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99-year-old veterans reunited after serving in World War II
BELLEVUE, Neb. (KETV) – A pair of veterans who served in World War II have become fast friends decades later through reunions for the war heroes.
Myron Roker and Ray Terwillegar served together in World War II. Both veterans were in the 324th infantry regiment.
“Myron and I, we didn’t know each other. But after we had started having these reunions, we have become very close friends,” Terwillegar explained.
Roker spent 204 days in combat from 1944 to 1945.
“We were on defense and Nazis were about, I’d say two miles from us,” he recalled.
Terwillegar spent five months in combat.
“Nobody will really realize what us soldiers went through over in World War II,” Terwillegar said.
As the men reunite now, decades after the end of the war – both at the age of 99, they remember those who didn’t come home.
“It cost us almost 500 men and almost 2,000 wounded, so freedom is not free,” Roker said.
“So many of your real good friends that you became with and are not here today. They didn’t make it back,” Terwillegar said.
With that grief, each man said they also carry a sense of pride.
“At the end of World War II, our whole country was together,” Terwillegar added.
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DORCHESTER COUNTY, Md. - The Maryland Department of Agriculture has announced that more than 14,000 acres in Dorchester County will be treated by an aircraft to reduce the adult mosquito population, beginning the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 21, weather conditions permitting.
The aircraft is a twin engine, white plane with red and blue stripes, registration number N903MD.
It will fly 300 to 500 feet, above the ground during the evening hours.
The following area will receive aerial spraying services: Andrews, Bishops Head, Crapo, Crocheron, Lakesville, Robbins, Toddville, Wesley, and Wingate.
Residents of the affected areas are advised that the insecticide to be applied is Trumpet, a formulation containing naled and applied at less than 1 fluid ounce per acre. Approximately 14,322 acres will be treated. It is not necessary for people, pets or livestock to leave the area to be treated.
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GEORGETOWN, Del. - The same plane that was used to carry undocumented migrants to Martha's Vineyard last week is slated to land at Delaware Coastal Airport in Georgetown, Del., this afternoon, according to flight tracking program FlightAware.
The plane, designated J328, was set to leave San Antonio at 10:10 a.m. ET, with a stopover in Florida, at 12:33 p.m. ET, before heading to Delaware Coastal Airport, with a tentative arrival 1:32 p.m. ET. However, there is no indication yet that the plane has left Texas or if it will take off. There is also no word yet on whether the plan has any migrants on board.
Delaware Coastal Airport is less than an hour from Rehoboth Beach, Del., where President Joe Biden has a summer home.
Last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office used the same aforementioned aircraft to send two flights to Martha's Vineyard saying they were part of the state’s "relocation program” that intends to send migrants to “sanctuary destinations."
If the plane does arrive in Delaware with migrants on board, Delaware officials said they are prepared.
“We’re aware of the reports, and continue to prepare for the possibility of migrants arriving in Delaware unannounced," said the office of Delaware Gov. John Carney. "Our teams at DEMA and DHSS are working with community organizations and other partners to make sure that migrants who arrive here have the support that they need.”
Rehoboth Beach officials also said they were aware of the situation, with a city spokesperson saying, "We are working with partners to compassionately assist migrants if they arrive."
The planes are carrying migrants from Texas and Florida. The Republican governors there are making a point that they have cities being overrun by people streaming across the border illegally and other states should bear the burden.
Customs and border protection officials announced Monday the number of apprehensions of undocumented immigrants on the Southern border is above 2 million this year for the first time. At this pace, the U.S. is on track to shatter previous annual records.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Edge and Dentistry in General (DIG), a dentist only Facebook and online community, join hands to increase employment support to dentists and dental practices nationwide - offering customized HR solutions to DIG's network throughout the US.
This partnership comes at a time when employment trends in the dental industry are at an all-time low.
Amidst reports that over 80% of dentists face considerable challenges hiring professionals, Edge and DIG have teamed up to provide affordable and scalable HR solutions to practices across the States.
Dr. Bob Dokhanchi, President at DIG, stated, "Dental offices, small or large, are struggling to find the needed staff to run efficiently. When you combine that with higher labor costs, increased operating costs due to inflation, and reduced reimbursement from many insurance companies, it can be detrimental to the survival of many dental practices. Edge can help dental practices around the country face these challenges by offering affordable remote employees."
Jeff Pireu, VP of Partnerships and Alliances, remarked, "We are so excited to be able to partner with Dr. Bob Dokhanchi and his organization, Dentistry In General. This partnership comes at a crucial time for the dental industry as practices across the States struggle to find qualified employees. We believe that Edge and DIG can make a significant impact on the industry, and we enthusiastically welcome this partnership."
Edge, a US-Based HR-tech company, has made global strides since 2020. Edge provides scalable, affordable, and adaptable HR solutions that connect North American organizations with global talent. The company hosts a presence across North America, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific, with plans to expand to over 150 countries by 2024.
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Basil and Sundried Tomato flavors hit shelves this fall
LYNDHURST, N.J., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Filippo Berio, one of the nation's top-selling olive oil and pesto brands, introduces two vegan pestos to its sizeable pesto lineup. The 155-year-old Italian brand has launched Basil and Sundried Tomato flavors that feature tofu as a replacement for cheese while retaining the brand's signature extra virgin olive oil, high-quality ingredients and authentic pesto flavor.
Plant-based and both dairy and gluten free, the two pestos are certified by The Vegan Society. With no heating or cooking required, the new products are convenient and highly versatile for any use, from spreading on sandwiches and pizzas to stirring into vegetables, pastas, grains, dips and more — further enhancing any dish's flavor.
As a leader in the global olive oil industry, Filippo Berio has long been a favorite of health-conscious consumers, who also reach for its variety of specialty wine vinegars, balsamic vinegars of Modena and glazes. This pesto product release further extends Filippo Berio's portfolio in the growing plant-based foods market, which is expected to reach $162 billion globally within the next decade, according to a 2021 report by Bloomberg Intelligence. The new Basil pesto and Sundried Tomato pesto expand the options for those looking for quality plant-based products without compromising on taste.
"After ongoing recipe development and countless blind taste tests comparing our Classic pesto and vegan recipes, we are thrilled to launch two flavorful and delicious vegan recipes that live up to the high quality standards of the Filippo Berio brand that consumers have come to know and trust. We are confident our new products will become mainstays for those who are vegan or otherwise looking for plant-based alternatives," said Dusan Kaljevic, deputy CEO of Filippo Berio USA.
This expansion into the vegan market is widely in response to the increasing number of consumers who are reducing their consumption of animal products for health and environmental benefits. Filippo Berio recognized this shift and, as a brand that's dedicated to sustainability, health, quality and flavor, wanted to provide the best-tasting option for this consumer segment.
Filippo Berio's vegan pestos are available now on Amazon and will be distributed in select retail locations this fall.
To sample Filippo Berio products and learn more about the brand's pestos, please visit filippoberio.com/products/pesto/.
About Filippo Berio:
The Filippo Berio brand has been committed to creating high-quality olive oil for more than 155 years. Founder Filippo Berio set forth exceptional standards of olive oil production that are still rigorously followed today, with each bottle sold bearing his signature as a seal of the finest olive oil and the brand's promise of quality. Filippo Berio's distinctive olive oils are complemented by a selection of pestos, vinegars, balsamic and glazes, all featuring the finest ingredients and high production standards. The brand is currently sold in more than 75 countries. In the United States, Filippo Berio is marketed by Filippo Berio USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Salov Group, based in Lucca, Italy. For more information, visit www.filippoberio.com.
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IRVINE, Calif. , Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Immunis Inc., a private biotechnology company developing an immunomodulatory secretome for age and disease-related immune decline in Phase 1/2a testing, welcomes Peter H. Diamandis, M.D. to the Executive Advisory Board. Dr. Diamandis received degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering from MIT and is a Harvard-trained physician. His entrepreneurship has led to the creation of over 25 companies in the areas of space, education, venture capital and longevity. Named by Fortune as one of the "World's 50 Greatest Leaders," Dr. Diamandis is the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which funds the design and operation of large-scale incentive competitions. As the executive founder of Singularity University, Dr. Diamandis counsels the world's leaders on exponentially growing technologies with programs such as Abundance360 and the Abundance Platinum Longevity Program. He is the co-Founder and Vice-Chairman of the cellular therapeutics company, Celularity, Inc., and of Vaxxinity, Inc., which develops vaccines against COVID and chronic disease. Dr. Diamandis is also the co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Fountain Life, a co-Founder of BOLD Capital Partners and a Board Member of four successful SPAC exits. Dr. Diamandis' books, blogs, podcasts and webinars educate millions of individuals regularly. Immunis is honored to have such an innovative expert join the team.
"I haven't been this excited about a biotech company in a long time! The approach Immunis is taking to reproduce the stem cell secretome and the focus on Sarcopenia is brilliant. Besides the multitude of potential longevity related benefits, battling Sarcopenia could have one of the biggest impacts on healthy aging we've seen this decade," says Dr. Peter H. Diamandis.
About Immunis Inc.
Immunis is a private biotechnology company developing a novel immunomodulatory secretome product for the various manifestations of age and disease-related immune decline. The STEM product line leverages Immunis' leading-edge capabilities in stem cell technology to deliver all natural, all human immune modulators in their natural, relative physiological concentrations.
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System features latest in AI technology, predictive pressure calibration, and increased water accuracy to help homeowners eliminate water waste and save money
Irrigreen's simplicity allows anyone to customize, design and install the irrigation system with XP heads, from concept to precision implementation
SAN FRANCISCO and EDINA, Minn., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Irrigreen, the leader in robotic irrigation systems, today announced Irrigreen XP, a revolutionary sprinkler system built using the most advanced robotics, AI and IoT technologies available on the market today. Irrigreen XP offers unprecedented precision watering and includes new functionality that predicts and adapts to changes in water pressure and flow. A simple design tool on the homepage allows users to plan and customize the system to their lawn and instantly see water and cost savings.
"Conventional irrigation is broken. As much as 60% of water used outdoors is completely wasted. You see water running down the driveway, spraying in the street or on the sidewalk, or wet and dry spots on the lawn. To combat the problem, Irrigreen is focused on delivering the best in robotic and smart technology to help eliminate water waste and inefficiencies," said Shane Dyer, CEO, Irrigreen. "XP brings even greater levels of robotic precision to our yard sprinkler system, allowing it to predict fluctuations in water pressure and flow, which in turn, gives users more control over the amount of water they use. This can help save homeowners thousands of dollars off their home water bill."
XP will lead Irrigreen's lineup of robotic sprinkler heads, all of which integrate into its irrigation system built for simplicity and efficiency. Key benefits of the Irrigreen system include:
- Reducing water use by 50% and eliminating water waste: Rather than simply spraying water like basic sprinklers - which results in overlap and overwatering - Irrigreen's software-controlled robotic heads use printer-grade precision to map out the landscape and water in the shape of any lawn. This means you are getting the same green lawn, but only using half the water. Controlled by an app on your phone, Irrigreen also integrates with live weather data to ensure you're not watering unnecessarily when the weather is cooler or rain is predicted.
- Cost savings of thousands of dollars a year: Conventional sprinkler systems are costly - from water use to set up and ongoing maintenance. Irrigreen's system uses far fewer sprinkler heads to water the same area, while requiring up to 80% less piping and no valves.
- Most advanced robotics: Irrigreen sprinkler heads are built using today's most advanced robotic technology to bring even greater precision and accuracy to at-home irrigation. Before a problem occurs (overwatering, imbalances), XP can predict changes in water pressure and flow.
- A simpler design, that is simple to install: The system built for the DIYer, Irrigreen takes the pain out of home irrigation. Before purchasing, customers can plan and design their own system customized to their specific yard and needs. Irrigreen integrates with Google Maps so customers can virtually place sprinkler heads where they need them. Irrigreen's software then develops a custom quote, including water savings. Because Irrigreen operates as a digital system (traditional systems rely on mechanical configurations), every digital head replaces 6-10 mechanical heads resulting in a simpler system with 80% less piping and wiring, while completely eliminating the need for problematic valves. This makes Irrigreen easy to install for anyone, including the homeowner.
Amidst increasing climate change, Irrigreen introduced its 2.0 system in April of 2021 to address the need for water conservation. With water scarcity accelerating quickly, Irrigreen systems were conceptualized and built using inkjet printing technology to digitally control water placement, uniformly irrigating in the exact shape of each zone. The company currently holds seven patents on its product design, making the company's sprinkler system the only one on the market that can effectively half the amount of water used.
Irrigreen XP heads will be available for purchase on Irrigreen's website starting September 20, and will retail for $339 each. For more information and to see the cost and water savings for your yard, please visit www.irrigreen.com.
Irrigreen is the most efficient sprinkler system on the planet. Using 50% less water, a single head maps and precisely irrigates where needed, saving users approximately 50% annually on their outdoor water bill. Controlled from an app, five Irrigreen heads can replace a forty head traditional system, offering streamlined installation at a comparable price. Irrigreen is better for your lawn, your wallet, and the planet. Irrigreen is based in San Francisco, California and Edina, Minnesota.
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Thor Love and Thunder 4K Review: Worthy of Another Look
Warning; This Thor: Love and Thunder 4K review contains spoilers.
Although it was successful at the box office, Thor: Love and Thunder didn’t fare quite as well with online fans. Some skepticism, it deserved: as our initial review pointed out. The script contains significant gaps in the plot that might have papered over awkward transitions. The final cut just hopes we don’t notice that powers and motives can come across somewhat arbitrary. Another pass on the story surely could have fixed things. To cite one of many issues, why can’t Gorr simply wish both himself and his daughter back to health at the end? Nobody said anything about limits to a wish that he planned to use to kill every god in the universe.
It’s also possible audiences felt a bit of Taika Waititi overkill. Since directing Thor: Ragnarok, the director and actor has popped up everywhere, some more welcome than others. His MCU character Korg, who was at best a two-joke character to begin with, feels officially like he has worn out his welcome. And the ending of this film suggests that even Waititi finally knows it. Freshening Korg up by making him a mere talking face for half of the film is at least a change.
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Yet upon second viewing, it seems like some exaggeration has entered fan perceptions. So many of the jokes and gags are writ so large — like the screaming goats — that it’s easy to feel like they dominate the whole story. In fact, there’s at least as much serious stuff. Both Christian Bale’s Gorr and Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster run parallel, doomed tracks with a power source that also drains their lives. And they effectively cancel each other out at the end, like opposite signs of an equation, by sacrificing themselves for love. Waititi’s script, co-written with Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, isn’t deft enough to do much with that parallel, or render it as any significant commentary on duality. Like that last wish, it feels just out of reach. But it’s not nothing.
Still, Gorr serial-killing across the universe and Jane battling cancer need some silliness to counterbalance the omnipresent death. Some might argue Russell Crowe’s Greek-accented Zeus a step too far. But depending upon which Greek mythology is chosen, Zeus can come across as quite the foolish horndog. Perhaps there’s not enough balance. Zeus never seems threatening enough to banish anyone to Tartarus. At least Jeff Goldblum had a melting stick. Zeus has a thunderbolt, but it works better against him than for him.
Chris Hemsworth’s Thor seems to have regressed in intelligence, but his chemistry with Portman is still there. This makes some of Thor’s obliviousness explainable as a revived crush. Frankly, seeing Portman as a superheroine will engender many a crush in the audience. Love and Thunder feels no more or less a love story than the first two Thor films. But because Waititi’s Ragnarok wasn’t a love story, it must seem new to him.
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Early in the film, Thor speaks about “another classic Thor adventure” in referring to an incident that’s anything but. The parallels need no comment. The movie at hand is no classic, but it’s also no disaster. Thor and Jane get the closure they needed, and Thor faces down a worthy foe at the center of the universe.
The Love and Thunder 4K disc features a rich array of shadows and black levels, particularly when Shadow Demons are involved. The first battle in the Shadow Realm, in largely in black and white, but with hints of color and clouds of particulate matter. It looks especially sharp, like an actual black and white comic rather than pure gray-scale, and akin to Zack Snyder’s Justice League: Justice Is Gray edition. Viewed on Blu-ray, some of those scenes have brighter colors, but the rest of the shadows simply look overexposed and forcibly digitally lightened. The sound is outstanding, with subtle whispers from the Necrosword into Gorr’s ear long before we even see it or know what it is.
All of the extras, including the commentary track, stay strictly on the Blu-ray. Waititi does the commentary, but don’t expect too many insights on the obvious evolution of the story. He does, however, note that Mieke’s whiteboard in Asgard shows the entire plot of the movie in pictures, including some deleted scenes. However, Waititi largely lets his daughters into the recording and asks them what they think of the movie. They don’t find Gorr very scary, and they constantly compare it unfavorably to Stranger Things. They did play a part in creating the movie’s monsters, as all the Shadow Demon designs came from children’s drawings. And they understand his sarcastic deadpan shtick quite well — better than many journalists, arguably.
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Other fun tidbits include the revelation that Russell Crowe did every scene in both a Shakesperean English accent and the Greek one, with everyone agreeing the latter sounded more fun. And the way Korg reproduces, Waititi insists, is direct canon from the comics. That Melissa McCarthy cameo happened because she was in Australia at the time with nothing else to do. Also, Waititi hates the word “bromance.”
But don’t expect to find out what Lena Headey, Jeff Goldblum, or Peter Dinklage originally did in the movie. Waititi never mentions them, nor do they show up in the deleted scenes. The biggest hint given as to a previous structure is a deleted scene in which Zeus returns to personally give Thor the thunderbolt. Others shown here include an extended, excessively silly version of the Guardians asking a meditating Thor for a help, and a bit with Dionysus that’s already online. Featurettes spotlight Portman’s return, Bale’s villain, and Waititi’s evolution as a Thor director. The inevitable gag reel features plenty of dancing as usual, along with Chris Pratt’s phone interrupting several scenes.
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It’s fascinating that just as the Marvel TV shows start to highlight people of faith, Love and Thunder makes all of the gods look like arrogant idiots. Gorr overreacts to that knowledge, and taking it out on kids is especially evil, But his anger tracks. As in the classical Greek comedies, the gods come down to our level in this film, full of mortal flaws and suggesting they exist in our image rather than vice versa. Once again, there’s almost a strong theme there, but it slightly exceeds Waititi’s grasp again. He really works better polishing other people’s scripts than writing his own, and that includes the one he won an Oscar for.
But then Waititi is all too mortal as well.
Grade: 3/5
Thor: Love and Thunder will hit Blu-ray and 4K on September 27. And the digital version is also available right now.
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Andor is the first Disney+ live-action Star Wars series to screen in advance for critics outside of special premiere events, which feels significant. Viewers can only assume why. But two possible reasons immediately come to mind after watching the first four episodes. The first is that this show, for once, does not rely on big spoiler cameos. Thus far, you’re not going to see an episode ending with, say, a sudden Admiral Ackbar reveal. The second is that Disney+ might need the press to explain just how different this Star Wars is going to be. Frankly, young kids might get extremely fidgety from Andor‘s bleakness and dialogue-driven drama, with relatively few laser fights. And at least in these initial episodes, no Stormtroopers or lightsabers. Andor review.
The opening of the first episode feels more like a Blade Runner TV show than Star Wars, with Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) walking the rain-soaked streets of commerce planet Morlana One’s red-light district, passing window-posing hookers of all species. He’s on a mission to find a lost family member, but it goes awry, leaving people dead in his wake. They’re minor players, but their deaths attract the interest of Deputy Inspector Karn (Kyle Soller), who is a bit of an obsessive nerd about such things, despite the disinterest of his superiors.
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The year is BBY5 — five years before the Battle of Yavin — and this is the first time a live-action Star Wars has canonized that dating system onscreen. For the characters onscreen, this means little. Internally, they wouldn’t know they’re that far away from the first big Rebel victory seen in Rogue One. For hardcore fans, it’s one of many small references to piece together. There are also shout outs to events on Mimban, Arvala 6, Scarif, and other familiar locales. The bottom line of the timing is that it’s the height of the Empire. This is a period we haven’t seen much of, because frankly, it’s a big downer.
The opening three episodes, which will drop on Disney+ all at once, essentially cover Cassian Andor’s origin. This part of the story largely takes place on the planet Ferrix, which seems a sort of fascist shopping mall/swap meet. That it looks like a really rainy version of Disneyland’s Galaxy’s Edge doesn’t seem like a coincidence, especially when one tourist complains about the price of parking, and the mere notion that he’s being charged money just to come and buy more stuff. To the extent that this show has humor, it’s a very downbeat, deadpan, British style.
In the present day, small-time thief Andor, looking for an escape route from the dead bodies, gets recruited into the larger Rebellion. Meanwhile, in parallel flashbacks, the story of how he left his rainforest-like home world, Kenari, unfolds.
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The fourth episode is where Mon Mothma comes in, and we make a welcome return to Coruscant, as the narrative diverges. Andor himself, meanwhile, finds himself part of a group of seven on an outpost world planning a heist. Unlike Rogue One, viewers know Cassian will survive because they’ve seen the end of his story. Sadly, this new group proves even more boring than the Rogue One team. One seems to have heightened empathy powers, while the rest seem like interchangeable, shouty humans. The accidental comedy of K-2SO is sorely missed.
More welcome levity comes with the villainous Karn, who is like an evil version of Star Trek: Lower Decks‘ Boimler. Insistent on doing everything by the book even when his superiors tell him to knock it off, Karn finds himself escalating and ending up in awkward situations. His position at the end of the fourth episode makes for a nice bit of absurdity that’s still in-keeping with the show’s somber tone. As the only antagonist, he would be ludicrous. As one of several established villains, Karn is the perfect insufferable office suck-up that all corporations have. Soller plays it utterly straight, as he should.
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Karn’s first big scene, a debate with a very David Warner-like superior, boasts some of the best dialogue Star Wars has highlighted in a long time. Andor may have spent big bucks on the sets, but it’s not a show about set-pieces. Conversation, intrigue, and double-crosses drive the plot. It’s not on the same level as Game of Thrones, but it clearly aspires to that.
Adding crucial atmosphere, composer Nicholas Britell (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk) proves a worthy addition to an elite club of John Williams, Michael Giacchino, and Ludwig Goransson. He excels at the task, from the wood instruments that give Andor’s childhood a South American vibe to the sparse beats of robot B2EMO’s first entrance. Recalling Rey’s initial theme in The Force Awakens, the latter theme — like many here — evokes a melancholy and a sense of emptiness at the heart of the run-down, day-to-day life under totalitarianism. “Must everything be boring and sad?” asks one major character’s significant other. Kids used to Jedi battles may ask the same. But for older audiences eager to up the ante on George Lucas’ vague parallels to real-world power struggles, enjoy the catnip.
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Rogue One, as beloved as it is in some quarters, was hamstrung by competing visions. It’s tough to pull off something that’s simultaneously a dark war story, a crowd-pleasing adventure, an indulgent bit of fan-service (the Vader scenes), and a truly terrible misjudgment of CG’s powers to resurrect dead actors. Andor, now a vision solely shepherded by Tony Gilroy, and with 24 episodes to play out, is free to focus on being a downbeat spy story. At times it feels like a foreign film, made by someone from another culture within the Star Wars universe. That all the Kenari flashbacks feature un-subtitled non-English adds to that effect.
In assessing the show as a whole, a lot will depend on how things play out. What Disney showed for review could play as an outstanding buildup, or stay low-key and lead nowhere. What is clear for now is that at the very least, Andor is a big swing into a different style of Star Wars show.
Grade: 3.5/5
Andor‘s first three episodes debut Wednesday, September 21 on Disney+
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EA’s Motive Studio is Developing a New Iron Man Video Game
Yet another Marvel character is getting his own video game sometime in the next few years. After more than a month of rumors, Electronic Arts finally confirmed that a brand new Iron Man title is officially on the way. The single-player action-adventure game is currently in the early stages of development and will be released by EA’s Motive Studio.
Rumors about a new Iron Man game began making the rounds in early August, when several insiders published unverified reports about EA’s plans. Right now, it’s too early to speculate on story details. But according to the announcement, the game will feature “an original narrative that taps into the rich history of Iron Man, channeling the complexity, charisma, and creative genius of Tony Stark, and enabling players to feel what it’s like to truly play as Iron Man.”
The news is out! We couldn’t be more thrilled to collaborate with @MarvelGames on an all-new single-player, action-adventure Iron Man game. While we’re still in early development, this is an exciting new adventure for our studio: https://t.co/zpuT61TKtV pic.twitter.com/309lhm02dY
— Motive (@MotiveStudio) September 20, 2022
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Luckily, Motive has already proven itself capable of handling big-name franchises. The Montréal-based studio’s latest project is a high-definition remake of EA’s Dead Space, which will bow on next-gen consoles on January 27, 2023. They previously led development on Star Wars: Squadrons in 2020 and also helped DICE with 2017’s Star Wars Battlefront II. Leading the charge on Iron Man is executive producer Olivier Proulx, who recently worked on Square Enix’s Guardians of the Galaxy video game. His team also includes “passionate industry veterans” like Ian Frazier, Maëlenn Lumineau, and JF Poirier.
Iron Man joins several other Marvel-themed video games on the horizon. The next major title, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, hits stores in December. Players are also eagerly awaiting new details regarding Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 and Marvel’s Wolverine from Insomniac, both of which are expected to arrive sometime in 2023. And during this month’s D23 Expo, Skydance New Media pulled back the curtain on its own upcoming Marvel project, a WWII-era adventure from Uncharted creator Amy Hennig and starring Captain America and Black Panther. Unfortunately, the studio hasn’t revealed the game’s official title.
What are you hoping to see in Motive’s upcoming Iron Man video game? Let us know in the comment section below!
Recommended Reading: Iron Man by Fraction & Larroca: The Complete Collection Vol. 1
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SEATTLE, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Seattle-based fashion retailer Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE: JWN) has announced plans to open three new Nordstrom Rack stores in 2023. The new stores will be located in Anaheim Hills, Clovis and San Clemente, California.
"We look forward to opening these new Nordstrom Rack locations in the Anaheim Hills, Clovis and San Clemente communities, strengthening our network of stores, and introducing new customers to Nordstrom Rack's unique product offering," said Carl Jenkins, Senior Vice President of Nordstrom Rack Stores. "In addition to shopping the brands they love at a great price, our customers in Southern California can take full advantage of these convenient new location to pick up online orders and make returns."
With the addition of these three new locations, Nordstrom will operate 57 Nordstrom Rack stores, 23 Nordstrom stores, five Nordstrom Locals and one asos | Nordstrom in California.
Anaheim Hills, Calif.
The 24,000 square-foot store will be located in Anaheim Hills Festival, off SR91 at Weir Canyon Road, the outdoor shopping center features a wide array of retailers, restaurants, and service providers. Anchored by Target, Hobby Lobby, Petco, T.J. Maxx and Vons. Anaheim Hills Festival, managed by Vestar and is ideally located off SR91 at Weir Canyon Road. The store is scheduled to open in fall 2023.
"We are thrilled to be welcoming Nordstrom Rack to Anaheim Hills," said Christine Lee, General Manager for Anaheim Hills Festival. "The Nordstrom brand is synonymous with exceptional quality, selection and customer service and has been the most highly requested concept among our customers for years. We are confident that Nordstrom Rack is the perfect complement to our already strong tenant mix."
Clovis, Calif.
The 31,000 square-foot Clovis store will be located in Clovis Crossing, a shopping center conveniently situated in fast-growing north Clovis near upscale residential developments, top-tier schools, business parks and retail centers. Clovis Crossing also includes Bevmo, Dick's Sporting Goods and Home Goods. Clovis Crossing Shopping Center is owned by Clovis-Herndon Center, LLC and managed by Paynter Realty & Investments, Inc.
"We are excited to announce Nordstrom Rack will be opening in the Clovis Crossing Shopping Center. Nordstrom Rack is a best-in-class retailer with a long history of excellence in sales and customer service and will surely be a welcomed addition to the Clovis community," said David H. Paynter, President, Paynter Realty & Investments, Inc. and Managing Member of Clovis Herndon Center, LLC.
San Clemente, Calif.
The 32,000 square-foot San Clemente store will be located in San Clemente Plaza alongside Home Goods, Sprouts and Ulta. San Clemente Plaza is owned and managed by Kornwasser and is ideally located at SWC 5 Freeway and Camino de Estrella.
"Management believes that the addition of Nordstrom's Rack to our center will be synergistic with existing tenants and attract new customers to the Center which will strengthen this location as a cornerstone of San Clemente shopping," said Joseph Kornwasser, Founder of Kornwasser Shopping Center Properties, LLC.
Nordstrom Rack is the off-price retail division of Nordstrom, Inc. and plays a critical role in the company's Closer to You strategy, which focuses on delivering customers a more convenient and interconnected experience across its stores and digital platforms. Nordstrom Rack offers customers up to 70 percent off on-trend apparel, accessories, beauty, home and shoes from many of the top brands sold at Nordstrom stores as well as core services like online order pickup for Nordstrom.com and NordstromRack.com, easy returns and alterations at select stores. Nordstrom Rack is the largest source of new customers to Nordstrom.
Nordstrom is committed to giving back to the diverse communities where it operates. Since 2019 along with its customers, Nordstrom has donated more than $1.5 million in support of its long-term partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters of the United States and Canada. These proceeds support the recruitment, training and engagement of adult mentors and mentorship moments between Bigs and Littles, including preparing for an interview, learning to tie a tie and helping with homework.
About Nordstrom
At Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE: JWN), we exist to help our customers feel good and look their best. Since starting as a shoe store in 1901, how to best serve customers has been at the center of every decision we make. This heritage of service is the foundation we're building on as we provide convenience and true connection for our customers. Our digital-first platform enables us to serve customers when, where and how they want to shop – whether that's in-store at more than 350 Nordstrom, Nordstrom Local and Nordstrom Rack locations or digitally through our Nordstrom and Rack apps and websites. Through it all, we remain committed to leaving the world better than we found it.
About Vestar
The leading privately held real estate company in the United States, Vestar specializes in the acquisition, management and development of retail real estate, including entertainment-retail complexes, power and lifestyle centers, and neighborhood centers of varying size and scale that serve as community destinations. Founded in 1989, Vestar currently manages over 30 million square feet of space in 7 states throughout the western United States. For more information, please visit www.vestar.com.
About Kornwasser
Kornwasser Shopping Center Properties, LLC ("KSCP") was formed by Joseph Kornwasser to continue a 44-year history of developing and owning dynamic shopping centers nationwide. KSCP is currently developing and redeveloping numerous well anchored centers throughout the western states, with a concentration in California, Arizona, Utah and Washington.
About Paynter Realty & Investments, Inc.
Established in 1988, Paynter Realty & Investments, Inc. has developed over 3.6 million square feet of commercial building space during its 34 years history and currently manages approximately 2 million square feet primarily in Central California. The company has achieved a stable and consistent pattern of growth by blending a hands-on business style with an entrepreneurial spirit based on traditional values of hard work, integrity and persistence. This rare combination of capabilities has allowed Paynter Realty & Investments, Inc. to effectively develop a broad range of neighborhood and community sized shopping centers as well as mixed use and professional office buildings.
