets, but it can also consist of hundreds in one or more industries.
The ability to make decisions related to the investments falls on the fund manager, who is also tasked with ensuring that the trust’s investment goal is met.
Diving Deeper into
Investment Trusts
Investment trusts are also called closed-end trusts because they put money into a specific number of shares. They are quoted on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), allowing market players to buy/sell shares at real-time prices, just like shares in regular companies.
Fund managers have a specific amount of investment dollars but can also borrow to make another investment on top of the original one. Such a strategy is known as gearing, which increases fund managers’ potential returns as well as their potential losses.
Moreover, gearing is not widely used in investment funds. In fact, many types of investment funds are prohibited from using this method. One reason is that gearing would allow funds to generate extra cash from investors if they’re open-ended.
Pros and Cons of
Investment Trusts
The pros of using investments trusts are as follows:
· Diversification
As mentioned above, investment trusts pool investors’ money so they can hold a diversified portfolio which is usually ready-made and handled by experts. That saves investors time and money that would have been otherwise spent on buying individual shares in different companies.
· More Investment Options
Investment trusts have access to a broader set of investments than funds since they can also invest in unlisted assets, which may help amplify returns.
· Real-Time Trading
Unlike funds that are forward priced, investment trusts allow Investors to buy/sell assets at live prices and set stop loss orders to minimize their potential losses if the price unexpectedly makes a sharp drop.
· Stable Income Source
Investment trusts are an excellent option for investors looking for a reliable and stable source of income. That’s because investment trusts can tap on reserves when the situation in the market seems bleak.
Any investment is not without risks. Here are the cons of using investment trusts:
· Gearing
Gearing is also a double-edged sword that makes investment trusts more volatile than other funds. This strategy can raise the returns but also increase the losses.
· Annual Management Fees
Investment trusts can charge an annual management fee of 2% or higher, compared to active funds’ 0.5% - 1% yearly fee. Such costs can be inconvenient as they can gradually reduce the portfolio’s value.
· Valuation
While investment trusts can access unlisted securities, the value of such assets may not be specific and may only be determined quarterly. Therefore, relying on the net asset value will not exactly help investors make a final decision. | https://www.forexlive.com/Education/what-it-means-to-participate-in-an-investment-trust-20220913/ | 2022-09-13T10:30:24Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/Education/what-it-means-to-participate-in-an-investment-trust-20220913/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
On their latest call, BofA says that "by lowering peak inflation we see the govenment's energy price cap allowing the BOE to avoid increasing the pace of hikes. But more fiscal stimulus means the BOE will have to hike more overall". Adding that they expect a 0.50% rate hike next week and in the next two meetings, followed by further 0.25% rate hikes next year to 4%.
The firm previously noted at the end of July that the UK will enter a recession next year as higher inflation
Inflation
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Read this Term, aggressive rate hikes and weaker consumer demand will weigh on economic activity. Having also previously noted that "we assume no rate cuts until late 2024 compared to mid-2023 in market pricing".
It will be interesting to see how the BOE walks this tightrope as we are already starting to see policymakers dial back on the hawkishness - most notably Tenreyro here.
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Viewing figures for Netflix series The Crown have increased by 800 per cent since the death of the late Queen Elizabeth II, with huge swathes of watchers coming from the US, France and Australia. According to data from Whip Media, globally, viewership was nearly four times higher this past weekend than it was the previous.
The news comes after it was confirmed that The Crown would halt filming for its sixth and final series. Writer of drama, Peter Morgan, released a statement revealing that the filming for the production of the new series will ‘probably stop filming’ as a mark of respect for the late monarch. According to Deadline, in an email sent by Morgan, he wrote: ‘The Crown is a love letter to her and I’ve nothing to add for now, just silence and respect. I expect we will stop filming out of respect too’.
The Crown chronicles the life of Her Majesty over several decades, beginning in the late 1940s before her father King George VI died and Elizabeth ascended to the throne in 1952. The series takes us through periods of political strife, from the Queen's relationship with Winston Churchill during the post-war era to her interactions with Margaret Thatcher in the midst of a turbulent 1980s Britain. The show also provides a retelling of the private lives of the family, including Queen Elizabeth's wedding to the late Duke of Edinburgh as well as the breakdown of her son, Prince Charles's marriage to the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
The new series of The Crown, which is expected to air this November, will take us through the 1990s, one of the most difficult decades of Elizabeth's reign. In 1992 a section of Windsor castle was ravaged by fire, the same year that Prince Charles announced his separation from Diana. The Queen went on to described the period as her ‘annus horribilis’ or ‘year of misfortune’. In 1996, Charles and Diana would divorce, as would Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. A year on, Princess Diana tragically died in a traffic accident during a visit to Paris. | https://www.tatler.com/article/the-crown-sees-surge-in-viewers-following-queen-elizabeth-iis-death | 2022-09-13T10:34:33Z | tatler.com | control | https://www.tatler.com/article/the-crown-sees-surge-in-viewers-following-queen-elizabeth-iis-death | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
JCC of Middlesex County looks to expand with new home for Edison synagogue
EDISON - The Jewish Community Center of Middlesex County, in partnership with Temple Emanu-El, is scheduled to go before the Zoning Board of Adjustment Tuesday for approval to build a 21,000-square-foot addition to their Oak Tree Road building to expand JCC programs and services and provide a new home for the synagogue.
