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PITTSBURGH, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Federated Hermes, Inc. (NYSE: FHI), a global leader in active, responsible investing, will report financial and operating results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 after the market closes on Thursday, July 28, 2022. A conference call for investors and analysts will be held at 9 a.m. Eastern on Friday, July 29, 2022. President and Chief Executive Officer J. Christopher Donahue and Chief Financial Officer Thomas R. Donahue will host the call.
Investors interested in listening to the conference call should dial 877-545-0523 (domestic) or 973-528-0016 (international) or visit FederatedHermes.com for real-time Internet access. To listen online, go to the Investor Relations section of the website and the Analyst Information tab at least 15 minutes prior to register and join the call.
A telephone replay of the call will begin at approximately 12:30 p.m. Eastern on July 29, 2022. To access the telephone replay, dial 877-481-4010 (domestic) or 919-882-2331 (international) and enter the access code 45935. The online replay will be available via FederatedHermes.com for one year.
Federated Hermes, Inc. is a global leader in active, responsible investment management, with $631.1 billion in assets under management, as of March 31, 2022. We deliver investment solutions that help investors target a broad range of outcomes and provide equity, fixed-income, alternative/private markets, multi-asset and liquidity management strategies to more than 11,000 institutions and intermediaries worldwide. Our clients include corporations, government entities, insurance companies, foundations and endowments, banks and broker/dealers. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Federated Hermes has nearly 2,000 employees in London, New York and offices worldwide. For more information, visit FederatedHermes.com.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Adaptation Financial launched its first official internship program in June of 2022. The program kicked off June 6th, 2022, with Sarah Hall joining the firm. The program then grew on June 27th, 2022, when the team welcomed Rosella "Jojo" Roberson back from a trip to Greece, Italy, and Paris. Adaptation's goal for the program is to provide our interns with hands-on experience and to help them expand their knowledge of sales and the financial sector.
Sarah Hall will be an Oklahoma State University Fall 2023 graduate as a Psychology major with a Business Emphasis and a Minor in Spanish - while also pursuing a Professional Certification in Sales and Service Excellence.
"I chose to work at Adaptation because of the people and the values. Strong values in the workplace are very important to me. They are vital in everything from the big decisions of the company to the attitude someone has when they come in to work each day. Often, companies say they have core values, but they are nothing more than pleasant words used for recruiting. However, at Adaptation it is quite the opposite. When I came home from the intern mixer the first thing I told my family was how impressed I was by the character and honesty of everyone I met. Adaptation truly lives its values, and it is apparent in the day-to-day environment. They made me feel welcome and wanted on my first day, and they continue to do so every day. Each person here is so kind and supportive and will not hesitate to help with anything. They have created an environment to help me excel and continue to provide me with new and exciting opportunities, and I am excited to see what the future has in store!" – Sarah Hall
Rosella "Jojo" Roberson will be an Oklahoma State University Spring 2023 graduate as a Finance major and a member of the Equestrian team.
"I chose Adaptation because of several reasons, but most importantly, their opportunities for growth along with their core values. Adaptation is unlike many other companies in that they truly want to set you up for success in your career. When I joined their open house intern mixer in May, Alan Niemann, the Founder and CEO, explained the training and hands on experience we would have as their interns. Not only that, but he talked about how important work-life balance was to Adaptation. Simply observing everyone interact and tell stories during the mixer, I could see their care and concern for one another was genuine. I knew after meeting some of the employees that this was a company I would love the opportunity to work for. During the short time I have been here, it has been everything I thought and hoped it would be." – Jojo Roberson
About Adaptation Financial
Adaptation Financial, Inc is a Hybrid Independent Registered Investment Advisory firm with over $750MM of client assets under management. The firm currently has 6 office locations across 3 states and caters to individual investors. Securities are offered through Registered Representatives of Cambridge Investment Research Inc., a broker-dealer, member FINRA/SIPC. Advisory services are through Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Inc., a Registered Investment Advisor. Financial planning services are through Adaptation Financial Advisors, Inc., a Registered Investment Advisor. Cambridge and Adaptation Financial Advisors are not affiliated.
Visit www.adaptfa.com or call 800-522-8727 to connect with an advisor in your area.
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James Edmund Caan was an athletic kid from the Bronx, the son of German-Jewish immigrants who grew up to play tough movie guys: sailors, football players, gangsters and was one of the most recognizable screen actors of his era.
He died on July 6, according to a post on his official Twitter account. No further details were available.
It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Jimmy on the evening of July 6.
— James Caan (@James_Caan) July 7, 2022
The family appreciates the outpouring of love and heartfelt condolences and asks that you continue to respect their privacy during this difficult time.
End of tweet
Best known for his explosive turn as Sonny Corleone in The Godfather and as a dying professional football player in the made-for-TV-movie Brian's Song (which earned him Oscar and Emmy nominations, respectively), Caan lent an eminently watchable machismo to dozens of films and shows. In Misery, he was a famous author held captive by Kathy Bates. In Gardens of Stone, he was a heartsick Vietnam vet reluctantly guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. In Elf, he played against type as a failing children's book publisher who is also the main character's dad.
After starting in theater and television, Caan burst into Hollywood like a comet, appearing in films by some of the most renowned auteurs of the era, including Howard Hawks (El Dorado), Robert Altman (Countdown) and Francis Ford Coppola (The Rain People). His burst of early success led to a period of difficulty, both personal and professional. Caan married and divorced several times, got into on-set arguments and publicly struggled with substance abuse and depression.
He turned down numerous films that would prove to be pivotal for other actors, including Kramer vs. Kramer, Apocalypse Now, M*A*S*H and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, choosing projects instead that became flops.
"There are pictures I made that I still haven't seen," he told The New York Times in 1991. "I was depressed when I was making them. In the middle of some of these pictures, I kept thinking, 'What am I doing here?' It's like you're in a hallway and you can't get out."
Misery helped turn things around. The former athlete spent much of the 1990 movie tied to a bed. Caan also anchored the movie emotionally. His actorly range was immense; he performed in song-and-dance films such as Funny Lady and For The Boys but also in dark, serious films such as Dogville by Danish auteur Lars von Trier.
Caan worked steadily up until the end of his life, playing grandparents, colonels and inevitably, himself, in animated appearances on Family Guy and The Simpsons.
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MONTREAL, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Dollarama Inc. (TSX: DOL) ("Dollarama" or the "Corporation") announced today that it has amended its existing syndicated credit facilities to convert them to a sustainability-linked loan ("SLL") with available credit of C$1,050 million.
"We are proud to be among the first Canadian retailers to integrate ESG targets to our credit agreement. This marks another important step in our ESG journey, as we pursue our growth strategy and seek to create sustainable value for our stakeholders," said Neil Rossy, President and Chief Executive Officer.
"The conversion to sustainability-linked credit facilities is a concrete example of Dollarama's continued efforts to meaningfully integrate our ESG strategy and commitments into everyday decision-making, including in the active management of our capital structure," said J.P. Towner, Chief Financial Officer.
The SLL is tied to two specific sustainability performance targets ("SPTs") related to the Corporation's overall Environmental, Social and Governance ("ESG") strategy and which are linked to incentive pricing terms, namely: 1) Climate Change and Energy Management: Reduction of Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions intensity; and 2) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Increase of female gender representation in management positions.
RBC Capital Markets ("RBC") and CIBC acted as Co-Sustainability Structuring Agents.
Concurrently, Dollarama extended the term of each syndicated credit facility and upsized the credit available under all facilities to C$1,050 million, from C$800 million. The term of each facility was extended by one year, with Facility A now maturing on July 5, 2027, Facility B and Facility C maturing on July 5, 2025, and Facility D maturing on July 5, 2023. Under certain circumstances and subject to receipt of additional commitments from existing lenders or other eligible institutions, the Corporation may request increases to committed facilities up to an aggregate amount, together with all then-existing commitments, of C$1,500 million. RBC and CIBC acted as Joint Bookrunners on the extension and upsizing of the credit facilities.
Upsize of U.S. Commercial Paper Program
The Corporation also announced today the upsize of its commercial paper program in the United States (the "US Commercial Paper Program") from US$500 million to US$700 million.
Under the terms of the US Commercial Paper Program initially launched in February 2020, the Corporation may issue, from time to time, on a private placement basis, unsecured commercial paper notes with maturities not in excess of 397 days from the date of issue (the "Notes"). The aggregate principal amount of Notes outstanding at any one time under the US Commercial Paper Program, as amended, will not exceed US$700 million. The Corporation intends to continue to use the proceeds from the issuance of Notes for general corporate purposes.
The Notes are direct unsecured obligations of the Corporation and rank equally with all of its other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness. The Notes are unconditionally guaranteed by Dollarama L.P. and Dollarama GP Inc., each a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Corporation. The Corporation's upsized credit facilities will continue to serve as a liquidity backstop for the repayment of the Notes issued under the US Commercial Paper Program.
The Notes have not been and will not be qualified for sale to the public under applicable securities laws in Canada and may not be offered or sold to any resident of Canada.
The Notes offered under the US Commercial Paper Program have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or under any state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the Notes in the United States or any jurisdiction where it is unlawful to do so.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release about our current and future plans, expectations and intentions, results, levels of activity, performance, goals or achievements, and any other future events or developments constitute forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements are based on information currently available to management and on estimates and assumptions made by management in light of its experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that are believed to be appropriate and reasonable in the circumstances. However, there can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. Many factors could cause future events or developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, the factors discussed in the "Risks and Uncertainties" section of the Corporation's annual management's discussion and analysis for the fiscal year ended January 30, 2022, available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements made herein. Furthermore, unless otherwise stated, the forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as at July 7, 2022 and the Corporation has no intention and undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.
About Dollarama
Dollarama is a recognized Canadian value retailer offering a broad assortment of consumable products, general merchandise and seasonal items both in-store and online. Our 1,431 locations across Canada provide customers with compelling value in convenient locations, including metropolitan areas, mid-sized cities and small towns. Select products are also available, by the full case only, through our online store at www.dollarama.com. Our quality merchandise is sold at select fixed price points up to $5.00.
Dollarama also owns a 50.1% interest in Dollarcity, a growing Latin American value retailer. Dollarcity offers a broad assortment of consumable products, general merchandise and seasonal items at select, fixed price points up to US$4.00 (or the equivalent in local currency) in 358 conveniently located stores in El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia and Peru.
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JACKSON, Mich., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CMS Energy announced today it will provide 2022 second quarter results along with a business and financial outlook at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Thursday, July 28, 2022.
A webcast of the presentation will be available on CMS Energy's website, cmsenergy.com. An audio replay will be available approximately three hours after the webcast and will be archived for 30 days on CMS Energy's website in the "Investor Relations" section.