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ROCK SPRINGS — Bring on the pink! It’s time to paint our towns.
Sweetwater Regional Cancer Center staff would like to invite the community to help kick off Paint the Town Pink as we proclaim October Breast Cancer Awareness Month. A series of events will take place including the annual decorating contests among Rock Springs and Green River businesses.
Paint the Town Pink will kick off with The City of Rock Springs on Monday, Oct. 3, with a community ribbon-tying event from 4-6 p.m. and a proclamation for the community at 5:30 p.m. at the Mayor’s Tree downtown. Rock Springs community members are invited to tie a ribbon to show support and learn about screenings.
The City of Green River ribbon ceremony will be Tuesday, Oct.4, from 4-6 p.m. at the clock tower downtown and proclamation at 5:30 p.m. Green River residents are encouraged to join us by tying a ribbon to our Paint the Town Pink display to support the fighters, survivors and remembering those taken by all cancers.
Additionally, both Rock Springs and Green River businesses are encouraged to participate in our annual Paint the Town Pink Breast Cancer Awareness campaign by decorating their storefronts in pink during October. Businesses with the best decorations will be awarded a trophy at the end of October, along with bragging rights for the rest of the year.
Two winners – one in Rock Springs and one in Green River – will be chosen. The public will have a chance to vote online for their favorite storefront decor in each city.
Here’s how it works: Businesses decorate their storefronts promoting breast cancer prevention and awareness. An innovative display is not only a way to win the contest, but it’s a great way to let your customers know you support the cause.
Businesses have until midnight Monday, Oct. 19, to enter. Send one, high-resolution photo of your storefront to lwarren@sweetwatermemorial.com. Include the name of the business, street address, city, and phone number. Keep in mind, only one photo will be used in the online public voting.
Voting will be open to the public for 36 hours from Oct. 23-25. The hospital Facebook page will launch two separate contests, one for Green River businesses and another for Rock Springs businesses, at @MHSChealthcare. You will be able to simply swipe through the photos and like just one. The winners will be announced Oct. 31 and recognition and a traveling trophy will be awarded.
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CHEYENNE – The Laramie County School District 1 at-large trustees race is hotly contested, as five candidates vie for one seat on the board.
They make up a third of the overall candidates campaigning in the school district’s four separate races. This is even after Lilia Olejnik and Kathy Russell dropped out of the at-large race at the start of the month. Three candidates remain on each ballot for Areas 1 and 2, and four are competing in Area 3. This is the first time three seats on the school board have been open to candidates from specific areas, not the district as a whole.
Incumbents Rich Wiederspahn and Christy Klaassen are running for re-election, but this time as candidates in Areas 2 and 3, respectively.
At-large contenders will face a former LCSD1 trustee on Nov. 8. Hank Bailey last served as chairman of the board of trustees in 2014, and didn’t file for re-election at that time. Bailey didn’t respond to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s email inquiries for an interview.
The other four candidates are taking their first steps to try to become an LCSD1 trustee, each bringing their own unique backgrounds.
Rene Hinkle
Rene Hinkle, 57, has been an obstetrician-gynecologist physician in Cheyenne for 24 years.
She opened her own women’s clinic in 2004, at which she has delivered more than 2,000 babies.
She is a member of the Wyoming Board of Medicine, is a physician leader at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center and has been on other community boards involved with children.
She told the WTE education has always been an important part of her life, not only as a medical student, but as a parent. She moved to Wyoming for her children to attend a successful public education system, which she believes builds community.
Now, she hopes to be involved as a trustee because she said she has seen a shift in recent years away from student achievement. She wants to refocus and put all the efforts of the board into providing the best education for every student, from access to advanced classes to special education resources. Hinkle said she wants to make sure teachers are well supported, properly trained and certified. She wants to advocate for the district to get the funding it needs from the Wyoming Legislature.
She said she wants to stop entertaining discussions on national agenda items, such as book banning or critical race theory, which she said isn’t present in this local system.
“The board members are bringing the national political agenda into the board and into the classroom, and we need to get politics out,” she said. “We are a nonpartisan board, we’re not supposed to deal with any kind of political issues, and we just need to get back to that.”
Joe Plowman
Joe Plowman, 61, decided to run for the at-large trustee seat specifically because of conversations in Cheyenne regarding book banning. He said if residents are going to be on a school board, they shouldn’t be removing books from library shelves and restricting what can be taught.
He said by taking away options for students, this insinuates parents don’t know how to take care of their kids. Plowman said parents can speak with librarians and request a student not access certain materials, or parents can browse a library with a child.
“It’s a place to learn,” he said. “How are these kids going to be prepared for the world when you’re censoring what they can read?”
Plowman is a retiree who has lived here for more than two decades. Holding a seat on the board would be his first introduction to the school system and its process, which he hopes to learn by experience. He said he wants to mitigate personal agendas among trustees, and get elementary school sports back into LCSD1.
Meg Valharmi
Meg Varhalmi, 50, is a scientist and writer who wants to make sure that every school is a safe place for students and encourages education, acceptance and equality.
The Seattle native has lived in Cheyenne for eight years, and has children who attend LCSD1 schools. She said she is passionate about accessibility, no matter a person’s race, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities or mobility challenges.
“My campaign is really about education, which means learning new ideas, and being exposed to new cultures and ideas,” she said. “And recognizing that history plays a role in all our lives, including the ugly parts, which if we don’t learn about, we can’t fix.”
She decided to run because after attending board meetings. She said she wanted members who were reasonable, willing to stand up for what they believed in, but also willing to hear other perspectives.
Although Varhalmi doesn’t have any major criticisms of the board, she said she wanted to get involved because there are stakeholders who want to make changes she disagrees with.
The only changes she would consider are encouraging teaching “civil duty, as well as community central ideals,” and making further investments in safety. She said following the deaths of multiple students this year in traffic incidents, she is concerned the district doesn’t have crossing guards at all schools.
Jenefer Pasqua
Laramie County School District 2 special education teacher Jennifer Pasqua, 43, said she wants to provide an educator’s perspective on the LCSD1 board.
She has lived in Wyoming for close to 30 years, and in Cheyenne for nearly two decades. Pasqua previously worked for LCSD1 and was the president of the Cheyenne Teachers Education Association.
“I’m tired of watching teachers be exhausted and leave our profession, and I think one way that I can make the biggest difference in our district would be to amplify that teacher voice,” she told the WTE.
She noted she is a teacher who wants residents to be well-educated, and she also is a parent.
She would first survey teachers to find their largest concerns in the district, and speak with students to get a snapshot of their daily lives. She said when she talks with her son, who is a freshman at East High School, she is sure there is valuable information the school board isn’t aware of.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Run:ai, the leader in compute orchestration for AI workloads, today announced that its Atlas Platform is certified to run NVIDIA AI Enterprise, an end-to-end, cloud-native suite of AI and data analytics software that is optimized to enable any organization to use AI.
"The certification of Run:AI Atlas for NVIDIA AI Enterprise will help data scientists run their AI workloads most efficiently," said Omri Geller, CEO and co-founder of Run:ai. "Our mission is to speed up AI and get more models into production, and NVIDIA has been working closely with us to help achieve that goal."
With many companies now operating advanced machine learning technology and running bigger models on more hardware, demand for AI computing chips continues to grow. GPUs are indispensable for running AI applications, and companies are turning to software to reap the most benefit from their AI infrastructure and get models to market faster.
The Run:ai Atlas Platform uses a smart Kubernetes Scheduler and software-based Fractional GPU technology to provide AI practitioners seamless access to multiple GPUs, multiple GPU nodes, or fractions of a single GPU. This enables teams to match the right amount of computing power to the needs of every AI workload, so they can get more done on the same chips. With these capabilities, Run:ai's Atlas Platform lets enterprises maximize the efficiency of their infrastructure, avoiding a scenario where GPUs sit idle or use only a small amount of their power.
"Enterprises across industries are turning to AI to power the breakthroughs that will help improve customer service, boost sales and optimize operations," said Justin Boitano, vice president of enterprise and edge computing at NVIDIA. "Run:ai's certification for NVIDIA AI Enterprise provides customers with an integrated, cloud-native platform for deploying AI workflows with MLOps management capabilities."
Run:ai creates fractional GPUs as virtual ones within available GPU framebuffer memory and compute space. These fractional GPUs can be accessed by containers, enabling different workloads to run in these containers — in parallel and on the same GPU. Run:ai works well on VMware vSphere and bare metal servers, and supports various distributions of Kubernetes.
This certification is the latest in a series of Run:ai's collaborations with NVIDIA. In March, Run:ai completed a proof of concept which enabled multi-cloud GPU flexibility for companies using NVIDIA GPUs in the cloud. This was followed by the company fully integrating NVIDIA Triton Inference Server. And in June, Run:ai worked with Weights & Biases and NVIDIA to gain access to NVIDIA-accelerated computing resources orchestrated by Run:ai's Atlas Platform.
About Run:ai
Run:ai's Atlas Platform brings cloud-like simplicity to AI resource management - providing researchers with on-demand access to pooled resources for any AI workload. An innovative cloud-native operating system - which includes a workload-aware scheduler and an abstraction layer - helps IT simplify AI implementation, increase team productivity, and gain full utilization of expensive GPUs. Using Run:ai, companies streamline development, management, and scaling of AI applications across any infrastructure, including on-premises, edge and cloud. Learn more at www.run.ai.
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The Annual Live Pink Program Encourages Consumers to Shop for a Cause this October
DALLAS, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Susan G. Komen®, the world's leading breast cancer organization, today announced the return of its annual "Live Pink" program, which highlights products from its corporate partners that support the fight against breast cancer. Live Pink, launching during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month gives consumers the opportunity to shop for items that benefit a worthy cause; funding research, patient services, and education to end breast cancer for all.
"For four years, Susan G. Komen's Live Pink program has shared a list of products and services from our corporate partners that support our mission to assist those impacted by breast cancer and end this disease forever," said Sarah Rosales, Vice President of Corporate Partnerships. "When consumers purchase these products or participate in a partner program benefiting Komen, they are funding research and patient services that help save lives."
Komen has partnered with a variety of companies as part of the 4th annual Live Pink program. Each product in the Live Pink portfolio will fund critically needed patient care services and research that support individuals through their breast cancer diagnosis, treatment and beyond.
Live Pink products and services available this year include:
- JOANN Shop in Store and Donate
- Avis Car Rental
- Budget Car Rental
- Kent Bicycles 26" Women's Komen Floral Cruiser Bike
- Ford Warriors in Pink Collection
- Mohawk Decorate for the Cure SmartCushion
- Wacoal Bras with a Cause & Fit for the Cure®
- Sugarbear Vitamin Care - Sweet Vitamins for a good cause
- Natura Bissé Nourishing Natural Balm
- BJ's Wholesale Komen Apparel
- Echelon® GT bike, apparel and accessories
- Simon Malls "Shop with Purpose" digital Discount Pass
- CARS Paving the Road for a Cure
- ZENITH Chronomaster Original Pink watch
Susan G. Komen® is the world's leading nonprofit breast cancer organization, working to save lives and end breast cancer forever. Komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting this disease across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the U.S. and in countries worldwide. We advocate for patients, drive research breakthroughs, improve access to high-quality care, offer direct patient support and empower people with trustworthy information. Founded by Nancy G. Brinker, who promised her sister, Susan G. Komen, that she would end the disease that claimed Suzy's life, Komen remains committed to supporting those affected by breast cancer today, while tirelessly searching for tomorrow's cures. Visit komen.org or call 1-877 GO KOMEN. Connect with us on social at www.komen.org/contact-us/follow-us/.
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Susan G. Komen
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It’s a great time to start collecting stocking stuffers, and when you can get them for free, it’s even better.
At Walgreens.com, you can order a custom 5-by-7 photo magnet at no charge and choose free in-store pickup to get a creative gift at zero cost.
These magnets are perfect for school lockers, refrigerators or anywhere you have a metal surface. You can upload a family portrait, vacation scenery or a beloved pet.
You can choose from several magnet options, including a single photo in either landscape or portrait orientation, multi-photo magnets with four or nine pictures, or a large photo with a smaller photo in the corner. You can also start with a blank template and create a custom design.
To get in on this deal, check out the magnet photo options on the Walgreens Photo website. Select the one you want and then click the Create Now button.
Upload the picture (or pictures, if you selected a multi-photo magnet) you want to use for the magnet and add it to the magnet. You can even import photos from Google Photos if you have any stored there.
Review your order and go to your cart (you may be asked to sign in). Enter the coupon code FREE-MAG and click Apply.
The photo magnets are regularly $4.99, but after you add the code, your total will be $0. Then, just pick it up at your store.
You can use this code at Walgreens.com/Photo or through the Walgreens mobile app, but it is not valid if you try to order a photo magnet in store.
Other Photo Deals at Walgreens
Walgreens has other discounts available on gift-worthy photo items. For instance, you can use the promo code ALLPIC50 at checkout and get 50% off all photo gifts through Walgreens.com, in-store photo kiosks or the Walgreens Mobile App.
This deal includes prints and enlargements, canvas and floating frames, TilePix, cards and premium stationery, acrylic blocks, puzzles, phone cases, bags and apparel.
This offer is valid through Sept. 24, 2022. You can use the coupon code for up to five separate purchases.
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To enjoy coffee shop-quality beverages at home, you need a milk frother. Frothing milk provides a dense, fluffy foam and an airy, creamy mouthfeel to your coffee. And with the Zulay milk frother, you can froth milk at home easily and affordably with a vibrant flair.
The Zulay milk frother comes in a rainbow of colors and patterns, such as Crystal Quartz, Deep Sea and Fire Red. It regularly costs between $19.99 and $24.99 for different colors, but some models are on sale. For example, you can get it in Midnight Black for $14.97, which is 32% off the list price. An additional 5% coupon on this color brings the price down further to $14. 22 before tax.
This handheld frother whips up creamy milk in seconds. It froths up any milk you prefer, including half and half, creamer, soy, almond, cashew, hazelnut or whole milk. You can also use it to whisk matcha, mix protein shakes and more.
It’s designed to stand up to regular use. The Zulay milk frother won’t rust and has a lifetime guarantee against breakage.
You can clean this item by placing it under hot running water and turning it on. It’s easy to store on the counter near your coffee maker, or you can tuck it inside a drawer.
The Zulay milk frother has more than 57,800 five-star reviews. Overall, it has a 4.6-star rating from over 73,400 users. Customers appreciate that it’s simple to use and cleans up with minimal effort.
“Love this frother, the stand is a bonus.” wrote reviewer Lisa Hager, who shared a photo, “Easy to use and easy to clean. I use it to froth coconut creamer.”
Several customers say they appreciate the Zulay milk frother’s compact size. They also report that the batteries can last a long time.
“Before I bought this frother, I had a very expensive high-end machine,” wrote a reviewer named Eve. “Huge footprint, pain to clean and it died within one year. So I was skeptical about this little gadget, because my daughter has something similar from a different company (a weak little battery eater). But after reading all the glowing reviews for Zulay Kitchen’s frother, I decided it was worth a try. My verdict: it’s a simply terrific little tool! 15 seconds is all it takes to whip up some oat milk for chai or coffee, then a quick rinse and DONE. So easy and it instantly elevates the beverage to something special. Plus, I’ve been using it twice daily for almost 3 months on the first battery and it’s still going strong. Bravo!”
Of course, they love the color choices, as well. The item comes in more than 40 colors, including ombre versions, metallic versions, and ones with copper or rose gold accents.
“It’s easy to clean, doesn’t take too much space,” wrote customer farformosa, who posted a picture. “I also love the fact that it has so many different colors to choose from. I pick the color which is matching my coffee mug!”
The frother has a stainless steel stand and comes with free printable guides. Two AA batteries are required to use the handheld frother, but they are not included.
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Woodcock Creek Lake, located in Saegertown, Pennsylvania, offers hiking trails for visitors and residents. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District operates the reservoir to provide flood protection for the French Creek system. Additionally, the recreation areas offer residents and visitors with opportunities to camp, boat, picnic, hike and enjoy a round of disk golf.
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LAS VEGAS — The Clark County elected official accused of fatally stabbing a Las Vegas investigative journalist was arraigned on Tuesday.
This was Robert Telles’ third time appearing in court after his hearing on Sept. 13 was continued.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson officially filed a criminal complaint for murder against Telles for the killing of 69-year-old Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German.
Telles, who a public defender is officially representing, told the judge he understood the charges.
Judge says DA officially filed criminal complaint for murder against Robert Telles. Telles says he understands the charge. He is officially represented by a public defender. @KTNV pic.twitter.com/pDz6gPL4mk
— Joe Moeller (@joemoeller44) September 20, 2022
Telles is accused of fatally stabbing German at least seven times outside his home on Sept. 2.
Prosecutors filed a charge of open murder on Sept. 12, adding increased penalties for the use of a deadly weapon and for the victim's age.
The judge ruled that Telles would continue to be held without bail.
Following the hearing, Wolfson told KTNV that his team is seeking an order to remove Telles from his position as a public administrator.
Wolfson said Telles still technically holds the position, though it is unclear if he has been suspended. Wolfson said Telles is "unable to do his job," and the prosecution seeks to remove him.
#Breaking DA is seeking an order to remove Robert Telles from his position as public administrator @KTNV pic.twitter.com/qvVujkLpSm
— Joe Moeller (@joemoeller44) September 20, 2022
After the first hearing, Wolfson told KTNV that the charge against Telles carries the potential for a life sentence.
According to the Associated Press, Wolfson will determine in the coming weeks if Telles will face the death penalty.
Telles' next court appearance is scheduled for Oct. 26 at 1 p.m. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/nevada-official-accused-of-killing-vegas-journalist-arraigned-on-murder-charge | 2022-09-20T17:55:27Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/nevada-official-accused-of-killing-vegas-journalist-arraigned-on-murder-charge | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The most fuel-efficient vehicle in India is not a small car, but a mid-size SUV – the Suzuki Grand Vitara. It offers a mileage of 28 km per litre. A tank of petrol can take you to Mumbai from Kozhikode. One more full tank and you can reach the national capital. The mileage offered by the Grand Vitara will stump the average Malayali who will never hesitate to ask about mileage of even a Rs 5 crore Rolls Royce.
A Toyota at Maruti price
When the Suzuki Grand Vitara returns to India after a gap of eight years, everything is new. The biggest change is that it is the first vehicle manufactured by Toyota at its Bengaluru plant and delivered to Maruti Suzuki's showroom. In other words, a Suzuki with Toyota quality and Maruti price.
A Toyota and a Suzuki
The Grand Vitara is a vehicle that combines the capabilities of both Toyota and Suzuki. It's a rare vehicle that combines Suzuki's famous Global C platform, the AllGrip four-wheel drive, and a strong hybrid system found in the Hilux, Camry and Prius, and other Toyota technologies. Maruti's component manufacturers have been heavily involved to reduce the price without losing quality. And, since it is manufactured by Toyota in its factory, it can boast of global standards of the Japanese auto giant.
Hybrids all the way
All models of the Grand Vitara are hybrids. There are two types of hybrid systems. First: The Smart Hybrid. It is the same hybrid system seen in the Marutis now. It offers a mileage of 21 kmpl. Second: Intelligent Electric Hybrid. This is totally different. This system is found in Toyota vehicles. Here the vehicle is primarily powered by an electric motor rather than an engine; the engine just supports the motor. When more power is needed, the engine gets active. Otherwise the motor drives the vehicle. All electric hybrids are automatic and offers a mileage of 27.97 kmpl.
Awesome design
Although the same vehicle is launched in a different form called Toyota High Rider, the bookings are not even half of Maruti. The main reason for Grand Vitara's booking reaching 60,000 even before its unveiling is its looks. Suzuki has succeeded in carrying over the iconic design elements of its well-known SUV Grand Vitara to the new vehicle. It's a proper SUV from any angle. The height, ground clearance and large 17-inch wheels combine to provide it a characteristic SUV look. According to news reports, this vehicle will soon replace the Grand Vitara in the global market and will be completely manufactured in India. If the reports are true, the fifth generation of Suzuki Grand Vitara, born in 1988, is destined to be an Indian.
Ultra modern, ultra beautiful
Apart from the tall stance, the Vitara gets a powerful grille and small headlamps fixed below the body while the indicator and daytime light combination above it are unique. Precision cut alloy wheels give the same distinction to the sides and tail lamp combination to the rear. The Grand Vitara badge in the rear augments the beauty of the rear. The spacious interior is accentuated by the burgundy colour and stitched leather finish on the top models. Ventilated front seats, a-first-for-Maruti panoramic sunroof, heads-up display, 9-inch infotainment, Clarion sound system and wireless charger are among the countless amenities.
Not just looks
On the off-roading track in Udaipur, the Grand Vitara overcame all obstacles with ease. Snow, mountains, potholes and mud are child's play for the Vitara with Suzuki's world famous AllGrip four-wheel system being the star. Apart from Auto, Sport and Snow modes, there is also a Lock mode. In Lock mode, power and torque are delivered to all four wheels as per demand. Each wheel automatically distributes power according to the surface it is on, so clearing any hurdle is an easy task for the Grand Vitara. It is powerful enough to compete with any off-road vehicle available in India today. If you want an All-Grip system, buy the semi-hybrid manual model.
Two engines
The first option is Suzuki's 1.5 four-cylinder petrol mild hybrid that churns out 103 bhp of power and is offered in a five-speed manual or six-speed automatic version. All-Grip four-wheel system is available in this engine. The second is Toyota's 1.5 three-cylinder petrol and electric motor combination. The same system that does duty in the Camry and the Prius. It's just that the engine is not that powerful. However, the motor and the engine will jointly deliver 116 bhp of power. The electric motor can work at a speed of up to 120 kmph. The engine comes to the rescue when more power is needed, and the battery needs to be charged. The motor is powered by a 0.76-watt lithium-ion battery that is fixed in the trunk without wasting much space. If you lift the bonnet, you can see the engine, but it is the motor that powers the wheels.
Strong performance
After the manual All-Grip model, the intelligent electric hybrid version was provided for the city drive in Udaipur. It does not feel like driving an electric car but provides a regular petrol model experience. Every now and then, when 'EV' flashes on the console, you should know that the ride is now fully electric. Both the pickup and the performance are on par with regular SUVs. All strong hybrid models feature an automatic gear shift. The time-tested Maruti K series engine and six-speed gearbox go well with the Vitara. The ride comfort in both the models is the same in the front and rear seats.
EVs can wait
If you are planning to buy pure electric vehicles, it is better to wait. There are several reasons for this. Electric technology is developing, especially batteries. Several new discoveries are being made in this field. More economical, durable and safer batteries will come in five years. The second reason is the high cost. The top model of the hybrid will be available at the price of Tata Nexon, the cheapest electric car. MG, Volvo, Mercedes and BMW electrics are much more expensive. Third, the battery warranty is a maximum eight years for EVs. The battery costs more than half the cost of the vehicle.
Will you pay half the price of the car that is used for 8 years and install a new battery, or will you junk it? It is a matter to think about. Hybrid batteries will run for three lakh kilometres. And it comes cheap; not even Rs 1 lakh. Fourth, practicality. You don't need to charge the battery in a hybrid car. The competition between electric and hybrid that needs to be charged every 300 km can be best compared to the race between a tortoise and a hare.
Price, variants
The prices are yet to be announced. The variants include Smart Hybrid Sigma, Delta, Zeta and Alpha. Zeta Plus and Alfa Plus variants are available in intelligent electric hybrids. The Hyryder, the Toyota version of the Vitara, is priced between Rs 15.11 lakh and Rs 18.99 lakh for the high-end variants. The Vitara too might have similar prices. Prices for the base variants of the Hyryder have not been announced.
Rivals Creta and Seltos
The Suzuki Grand Vitara and Toyota Hyryder are going to enter the market that is being dominated by the Hyundai Creta and Kia Seltos. Toyota and Suzuki will be the stars of the market with the latest technology, comfort and best brand and above all the trump card of 28 kmpl fuel efficiency. The heavy booking itself is proof. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/business/2022/09/20/fuel-efficient-grand-vitara-blends-capabilities-toyota-suzuki-features-price.amp.html | 2022-09-20T17:55:30Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/business/2022/09/20/fuel-efficient-grand-vitara-blends-capabilities-toyota-suzuki-features-price.amp.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(WXYZ) — Students at Stoney Creek High School in Rochester Hills will be dismissed early after being evacuated earlier in the day due to a threat, police say.
According to Rochester Police, officers from the department and from the Oakland County Sherriff's office were searching the building during a lockdown, but there are no known threats.
In an email to parents, the district said an alarm sounded at the high school at 11:48 a.m. indicating the building was placed on lockdown.
As a precaution, Hart Middle School, Hugger Elementary School and North Hill Elementary School were also placed in lockdown, but they have since been given the all-clear.
An email just after 1 p.m. to parents said that law enforcement cleared the building of any threats and they were investigating the source of the lockdown alarm.
Police later said that students were going back to their fourth-hour class for attendance, and once attendance is taken, they will be dismissed.
Parents who are arriving at Stoney Creek are asked to go to the Hart Middle School parking lot, which is across the street. | https://www.fox17online.com/news/students-evacuated-from-stoney-creek-high-school-police-say-no-active-threat | 2022-09-20T17:55:39Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/students-evacuated-from-stoney-creek-high-school-police-say-no-active-threat | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Actor Diego Luna surprised everyone in the Star Wars movie Rouge One. Now he is back to tell the story of the rebellion and how it all began. Andor premiers Sept. 21 on Disney Plus.
Actor Diego Luna surprised everyone in the Star Wars movie Rouge One. Now he is back to tell the story of the rebellion and how it all began. Andor premiers Sept. 21 on Disney Plus. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/20/actor-diego-luna-introduces-3-new-episodes-into-the-star-wars-universe/ | 2022-09-20T17:57:08Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/20/actor-diego-luna-introduces-3-new-episodes-into-the-star-wars-universe/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Comic legend and Coming to America star Arsenio Hall may be experiencing some trauma after his home was hit up by burglars twice within the past month.
What makes it even more harrowing is the fact that the former talk show host was home during both attempted break-ins.
A source within the Los Angeles Police Department explained to “TMZ” that Hall was at home when the invaders tried to bust into his home on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. Hall reportedly told the cops that he was upstairs when he heard a loud crash from the first floor. By the time he reached the floor level, he discovered that someone had broken the glass sliding door but failed to penetrate the home.
This comes about a month after another episode where Hall was also home. In August 2022, the would-be burglars actually got inside of the home but scampered away when they realized that Hall was home.
The LAPD, which responded both times, said the criminals fled the scene before they could arrive. They are using surveillance tapes from Hall’s home and the neighborhood as part of their investigation to determine the identity of the would-be thieves and to also find out if Hall was targeted specifically. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/20/arsenio-halls-home-broken-into-twice-while-he-was-home/ | 2022-09-20T17:57:14Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/20/arsenio-halls-home-broken-into-twice-while-he-was-home/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The “Haus of Vicious” TV series presents icons Kim Fields in the directorial chair and Tami Roman as the star of this BET show. Roman’s character must navigate the treacherous terrain of the fashion world — then go to war at home with her narcissistic husband, played by Redaric Williams. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/20/bet-series-haus-of-vicious-explores-fashion-and-drama/ | 2022-09-20T17:57:20Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/20/bet-series-haus-of-vicious-explores-fashion-and-drama/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Dr. Montgomery Rice, president of Morehouse School of Medicine, discusses the 10-year, multimillion-dollar collaboration with Novartis to close the health care disparity between Blacks and Whites. Recruiting and training medical investigators will help to alleviate the distrust Blacks have had toward the medical community since the infamous Tuskegee experiment. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/20/dr-montgomery-rice-outlines-beacon-of-hope-program-to-close-health-care-gap/ | 2022-09-20T17:58:02Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/20/dr-montgomery-rice-outlines-beacon-of-hope-program-to-close-health-care-gap/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sylvia Snowden is helping Chicagoans understand the connection between what happens in the halls of government and what happens in our neighborhoods.
Snowden is the host of “Political Forum,” a staple of Chicago political commentary that is relaunching this week and will be airing every Wednesday at 7 p.m. CT on CAN TV 19 and streaming online at cantv.org.
“So many people see politics as a bunch of big shots bloviating about things they don’t understand,” says Snowden. “My goal is to make people love Chicago and Chicago politics as much as I do. We talk about issues impacting your daily life through a political lens.”
The show is a rare opportunity for deeper conversations, not short sound bites. On the show, Snowden sits with local legislators and political newsmakers for one-on-one interviews to discuss the most important political headlines in the city.
“We have a dialogue where people can actually get informed,” says Snowden. “That kind of long-form conversation is rare.”
Snowden is a native Chicagoan who grew up in the South Side neighborhood of Calumet Heights. After earning a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, Snowden moved back to Chicago and began her career at CAN TV, Chicago’s community access station, where she worked behind the scenes on earlier versions of the show. Fifteen years later, she’s an award-winning broadcast journalist and production supervisor at the station.
Snowden’s local roots and love of Chicago means she provides a unique perspective.
“A lot of traditional political analysis isn’t coming from a Black girl raised on the South Side who went to Chicago Public Schools all of her life,” says Snowden. “A lot of people haven’t seen politics discussed through my lens.”
As the newest host of “Political Forum,” Snowden has left her own stamp on the show, keeping its signature conversations with local leaders while pushing guests to dive deeper into the issues. Snowden says the COVID pandemic accelerated the evolution of the show.
“There was a gravity in that moment. People wanted to know in March of 2020 if they would be alive in six months,” says Snowden. “When you’re living in that state, you have to be honest with people. We have fundamentally shifted the show away from what we thought might make people comfortable to what people really wanted to know.”
Recent episodes featured exclusive interviews with Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx about a wide range of issues, and an extended conversation with Anjanette Young about her activism to hold police accountable in the wake of a botched police raid.
“You can love something and still see its flaws and talk about those things, but that doesn’t mean you love it any less. We can talk about the challenges Chicago faces, but we can do it in a way that makes it obvious this is a wonderful city, a remarkable place,” says Snowden.
“Political Forum” relaunches this week, part of CAN TV’s new signature programming block – five new programs airing weeknights at 7 p.m. CT.
For more information, visit www.cantv.org. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/20/sylvia-snowden-is-making-sense-of-chicago-politics-on-can-tv/ | 2022-09-20T17:58:10Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/20/sylvia-snowden-is-making-sense-of-chicago-politics-on-can-tv/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tory Lanez may have find himself in more trouble after allegedly assaulting August Alsina at the Fall Back In Love Comedy & Music Jam tour.