The JCC of Middlesex County is seeking site plan approval, bulk variance and use variance to permit construction of an addition to the existing building and for religious services, education, events, conferences and offices for Temple Emanu-El with variances for use, set back, floor area ratio and parking on the property at 1775 Oak Tree Road, according to the public notice. The hearing is schedule for 7 p.m. in the Edison Council Chambers.
Adam Glinn, JCC of Middlesex County chief executive officer, said the new 2-story attached wing is slated to be built off of the left side of the Oak Tree Road building and will come out and wrap around the back of the building and will have two new entrances, one into the main entrance and second entrance to the early childhood wing. Additional parking and an outdoor courtyard also are planned.
"I think this is going to be wonderful for the community. It is at its core the provision of opportunities to deliver exponentially great programs and services to the entire community, literally from the youngest among us to the oldest among us, including those populations that we serve that are the most vulnerable," Glinn said.
If approved the estimated $5 million project is scheduled to break ground later this year and take about 18 months to complete, provided there are no weather or supply chain issues. The JCC has already raised $2.3 million and the capital campaign is scheduled to resume once ground is broken for the project, Glinn said.
The multi-phase project has been a long time coming.
According to Glinn, about 12 days before the March 2020 COVID shutdown the JCC received Zoning Board final site plan approval for an 11,000 square foot expansion of the Oak Tree Road facility, a two-story wing to address space constraints to create all new programs spaces on the first floor for the older adults and senior programs and to expand the early childhood education, preschool enrichment and special needs programs on the second floor.
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He said demolition was started in lobby as Phase 1 of an overall expansion of our renovation project when the facility was shut down by COVID for nearly six months, but during that time the renovation of the lobby and some other interior work was finished, but the rest of the expansion work was on hold.
In August 2020 Glinn received a telephone call from a representative of Temple Emanu-El who was aware of the JCC's planned expansion. The synagogue representative said an agreement had been reached to sell their James Street building and property, located directly across the street from Hackensack Meridian JFK Medical Center, to the hospital and inquired about relocating the synagogue to the JCC's Oak Tree Road campus, which also houses the Edison YMCA.
After a year or more of meetings and discussions, an agreement was reached for Temple Emanu-El, which had called James Street home for 60 years, to relocate to the Oak Tree Road community campus of the JCC and the YMCA, Glinn said. In early April 2022 the Torah Scrolls were walked from James Street to the temple's new home on Oak Tree Road, according to the temple's Facebook page.
As part of the collaboration, the JCC agreed to revise the planned expansion from 11,000 square feet to about 21,000 square feet to house the JCC's programs and services as well as create a new home for Temple Emanu-El on the remaining seven acres of the Oak Tree Road site, Glinn said.
The expansion will include new offices, a sanctuary and social hall for the temple. The new wing also will include three new JCC classrooms which will be used for preschool during the day and the temple's religious school in the evening. The expansion also will include three new different size JCC meeting and program spaces for older adults and senior programs which also will be available for the temple's use. Also planned are two social lounge spaces that will be shared and a fenced courtyard, Glinn said.
Glinn said the leadership of the JCC and synagogue have worked with architect and engineer to design the new expansion.
"Not only does it enable Temple Emanu-El, which has been in the Edison community for 60 years, to continue to remain within Edison, but it brings added value to the campus, not only by expanding the facility even more but by creating opportunities for more interfaith collaboration and social action and social justice work and all that the organizations do and to really create a campus facility that is appealing to a wider swath of the community," Glinn said.
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Since the April move, the JCC has reconfigured existing space to give the temple office space for their clergy and staff, while also sharing meeting and classroom spaces for the religious school, programs and services. The temple is renting the space from the JCC, Glinn said.
Glinn said the JCC will remain the owner of the building and the property and the temple will be a long term tenant.
Once the new wing is built, Glinn said Phase 3 of the project will involve renovations to some existing JCC spaces after offices and people have moved into the expansion.
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Before getting around to his own colorful past, Jann Wenner and I had a little chitchat about Donald Trump and the future of American democracy. “I look at that news about the judge and my heart starts to go, Oh, fuck. Is he never gonna get caught?” said Wenner, one of the boomer generation’s most influential liberals. The judge he was referring to was Aileen Cannon, the Trump appointee who, one day earlier, had jammed up the DOJ’s probe into the former president’s bogarting of highly classified national security secrets at Mar-a-Lago. “But, you know,” Wenner continued, “the wheels of justice may turn slow, but they’re gonna turn.”
What about the whiff of authoritarianism in the air? Are Wenner’s alarm bells ringing? “No, they’re not really,” he said. “The country has 300 years of tradition—growing freedom, the republic, this form of government. And also just the mindset of the American people.… I think the January 6 committee is a perfect example of democracy at work. I mean, the fact that you’ve got this third of the country that’s nuts, it’s part of America. America began [with] burning witches. That’s the beginning of America. And since then we’ve had tax rebellions, whiskey rebellions. We’ve had the Civil War for fuck’s sake. We’ve never seen [something like] Trump before. It’s scary, but I think it will be beaten back.”