CMS Energy (NYSE: CMS) is a Michigan-based energy company featuring Consumers Energy as its primary business. It also owns and operates independent power generation businesses.
For more information on CMS Energy, please visit our website at cmsenergy.com. To sign up for email alert notifications, please visit the Investor Relations section of our website.
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- Dr. Geoff Nichol, M.B., Ch.B., M.B.A., joins HaemaLogiX's Board of Directors as Non-Executive Director, bringing nearly 30 years of global drug development experience
- Past achievements include approval of Augmentin BID for adults and children, plus foundational clinical development of breakthrough cancer immunotherapy checkpoint inhibitors, Yervoy and Optivo
SYDNEY, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HaemaLogiX Ltd, a clinical stage immuno-oncology biotech developing novel immunotherapies for patients with blood cancers, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Geoff Nichol to its Board as Non-Executive Director.
Bryce Carmine, HaemaLogiX's Chairman and CEO commented: "Geoff's impressive, globally recognised background in drug development, and in particular, in antibody development, makes him a valuable contribution to the HaemaLogiX board. Importantly, during his time at Medarex, Geoff oversaw the preclinical and clinical development of KappaMab, our multiple myeloma drug candidate. He brings outstanding industry knowledge and a highly translatable skillset to our Board mix.
"We are delighted to welcome Geoff and look forward to his contributions as we continue to advance our immunotherapeutic pipeline."
Dr. Nichol brings nearly 30 years' experience in drug development. His first drug development success was at SmithKline Beecham with the approval of Augmentin BID in 1996 for adults and children for all indications.
As a VP at Novartis (1996-2002), he managed, successively, a clinical development therapeutic area, US Medical Affairs, and Global Project and Portfolio Management, with significant involvement in the Foradil and Xolair programs.
Dr. Nichol was SVP of Development at Medarex Inc, where he was responsible for the foundational clinical development of the breakthrough cancer immunotherapy checkpoint inhibitors Yervoy (Phase 1 through Phase 3) and Opdivo (Phase 1). Medarex was acquired by Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) in 2009 and gained regulatory approval and commercial release of both these drugs. In recognition of the significance of these breakthrough therapies in 2018 the medical scientists who discovered these checkpoint drugs – Prof James Allison and Prof Tasuku Honjo - were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
From 2011-2016 Dr. Nichol was EVP R&D at Sangamo BioSciences, a genome editing and gene therapy company. He managed the pre-clinical development of several IND candidates both in vivo and ex vivo in T cells and stem cells, and a gene therapy for haemophilia, all now in late-stage clinical trials.
In 2016, Dr. Nichol became Chief Medical Officer at BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc, managing an active portfolio of clinical development programs, including the development and approval of Brineura for Batten disease, Palynziq for Phenylketonuria a VOXZOGO for achondroplasia, and phase 3 development of BMN 270, a leading investigational gene therapy for haemophilia. In 2021, Dr. Nichol transitioned from CMO into a Senior Advisor role with BioMarin and remained active with the company until mid-2022.
Dr. Nichol graduated in medicine from the Otago University Medical School in New Zealand and completed clinical advanced training in Thoracic Medicine in Christchurch New Zealand, Adelaide SA and London UK. He has an MBA from Warwick University, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He resides is in the Bay area of San Francisco, USA.
"I am delighted to be joining the Board to guide strategy around the further development of KappaMab as well as HaemaLogiX's other pipeline assets," said incoming Non-Executive Director, Dr. Nichol. "I look forward to working with the team to bring forward much needed new therapies for patients with multiple myeloma and other diseases."
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About HaemaLogiX Ltd | www.haemalogix.com
Founded in 2014, HaemaLogiX Ltd is a clinical stage immune-oncology biotech developing novel immunotherapies for patients with blood cancers. The Company is focused on the development and commercialisation of monoclonal antibodies (Mab) for the treatment of multiple myeloma and potentially other blood cancers.
We have identified and characterised two novel drug targets, Kappa Myeloma Antigen (KMA) and Lambda Myeloma Antigen (LMA), on the surface of human blood cancers and autoimmune cells. These targets are highly specific to the cancer cells identified in blood cancers such as multiple myeloma, some lymphomas and Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia.
Importantly, KMA and LMA are not present on healthy cells. Clinical studies to date, have demonstrated fewer side effects, especially when compared to other current therapies in multiple myeloma. It is anticipated that further clinical studies will support this observation.
HaemaLogiX is a public unlisted Australian company, and our Mab technology is based on 10 years of research conducted at the University of Technology, Sydney, along with various world-leading institutions in Australia, Europe and the US. We hold a breadth of patents and have exclusivity over both the targets and the antibodies directed to them, making our intellectual property position comparatively more valuable and less prone to competitive challenge.
The monoclonal antibodies under development have also been formulated into other platforms such as CAR-T cell therapy and a bispecific monoclonal antibody. These three formulations may enable use in additional disease areas and the treatment of both early and late-stage disease giving them wide market potential.
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The story of how Croatian filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović got Martin Scorsese to help her make her first feature is, she thinks, “a boring one.”
Boring might be a bit modest, but it was rather quick. The day after her graduation from film school, she flew to Cannes, shook his hand and came out of their meeting with his company Sikelia on board to executive produce her movie “ Murina.”
“It was too easy,” she said. “I don’t know if it happens like that every day. I don’t think so.”
But Scorsese saw something in Kusijanović and her short “ Into the Blue,” about a young teenage girl and her mother who flee an abusive household and seek refuge on an idyllic Croatian island. The 22-minute film won several prizes at international film festivals and was nominated for a student Academy Award.
“Here was a director with a picture she needed to make who was clearly in it for the long haul,” Scorsese wrote recently. “I wanted to help her get it into production.”
“Murina,” which opens in New York on Friday and in Los Angeles on July 15, is a picturesque, sun-soaked thriller about a 17-year-old girl, Julija (Gracija Filipović), living on a rocky, remote island on the Adriatic with a cruel, domineering father (Leon Lučev) and a complacent mother (Danica Čurčić). She gets a tease of a larger world when a cosmopolitan outsider (Cliff Curtis) arrives with big ideas about her future.
Film critic Jessica Kiang wrote in her review that “Murina” feels like something Patricia Highsmith ("The Talented Mr. Ripley," "Carol'') might have written.
Kusijanović had been grappling with the idea of chauvinism that's so deeply rooted in a society that it's mistaken as “cultural mentality” when she started to write. She wrote the film specifically for Filipović, who starred in “Into the Blue,” as she wanted to capture her on the edge of adulthood at 17 and 18.
“I wrote ’Murina for her but also wrote it for myself," she said. "I wrote it for many women around the world and especially in Croatia.”
In Julija is a character who lives in a physical paradise, but is starting to see cracks in the veneer.
"I hope she’s someone everybody relates to," Kusijanović said. “She will not be made small. She needs to live through her youth and her power. And she will protect herself no matter what it takes. That’s how I would like to think of this new generation of women."
Kusijanović was born and raised in Dubrovnik, a small city in Croatia on the Adriatic coast, and fell in love with theater at a young age. She attended plays with her mother and began acting as a child. Directing, however, was not on her mind. In Croatia, there have only been a handful of female directors, she said. It wasn’t a path that seemed open to her.
“Every condition, no matter how good it is, if it’s not developing and evolving emotionally, intellectually, creatively, becomes a prison,” she said. “In my country, I see sometimes a place that’s stagnating because of the lack of imagination. But then again, to be fair, it’s not only Croatia. I see it because I am emotionally connected to Croatia, but I also see that everywhere.”
She took a big leap and moved to New York to do an internship with a film company. After some encouragement from a friend, she decided to enroll in Columbia, where she got an MFA in screenwriting and directing. That's all to say that the Scorsese meeting may have been easy, but it was also something that she’d been working toward her whole life.
“I actually earned it,” she said. “I worked very hard for it, and a lot of things needed to connect in the past for that moment to come to fruition starting from the age of 4. There is no such thing as an overnight success.”
“Murina” had its world premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival and won Kusijanović the Caméra d’Or, for best first film. But she wasn’t there to accept the award. She was nine months pregnant at the time, and decided to leave Cannes and drive the 13 hours home to Croatia one night. Soon after she delivered her first child.
Even with all the accolades, Kusijanović said it was a note Scorsese wrote about the film that moved her the most. She keeps it close by in her phone and excitedly reads it out loud.
“I’m so impressed by ‘Murina:' By the raw immediacy of the conflict between father and daughter, which feels like it could only happen in such an elemental setting; By the psychosexual tensions between all the characters, so beautifully acted; And by the sheer physical force of the picture,” Scorsese wrote. “I’m excited for audiences to see ‘Murina’ for themselves and to witness the emergence of an extremely talented young filmmaker.”
Kusijanović does have one quibble with the note, however.
“I’m not young,” she deadpanned. “Maybe 36 is young for a director.”
As the film has played around Croatia, Kusijanović has received many messages about it from men and women. Some recognize their families in the film. Some recognize themselves. Others have said that they just see a normal family.
“That is the audience that needs this film,” Kusijanović said. “Misogyny and disrespect of women is the same everywhere. It just has different names in different countries.”
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ALAMEDA, Calif., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Penumbra, Inc. (NYSE: PEN) today announced that it will host a conference call to discuss financial results for the second quarter 2022 after market close on Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 4:30 PM Eastern Time. A press release with second quarter 2022 financial results will be issued after market close that day.
Webcast & Conference Call Information
The conference call can be accessed live over the phone by dialing (888) 330-2443 for domestic and international callers (conference id: 4604622), or the webcast can be accessed on the "Events" section under the "Investors" tab of the Company's website at: www.penumbrainc.com. The webcast will be available on the Company's website for at least two weeks following the completion of the call.
About Penumbra
Penumbra, Inc., headquartered in Alameda, California, is a global healthcare company focused on innovative therapies. Penumbra designs, develops, manufactures and markets novel products and has a broad portfolio that addresses challenging medical conditions in markets with significant unmet need. Penumbra supports healthcare providers, hospitals and clinics in more than 100 countries. For more information, visit www.penumbrainc.com and connect on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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An awkwardly scheduled date could turn into double trouble when the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds cram a doubleheader into a busy week on Thursday.
The National League Central clubs will squeeze a lockout-rescheduled contest and a May 6 rainout makeup into what could have been a travel day for the Pirates and a day off for the Reds between visits from the New York Mets and Tampa Bay Rays.