Alsina said on Instagram on Sept. 18 that Lanez assaulted him after he refused to shake his hand. Since then, footage has surfaced of the interaction between the both artists, which shows Alsina walking past Lanez. Later in the video, Lanez is seen walking aggressively toward the area that Alsina went, but no physical interaction was shown.
Footage of August Alsina disrespecting Tory Lanez right before he knocked him out 👀😳 pic.twitter.com/bFEW2PRuzG
— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) September 19, 2022
In an interview with DJ Akademiks, Lanez denied that he attacked Alsina. “Nothing happened, I don’t even know what this kid is talking about,” Lanez said. “I don’t know if he’s doing this for promo. I don’t know what that n—- is talking about.”
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said on Sept. 19 that they would be investigating the alleged assault. “We are aware of the allegations that the defendant attacked artist August Alsina and are investigating these claims,” the D.A.’s office said. “The allegations are serious and will be thoroughly examined.”
Lanez was being referenced as “defendant” by the D.A.’s office in reference to the charges he is facing over the alleged shooting of Megan Thee Stallion in 2020.
Rip Micheals, the creator of the tour, told TMZ that he saw the attack, and was asked if Lanez will continue to be a part the show going forward.
“At this point, we have to proceed without him because we want to make sure everybody in that audience has a great time and great feeling,” Micheals said. “There was no fight, [Alsina] was sucker-punched by Tory Lanez. It was more of like an assault type-deal.” | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/20/tory-lanez-kicked-off-tour-for-allegedly-assaulting-august-alsina/ | 2022-09-20T17:58:16Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/20/tory-lanez-kicked-off-tour-for-allegedly-assaulting-august-alsina/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Gas, food and rent prices have been skyrocketing this year, and Vic Mensa has been helping people in his hometown of Chicago with extra compensation. The rapper recently donated $10,000 of gas for 200 cars and gave out pre-rolled joints.
Mensa’s company, 93 Boyz, Chicago’s first Black-owned cannabis company, helped with the donation. He told TMZ that he felt good doing service for his community since gas prices have been a problem for struggling Americans.
Through his company, Mensa wants to give those from high-crime inner-city areas a chance to create wealth from cannabis in an effort to bridge the wealth gap in America.
During the giveaway, one woman became emotional talking about how she didn’t know how she was going to get gas to take her granddaughter to work.
“We had $5 [for gas], and then you all came,” the woman said. “Ain’t nothing but God and blessings. I just want to say thank you, that’s all.” | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/20/vic-mensa-helps-the-city-of-chicago-with-good-deed/ | 2022-09-20T17:58:22Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/20/vic-mensa-helps-the-city-of-chicago-with-good-deed/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis and her husband Julius Tennon are responding to some folks who called for the boycott of The Woman King due to its historical inaccuracies and omissions.
The Woman King surprised industry analysts when it topped the weekend box office after hauling in $19 million. However, some moviegoers and historians look askance at the film because it doesn’t explore the Dahomey Kingdom – where the film was based – and its role in the slave trade.
Davis and her husband took the advice of director Gina Prince-Bythewood – who is best known for directing the all-time classic Love & Basketball – regarding the futility of getting into verbal clashes with social media users.
“First of all, I agree with Gina Prince-Bythewood’s saying ‘you’re not going to win an argument on Twitter,'” Davis told Variety magazine. “We entered the story where the kingdom was in flux, at a crossroads. They were looking to find some way to keep their civilization and kingdom alive. It wasn’t until the late 1800s that they were decimated. Most of the story is fictionalized. It has to be.”
Tennon, a renowned Hollywood producer, backed up his wife and said the filmmakers took creative liberties in order to attract folks to the theaters.
“We are now what we call ‘edu-tainment.’ It’s history but we have to take license. We have to entertain people. If we just told a history lesson, which we very well could have, that would be a documentary. Unfortunately, people wouldn’t be in the theaters doing the same thing we saw this weekend. We didn’t want to shy away from the truth. The history is massive and there are truths on that that are there. If people want to learn more, they can investigate more.”
Davis, Tennon and Prince-Bythewood said their goal of bringing awareness of this little known kingdom to new generations has been accomplished.
“Part of the story that hit me as an artist was these women were unwanted,” Davis continued. “They were recruited between the ages of eight and 14. They were the women who were not considered desirable. No one wanted to marry them. They were unruly. They were recruited by the King to fight for the kingdom of Dahomey. They were not allowed to marry or have children. The ones who refused the call were beheaded. That’s also a part of the story. People really are being emotionally shifted. I saw a TikTok video today of women in a bathroom of an AMC theater, and I don’t think they knew each other. They were all chanting and ruminating. That cannot be quantified by words.” | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/20/viola-davis-responds-to-fans-boycotting-her-movie-the-woman-king/ | 2022-09-20T17:58:28Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/20/viola-davis-responds-to-fans-boycotting-her-movie-the-woman-king/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The RSPCA Canterbury and District Animal Centre has given advice to pet owners as the UK Pet Crisis is feared to worsen. With the prices of everyday expenses such as shopping costs, petrol prices and utility bills only increasing higher and higher, families across the nation are struggling to afford the costs that surround their beloved pets.
This has resulted in a notable rise in the number of pets being abandoned. The RSPCA have recently reported a 24 per cent increase in the number of animals that have been abandoned over the last year.
Earlier this month here in Kent, seven Labrador puppies were found ditched in a small crate on the side of the A249. There are widespread concerns that instances like this are only going to increase.
Read more: Canterbury PCSO charged with misconduct over 'sexual or improper relationship'
Over the weekend, The RSPCA Canterbury and District Animals shelter, an independent branch of the RSPCA that focuses on cats, rabbits and kittens, held their first open weekend since the COVID pandemic. They reported ‘overwhelming support’ from the public, with over 40 applications filled to adopt a cat or kitten.
The charity does have concerns though about a rise in the number of animals being abandoned. In August of this year, the charity took in a total of 53 cats, 24 of which were kittens, in this one month alone.
With the number of animals being taken in rising, and the number of adoptions showing a decline, Tara Luxford, animal welfare manager for the branch, has advice for current and would-be pet owners at this time.
‘We want to help people keep their animals in their homes’
Tara said: “Although we’re looking for people to adopt animals, we want to help people keep their animals in their homes as well. We’re seeing a real rising issue with unneutered animals, females and males. At the moment, we are inundated with kittens.
“Neutering is the number one key. If you can prevent animals breeding, then you’re lowering the population, you’re lowering the risk of spreading infection and disease so that is the main thing that I would encourage.”
For those that may be struggling to afford pet food and other costs, Tara had further advice to give. She continued; “Contact your local food bank or contact us if you need help financially with the supplying of food. If anyone’s having any behavioural problems with an animal within a home they can always ring and we can give some advice.”
‘This year has definitely been quieter’
As mentioned, there has been a fall in the number of adoptions the charity has seen this year. Tara said: “This year has definitely been quieter - pre-COVID, on average we would rehome, on average, about 30 cats a month so we could easily rehome about 300 cats a year.
“Now, we’d be lucky to reach 200 this year. Although in August we took in the biggest amount of cats we’ve taken in years, we actually rehomed 29 cats and kittens which is the highest amount we’ve rehomed all year.”
For those who are considering getting a pet at this time, Tara states that adopting a rescue is the best way to go, financially and otherwise. She said: “Adopting rescues is always my advice, for one, when you adopt from a rescue centre you get ongoing support. Also, when you adopt from a rescue centre, I like to say ‘it gets the full MOT’. It’s seen a vet, it’s neutered, it’s microchipped, it’s vaccinated, it’s flea'd, it’s wormed, it’s basically had the whole package given to it.
“You’re taking on an animal that’s already had the vast majority of vet expenses paid - we spend on average about £300 per cat. We rehome an adult single cat for an adoption of a £90 donation, so in comparison, we’re not making money on that, it’s just a small contribution toward what we’ve already spent.”
How you can help
You can support the amazing work of the RSPCA Canterbury and District Animal Shelter by paying a visit to one of the four charity shops they have in the area. Donations are more than welcome at these stores or you can also become a regular giver to the charity or make donations of food directly to the charity.
The organisation also has a number of volunteer roles, the efforts of these volunteers Tara could not praise enough. Further details about all of this can be found on their website here or their Facebook page.
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NEW YORK — Stocks fell broadly in morning trading on Wall Street Tuesday ahead of a key decision on interest rates by the Federal Reserve.
The S&P 500 index fell 1.3% as of 10:14 a.m. Eastern. More than 95% of stocks and every sector in the benchmark index lost ground as traders wait to see how far the Fed will raise interest rates at its meeting that ends Wednesday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 393 points, or 1.3%, to 30,629 and the Nasdaq fell 1%.
U.S. crude oil prices fell 2.5% and weighed down energy stocks. Hess fell 2.2%.
Bond yields edged higher. The yield on the 2-year Treasury, which tends to follow expectations for Fed action, rose to 3.97% from 3.95% late Monday and is hovering around its highest levels since 2007.
The 10-year yield, which influences mortgage rates, rose to 3.58% from 3.52% and is trading at its highest levels since 2011.
Stocks have been slumping and Treasury yields rising as the Fed raises the cost of borrowing money in hopes of slowing down the hottest inflation in four decades. The central bank's aggressive rate hikes have been making markets jittery, especially as Fed officials assert their determination to keep raising rates until they are sure inflation is coming under control.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell bluntly warned in a speech last month that the rate hikes would “bring some pain.”
The Fed is expected to raise its key short-term rate by a substantial three-quarters of a point for the third time at its meeting on Wednesday. That would lift its benchmark rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, to a range of 3% to 3.25%, the highest level in 14 years, and up from zero at the start of the year.
Wall Street is worried that the rate hikes could go too far in slowing economic growth and push the economy into a recession. Those concerns have been heightened by data showing that the U.S. economy is already slowing and by companies warning about the impact of inflation and supply chain problems to their operations.
Ford fell 8.8% after slashing its third-quarter earnings forecast because a parts shortage will leave it with as many as 45,000 vehicles unfinished on its lots when the quarter ends Sept. 30. Last week, FedEx and General Electric warned investors about damage to their operations from inflation.
The U.S. isn't alone in suffering from hot inflation or dealing with the impact of efforts to fight high prices.
Sweden’s central bank on Tuesday raised its key interest rate by a full percentage point to 1.75%, catching almost everyone off guard as it scrambles to bring down inflation that was measured at 9% in August.
Consumer inflation in Japan jumped in August to 3%, its highest level since November 1991 but well below the 8% plus readings in the U.S. and Europe. The Bank of Japan is set to have a two-day monetary policy meeting later this week, although analysts expect the central bank to stick to its easy monetary policy.
Min Joo Kang, senior economist, South Korea and Japan, at ING Economics noted inflation remained relatively low in Japan. Energy prices were rising, but not as much as in the U.S. or some parts of Europe. Housing prices haven’t risen and household income have remained stagnant.
Rate decisions from Norway, Switzerland and the Bank of England are next.
Markets in Europe were mostly lower, while markets in Asia gained ground.
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Happy Tuesday, everyone! It’s going to be a mostly sunny, hot, and humid Tuesday afternoon. Look for daytime highs to warm into the upper 80s and lower 90s across the area. The extra humidity will make it feel more like the mid to upper 90s.
Tonight, look for a bit of patchy fog near area river valleys, otherwise look for mostly clear skies and warm & muggy conditions. Overnight lows will drop into the mid to upper 60s.
Wednesday will feature the hottest temperatures of the week! Look for plenty of sunshine with very hot & humid conditions. Most locations will see 90s on the thermometer, with mid 90s possible in the valley. The humidity will bring heat index numbers up to the upper 90s to near 100.
A cold front arrives Thursday, bringing a slight chance for an isolated shower or two, but also much cooler, less humid air. Highs on Thursday will only be in the 80s, with highs only in the 70s on Friday!
We warm back into the 80s this weekend with a sunshine Saturday, but a new front arrives on Sunday bringing a better chance for scattered showers, followed by another surge of cool, fall-like air to the region! | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/hot-humid-tuesday-afternoon/article_8a431072-3905-11ed-9186-7f8837db7ee1.html | 2022-09-20T18:02:10Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/local-news/hot-humid-tuesday-afternoon/article_8a431072-3905-11ed-9186-7f8837db7ee1.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Latino child poverty drastically fell but danger lurks, experts say
Experts are encouraged by the latest research showing a drastic drop in child poverty — which affects Latinos at much higher rates non-Hispanic white kids — but say key programs must be extended.
The big picture: Overall childhood poverty has been falling for decades and hit a record low in 2021, largely due to pandemic safety net programs like the extended child tax credit. But the end of that and of stimulus checks and free school meals threaten recent gains, experts say.
By the numbers: The U.S. Census' most recent data from the Supplemental Poverty Measure, released last week, shows the poverty rate for Hispanic children fell the most out of all ethnic or racial categories, from 29.1% in 2009 to 8.4% in 2021.
- Hispanic children are nearly three times more likely to be living in poverty than non-Hispanic white kids, according to a recent study by the research organization Child Trends.
- That study examined rates from 1993 to 2019 — purposely excluding the pandemic because the researchers consider it an anomalous year — and found a 59% drop in overall childhood poverty.
- For Hispanic children, poverty decreased from 52% in 1993 to 19% in 2019, that study found.
Details: The earned income tax credit (a tax break for lower to moderate income families), an overall long term healthy economy, state minimum wages and women's labor force participation also contributed to gains on childhood poverty, says Lina Guzman, the director of the Child Trends Hispanic Institute.
- "We actually we know what works and we know how to continue to build on those on the programs that work," Guzman says.
Yes, but: Policymakers need to continue safety net programs that have pulled millions of children out of poverty, says Brayan Rodriguez, a senior policy analyst with UnidosUS, a progressive civil rights group.
- That includes restoring the pandemic's expanded child tax credits, Rodriguez said.
- Rodriguez says UnidosUS is pushing Congress to reinstate the enhanced credits. It is garnering some Republican support, but critics say it deepens the U.S. deficit.
Between the lines: Immigration status (immigrants can't access many government benefits) and a lack of access to high-wage jobs and childcare contribute to Latinos' higher childhood poverty rates.
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Editor's note: The chart in this story has been updated to include data on American Indian and Alaska Native children. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/20/childhood-poverty-hispanic-latino-census | 2022-09-20T18:07:42Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/20/childhood-poverty-hispanic-latino-census | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
- US treasury sells $12 billion of 20 year bonds at a high yield of 3.820%
- WI 3.833%
- Tail -1.3 BPs. Six-month average of -1.2 basis points
- bid to cover 2.65x vs 6 month average of 2.65X
- dealers 8.1% vs. six-month average 11.1%
- Direct 16.6% vs. six-month average of 18.5%
- Indirects 75.3% vs. six-month average of 70.4%
Auction grade:B
The tail was impressive at -1.3% but only as good as the average. The bid to cover was average. Indirects (a measure of international demand) was very strong. However the domestic demand was weaker than the six-month average.
The auction is a solid B or maybe a B+.
/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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Even decades after cheetahs died out in India, they’re back.
Eight big cats from Namibia made the long trek Saturday in a chartered cargo flight to the northern Indian city of Gwalior, part of an ambitious and hotly contested plan to reintroduce cheetahs to the South Asian country.
Then they were moved to their new home: a sprawling national park in the heart of India where scientists hope the world’s fastest land animal will roam again.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the cats into their enclosure Saturday morning. The cats emerged from their cage, tentatively at first while continuously scanning their new surroundings.
“When the cheetah will run again . . . grasslands will be restored, biodiversity will increase and eco-tourism will get a boost,” said Modi.
Cheetahs were once widespread in India and became extinct in 1952 from hunting and loss of habitat. They remain the first and only predator to die out since India’s independence in 1947. India hopes importing African cheetahs will aid efforts to conserve the country’s threatened and largely neglected grasslands.
There are less than 7,000 adult cheetahs left in the wild globally, and they now inhabit less than 9 percent of their original range. Shrinking habitat, due to the increasing human population and climate change, is a huge threat, and India’s grasslands and forests could offer “appropriate” homes for the big cat, said Laurie Marker, of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, an advocacy and research group assisting in bringing the cats to India.
“To save cheetahs from extinction, we need to create permanent places for them on Earth,” she said.
Cheetah populations in most countries are declining. An exception to this is South Africa, where the cats have run out of space. Experts hope that Indian forests could offer these cats space to thrive. There are currently a dozen cheetahs in quarantine in South Africa, and they are expected to arrive at the Kuno National Park soon. Earlier this month, four cheetahs captured at reserves in South Africa were flown to Mozambique, where the cheetah population has drastically declined.
Some experts are more cautious.
There could be “cascading and unintended consequences” when a new animal is brought to the mix, said Mayukh Chatterjee of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
For example, a tiger population boom in India has led to more conflict with people sharing the same space. With cheetahs, there are questions about how their presence would affect other carnivores like striped hyenas, or even prey like birds.
“The question remains: How well it’s done,” he said.
The initial eight cheetahs from Namibia will be quarantined at a facility in the national park and monitored for a month to make sure they’re not carrying pests. Then they will be released into a larger enclosure in the park to help them get used to their new environment. The enclosures contain natural prey—such as spotted deer and antelope, which scientists hope they’ll learn to hunt—and are designed to prevent other predators like bears or leopards from getting in.
The cheetahs will be fitted with tracking collars and released into the national park in about two months. Their movements will be tracked routinely, but for the most part, they’ll be on their own.
The reserve is big enough to hold 21 cheetahs and if they were to establish territories and breed, they could spread to other interconnected grasslands and forests that can house another dozen cheetahs, according to scientists.
There is only one village with a few hundred families still residing on the fringes of the park. Indian officials said they’d be moved soon, and any livestock loss due to cheetahs will be compensated. The project is estimated to cost $11.5 million over five years, including $6.3 million that will be paid for by state-owned Indian Oil.
The continent-to-continent relocation has been decades in the making. The cats that originally roamed India were Asiatic cheetahs, genetically distinct cousins of those that live in Africa and whose range stretched to Saudi Arabia.
India had hoped to bring in Asiatic cheetahs, but only a few dozen of these survive in Iran and that population is too vulnerable to move.
Many obstacles remain, including the presence of other predators in India like leopards that may compete with cheetahs, said conservation geneticist Pamela Burger of University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna.
“It would be better to conserve them now where they are than to put effort in creating new sites where the outcome is questionable,” she said.
Dr. Adrian Tordiffe, a veterinary wildlife specialist from South Africa associated with the project, said the animals need a helping hand. He added that conservation efforts in many African countries hadn’t been as successful, unlike in India where strict conservation laws have preserved big cat populations.
“We cannot sit back and hope that species like the cheetah will survive on their own without our help,” he said. | https://www.afar.com/magazine/cheetahs-return-to-indias-national-parks-for-first-time-in-70-years | 2022-09-20T18:10:41Z | afar.com | control | https://www.afar.com/magazine/cheetahs-return-to-indias-national-parks-for-first-time-in-70-years | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHICAGO (WGN) — Navy Pier surveillance video appears to show a woman throwing her 3-year-old nephew into Lake Michigan, a police source told WGN.
Fire officials said the boy was pulled from the water in Chicago around 1 p.m. Monday and arrived at Lurie Children’s Hospital in “very critical condition.”
The boy was in cardiac arrest when he was lifted from the water off Navy Pier.
Police were questioning a woman in the case, and a source has confirmed to WGN that she is the boy’s aunt. So far, no charges have been filed.
Authorities have not released the surveillance video from Navy Pier.
This is a developing story. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/video-shows-woman-throwing-3-year-old-nephew-into-lake-michigan-police-say/ | 2022-09-20T18:11:32Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/video-shows-woman-throwing-3-year-old-nephew-into-lake-michigan-police-say/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
- We will not let ths pahse of high inflation feed into economic behaviour and create a lasting inflation problem
- IF there were evidence that high inflation risk de-anchoring inflation expectations, the the policy rate that is compatible with our target would lie in restrictive territory
- Where rates ultimately settle will depend on how the inflation outlook evolves
- Inflation expectations remain relatively well anchored
- If energy prices are durably higher during the transition in may have an implact on industrial production
- Moving faster at the start of the hiking cycle clearly conveys our commitment
- Terminal rate must be compatible with returning inflation to target
I don't see any special hints here on rates but today's German PPI report has to be causing some major angst at the ECB. The days of saying there won't be a recession are over. | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/ecbs-lagarde-we-will-not-let-this-phase-of-high-inflation-feed-into-economic-behaviour-20220920/ | 2022-09-20T18:12:27Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/ecbs-lagarde-we-will-not-let-this-phase-of-high-inflation-feed-into-economic-behaviour-20220920/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
EPA downgrades Colorado's Front Range from 'serious' to 'severe' air quality violator
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday it had reclassified Colorado's Front Range as a "severe" violator of federal air quality standards. The new classification comes with federal regulations that could hit Coloradans' pockets in the coming years.
The nine-county area from the Northern Front Range to Denver failed to meet federal standards that require average ozone emission levels to be less than 0.075 parts per million daily. There were six regions across the United States reclassified as severe, and Colorado had the second-highest daily average levels of ozone at 0.087 ppm, according to the EPA's announcement.
The move, while widely anticipated by both state and Larimer County health department officials, will have major regulatory impacts on Colorado businesses and could mean consumers will pay more for gas in 2024.
Under the United State's Clean Air Act, any non-attainment area classified as severe is required to sell federally-approved cleaner fuel during the summer ozone season. In Northern Colorado, the reformulated gas could cost up to 50 cents more per gallon than the 85-octane "regular" gas sold in the state, according to county health department officials.
State officials are hoping to avoid that.
In a press release, The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said it is working with the EPA to "re-evaluate the requirement and is doing everything to avoid it." EPA officials said in a letter to Gov. Jared Polis they are willing to work with the state on other ways to reduce emissions.
Colorado can reach attainment by 2026 without having to use reformulated gas by focusing on several key areas of emissions, state health officials said in a press release.
Larimer County Public Health Director Tom Gonzales shed some light on Colorado's Regional Air Quality Council and the Air Pollution Control Division's State Implementation Plan and explained to the Coloradoan how Larimer County's efforts fit in.
"We're going to have to work together to get into attainment," Gonzales said. "The state has a great approach, but as consumers and residents, we have a piece in that."
Here's a look at the state's key areas of focus:
Higher emissions requirements, improved electric vehicle infrastructure
The state would implement higher emissions requirements for new cars that use gas and would increase infrastructure and incentives for hybrid and electric vehicles.
In Larimer County, health department officials proposed funding for four new electric vehicle charging stations in unincorporated parts of the county, Gonzales said.
"Building that infrastructure opens the door to make a significant impact on air pollution," Gonzales said.
Larimer County has roughly 4,000 electric vehicles on the road and 274 charging stations, a majority of which are in Fort Collins, according to information provided by the Colorado Energy Office.
More:Check the local air quality index for Fort Collins at Data Central
Stricter regulations on Colorado oil and gas producers
Colorado's Air Pollution Control Division identified 600 oil and gas facilities and 100 other industrial sites where it will be able to issue stricter permits, which will allow the state to implement stronger enforcement actions.
Gonzales said he's not sure where facilities in Larimer County like the Prospect Energy Meyer tank battery site sit on the state's list of priorities, but the county is working to increase its ability to investigate oil and gas facilities throughout the county.
In July, the Larimer County Board of Commissioners approved the purchase of a specialized infrared camera that can detect harmful gas leaks, which will greatly improve the county's ability to regulate facilities and ensure compliance. Gonzales said the county will have the camera by the end of the year.
County commissioners also signaled plans to take stronger action against existing oil and gas facilities throughout the county. No official steps have been announced, though the board held an executive session in August with county attorney Bill Ressue to discuss the scope of the county's regulatory authority when it comes to new and existing oil and gas facilities.
Commissioner John Kefalas said the board looked at ways to "take action in a more decisive way," in his statement after the meeting.
Just last month, state officials shut down another one of Prospect Energy's sites, the Krause facility north of Fort Collins, after repeatedly failing to fix gas leaks.
More:State orders Prospect Energy oil and gas facility north of Fort Collins to shut down
Regulate consumer products that contribute to ozone pollution
The state's third area of focus, according to Gonzales, deals with consumer products that contain volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which contribute heavily to ground-level ozone. Some examples Gonzales gave are break fluid, cosmetics and gas-powered equipment like lawnmowers.
This is a major area of focus for the county health department, Gonzales said.
Fort Collins and Larimer County are incentivizing residents to turn in their gas-powered lawnmowers and other equipment through the Regional Air Quality Council's Mow Down Pollution program, which gives qualifying residents a $150 voucher to put toward purchasing an electric lawn mower. Larimer County commissioners agreed to fund an additional 250 vouchers for Larimer County residents.
More:Here's how Larimer County health officials want to fight ozone pollution on a local level
Colorado's Air Quality Control Commission will vote by the end of December on whether to adopt the state's implementation plan before passing it on the state legislature. | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/local/2022/09/20/epa-downgrades-colorados-front-range-from-serious-to-severe-air-quality-violator/69503980007/ | 2022-09-20T18:12:39Z | coloradoan.com | control | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/local/2022/09/20/epa-downgrades-colorados-front-range-from-serious-to-severe-air-quality-violator/69503980007/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Conversation) – Have you ever wondered exactly how many ants live on Earth? Possibly not, but it’s certainly a question we’ve asked ourselves.
Our research published today provides an approximate answer. We conservatively estimate our planet harbours about 20 quadrillion ants. That’s 20 thousand million millions, or in numerical form, 20,000,000,000,000,000 (20 with 15 zeroes).
We further estimate the world’s ants collectively constitute about 12 million tonnes of dry carbon. This exceeds the mass of all the world’s wild birds and wild mammals combined. It’s also equal to about one-fifth of the total weight of humans.
Eminent biologist Edward O. Wilson once said insects and other invertebrates are “the little things that run the world” – and he was right. Ants, in particular, are a crucial part of nature. Among other roles, ants aerate the soil, disperse seeds, break down organic material, create habitat for other animals and form an important part of the food chain.
Estimating ant numbers and mass provides an important baseline from which to monitor ant populations amid worrying environmental changes.
Counting the world’s ants
There are more than 15,700 named species and subspecies of ants, and many others not yet named by science. Ants’ high degree of social organisation has enabled them to colonise nearly all ecosystems and regions around the globe.
The astounding ubiquity of ants has prompted many naturalists to contemplate their exact number on Earth. But these were basically educated guesses. Systematic, evidence-based estimates have been lacking.
Our research involved an analysis of 489 studies of ant populations conducted by fellow ant scientists from around the world. This included non-English literature, in languages such as Spanish, French, German, Russian, Mandarin and Portuguese.
The research spanned all continents and major habitats including forests, deserts, grasslands and cities. They used standardised methods for collecting and counting ants such as pitfall traps and leaf litter samples. As you can imagine, this is often tedious work.
Read more: In defence of ants
From all this, we estimate there are approximately 20 quadrillion ants on Earth. This figure, though conservative, is between two and 20 times higher than previous estimates.
Th previous figures employed a “top-down” approach by assuming ants comprise about 1% of the world’s estimated insect population. In contrast, our “bottom-up” estimate is more reliable because it uses data on ants observed directly in the field and makes fewer assumptions.
Our next step was to work out how much all these ants weigh. The mass of organisms is typically measured in terms of their carbon makeup. We estimated that 20 quadrillion average-sized ants corresponds to a dry weight or “biomass” of approximately 12 million tonnes of carbon.
This is more than the combined biomass of wild birds and mammals – and about 20% of total human biomass.
Carbon makes up about half the dry weight of an ant. If the weight of other bodily elements was included, the total mass of the world’s ants would be higher still.
We also found ants are distributed unevenly on Earth’s surface. They vary sixfold between habitats and generally peak in the tropics. This underscores the importance of tropical regions in maintaining healthy ant populations.
Ants were also particularly abundant in forests, and surprisingly, in arid regions. But they become less common in human-made habitats.
Our findings come with a few caveats. For example, the sampling locations in our dataset are unevenly distributed across geographic regions. And the vast majority of samples were collected from the ground layer, meaning we have very little information about ant numbers in trees or underground. This means our findings are somewhat incomplete.
Read more: Where are all the ants? World-first ‘treasure map’ reveals hotspots for rare species
We all need ants
Ants also provide vital “ecosystem services” for humans. For instance, a recent study found ants can be more effective than pesticides at helping farmers produce food.
Ants have also developed tight interactions with other organisms – and some species cannot survive without them.
For example, some birds rely on ants to flush out their prey. And thousands of plant species either feed or house ants in exchange for protection, or dispersal of their seeds. And many ants are predators, helping to keep populations of other insects in check.
Alarmingly, global insect numbers are declining due to threats such as habitat destruction and fragmentation, chemical use, invasive species and climate change.
But data on insect biodiversity is alarmingly scarce. We hope our study provides a baseline for further research to help fill this gap.
It’s in humanity’s interest to monitor ant populations. Counting ants is not difficult, and citizen scientists from all over the world could help investigate how these important animals are faring at a time of great environmental change. | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/earth-has-about-20-quadrillion-ants-and-they-weigh-more-than-wild-birds-and-mammals-combined/ | 2022-09-20T18:15:16Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/earth-has-about-20-quadrillion-ants-and-they-weigh-more-than-wild-birds-and-mammals-combined/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Hill) – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced on Monday that the chamber will vote later this week on proposed legislation to disclose super PAC donors.
“Today, I am announcing the Senate will vote this week to take up a measure critical to fighting the cancer of dark money in our elections: the DISCLOSE Act,” Schumer said in a statement, also thanking the legislation’s sponsor, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), for his efforts.
The DISCLOSE Act, introduced by Whitehouse earlier in April, will require super PACs and other dark money groups to report those who contribute $10,000 or more during and election season.
On Tuesday, President Biden endorsed the legislation.
“Dark money erodes public trust. We need to erode public trust and I’m determined to do that,” Biden said in remarks at the White House. “Dark money has become so common in our politics. I believe sunlight is the best disinfectant.”
Biden mentioned a recent $1.6 billion donation to a political advocacy group, which is the largest donation to such an entity in U.S. history, from a conservative activist who had worked to overturn Roe v. Wade. The donation was only discovered because of reporting from the New York Times.
“There’s much too much money that flows in the shadows to influence our elections. It’s called dark money. Its hidden. Right now, advocacy groups can run ads on issues attacking or supporting a candidate right until election day without disclosing who’s paying for that ad,” he said.
“When was the last time any of us heard voters say it’s better for billionaires and special interests to buy elections in secret, rather than be held accountable to the public?,” Schumer added. “Of course, they don’t think that! Unless they themselves are the ones cutting the multi-million dollar checks.”
Schumer noted that the legislation’s purpose is to make sure Americans know who is trying to influence elections, mentioning how a previous Supreme Court ruling lead to this motive.