Wenner has a new book out, a memoir called Like a Rolling Stone. It’s about his storied life and the legendary rock magazine he founded as a 21-year-old Berkeley dropout and connoisseur of late-’60s counterculture. That’s why Wenner and I were on a Zoom call last week, with Wenner at a desk in his home office—overlooking a lush garden through floor-to-ceiling windows—at the Montauk mansion where he lives with his longtime partner, the fashion designer Matt Nye. In 2017, when Rolling Stone turned 50, my friend and Vanity Fair colleague Joe Hagan published Sticky Fingers, a deeply reported biography for which Wenner gave Hagan complete access to his archive, with Hagan also conducting more than a hundred hours of Wenner interviews and additional interviews with more than 240 people. The biography was Wenner’s idea—he asked Hagan, then a neighbor in the Hudson Valley, to write it. In the end, Wenner was supremely unhappy with the finished product. He and Hagan had a big falling-out, which you can read about in this New York Times postmortem on the controversy.
Wenner and I agreed that relitigating the episode wouldn’t be the most productive use of our time. (I’m not exactly an impartial third party.) But there were some things I wanted to ask him about it. Sticky Fingers wasn’t the first time Wenner had decided to collaborate with a biographer. Back in 2003, he’d worked with Lewis MacAdams on a book for Knopf that apparently got well underway before Wenner backed out. (Per the Times, Knopf said the deal was later canceled.) In 2011, Rich Cohen, formerly of Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair, put together a proposal for an authorized biography, but Wenner again withdrew his cooperation. “I decided I didn’t like his approach,” he told me. ”Wonderful guy, though.” It seems, perhaps, that Wenner was never going to get the book he wanted unless he wrote it himself, which begs the question: Why didn’t he just write it himself in the first place? “I was too lazy!” he said. “I was too involved in the magazine. I didn’t have the time for it.”
I suggested that Like a Rolling Stone seemed like a way for Wenner to wrest back control of his own narrative after an experience where he was very much not in control of it. “No,” he said. “I mean, it is true that I had hoped Joe’s book would be the authoritative account”—Hagan argues that it is the authoritative account—“but this is not in any way a response. I mean, this is the fact that I realized, finally, I’m the one that can tell it best. All of a sudden, I had the time to do it and wanted to do it.… I wanted to do what I wanted to do, which was just tell my story my way. And I wanted to be honest about the times, and what they meant, and about the generation. I wanted to accurately portray what I think is a very important historical epoch in American life.”
The reason Wenner suddenly had all this time on his hands was because he had ceded control of Rolling Stone to 1) Jay Penske, whose Penske Media Corporation now owns the publication; and 2) Gus Wenner—Jann’s youngest of three sons from his marriage to Jane Schindelheim—who is now Rolling Stone’s CEO. This was the part of the book I was most interested in. Readers will surely feast on all the behind-the-scenes candy featuring the likes of Bono, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Bette Midler, and countless other stars, plus media icons like Annie Leibovitz and Hunter S. Thompson, all of which is neatly encapsulated in Maureen Dowd’s new Sunday Styles feature on Wenner—as are stories of drugs, romantic relationships, childhood memories, and the glory days of the magazine. But I wanted to talk about the dissolution of Wenner Media, which I had covered as it was shaking out in real time.
The first Wenner title to go was Us Weekly in March 2017, followed by Men’s Journal in June 2017. Both went to American Media Inc., the supermarket-rag-meets-fitness-mag publisher then run by CEO and Trump pal David Pecker, who would soon thereafter play a starring role, alongside Trump and Michael Cohen, in the notorious catch-and-kill scandal. “Star and the National Enquirer, his tabloids, had run outrageous attacks on Trump’s opponents,” Wenner writes in one of the last chapters, recalling a lunch date with Pecker. “That’s not all, David told me. He had been buying and then spiking stories from women who had been sleeping with Trump. He was very explicit about Trump’s knowledge, approval, and encouragement. I just thought of this as David bragging about being buddy-buddy with the president. I mentioned it to Gus and forgot about it.” (To be a fly on the wall at that lunch!)
About three months after announcing the sale of Men’s Journal—and after Gus and Wenner Media’s chief financial officer convinced him it was no longer financially feasible to operate the magazine he’d founded—Wenner officially put Rolling Stone on the block, in a story that graced the front of the New York Times Business section. ”There was no moment of emotion for me,” Wenner recalls in the book, “just pride in the place of honor for the event.”
The backdrop to all of this dramatic professional change was a precipitous decline in Wenner’s health as he trudged into his 70s following decades of hard living. There was a severe cardiac event. A triple coronary bypass. A valve transplant. A hip and femur operation. Weeks in the hospital surviving on boiled chicken and Jell-O. Physical rehab. Learning to walk with a cane. Then came more problems: near-total nerve compression. The threat of paralysis. A last-ditch spinal infusion (successful). Another month in a hospital bed. “Getting old was becoming a daily battle, all the wounds and injuries,” writes Wenner. “I was still up for the fight. The retreats were tactical, but no surrender.” I asked if the stress and emotional toll of divesting his businesses had exacerbated the deterioration in his physical health. “No. I smoked for 40 years. I had diabetes. You know, it just—the bell tolled. It was time.”