Instead, the Pirates will attempt to brush off a 16-0 home shellacking at the hands of the New York Yankees while the Reds will try to bounce back after blowing a ninth-inning lead in an 8-3, 10-inning defeat at the hands of the Mets.
The Pirates plan to start right-handers Roansy Contreras (2-2, 4.09 ERA) and Bryse Wilson (1-4, 7.49) in the doubleheader. The Reds are expected to counter with lefty Mike Minor (1-5, 6.82), then decide upon a starter among bullpen options for the nightcap depending upon how Game 1 goes.
For the most part, both teams have held their own against quality competition of late.
The Pirates’ thumping Wednesday completed a 3-3 homestand in which they alternated wins and losses against the Milwaukee Brewers and the Yankees.
Meanwhile, the Reds split their past four games against the Atlanta Braves and the Mets.
If there was an advantage in Wednesday’s results, it went to the Pirates. The lopsided nature of their defeat allowed them to rest key relievers on a night when infielder Josh VanMeter pitched the ninth inning.
Pirates manager Derek Shelton wasn’t going to let one big bump in the road spoil a nice ride of late.
“Right now, they’re the best team in baseball,” he said of the Yankees. “When you have a young group of players, it’s really important for them to see what really good teams play like. It’s important for them to watch and to learn.”
While the Pirates were watching and learning, the Reds were firing all their cannons at the Mets, only to watch the visitors rally from a 3-2 deficit in the ninth to eventually get the extra-inning win.
Pirates Game 1 starter Contreras has never faced the Reds in his career. The 22-year-old is coming off his worst outing of the season, one in which his ERA ballooned from 2.76 to 4.09 when he allowed seven runs in 1 2/3 innings in a 19-2 loss to the Brewers on Friday.
He had limited the Chicago Cubs and Tampa Bay to a total of two runs over 10 innings in his previous two starts.
His counterpart, Minor, threw his best game of the year in his Friday start, limiting the Braves to two runs in six innings in what turned into a 9-1 defeat.
The 34-year-old has gone 1-1 with a 5.08 ERA in five career starts against the Pirates.
In Game 2, Wilson will attempt to duplicate his last outing, when he rebounded from allowing a total of 14 runs in 6 2/3 innings in two starts against the St. Louis Cardinals to hold the Brewers to two runs in six innings on Saturday.
The 24-year-old will be making his second career start against the Reds. He took the loss in a 3-2 defeat at Cincinnati last August after giving up all three runs in six innings.
The Reds’ opening in Game 2 was created when Tyler Mahle went on the injured list this week due to a strained right shoulder.
“It’s just a little bit of irritation and inflammation,” he said. “I think a little break will be great.”
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HARTFORD, Conn., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtus Total Return Fund Inc. (NYSE: ZTR) previously announced the following monthly distribution on May 25, 2022:
Under the terms of its Managed Distribution Plan, the Fund will seek to maintain a consistent distribution level that may be paid in part or in full from net investment income and realized capital gains, or a combination thereof. Shareholders should note, however, that if the Fund's aggregate net investment income and net realized capital gains are less than the amount of the distribution level, the difference will be distributed from the Fund's assets and will constitute a return of the shareholder's capital. You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's Managed Distribution Plan.
The Fund estimates that it has distributed more than its income and capital gains; therefore, a portion of your distribution may be a return of capital. A return of capital may occur, for example, when some or all of the money that you invested in the Fund is paid back to you. A return of capital distribution does not necessarily reflect the Fund's investment performance and should not be confused with 'yield' or 'income'.
The Fund provided this estimate of the sources of the distributions:
Information regarding the Fund's performance and distribution rates is set forth below. Please note that all performance figures are based on the Fund's NAV and not the market price of the Fund's shares. Performance figures are not meant to represent individual shareholder performance.
The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this notice are estimates only and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the distributions for tax purposes will depend on the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund or your broker will send you a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell you what distributions to report for federal income tax purposes.
About the Fund
Virtus Total Return Fund Inc. is a diversified closed-end fund whose investment objective is capital appreciation, with income as a secondary objective. Virtus Investment Advisers, Inc. is the investment adviser, and Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. and Newfleet Asset Management, LLC are the subadvisers to the Fund.
For more information on the Fund, contact shareholder services at (866) 270-7788, by email at closedendfunds@virtus.com, or through the closed-end fund section of www.virtus.com.
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An investment in a fund is subject to risk, including the risk of possible loss of principal. A fund's shares may be worth less upon their sale than what an investor paid for them. Shares of closed-end funds may trade at a premium or discount to their net asset value. For more information about each Fund's investment objective and risks, please see the Fund's annual report. A copy of the Fund's most recent annual report may be obtained free of charge by contacting "Shareholder Services" as set forth at the bottom of this press release.
About Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co.
Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. has more than 35 years of experience managing investment portfolios, including institutional separate accounts and open- and closed-end funds investing in utilities, master limited partnerships (MLPs), infrastructure, and real estate investment trusts (REITs). For more information, visit www.dpimc.com.
About Newfleet Asset Management
Newfleet Asset Management, an affiliated manager of Virtus Investment Partners, provides comprehensive fixed income portfolio management in multiple strategies. The Newfleet Multi-Sector Strategies team that manages the Virtus Total Return Fund Inc. leverages the knowledge and skill of investment professionals with expertise in every sector of the bond market, including evolving, specialized, and out-of-favor sectors. The team employs active sector rotation and disciplined risk management to portfolio construction, avoiding interest rate bets, and remaining duration neutral to each strategy's stated benchmark. For more information, visit www.newfleet.com.
About Virtus Investment Partners
Virtus Investment Partners (NASDAQ: VRTS) is a distinctive partnership of boutique investment managers singularly committed to the long-term success of individual and institutional investors. The company provides investment management products and services through its affiliated managers and select subadvisers, each with a distinct investment style, autonomous investment process, and individual brand. For more information, visit www.virtus.com.
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Russian troops have taken Luhansk and are headed for Donetsk, pounding cities along the way. When Donetsk falls, which seems likely, Putin will have "liberated the Donbas." But will he be satisfied?
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Historic partnership brings brand that was born in an NHL locker room and co-founded by veteran player, back to its roots
TORONTO, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Today, BioSteel Sports Nutrition Inc. (BioSteel), the National Hockey League (NHL) and the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) announced a new multi-year partnership naming BioSteel the Official Hydration Partner of the NHL and the NHLPA. The milestone partnership will debut during the 2022 NHL Draft in Montreal, where BioSteel is a presenting sponsor of national coverage across Rogers Sportsnet in Canada. The new partnership will provide the BioSteel brand with League-wide rinkside marketing and product supply rights, retail activation rights, community engagement platforms, player marketing and activation rights and more. This marks the sports hydration company's first partnership with a League as it continues to bring Clean. Healthy. Hydration. to communities, athletes and fans across North America.
Beginning in the 2022-23 NHL regular season, fans will see NHL players hydrating with BioSteel during every NHL game in North America. BioSteel products will be featured on each bench, penalty box and goal net. In addition, BioSteel will have a year-round platform to activate brand programming with NHL marks, logos, teams and players, including at the NHL Scouting Combine and NHL Draft, which includes a new BioSteel-sponsored Prospects Portal on NHL.com aggregating next-generation content, including NHL Central Scouting's rankings, player reports, NHL Scouting Combine statistics and results, interviews and more, about potential future NHL players. BioSteel will also be a presenting partner of a marquee NHL social platform to be announced at a later date. As a part of its continued efforts to hydrate the next generation, BioSteel will also be the presenting partner of the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, given to the top NCAA men's ice hockey player in the nation.
BioSteel was born in an NHL locker room when retired NHL player, Michael Cammalleri, and his business partner John Celenza, a former NHLPA intern, set out to offer a "better-for-you" hydration option for athletes. After establishing a zero-sugar formula that features essential electrolytes and no artificial flavors or preservatives, the brand quickly became highly sought-after in professional sports, regularly found in athletes' lockers throughout North America, including many in the NHL. Fast forward to today, BioSteel is seeing its story come full circle from its authentic hockey roots as the brand continues to cement itself as the go-to sports drink for those seeking a cleaner, healthier hydration option.
"Hockey has been an integral part of the BioSteel brand since day one, when we set out to offer a cleaner, healthier hydration product for both myself and athletes everywhere," said Michael Cammalleri, NHL Veteran and Co-Founder and Co-CEO of BioSteel. "To see this brand become the Official Hydration Partner of the NHL is truly a full circle moment, and we're so proud to partner with the League and the Players' Association to support players hydration both on and off the ice and to introduce a new generation of fans to our brand and products."
"We are thrilled to announce our new long-term partnership with BioSteel – an authentic brand that was born in the locker room, built by and for hockey players," said Keith Wachtel, NHL Chief Business Officer and Senior Executive Vice President. "BioSteel is an extremely motivated and engaged partner who is going to bring our sport to fans through their distribution channels like never before. This landmark deal includes a commitment to execute against extensive retail activations and through all the League's media platforms, and as such, the NHL, our players and our fans are going to benefit significantly from this partnership."
"We are thrilled to announce this partnership that makes BioSteel the official sports hydration partner of the NHLPA and NHL," said Mathieu Schneider, NHLPA Special Assistant to the Executive Director. "BioSteel has a long connection with NHL players, being created in and around NHL locker rooms and we are excited to now have the opportunity to utilize the profile and reach of our players to grow and strengthen this partnership with BioSteel and the NHL."
Founded in 2009 by Cammalleri and Celenza, BioSteel has achieved a reputation for being the hydration product of choice for athletes and consumers looking for a zero-sugar alternative. The brand is committed to using premium ingredients, maintaining product transparency, and delivering essential electrolytes needed to support physical activity. Each electrolyte-packed sports drink comes in an eco-friendly 16.7 fl oz Tetra Pak, and the range of flavors includes Blue Raspberry, Mixed Berry, Peach Mango, Rainbow Twist and White Freeze to keep athletes and health-conscious consumers hydrated throughout the day.
BioSteel products are available in stores across North America, globally with select retail partners or direct to consumers online through biosteel.com.
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About BioSteel
BioSteel is a North American beverage brand committed to delivering premium Clean. Healthy. Hydration. to consumers and athletes across the globe. Each BioSteel sports drink is sugar-free and comes in an eco-friendly Tetra Pak filled with premium ingredients, natural flavors and essential electrolytes needed to support physical activity. Perfect for everyone from health and environmentally conscious consumers to world class athletes, BioSteel hydration products are currently readily available across North America, globally with select retail partners and direct to consumers online through www.biosteel.com.