“Their ruling has paved the way for billions in unlimited campaign contributions by Super PACs and other dark money groups over the last decade,” Schumer said. “Ordinary citizens, meanwhile, have had their voices drowned out by elites who have millions to spare for political donations.” | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/schumer-moves-to-set-up-vote-on-bill-to-disclose-super-pac-donors/ | 2022-09-20T18:15:43Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/schumer-moves-to-set-up-vote-on-bill-to-disclose-super-pac-donors/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
(The Hill) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday said former first lady Melania Trump felt “very violated” after the FBI executed a search warrant at their Mar-a-Lago home last month.
“She felt very violated. I mean, this is a terrible thing. They go into her closet, they go through her dresses, and who knows what else. And it wasn’t left the way it—they found it,” Trump said during a phone interview with Newsmax.
“I didn’t walk into mine and say, ‘Oh, this is exactly so nice, the way they put it back,’” he added.
The former president called the search a “disgrace” and continued to assert that he had done no wrong by keeping classified documents at his Palm Beach, Florida, resort after the end of his presidential term.
FBI agents through the search recovered over 100 classified documents and dozens of empty folders marked classified, taken from the White House.
“You take a look at the Presidential Records Act. That’s what you have to go by, I guess. I mean, that’s what I’m told,” Trump said.
The Presidential Records Act requires the preservation and return of documentary materials relating to the president’s political activities to the National Archives when the leader leaves office.
Trump’s defenses for keeping the classified material at his personal home have varied.
The former president has attempted to paint the Mar-a-Lago search as politically motivated, criticizing the Justice Department and the FBI for authorizing and conducting it.
The former president said Sunday that he’s returning to Mar-a-Lago to “see for myself” the impact of the raid.
“I’ll soon be heading to the scene of the unwarranted, unjust, and illegal Raid and Break-In of my home in Florida, Mar-a-Lago. I’ll be able to see for myself the results of the unnecessary ransacking of rooms and other areas of the house,” Trump said Sunday on his Truth Social platform. | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/trump-says-melania-felt-violated-by-fbi-raid/ | 2022-09-20T18:15:49Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/national/trump-says-melania-felt-violated-by-fbi-raid/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
One way to get the word (and picture) out to the public is to self-publish a book—which Jonathan Twingley has done with Words & Pictures (Volume One). Twingley is a visual essayist who keeps sketchbooks filled with numerous delights. His style is representational caricature. His method is to put the life that he sees before him into a frame filled with details galore. It is the role of the viewer-reader to discover the Easter eggs hidden among the weeds of cross-hatched, splattered lines and dots. In addition to his visual essays, Twingley includes a section called “Isolation” (done in 2020—and you know what that means). Twingley says: “The drawings are soft of self-portraits, but not really.”
Whatever they are, this anthology of sketchbooks is a pleasure to spend time admiring, in isolation or with others.
What inspired Words & Pictures (Volume One)?
As the first hardcover offering from WORDS & PICTURES PRESS, I wanted to put something together that was a bit broader in scope than the previous catalog collections I’d been offering, and I wanted to tell a personal story. Ironically, 2020/21 was the only year since 2007 that I wasn’t in at least one art school classroom. That, and the more or less universal isolation that 2020 inspired, seemed like a good place to start telling a personal story.
The themes you’ve chosen seem loosely connected. Do you have particular focuses? A point of view?
Earlier this year I began curating a series of social media posts from 2020—chronologically—which evolved into Words & Pictures (Volume One). I certainly don’t map out my social media life ahead of time, but I do pay attention to what I shared yesterday and consider what I might share tomorrow, as a way of telling some sort of evolving story. The narrative that grew from this curation was very much timely, documenting my personal vantage point from the Heights neighborhood of Jersey City, just across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan, as our collective COVID-19 global pandemic isolation unfolded. But also interspersed are ruminations on paths my art and life have taken over recent years—commissioned magazine and newspaper assignments, evolutions and philosophies on style and process and working habits and interactions with university students. The chronological social media posts that make up the book are like a series of micro-essays or journal entries, telling the story of my pandemic year but also waxing nostalgic, too, with all of that time spent by ourselves.
These seem to be ongoing and infinite. What is your creative goal?
“Ongoing and infinite” would be one way to describe social media. “Insatiable and bottomless and shallow as a wading pool all at the same time” would be another way to describe it. One thing that the pandemic and ensuing closure of colleges and universities made very clear to me: Human beings thrive on physical human interaction. It’s right up there with food and shelter as a basic necessity for life. Zoom and Canvas and Google Classroom were all great stopgaps during a tough time, but it wasn’t the kind of oxygen that sustains us for the long haul. People have been suggesting for at least 30 years that print is dying or has already died but I’ve never bought that, and in a strange way the thrill I saw in students’ eyes (that’s about all I could see of their faces) as we returned to campus in the fall of 2021 is the same kind of thrill we get when leafing through the pages of a hardcover book, right there in our lap—the real thing.
As a demonstration of the vitality of print and our very basic need for tangible human interaction, a quick story from Words & Pictures (Volume One): “In June 2020 I had four postcards printed featuring spreads from the ISOLATION catalog collection. On June 18 I posted a video to my social media accounts offering to send one of the postcards to anybody who shared their physical mailing address with me. For free. No strings attached. I sent ISOLATION postcards to nearly all of the 50 U.S. states as well as Canada, England, Israel, Australia, Germany, Scotland, France, Brazil, the Philippines, the Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, New Zealand, Estonia, Latvia, Vietnam, Thailand and Wheeling, WV (!). It was a simple exercise in human interaction during a time when most of the world was feeling particularly all alone.”
What do you want to see as an end result?
I’ve often joked that when I left graduate school in the late ’90s, not only did I not have a Plan B, I didn’t really have a Plan A, either. But I was determined to make drawings and paintings and tell stories. That was non-negotiable. All the rest of it—the “end results”—are still very much to be determined … | https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-drawings-and-more-drawings/ | 2022-09-20T18:17:00Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-drawings-and-more-drawings/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Font foundry Monotype recently released Touvlo, a new typeface designed by the studio’s Creative Type Director, Emilios Theofanous. While the sans serif typeface is minimalistic, modern, and straightforward, the details are wildly imaginative, particularly in the stems, loops, and brackets.
The sans serif typeface takes inspiration from early British grotesque typefaces, but the more contemporary interpretation allows creators to design with an effortlessly timeless style. There’s been a rise in neutral design throughout the past few years, and unadorned typefaces like Touvlo grant designers the opportunity to create flexible systems that are comfortable, genderless, and highly approachable to a massive demographic.
While Touvlo feels neutral in character, it has a total of 24 weights in three styles across three variable fonts. This range can either help establish a consistent personality for elaborate typographic layouts, or add some excitement to spontaneous design systems.
Monotype today introduced Touvlo™, a radiant, modern interpretation of a classic genre, skillfully capturing the spirit of early British grotesque typefaces through playful terminals and lively curves. Designed by Emilios Theofanous, Monotype Studio’s Creative Type Director, Touvlo means ‘brick’ in Theofanous’ native Greek language and is an homage to his current London home and the prominence of bricks in his city view. Suited for branding and publishing, Touvlo offers designers and creatives a new choice for a timeless and unique aesthetic.
Touvlo started with inspiration from historical sources, but quickly transformed into a personal interpretation of early grotesque designs from British foundries. Its origins can be found in “Specimens of Book and Jobbing Types; Borders, Initials, Ornaments, etc,” by The Fann Street Foundry, Sir Charles Reed and Sons, Ltd., London: 1905. The grotesque italic designs in this book follow a more calligraphic style than the slanted versions we expect to see in contemporary sans serif designs. This inspired Theofanous, who extended the same design principles to the backslant styles of Touvlo. Theofanous took inspiration from the extraordinary archive of the St Bride Library, diving into more type specimens from other British foundries and exploring their graphic attitude and distinct qualities.
While Touvlo is inspired by Theofanous’ research, it is not intended as a historical revival – rather Theofanous sees the typeface as a modern and playful interpretation of the early British grotesque style, and a lively conversation with that era’s lasting legacy.
“Grotesque sans serifs have been a staple in printers’ toolboxes and designers’ font menus since their emergence,” says Theofanous. “In a sense, they defy time and have been used widely across regions for decades. For brands looking for a unique tone, Touvlo’s styles offer character, voice and energy that can perform across mediums and design genres, and span applications in contemporary publishing, packaging, fashion, tech, fintech and more.”
With a total of 24 weights in three styles across three variable fonts, Touvlo’s variety can perform in long text environments, display settings and can withstand complex typographic layouts. Touvlo’s weights range from thin to black, giving it an expressive edge for headlines. It offers an array of styles, from clean uprights to characterful italics and exuberant backslants. Its lyrical drop caps are the finishing touch, featuring exquisite birds and creatures inspired from ornaments found in type specimen books.
“Touvlo encapsulates the memories of my journey, from my Cypriot heritage to my life in France before moving to London,” says Theofanous. “Designed to be versatile and playful, it combines a variety of past experiences and archive influences, capturing a classic genre. Touvlo enables creatives to grasp the essence and cultural spirit of this classic genre reimagined for contemporary use.”
Play with Touvlo here and download a free weight on Monotype Fonts. | https://www.printmag.com/type-tuesday/touvlo-offers-designers-a-simultaneously-modern-and-timeless-aesthetic/ | 2022-09-20T18:17:06Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/type-tuesday/touvlo-offers-designers-a-simultaneously-modern-and-timeless-aesthetic/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Buhari seeks senate’s approval for issuance of N402 bn promissory notes
•As exporters get large share of N375 billion
President Muhammadu Buhari in separate letters of request sought approval of the senate on Tuesday for the issuance of promissory notes totalling over N402 billion.
The first of such requests read in plenary by President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan was N375billion meant for settling outstanding claims owed various exporters.
Other similar debts payment requests to be routed through Debt Management Office ( DMO), are N6.706billion for the Kebbi state government on the construction of the federal road in the state and N2.706billion for the Taraba state government for constructing federal roads as well.
President Buhari in another request as read in plenary by the President of the Senate, also sought approval of the senate on the issuance of N18.623billion for the Yobe state government.
The President in the letter, said payment of N18.623billion to the Yobe state government through the DMO will help the state to offset all monies, expended on the execution of five different federal road projects in the state.
The President in the separate letters sought expeditious consideration of the requests.
In another letter of request, President Buhari sought confirmation of the appointment of Mohamed Sabo Lamido as executive commissioner, of finance and accounts of the Board of Upstream Regulatory Commission.
Lamido’s appointment as explained by the President in the letter was necessitated by the death of Hassan Gambo who hitherto served in that capacity before his death.
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Debbie Millman has an ongoing project at PRINT titled “What Matters.” This is an effort to understand the interior life of artists, designers, and creative thinkers. This facet of the project is a request of each invited respondent to answer ten identical questions and submit a nonprofessional photograph.
Cindy Gallop is the founder & CEO of MakeLoveNotPorn, the world’s first user-generated, human-curated social sex video-sharing platform that provides sex education through real world demonstration.
What is the thing you like doing most in the world?
Making love (not porn 😊)
What is the first memory you have of being creative?
Drawing as a child. (I drew a LOT.)
What is your biggest regret?
That I didn’t start working for myself a damn sight sooner.
How have you gotten over heartbreak?
By deciding I don’t want to be in love. When you genuinely have zero interest in falling in love, it strips a whole layer of crap out of your life.
What makes you cry?
Watching movies with sad moments engineered to make one cry— especially on planes. You scripted and filmed this for me to do that? I’ll oblige.
How long does the pride and joy of accomplishing something last for you?
Briefly. There is always so much more to be done, given I’m tackling really big issues, whether it’s trying to make the world more equal, diverse, and inclusive, or working to end rape culture.
Do you believe in an afterlife, and if so, what does that look like to you?
Yes, I do. I don’t know what it looks like, but I believe it’s going to feel lovely, and warm, and happy. And hopefully, with loved ones all around.
What do you hate most about yourself?
I don’t hate anything about myself.
What do you love most about yourself?
That I’ve been able to impact many people’s lives for the better.
What is your absolute favorite meal?
Sea-urchin (uni), followed by steak so rare a really good vet could get it back on its feet in five minutes, followed by the Bon Appetit salted PB&J pie. I love eating, but hate cooking. Nevertheless, the moment I saw this recipe, I had to make it. As someone who is all about dessert (my four least favorite words at the end of a meal are ‘Let’s just have coffee’), it is the single most delicious thing I’ve ever made.
Everything washed down with an ice-cold, bone-dry Grey Goose martini, straight up with a twist. | https://www.printmag.com/what-matters/what-matters-to-cindy-gallop/ | 2022-09-20T18:17:12Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/what-matters/what-matters-to-cindy-gallop/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Moves to block Kaduna-Abuja road unacceptable ― Kaduna govt
The Kaduna State Government has said it will not allow any move by any groups or individuals, to block the Kaduna-Abuja road or any routes, in order to express dissatisfaction saying it is unacceptable and therefore a prelude to the breakdown of law and order.
Earlier, the student body in a statement issued by the NANS Kaduna Task Force chairman, Comrade Dominic Philip had called on students of respective schools to Assembly on the 21st September 2022 for the total of the Kaduna-Abuja road.
He had said, “I write to inform you of the total shut down of the Abuja – Kaduna expressway end at Gonin Gora by Federal cooperative college, Kaduna.
To this end, he said further, “all National Excos, Zonal Excos in Kaduna, JCC Executives, SUG’s/ SRC Executives, Parents, good spirited countrymen and women, gentlemen of the press are by this circular invited.
However, in a swift reaction, the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan stated in a statement that the planned action by any groups or individuals is unacceptable.
“By this notice, individuals or groups planning to restrict citizens’ movements are advised to desist in the interest of public peace,” Aruwan had warned.
While the Kaduna State Government is not depriving citizens of the right to express discontent, public security and safety must always be the foremost consideration.
According to the statement, “The danger of barricading a strategic route like the Kaduna-Abuja Road is better appreciated within the context of ongoing security operations covering the route, and other areas of interest.
“Keen attention must also be given to the possibility of certain gatherings degenerating into violence.
“Citizens are therefore strongly advised against participating in such processions, particularly those which will impact the normal socio-economic activities of other citizens, or expose lives to unnecessary danger.
“Citizens may kindly be reminded that collective security should remain the first and most important consideration at all times. Individuals, unions and other groups are therefore urged to note this advisory for strict compliance.”
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Reps raise alarm over Nigeria’s rising debt profile cases of crude oil theft
The House of Representatives on Tuesday raised the alarm over the rising debt profile of the Nation and the increasing cases of crude oil theft in the Niger Delta region.
The Speaker, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila raised the alarm in a speech to welcome his Colleagues back from a two-month vacation
The Speaker pointed out that some concerns emerged from the Senate and House Committees on Finance interactive sessions with the ministries, departments and agencies of the government on the Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper, during which issues emerged on the scope of deficit financing to be proposed in the new budget and decline in crude oil production due to theft and sabotage.
Gbajabiamila said while the House appreciates that the current fiscal conditions necessitate borrowing to finance budgetary expenditures, he, however, said there should be worried about the long-term impact of the debt burden on the country and the ability to pay the debt in a responsible and sustainable way.
These concerns, he said would be central to consideration of the 2023 Appropriation Bill when presented, and appropriations for new projects for MDAs will be influenced by the extent to which existing projects have been funded and their performance in executing these projects as intended.
On crude oil theft, the Speaker said the perpetrators of this brazen heist threaten the ability to serve the Nigerian people and meet the demands of governance and nation-building.
He described their actions as treason against the country, for which they must be held accountable, adding that they are no different from the insurgents and terrorists against whom the nation is battling in various theatres.
According to him,” due to theft and various acts of economic sabotage, we are experiencing a massive decline in the volume of crude oil exports. Our crude oil export of 972,394 BPD for August is the lowest we have recorded in the last two decades. At a time when we are already experiencing severe financial constraints.
“There are mechanisms in place to prevent these sorts of bad actors, and the government spends significant amounts of money each year to protect oil and gas resources in the country. Evidently, these existing arrangements do not suffice. As such, there is an urgent need to review them and make the necessary improvements. It is also of particular importance that the perpetrators of these crimes against the state are identified, prosecuted and subjected to the stiffest penalties the law allows.
“Those who seek to impoverish our country in this manner have declared war against the Nigerian people. The government’s response must be sufficient to convince them of the error of their ways and deter others who might be tempted to join in their treason. I met with the Finance Minister and the DG Budget and made it clear to them that enough crude oil theft. Nigerians don’t want to hear that again. What do you intend to do about it? That’s the important question.”
Speaking on the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Gbajabiamila said that the current framework of government-sponsored tertiary education is no longer working as it should and hasn’t worked for a long time.
He, therefore, said the House’s goal is to begin a candid assessment of the current system and to consider all available options for complete reform.
The Speaker while claiming that the country has recently recorded significant victories against the purveyors of violence and conflict across the country, said the explosive growth in the trade and consumption of narcotics contributed to the worsening insecurity in our country,
He warned that the country cannot afford to be overrun by the cancer of the drug trade and the devastation it brings.
Gbajabiamila further lamented that various priority bills are still pending at different stages despite the limited time available for the 9th House.
These priority bills, according to him include legislation to implement essential reforms to the national security architecture, effect needed reforms of critical government institutions, as well as others that seek to improve national ability to meet human capital development targets.
He urged all the lawmakers seeking reelection to take all proper and necessary measures to clear the backlog of assignments before the schedule becomes even more encumbered by budget activities and the pressures of the campaign season.
Said he,” already, activities towards the campaign are in high gear with consultations and outreach by candidates and incumbents across the country. This is normal, and it is expected. However, those of us who hold office must endeavour to deliver on the mandate we hold for the duration of our term. So, we must strike a balance as we campaign, because we have a 4-year mandate.
“We have very little time left to finish the work we have been called to do in this Assembly. There is much left to do, and we cannot turn our attention to those whilst we have pending tasks to deliver. I urge all the Chairmen of the standing and ad-hoc committees to act promptly on pending bills and motions, conclude the activities of ad-hoc committees and submit their reports for consideration and subsequent actions”.
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Reps raise alarm over Nigeria’s rising debt profile cases of crude oil theft | https://tribuneonlineng.com/reps-raise-alarm-over-nigerias-rising-debt-profile-cases-of-crude-oil-theft/ | 2022-09-20T18:17:49Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/reps-raise-alarm-over-nigerias-rising-debt-profile-cases-of-crude-oil-theft/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After awe, what? Naturalist and filmmaker Tom Mustill thought he was going to die when a 30-ton humpback whale breached and landed on the two-person kayak he was piloting near Monterey. The massive impact drove him and his co-kayaker deep into the ocean, but when they surfaced, miraculously still alive, he “was exhilarated. What a thing to look upon, to feel.” The incident, captured on a phone by a bystander, went viral, with over six million views (you can see it here); a whale specialist caught sight of it and told Mustill that the whale purposely “twisted and veered away” to clip them rather than land full-on and almost certainly kill them. After such an experience, some people would never venture near water again. Others might capitalize on their viral celebrity, or go the Ahab route, spending the rest of their lives seeking out the whale that nearly finished them, for revenge. On the other hand, there’s the path Mustill chose, determining instead to find the answer to this question: “What, if anything at all, was the humpback that leaped onto us trying to say?”
Mustill’s hunger to figure this out sent him on an investigative journey through all we know, and don’t, about the way species, particularly whales and other marine mammals, communicate with one another, and, at times, us. The result is a thoughtful, wide-ranging, and moving book that combines history, reportage, science, and Mustill’s own process around his near-death collision with a mammoth sentient being from another world. As with the documentary My Octopus Teacher, the Helen McDonald memoir H is for Hawk, Richard Powers’s novel The Overstory, or Ed Yong’s An Immense World, which explores the wildly divergent and often extraordinary sensory abilities of myriad animals, How to Speak Whale is in many ways a love letter to all the life on this planet besides ours: its beauty, its deep strangeness, its power—and our longing, often unrequited, to understand and connect with it. And, as with any current exploration of the natural world, the book is also filled with grief about how much of that wonderland is gone, or going. Mustill refers to himself at one point as “a sort of nature war reporter.”
Mustill’s book, of course, doesn’t tell you how to speak whale, or any other animal language. It’s not much of a spoiler to reveal that Google Translate from animal to human communication doesn’t exist yet. Moreover, while we humans conflate vocalization with language, and while it’s clear that animals do communicate with one another, it doesn’t follow that animal vocalization is “animal language” or that vocalization the way our species does it is the only way communication can occur. After all, when your cat twines around your legs at the same time every evening, you know he wants dinner whether he meows or not. Part of the considerable pleasure of How to Speak Whale, in fact, is the tension between all the facts Mustill uncovers and the mysteries that remain undeciphered. He interviews scientists, whale song researchers, AI innovators, the academics who created the Cetacean Translation Initiative, and underwater camera people, among others, explaining the immense amount of tantalizing, empirical evidence that what we call “whale song” is a created, patterned, rhyming, collaborative sonic thing that whales do with intention and innovation. However, to this day, no one really knows why. Mustill writes, “Bowhead whales, which can live for more than two centuries, sing songs that have been compared to jazz.” What are they doing? We don’t know. Scores of researchers, outfitted with ever more sophisticated equipment, have spent decades with whales and other marine mammals, trying to translate what goes on in their heads. Some of the results are unintentionally comic. When a prominent cetacean expert painstakingly set up a mirror underwater to see if dolphins could pass the famous “mirror self-recognition test”—the gold standard of self-awareness and what we consider to be consciousness—two young male dolphins passed with flying colors, then used the mirror for “‘sequential intromission attempts’…meaning they had sex and watched themselves.” Having fun, messing with us, or both?
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When Mustill goes to swim with humpback whales near the end, he talks about the sublime experience of “being seen by something incomprehensible and enormous.” A whale begins to sing, and he basically submerges himself underwater in the song. “My lungs and airspaces and limbs all vibrated, and I felt I had become the medium it was talking in.” Does it matter if we know what the whale was “saying”? Literally vibrating with mystery, Mustill’s clear answer is no. “What matters,” he writes, “is they are there.”
Stacey D’Erasmo’s novel The Complicities, in which a whale plays a major role, is just out. | https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a40710113/tom-mustill-how-to-speak-whale-book-review/ | 2022-09-20T18:21:20Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a40710113/tom-mustill-how-to-speak-whale-book-review/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
If you loved the popular Oprah’s “The Life You Want” Planner—and followed along with her monthly live classes in 2022—you’re in for a treat: Oprah’s “The Life You Want” Love and Happiness Journal is now available!
With 12 chapters, this robust, guided follow-up to last year’s offering features ample spaces for soul-searching: Think visual exercises, fill-in-the-blank questions, and places to write about lesson-related aha moments. It’s substantive yet stunning; you won’t be able to take your eyes off of the vibrant, calming images of nature along the way.
Right now, Oprah Daily Insiders have exclusive early access to shop the new planner. Don’t miss your chance to buy it!
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This guided journal won’t just help you form higher-quality connections with others—it’ll also help strengthen your relationship with yourself. We also think the smooth ribbon bookmark that comes with it will be a joy to use.
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Oprah’s “The Life You Want” Love and Happiness Journal is anchored by several key lessons she believes are critical for forming relationships you can count on, helping you expand love in your life in all forms, including with yourself, family, friends, and romantic partners.
While the first chapter kicks off with a Love Inventory to help you identify where you are and what you want, other chapters focus on skills like creating boundaries, communicating more effectively, connecting more authentically, and more. Quotes from experts and thought-leaders who appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, O, The Oprah Magazine, and other projects are also shared throughout.
This journal presents several opportunities to evaluate your relationships, choices, and emotions so you can work toward becoming the most self-actualized version of yourself, no matter your starting point. All you have to do is get ready to dig deep and write your truths on its pages. | https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/a41249093/oprah-love-and-happiness-journal/ | 2022-09-20T18:21:30Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/a41249093/oprah-love-and-happiness-journal/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
One thing that will always serve us well is a calm state of mind. Whether you prefer to get there through meditation, yoga, or indulging in a good book, it is absolutely vital to practice mindfulness on a routine basis. But one way to achieve a little peace without needing to carve out additional time is inhaling healing scents through aromatherapy.
Essential oil diffusers are a convenient method to release the scent of your favorite oils, and many of them also serve as beautiful decorative pieces. There’s a huge variety of diffusers available now, which run the gamut from low-maintenance to innovative electric versions to smart and Alexa-compatible.
Classic reed diffusers are a good standby, especially because they don’t require any effort—just leave them in their vessel and they'll remain fragrant for months. Consider ultrasonic types, which blend water and essential oils together to dispense a fine mist, as a hybrid between humidifier and diffuser. On the other hand, nebulizing models function with oil alone and deliver a stronger aroma, making them ideal for larger rooms. The latter two diffusers often feature timer and auto shut-off capabilities, while tech-friendly options allow you to control everything with a tap or swipe from your phone.
With that said, here are some of our picks for the best essential oil diffusers to create your own sensory experience—there’s something for every preference and aesthetic. | https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/g36231053/best-essential-oil-diffusers/ | 2022-09-20T18:21:40Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/g36231053/best-essential-oil-diffusers/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The hardest thing about hard times is this: You know you're not in control anymore. (But ask yourself something: Were you ever?) You have to make big changes before you're ready or suddenly question what you thought you knew. But it's possible to turn even the most upsetting situations into opportunities for growth if you can muster enough willingness, trust, faith, patience, and surrender. Here's why these qualities are so essential if we are to transcend our troubles.
Willingness
This is the all-important ingredient for making it through tough times. You must be willing to do what you believe you cannot, and acknowledge what you've avoided. Yes, this can be painful, but when you are unwilling to see things—and people—as they are, you can't deal with the problem, and I can guarantee your situation will be prolonged.
Trust and Faith
Very often people confuse these two principles, but they're very different. Trust is the belief that you can get through anything, and faith is the energy that grows from that trust, helping you carry on until things get better. You can't have the latter without the former.
Patience
This is the capacity to accept and tolerate difficulty without anger or sorrow—and it's your lifeline when you find yourself in the midst of a hard time. In the same way that we are unable to rush the sunrise or the unfolding of the seasons, we can't force ourselves through a challenging experience in less time than we need to learn, heal, or grow. Patience makes our difficulties pass as gently as possible.
Surrender
It's not about giving up or bowing down. It's about holding on to the knowledge that something bigger and more powerful than you is at work beneath the surface of your experience, and that it will take you exactly where you need to be. Now, in hard times, surrender is probably the greatest challenge you will encounter because it's so hard to accept uncertainty. But that, my beloved, is the point. You don't know what's to come, but you must know that whatever happens, you will be okay.
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Crypto. ETFs. The Great Resignation. NFTs. Robo-advisers. Salary transparency. A pandemic that won’t quit. And inflation the likes of which we haven’t seen in 40 years. There are so many question marks out there right now, but at least one thing is pretty clear: This is not your mother’s economy.
That doesn’t mean you can’t handle it. Far from it—you just need a new set of rules. When it comes to money, having rules can be particularly helpful. Why? Because although there are some elements of the financial world that you can’t control (stock prices, rising interest rates, and a thousand others), you can reduce the amount of volatility in your financial life by controlling what you can—and when you do that successfully, it’s going to bring your financial stress level waaay down.
If you’re looking for financial empowerment, less worry, and a greater sense of control over your money, it’s time to breathe these new rules in and make them a part of your playbook from here on out. As we say at HerMoney.com: You got this.
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Getting Paid Is Good. Getting Paid More Is Better.
The gender wage gap, where women earn just 82 cents for every dollar a white man earns—women of color earn even less—is closing. In fact, the Pew Research Center notes women under the age of 30 have made pretty big strides: They earn 93 cents on average, up from 88 cents in 2020. And young women in big cities earn comparatively even more.
The problem is, those gains don’t stick as we age and take breaks from work to do things like have kids and take care of our parents. But no matter how old you are or where you live, what you have to remember about the gap is that it’s an average. And “average” is one thing you are not.
First, acknowledge that you deserve more. As Sallie Krawcheck, founder of the female-led fintech firm Ellevest, likes to say: “Nothing bad happens when women have more money.” She’s right. Women are more willing to use our money to create the change we want to see in the world, from ensuring our children have resources for college to giving our money to the causes and candidates we believe in. But in order to get more, you have to make your case. That means doing the research to know what a job like yours should pay, or what a business like yours should charge. (Sites like Payscale.com and Glassdoor.com can help.) Then, unapologetically ask for more while pointing out the additional value you’re bringing to your employer or clients. Our favorite gender wage gap-eliminating phrase: “Can you do better?”
Know Your Money Type.
Have you ever wondered why you are the way you are with money? Why you have trouble spending it even if you’re sitting on a flush cash cushion, or why it flows through your fingers like water? Here’s the deal: Everyone has a Money Type, a money personality, that was largely formed during our childhood. It’s not what your parents taught you; rather, it’s what you absorbed and what you felt about money.
As inflation eats into every dollar you bring into your wallet and a volatile stock market leads investors down dangerous rabbit holes, it’s even more important to understand your Money Type in order to shield yourself from your lesser impulses. How do you do that? Start by asking yourself some probing questions: What was the atmosphere like in your childhood home? Was there stress every time a bill dropped? Was there tension rather than joy around the holidays? What money messages did you get from your mom or dad? Even better, take our Money Type personality assessment—it will give you a clearer picture and a set of directions to follow specifically for you. Particularly right now, understanding where we come from with our money is a must. Because while you can’t unsee your childhood, you can overcome your financial hang-ups to live a richer adult life.
Got Debt? You Can Still Have a Life.
The old thinking was that you had to abolish your debt first, then you could focus on the future. Now we know it’s better to both pay down your debt and save for the future simultaneously. Why? Because those early years of saving and investing are far too valuable to leave on the sidelines while you’re wailing on those student loans.
So here’s the playbook: Put every next dollar where it’s going to get you the greatest return. In general, that means you grab your 401(k) or other retirement account match first. A 50 percent match is a 50 percent guaranteed return on your money. Then, pay off any high-interest-rate credit card debt. Next, come back to work on maxing out that retirement plan contribution. And as for those student loans? Don’t stress about accelerating your payments. Refinance private ones so that the interest rate is as low as possible, then just pay them off over time. With federal ones, either stick to the 10-year clock or use an income-based repayment plan to lower your monthly payments to make the rest of your financial life manageable.
Emergency Savings Are No Joke.
Pandemic lesson number one: Emergencies happen. Being prepared means having liquid savings—not money that’s tied up in investments, but money in a bank account or credit union that you can access quickly and easily. We were great at that while we were on lockdown and receiving stimulus checks. The personal savings rate (which is the percentage of after-tax income that is saved or invested rather than spent) kicked up each time we got a stimulus check, and it remained in double digits through most of the pandemic. Today, we’ve blown through those savings (thanks again, inflation) and are only putting away 5%. That’s nowhere near enough. Yes, having $1,000 or $2,000 set aside is great, but ideally you’ll bulk that up enough to have 3 to 6 months’ worth of living expenses on hand. So, add up what those costs would be for you and start automatically moving $100 or even $200 into a separate account every month until you’re there. (Note: We think tax refunds make a great emergency cushion starter, too.) And yes, it has to live in a bank despite the fact that you’re not going to get a great return on the money.