In the book, Wenner describes Penske—an automotive scion who built a successful publishing company that now includes Rolling Stone, Deadline, Variety, WWD, ARTnews, and numerous other brands—as “a good-looking young man with a terrible haircut.” What were Wenner’s first impressions of the elusive media executive who was becoming the steward of his life’s work? “I met Jay early on and liked him a lot. He was always my choice to buy the magazine,” Wenner told me. “I mean, you couldn’t sell to any of the big publishers. They’re all shedding [print] as quick as possible. Jay was publishing similar magazines of approximately the same size, financially and staffing-wise. He had revived a couple of magazines. And he had the patience, the tolerance, and the understanding. He had the right formula of what to do with it—make it monthly, get into the internet heavily—and the money to do that. I didn’t have the money to make the transition.” Most importantly, Penske took Gus under his wing, cementing Wenner’s legacy with his son helping to steer Rolling Stone into the future. Wenner, of course, was the odd man out. “As an older guy who founded all of this, letting go is tough,” he said. “I mean, it’s a classic story. The old guy won’t leave. I was that guy.” | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/jann-wenner-relives-rolling-stones-glory-days | 2022-09-13T10:34:38Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/jann-wenner-relives-rolling-stones-glory-days | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Joe Biden bristled sometimes when he heard people talking about him like he was serving Barack Obama’s third term. They shared plenty of goals, but Biden was his own man and he’d been running for president since before Obama got to law school. Five months into Biden’s presidency, Obama himself had argued in a podcast interview that “Joe and the administration are essentially finishing the job,” and even some of Obama’s old aides who’d returned to the West Wing to work for Biden thought he was taking things a bit too far. That just wasn’t how Biden conceived of his job—not with a pandemic still raging and the memory of Donald Trump shading his every move.
That was, however, how he thought about one important matter. As soon as he’d taken office, Biden had ordered a review of American policy in Afghanistan, pretty sure he’d finally have a chance to do what he’d basically wanted to do more than a decade earlier: end the war. The morass was on the hands of a whole generation of leaders now, he believed, and as the summer dragged on, he wasn’t much interested in arguments that he had a duty to extend it into a third decade. The chorus of DC foreign-policy types questioning his strategy while the Taliban advanced only hardened him as the full withdrawal date neared. He was convinced this was the crowd that had been so wrong for so long about the war.
So, with the end in sight, he called Obama. The former president had been watching from afar but resisting the urge to offer advice unless he was asked. Obama felt strongly that the country should only have one president at a time and didn’t want to overstep, but he also still felt some weight on his own shoulders from the war’s prolonged denouement. Plus, no one knew better than him how strongly Biden felt about it. Over the phone, Obama was supportive.
Biden had clearly been thinking plenty about 2009. That year’s extended and often emotionally draining debates over the future of the war hadn’t just molded his vice presidency. The experience had exposed fissures in his and Obama’s outlooks on American military responsibility, and it had revealed that both were unprepared for the churn of their own administration’s internal politics—neither Obama’s insistence on plowing through politics-as-usual nor Biden’s expertise in Washington’s halls of influence sufficient to break the restraints.
But years later, veterans of the administration would also describe the saga as a crucible that sealed the Obama-Biden bond, forcing each of them to repeatedly consider and reconsider the other’s motivations, experiences and influences. They were under intense sustained political and emotional pressure, with a constant, defining imbalance—Biden always having to, and more willing to, think more about the ultimate decision-maker Obama, than vice versa.
And now, a dozen years later, Biden thought he could finally close that formative chapter.
A few weeks before Obama’s inauguration, Biden pulled Robert Gates aside and asked for advice on defining his role in the national security realm. Gates—a George W. Bush appointee who was staying on as Defense Secretary—recommended replicating George H.W. Bush’s model as vice president, as he later recalled in his memoir. Gates, who’d already served under seven presidents, explained that Bush had picked his spots to weigh in but mostly kept quiet in Ronald Reagan’s meetings so as to maintain his influence and not be seen as just another player in the overall security landscape. Biden thanked Gates, determined that he couldn’t have disagreed more with the advice, and resolved to do the opposite.
There was never any question that Biden would play a significant role of some sort. He was the former chairman of the Senate’s foreign relations committee and his experience abroad was a big reason Obama picked him to be VP. Even before being chosen, Biden had watched closely as candidate Obama criticized Bush’s overreliance on the military and referred to the war in Iraq as the “war of choice,” compared to Afghanistan, the “war of necessity.” He’d followed along, too, when Obama visited the warzones the previous summer. While in Iraq, Obama had met with the top American military official there, pushing David Petraeus to define when he would know it was time to leave the country. Petraeus refused to be pinned down on a timetable, and the general insisted that Obama be open-minded about his proposed timeline, lest the enemy just wait it out. Obama countered that would always be a risk, but conceded that he’d be somewhat flexible. Though Obama felt he’d established some respect, the interaction was also clearly uncomfortable, and some military leaders concluded that Obama was pitting the efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq against each other for attention and resources.
Now, having dismissed Gates’ advice, Biden was acting as Obama’s eyes and ears on the ground in Kuwait, Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan, returning from his fact-finding trip just days before they were sworn in. He’d flown out with low expectations. For months, he’d suspected the military brass was presenting an unrealistically rosy view of the state of play in Afghanistan, in particular, and he’d been getting fed up with corruption there, too. Still, he’d long thought it could be worse: it could be Iraq. The situation in Afghanistan was unacceptably disordered, but he’d thought maybe it could be salvageable.