About the NHL
The National Hockey League (NHL®), founded in 1917, consists of 32 Member Clubs. Each team roster reflects the League's international makeup with players from more than 20 countries represented, all vying for the most cherished and historic trophy in professional sports – the Stanley Cup®. Every year, the NHL entertains more than 670 million fans in-arena and through its partners on national television and radio; more than 191 million followers - league, team and player accounts combined - across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube; and more than 100 million fans online at NHL.com. The League broadcasts games in more than 160 countries and territories through its rightsholders including ESPN, Turner Sports and NHL NetworkMC in the U.S.; Sportsnet and TVA Sports in Canada; Viaplay in the Nordic Region; and CCTV and Tencent in China; and reaches fans worldwide with games available to stream in every country. Fans are engaged across the League's digital assets on mobile devices via the free NHL® App; across nine social media platforms; on SiriusXM NHL Network Radio™; and on NHL.com, available in eight languages and featuring unprecedented access to player and team statistics as well as every regular-season and playoff game box score dating back to the League's inception, powered by SAP. NHL Original Productions and NHL Studios produce compelling original programming featuring unprecedented access to players, coaches and League and team personnel for distribution across the NHL's social and digital platforms.
The NHL is committed to building healthy and vibrant communities using the sport of hockey to celebrate fans of every race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status. The NHL's Hockey Is For Everyone™ initiative reinforces that the official policy of the sport is one of inclusion on the ice, in locker rooms, boardrooms and stands. The NHL is expanding access and opportunity for people of all backgrounds and abilities to play hockey, fostering more inclusive environments and growing the game through a greater diversity of participants. To date, the NHL has invested more than $100 million in youth hockey and grassroots programs, with a commitment to invest an additional $5 million for diversity and inclusion programs over the next year.
About the National Hockey League Players' Association
The National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA), established in 1967, is a labour organization whose members are the players in the National Hockey League (NHL). The NHLPA works on behalf of the players in varied disciplines such as labour relations, product licensing, marketing, international hockey and community relations, all in furtherance of its efforts to promote its members and the game of hockey. In 1999, the NHLPA launched the Goals & Dreams fund as a way for the players to give something back to the game they love. Over the past 22 years, more than 80,000 deserving children in 34 countries have benefited from the players' donations of hockey equipment. NHLPA Goals & Dreams has donated more than $25 million to grassroots hockey programs, making it the largest program of its kind. For more information on the NHLPA, please visit www.nhlpa.com.
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It’s hardly a secret that living in a well-organized, clutter-free home is good for our mental health. One 2019 study found that “an overabundance of possessions that collectively create chaotic and disorderly living spaces” has a “negative impact” on one’s psychological health.
It’s also no surprise that a lot of us live in houses with a definite overabundance of possessions.
The good news is that when you find yourself surrounded by too much stuff, there are free services in the Seattle area that can help get those belongings out of your home — and out of your life.
“I’m constantly downsizing, figuring out ways to get rid of stuff,” says Jacqueline Noles, who lives in Seattle’s Pinehurst neighborhood. She says keeping her home’s clutter at bay “keeps anxiety to a minimum.”
“Once you don’t have all that stuff anymore, it is so freeing,” Noles says. “It’s incredible.”
Here are a few ways you can get rid of those possessions that have overstayed their welcome.
Post it on Buy Nothing
One widely used service for donating and swapping goods in the Puget Sound area is the Buy Nothing Project. Founded on Bainbridge Island in 2013, Buy Nothing is now used in dozens of countries and lets its members give away (or ask for) pretty much anything — from plants and pillows to party supplies and pantry items.
Members of Buy Nothing communities — grouped together by neighborhood — typically use Facebook to post their items or use the Buy Nothing app, which was released in November.
“You can give away anything — we just ask that you disclose the condition,” says Danita Day, who administers Seattle’s Bryant North Buy Nothing group, along with Marni Klein and Sam Thompson.
And the 1,400 or so members of Bryant North really do post just about anything, Day says.
“People [will post] broken patio tables, and then somebody will be like, ‘Oh, I can use that for an art project,’ ” she says. “Broken pottery? Somebody that does crafts can use it.”
Marlee Khastou, also of Pinehurst, says she has been using Buy Nothing to give and get items for a couple of years and is a big fan. “I think it’s just a tremendously wonderful idea,” she says.
Khastou says she feels Buy Nothing is more community-oriented than bringing your items anonymously to a donation center. “It is a more friendly experience,” she says. She recently gave away an Ikea high chair that her granddaughter had outgrown.
“The people who came to get it were really excited about it,” Khastou says.
The community aspect of Buy Nothing can also help people feel safer than using a more anonymous swapping service, Thompson says. “It’s part of the community thing. If you’re done wrong by somebody in your Buy Nothing community, most people wouldn’t want to risk their reputation that way,” she says.
Thanks to Buy Nothing, Thompson says, countless items have seen their pre-landfill time extended by being used and swapped, over and over again.
“A lot of puzzle trading — I’m pretty active on that,” she says. “It’s great because you do it and then you don’t need to keep it on the shelf. You just move it along.”
Get started: Visit bnponfb.org/find-a-group, where you can download the Buy Nothing app or find your local group.
Find a home for furniture, appliances
When Kathy Truher and her husband downsized from a trilevel house in
Bellevue to a one-story home in Snohomish last year, they found themselves with far too much furniture for their new space.
“We had whole rooms of furniture that we knew we weren’t going to bring with us. And it was good stuff,” Truher says. “Chairs, dressers, there were some little nightstands. There was pretty much a garage full of perfectly good furniture that wasn’t going to fit into any of the rooms.”
Truher didn’t want to throw it all out — “Putting it in a landfill doesn’t make any sense at all” — so she reached out to Habitat for Humanity. The housing-focused charity operates stores in Bellevue, Tukwila and Auburn, offering mostly furniture and building materials, including lighting, plumbing, home decor items, appliances and windows. It also accepts donations and offers free pickup.
The pickup service was critical, Truher says. “There’s no way we could get any of [the furniture to fit] in our cars. Wasn’t going to happen,” she says.
Amy Sullivan, retail operations manager for Habitat for Humanity Seattle-King & Kittitas Counties, advises donors to make sure their items have no stains and don’t require any repairs. “Everything needs to be in good, resellable condition,” she says.
Furniture is their biggest seller, Sullivan says, but Habitat for Humanity stores accept tools, lawn and garden goods, cabinets and much more. She notes that they have a “pretty extensive building supply area, which I think sets us apart from other resale thrift shops.”
Clothing, mattresses, electronics and items that need repair are not accepted, Sullivan says.
When deciding whether to schedule a pickup or bring items in yourself, know that time is a factor: Pickups usually can’t be scheduled right away.
“We’re typically about four weeks out during the summer months,” Sullivan says. At other times of the year, expect a lead time of two to three weeks.
“The quickest and easiest way, if you are able to, would be to just drop them off at the stores,” she says. “You can drop them off any time during business hours. You don’t need to make an appointment.”
Also, items that Habitat for Humanity picks up can’t be located inside your home.
“All items have to be either in a garage or carport, something covered, especially when it’s raining,” Sullivan says.
Get started: Visit habitatskc.org/store/donate-goods to view donation guidelines, find locations or schedule a pickup.
Donate to a nonprofit
The Salvation Army was one of the earliest organizations to set up the now-familiar model of selling donated goods through a network of stores. It’s a win-win situation: Donors get rid of their stuff (and get to write off the value on their taxes), while the not-for-profit Salvation Army sells the donated items and applies the proceeds to its wide array of social programs, including disaster relief, food pantries and addiction recovery services.
“We believe that the Salvation Army is a good recycler,” says Eric Farley, retail operations director of the Salvation Army’s Northwest Division. “With nonprofits, not only are you recycling and reusing, but the proceeds and the sales of these items in the thrift store also go to support local programs. It’s a great cycle.”
The Salvation Army accepts most household goods, including small appliances, books, clothing and sports equipment. It generally doesn’t accept mattresses, large appliances, building materials or items that can’t be resold, such as recalled baby items.
Noles says she often takes items such as clothes and housewares to a Salvation Army location. “I like things repurposed. I hate to throw things in the trash,” she says.
While the Salvation Army has long been associated with its distinctive trucks, pickup isn’t currently available locally. For now, Seattle-area donors can drop off goods at the Salvation Army stores in Tukwila and Shoreline.
Get started: Visit satruck.org to view locations and donation guidelines.
Recycle your old electronics
Some of the tougher items to part with safely and securely are computers, phones and electronics. For these, Seattle Computer Recycling has you covered.
“We’ll recycle almost any type of electronics, really,” says lead repair technician Jaidon Preston.
Seattle Computer Recycling operates a store on Aurora Avenue North that, along with recycling electronics, also repairs and refurbishes items and sells used equipment. They accept most electronics for recycling free of charge, including laptops, desktop computers and smartphones. To get rid of your equipment, simply walk into the shop during store hours and hand it over, Preston says.
“Any type of computers, if they’re functional and relevant to the last few years, they usually get refurbished, and they can be resold here in the store,” he says. “Older machines and things like that can get parted out and used here in various capacities. We really only refuse things that are blatantly scrap.”
Seattle Computer Recycling does not accept televisions, and they charge a fee to take printers and CRT monitors (“the big blocky ones,” Preston says), which contain some hazardous materials.
Get started: Visit seattlecomputerrecycling.net to learn more about its recycling services and to view store hours.
Host an item swap
Of course, you don’t need to go through a service to get rid of your goods. You can set up your own community event.
Seattle resident Michelle Goodman hosted several clothing swaps in her home before the pandemic, and she’s planning to hold another one this summer.
“It was both a very pragmatic thing and also kind of like a party,” she says of the swaps. “It’s kind of an event.”
For her earlier swaps, Goodman invited people to bring clothing they no longer wanted. Once there, they added their clothes to what Goodman was giving away, and could also take any clothes that others had brought.
“It was usually a three-hour thing on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon,” she says. “We would invite maybe 75 to 100 people or more, knowing that we’d have 25 to 35 people throughout the afternoon — which is actually a lot of people to have in your living room.”
For her upcoming swap, Goodman plans to stage it outside and perhaps invite fewer people. She has a bathroom near the backyard that guests can use, she says, and there’s an indoor space where people can try on clothes.
For those who plan to host a clothing swap or similar event of their own, Goodman suggests including parameters in the invitations, so it’s clear what items guests may and may not bring.
For her clothing swaps, she says, clothes don’t have to be designer brands, but they shouldn’t be damaged or stained. Accessories like hats, belts and scarves are fine, but no housewares.
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In the early 1990s, long before PPE, N95 and asymptomatic transmission became household terms, federal health officials issued guidelines for how medical workers should protect themselves from tuberculosis during a resurgence of the highly infectious respiratory disease.