One thing you can do to improve your returns a smidge, particularly as interest rates rise, is to look for a high-yield savings account, or HYSA. These accounts, typically located at credit unions or internet banks, will more quickly pass each interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve on to you. Some good ones: Ally, Marcus, Citizens.
Grandma Actually Did Know Best.
Maybe you’d already begun to suspect this, but Nana did not steer you wrong. And when emergencies happen, the old-fashioned habits you might have picked up from family over the years may be the same ones that will help you through the storm.
For example, Grandma knew how to get the most out of every meal. She’d roast a chicken for dinner, then whip the leftovers into a chicken salad sandwich for lunch the next day, and then use the carcass to flavor a soup or stew. She also didn’t need a $35 bootcamp class to stay in shape, because she’d mow the lawn, walk everywhere, or put in a new garden. Oh, and you know the “cash stuffing” trend that’s all over TikTok? (If you haven’t seen it, this TikTok is a pretty good example.) Basically, you get your paycheck in cash, then divvy it up into envelopes allocated for all the spending categories in your life—groceries, beauty, your pooch. We love it, in part because research shows you’ll spend less with cash than you will with debit, credit, even Venmo. The actual green stuff feels more valuable, so you’re less likely to be willing to part with it. But it’s literally just your grandma’s old envelope system.
Used Is the New New.
If it’s good for the planet, it’s generally good for your wallet. When it comes to clothes, that means (a) shopping resale (The Real Real, Poshmark, your local consignment or thrift shop) instead of buying new, (b) consigning what you’re not wearing, and then (c) donating what you can’t consign.
This is particularly important where clothes are concerned. You can thank the fashion industry for 10 percent of global carbon emissions, according to a World Bank report. But clothing’s not the only thing to recycle. For furniture, look to Kaiyo for lightly used name-brand pieces, or to your local Freecycle or Buy Nothing groups on Facebook for other people’s castoffs. In fact, Facebook Marketplace can be a good source of pretty much anything you need from tools to pet supplies.
And when Fido outgrows the crate you got from someone else? Yep, you can recycle it all over again.
My Money Is More Valuable Than Our Money.
The State of Women 2022, a survey of 1,000+ women conducted by HerMoney.com and the Alliance For Lifetime Income, revealed that fewer than one-third of women in a relationship have merged all their money with a spouse or partner, and only 2 percent (just 2 percent!) of singles say they’d merge everything in the future.
We get it. And we love to see it. Every woman needs money she can use—to spend, save, invest, and give—at her discretion, without asking anyone’s permission. Even if you don’t earn income outside the home, this is true for you, too. Set up a separate account and funnel some of the household’s money into it automatically with every paycheck. Do the same for your spouse or partner for their autonomous needs. And note: You don’t have to keep all your money separate, but you should, without a doubt, keep some of your earnings reserved just for you.
The Side Hustle Is the New Safety Net.
When it comes to investing, diversification—making sure you have a mix of investments in case one goes south—is a way to reduce your risk. Increasingly, the same is true when it comes to your livelihood. Multiple income streams can put you in greater control of your destiny. Having a side hustle (or two) is a way to put extra money in your pocket, but it can also keep your skills sharp and grow your network.
For example?
If you’re crafty or a particularly eagle-eyed thrifter, set up an Etsy shop to sell your wares or finds. Develop an online course to teach others your superpower. Or make some money from whatever excess capacity you have—rent out a spare room, your parking spot, even your car on a car-sharing site like Turo. Plus, if that primary job starts to feel like it’s no longer a good fit, you’ll have a fallback that you might be able to ramp up quickly. (Think of it like having an F-You fund, only for your career.)
Spend Your Values.
Want to know the real secret to using your money to buy you happiness? Not everyone values experiences over things, or travel over trinkets. And, as new research from UCLA psychology professor Patricia Greenfield shows, the pandemic shifted our values a bit. We’re now more interested in conserving resources, growing our own food, and spending time with the older members of our families.
But again, these are averages. The key is figuring out what you value.
To do that, track your spending for a month (or go back over your last month’s spending using your credit and debit card bills, as well as your Venmo history). Look at each line item and ask yourself: Would I spend this money again? If you get a yes, those are the things you value. The ones that get a no or a maybe should be the first to go when it’s time to trim your budget.
Save 15 Percent. Of Everything.
The old rule of retirement saving used to be that if you socked away 10 percent of everything you made from the time you started working until retirement, you’d have enough—along with Social Security—to live comfortably pretty much forever. But we’re living so much longer now that 10 percent just isn’t going to be enough—it’s time we kicked things up to 15 percent. We know that’s a lot, but the good news is that any matching dollars you get from an employer, such as a 401(k), count toward that 15 percent.
If you’re not sure you’re on track, here are some benchmarks developed by Fidelity Investments that can help: By age 30, you should have 1x your current annual income put away for retirement. (So, if you earn $50,000 annually, you should have $50,000 saved.) By 40, you should try to have 3x saved, so with the $50,000 example, that’s $150,000. By age 50, 6x. By 60, you should have 8x, and by the time you retire, 10x. If you’re not there yet, please don’t panic. Just try to bump up your savings by about 2 percent a year until you’re regularly hitting that 15 percent mark. You got this.
Time Is More Valuable Than Money.
Time and money are both limited resources. But while there is an unending list of ways to earn more money, you can’t say the same about more time. So be very careful how you trade one for the other.
Before taking something new onto your plate—or even accepting a calendar invite for a meeting or event—ask yourself: What am I giving up? What will I be saying no to so that I can say yes to this? When we’re happier about the time and money tradeoffs we’re making, we’re more likely to feel empowered with our money, and have less stress. Which is not to say you should stop working (or not take on that side hustle that can lead you down a fascinating new path). Just be choosy—or choosier. You know that old Ben Franklin saying: If you want to get something done, ask a busy person. He didn’t know it then, but he was talking about you. Whether it’s an invite to an event you’d rather not attend, a Zoom that should have been an email, or a request to “pick your brain,” it’s okay to say no. “Thanks so much for asking. Unfortunately, my calendar is a little full right now” are the words that work for us.
Be Generous.
There are decades of research that show that as long as you have enough money to be comfortable, more money won’t buy more happiness. What will make you happier, however, is using your resources to help someone else. So give as often as you’re able, but make sure you’re doing so thoughtfully and with purpose. And understand this includes not just giving to charity—Americans give a little more than 2 percent of their income away each year—but also doing things that will make other people happy. Even little gestures of kindness can put a smile on your face. (A recent study from the University of California Berkeley registered a happiness pop just for feeding someone else’s parking meter.) The point? Not only will the recipient find joy and fulfillment, but you will, too.
Jean Chatzky is the CEO and Founder of Hermoney.com where Kathryn Tuggle is the Chief Content Officer. | https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/work-money/a41246621/new-rules-money-investing/ | 2022-09-20T18:22:00Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/work-money/a41246621/new-rules-money-investing/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: Four employees of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation have been suspended over the incident where a man was rounded up and assaulted for demanding a student's concession card for his daughter.
"Four employees, including the station master of the Kattakkada KSRTC depot, have been suspended with immediate effect," said Transport Minister Antony Raju.
The High Court too registered a suo motu case on the shocking incident.
Not just the 55-year-old father, but his college-going daughter was also pushed and assaulted by the staffers of the public transport carrier after a brief war of words erupted between them at the bus depot in the morning.
The incident caught wide public and media attention after a purported visual captured on a mobile phone went viral. In the video, the employees could be seen pushing the man into a room and assaulting him and beating the girl who tried to stop them.
The daughter could also be seen questioning the assault by the employees and another man could be heard telling the staffers to not beat them up. The girl's father, Preman, later sought treatment at a taluk hospital.
A native of Amachal near Thiruvananthapuram, he said a minor argument with the KSRTC employees at the depot resulted in the assault. "I went to the depot with my daughter to renew her students' concession. The staff at the counter asked us to bring the course certificate. I told them that it was already submitted during the renewal of the bus pass last month," the man said. But, the employees were not ready to renew the concession and the argument resulted in the assault.
As the issue triggered a controversy, Antony Raju intervened and sought an urgent report from the chairman and the managing director of the KSRTC on the incident. “Though it was an isolated incident, the manhandling of a person who arrived at the office, which brought disgrace to the KSRTC, could not be accepted at any cost,” said Antony Raju.
Later in the evening, an order was issued suspending four employees pending inquiry based on the preliminary enquiry report. "Directions have been given to the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) to complete the probe within 45 days and to take stringent action against the accused," the minister's office said.
Meanwhile, advocate Deepu Thankan, who represents KSRTC in the Kerala High Court, said Justice Devan Ramachandran called for a report on the incident. He also said the High Court has registered a case on its own into the incident based on media reports.
Kattakkada police said five KSRTC employees have been booked in connection with the incident and various sections of IPC including 143, 149, 323 and so on have been slapped against them.
(With PTI inputs) | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/20/ksrtc-kattakkada-assault-four-staffers-suspended.amp.html | 2022-09-20T18:30:15Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/20/ksrtc-kattakkada-assault-four-staffers-suspended.amp.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: Four employees of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation have been suspended over the incident where a man was rounded up and assaulted for demanding a student's concession card for his daughter.
"Four employees, including the station master of the Kattakkada KSRTC depot, have been suspended with immediate effect," said Transport Minister Antony Raju.
The High Court too registered a suo motu case on the shocking incident.
Not just the 55-year-old father, but his college-going daughter was also pushed and assaulted by the staffers of the public transport carrier after a brief war of words erupted between them at the bus depot in the morning.
The incident caught wide public and media attention after a purported visual captured on a mobile phone went viral. In the video, the employees could be seen pushing the man into a room and assaulting him and beating the girl who tried to stop them.
The daughter could also be seen questioning the assault by the employees and another man could be heard telling the staffers to not beat them up. The girl's father, Preman, later sought treatment at a taluk hospital.
A native of Amachal near Thiruvananthapuram, he said a minor argument with the KSRTC employees at the depot resulted in the assault. "I went to the depot with my daughter to renew her students' concession. The staff at the counter asked us to bring the course certificate. I told them that it was already submitted during the renewal of the bus pass last month," the man said. But, the employees were not ready to renew the concession and the argument resulted in the assault.
As the issue triggered a controversy, Antony Raju intervened and sought an urgent report from the chairman and the managing director of the KSRTC on the incident. “Though it was an isolated incident, the manhandling of a person who arrived at the office, which brought disgrace to the KSRTC, could not be accepted at any cost,” said Antony Raju.
Later in the evening, an order was issued suspending four employees pending inquiry based on the preliminary enquiry report. "Directions have been given to the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) to complete the probe within 45 days and to take stringent action against the accused," the minister's office said.
Meanwhile, advocate Deepu Thankan, who represents KSRTC in the Kerala High Court, said Justice Devan Ramachandran called for a report on the incident. He also said the High Court has registered a case on its own into the incident based on media reports.
Kattakkada police said five KSRTC employees have been booked in connection with the incident and various sections of IPC including 143, 149, 323 and so on have been slapped against them.
(With PTI inputs) | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/20/ksrtc-kattakkada-assault-four-staffers-suspended.html | 2022-09-20T18:30:22Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/20/ksrtc-kattakkada-assault-four-staffers-suspended.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sellers continue to get stratospheric offers from prospective purchasers, even as the number of consummated transactions continues to take a hit in Arlington’s real-estate market, according to new data.
A total of 236 properties went to closing countywide in August, down 21 percent from 299 a year before, according to figures from MarketStats by ShowingTime based on listing activity from Bright MLS.
That’s seemingly yet another sign that (a) the local real-estate market is cooling and (b) it is returning to seasonal ebbs and flows that see activity concentrated in a stretch from early spring to mid-summer, followed by six months of cooling, if not necessarily frigid, market conditions.
The big sales decline for August was in line with expectations, given the accumulating evidence that the buyer frenzy existing from the summer of 2020 to early spring of 2022 has abated. Sellers largely remain in command of the market, but buyers suddenly find themselves with less competition and more time to make their choices despite a still-tight inventory.
But those buyers had better come prepared with a serious offer, as year-over-year average sales prices remain in solid growth territory.
That’s particularly true in the single-family sector, where the average sales price of $1,284,914 in August was up 12.2 percent from a year before.
The average sales price of an attached home (townhouses, rowhouses and condominiums) was up 2.4 percent to $524,774, while the condo-only portion of that market was up 6.9 percent to $460,185.
Overall, the average sales price of $769,565 was up 3.9 percent, but that growth rate was held back by fewer single-family homes in the overall mix. A total of 58 properties changed hands for more than $1 million during the month, including four for more than $2.5 million.
Mix the lower level of transactions together with the higher prices and you come up with a sales volume of just under $183 million for the month, down about 17.4 percent from $221.5 million a year before.
Homes that went to closing in August spent an average of 23 days between listing and ratified sales contract, up just a single day from a year before but higher than the Arlington market saw earlier in the year. The average sales price stood at 97.7 percent of listing price, down from 99 percent a year ago and signifying that buyers have gained some negotiating leverage.
Conventional mortgages represented the method of transacting sales in 152 sales, followed by cash (57) and VA-backed mortgages (20).
Those ever-higher prices are being propped up by a decided dearth of inventory. At the end of the month, the total number of active listings across Arlington stood at 373, well down from 490 a year before. The number of new listings coming to market during the month (234) was down nearly 30 percent, suggesting some sellers have decided to await developments before committing their homes to the marketplace.
Where is the market headed? In Arlington, expect a cool autumn, as pending sales are down about 24 percent from a year ago. That likely will translated into fewer completed deals in the remaining months of 2022.
Figures represent most, but not all, home sales in the market. All August 2022 figures are preliminary and are subject to revision.
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When it comes to the soon-to-be-due annual Arlington car-tax bills, a lot of county residents are royally P.O.’d.
As in “Positively Outraged.”
And that visceral reaction to the tax bills has meant more work for the staffs of the county’s treasurer and commissioner of revenue offices, which have been on the front line fielding complaints even though they can hardly be termed responsible for the big run-up in vehicle values that, despite efforts by County Board members to help, has meant higher tax bills even for aging vehicles.
“We are seeing an increase in phone calls and e-mails from customers who are questioning their vehicle assessments,” Commissioner of Revenue Ingrid Morroy told the Sun Gazette. “Customers who are not aware what has happened with vehicle values are stunned and confused. Our employees do their best to explain how we assess motor vehicles, and how the tax is calculated.”
That big bump up in vehicle values traces its roots to the pandemic and supply-chain issues that followed. New-car prices spiked as a result of inventory problems, and used-car prices followed along.
In one sense, Arlington taxpayers catch a break every year, as Morroy’s office uses the “clean-loan value” from J.D. Power (formerly the National Automobile Dealers Association) for assessments. Some Virginia jurisdictions use other methods, which typically result in higher valuations.
Morroy said that once the unusual circumstances leading to the tax-bill spikes are explained, most taxpayers have an it-is-what-it-is acceptance. The commissioner of revenue is responsible for assessments, but the treasurer’s office has the responsibility for taking in the money. And Treasurer Carla de la Pava and her staff are in roughly the same boat as Morroy and hers.
“We have received many complaints from citizens who are upset about their tax bill,” de la Pava told the Sun Gazette. “Some of them understand that the increase is because of the valuation, and some just think that there is an error somewhere.”
Receiving an explanation satisfies some taxpayers, but those who press the issue are directed to the commissioner’s office for further assistance, de la Pava said.
Recognizing that a major spike in values was coming, Arlington County Board members during their springtime budget deliberations decided to tax vehicles at 88 percent of assessed value, down from 100 percent most years.
County Board members also eliminated the $33-per-vehicle administrative charge – known as the “decal fee” before windshield decals were eliminated – which disproportionately hit taxpayers with older, less pricey vehicles.
Both Morroy and de la Pava, who are elected officials, say their staffs try to explain efforts undertaken by the County Board to lower tax burdens of vehicle owners.
“Some are consoled, and some are not,” de la Pava said of the response. Those with long memories of Virginia politics will recall that Republican Jim Gilmore rode to the governorship over Democrat Don Beyer in 1997 with the campaign slogan “No Car Tax.”
But eliminating the personal-property tax on vehicles proved a harder sell with the General Assembly than it did with the electorate; while legislators subsequently voted to provide subsidies to localities so they can pass them on to taxpayers, the tax has never actually gone away, in part because Virginia’s 133 cities and counties seem to be dependent on the cash flow it provides.
Arlington officials, or instance, are expecting about $132 million in revenue from vehicle personal-property taxes in the fiscal year that began July 1, part of an overall budget of approximately $1.5 billion.
Annual personal-property taxes are due in October.
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As home-sellers continue trying to gauge how much buyers will pay, fewer across the region are seeing contracts come in higher than listing price.
None of the six major jurisdictions in the Northern Virginia suburbs saw an average sales price of 100 percent or more of listing price in August, and five of them saw declines in the percentage received compared to a year ago.
That’s according to data reported Sept. 12 by MarketStats by ShowingTime, based on listing data from Bright MLS, as analyzed by the Sun Gazette. Prince William County saw the highest ratio of sales price to listing price – 99.09 percent – in August, but also saw one of the biggest year-over-year declines, dipping 2.1 percent.
Only Loudoun County saw a bigger year-over-year drop, with its ratio of 97.88 percent down 3.2 percent.
Falls Church, by contrast, saw its ratio rise 0.9 percent to 98.91 percent, the only gainer among the crowd.
Also on the list, buyers of Fairfax County homes paid an average 98.44 percent of listing price, down 1.6 percent; purchasers in Alexandria plunked down 98.71 percent, down 0.3 percent; and those buying homes in Arlington paid 97.69 percent, down 1.3 percent.
What does it mean? That’s open to interpretation.
Certainly the feeding frenzy that ran from the summer of 2020 to early spring 2022 is over for now. And while the percentage of listing price is now under 100 percent, those homes in general are going to contract for more than they did a year before. So it’s likely that the normalcy of pre-COVID times is returning, and with it sellers who are no longer throwing cash at any pretty thing that catches their fancy, but holding out for what they perceive to be a fair deal.
Of all of the portion of Virginia covered by Bright MLS, only one locality – Culpeper County – saw contract prices averaging more than 100 percent in August, and only by the slimmest of margins (100.09%).
Across the Mid-Atlantic, the nearly 25,000 home sales in August averaged 99.55 percent of listing price, down from 100.8 percent a year before. Somerset County, N.J., topped the list, with August average sales prices running at 103.79 percent of average listing prices.
Figures represent most, but not all, homes on the market. All August 2022 figures are preliminary and are subject to revision.
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Two hundred thirty-seven students from 18 Fairfax County’s public schools are among the semifinalists named by the National Merit Scholarship Corp.
All semifinalists are eligible to compete for 7,500 National Merit Scholarship awards worth nearly $28 million, to be awarded in spring 2023.
Semifinalists advance to finalist standing in the competition by meeting high academic standards and other requirements including a recommendation from a high-school official.
National Merit Semifinalists from schools in the Sun Gazette’s coverage area include:
– Langley High School: Josephine Amspaugh, Ethan Bhatia, Michael Dzwonczyk, David Han, Ashley Khang, Eliana Lafleur, Amelia Lee, Stephanie Ma, Shriya Mani, Connor Oakes, Sumrath Pahwa, Alexander Pomper, Daliya Rizvi, Shaan Sabharwal, Jason Zhang.
– James Madison High School: Aditya Behera, Selena Cheung, Zachary Conroy, Nayan Iyer, Anne Krieger, Nathaniel Morin, Jennifer Munyan, John Obermann, Emery Stratman, Qijie Sun, Hannah Yeom.
– George C. Marshall High School: Suhani Desai, Dale Devinney, Natalie Ghofrany, Aakashi Jain, Deborah Kim, Eujin Lee, Charles McDermott.
– McLean High School: John Apigian, Nandita Boddu, Jeffrey Cheng, Noah Chin, Shubham Dey, Tejini Holavanahali, Everly Johnston, Yeonsu Ju, Sianna Khandhar, Kristina Knauss, Genavive Lotfi, Anna Raymond, Emanuel Rouvelas, Donghwa Shin, Zaylie Tamashiro, David Vergano, Michael Wang, Benjamin Woods, Emma Yang, Ethan Ye, Olivia Zhang, Ethan Zhou.
–Oakton High School: Pari Agarwala, Tina Gao, Elise Ha, Thomas Huitema, Cindy Li, Sean Noh, Lois Park, Iliana Rong, Ashley Shin, Theodore Yi, Alyssa Zhang. –Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology: Suhani Aggarwal, Gabriel Ascoli, Rishik Balerao, Ananya Bandaru, Tarini Basireddy, Andrei Basto, Elise Bejtlich, Manav Bharath, Tanvi Bhave, Ethan Caldwell, Bradley Cao, Liam Carey, Noah Cha, Ellie Chen, Jeffrey Chen, Katelyn Chen, Qi Wei Chen, Ethan Chitturi, Jessica Chung, Garrett Cook, Riley Cooper, Audrey Czarnecki, Sauman Das, Vivian Denny, Kenneth Do, Audhav Durai, Amit Sai Erraguntla, Elisabeth Everhart, Daphne Feigin, Vivian Feng, Khushi Garg, Sophia Go, Grace Guan, Keira Hansen, Connor Harris, Katherine Hartley, Bryan Hong, Valentina Hong, Alan Hsu, Rachel Huang, Lauren Hyde, Arnav Jain, Tanish Jain, Timothy Johanson, Tanmai Kalisipudi, Mariska Kassi, Clara Kim, Matthew Kim, Sungjoon Kim, Sunglae Kim, Taein Kim, Sophia King, Irene Ko, Tejaswi Koduru, Aditya Kompella, Vishal Kotha, Anurag Kumar, Brian Lai, Jean Lavigne Du Cadet, Elliott Lee, Jordan Lee, Alex Li, Derek Li, Elizabeth Li, Elina Liu, Johanna Lohmus, Maya Makonnen, Nicolas Makovnik, Deccan Maniam, Vihaan Mathur, Satvik Matta, Zachris Matthews, Ehlaina McCaskill, Connor McKenzie, Katherine Merrill, Krisha Pahwa, Mulan Pan, Sravya Patibandla, Ridhi Pendyala, Cindy Peng, Nikhil Pesaladinne, Subrat Poudel, Keenan Powell, Aryan Rajput, Shashwat Rao, Prisha Ray, Anika Rekulapelli, Laura Ridgway, Cyrus Rivers, Nimesh Rudra, Thrisha Sakamuri, Isha Satapathy, Benoy Sen, Keertana Senthilkumar, Nihal Shah, Saloni Shah, Shruti Shah, Jerry Sheng, Andrew Shi, Savar Shrivastava, Mira Singh, Rishi Sripathi, Dhanbee Suh, Selina Sun, Anisha Talreja, Lynn Tao, Johnathan Tong, Henry Toth, Vincent Trang, Conan Ugaz, Suraj Vaddi, Niyathi Vadlapatla, Dante Valencia, Aditya Vasantharao, Akshay Vellore, Yuktha Vemula, Jonathan Vu, Claire Wang, Jessica Wang, Luke Wang, Kaia Wright, Richard Xu, Cindy Yang, Alexander Yao, Sophia Yao, Angela Zhang, Megan Zhang, Spencer Zheng, Brian Zhou, Elise Zhu, Isabella Zhu and Lilian Zhu.
More than 1.5 million juniors entered the 2023 National Merit program by taking the 2021 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which serves as the initial screen of program entrants, and about 16,000 advanced to become National Merit Semifinalists.
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PASCO, Wash.-
UPDATE: 10:00 a.m.
According to the Pasco Airport they are reopened and normal operations have resumed.
Shortly after 7 on Tuesday morning a plane made a fiery landing at the Pasco Airport.
According to Ben Shearer with the Pasco Fire Department, the regional jet with 10 passengers on board had a problem with its landing gear and made a skidding, fiery landing.
The Pasco Fire Department quickly responded from their station at the airport and the passengers were quickly and safely evacuated, and the fire was stabilized.
No injuries were reported during this incident. The cause of the fire is under investigation. The airport remains closed to air traffic. According to the Pasco Airport, they hope to be reopen for air traffic around 9 a.m. Tuesday.
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Imnaha, Ore.-
The lightning caused Double Creek fire has been burning since August, 30, and has now scorched 157, 267 acres. It is currently 38% contained according to the Oregon Department of Forestry.
The protection of lives and property continues to be the main priority for firefighters fighting the blaze. Today crews are expected to monitor hotspots and continue fire suppression efforts. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/update-double-creek-fire-near-imnaha-now-38-contained/article_c7fa478e-3908-11ed-a83f-97ebf174ced7.html | 2022-09-20T18:36:58Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/update-double-creek-fire-near-imnaha-now-38-contained/article_c7fa478e-3908-11ed-a83f-97ebf174ced7.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Cost-of-living crisis: Scottish councils 'facing increased energy costs of around £100m'
Scottish councils face increased energy costs of around £100 million this financial year, the local authority umbrella body has said, amid warnings of an "extremely challenging" winter.
Shona Morrison, president of Cosla, told The Scotsman: "That potentially has got quite a detrimental impact, as you can imagine."
It came as Cosla also warned the Scottish Government’s longer term spending plans will mean a £743m real-terms cut to frontline services.
This is the equivalent of 20,000 fewer jobs, it said, or around 10 per cent of the current local authority workforce.
Prime Minister Liz Truss announced a package of support to help with energy bills earlier this month.
This includes capping bills at £2,500 from October, with a £400 rebate paid in six instalments.
Business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg is now expected to announce details of a six-month scheme to help firms, schools, hospitals, charities and other non-domestic consumers cope with rising costs.
Ms Morrison, who was elected the first SNP president of Cosla in June, said: "All elements of our communities are going to be in an incredibly vulnerable position this winter.”
She said warm spaces may have to be provided in village halls.
Ms Morrison added: "Our small businesses – I come from a really small village that really flourishes and we've got some lovely, bespoke little shops – again, massive pressure.
"So absolutely worried about the individual, absolutely worried about the families, but also that wider sector of our authorities is a concern."
Asked if increased local authority costs could lead to job losses, Ms Morrison said the impact might not be felt until further down the line because of the way energy is purchased.
She said: "I think it's going to be an extremely challenging winter for local authorities, as it is in Scotland, in England, all around the world – it's a global issue.”
A Cosla spokesman described the extra energy costs as “an unexpected further strain on our already stretched resources”.
Written evidence submitted by Cosla to Holyrood’s finance and public administration committee notes that inflation is “having a significant impact across Scotland at both an organisational and an individual level”
It adds: "Local government is no exception and is facing major knock-on impacts on services – for instance through increased energy costs across the council estate, including schools and care homes estimated at £100m for 22/23; increased cost of free school meals due to rising food costs; and increased costs of commissioned services and capital projects driven by rising prices for materials as well as soaring energy bills.”
Elsewhere, Cosla raised concerns about the Scottish Government’s recent resource spending review, which sets out its broad spending plans for the coming years.
It said: “The further 7 per cent cut to local government provided for by the RSR [resource spending review] will mean that, by 2026/27, there will be £743m less in real terms to spend on the front line services that matter most to communities – equivalent to 20,000 fewer local government jobs.”
Kirsty Flanagan, chair of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy’s local government directors of finance section for Scotland, told the finance committee the recent pay offer to council workers would probably lead to “significant job losses” because it has not been fully funded by the Government.
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A judge has vacated Adnan Syed’s conviction. Syed was found guilty of murder over two decades ago and was the subject of the hit podcast “Serial,” which renewed interest in his case.
Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks with Lee O. Sanderlin, a reporter with the Baltimore Sun.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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It's well known that weightlifting can strengthen our biceps and quads. Now, there's accumulating evidence that strengthening the muscles we use to breathe is beneficial too. New research shows that a daily dose of muscle training for the diaphragm and other breathing muscles helps promote heart health and reduces high blood pressure.
"The muscles we use to breathe atrophy, just like the rest of our muscles tend to do as we get older," explains researcher Daniel Craighead, an integrative physiologist at the University of Colorado Boulder. To test what happens when these muscles are given a good workout, he and his colleagues recruited healthy volunteers ages 18 to 82 to try a daily five-minute technique using a resistance-breathing training device called PowerBreathe. The hand-held machine — one of several on the market — looks like an inhaler. When people breathe into it, the device provides resistance, making it harder to inhale.
How it works
"We found that doing 30 breaths per day for six weeks lowers systolic blood pressure by about 9 millimeters of mercury," Craighead says. And those reductions are about what could be expected with conventional aerobic exercise, he says — such as walking, running or cycling.
A normal blood pressure reading is less than about 120/80 mmHg, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These days, some health care professionals diagnose patients with high blood pressure if their average reading is consistently 130/80 mmHg or higher, the CDC notes.
The impact of a sustained 9 mmHg reduction in systolic blood pressure (the first number in the ratio) is significant, says Michael Joyner, a physician at the Mayo Clinic who studies how the nervous system regulates blood pressure. "That's the type of reduction you see with a blood pressure drug," Joyner says. Research has shown many common blood pressure medications lead to about a 9 mmHg reduction. The reductions are higher when people combine multiple medications, but a 10 mmHg reduction correlates with a 35% drop in the risk of stroke and a 25% drop in the risk of heart disease.
The training helps prevent high blood pressure too
"I think it's promising," Joyner says about the prospects of integrating strength training for the respiratory muscles into preventive care. It could be beneficial for people who are unable to do traditional aerobic exercise, he says, and the simplicity is appealing, too, given people can easily use the device at home.
"Taking a deep, resisted, breath offers a new and unconventional way to generate the benefits of exercise and physical activity," Joyner concluded in an editorial that was published alongside a prior study in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
So, how exactly does breath training lower blood pressure? Craighead points to the role of endothelial cells, which line our blood vessels and promote the production of nitric oxide — a key compound that protects the heart. Nitric oxide helps widen our blood vessels, promoting good blood flow, which prevents the buildup of plaque in arteries. "What we found was that six weeks of IMST [inspiratory-muscle strength training] will increase endothelial function by about 45%," Craighead explains.
Good for all ages, and could help athletes' endurance
It has long been known that deep diaphragmatic breathing — often used during meditation or mindfulness practices — can help lower blood pressure too. Muscle training with the PowerBreathe device works in a similar way, engaging the breathing muscles and promoting the production of nitric oxide. The particular helpfulness of the IMST device, Craighead says, is that it requires less time to get the benefit because the small machine adds the resistance that gives the muscles a good workout. His research is funded by the National Institutes of Health.