Back in Washington, though, Biden told Obama he was perplexed. The Afghan leg of the trip was a disaster. He’d seen no evidence of a long-term plan and it seemed naive to trust Hamid Karzai’s government to stabilize. Who knew when Afghanistan would have functioning and trustworthy leadership? Biden asked, forecasting minuscule political appetite for a long, sustained commitment there. The takeaways from Americans and allies there were abysmal, he continued: ask ten different people to describe the US goal in Afghanistan, and you’ll get ten different answers. They were better off focusing efforts on targeted missions aimed at threats across the border in Pakistan. It was time to ditch lofty ambitions of so-called nation-building, and to be realistic.
The internal meetings set to define the war’s future began almost immediately once they took office. Obama had an urgent request for tens of thousands of new troops on his desk on Day One. The National Security Council convened on his second full day in the White House, Biden seated immediately to his right. The new president opened with a reminder he’d campaigned on sending more troops but hadn’t fully determined what that should look like, and wanted a broader strategy reset. Petraeus—now in charge of Central Command—replied that to stop al-Qaeda’s return, Obama needed more troops—ideally thirty thousand—and a counterinsurgency strategy. Obama asked whether they thought this was immediately necessary, and Biden jumped in for the first time. They were getting ahead of themselves, he said. They needed to come up with a new strategy and agree on their ultimate goal before they talked in such terms. Biden was desperate to stop Obama from being sucked into a never-ending war of his own. The debate lines had been drawn just hours into the administration.
Obama asked for a full policy review, and soon his national security advisor gave him four timeline and troop-level options. Biden urged patience but Obama agreed to send in seventeen thousand troops. He was, however, unnerved when that didn’t turn out to be the end of the matter. He’d already signed the paperwork when he learned that someone in the Pentagon had actually done their math wrong. They’d omitted support staff in their count. The real number Obama needed to approve immediately was twenty-one thousand.
Biden kept thinking back to Hubert Humphrey, who’d once told him that his greatest regret as VP was not standing up to Lyndon Johnson more on Vietnam. So he was thrilled when Obama sat him down to explicitly ask him to play bad cop during their debates with the generals and national security team—Obama wanted to make sure he understood every possible angle of every possible argument, and needed Biden to pressure-test them. As Biden saw it, he would be wisest to not just agitate to pull troops out, but to probe every military assumption no matter how annoying he got, and to stretch the terms of the debates to give Obama clarity on his options. No one ever explained this to the military leaders in the room.
Hillary Clinton and Gates seemed to agree with the results of the report Obama had ordered up, arguing that he should lean into a counterinsurgency-like approach in the southern part of Afghanistan, focus on training Afghan troops, and consider Afghanistan and Pakistan one topic. But Biden again cut in to point out that, historically, interventions had failed in Afghanistan thanks to its history, culture, geography, and demographics, and he asked whether they were just risking prolonging their failure since they couldn’t trust the government there. He probed again: Why not focus on the threat of al-Qaeda in Pakistan with small, targeted teams? No one had yet spoken for this much time in any of these sessions, and the generals’ annoyance was obvious. Obama, who sometimes impatiently put his hand on Biden’s sleeve to stop his rambling, let him keep going, and Biden argued that sending more money to gain Afghans’ trust simply sounded like a huge suck of financial resources and their limited political reserves.
Obama had encouraged Biden’s argument, but he was also talking plenty to Clinton and Gates, and when he announced his new strategy in March it appeared to endorse a military buildup in parts of the country and a goal “to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their return to either country in the future.” Still, it took only a few more days for him to find he was already running out of political capital, just as Biden had warned: at April’s NATO meeting, few allies would hear out his pleas to increase their own involvement. Things took an even worse turn for Obama after the wretched summer fighting season, when August’s elections turned into a fraudulent disaster. | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/joe-bidens-afghanistan-policy-was-forged-in-obama-era-disappointment | 2022-09-13T10:34:40Z | vanityfair.com | control | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/joe-bidens-afghanistan-policy-was-forged-in-obama-era-disappointment | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Millions of people are missing out on a cost of living discount that could pay for their entire council tax bill. The average council tax bill for a D Band property in England is £1,966 for 2022/2023.
This is considerably higher than the £1,671 average in 2018. Single people get a 25 per cent discount and if everyone in the house is exempt, a 50 per cent reduction can be applied. But there are ways to write off the entire bill in circumstances according to the Council Tax Support Scheme, Birmingham Live reports.
You can apply for a council tax reduction and find out what your local authority is offering by visiting the Gov.uk website HERE. Simply put in your post code and find out more information. The scheme is also separate from the £150 council tax rebate.
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Around 2.8 million people are missing out on the discount. But you may be entitled to up to 100 per cent of your council tax bill if you or your partner is:
- A pensioner
- Entitled to a disability premium or disabled child premium
- Entitled to Employment Support Allowance and who also receives a qualifying disability-related benefit
- Receiving a carer's premium
- Receiving a war disablement pension, war widows pension or war widower's pension
- Caring for a child dependant under the age of six.
If you are of working age (other than those listed above) you will have to make a contribution towards your council tax bill, it says. As Council Tax Support will be calculated as a means-tested discount, the amount each household will have to pay towards the council tax will depend on their individual household circumstances.