Their recommendation, elastomeric respirators, an industrial-grade face mask familiar to car painters and construction workers, would in the decades that followed become the gold standard for infection-control specialists focused on the dangers of airborne pathogens.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention promoted them during the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak of 2003 (called SARS) and the swine-flu pandemic of 2009. A few studies since then have suggested that reusable elastomeric respirators should be essential gear for frontline medical workers during a respiratory pandemic, which experts predicted would quickly deplete supplies of N95s, the disposable filtration masks largely made in China.
But when the coronavirus swept the globe and China cut off exports of N95s, elastomeric respirators were nowhere to be found in a vast majority of hospitals and health clinics in the United States. Although impossible to know for sure, some experts believe the dire mask shortage early on contributed to the wave of infections that killed more than 3,600 health workers.
The pandemic has generated a bevy of painful lessons about the importance of preparing for public health emergencies. From the Trump administration’s tepid early response to the CDC’s bungled coronavirus testing rollout and its mixed messaging on masking, quarantining and the reopening of schools, the federal government has been roundly criticized for mishandling a health crisis that has left 1 million Americans dead and dented public faith in a once-hallowed institution.
Three years into the pandemic, elastomeric respirators remain a rarity at American health care facilities. The CDC has done little to promote the masks, and all but a handful of the dozen or so domestic companies that rushed to manufacture them over the past two years have stopped making the masks or have folded because demand never took off.
Most cost between $15 and $40 each, and the filters, which should be replaced at least once a year, run about $5 each. Made of soft silicone, the masks are comfortable to wear, according to health care worker surveys, and they have a shelf life of a decade or more.
“It’s frustrating and frightening because a mask like this can make the difference between life and death, but no one knows about them,” said Claudio Dente, whose company, Dentec Safety, recently stopped making elastomeric respirators that were specifically redesigned at the request of federal regulators for health care workers.
The government’s tentative approach to elastomeric respirators during the pandemic has largely escaped public scrutiny, even as American mask producers, health policy experts and nursing unions have been pressing federal officials to promote them more aggressively. The masks, they note, are an environmentally sustainable and cost-effective alternative to N95s. Worn properly, they offer better protection than N95s, which, as their name suggests, only filter out 95% of pathogens. Most elastomerics exceed 99%.
The masks have another notable attribute: Most are made in the United States.
Now that hospitals have resumed buying cheap, Chinese-made face coverings and the resurgent American mask industry has imploded, experts warn of the perils of the nation’s continued dependency on foreign-made protective equipment. Many of the U.S. companies calling it quits are startups whose founders jumped into the PPE business out of a sense of civic duty.
“It’s sad to see all of this manufacturing capacity come online during a crisis, only to be shut down because hospitals and even our own government would rather save a few pennies buying from China,” said Lloyd Armbrust, president of the American Mask Manufacturers Association. Its membership includes just eight companies that are still producing masks, down from 51 a year ago. He said 17 of the companies have shut down.
Some experts say the CDC’s hands-off approach to elastomeric respirators is unintentionally encouraging a return to the nation’s reliance on disposable masks made overseas. Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, a public health researcher who heads the COVID-19 task force at the World Health Network, criticized federal officials for inaction despite compelling evidence that elastomerics provide the highest level of protection against aerosolized viruses. “At a certain point, you need to act on the existing science, and the failure to do otherwise is a dereliction of duty,” he said.
To be clear, federal health experts back the use elastomerics but say they are awaiting additional study results before offering full-throated support for their widespread adoption by medical personnel. Emily Haas, a scientist at the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH, said researchers were still grappling with the need to regularly disinfect them and complaints about muffled communication, although some newer models make it easier for wearers to be heard.
The bigger challenge, she said, is convincing hospitals and group purchasing organizations to embrace the masks given the abundance of N95s, which offer comparable protection during routine medical care and can be thrown away after each use.
“There’s been so much research in the last 10 years that has really supported elastomerics, so in some ways the issue right now is cultural,” Haas said. “No one likes change, and introducing a whole new system of respiratory protection can be a heavy lift.”
Experts say such obstacles could be overcome through more muscular federal leadership. Dr. Tom Frieden, who led an unsuccessful effort to fill the Strategic National Stockpile with elastomerics when he was CDC director in 2009, said the advantages of providing them to frontline medical workers were clear, especially given the nation’s ruinous overreliance on single-use masks.
He said health authorities could promote elastomerics by highlighting their cost savings for hospitals and the environmental benefits of a reusable mask to help reduce the tsunami of N95s that end up in landfills. “To me, it’s a puzzle why they haven’t become more widespread,” Frieden said.
Providing an elastomeric respirator to each of the nation’s 18 million health care workers would cost roughly $275 million, according to Nicolas Smit, an expert on elastomerics and executive director of the American Mask Manufacturers Association. By comparison, he noted that the federal government spent $413 million on a disastrous effort to decontaminate N95 masks so they could be safely reused.
James C. Chang, an industrial hygienist, has long been a fan of elastomerics. In 2018, he helped to produce a report on them for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and after the short-lived swine flu pandemic of 2009, he persuaded his employer, the University of Maryland Medical Center, to purchase 1,500 masks. The decision was based in part on research that predicted a respiratory pandemic lasting more than a few weeks would lead to catastrophic supply-chain shortages.
“When you ran the numbers, it was pretty clear we’d burn through a six- or seven-digit cache of disposables pretty quickly,” he said. “It’s just not feasible for any hospital to stock that many masks.”
Initially he had a handful of concerns — that their “Darth Vader” look would frighten patients or that disinfecting them would be burdensome. But those fears quickly faded in early 2020 as hospitals across the country scrambled to find N95s, and the CDC issued guidelines saying N95s could be reused up to five times — guidance that evoked widespread skepticism among health professionals.
To deal with the need to disinfect the elastomeric masks, Chang set up a system that allowed workers to drop them off after each shift so they could be cleaned before being made available to others.
“It was a real success story on our end because our staff had respirators to wear and they felt more reassured wearing elastomerics than wearing N95s,” Chang said.
One of the only other hospital systems in the country to adopt the masks on a large scale was Allegheny Health Network of Western Pennsylvania, which early in the pandemic, distributed more than 8,000 respirators at its 14 hospitals. The decision to do so stemmed from a coincidence of geography: Allegheny’s headquarters in Pittsburgh was not far from the manufacturing plant of MSA Safety, a century-old company that got its start producing coal miner protective gear with help from Thomas Edison.
Prompted by an appeal from hospital administrators, MSA began sending over the industrial-grade masks but they quickly ran into a problem. The protruding filters only screened inhaled air, which meant that exhaled air from an infected wearer could pose a potential health risk to those nearby, according to Dr. Zane Frund, executive director for materials and chemicals research at MSA Safety.
The solution was not exactly rocket science: Product designers simply removed the masks’ exhalation valve, and NIOSH in late 2020 approved the new models. A subsequent design tweak added a mechanical voice amplifier to help ease communication.
Dr. Sricharan Chalikonda, Allegheny’s chief medical operations officer, said he was surprised by just how popular they became among the 2,000 medical personnel who had been outfitted to wear them — a process aimed at ensuring air would not evade the mask’s tight face seal.
According to a paper he published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, none of the employees went back to wearing N95s. The cost benefit of relying almost entirely on elastomerics became irrefutable: Outfitting the workers was one-tenth as expensive than supplying them with disposable N95s. A separate study found that after one year, the filters were still 99% effective.
“Elastomerics for us really were a game changer,” Chalikonda said. “When I think of all the millions of dollars wasted on N95s and then trying to reuse them makes you realize how much elastomerics are a missed opportunity.”
Federal health officials say they are moving as fast as possible to produce stronger guidance on elastomerics. Maryann D’Alessandro, director of the National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory, said scientists were reviewing feedback from a study that distributed nearly 100,000 respirators to hospitals, nursing homes and first-responders across the country. “If we can get a tool kit together to serve as a guide for organizations and educate the users, we hope it can help move the needle,” she said.
Many masks entrepreneurs are not likely to last that long. Max Bock-Aronson, co-founder of Breathe99, which makes an elastomeric respirator that Time magazine included on its 2020 list of best inventions, has been winding down operations at the company’s Minnesota plant.
He blamed the slump in sales on COVID fatigue and waning public interest in protective gear. The company’s fortunes, he added, were doomed early on by the CDC’s mask guidance, which prompted Amazon, Google and Facebook to limit or bar the sale of medical-grade masks to consumers, even as PPE imports once again began flooding the United States.
“The whole industry has been gutted,” Bock-Aronson said. “Every time there’s a new variant, we get a small bump in sales, but I haven’t taken a nickel out of the company since last May,”
For now, he is focused on finding a buyer for his company while selling off his inventory online. The masks cost $59 and can be sheathed in washable covers that come in eight colors, among them crimson, linen and royal blue.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Dan Snyder’s attorney told the Committee on Oversight and Reform the Washington Commanders’ owner is willing to testify by video conference regarding the investigation into the team’s workplace culture following accusations of pervasive sexual harassment by club executives of women employees.
In a letter sent to the committee and obtained by The Associated Press, attorney Karen Patton Seymour said Snyder is traveling outside the country and available for video testimony July 28 and 29.
Seymour expressed concern because the committee countered with dates that conflict with her travel schedule and Snyder’s.
“Although I explained that the Snyder family’s commitments were spread out over various dates in July and reiterated that July 28 or 29 were the earliest possible dates on which Mr. Snyder could appear, the Committee’s staff declined even to acknowledge the proposed dates, stating only that the Committee would have to ‘determine how to proceed,’” the letter states.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell testified remotely from New York at the committee’s hearing last month.
Snyder conducted a “shadow investigation” that sought to discredit former employees making accusations of workplace sexual harassment, hired private investigators to intimidate witnesses, and used an overseas lawsuit as a pretext to obtain phone records and emails, according to a document released by the committee before that hearing.
The 29-page memo alleges Snyder tried to discredit the people accusing him and other team executives of misconduct and also tried to influence an investigation of the team conducted for the NFL by attorney Beth Wilkinson’s firm.
Snyder’s attorneys presented the NFL with a 100-slide PowerPoint presentation including “private text messages, emails, phone logs and call transcripts, and social media posts from nearly 50 individuals who Mr. Snyder apparently believed were involved in a conspiracy to disparage him,” the committee said.
In a statement, a spokesman for Snyder characterized the report and the hearing as “a politically charged show trial” and said Congress should not be investigating “an issue a football team addressed years ago.”
The NFL fined the team $10 million last year and Snyder stepped away from its day-to-day operations after Wilkinson presented her findings to Goodell.