The new study builds on the prior study and adds to the evidence that IMST — which is essentially strength training for the respiratory muscles — is beneficial for adults of all ages. "We were surprised to see how ubiquitously effective IMST is at lowering blood pressure," Craighead says. Before the results came in, he'd suspected that young, healthy adults might not benefit as much. "But we saw robust effects," he says, pointing to a significant decline in blood pressure for participants of all ages. He says the finding suggests IMST could help healthy young people prevent heart disease and the rise in blood pressure that tends to occur with aging.
There may also be benefits for elite cyclists, runners and other endurance athletes, he says, citing data that six weeks of IMST increased aerobic exercise tolerance by 12% in middle-aged and older adults.
"So we suspect that IMST consisting of only 30 breaths per day would be very helpful in endurance exercise events," Craighead says. It's a technique that athletes could add to their training regimens. Craighead, whose personal marathon best is 2 hours, 21 minutes, says he has incorporated IMST as part of his own training.
The technique is not intended to replace exercise, he cautions, or to replace medication for people whose blood pressure is so elevated that they're at high risk of having a heart attack or stroke. Instead, Craighead says, "it would be a good additive intervention for people who are doing other healthy lifestyle approaches already."
This is the way Theresa D. Hernandez, 61, sees the breathing exercises. She lives in Boulder, has a family history of high blood pressure and participated in the Colorado research. When the study began, she had blood pressure readings near the threshold at which doctors recommend medications.
"It was a surprise that something as simple could be so profound in terms of its impact," says Hernandez of the six weeks of breathing exercises. "It took my blood pressure to under the threshold so that I would not need to take medication," she says.
Her blood pressure dropped significantly, and she says she plans to stick with it — five minutes every day.
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(The Conversation) – Have you ever wondered exactly how many ants live on Earth? Possibly not, but it’s certainly a question we’ve asked ourselves.
Our research published today provides an approximate answer. We conservatively estimate our planet harbours about 20 quadrillion ants. That’s 20 thousand million millions, or in numerical form, 20,000,000,000,000,000 (20 with 15 zeroes).
We further estimate the world’s ants collectively constitute about 12 million tonnes of dry carbon. This exceeds the mass of all the world’s wild birds and wild mammals combined. It’s also equal to about one-fifth of the total weight of humans.
Eminent biologist Edward O. Wilson once said insects and other invertebrates are “the little things that run the world” – and he was right. Ants, in particular, are a crucial part of nature. Among other roles, ants aerate the soil, disperse seeds, break down organic material, create habitat for other animals and form an important part of the food chain.
Estimating ant numbers and mass provides an important baseline from which to monitor ant populations amid worrying environmental changes.
Counting the world’s ants
There are more than 15,700 named species and subspecies of ants, and many others not yet named by science. Ants’ high degree of social organisation has enabled them to colonise nearly all ecosystems and regions around the globe.
The astounding ubiquity of ants has prompted many naturalists to contemplate their exact number on Earth. But these were basically educated guesses. Systematic, evidence-based estimates have been lacking.
Our research involved an analysis of 489 studies of ant populations conducted by fellow ant scientists from around the world. This included non-English literature, in languages such as Spanish, French, German, Russian, Mandarin and Portuguese.
The research spanned all continents and major habitats including forests, deserts, grasslands and cities. They used standardised methods for collecting and counting ants such as pitfall traps and leaf litter samples. As you can imagine, this is often tedious work.
Read more: In defence of ants
From all this, we estimate there are approximately 20 quadrillion ants on Earth. This figure, though conservative, is between two and 20 times higher than previous estimates.
Th previous figures employed a “top-down” approach by assuming ants comprise about 1% of the world’s estimated insect population. In contrast, our “bottom-up” estimate is more reliable because it uses data on ants observed directly in the field and makes fewer assumptions.
Our next step was to work out how much all these ants weigh. The mass of organisms is typically measured in terms of their carbon makeup. We estimated that 20 quadrillion average-sized ants corresponds to a dry weight or “biomass” of approximately 12 million tonnes of carbon.
This is more than the combined biomass of wild birds and mammals – and about 20% of total human biomass.
Carbon makes up about half the dry weight of an ant. If the weight of other bodily elements was included, the total mass of the world’s ants would be higher still.
We also found ants are distributed unevenly on Earth’s surface. They vary sixfold between habitats and generally peak in the tropics. This underscores the importance of tropical regions in maintaining healthy ant populations.
Ants were also particularly abundant in forests, and surprisingly, in arid regions. But they become less common in human-made habitats.
Our findings come with a few caveats. For example, the sampling locations in our dataset are unevenly distributed across geographic regions. And the vast majority of samples were collected from the ground layer, meaning we have very little information about ant numbers in trees or underground. This means our findings are somewhat incomplete.
Read more: Where are all the ants? World-first ‘treasure map’ reveals hotspots for rare species
We all need ants
Ants also provide vital “ecosystem services” for humans. For instance, a recent study found ants can be more effective than pesticides at helping farmers produce food.
Ants have also developed tight interactions with other organisms – and some species cannot survive without them.
For example, some birds rely on ants to flush out their prey. And thousands of plant species either feed or house ants in exchange for protection, or dispersal of their seeds. And many ants are predators, helping to keep populations of other insects in check.
Alarmingly, global insect numbers are declining due to threats such as habitat destruction and fragmentation, chemical use, invasive species and climate change.
But data on insect biodiversity is alarmingly scarce. We hope our study provides a baseline for further research to help fill this gap.
It’s in humanity’s interest to monitor ant populations. Counting ants is not difficult, and citizen scientists from all over the world could help investigate how these important animals are faring at a time of great environmental change. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/earth-has-about-20-quadrillion-ants-and-they-weigh-more-than-wild-birds-and-mammals-combined/ | 2022-09-20T18:43:46Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/earth-has-about-20-quadrillion-ants-and-they-weigh-more-than-wild-birds-and-mammals-combined/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Former President Trump’s legal team on Monday night resisted a request to elaborate on his claims around declassifying the documents recovered last month from his Mar-a-Lago home.
In a filing to the court-appointed special master that Trump requested, his attorneys said the “time and place” for making such a disclosure would come in a motion in a criminal trial as an effort to recover his property.
“Otherwise, the Special Master process will have forced the Plaintiff to fully and specifically disclose a defense to the merits of any subsequent indictment without such a requirement being evident in the District Court’s order,” Trump’s legal team wrote.
The resistance comes after Trump’s attorneys insinuated the former president declassified the more than 300 documents recovered from his Florida home but stopped short of fully making the claim in court filings.
“The government’s stance assumes that if a document has a classification marking, it remains classified irrespective of any actions taken during President Trump’s term in office,” Trump’s legal team wrote in a filing last week.
“There is no legitimate contention that the chief executive’s declassification of documents requires approval of bureaucratic components of the executive branch,” they added.
The Justice Department’s legal team seized on the hinting from Trump’s lawyer in their next filing.
“Plaintiff principally seeks to raise questions about the classification status of the records and their categorization under the Presidential Records Act (‘PRA’). But plaintiff does not actually assert — much less provide any evidence — that any of the seized records bearing classification markings have been declassified,” the department wrote.
“Such possibilities should not be given weight absent plaintiff’s putting forward competent evidence,” it added.
Though presidents have broad power to declassify records, doing so sets off a chain of events, as the intelligence agencies that manage such records must take additional steps.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts on Monday filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking the “standing” declassification order that Trump — outside of court filings — has pointed to in explaining the tranche of record in his home.
As Trump has fought to stop Justice Department from reviewing the classified records, the department has argued he could have no possible claim to the documents, saying their classification labels indicate they are government and not personal property and that Trump has no reason to stop the executive branch from reviewing them. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/trump-team-resists-special-masters-request-to-explain-declassification-of-mar-a-lago-documents/ | 2022-09-20T18:44:25Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/trump-team-resists-special-masters-request-to-explain-declassification-of-mar-a-lago-documents/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Catalog Includes Hundreds of Titles Including Global Hits "Mask Off" and "Life Is Good"
NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Influence Media Partners ("Influence Media") announced today that the company has acquired Grammy® award-winning, multi-platinum recording artist Future's publishing catalog from 2004 to 2020, which spans 612 titles including numerous chart-topping titles with frequent collaborator Drake ("Life Is Good," "Jumpman") as well as iconic artists like Kendrick Lamar ("King's Dead"), Rihanna ("Selfish"), and The Weeknd ("Low Life") and his own solo hits like "Mask Off." The impressive catalog marks Influence Media's latest eight-figure acquisition and builds on the company's commitment to investing in modern evergreens and cementing hip-hop and R&B's high value in the music rights marketplace. The announcement was made by Rene McLean, Influence Media Partner and Founding Advisor.
Rene McLean, Influence Media Partner and Founding Advisor, stated, "Future is a cultural icon. He continues to be a blueprint for impact and success in the music industry and has reinvented music in ways that no one has ever expected. It is rare to find someone who moves music and culture at the same speed with his distinct vocal and melodic style. His prolific career and continued popularity more than 15 years into the game is a testament to his undeniable influence on the contemporary music and culture landscape. We're honored to be partnered with him."
Future added, "I put everything into my music, and I wanted to make sure these were in good hands as I thought about the next chapter of these songs. I'm proud to partner up with Rene and the team at Influence Media and send a signal that this music has timeless value. My music is my art, and these songs represent some of the most precious artwork of my career."
"We consider Future an artist of the ages. He resonates across a spectrum of demographics. We're so excited about this partnership, it's a fitting addition to our growing repertoire of top-tier talent and promotes our forward-thinking mission. During my tenure at Epic Records, I was able to work with and support Future throughout his pivotal career. Now at Influence, it feels like fate to be able to collaborate with him again alongside my dynamic partners to protect his legacy and works," said Influence Media Co-Managing Partner, Lynn Hazan.
Future has amassed a prolific discography in the first 16 years of his career—eight studio albums, four collaborative albums, one reissued album, one soundtrack, 16 mixtapes, four commercial mixtapes, and 114 singles (69 as a featured artist). Six of Future's eight studio albums have reached #1 on Billboard's Hot 200. He has placed 129 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, with four top 10 hits and two #1 hit records. His latest album, 2022's I Never Liked You, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in May and earned him his highest debut week as a solo artist to date, with 222,000 equivalent album units. The album's release coincided with a GQ cover story that proclaimed him "The Greatest Rapper Alive."
This acquisition comes on the heels of Influence's recently announced $750 million fund platform to invest in high-value compositions from diverse artists with backing from BlackRock, Inc. and Warner Music Group. Through this fund, the company has invested in over 20 catalogs from artists including Puerto Rican songwriter-producer Tainy, singer-songwriter Julia Michaels, songwriter Ali Tamposi, the hitmaking team The Stereotypes, singer-songwriter Jessie Reyez, and singer-songwriter Skyler Stonestreet.
Future was represented by Jeffrey Smith and Robert Finan of Greenberg Traurig, LLP. Influence Media Partners were represented by Lisa Alter, Katie Baron and Jaclyn Felber of Alter, Kendrick & Baron, LLP.
Launched in 2019 and led by Lylette Pizarro, Lynn Hazan, Rene McLean, and Jon Jashni, Influence Media Partners ("Influence Media" or "Influence") is a New York-based music and entertainment company that is transforming the music and content rights marketplace by partnering with artists and investing in them for the future. Backed by BlackRock and Warner Music Group, Influence's latest fund invests in the recording and publishing rights of artists, songwriters, producers, and music entrepreneurs who create commercially viable songs that resonate throughout pop culture. Influence's approach is centered around a purpose-driven brand and marketing ethos, leveraging the company's expert team to support and invest in diverse artists and entrepreneurs with global reach, growth potential, and streaming success–with a focus on songs that are poised to be modern evergreens.
Rap would never sound, look, or feel the same after Future landed. If you want to know where the culture's going next, just watch and listen to the iconic Atlanta rapper, singer, and producer. He went from cooking up beats in a basement for the Dungeon Family to generational superstardom with a presence looming from the streets all the way to The Met Gala. He literally brought trap into the White House as President Barack Obama rapped along to his quintuple-platinum banger "Jumpman" [with Drake]. He has collected dozens of multiplatinum certifications and reached rarified air as one of only a handful of rappers to achieve Diamond status for 2020's "Life Is Good" [feat. Drake], affirming him as one of the best-selling acts of all-time. Not to mention, he carved out a place in the history books as "the first artist to release two Billboard 200 number ones in consecutive weeks." Along the way, he adorned the covers of Billboard, Clash, GQ, Rolling Stone, The Source, XXL and more in addition to delivering show-stopping performances on Saturday Night Live and Ellen. In 2019, he garnered a GRAMMY® Award in the category of "Best Rap Performance" for "King's Dead" alongside Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, and James Blake. Kanye West sought him out as Executive Producer on the headline-making Donda 2 in addition to appearing on two tracks. He also pulled up on Gunna's "Pushin P" with Young Thug, appearing on yet another chart-busting banger. Future looks ahead again on his ninth full-length album, I Never Liked You. Upon arrival, it marked his 8th #1 album on the Top 200 with the most seven-day sales of his illustrious career so far. In addition to praise from Billboard, Complex, and Rolling Stone, Vulture hailed it as "both instantly recognizable and easily distinguishable from past works," and GQ went as far as to crown him "the best rapper alive."
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New Italianesque restaurant and cocktail bar celebrates time-honored tradition of aperitivo
NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AperiBar, the new signature restaurant concept by Charlie Palmer Collective, is now open at LUMA Hotel Times Square, located on W 41st Street between Broadway and Avenue of the Americas in the heart of New York City. Marking a new chapter for the hotel, AperiBar is an impressive addition to both the neighborhood's growing culinary scene and the Charlie Palmer Collective family of restaurants and rooftop bars.
"We're delighted to once again offer our guests and neighbors a full-service restaurant experience with the launch of AperiBar," said Kate Martin, General Manager of LUMA Hotel Times Square. "The menu, concept and redesigned space – all provided by an award-winning chef personality in Charlie Palmer – reinforces our place in this competitive market as a dining destination for guests and locals to gather."
Long celebrated for pioneering progressive American cooking, and credited with helping to create the hotel celebrity chef partnership model, Charlie Palmer is one of the most highly regarded chefs in America today. With the debut of AperiBar, Palmer caters to a shift towards a European way of eating with a menu of small bites and cocktails, all while being served in a warm, stylish setting that invites conversation, sharing and lingering. The menu presents the very best that Italy has to offer, from Caputo flour to imported buffalo mozzarella and olive oil – particularly elevating the pizza scene in Times Square.
Welcoming the morning, guests can choose from a selection of locally roasted coffee, pastries, fruit, yogurt and a daily frittata among other hot dishes. In the afternoons and into the late evening, patrons will find a full menu created for sharing that includes antipasti, insalata, oysters + crudo of the day, and most importantly signature pizzas and Chef's favorites from the land and sea. To cap it off, Sweets, a tasteful dessert menu includes a unique dolci menu of specialty gelatos. Beyond negronis and spritzes, AperiBar features an expertly crafted wine list with 100% Italian varietals including 23 different sparkling wines. Overnight guests of LUMA Hotel Times Square will continue to enjoy the hotel's complimentary welcome cocktail, now proudly serving the signature AperiSpritz featuring aperol, prosecco, grapefruit and club soda.
AperiBar is open daily for breakfast from 7:00-10:30am and reopens in the afternoon for aperitivo into dinner from 4:00pm until late. For reservations, please visit Resy or call 212-730-8900. Follow @aperibar on Instagram or Facebook and learn more at www.aperibar.com or www.lumahotelnyc.com.
About LUMA Hotel Times Square
LUMA Hotel Times Square, at the intersection of Times Square, Bryant Park, and the Garment District, delights guests with next generation hospitality and forward-thinking amenities throughout 130 well-appointed guest rooms and suites. From Manhattan's first robot butler and a curated Glow Concierge program to elevated views of the Times Square ball drop and the new Italianesque AperiBar by Charlie Palmer Collective, LUMA shines a light on the best local experiences the city has to offer and illuminates guests with modern, aware, dynamic, and energized spirit. For more information, please visit www.lumahotelnyc.com.
About Charlie Palmer Collective
Coast-to-coast locations by Charlie Palmer Collective include award-winning restaurants and luxurious boutique hotels—many in equally significant historical locations and each designed with distinctive personalities to provide unique experiences. These properties include: Charlie Palmer Steak NYC, AperiBar at LUMA Hotel Times Square, Charlie Palmer at The Knick and St. Cloud Rooftop Bar at The Knickerbocker Hotel, Charlie Palmer Steak (Washington, DC), Aureole at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino (Las Vegas, Nevada), Charlie Palmer Steak (Las Vegas, Nevada), Charlie Palmer Steak (Reno, Nevada), Charlie Palmer Steak and Sky & Vine Rooftop Bar at Archer Hotel (Napa, California), and Dry Creek Kitchen at Hotel Healdsburg (Sonoma County in California). Learn more at charliepalmer.com.
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Registration is now open for Niagara County’s next household hazardous waste (HHW) dropoff event, slated for 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 8 at the Town of Lockport Municipal Center, 6560 Dysinger Road. The event is open to all county residents. Advance registration is required.
Household hazardous wastes include oil-based paint, latex paint, wood stains and preservatives, automotive fluids, solid and liquid pesticides and fertilizers, flammable products such as gasoline, kerosene, thinners, strippers, solvents and glues, household cleaners, driveway and roof sealer, pool and photo chemicals, mercury (thermometers and thermostats) and fluorescent bulbs.
Register for a drop-off appointment at www.rethinkyourwaste.com/events.
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WESTPORT, Conn., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sterling Investment Partners ("Sterling"), a leading middle market private equity firm, is pleased to announce that, in partnership with, Randolph Hoover and Benjamin Hoover, the CEO and President, respectively, of Xylem, Inc. ("Xylem"), it has acquired Xylem and combined it with Sterling's existing portfolio company Kendall Vegetation Services ("Kendall" and together with Xylem, the "Company"). The Company will be led by Co-CEOs Randolph Hoover and Robert Williams, who will be supported by Benjamin Hoover as President and Kurt Goodman as CFO. The Company employs over 2,000 employees and provides services in over 20 states. Immediately following the closing, Kendall and Xylem will continue to operate in their existing markets under their existing brands and maintain their respective employee bases.
Randolph Hoover stated, "Our partnership with Sterling has enabled the execution of our vision to merge two of the nation's leading vegetation management companies. Our combined platform will enable the Company to expand vegetation management services to new markets and provide emergency storm response services to the entire eastern seaboard, the states bordering the Gulf of Mexico and everything in between. We are excited to have Sterling and Kendall as our partners, and it was obvious from the very beginning that their vision aligns with ours."
Robert Williams, CEO of Kendall, added, "With Sterling's guidance and support, we are very pleased to partner with Xylem and provide to our combined customer base the best of both businesses' excellent cultures and service track records. We are excited about expanding our geographic reach, continuing to build a world-class business services platform, and realizing meaningful value creation opportunities across the U.S."
Sterling Managing Partner and Co-Founder Charles Santoro commented, "We are very impressed by the powerful and common alignment between the two organizations, including similar cultures with a primary focus on safety, reliability, and employee welfare. Our combined platform will continue to offer essential core vegetation management services to meet the needs of important customers in an expanded geography. We are particularly pleased to have our strong leadership team augmented by Randolph Hoover as Co-CEO and by Benjamin Hoover as President. We enthusiastically share a common strategy and vision for the future with Xylem's and Kendall's leaders in a large, fragmented and highly attractive market." Joe Gault, Partner at Sterling, added, "We are very excited to partner with Xylem and Kendall, as both companies enable the safe and reliable performance of this country's energy grid and benefit millions of Americans every day."
Xylem, headquartered in Wakefield, VA and Kendall, headquartered in Lawrenceville, GA are both leading providers of vegetation management and emergency storm response services throughout the United States. The Company's customers include major investor-owned utilities, electric cooperatives, and municipalities.
Sterling Investment Partners is a private equity firm that has been investing in and building middle-market companies for over 30 years with a highly experienced, cohesive team of senior investment professionals. Sterling focuses on value-added distribution and business services, acquiring businesses that the firm believes have strong, sustainable competitive advantages and significant opportunities for value creation. Over its history, Sterling has completed over 210 transactions, representing approximately $25 billion in aggregate value. www.sterlinglp.com
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Editor’s note: This is the Tuesday Sept. 20 edition of the “Game Day with Kevin Modesti” newsletter. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here.
Good morning. Baseball fans are talking about home runs again this week. Aaron Judge and Albert Pujols could hit magical milestones any day. Let’s consider why that magic endures.
In other news:
- Clayton Kershaw pitched the Dodgers to their 102nd win, clinching a first-round bye in the playoffs.
- Another loss mathematically eliminated the Angels from postseason play for the eighth year in a row.
- Matthew Stafford explained his fourth and fifth interceptions in two games, which nearly cost the Rams on Sunday.
- And Jim Alexander’s column looks at the challenges facing the United States men’s World Cup soccer team as the roster is pieced together.
Back (back, back) to home runs.
Judge, the Yankees’ right fielder, goes into a series against the Pirates starting tonight in New York one home run away from Babe Ruth’s 60 homers in a season and two away from Roger Maris’ Yankee and American League record 61.
This year’s performance by Judge, who’s from the San Joaquin Valley town of Linden and Fresno State, is the talk of the sport and likely to win him the league MVP Award despite the singularly, doubly historic feats of the Angels’ Shohei Ohtani.
“The idea of Aaron Judge, a New York Yankee challenging Roger Maris’ 61-homer 1961 season, challenges the metaphor of Ohtani-as-Ruth in a way that few can,” our J.P. Hoornstra wrote in analyzing the MVP race.
With 16 games left in the Yankees’ season, Fangraphs projects Judge to finish with 64 homers, so he’s not going to match Barry Bonds’ major-league record of 73.
But Associated Press writer Noah Trister pointed out: “There’s one way in which Judge likely will surpass both Bonds and Maris, no matter how many more homers he hits. Right now, he has an incredible 20-homer lead over Kyle Schwarber, who is second in the majors. Nobody has led baseball in homers by at least 20 since Babe Ruth finished with 54 in 1928 and nobody else had more than 31. Maris led the majors by only seven when he hit 61, and Bonds led by nine when he hit 73.”
The home-run milestones Judge is challenging – 60 and 61 – might even make this more magical than if he were approaching Bonds’ 73 or Mark McGwire’s 70, given the doping allegations that taint those numbers.
Hall of Fame baseball writer Jayson Stark wrote about his excitement when he watched Ken Burns’ “Baseball” and, for the first time, saw film of Ruth hitting his 60th homer in 1927.
“That was what the number, 60, used to mean,” Stark wrote for The Athletic. “The performance-enhancing drugs era has done its best to pulverize that meaning. But it hasn’t quite finished the job. We know that now because we get to watch Aaron Judge chase that number, 60, all over again, in a different time, in a different world.”
Adding to the celebration of home-run milestones is the fact that Pujols, the 42-year-old former Angel and Dodger, is two homers away from being the fourth player with 700 in a career. The Cardinals begin a series with the Padres in San Diego tonight. They play at Dodger Stadium Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Books have been written about the history and mythology of home runs, and I won’t do that this morning, but Judge and Pujols got me thinking about why that remains the stat for individual athletes in American team sports.
Most of baseball’s other standard stats have been discredited in the analytics era. Batting average is superseded by stats that factor in extra bases and walks, and runs batted in are understood to depend too much on the player’s teammates. Wins are seen as a poor measure of a pitcher’s performance, and even ERA – earned run average – has tobe checked against FIP – fielding independent pitching.
The change has happened because technology allows better understanding of the game and more data to be processed, and, crucially, because the rise of fantasy leagues and sports betting gives fans a need for stats that assess and help to forecast performance.
Fine, but there are two kinds of statistics. There are the ones that assess performance. And the ones that tell stories.
A hitter with a .300 average or 100 RBI might not be a great hitter, but he’ll pack up when the season ends secure in knowing he did good things (hit the ball and reach base, drive in runs) more than most. A pitcher who earns a win tonight might not have outperformed a pitcher who gets a loss, but he’ll go home satisfied that he contributed to the team’s success; Jacob deGrom’s mere 10 and 11 wins didn’t measure his performance in his Cy Young Award seasons of 2018 and 2019, but they helped to tell the story of years in which his ERAs were 1.70 and 2.43.
Why have home runs, among all the fundamental numbers, remained magical in the new era? Because they assess performance and they tell stories.
Home runs don’t depend on teammates; Judge has demonstrated that for stretches this season when the rest of the Yankees lineup was struggling. And home runs drive baseball history; try telling the stories of Dodgers and Angels highs and lows over the decades without them.
As Judge challenges Maris and Ruth – while Pujols joins Bonds, Hank Aaron and Ruth – we’re seeing great performances and history in the making.
It’s a week to watch.
TODAY
• Dodgers and Diamondbacks play a day-night doubleheader at Dodger Stadium (12:10 p.m.,7:10 p.m., SNLA), including a game postponed from the delayed start of the season.
• Angels have Patrick Sandoval (5-9 despite a 2.99 ERA) going against the Rangers (5:05 p.m., BSW) to open a six-game trip to Texas and Minnesota.
READERS REACT
In answer to my question about why UCLA football games are drawing such small crowds this season, reader Pete Morales suggested a factor beyond the quality of the Bruins andtheir opponents: “I think another reason for the small crowds is that two of the three games started at 11 and 11:30 a.m. That time is reserved for tailgating.”
NEXT QUESTION
Which single-season home-run mark do you respect the most: Barry Bonds’ 73, Mark McGwire’s 70, Roger Maris’ 61, Babe Ruth’s 60, or whatever Aaron Judge ends up with? Email your answer to KModesti@scng.com.
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Tree trimmers sometimes leave behind messes, along with angry customers. Complaints are easy to find in Nevada, where no occupational license is needed for the work. But negative reviews are just as common in California, which licenses the industry.
“Instead of cutting large limbs into manageable pieces, he’d cut heavy limbs that would swing wildly, smashing into the fence and dropping into our yard,” one California homeowner writes on Yelp. “Several of my shrubs were smashed and decapitated, and the fence was broken.”
The online scores seem counter-intuitive. If California licenses tree trimmers, they should provide comparably superior service than their counterparts in Nevada, or so the conventional wisdom holds. Yet, a side-by-side comparison of Yelp ratings for tree trimmers shows occupational licensing makes no statistically significant difference.
The same thing happens in reverse with interior designers. Nevada requires a license for the occupation; California does not. Yet Yelp ratings are similar in both locations.
Our public interest law firm, the Institute for Justice, conducted similar Yelp comparisons for numerous occupations across the nation in neighboring states with different licensing regimes. Results were consistent: occupational licensing does not improve quality. It might even do harm.
To control for as many variables as possible, focused on similarly situated communities in close proximity on either side of state lines. For California and Nevada, data came from the counties surrounding Lake Tahoe. The Potomac River provided another dividing line between Maryland and Virginia, and the Delaware River provided a diving line between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Additional comparisons came from the Tri-State area, which covers parts of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey.
Overall, we studied nine geographical pairings and six types of service providers: barbers, cosmetologists, manicurists, interior designers, locksmiths and tree trimmers. “Raising Barriers, Not Quality” details the findings.
The report undermines the claim that occupational licensing protects consumers by screening out workers likely to provide inferior service. All that really happens is interference in people’s ability to earn an honest living. Lower-income and middle-class families suffer disproportionately, especially during economic downturns.
Nevada and California ignore the harm. Prior research from the Institute for Justice, which examines the licensing of 102 lower-income occupations, shows that Nevada is the second-most broadly and onerously licensed state, while California is the worst.
Both states have some of the highest average licensing fees and impose steep education and experience requirements upon lower-income workers. In some occupations, costly education mandates can trap aspiring service providers in student debt they cannot afford to repay.
People can trim trees without a license in Nevada, and they can do interior design without a license in California. But both states require government permission to work in many other lower-income occupations. The oversight might make sense if it actually improved quality, but our analysis of Yelp data tells a different story.
Despite the occasional one-star review, most customers are happy with the service they receive, regardless of the regulatory rigor where they live. Service providers generally do a good job because they need customers to come back—with their wallets.
This has always been the case. Occupations that the government does not regulate are not “unregulated.” Competitive pressure, third-party certification and the threat of litigation, among other things, all keep companies accountable. Perhaps most influential is word-of-mouth marketing.
Social media platforms and review sites like Yelp, Angi and TripAdvisor give consumers a greater voice than ever before. Instead of sharing their experiences with just family and friends, they can tell complete strangers about rude treatment or lack of skill. Barbers who give bad haircuts cannot survive for long in such an environment. Neither can locksmiths who damage cars or manicurists who damage nails.
Digital technology and the power of crowdsourcing has made many licensing regulations obsolete. Instead of a single government board serving as gatekeepers for an entire industry, service providers now must answer to hundreds or even thousands of citizen inspectors.
Occupational licensing regimes claim to help. But our analysis exposes the lie.
Dick M. Carpenter II is co-author of “Raising Barriers, Not Quality” and senior director of strategic research at the Institute for Justice in Arlington, Virginia Daryl James is an Institute for Justice writer.
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The New Pinhead Rises in Hulu’s First Hellraiser Trailer
With more than a few less-than-stellar sequels under its belt, the Hellraiser franchise is hoping to attract fresh blood next month with a brand new movie premiering exclusively on Hulu. Following in the footsteps of Clive Barker’s original horror classic is no easy feat. But the first full-length Hellraiser trailer makes a convincing case that the film is in good hands. You can check it out for yourself below.
The preview wastes no time in getting the nostalgia flowing. In fact, the very first shot of the trailer shows the infamous Lament Configuration (otherwise known as a puzzle box) sitting on a pedestal. When Goran Višnjić’s mysterious Mr. Voight encourages a hapless victim to solve it, the latter gets more than he bargained for when the box summons an army Cenobites from their otherworldly dimension.
RELATED: Hulu’s Hellraiser Reveals the First Look at Jamie Clayton’s Pinhead
Odessa A’zion headlines the film as Riley, a young woman with a history of addiction who eventually comes into possession of the box herself. But the real star of the show is Jamie Clayton, who succeeds Doug Bradley, Stephan Smith Collins, and Paul T. Taylor as the latest actor to assume the role of Pinhead. In fact, Pinhead has been the face of the Hellraiser series since the first movie bowed in 1987. Clayton’s casting marks the first time that a woman has played the lead Cenobite. But based on her menacing baritone and creepy character design, she shouldn’t have any problems scaring new and old fans alike.
David Bruckner (The Ritual) directed Hellraiser from a screenplay by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, both of whom came up with the story alongside David S. Goyer. The supporting cast includes Brandon Flynn, Drew Starkey, Adam Faison, Aoife Hinds, Selina Lo, and Hiam Abbass. Barker is also working on the film as a producer.
Hellraiser will arrive on Hulu on October 7.
Are you excited to finally watch the film next month? Let us know in the comment section below!
Recommended Reading: Hellraiser Omnibus Vol. 1
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Made specifically for contractors, Hercules for Body wipes are great for cleaning up between jobs or after work, outdoor activities and more.