In addition, local authorities run a Disabled Band Reduction Scheme under which you might be able to apply for a council tax discount or exemption if you or someone you live with is disabled. You may be eligible for this scheme if you live in a larger property than you would otherwise need if you or another occupant were not disabled.
For instance with an extra kitchen, bathroom or other room for the disabled person, or extra space that's needed for using a wheelchair. If you qualify, your bill will be reduced to the next lowest council tax band.
For example, if your property is in Band D, you’ll pay the Band C rate. You can find out more about the council tax support schemes by contacting your local authority.
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Across the nation, a number of cinemas will be showing the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on Monday, September 19. Here in Kent, The Carlton Cinema in Westgate-on-Sea, Thanet, will be joining other Picturedrome theatres across the nation in displaying the ceremony.
This will be a free event, however tickets are to be limited in number. Tickets will be available for collection from the box office on the day.
Doors for the event are to open from 10am. Already, The Carlton Cinema has been showing their respect for Her Majesty after her passing last Thursday (September 8), as during this ongoing period of national mourning, each film screening has begun with two minutes of silence in honour of The Queen.
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It has been recently confirmed that the date of the funeral will be a public holiday, meaning that schools are to be closed, as well as numerous businesses. Her Majesty's funeral is also set to break tradition as, unlike her husband’s funeral which was held at Windsor Castle, The Queen’s is to take place at Westminster Abbey.
What to expect on the day of the funeral
There will be a national two minute silence held at midday. The funeral and committal service at St George's Chapel are to be broadcast.
The Queen is expected to receive a full state funeral which includes processing her coffin on a gun carriage to the abbey which is likely to be pulled by sailors using ropes rather than horses. It is understood members of the Royal Navy have been told to prepare to carry her coffin.
There will be a strict all-black dress code for members of the Royal Family, who are expected to follow behind the coffin. Military members will line the streets and join in the procession.
The service will take around one hour, and then a large ceremonial procession is set to accompany the coffin to Hyde Park, where it will be transferred from a gun carriage to a state hearse before travelling to Windsor. There will be another procession through Windsor before the committal service at St George's Chapel.
The coffin will be lowered into the royal vault and The Queen’s final resting place will be the King George VI memorial chapel. It is an annex to the main chapel at Windsor Castle, where her mother and father were buried, along with the ashes of her sister, Princess Margaret.
Philip’s coffin will move from the Royal Vault to the memorial chapel to join the Queen’s. Any further updates from The Carlton Cinema relating to their screening of the funeral will be posted to their Facebook page.
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A royal historian has claimed to know the real reason for the reported rift between Prince Harry and William. The estrangement between the two brothers who were previously close is said to have started months after Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding in 2018.
In an updated edition of his book Battle of Brothers, Robert Lacey says the showdown started after complaints that the Duchess of Sussex had "bullied royal household staff". But Meghan has always denied these claims.
Reportedly being "horrified" about what he heard, William is said to have "thrown Harry out" of the joint royal household the Fab Four shared in Kensington Palace. Friends of Diana told the author that if she were alive she wouldn't have let the situation happen. Speaking to Hello Magazine, Robert says the brothers need a mother figure to "knock their heads together".
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Harry and Meghan moved to the US and stepped back from royal duties in 2020. In an inflammatory interview with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan claimed the reason was because the royal family were racist and negligent.
Prince William denied this and said, "we are very much not a racist family". Robert claims Harry wants to reconcile but in order to do so, William will need an assurance he will not do another revelatory interview.
Robert added: "Trust has got to be restored because you can't negotiate serious reconciliation unless you can discuss things in private."
Meghan, Harry, William and Kate were spotted walking together and greeting the crowd outside Kensington Palace yesterday. Prince Charles is said to have been the main instigator in trying to soothe the rift between the brothers and bring Meghan into the fold. In a speech as king, he even said how he loved both Harry and Meghan and wished them luck in their new life across the Atlantic.
Meghan Markle has proven to be a controversial figure since returning to the UK. After firing verbal shots against the royal family in several interviews in the US, some members of both the American and British public and press have been openly hostile to the former actress.
Yesterday a video appeared showing a woman from the crowd refusing to shake her hand and avoiding eye contact. Nonetheless, lots of the crowd were seemingly delighted to see the "Fab Four", Harry, Meghan, William and Kate, back together. The crowd broke into applause as they approached. A royal source told the Express: "The Prince of Wales thought it was an important show of unity at an incredibly difficult time for the family."
Finding Freedom co-author Omid Scobie said: "The Waleses had always been scheduled to greet well-wishers at Windsor Castle, but royal sources say the decision to invite the Sussexes was made in the eleventh hour. It is, without a doubt, a significant moment in the history of the relationship between the two brothers."
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Medway’s brand new Food & Drink Festival has been postponed in the wake of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. This is the latest of many events that have been rescheduled to respect the nation’s ongoing mourning period after the death of The Queen last Thursday (August 8).
Having partnered with Zoom Events, Medway Council scheduled the event to take place between Friday September 16 and Sunday, September 18 at the Rochester Castle Gardens. This past weekend saw the Castle Gardens used as the location for Medway Council’s official proclamation.
The area is also being used as the formal place for the public to lay flowers in honour of The Queen. This will remain in place until the day of Her Majesty’s state funeral on Monday, September 19.