However, the league did not release a written report of Wilkinson’s findings, a decision Goodell said was intended to protect the privacy of former employees who spoke to investigators.
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GENOA, Italy (AP) — Fifty-nine people went on trial Thursday for the 2018 collapse of Genoa’s Morandi bridge, accused of manslaughter and other charges in the deaths of 43 people.
The defendants include former executives and experts of the company that manages many of Italy’s bridges and highways, as well as former officials of the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.
A huge section of the Morandi Bridge broke off during a violent rainstorm on Aug. 14, 2018, when highways were packed with vacationers, sending cars plunging into the dry riverbed below.
Prosecutors have alleged the defendants knew the bridge, which was built in the 1960s, was at risk of collapsing and that corners were cut on maintenance to save money.
The bridge’s designer had recommended regular upkeep to remove rust, especially due to the corrosive effect of moist air from the nearby Ligurian Sea, and maintenance to counter the effect of pollution on concrete.
In April, a Genoa judge approved plea bargain requests by both the highway company, Autostrade per Italia, and the Spea engineering company, to pay 29 million euros ($33 million) to the Italian government in exchange for avoiding a trial.
The lawyer for former Austostrade CEO Giovanni Castellucci, who is among the defendants, said the trial would show that the bridge collapsed not as a result of maintenance negligence but due to an original “construction defect.”
“This is why 43 people died in a terrifying and absurd way,” lawyer Giovanni Paolo Accinni told reporters Thursday outside the Genoa tribunal, the LaPresse news agency reported.
A replacement bridge, designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano, a Genoa native, features 43 lamps in memory of people who perished.
The governor of Liguria, Giovanni Toti, said the start of the trial was important for the region but also relatives of the 43 victims.
“Starting today, justice and truth are closer and we hope will arrive quickly,” Toti wrote on Facebook. “It’s the only way to rebuild the trust between citizens and the state that collapsed on that Godforsaken Aug. 14.”
After the collapse, the Italian government forged a deal in which the Benetton fashion family agreed to sell its ownership stake in Autostrade.
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VANGA, Kenya (AP) — “Tuna is not for everyone,” lamented 65-year-old Chapoka Miongo, a handline fisher on Kenya’s south coast, from his dugout canoe.
He’s one of many artisanal fishers in Shimoni, a bustling coastal town 82 kilometers (51 miles) south of Mombasa, dotted with dhows, dugout boats, outrigger canoes and skiffs anchored on the beach landing site. Scores of fishmongers, processors and traders line the shoreline awaiting the fisherfolk to return.
“My canoe is only suitable for the near shore and only those with the big boats and money can access tuna,” he said. Miongo explained that warming waters due to climate change forced tuna species to alter their migration patterns, making it harder for local fishers to catch them. Fish stocks have also decreased due to a lack of sustainable fishing by larger vessels.
The Shimoni channel, previously a well-known haunt for tuna, benefits from the north and south easterly monsoons which can lead to substantial catches, according to records kept by the Kenya Fisheries Service.
But the current monsoon has been unkind to Miongo. He can barely fill his bucket: his modest catch of the day includes a motley batch of emperor fish.
Yellowfin tuna in particular, which fetches competitive prices at the market, can feel like a “lucky break” for fisherfolk, explained 60-year-old prawn fisher Mazera Mgala.
After a seemingly futile five-day hunt, scouting fish landing sites in Gazi Bay, the Shimoni channel and Vanga seafront for the yellowfin tuna, one weighing six and a half kilograms was finally caught by an outrigger canoe fisherman at the Shimoni channel.
Miongo and Mgala are among just over 1,500 fisherfolk who rely on the rich marine waters of the channel. In Miongo’s three decades of fishing, he says large foreign ships, more young men opting for artisanal fishing due to a lack of white-collar jobs and higher education opportunities, and a changing climate are depleting livelihoods.
Vanga fisherman Kassim Abdalla Zingizi added that most artisanal fisherfolk lack the skills, knowledge and financial support to compete with larger foreign vessels, mostly from Europe and Asia, which deploy satellite tracking technologies to trace the various tuna shoals all over the Indian Ocean.
The Kenyan government is implementing an economic strategy that will address the effects of climate change on the livelihoods of those on the coast, as well as boost skills among artisanal fisherfolk and promote more sustainable fishing practices, said Dennis Oigara from the Kenya Fisheries Service.
Subsidies for large fisheries — which have long been blamed for destructive fishing practices — have featured prominently at World Trade Organization talks for over a decade with no resolution. Earlier this year the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission, who is responsible for the region’s tuna regulations, was criticized for not implementing measures to protect several tuna species from overfishing at its annual meeting.
After catch limits for two tuna species were exceeded between 2018 and 2020, conservation groups lambasted the tuna commission for what they called a “decade of failure” which left tuna stocks “increasingly in peril.” The World Wildlife Fund for Nature called for a global boycott of yellowfin tuna.
The Maldivian government, which unsuccessfully proposed that members of the tuna commission reduce their catch by 22% from 2020, said it was “extremely disappointed” by the meeting’s outcome.
Christopher O’Brien, the commission’s executive secretary, said the number of active fishing vessels in the Indian Ocean are decreasing.
“There are currently over 6100 vessels licensed to fish for Indian Ocean tuna species. In 2020 there were just over 3300 active vessels,” he explained. Miongo’s and Abdalla’s dugout and outrigger canoes are not among these 6100 vessels registered by the tuna commission, which is dominated by industrial fishing fleets.
The fisheries commission also agreed to set up two special sessions in the near future to iron out concerns over yellowfin tuna stocks, with the first slated for early 2023.
But the commission also passed a landmark resolution to study the effects of climate change on tuna fish stocks in the region, hailed as one of the conference’s successes. The study aims to understand the complex relationship between climate change, tuna fisheries and tuna stocks with a view of informing future adaptation and mitigation measures. It’s the second regional fisheries management organization to implement a resolution on climate change.
“We are hopeful that the adoption of this proposal will guide us to achieve the long-term sustainability of the stocks of tuna and tuna-like species,” said Adam Ziyad, the director general of the Maldives ministry of fisheries, marine resources and agriculture.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says climate variability has led to reduced marine stocks, fish shifting from lower to higher latitude regions, coral bleaching and increased risk of conflict over scarce resources. These changes are already being felt by local fishing communities.
“Back in the day I would start fishing in the early morning and three to four hours later I would be through as I had caught enough fish,” said Mazera Mgala, who started fishing in 1975 and would dive in the ocean in his youth among vibrant corals and abundant fish. “Nowadays, I stay longer at sea and still catch less.” ___
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Panthers now have two of the top three overall picks from the 2018 NFL draft class on their roster, and both happen to be quarterbacks.
The big question is which one will start this season for Carolina.
The Panthers view their starting QB job as an open competition between the newly acquired Baker Mayfield and incumbent Sam Darnold, one that will ultimately be decided at training camp and in preseason games.
Panthers coach Matt Rhule has previously said he viewed Darnold as his starter, but that was before the team announced Wednesday it had struck a trade with Cleveland for Mayfield, whose relationship with the Browns quickly deteriorated after they began pursuing and later landed quarterback Deshaun Watson from the Houston Texans.
Trade talks between the Panthers and Browns had been ongoing for months, but the deal didn’t come to fruition until Mayfield helped bridge the financial gap between the teams by agreeing to take a $3.5 million pay cut. The Browns will pay Mayfield $10.5 million in 2022 and the Panthers will pay him $4.8 million.
Both Mayfield and Darnold are set to become unrestricted free agents after the season.
Mayfield enters the competition with a presumptive edge over Darnold — at least on paper.
The former No. 1 pick from Oklahoma is 29-30 as an NFL starter in four seasons with Cleveland, helping lead the Browns to a playoff win in 2020 after finishing 11-5 in the regular season. He’s thrown for 14,125 yards with 92 touchdowns and 56 interceptions.
Darnold, the No. 3 pick in ’18, is 17-32 as a starter with the New York Jets and Panthers and has never posted a winning season, let alone reach the playoffs. He’s thrown for 10,624 yards with 54 touchdowns and 52 interceptions.
But for Mayfield to win the job he'll first have to win over new Panthers offensive coordinator Ben McAdoo, a former critic of his, and catch up on the team's playbook installation.
When McAdoo was out of football in 2018, he told the New York Post he had plenty of reservations about Mayfield in the NFL, including his height, athleticism, hand size and the offense he played in with the Sooners.
“I didn’t see a lot of pro-style football in his college tape,” McAdoo said. “And if you’re short you have to be able to make up for it some way, somehow, and personality doesn’t do that. I didn’t think he was a great athlete. This guy is kind of like a pocket quarterback that is short and with small hands, that’s what I worry about.”
And then there's Panthers wide receiver Robbie Anderson, who earlier this offseason addressed reports that Mayfield may wind up in Carolina by responding with “Nooooo" on social media.
Anderson has since said he was trying to be supportive of his teammate Darnold, and that it wasn't meant to be a dig at Mayfield. He also tweeted on Wednesday, “I don't have an issue with Baker stop tryna paint that narrative.”
The addition of Mayfield represents Carolina's latest attempt to find stability at the quarterback position.
The Panthers haven't made the playoffs since 2017 and owner David Tepper has said in the past the team's top priority is shoring up its QB spot.
The revolving door started in earnest in 2000 when Carolina replaced longtime starter Cam Newton with Teddy Bridgewater. Bridgewater went 4-11 in 15 starts before being dealt to the Denver Broncos after just one season.
The Panthers then sent three picks to the New York Jets for Darnold last year, figuring they could resurrect his sagging career. But Darnold struggled with decision-making behind a patchwork offensive line, going 4-7 as a starter with 13 interceptions and nine touchdown passes while being sacked 35 times. The team re-signed Newton midseason, but he failed to win in five starts and was not brought back this offseason as an unrestricted free agent.
It seems the team has been looking for Darnold's replacement since finishing 5-12 last season.
Carolina set its sights on Watson, making a big push to land the controversial QB only to lose out to the Browns. And Carolina drafted Matt Corral from Mississippi in the third round with an eye toward developing him for the future.
If nothing else, Mayfield's arrival adds some intrigue to Carolina's regular-season home opener against the Browns on Sept. 11.
TickPick, a secondary ticket marketplace, reports it sold more tickets on Wednesday for the Browns-Panthers game after the trade was announced than for the entire month of June combined and the cheapest ticket increased from $78 to $133.
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Restaurants to donate all profits on Saturday to family of fallen deputy
SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Two restaurants in Spartanburg County will donate all of their profits on Saturday to the family of fallen Deputy Austin Aldridge.