CLEVELAND, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oatey Co., a leading manufacturer in the plumbing industry since 1916, today announced the release of Hercules For Body™, body wipes that are hard on grime and odor rather than skin and require no water or rinsing.
Hercules For Body™ is formulated specifically for contractors and job-site conditions and is effective at removing a range of dirt, grease, oil and other residue that contractors routinely come into contact with. The wipes can also be used to clean those same substances off most tools and jobsite equipment. Plus, the wipes are perfect for cleaning up after outdoor activities, yardwork or anytime you need to cool down and wipe away the day.
Hercules for Body's fragrance-free formula washes away grime and odor without leaving residue. Including Aloe and Vitamin E to soothe and condition skin, Hercules For Body™ are tough, large-size cloths that clean without tearing. The new easy-to-grab, 8 x 10 in. cloths cover more skin, which means contractors need fewer towels to get clean.
Contractors can purchase Hercules For Body™ at their local supply house to clean up before heading home from the job. Available in two package quantities:
- 80 towels per pack; a convenient snap-close top ensures the towels don't dry out or get dirty.
- 30 towels per pack, which can be shopped from a counter display.
Visit Oatey.com or cherneind.com to learn more about Hercules For Body™.
Since 1916, Oatey has provided reliable, high-quality products for the residential and commercial plumbing industries, with a commitment to delivering quality, building trust and improving lives. Today, Oatey operates a comprehensive manufacturing and distribution network to supply thousands of products for professional builders, contractors, engineers and do-it-yourself consumers around the world.
Oatey is based in Cleveland, Ohio, and has locations in the United States, Canada, Mexico and China. For more information, visit www.oatey.com, call (800) 321-9532 or follow Oatey on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Instagram.
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MOOCs and beyond.
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Watch Your Language
How language became a key cultural, ideological, and political battleground.
Of all the traditional humanities disciplines, only one has consistently grown: linguistics. Sure, the number of philosophy majors has remained fairly steady, but linguistics flourishes, even as the number of English and history majors has fallen by half and as computer science now enrolls as many undergraduates as all the humanities majors combined.
Interest in language is also growing outside the academy. Etymology is in vogue and the reading public seems fascinated by the facts that language mutates, grammar evolves, meanings modify, and syntax shifts.
The growing interest in philology and etymology is evident in certain segments of popular culture:
- In the popularity of the book and film The Professor and the Madman, which brought James Murray, the chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, and the researcher William Chester Minor, out of obscurity.
- In the revival of interest in Friedrich Nietzsche, including his use of philology to discuss the genealogy of morals – the transvaluation of values, Christianity as a life-denying force, the tension between the Apollonian and the Dionysian, and the questioning of the notion of objective or factual truth.
- In popular fascination with the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and linguistic relativity, that the structure of a language determines a native speaker's perception and categorization of experience.
Some of the public’s interest seems to reflect a prurient interest in vulgarities, invectives, euphemisms, obscenities, slurs, and swear words. Suzannah Lipscomb, an early modernist and Professor Emerita at the University of Roehampton, has written an especially engaging essay (published in History Today) that traces the shift over time in the nature of offensive words, from profanities that disparage the name of God, to defamations that besmirch a reputation, the crude, lewd obscenities that refer to sex or defecation, and the slurs that disparage groups of people.
The take-away: What’s considered rude or odious has shifted dramatically over time.
A recent book by the poet Deborah Warren, entitled Strange to Say, certainly responds to the growing popular interest in etymology. Her focus is on language’s mutability and English’s remarkable absorptive power. With wit and brevity, she traces how words like chivalry, doctor, dollar, lunatic, pot (i.e. marijuana), potpourri, and salary evolved, and how phrases like getting a dressing down or man of the cloth received their contemporary meaning.
She shows how England and angler shared a common source, the humble fishhook, and how the acquisition of Latin-based words resulted in two different words for similar phenomena (fieldwork and agriculture, sweat and perspire, dirt and soil, rug and carpet, dish and plate. She also shows how the word muscle evolved from mouse, and how limousine, which originally referred to a cloak, came to refer to a luxurious car driven by a chauffeur.
Perfect for cocktail party conversation are Warren’s digressions about clothing (balaclava, brassiere, cardigan, pants, tutu), food (avocado, bagel, doughnut), geographical terms (town, pond, forest), and sports (arena, ball, squash, tennis, umpire, volleyball). Her book brings to life the Scottish poet Don Paterson phrase: “Words are locked tombs in which the corpses still lie breathing.”
No one has played a more critical role in whetting the public appetite for books about language than John McWhorter. Through his New York Times newsletter, his Lexicon Valley podcasts, and more than a dozen books, he has fed the public’s interest in the historical development of language and the origins, pronunciation, spelling oddities, and shifting meanings of specific words.
His highly opinionated books and columns occupy an especially alluring middle ground between those who apply the scientific, computational, psychological, and sociological method to the study of language and to dialects, morphology, phonetics, semantics, and syntax, and those popularizers, like Warren, who are primarily interested in languages’ oddities, quirks, eccentricities, and slang. His bookcase full of books do an impressive job of introducing non-specialists to a host of ongoing scholarly debates.
- His Language Hoax, a critique of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, dismisses the notion that language is a kind of lens that limits and shapes what people perceive or think. He is no doubt right to question the most extreme versions of the hypothesis. But if language itself reflects culture, worldviews, ideologies, and thought processes, then there is a kind of conjuncture or linkage between language and perception with the lines of influence interacting in exceedingly complex ways.
- His The Power of Babel treats language not as “immutable and hidebound, but [as] a living, dynamic entity that adapts itself to an ever-changing human environment” – including interactions among diverse peoples, shifts in status and power, and the emergence of new technologies and modes of production. He also explores how various dialects emerge in highly differentiated and stratified societies and how the process of national consolidation based on a so-called common language has had the effect of stigmatizing subgroups’ dialects, contributing to the extinction of many indigenous languages, and slowing a much needed process of adapting language to new circumstances.
- In Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care, he traces what he sees as the erosion of formal English in the wake of the 1960s Counterculture. In his view, informal, casual, idiosyncratic, colloquial, even vulgar speech supplanted the artificial formal, highly stylized, unabashedly literary, even poetic, written and oral forms of expression, and this, in turn, has contributed to a decline in literary flair and in the quality of song lyrics and made it more difficult for politicians and others public figures to articulate complex ideas.
- Anything but a pretentious cultural elitist, McWhorter, in Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English and Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca, extols the power of Black English vernacular, which possesses distinctive verbal expressiveness, vocal cadences, rhythms, and intricate imagery that are too often absent from the “dressed-down” English spoken by many whites.
McWhorter’s prolific writings convey certain consistent messages:
- That there are no objectively correct rules in our or any language; rather, language is a collection of dialects, one of which is upheld as the dominant standard.
- That there is nothing inherently wrong with deviations from traditional grammar, syntax, and usage.
- That the way adults often learn second languages, by memorizing various rules and tables of verb conjugations or noun declensions, contributes to the misleading view of languages as highly regular systems that are fixed or static.
- That language is a living organism that constantly evolves, mutates, and interbreeds, and that, accordingly, neologisms and shifts in meaning, pronunciation, usage, and grammar are to be expected and should be accepted.
- That rather than treating various non-standard dialects as defective or primitive, we need to see them as distinct communication modes, and recognize that the interaction of various parlances, idioms, dialects, and vernaculars enriches language.
- That “diglossia," the tendency to speak a standard version of the language in public but distinct dialects at home or within one’s community, is widespread, and therefore most people (not just immigrants or marginalized groups) engage in code switching.
- That “creolization” – the blending of multiple languages as a result of contact and interaction -- results not in some kind of linguistic mishmash or pastiche (or put crudely, bastardization) of languages, but in the creation of distinctly new vernaculars, each with their own structure, grammar, vocabulary, syntax, speech patterns, accents, formal rules, and modes of expression.
- That over time languages tend to eliminate irregularities, reduce complex sound systems, and seek greater simplicity.
- That the dictionary definition of words tends to underestimate how words are used for expressive purposes: to convey emotion, affirm feelings and beliefs, and to contradict an argument.
His overarching objective is to chart a middle ground between the grammar police, the vocabulary czars, and the snobbish defenders of “standard” English who fear that the language is degenerating and their opponents, who champion linguistic transformation, defend the integrity of various dialects, and seek to rid language of senseless accretions and implicit biases that reflect ableism, agism, Eurocentrism, racism, sexism, or many other -isms.
There is no doubt in my mind that the growth of public interest in etymology and popular linguistics and philology is a recognition that language has become a key cultural, ideological, and political battleground – yet another arena in which the culture wars are playing out.
Let me offer three examples:
- A dawning recognition that controversies over “proper” grammar and usage, for example, evident in the contention surrounding Ebonics, have a social or political dimension. In Words on the Move, McWhorter insists that: "...rage over language usage may be the last permissible open classism” or cloak racism.
- Then there are the debates surrounding concept creep – the semantic expansion of words related to abuse, addiction, bullying, disability, and trauma to refer not only to physical abuse or behavior but to psychological and emotional harm – and to the labeling and pathologizing of what was once considered normal human behavior through the application of medical and psychiatric terminology.
- There is also the conflict over whether words can inflict violence. This isn’t merely the older notion of “fighting words” -- those offensive, insulting, hateful, abusive, or deliberately provocative words that can incite violence – but, rather, the idea that verbal statements and microaggressions that invalidate another person’s feelings, trigger past trauma, or that indirectly, subtly, or unintentionally harass, insult, inflict stress, or express prejudice are the emotional equivalent of physical violence.
Today, we frequently communicate without words – through emojis, emoticons, smileys, memes, and short-form Tik Tok-like videos. We should ask: Do these modes of expression enrich communication, or, conversely, do they degrade our ability to convey emotions and ideas in articulate, sophisticated, and expressive ways?
I’m of the view that we as a society need many more “middlebrow” works, like McWhorter’s, that make sophisticated scholarship accessible to a broader audience in an entertaining yet thoughtful way. We should applaud such efforts rather than dismissing them as simplifications or popularizations.
As an instructor, one of my primary goals is to help my students develop verbal expressiveness: not just to be able to communicate clearly, but to recognize the importance of word choice and be able to add style, flair, and personality to their writing.
I can’t think of a better way to attune students to language’s communicative power than to reflect, as John McWhorter and Deborah Warren do, on how language evolves, changes, and mutates in response to shifting social circumstances. If we want students to write and speak well, encourage them to fall in love with language. As the blogger Ruthanne Reid has put it, inspire them to fall “in love with the rhythm of a sentence, with the power of word-placement, and the power of connotation.”
Harper Lee was right: To write and speak eloquently, forcefully, and meaningfully, there is no substitute, “for the love of language.”
Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Flawed Survey on the 'Liberal Arts'
Studies that don't clearly define key terms reinforce misunderstanding rather than guiding students and families.
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The survey and book that Scott Jaschik reports on ("What Are the Liberal Arts?," Sept. 19) is seriously flawed and the reasons why help us to understand the problems that the Art & Science Group and study purport to study. While it is not clear who this group is, their qualifications and their sponsors, they begin by unknowingly referring to the confusing boilerplate cover of “the liberal arts.” They have no interest in the history and the conflict of that too vague term. For example, do they actually mean “the arts and sciences” or “the arts and humanities”? If they did their small survey with variable undefined code words, they would get different results.
Of course, high school students (and their counselors and parents) do not recognize or respond to “the liberal arts.” It is not part of their nomenclature or discourse. But if we asked about specific disciplines and fields that make up “the liberal arts,” “the arts and sciences,” or “the art and humanities,” including the social sciences, the results would differ dramatically. Similarly, the response to “the liberal arts college” is based on often anachronistic images, slogans and symbols, not the diversity of such institutions, many of which now emphasize STEM or environmental studies.
Such “studies” only reinforce misunderstandings; undocumented and unrepresentative images; and sloganeering rather than clarity, guidance for higher schools (and universities and colleges); and deny the present and the future of higher education. For one critical views, readers might consult my own recent, “The inseparability of ‘historical myths’ and ‘permanent crises’ in the humanities,” in the Journal of Liberal Arts and Humanities, 3, 9 (Sept., 2022), 16-26.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WKBW) — Buffalo Bills cornerback Dane Jackson was released from the hospital Tuesday morning. He suffered a hit to the head and neck area during Monday night's game against the Tennessee Titans.
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After being taken off the field in an ambulance, Jackson underwent tests that showed there were no major injuries to his neck or spinal cord.
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The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates again Wednesday, as part of the continued effort to bring down inflation.
It will be the fifth interest rate hike in about six months.
"We started from what were rock-bottom, record-low interest rates, and now we're seeing this breakneck pace of rate increases," said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate.
The Fed's move could raise rates to levels not seen since 2008.
While it's considered a drastic measure, most experts believe it is necessary to tame historically high inflation.
Prices increased 8.3% in August of this year compared to 2021.
In the 2010s, the average year-over-year price increase was dramatically lower, often hovering around two percent.
"We lived in an era where people thought inflation was over," said Stephan Weiler, a professor of economics at Colorado State University. "Basically, we were seeing inflation rates of 1 or 2 percent, and we believed had conquered inflation."
How to fight inflation
Today's situation, though one of the worst of the last 40 years, remains rosy in comparison to the so-called "Great Inflation" of the late 1970s.
Inflation topped fourteen percent at some points.
Like today, consumers faced sudden spikes in the cost of food and energy, especially meat.
The rapid rise in prices famously led Archie Bunker, the lead character on sitcom "All in the Family," to eat his spaghetti without meat.
"I feel like I'm back in the late 70s talking about this," said Weiler. "But it was the same sort of situation, and we did get out of it."
Federal Reserve leaders of the 1970s and early 1980s said they had to raise interest rates in order to show the public they were serious about taming inflation.
People and businesses had become accustomed to rising prices.
As a result, they planned for large price increases each year, perpetuating the cycle of inflation.
"Inflation feeds in part on itself," Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker said in 1979. "Part of the job of returning to a more stable and more productive economy must be to break the grip of inflationary expectations."
Volcker's Fed raised interest rates as high as 19%.
The strategy worked in taming inflation, but it came with a price.
High interest rates triggered a pair of recessions in the early 1980s. More than 4 million Americans lost their jobs as a result.
"Today, the Federal Reserve is trying to avoid that recession," Weiler said. "This is what you'd call the soft landing."
The modern inflation battle
It remains unclear if the Federal Reserve will achieve that soft landing.
Many analysts remain skeptical.
"I think a soft landing becomes less and less likely by the day," McBride said. "There hasn't been any signs of hope that inflation is getting under control. And as long as that continues to be the case, the Fed has to continue to push interest rates higher and press on the brakes to get demand down enough to bring inflation under control."
While it's unlikely interest rates will reach the highs seen in the 1970s and 80s, most analysts agree that we will see an increase in the unemployment rate over the next year, as businesses attempt to cut costs and reduce borrowing.
And there is no guarantee that elevated interest rates will be the panacea for inflation.
"The numbers these days are, in some ways, unprecedented," Weiler said. "Could inflation be 5 percent a year from Christmas? I think it's certainly possible."
The path forward
Weiler's analysis lines up with popular sentiment: Most people believe inflation will still be close to 6 percent a year from now, according to a recent survey by the New York Fed.
"I think the Federal Reserve will start to slow down the pace of interest rate hikes probably in early 2023," McBride said. "They want to try to front-load as much of that this year as they can, because it takes six to nine months for the impact of a rate move to really cycle through the economy."
Experts said there are steps people can take now to clean up their finances in anticipation of higher interest rates.
"If you have a credit card balance," McBride said, "grab a low-rate balance transfer offer, transfer that balance to a lower rate card, and then give yourself that runway so that you can get that debt paid off once and for all. You don't want to be lugging that debt balance into a higher-rate environment."
"If you have loans outstanding that are a variable, they are going to go up," Weiler said, "and so that's something that you want to focus on as well."
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Numbers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show free school meals and other pandemic relief for families may have improved food access for kids.
Food insecurity rates went down about 2% in 2021 among youth, but for other populations, it got worse.
“Those protections didn't extend to households with older adults. So many of them were struggling with fixed income, higher health care utilization,” said Alex Ashbrook, director of special projects and initiatives with the Food Research and Action Center.
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During the pandemic, snap benefits were expanded for this group, but numbers show less than half of those eligible were enrolled.
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For those who did enroll, she said the benefits were clear. The Food Research and Action Center tracked numbers through Medicaid and saw overall improvements in health with fewer emergency room visits.
The group is calling on lawmakers to keep the temporary expansion on snap and improve outreach.
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Writer, educator, community activist, and artist Hugh Merrill has died, according to a Monday night social media post from the printmaker's partner. Merrill was 73.
“It is with extreme dismay and utter heartbreak that I let you know Hugh Merrill passed away this weekend," Staci Pratt posted on Facebook.
Merrill started teaching at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1976. A tenured professor, he taught in several departments, including printmaking and foundation.
“For 46 years, Hugh was a mainstay on campus,” wrote KCAI President Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar in a statement. “As a professor, he challenged his students to think differently and push boundaries ... he served as a fierce advocate for young people.”
"The KCAI community is deeply saddened by the news of Hugh’s passing," she wrote.
For nearly 50 years, Merrill influenced a generation of students. Some shared their stories on Facebook:
“I learned ... how to take risks and look at making in a different way,” wrote Bernal Koehrsen, a 1993 KCAI graduate. “It was those lessons I use every single day, in just about everything I approach. Rules are to be learned, unlearned or can be rearranged.”
“You left what you learned in the edges of so many people and I am surprised your edition is over, the plate marred,” wrote Peregrine Honig, who studied at the Art Institute in the 1990s and finished her degree in 2019. “Pull back the paper and your life was rich with the darkness of knowing.”
Merrill, who earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art and an Master of Fine Arts at Yale University, was a prolific printmaker and artist, with works in corporate, museum, and university collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Harvard Art Museums, the Cranbrook Museum and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Gallerist Todd Weiner represented Merrill’s work in Kansas City.
“Hugh let me into his life in what could be considered his prime and zenith,” Weiner wrote in an email. “I’m so sad. I’m a huge fan and collector of his work.”
In recent years, Merrill also wrote about his own family history — taking a hard look at growing up in Alabama in the segregated Jim Crow era of the 1950s and '60s in a memoir called “Whiteout.”
"I'd say that Hugh and I really share a drive to be constantly creative and are always folding in real life into our work," writer Nettie Zan Powers, who edited the memoir, told KCUR in 2019. "But this project was particularly exciting because it is so open and vulnerable and direct."
Friends describe him as a generous spirit. Artist and gallerist Kevin McGraw cited the example of Merrill giving his work away in 2021.
"The people who have collected me have been wonderful and I love those people. But the work isn't meant just for people who can afford it," Merrill told KCUR at the time.
"He was just always so willing to talk to you, he was accessible," said McGraw, who first met Merrill in the 1990s. "To me, he was kind of a star."
"I'm really starting to miss him already," McGraw said.
Merrill’s work will be on view at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in the upcoming exhibition, “Five Years and Counting: Expanding the Permanent Collection," which opens Sept. 30. More than 35 artworks will be on display, recently added to the museum’s collection.
“We are deeply saddened to hear of Hugh Merrill's passing,” said the Kemper’s director of curatorial affairs, Erin Dziedzic, in an email. “His guidance, enthusiasm, and support for art and artists is felt widely throughout the community in Kansas City.”
Family members did not respond to KCUR's requests for comment.
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A federal judge has thrown out the wire fraud convictions of a prominent University of Kansas chemistry and engineering professor, ruling that the evidence was insufficient to support them.
But the judge upheld a federal jury’s conviction of Feng “Franklin” Tao for making false statements to KU.
U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson ruled more than five months after the conclusion of Tao's two-week-long trial. It marked the first case to go to trial among some two dozen against academics around the country charging them under a now-abandoned Trump era program called the China Initiative aimed at combating China’s efforts to steal American technology and trade secrets.
Rather than charge them with espionage, the government prosecuted them for the more narrow crime of concealing their Chinese ties from their American employers and in grant proposals.
Tao was accused of concealing his employment as a Changjiang Distinguished Professor at Fuzhou University (FZU) in China from the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, which had awarded him grants, as well as from KU.
Robinson found that while Tao was deceptive in not disclosing his activities at FZU, “there was no evidence that Tao obtained money or property through the alleged scheme to defraud, as required under the wire fraud statute.” (emphasis in the original).
Peter Zeidenberg, one of Tao's attorneys, said in an email that they were gratified the court agreed that Tao "had no intent to defraud the government or KU and that the government agencies, as well as KU, were entirely satisfied with the work he performed."
"This will hopefully drive a final stake through the heart of these China Initiative cases, where the government has claimed that the failure to disclose a relationship to China constitutes federal grant fraud even when the researcher has completed all of the work on the grant to the government’s complete satisfaction," Zeidenberg said.
He said Tao's attorneys were considering their next steps on the single remaining false statement count — a statement that was on a form Tao "submitted exclusively to his HR department."
A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Kansas, which prosecuted Tao, said the office would not have any comment on Robinson's ruling.
Tao began working as a full-time, tenured associate professor in KU’s chemistry and petroleum engineering departments in 2014. While at KU, he secured numerous research grants and received the University Scholarly Achievement Award in 2019, one of just four professors to get that recognition.
In 2019, KU Chancellor Douglas Girod praised Tao for his research contributions and noted that he had 175 publications with over 6,000 citations.
Tao specializes in surface science nanotechnology, which is important in the production of semiconductors, fuel cells, pharmaceuticals and other products.
The judge’s 61-page ruling came in response to Tao’s request to throw out the jury’s conviction. Such reversals are rare.
Federal prosecutors argued that Tao did not seek permission from KU before accepting the position at FZU, didn’t notify KU about his employment there and lied to conceal his employment. They said that in late 2018 he moved to China to work full-time at FZU while falsely telling KU administrators he was in Germany.
“Tao clearly engaged in deceitful conduct,” Robinson wrote. “But the Government did not prove that Tao’s efforts to conceal his affiliation with or activities at FZU University amounted to a scheme to deprive KU, DOE, or NSF of money or property.”
But in upholding his conviction on the false statement count, the judge wrote that “there was sufficient evidence for the jury” to convict.
Tao faced up to 20 years in prison on the wire fraud counts and up to five years on the false statement count.
In January, the Justice Department dismissed a similar case against Gang Chen, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The government said it had obtained new information indicating that the Chinese affiliations at the center of the case were not of material importance to the funding agency, the Department of Energy, according to the New York Times.
Similarly, the judge in Tao’s case found that no reasonable jury could have found that the professor's deceit induced the Department of Energy or the National Science Foundation to contract with him.
"There was insufficient evidence to allow a reasonable jury to find that DOE or NSF would not have awarded the grant funds at issue had Tao told the truth," Robinson wrote. | https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-09-20/judge-throws-out-the-most-serious-convictions-against-chinese-professor-at-university-of-kansas | 2022-09-20T19:17:57Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-09-20/judge-throws-out-the-most-serious-convictions-against-chinese-professor-at-university-of-kansas | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BALTIMORE (CBS/WBOC) - In a letter sent to President Biden on Tuesday, Gov. Larry Hogan raised concerns about "well-intentioned but misguided provisions" in the Inflation Reduction Act he claims will damage foreign automakers in allied countries that produce some electric vehicles in America.
The U.S. ranks as the third biggest manufacturer of electric vehicles, behind China and the European continent, according to data provided by the International Council on Clean Transportation.
Hogan, who is on a trade mission to Korea and Japan, said the law only offers tax credits to buyers of electric vehicles assembled in North America, which would shut out some models produced by companies like Hyundai Motor Company based in Korea.
Hyundai announced plans this year to build a $5.5 billion plant in Georgia to produce EVs from its brands Hyundai, Kia and Genesis. But under the new law, some models assembled overseas would not qualify for a tax credit worth up to $7,500, complicating plans for the new plant, according to a report last week in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Hogan said Korean officials and business leaders have expressed concern about the law's impact.
"I appreciate and share your priority to bring greater manufacturing capability and supply chain stability to the United States' domestic market," Hogan wrote. "However, I am troubled by your administration's decision to double down on trade policies favored by former President Trump that threaten American jobs and ultimately raise prices for American consumers. While onshoring is rightly our priority, friendshoring is an essential component of strengthening economic ties among the free world and combating dependence on Chinese goods.”
Hogan said America should be encouraging more foreign manufacturers to build facilities in the U.S. and argued this policy would go against Biden's goals of creating more affordable consumer goods and reducing the country's dependence on fossil fuels.
"The protectionist provisions in the IRA jeopardizes both of these priorities," Hogan wrote. "Excluding Korean and other leading manufacturers from competitive pricing for vehicles and their component parts will drive up prices for Americans and make electric vehicles out of reach for many working families, delaying your stated goal of moving toward reducing emission."
Electric vehicles accounted for 5.6% of all vehicle sales in 2022, up from 2.7% last year, according to auto pricing guide Kelley Blue Book.
The top four models are made by American companies, and assembly of the fifth, the Volkswagen ID.4, started in July at a plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. | https://www.wboc.com/news/hogan-raises-concerns-about-ev-incentives-he-says-will-hurt-hurt-consumers-threaten-access-to/article_516c6f3c-390a-11ed-8ca0-5f7d72ffdf97.html | 2022-09-20T19:20:51Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/hogan-raises-concerns-about-ev-incentives-he-says-will-hurt-hurt-consumers-threaten-access-to/article_516c6f3c-390a-11ed-8ca0-5f7d72ffdf97.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Members of Maryland's congressional delegation on Tuesday announced a new federal grant of $800,000 for the restoration of oyster reefs that are vital to the health of the Chesapeake Bay.
The new funding for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources comes through NOAA Fisheries to support the placement of spat-on-shell, or oyster larvae, on up to 100 acres of oyster reefs in four Maryland tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay. Higher oyster density is expected to lead to increased environmental benefits, such as water filtration and more habitat for fish.
“Oysters are restoration engines for the Chesapeake Bay. They play a key role in the bay’s ecosystem, filtering water and providing habitat for biodiverse aquatic wildlife. This new federal grant will deliver the resources to create 100 acres of oyster reefs, an area equivalent to 75 football fields, that will provide fertile ground for bay restoration,” said the members. “We look forward to the successful implementation of these restoration projects and are committed to continuing to lead the effort to expand our investment in the health of the Chesapeake Bay.”
NOAA Fisheries provides funding and technical support to partners across the country to develop high-quality habitat restoration projects. Funding for the new Maryland project comes through the Community-based Restoration Program, which funds habitat restoration projects focused on supporting sustainable fisheries and recovering Endangered Species Act-listed species. | https://www.wboc.com/news/new-federal-funding-awarded-for-chesapeake-bay-oyster-restoration/article_aea0fd82-3903-11ed-94a9-43a51c0df038.html | 2022-09-20T19:20:58Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/new-federal-funding-awarded-for-chesapeake-bay-oyster-restoration/article_aea0fd82-3903-11ed-94a9-43a51c0df038.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MAGNOLIA, Del.- Authorities have released the name of an airman with Dover Air Force Base who was killed early Sunday morning after his motorcycle struck an SUV in Magnolia.
Delaware State Police identified the victim as Senior Airman Kohl Reed, 22, of Marysville, Penn.
Police said that at around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Reed was riding a Honda motorcycle northbound on Bay Road in the left lane, just south of Trap Shooters Road. Meantime, a GMC SUV, driven by a 25-year-old Delaware woman, was ahead of Reed in the right lane.
The woman began to change lanes, and moved in front of the motorcyclist, police said.
Troopers said that Reed was traveling at a high rate of speed and the front tire of the motorcycle hit the back bumper of the SUV.
The airman, who was wearing a helmet, died at the scene, according to police. Reed was assigned to the 436th Aerial Port Squadron.
“No words can take away the pain in our hearts when we lose a member of Team Dover,” said Col. Matt Husemann, 436th Airlift Wing commander, in a statement. “I ask that you lift up Airman Reed’s family and friends as well as the Port Dawg family with all your love, prayers and thoughts. We are all here together to take care of each other and I encourage everyone impacted by this terrible tragedy to reach out to a friend, a leader, or one of our many Team Dover helping agencies in this time of need.”
The woman was wearing her seat belt and was not injured.
Alcohol or drug usage is not suspected of being a factor in this collision.
The roadway was closed for approximately three hours while the collision was being investigated.
The Delaware State Police Troop 3 Collision Reconstruction Unit continues to investigate this incident. Troopers are asking anyone who witnessed this collision to please contact Cpl/3 J. Lane by calling 302-698-8457. Information may also be provided by contacting Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333. | https://www.wboc.com/news/updated-police-id-dover-afb-airman-killed-in-motorcycle-crash-in-magnolia/article_b7dc7aca-379b-11ed-b281-e7eccf648bbf.html | 2022-09-20T19:21:04Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/updated-police-id-dover-afb-airman-killed-in-motorcycle-crash-in-magnolia/article_b7dc7aca-379b-11ed-b281-e7eccf648bbf.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Leggiero music definition: what does leggiero mean when written on a score?
Want to find out what leggiero means? We tell you all you need to know.
What does leggiero mean?
The word leggiero is Italian for ‘light’ or ‘lightly’. The term is used on a musical score – typically in relation to swift passages – to indicate the musician should play the relevant section with a light, delicate and graceful touch.
While terms relating to a piece of music’s dynamics – i.e., its strength of sound (how quietly or loudly the piece is performed) – such as ‘piano’ (softly) or ‘pianissimo’ (very softly) can also introduce a ‘gentler’ mood to the music, such terms don’t embody the almost ethereal quality that leggiero demands.
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For example, when playing the piano or a stringed instrument, such as the violin, leggiero would require only minimal pressure be applied to the keys or strings, producing a more delicate sound than merely playing ‘quietly’. Leggiero can be applied to legato or staccato sections but is most likely to be included in sections of music marked as having a softer or quieter dynamic profile.
Examples of leggiero
Grieg’s Old Norwegian Romance (Opus 51) and Mendelssohn’s Song Without Words No 2 (Opus 67) are just two classical pieces that feature the leggiero technique. | https://www.classical-music.com/features/musical-terms/leggiero-music-definition/ | 2022-09-20T19:22:50Z | classical-music.com | control | https://www.classical-music.com/features/musical-terms/leggiero-music-definition/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The heart: The 5 best books on understanding the muscle at the centre of our circulatory system
Sian E Harding shares insight from her new book, The Exquisite Machine, and recommends her favourite books for further reading.
I wrote The Exquisite Machine to make people think about their heart anew, with a greater sense of wonder and awe. I’ve been working to understand the heart for more than 40 years and every time we get a better way to see it close up, or an advance in how we can manipulate cells, there are new revelations about this incredible organ.