Read more: Strikes affecting Kent suspended after death of Queen Elizabeth II
Medway Food & Drink festival would bring together the best of local, national and international food and drink. Plans would also see the event encompass a range of market stalls, family entertainment and live music.
The event has now been moved to March 31, April 1 and April 2, 2023. Those currently holding tickets will be contacted directly and given the option to transfer to the new dates.
Taking to Facebook, Medway Food & Drink Festival said: “Following the sad news of the death of Her Majesty The Queen, the Medway Food and Drink Festival, which was due to be held in Rochester Castle Gardens between Friday 16th and Sunday, 18th September, has been postponed until 31st March, 1st & 2nd April 2023.
“We sincerely apologise for any disappointment this may cause. Our thoughts are with the Royal Family and all those who mourn the passing of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.”
Those with any further queries around the event are encouraged to email info@zoomevents.co.uk
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...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES...
.A south swell may briefly push surf heights to advisory levels
along south facing shores through tonight.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Surf 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...Through 6 AM HST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
and strong longshore and rip currents making swimming difficult
and dangerous.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Beachgoers, swimmers, and surfers should heed all advice given by
ocean safety officials and exercise caution.
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KAPOLEI, HAWAII (KITV4) - Kapolei Energy Storage is scheduled to begin operations on April 1, 2023 and provide electricity to more than 30,000 homes on Oahu.
Hawaiian Electric officials said customers will gradually see their electricity rates decline – by less than a dollar initially and more as further renewable energy projects become available.
"We have eight other renewable energy projects under construction or planned or Oahu. We really want to give confidence to customers that things are going to change and things will get better. They’re going to see that improvement in their electric bill," said Jim Kelly, spokesperson, Hawaiian Electric.
KES is the largest battery storage facility in Hawaii and officials said it is the largest step towards the 2045 clean energy goal.
"People on the mainland are looking to Hawaii and at this project Hawaiian Electric is procuring to go green. We have a cleaner, more modernized grid with great flexibility and more efficiency.” said Polly Shaw, head of policy and communication at Plus Power.
The new facility was also sited in west Oahu so it can connect to the substation as the coal plant did. Officials said when Kapolei Energy Storage kicks off in the spring, it will be everything the coals plant was and more.
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...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH FACING SHORES...
.A south swell may briefly push surf heights to advisory levels
along south facing shores through tonight.
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Surf 7 to 10 feet.
* WHERE...South facing shores of all Hawaiian Islands.
* WHEN...Through 6 AM HST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Moderate. Expect strong breaking waves, shore break,
and strong longshore and rip currents making swimming difficult
and dangerous.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Beachgoers, swimmers, and surfers should heed all advice given by
ocean safety officials and exercise caution.
&&
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- All remaining mask mandates for University of Hawaii campuses and properties will be lifted on Friday, September 17, school officials announced in a statement.
Masks are currently required in classrooms, shared laboratory spaces and confined educational spaces.
Recommendations from UH medical and public health experts, as well as state and federal guidance, led to the decision to lift the mask requirements.
In a statement, UH noted that "masks are still strongly encouraged in crowded indoor spaces and required for those who have contracted the virus."
“Mahalo for all you have done to elevate our collective understanding of personal safety during this devastating pandemic,” said UH President David Lassner in an email to the 10-campus system announcing the update last week. “You have demonstrated our capacity to look beyond ourselves and to care for others.”
"UH will continue to remain highly vigilant, and COVID-19 restrictions may be quickly reinstated, if conditions change and warrant stronger measures,” Lassner added.
Lassner also asked for respect for an individual's choice to continue to wear a mask.
University of Hawaii COVID guidelines can be found here.
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King Charles travels to Belfast; queen’s coffin to return to London
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — King Charles III was flying to Northern Ireland Tuesday on the latest leg of his tour of the nations that make up the United Kingdom, as thousands of people lined up through the night to pay their last respects to his mother’s coffin in Edinburgh.
On Monday night, Charles and his siblings, Anne, Andrew and Edward, their heads bowed, briefly stood vigil around their mother’s flag-draped coffin in St. Giles’ Cathedral as members of the public filed past.
Earlier, a man wearing a suit adorned with medals stood silently, bowed his head and moved on. A woman dabbed away tears with a handkerchief. Another woman with two young children in their school uniforms walked slowly past the coffin.
Some people even paid their respects and then rejoined the end of the line to get a second view of the coffin of the only monarch most people in the United Kingdom have ever known.
In the line of mourners outside St. Giles’ Cathedral in the historic heart of Edinburgh, Sheila McLeay called the queen “a wonderful ambassador for our country.”
“She was such an example for every single one of us. She was dignified. She was just, she was beautiful inside and out. And I have known her all of my life. And I miss her very much,” she added.
On Tuesday, Charles boarded a plane that took off from Edinburgh Airport to fly to Belfast.
Scotland, where the queen died Thursday at her beloved Balmoral estate in the Highlands after a 70-year reign, has been almost universal in its praise for the queen.
The British monarchy draws more mixed emotions in Northern Ireland, where there are two main communities: mostly Protestant unionists who consider themselves British and largely Roman Catholic nationalists who see themselves as Irish.