Aldridge was killed in the line of duty on June 21. He leaves behind a wife who is expecting a baby.
On July 9, Eggs Up Grill locations on Village Creek Drive in Boiling Springs and Reidville Road in Moore are sponsoring fundraisers for Aldridge’s family.
All profits while they are open from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday will be donated to his family.
“This agency would like to thank the management of Eggs Up Grill for their very generous donation and would encourage our citizens to support this worthy cause,” said Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Kevin Bobo.
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Which Acana dog food is best?
An important decision for every dog owner is deciding what food to give your beloved canine. A dog’s age, breed, size, lifestyle and medical issues (if any) play a factor in choosing the right meal. While some dogs stay on the same formula most of their lives, others may require different food as their needs evolve.
Acana seeks to help your dog in all phases with lines of dry and wet foods, including its top formula of Free-Run Poultry & Grains. It offers basic recipes for all dogs as well as balanced formulas focused on specific life stages and specialty recipes for conditions and ailments.
What to know before you buy Acana dog food
Ingredients
Acana champions responsibly raised animals and whole fruits and vegetables. Every formula features roughly 50% to 75% animal ingredients and 25% to 50% fruits and vegetables. The recipes also incorporate vitamins, minerals and probiotics.
There is a heavy emphasis on meat in the Acana line: While some recipes only have one source, others feature up to six animal ingredients, some of which are fresh or raw meat. This is based on what Acana calls a biologically appropriate diet, the idea that because dogs evolved as carnivores, they should retain a meat-heavy diet.
While Acana has a line called “Wholesome Grains,” it also makes grain-free formulas and promotes their health and nutritional value. The American Kennel Club, though, asserts that grains pose no threat to dogs and concerns about grains are misleading.
Size
Acana dry dog food comes in three sizes. The smallest is around 4 pounds, and a medium bag typically weighs 11 to 14 pounds. Large bags are sized around 22 to 25 pounds. While buying larger bags is more economical, saving you money per pound, keep in mind dry dog food needs to be stored in an airtight container free from sunlight and moisture to stay fresh once opened.
Dry vs. wet dog food
Most owners feed their dog dry food, or kibble. Dry food lasts longer than wet, is more cost-effective and helps keep teeth clean. It’s easier on owners too: Kibble lacks a potent smell and is less messy.
However, senior dogs as well as those with oral sensitivities may be better served with wet food. It is gentler on the mouth and helps with hydration for those dogs who don’t drink enough water. The aroma also entices picky eaters.
Acana offers six wet food recipes, all of which are made in bone broth, including one designed for puppies.
Life stage
Most Acana formulas are suitable for all ages, though its meat-focused diets are better for active dogs. It also offers a handful of recipes specifically geared for puppies to support them as they grow.
What to look for in quality Acana dog food
WholePrey
For pet owners seeking a meat-heavy diet, Acana’s WholePrey formulas comprise the entirety of an animal as it would be eaten in nature. In addition to meat, organs and bones are added to the recipe as well.
Limited ingredient
Acana offers a line of limited-ingredient formulas, which feature a single animal as the main meat ingredient. At least 60% of the recipe is this meat source, be it pork, beef or lamb. Each recipe therefore limits certain common allergens, including corn, soy, peas or gluten, though each recipe is different.
Freeze-dried food
Acana provides raw, freeze-dried food to act as a meal on its own or to complement any dry or wet food. Main ingredients include turkey, duck, chicken and beef. Two sizes are available: patties for larger dogs and chunks for smaller pups.
How much you can expect to spend on Acana dog food
The smallest dry dog food bags cost under $20, while the largest bags typically cost $60-$80, depending on the ingredients.
Acana dog food FAQ
How do I introduce a new recipe to my dog?
A. Avoid switching to new food suddenly, and instead slowly transition over the course of seven to 10 days. Start by incorporating 25% of the new formula to the old, and increase by that amount every couple days until you are fully converted to the new food. This gradual transition is important to ease upset on the dog’s digestive tract.
How do I know if the food is right for my dog?
A. Monitor your dog in the days and weeks after eating new food for any adverse reactions. Lethargy, diarrhea and excessive panting, drooling or shedding may indicate a negative reaction with the ingredients. Immediately switch to a different formula and consult with a vet if problems persist.
What’s the best Acana dog food to buy?
Top Acana dog food
Acana Wholesome Grains Free-Run Poultry & Grains Recipe
What you need to know: This complete formula is suitable for all ages and free from common allergens.
What you’ll love: Chicken is the first ingredient in this recipe that features millet, oats, vitamins, minerals and whole fruits and vegetables. It contains no artificial preservatives, gluten or legumes.
What you should consider: This large bag comes at a high price.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Top Acana dog food for the money
Acana Rescue Care Red Meat, Liver & Whole Oats
What you need to know: A protein-rich formula, this recipe is fortified with nutrients, vitamins and antioxidants to support dogs in need.
What you’ll love: This balanced formula incorporates ingredients to improve skin and coat health, boost immune system function, and support digestion. Though advertised as a formula to help transition adopted dogs, it can be enjoyed for years to follow.
What you should consider: The formula contains some common allergens, including beef and eggs.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
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Acana Limited Ingredient Pork & Squash
What you need to know: Featuring pork, sweet potatoes and liver, this varied formula helps improve overall body functions in all dogs.
What you’ll love: Formulated to improve circulation, immune function and skin health, this recipe features pork as the single animal source. The dry dog food is suitable for all breeds and ages.
What you should consider: This is one of the most expensive formulas Acana sells.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
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Tonight: Mostly clear and comfortable. Low 58.
Tomorrow Morning: Mostly sunny. Mid 60s.
Tomorrow Afternoon: Increasing clouds. High 80.
Tomorrow Evening: Mostly cloudy. Mid 70s.
A pleasant stretch of weather looks to continue through the weekend.
Leave the windows open tonight! The weather looks comfortable and cool, with overnight lows in the upper 50s. Sunshine to start Friday, with a few clouds building in during the afternoon. This is part of a cold front, which looks to pass through bringing a few clouds and a brief sprinkle. Highs Friday afternoon near 80.
High pressure brings lots of sunshine and very comfortable weather for the weekend. Highs on Saturday are expected to climb into the mid 70s under mostly sunny skies. Boilermaker Sunday looks beautiful, with a cooler than usual start to the race! Temperatures during the race looks to be in the low to mid 60s with lower than usual humidity. Mostly sunny on Sunday afternoon, with highs in the mid 70s.
Warmer weather is expected on Monday, with partly sunny skies and highs in the low 80s. Showers and storms return Tuesday and Wednesday, with highs in the low 80s. Partly sunny on Thursday, with highs in the low 80s. | https://www.wktv.com/weather/beautiful-weather-expected-this-weekend/article_522b9986-fe34-11ec-b772-fb6e1ec0c498.html | 2022-07-07T22:17:43Z | https://www.wktv.com/weather/beautiful-weather-expected-this-weekend/article_522b9986-fe34-11ec-b772-fb6e1ec0c498.html | false |
Which cozy blanket is best?
Nothing beats curling up on the couch with your favorite show and a fuzzy, cuddly blanket to unwind after a long day. With what seems like a million and one choices out there, it can be hard to pick out just the right blanket. For the ultimate in comfort, Bedsure’s Throw Blanket is a great choice.
What to know before you buy a cozy blanket
Material
The most important factor in a blanket’s overall quality, feel and longevity is the material used to make it. There are some common fabrics you’ll find that all offer their own pluses and minuses:
- Cotton: Breathable and lightweight, cotton is a durable material that will last for years with proper care. It feels good on the skin and provides a comforting texture for blankets.
- Wool: Blankets made from sheep’s wool tend to be thick and hearty. For an ultra-soft blanket, cashmere wool made from goat’s hair presents the softest (though priciest) option, though it’s quite delicate and can fray. Although many people love wool and cashmere, they may irritate the skin, and some people are even allergic.
- Polyester: Along with other synthetics like acrylic, polyester is highly durable, inexpensive and washing-machine-friendly. Polyesters come in a wider variety of colors since they’re easy to dye. However, they produce static electricity, which isn’t a pleasant feeling, and can gather hair and debris if not cleaned regularly.
Thickness
The thicker the blanket, the more insulation you’ll get when cuddling up. That may be good or bad, depending on how you look at it: too much thickness, and you may get sweaty and uncomfortable — too little, and you’ll be shivering. The best blankets combine quality fabric, breathability and proper thickness to give you the best of both worlds.
Size
Blankets are generally sized either for beds, couches or individual use. Throw blankets are typically used on top of your sheets, whereas actual blankets are sized as single, twin, queen or king to fit your bed.
Blankets also come sized as child or adult, made for a specific couch length, or simply sized according to the manufacturer’s preference. Make sure to check out the blanket’s dimensions first if you’re looking for a specific size.
What to look for in a quality cozy blanket
Weighted
Weighted blankets have become increasingly popular as a therapeutic tool. Their weighted center helps create a swaddled sensation, almost like being hugged. Many people find this soothing. On the other hand, some buyers might find them suffocating. These blankets also tend to become overly hot if used for long periods.
Washability
Whether you can machine wash your blanket or not is a significant factor for most buyers. Some materials such as cashmere should never be machine washed, only spot-treated and aired out. Other blankets are too big to fit in a standard washing machine.
If you’ll be using it with children or pets or around food or drinks, choosing a size and material that can be easily thrown into the washing machine for a quick spin cycle is smart.
Electric
Electric blankets add an extra cozy element to the mix. They plug into an outlet and use electric heat to warm you up on all sides, which even the hottest non-electric blanket can’t achieve. Many people find them soothing, especially in the winter. However, they’re not without drawbacks. They cost money to use since they run on electricity, and there are some safety concerns. Be sure to never fall asleep underneath an electric blanket. Even if the heat setting is low, you could sustain a second- or third-degree burn.
How much you can expect to spend on a cozy blanket
Blankets vary wildly in price, from $10-$250 or more. Polyester and other synthetics cost the least, typically around $10-$40. Cotton and wool cost more, ranging from $30-$100, and cashmere costs the most at $100-$250.
Cozy blanket FAQ
How often should I wash my blanket?
A. The answer depends entirely on how often you use it and the kind of material used to make it. Since synthetic materials collect dust and debris quickly, washing them every few weeks is wise. Cotton airs out easily but should still be washed at least once a month if you use it often. Some fabrics, like cashmere, shouldn’t be washed but can still be aired out, dry-cleaned and spot-treated to stay in top condition.
Can I layer an electric blanket with another blanket?
A. Unfortunately, using an electric blanket in tandem with another blanket presents a fire risk. A better idea would be layering two or more non-electric blankets to create safe, insulated heat on cold nights.