Although, of course, our aim is to do something helpful for heart disease, it can be frustrating only to focus on what goes wrong, rather than celebrate how often it goes right! The 500 million years of evolution that shaped the heart has created something that engineers can only envy – in fact, its exquisitely precise and beautiful construction is one of the biggest barriers to our attempts to repair or replace it.
Early ideas about the heart began by casting it as the seat of emotion. This rather fell out of favour as we scientists took over and reclassified it as a giant muscle. But now we have come full circle, and started to realise that the heart is a strange muscle indeed, and has more of a hand in our emotions than we think. A mini-brain inside the heart — yes, you heard that right — has both incoming and outgoing neurons to the central nervous system. It can amplify and even initiate emotion through the rate of beating of the heart.
Sensing your own heart rate rising can amplify and prolong a fear response, and even trigger a panic attack. There is a disease (two diseases in fact) called Broken Heart Syndrome, where an extreme emotional shock such as the death of a partner or child can have dramatic, even fatal, consequences on the heart.
New findings have revealed new threats to the heart. As well as the ones we are familiar with, like smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol, our modern life has brought more challenges to heart health. Drugs to treat cancer, one of the success stories of medicine, are focused on killing cells which multiply too fast. This is why your hair falls out with chemotherapy. The heart, which repairs itself very slowly (over half the muscle cells in your heart will be with you from birth to death) suffers if this repair is disrupted by the cancer drugs. Air pollution, noise, infections like COVID, and even low socioeconomic status alone, are emerging as important factors. Genetic screening is showing us how heart mutations are common in apparently healthy people, and these may only be discovered when a second stress, such as alcohol or pregnancy, puts a strain on the heart.
Cardiovascular scientists and clinicians have had to widen their expertise to fight these dangers, old and new. Advanced microscopy, mathematics, big data, artificial intelligence, genetic manipulation and tissue engineering are all being brought into service to bring new therapies for the heart.
Creating new beating heart muscle from cells of your skin or blood is an amazing achievement, that has gone from discovery to routine use in a laboratory in just over 10 years. We can make patches of brand new heart tissue the size of your hand. However, persuading the heart to accept and incorporate this new muscle to replace the scar of a heart attack, is a challenge with which we are still struggling!
Here are some other books that helped me along the writing journey, and which I very much enjoyed reading.
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The best books about the heart
Fragile Lives
Stephen Westaby
Stephen Westaby is an internationally renowned heart surgeon who spent much of his career at the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford. Here, he performed many pioneering operations, such as the implantation of left ventricular assist devices and of stem cells.
Like me, he was inspired to go into the world of cardiology by the observation of a family member suffering from heart failure. This is a very human book, showing not only the immense complexity of the operations but the emotional toll they can take on the medical staff.
Bravely, he talks frankly about the failures as well as the many successes in his career. Heart surgeons are a very special breed – I call them the fighter pilots of the surgical world: swift, decisive and daring – operating in a setting where 'time is muscle' and there is very little room for error. His book serves to remind me of the great suffering that heart disease can bring and the sometimes heroic efforts of clinicians to save their patients.
Sex Matters
Alyson McGregor
This book was very helpful to me when researching the deep underlying causes of the underdiagnosis of heart disease in women. Dr Alyson McGregor is the Director of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine, at Brown University in the US, so she has direct experience with her patients about the many systematic inequalities that shape their treatment.
She starts with a dramatic example of how the training of doctors is skewed even from the start. While being shown around a teaching laboratory, using dummies to simulate various diseases and injuries, she is horrified to see that they are all male. Even the one for pregnancy training is a male dummy in a blonde wig, with a plastic foetus and placenta lying beside it. This was a recent experience, and in a top US medical school.
From the absence of female groups in research animals or clinical drug trials, to the fundamental misunderstanding of women’s relationship to pain, there are barriers to the effective medical treatment of women.
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She speaks of the reaction of male doctors to protestations of pain, which are increasingly discounted as hysterical as the woman steps up her pleading in an attempt to gain recognition. McGregor also highlights the intersectionality, as women from minority groups fare even worse, especially from cultures which are more vocal about their feelings.
She gives helpful guidance at the end of each chapter, and I am indebted to her for the advice I quote, that a woman who needs her pain to be taken seriously should bring a man with her to explain!
Bitch
Lucy Cooke
After writing a chapter on sex, gender and heart disease, my eye was caught by this new book on the relationship between genes and biological sex. It revolutionised my ideas by describing the incredible variety of expression of the sex-related genes, and the wild and weird animal phenotypes they produce.
Even within mammals, there is a huge variety which defies neat classification. The female mole, for example, has reproductive organs with ovarian tissue at one end and testicular tissue at the other. In spider monkeys, the male has a concealed penis while the female has a large and pendulous clitoris, known as a pseudo-penis. The female mongoose develops a facsimile penis for several years, until she becomes fertile.
Once we leave the mammals and come to birds, amphibians and reptiles, complete anarchy reigns. The birds which are gynandromorphs, looking like a cock from one side and a hen from the other; the frogs which lie on a continuum from male to female; or the hermaphrodite fish which serially switch from one sex to the other dependent on circumstance. She quotes from a scientist in the field: "sex is not a unitary phenomenon".
Many of these female phenotypes have been overlooked in scientific studies because they didn’t fit with the ideas of Darwin and his contemporaries. Cooke makes it clear how the pronouncements of that era, with its Victorian framework for family life, have also directed attention away from inconvenient facts, such as female control of sexual choice and female infidelity. It is continually surprising throughout the book, as to how recently many of these discoveries have been made. Bitch by Lucy Cooke is an absolutely fascinating book, and great for dinner party anecdotes (depending on who your guests are!).
Deep Medicine
Eric Topol
In my book, The Exquisite Machine, I discuss the new sciences that are being co-opted to bring different angles of attack to the problem of heart disease. One of these is data science, the use of huge data sets to understand things like the effects of threats such as air or noise pollution on a population scale, or to increase the speed and accuracy of image analysis. This is often linked to artificial intelligence, where computer algorithms can be designed (or self-organised) to pull out patterns from data too large and complex for the human brain to encompass.
Eric Topol is a giant in this field, and Deep Medicine is a masterclass in explanation of a complicated and fast-growing area. It's also a very human book, as he uses his personal suffering from failures in healthcare, and his long experience as a clinical cardiologist, to explain not only the potential of these technologies but also the limitations.
Life Without Diabetes
Roy Taylor
Diabetes is one of the growing threats to the heart, and the number of type 2 diabetics worldwide is increasing at an alarming rate. It is clearly linked to obesity on a population scale, but there have been puzzling inconsistencies in the obesity hypothesis: most obese people will not develop type 2 diabetes, but a significant number of average-weight people will.
Losing weight definitely helps to reduce the symptoms, but even here there are curious anomalies. When people have bariatric surgery, such as stomach stapling, to reduce their food intake, there can be a rapid cure from type 2 diabetes – in days or weeks. This happens well before weight drops to a normal level in severely obese people.
Roy Taylor is a pioneering scientist in this area, and he describes breakthroughs in the understanding of the disease which help resolve these anomalies. He first gives a very clear exposition of the biology around diabetes and the current state of play in terms of treatment. Then he described a new hypothesis, that each person has a personal amount of fat that they can tolerate before becoming diabetic.
If fat is stored under the skin or on the buttocks, it does not contribute to the diabetic burden. But at some point, these stores can be exceeded, and damaging fat deposits in the pancreas disrupt the normal function of blood sugar control. Helpfully, he describes weight loss programmes where rapid decreases in fat stores can mimic the beneficial effects of bariatric surgery. Even the concept that diabetes can be reversible has been a paradigm shift for the field!
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Sian E. Harding is Emeritus Professor of Cardiac Pharmacology in the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, where she led the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences and the British Heart Foundation Centre for Cardiac Regeneration. Her latest book, The Exquisite Machine, is out now.
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The best PS5 accessories for PlayStation gamers
Grab some accessories for new ways to experience the PS5.
Accessorising your PS5 can bring a load of exciting improvements to your gaming experience. Sony themselves offer a range of products that are designed to perfectly complement the PS5, from specially-made audio to VR.
So, whether you're looking to elevate your PlayStation gaming, or simply personalise your setup, read on for our favourite PS5 accessories.
Best PS5 accessories to buy in 2022
PlayStation VR Mega Pack
VR has rapidly advanced how dynamic gaming can be. PlayStation now have a series of titles that can be played with their very own VR system, immersing you further into the games with 360-degree vision, surround sound and intuitive controls.
The VR headset has a complete tracking system that can follow the movements of the DualShock 4 controllers, the PlayStation Move controllers and the PSVR aim controller.
Everything you need for PlayStation VR, including the PlayStation Camera, is included in this pack. It also comes with five games that show off the PSVR tech in different and exciting ways, from a first-person shooter to a dynamic puzzle game.
PlayStation 5 DualSense Charging Station
To avoid grabbing the cable mid-game every time your controller dies, this handy dock will keep them charged and ready. The charging station from PlayStation can be plugged into the mains, so the PS5 doesn't have to be turned on when you need it.
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The double docking station works as a convenient way to store one or both of your controllers. The DualSense charging automatically turns off when the controllers are fully charged, so you don't have to worry about damaging the battery by leaving them docked for too long.
Sony Pulse 3D Wireless PS5 Headset
Designed to match the aesthetic of the PS5 console, the Pulse 3D headset offers the immersive gaming experience you've come to expect from Sony. The headphones have all of the important features, like spatial audio, built-in microphones, and in-game audio control.
The headset also has advanced features like noise-cancellation and a mic monitoring button to hear how you sound to teammates. They're fully wireless, with up to 12 hours of charge, but they can be used via the 3.5mm cable if necessary.
Venom Colour Change LED Stand
For a stand that'll blend in perfectly with your PS5, this colour-changing option from Venom has the same and look and feel as the console. There are varying light modes available to personalise the ambience in your room.
The stand helps to protect your PS5 from falling over and its design makes sure that you still have easy access to all ports and buttons.
PlayStation 5 HD Camera
To stream your gameplay easily and effectively, the PlayStation 5 HD Camera is built to seamlessly manage your video capture. It has 1080p video recording and a built-in adjustable stand. Plus, the PlayStation software is able to remove the background to crop you, and only you, into your gameplay footage.
WD_BLACK SN850 1TB SSD
Avid gamers will know the struggles of running out of storage space on your console, so the WD_BLACK internal hard drive can help avoid that problem. Choose between 500GB, 1TB or 2TB, and utilise its surprisingly fast read/write speeds when loading up and running your games.
PS5 Media Remote Control
The PS5 can quickly become the main media device in the home and the PS5 Media Remote Control can be an easier way to access and control your streaming apps.
Rather than using your controller, with its depleting battery and automatic power-off feature, the remote control is a more accessible alternative.
Toshiba Canvio Advance 1TB Hard Drive
An external hard drive is another effective way of storing more games and saved data. It's less integrated than an internal hard drive, but you can still access your saves when the hard drive is connected to the PS5 console.
The Toshiba Canvio Advance has a 1TB storage capacity and includes backup and security software.
PlayStation Store Gift Card
If you're looking to spend on somebody else, it's hard to go wrong with a gift card for the PlayStation Store. The store features nearly all games released on PS5, as well as a load of additional content, themes and personalisation packages.
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Jupiter in opposition: How to see the godfather of the Solar System at it's biggest and brightest
Early next week is your best opportunity to see the biggest planet in our Solar System – no telescope required.
As the nights draw in and the Sun begins to set earlier each day, the autumn months can offer excellent stargazing opportunities, without the chill of winter.
Jupiter will go into opposition on 26 September this year, but what exactly does it mean when we say a planet is in opposition? How can you spot Jupiter in opposition? And, which constellation will Jupiter appear in? Answers to these, and more, are below.
If you’re still able to enjoy the warm weather and (relatively) clear nights, why not make the most of them with our full Moon UK calendar and astronomy for beginners guide? And, in case you missed it, we pulled together the best pictures of the Harvest Moon in 2022.
What is opposition?
Opposition is essentially the planetary equivalent of a full Moon. When a planet is close to the Earth, and on the opposite side of Earth to the Sun, we describe it as that planet being in opposition. The sunlight that shines on the planet is fully reflected, in the same way that sunlight is fully reflected from the Moon every 29.53 days in the lunar cycle.
As the outer planets orbit around the Sun, Earth occasionally finds itself between the Sun and another planet, with all three directly aligned. Oppositions can often provide the best opportunity to observe and photograph a particular planet because of its favourable position and brightness.
At Jupiter’s opposition, Earth will lie directly between Jupiter and the Sun, and will remain in the sky above the horizon for most of the night.
Only those planets that are beyond Earth's orbit can be in opposition, these are Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Because Mercury and Venus orbit the Sun inside the path of Earth's orbit, they can never be in opposition.
When is Jupiter in opposition?
Jupiter will reach opposition on Monday 26 September 2022, when it will be at its closest and brightest for the year, essentially creating a 'full' Jupiter. The king of the Solar System will rise as sunset falls, at 6:52pm on Monday 26 September and will remain above the horizon until it sets at 6:57am on Tuesday 27 September 2022, as viewed from London (times will vary with location).
Weather permitting, we are expected to be offered perfect visibility of Jupiter. When Jupiter reaches opposition, the gas giant will be situated approximately 591.3 million kilometres (3.95 AU) from Earth.
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What will you be able to see?
For naked-eye observers, Jupiter will appear as a very bright point of light that, unlike stars, does not twinkle. A decent set of binoculars (7× to 10x magnification) will provide you with a view of Jupiter’s four largest moons, Ganymede, Europa, Callisto and Io, and a telescope will allow you to view Jupiter’s stripes.
Jupiter's bands, the Great Red Spot and even clouds can be seen through a telescope. Jupiter has a fast spin, and eagle eyes may even be able to spot the resulting slightly squashed appearance of its bright disc.
From around 6:52pm on Monday 26 September, Jupiter will rise in the eastern sky, in the constellation Pisces. As night progresses, the planet will travel east and reach its highest in the middle of the night before setting at sunrise, disappearing below the horizon at 6:57am the next day.
If you're interested in astrophotography or creating an animation of Jupiter, expert Pete Lawrence has put together this handy guide on how to make a planetary animation.
How can I spot Jupiter in the night sky?
Jupiter is one of the brightest objects in the night sky, which makes it relatively easy to spot, even without a telescope. If you're struggling with orientation, then there are astronomy apps that you can download - all you need to do is point your phone at the sky and the app will tell you what's what.
For those of you who prefer star hopping, look towards the southeast after sunset. Jupiter will rise in the constellation Pisces, which can be seen anywhere in the world, with the exception of Antarctica. Although Pisces is a large constellation, its stars are relatively dim. However, its distinctive V-shape is one of the largest star formations in the sky.
You can find Pisces by first locating the Summer Triangle, and tracing an imaginary line from the bright star Vega and splitting the triangle perpendicular to the base, which is made up of Altair and Deneb. This line points to the head of the western fish in Pisces. Jupiter will be sitting just below the western fish.
How often do oppositions occur?
Each of the planets go into opposition on a roughly annual basis. This is because Earth has a faster orbit, passing between these planets and the Sun. The exception is Mars, which is around every 26 months due to it being relatively close to Earth in the Solar System. Jupiter goes into opposition every 13 months.
Jupiter's 12-year cycle
Jupiter lies within the zodiac band of the sky, and it moves through approximately 1/12 of its orbit every year (a single orbit being around 12 years).
In other words, it takes around 12 months for Jupiter to cross one of the zodiac constellations and move on to the next. This means that Jupiter goes into opposition every 13 months, and the planet will pass through all of the zodiac constellations over a period of 12 years.
Like the other planets, Jupiter travels from west to east across the night sky, against a backdrop of stars and distant galaxies. However, when it's in opposition, the planet also enters into a period of apparent retrograde motion, when it appears to move backwards for a time.
Here are the constellations that Jupiter will appear in over the next 12-year cycle:
- 26 September 2022: Pisces
- 1 November 2023: Aries
- 6 December 2024: Taurus
- 9 January 2026: Gemini
- 10 February 2027: Leo
- 13 March 2028: Virgo
- 13 April 2029: Virgo
- 14 May 2030: Libra
- 16 June 2031: Ophiuchus
- 20 July 2032: Sagittarius
- 25 August 2033: Aquarius
- 2 October 2034: Back in Pisces
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A Sri Lankan farmer tragically perished after swallowing a fish bone, which pierced his intestine and triggered a fatal infection. A case report detailing the freak accident was published in the “International Journal of Surgery Case Reports.”
The 60-year-old unnamed patient had reported to the coastal District General Hospital of Sri Lanka, after experiencing three days of abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation and a distended belly, per the report.
Suspecting he was going into septic shock, medics rushed the man to intensive care, where scans revealed that his abdomen was filling with fluid. This symptom suggested that his kidneys had stopped working — a possible sign of sepsis, where the body’s immune system attacks its own organs.
A subsequent two-hour operation revealed a small hole in his intestine, which the medical staff discovered was caused by an 0.8-inch-long fishbone. However, the farmer didn’t recall ingesting the 2-centimeter shard, the Daily Mail reported.
Nonetheless, the seemingly innocuous bone fragment had reportedly perforated his bowel, causing fecal matter to seep out and infect his abdominal wall. As a result, the intestine ballooned in size while yellow pus accumulated around the hole.
In an attempt to save the patient, doctors sliced a 3.9-inch (10 cm) segment of the intestine and drained the perforation with the aim of reattaching the healthy bowel after the infection was eradicated. Despite their efforts, the patient “passed away following cardiac arrest” just eight hours after his admission to the emergency room, per the report.
Interestingly, fish bones are the leading cause of “gastrointestinal perforations,” the study authors wrote.
“In regions where fish is a staple food, fish bones are not uncommon culprits of FBs [ingested foreign bodies],” the case report states. “The jagged, sharp nature of fish bones makes them more prone to inflict mucosal injuries and subsequent perforations.”
And while the outcome is favorable in most instances, nonspecific symptoms coupled with poor imaging resources can result in a delayed diagnosis, which doctors believed occurred with the aforementioned case.
In a similar fatality in 2021, a Dutch man choked to death after swallowing his car keys while vacationing in Spain. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/20/farmer-dies-after-accidentally-swallowing-inch-long-fish-bone/ | 2022-09-20T19:25:52Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/20/farmer-dies-after-accidentally-swallowing-inch-long-fish-bone/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A straphanger was stabbed by an apparent teen during a possible cell-phone robbery on a Brooklyn train early Tuesday, cops said.
The victim was riding a southbound No. 2 train approaching the Winthrop Street station in Prospect Lefferts Gardens around 5:10 a.m. when the young suspect attacked him, police said.
Police believe the suspect grabbed the man’s cell phone.
The victim got off the train at Winthrop Street, where he reported the incident, cops said.
He was taken to the Kings County Hospital Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
The suspect — who cops say appeared to be a teenager and wore a black hoodie — has yet to be caught.
In another recent attack on the rails, a 33-year-old man was arguing with a straphanger on a No. 4 train at West Burnside Avenue and Jerome Avenue in The Bronx around 7:30 p.m. Sunday when he was stabbed in the neck, cops said.
He was hospitalized in stable condition. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/20/man-stabbed-by-apparent-teen-attacker-on-nyc-train-cops/ | 2022-09-20T19:28:05Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/20/man-stabbed-by-apparent-teen-attacker-on-nyc-train-cops/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
By: LDWF
Experienced photographers know that getting an iconic picture takes patience, skill and being at the right place at the right time. A little luck helps, too.
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) biologist Sara Zimorski, who oversees LDWF’s Whooping Crane Reintroduction Program, took a beautiful photo of a whooping crane pair, along with its chick, in March just 11 days after the chick hatched in Avoyelles Parish.
The photo, with the pair, heads held high at the same angle, making a call, has made its way around the world. The Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald selected it as one of its top 10 photos from around the world in its Sept. 10 edition.
The Sydney Morning Herald is considered one of the nation’s more influential newspapers with a daily circulation, print and online, of 8.6 million readers
“Crane pairs exhibit a lot of synchronous behavior – particularly threats and calls,’’ Zimorski said. “But it really was just luck how perfectly in sync their spacing and the position of their heads and beaks were for the picture.’’
The chick was one of eight wild hatched chicks that fledged in 2022, the most in a single breeding season since LDWF’s experimental whooping crane reintroduction project began in 2011. Eight chicks is also the most that have ever fledged in a single year from any of the reintroduction projects nationwide.
A total of 15 whooping crane chicks hatched this year with the eight surviving to fledge. It brings the Louisiana population to 76, 16 of which were wild hatched in the state. The first wild hatched Louisiana chick came in April of 2016, the first to hatch in the state in more than 75 years.
Zimorski was doing field work that day and had brought along a camera with a telephoto lens. She said they knew the pair had a young chick and, because the parents generally take the chick off the nest within a few days, they are able to get out to the nest to collect habitat and nest measurement data without disturbing the birds.
The family had moved over to the field south of where the nest was located so Zimorski was able to collect the vital data from the nest. As she completed her work, the family had crossed the farm road back into the nest field.
“When I was finished and ready to leave they had crossed the farm road and were back in the nest field,’’ Zimorski said. “So when I was leaving I took our UTV along that farm road and caught that view of them from behind. They kept moving away from me, probably back to the nest and I just got lucky with that photo.’’
Louisiana’s whooping crane reintroduction project began in 2011 when 10 juvenile whooping cranes from the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center were released at the White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area in Vermilion Parish to initiate the non-migratory flock. This marked a significant conservation milestone with the first wild whooping cranes in Louisiana since 1950. Support of partners, including Chevron, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Audubon Nature Institute, Coypu Foundation, Entergy, Cameron LNG, SLEMCO, International Crane Foundation and the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Foundation, have allowed LDWF to expand its effort in Louisiana.
For more information on the whooping crane project, go to https://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/subhome/whooping-crane and learn more on how to support the project, go to https://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/page/support-whooping-crane-conservation or http://www.lawff.org/.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WKBW) — Buffalo Bills cornerback Dane Jackson was released from the hospital Tuesday morning. He suffered a hit to the head and neck area during Monday night's game against the Tennessee Titans.
Jackson suffered the accidental hit when teammate and linebacker Tremaine Edmunds went to tackle Titans receiver Treylon Burks.
After being taken off the field in an ambulance, Jackson underwent tests that showed there were no major injuries to his neck or spinal cord.
Coach Sean McDermott said he had a chance to speak with Jackson after he was taken off the field.
"The game is important and trying to win a game is important, but there's bigger things, especially at that moment when your teammate's down there," McDermott said, according to ESPN.
Jackson will reportedly continue to undergo evaluations to make sure there is no permanent damage.
This story was originally reported by Imani Clement on wkbw.com. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/buffalos-dane-jackson-released-from-hospital-after-scary-hit-on-monday-night-football | 2022-09-20T19:29:03Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/buffalos-dane-jackson-released-from-hospital-after-scary-hit-on-monday-night-football | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates again Wednesday, as part of the continued effort to bring down inflation.
It will be the fifth interest rate hike in about six months.
"We started from what were rock-bottom, record-low interest rates, and now we're seeing this breakneck pace of rate increases," said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate.
The Fed's move could raise rates to levels not seen since 2008.
While it's considered a drastic measure, most experts believe it is necessary to tame historically high inflation.
Prices increased 8.3% in August of this year compared to 2021.
In the 2010s, the average year-over-year price increase was dramatically lower, often hovering around two percent.
"We lived in an era where people thought inflation was over," said Stephan Weiler, a professor of economics at Colorado State University. "Basically, we were seeing inflation rates of 1 or 2 percent, and we believed had conquered inflation."
How to fight inflation
Today's situation, though one of the worst of the last 40 years, remains rosy in comparison to the so-called "Great Inflation" of the late 1970s.
Inflation topped fourteen percent at some points.
Like today, consumers faced sudden spikes in the cost of food and energy, especially meat.
The rapid rise in prices famously led Archie Bunker, the lead character on sitcom "All in the Family," to eat his spaghetti without meat.
"I feel like I'm back in the late 70s talking about this," said Weiler. "But it was the same sort of situation, and we did get out of it."
Federal Reserve leaders of the 1970s and early 1980s said they had to raise interest rates in order to show the public they were serious about taming inflation.
People and businesses had become accustomed to rising prices.
As a result, they planned for large price increases each year, perpetuating the cycle of inflation.
"Inflation feeds in part on itself," Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker said in 1979. "Part of the job of returning to a more stable and more productive economy must be to break the grip of inflationary expectations."
Volcker's Fed raised interest rates as high as 19%.
The strategy worked in taming inflation, but it came with a price.
High interest rates triggered a pair of recessions in the early 1980s. More than 4 million Americans lost their jobs as a result.
"Today, the Federal Reserve is trying to avoid that recession," Weiler said. "This is what you'd call the soft landing."
The modern inflation battle
It remains unclear if the Federal Reserve will achieve that soft landing.
Many analysts remain skeptical.
"I think a soft landing becomes less and less likely by the day," McBride said. "There hasn't been any signs of hope that inflation is getting under control. And as long as that continues to be the case, the Fed has to continue to push interest rates higher and press on the brakes to get demand down enough to bring inflation under control."
While it's unlikely interest rates will reach the highs seen in the 1970s and 80s, most analysts agree that we will see an increase in the unemployment rate over the next year, as businesses attempt to cut costs and reduce borrowing.
And there is no guarantee that elevated interest rates will be the panacea for inflation.
"The numbers these days are, in some ways, unprecedented," Weiler said. "Could inflation be 5 percent a year from Christmas? I think it's certainly possible."
The path forward
Weiler's analysis lines up with popular sentiment: Most people believe inflation will still be close to 6 percent a year from now, according to a recent survey by the New York Fed.
"I think the Federal Reserve will start to slow down the pace of interest rate hikes probably in early 2023," McBride said. "They want to try to front-load as much of that this year as they can, because it takes six to nine months for the impact of a rate move to really cycle through the economy."
Experts said there are steps people can take now to clean up their finances in anticipation of higher interest rates.
"If you have a credit card balance," McBride said, "grab a low-rate balance transfer offer, transfer that balance to a lower rate card, and then give yourself that runway so that you can get that debt paid off once and for all. You don't want to be lugging that debt balance into a higher-rate environment."
"If you have loans outstanding that are a variable, they are going to go up," Weiler said, "and so that's something that you want to focus on as well."
Most importantly, experts said not to expect prices to return to pre-pandemic levels.
"As inflation comes down, that doesn't necessarily translate into prices coming down," McBride said. "In a lot of instances, it just means prices going up at a slower pace." | https://www.katc.com/news/national/interest-rate-hikes-follow-familiar-playbook-may-not-tame-stubborn-inflation-quickly | 2022-09-20T19:29:27Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/interest-rate-hikes-follow-familiar-playbook-may-not-tame-stubborn-inflation-quickly | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Numbers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show free school meals and other pandemic relief for families may have improved food access for kids.
Food insecurity rates went down about 2% in 2021 among youth, but for other populations, it got worse.
“Those protections didn't extend to households with older adults. So many of them were struggling with fixed income, higher health care utilization,” said Alex Ashbrook, director of special projects and initiatives with the Food Research and Action Center.
Food insecurity for older adults living alone grew from 8 to 9 percent.
During the pandemic, snap benefits were expanded for this group, but numbers show less than half of those eligible were enrolled.
“There's sometimes misinformation,” said Ashbrook said. “So people may think that if I receive SNAP, then that lovely family down the street with children's not going to be able to receive SNAP. But SNAP is an entitlement program. So one of the beauties of it is anyone who is eligible can participate.”
For those who did enroll, she said the benefits were clear. The Food Research and Action Center tracked numbers through Medicaid and saw overall improvements in health with fewer emergency room visits.
The group is calling on lawmakers to keep the temporary expansion on snap and improve outreach.
In the meantime, the Food Research and Action Center is partnering with AARP to train health care providers on how to screen for food insecurity in older adults. | https://www.katc.com/news/national/many-eligible-food-insecure-adults-not-taking-advantage-of-programs | 2022-09-20T19:29:33Z | katc.com | control | https://www.katc.com/news/national/many-eligible-food-insecure-adults-not-taking-advantage-of-programs | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tom Brady is not happy with 345 Park Ave.
Speaking with Jim Gray on his SiriusXM podcast “Let’s Go!“, Brady sounded off on the suspension that will cause star wideout Mike Evans to miss Sunday’s blockbuster game against Aaron Rodgers and the Packers.
Brady started by expressing gratitude for Evans as a friend and teammate.
“I think just sometimes the emotions get the best of us, and I love Mike. And the fact that Mike would come out there to defend me means everything in the world to me as a teammate and a friend,” Brady said, as covered by the Tampa Bay Times.
Then Brady opined that Evans did not deserve to miss any time.
“And Mike knows how I feel about him. So in the end, emotions are a part of sports. Sometimes they boil over, and they obviously did [Sunday], and it’s an unfortunate circumstance,” Brady said. “I don’t think it deserved any type of suspension; I think that’s ridiculous. Hopefully we can move past it and get to a better place.”
Evans is appealing the suspension; his case will be heard by former NFL receiver James Thrash.
Evans received the suspension for bull-rushing Saints defensive back Marshon Lattimore after the whistle on Sunday. The two have long, fractious history — Evans was similarly suspended for scuffling with him in 2017.
On the podcast, Brady continued to argue that Evans shouldn’t be “singled out.”
“Obviously if I didn’t run down there to argue with the call … if things weren’t said back and forth between both teams, it could’ve been avoided,” Brady said.
“There’s a lot of things that go into it and there’s a lot of things at fault, so I don’t think Mike should be the one to be blamed and singled out. Unfortunately he has been, and that’s just the reality of life in the NFL.” | https://nypost.com/2022/09/20/tom-brady-slams-nfl-for-suspension-of-mike-evans/ | 2022-09-20T19:29:45Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/20/tom-brady-slams-nfl-for-suspension-of-mike-evans/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A suspected schizophrenic with 26 busts under his belt — mostly for forcible touching — molested another homeless person as she slept on a Manhattan street over the weekend, cops said Tuesday.
Moussa Camara, 30, approached the 52-year-old woman, who he did not know, as she slept on West 31st Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues around 12:15 a.m. Sunday, police said.
He then allegedly exposed himself to her and performed a sex act on her, authorities said.
Camara took off when the victim resisted, police said.
The woman was taken to Lenox Health Greenwich Village Hospital for an evaluation, authorities said.
Camara fled after the sick incident – but police caught up to him Monday night, cops said.
He was processed by the NYPD’s Special Victims Division and charged with a criminal sex act, police said.
Camara, who is believed to be schizophrenic, was then taken to the psych ward at Bellevue Hospital, cops said.
He has 26 prior arrests, many for forcible touching, authorities said. The disposition of the cases was not immediately clear. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/20/vagrant-with-26-priors-molests-homeless-woman-in-nyc-cops/ | 2022-09-20T19:29:53Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/20/vagrant-with-26-priors-molests-homeless-woman-in-nyc-cops/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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