That split fueled three decades of violence known as “the Troubles” involving paramilitary groups on both sides and U.K. security forces, in which 3,600 people died. The royal family was touched personally by the violence: Lord Louis Mountbatten, a cousin of the queen and a much-loved mentor to Charles, was killed by an Irish Republican Army bomb in 1979.
A deep sectarian divide remains a quarter century after Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace agreement.
But in a sign of how far Northern Ireland has come on the road to peace, representatives of Sinn Fein — the main Irish nationalist party, linked during the Troubles to the IRA — are attending commemorative events for the queen and meeting the king on Tuesday.
Sinn Fein’s president, Mary Lou McDonald, paid tribute to the 96-year-old monarch following her death last Thursday, calling her “a powerful advocate and ally of those who believe in peace and reconciliation.”
The president and prime minister of the neighboring Republic of Ireland are also due to attend the memorial service in Belfast, despite tense relations between Dublin and London over Brexit. Since Britain left the European Union in 2020, the U.K. and the EU have been wrangling over trade rules for Northern Ireland, the only part of the U.K. that shares a border with a member of the bloc.
After lying in the cathedral through most of Tuesday, the queen’s coffin will be flown back to London and driven to her official London home, Buckingham Palace.
The Royal Air Force C-17 Globemaster plane that will carry the coffin has in the past been used to evacuate people from Afghanistan and to take humanitarian aid and weapons to Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, U.K. Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston said.
In the early hours of Tuesday, scores of workers were seen cleaning litter and weeds from the road between the air force base where the plane carrying the queen’s coffin will land and central London.
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Jill Lawless and Mike Corder reported from London.
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Follow AP stories on the death of Queen Elizabeth II and Britain’s royal family at https://apnews.com/hub/queen-elizabeth-ii
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With more than one-third of new employees' job hopping within a year, skills-based assessments and recruitment tools have never been more important; Visit Cappfinity Booth #1607 at HR Tech Event in Las Vegas, Sept 13-16, 2022
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Talent acquisition and management solutions provider Cappfinity today announced its newly expanded suite of solutions. Talent leaders around the globe face the uncertainty of an impending recession, inflation, fallout from the Great Resignation and a competitive hiring environment. As a result, many are actively seeking ways to accelerate hiring. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 78 percent of HR professionals say the quality of their organization's hires has improved due to their use of assessments.
One-Stop by Cappfinity is a new assessment that combines behavioral and cognitive skills with motivational interviewing into one easy-to-use integrated solution. One-Stop is quick to complete, elevates the candidate experience, and provides deep, unbiased insights for hiring managers.
Also new, Preparation Plus by Cappfinity delivers year-round pre-skilling and upskilling insight. "Preparation Plus is an on-demand pre-application resource to help demystify the recruitment process and level the playing field for candidates less familiar with the online assessments and interviewing," said Nicky Garcea, co-founder and head of America at Cappfinity. "Global organizations like HSBC and EY have incorporated Preparation Plus to help candidates interview, secure a role, and start successful careers within their organizations."
According to a survey conducted for The Wall Street Journal by pollsters YouGov and Cappfinity, 38% of Americans landing jobs since January 2021 quit within a year. Millennials, followed by GenZ, are the most likely to job hop. As such, talent leaders are moving away from traditional strategies and seeking solutions that can help them evaluate skills and existing capabilities, highlight motivation or untapped potential, and foster internal mobility.
Cappfinity's end-to -end skills suite of talent solutions will be demonstrated September 13-16, 2022 at the HR Technology Conference and Expo at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, booth #1607. In addition to One-Stop and Preparation Plus, HR Tech attendees can take a closer look at Cappfinity's talent mapping, hiring insights reports, succession planning solutions, digital work simulations, and immersive life-like VR experiences.
About Cappfinity
Cappfinity is the global leader in skills-based and science-backed recruiting, hiring, and talent development solutions. Since 2005, Cappfinity has assisted forward-looking organizations with diversifying and revitalizing their workforces through recruiting, onboarding, talent development, VR experiences, and more. With teams in the U.S., UK, Ireland and Australia, Cappfinity is proud to be working with 250+ organizations and millions of individuals in service of our shared purpose – Strengthening the World.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Enochian BioSciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENOB) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: January 17, 2018 to June 27, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 26, 2022
No obligation or cost to you.
Learn more about your recoverable losses in ENOB:
https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/enochian-biosciences-inc-loss-submission-form?id=31566&from=4
CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Enochian BioSciences, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company's co-founder and inventor Serhat Gumrukcu was engaged in a variety of frauds; (2) Gumrukcu was not a licensed doctor anywhere in the world; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Gumrukcu's purported contributions to the Company lacked a reasonable basis; (5) as a result of the foregoing, the Company had overstated its commercial prospects; (6) Gumrukcu had improperly diverted approximately $20 million from Enochian to entities he owned; and (7) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Enochian you have until September 26, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Enochian securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the ENOB lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/enochian-biosciences-inc-loss-submission-form?id=31566&from=4.
J. Klein, Esq. represents investors and participates in securities litigations involving financial fraud throughout the nation. The Klein Law Firm is a boutique litigation firm with experience in a wide range of areas including securities law, corporate finance and commercial litigation. Since 2011, our experienced attorneys have achieved superior results for our clients with a personalized focus. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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