What’s the best cozy blanket to buy?
Top cozy blanket
What you need to know: You can’t get much more cozy than this micro-fleece, plush throw.
What you’ll love: It comes in a wide variety of colors (26, to be exact) to blend in with any decor. It also is available in five sizes.
What you should consider: It’s “Amazon’s Choice” for a reason.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top cozy blanket for the money
Chanasya Faux Fur Bed Throw Blanket
What you need to know: This uber-soft faux fur blanket stands out among the crowd as the cuddliest and least expensive option.
What you’ll love: This blanket is available in 14 colors. Its fur-like texture is sure to soothe and delight. Since it’s pure polyester, it’s easy to keep clean and is machine washable.
What you should consider: Some buyers saw discoloration when their blankets arrived.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Easeland Luxury Fleece Super Soft Thermal Blanket
What you need to know: Lightweight, cuddle-worthy microfiber makes this blanket breathable
What you’ll love: It’s made from 330 gsm microfiber polyester, making it soft and plush but also durable and easy to wash. There are nine color options.
What you should consider: Some reviewers noted that the edges started to break down after regular use.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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SuperViz offers PureWeb customers the ability to introduce real-time audiovisual meeting features into streamed immersive 3D experiences.
CALGARY, AB, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - PureWeb, the leading enterprise platform for streaming interactive, web-based 3D content has partnered with SuperViz, the leading telepresence platform for meeting inside virtual spaces. This partnership will now enable people to easily see and speak with others in real time with a sense of presence–all within a streamed 3D environment as if they were there together.
With the SuperViz and PureWeb integration, brands and businesses can now host immersive 3D experiences built using Unreal Engine or Unity, stream it to any device using the PureWeb platform, and invite participants into a real-time meeting or guided tour within the experience using SuperViz's audiovisual integration - no downloads or special equipment needed.
"There's so much buzz around all the cool, immersive experiences that are possible in the metaverse," says Kevin Viggers, Head of R&D at PureWeb. "But the thing that will really make the metaverse a persistent part of our lives is the ability to fulfill one of our core human needs: to connect with others. This new Superviz integration allows PureWeb Reality applications to connect with anyone while enjoying a metaverse experience."
"SuperViz's mission to improve global access to remote collaboration and connection where a location is the subject, aligns perfectly with PureWeb's mission to make the metaverse accessible," says Russ Rive, SuperViz CEO and Cofounder. "With this new integration, anyone, anywhere can not only distribute their immersive 3D experiences but use them to connect, conduct business, and collaborate inside the projects as if they were there together."
This PureWeb x SuperViz integration can be used to deliver real-time meetings, guided tours, and remote collaboration for any 3D experience, for any industry, at a global scale.
How we work, play, and connect remotely is evolving at a rapid pace, and PureWeb is excited to partner with SuperViz to take metaverse experiences to the next level.
Learn more about PureWeb x SuperViz here
PureWeb is the enterprise solution for cloud distribution of immersive 3D metaverse applications. These applications, built in Unreal Engine or Unity, support architectural visualizations, digital twins, internal collaboration, customer engagement, and the next generation of commercial metaverse experiences.
PureWeb simplifies and accelerates the development and deployment of such applications, enabling users to access each experience through any web browser on any device.
Our platform efficiently manages cloud infrastructure and global usage, while minimizing latency and cost.
SuperViz is a telepresence platform for immersive collaboration inside spatial content. A combination of video conferencing and avatars inside virtual spaces creates a sense of presence directly in browsers. People can virtually teleport together to any location by simply clicking a meeting web link. SuperViz serves industries where remote spaces and 3D models are integral to their operations. Industries include manufacturing, AEC, BIM, construction management, real estate, property management, insurance, retail, and B2B metaverse applications.
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WESTERLY, R.I., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Washington Trust Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: WASH), the publicly owned holding company of The Washington Trust Company, will release second quarter 2022 earnings and host a conference call with the Corporation's executives as follows:
ABOUT WASHINGTON TRUST BANCORP, INC.
Washington Trust Bancorp, Inc. is the parent of The Washington Trust Company, with $5.8 billion in assets as of March 31, 2022. Founded in 1800, Washington Trust is the oldest community bank in the nation, the largest state-chartered bank headquartered in Rhode Island and one of the Northeast's premier financial services companies. Washington Trust offers a full range of financial services, including commercial banking, mortgage banking, personal banking and wealth management and trust services through its offices located in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts. The Corporation's common stock trades on NASDAQ under the symbol WASH. Investor information is available on the Corporation's web site at: http://ir.washtrust.com.
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A West Virginia man accused of fatally shooting three coworkers and wounding an officer responding to the scene in Maryland was indicted by a grand jury last week.
The Associated Press reported that 23-year-old Joe Louis Esquivel was indicted in two separate criminal cases on June 29 on charges of murder, attempted murder, assault and use of a firearm in a crime of violence.
According to authorities, Esquivel showed up at Columbia Machine Inc. for his regular shift on June 9, when he allegedly stopped working, left the building, retrieved a weapon, came back inside, and began shooting at coworkers near a breakroom, the news outlet reported.
Smithsburg police responded to a 911 call at around 2:30 p.m.
Once on scene, officers found a person wounded outside the business, according to the news outlet.
The AP reported that Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies found three dead victims inside the building.
According to the AP, the authorities said that after leaving the scene in a vehicle, Esquivel encountered Maryland State Police, whom he shot at, striking a 25-year veteran trooper.
The news outlet reported that Esquivel was struck when a trooper returned fire. | https://www.kxxv.com/news/national/grand-jury-indicts-west-virginia-man-for-fatal-maryland-shootings | 2022-07-07T22:23:11Z | https://www.kxxv.com/news/national/grand-jury-indicts-west-virginia-man-for-fatal-maryland-shootings | true |
OKLAHOMA CITY, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Adaptation Financial launched its first official internship program in June of 2022. The program kicked off June 6th, 2022, with Sarah Hall joining the firm. The program then grew on June 27th, 2022, when the team welcomed Rosella "Jojo" Roberson back from a trip to Greece, Italy, and Paris. Adaptation's goal for the program is to provide our interns with hands-on experience and to help them expand their knowledge of sales and the financial sector.
Sarah Hall will be an Oklahoma State University Fall 2023 graduate as a Psychology major with a Business Emphasis and a Minor in Spanish - while also pursuing a Professional Certification in Sales and Service Excellence.
"I chose to work at Adaptation because of the people and the values. Strong values in the workplace are very important to me. They are vital in everything from the big decisions of the company to the attitude someone has when they come in to work each day. Often, companies say they have core values, but they are nothing more than pleasant words used for recruiting. However, at Adaptation it is quite the opposite. When I came home from the intern mixer the first thing I told my family was how impressed I was by the character and honesty of everyone I met. Adaptation truly lives its values, and it is apparent in the day-to-day environment. They made me feel welcome and wanted on my first day, and they continue to do so every day. Each person here is so kind and supportive and will not hesitate to help with anything. They have created an environment to help me excel and continue to provide me with new and exciting opportunities, and I am excited to see what the future has in store!" – Sarah Hall
Rosella "Jojo" Roberson will be an Oklahoma State University Spring 2023 graduate as a Finance major and a member of the Equestrian team.
"I chose Adaptation because of several reasons, but most importantly, their opportunities for growth along with their core values. Adaptation is unlike many other companies in that they truly want to set you up for success in your career. When I joined their open house intern mixer in May, Alan Niemann, the Founder and CEO, explained the training and hands on experience we would have as their interns. Not only that, but he talked about how important work-life balance was to Adaptation. Simply observing everyone interact and tell stories during the mixer, I could see their care and concern for one another was genuine. I knew after meeting some of the employees that this was a company I would love the opportunity to work for. During the short time I have been here, it has been everything I thought and hoped it would be." – Jojo Roberson
About Adaptation Financial
Adaptation Financial, Inc is a Hybrid Independent Registered Investment Advisory firm with over $750MM of client assets under management. The firm currently has 6 office locations across 3 states and caters to individual investors. Securities are offered through Registered Representatives of Cambridge Investment Research Inc., a broker-dealer, member FINRA/SIPC. Advisory services are through Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Inc., a Registered Investment Advisor. Financial planning services are through Adaptation Financial Advisors, Inc., a Registered Investment Advisor. Cambridge and Adaptation Financial Advisors are not affiliated.
Visit www.adaptfa.com or call 800-522-8727 to connect with an advisor in your area.
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MOSCOW — American basketball star Brittney Griner pleaded guilty Thursday to drug possession charges on the second day of her trial in a Russian court in a case that could see her sentenced to up to 10 years in prison.
The abrupt guilty plea by the Phoenix Mercury star and two-time Olympic gold medalist came amid a growing chorus of calls for Washington to do more to secure her freedom nearly five months after her arrest in February amid rising tensions between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine.
A senior Russian diplomat said earlier that no action could be taken by Moscow on Griner’s case until the trial was over, and her guilty plea could be an effort by her and her advisers to expedite the court proceedings.
Griner, 31, was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport while returning to play basketball in Russia, and police said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage.
Speaking through an interpreter, Griner told the court she had no intention of committing a crime and had acted unintentionally because she had packed for Moscow in a hurry. The trial was then adjourned until July 14.
Griner emphasized “that she had committed this act through negligence, unintentionally,” her lawyer, Maria Blagovolina, said outside the court in the Moscow suburb of Khimki after the guilty plea.
“We of course hope for the leniency of the court,” she said. “Considering all the circumstances of the case, taking into account the personality of our client, we believe that the admission of guilt should certainly be taken into account.”
Blagovolina added that other defense witnesses would be questioned at a later session.
Griner was escorted to the courtroom in handcuffs and clad in a bright red T-shirt with the name “Crenshaw” and sweat pants. She also held a photo of her wife, Cherelle.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington would continue to work for the release of Griner, as well as other Americans held by Moscow, including former Marine Paul Whelan.
“We will not relent until Brittney, Paul Whelan, and all other wrongfully detained Americans are reunited with their loved ones,” he tweeted, noting that U.S. Embassy officials attended the trail again Thursday.
Elizabeth Rood, the embassy’s deputy chief of mission, said after the hearing that she spoke to Griner in the courtroom and shared with her a letter from President Joe Biden that she read.
“She’s eating well, she’s able to read books and under the circumstances she’s doing well,” Rood said.
“I would like again to emphasize the commitment of the U.S. government at the very highest level to bring home safely Ms. Griner and all U.S. citizens wrongfully detained as well as the commitment of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to care for and protect the interests of all U.S. citizens detained or imprisoned in Russia,” Rood said.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov bristled at the U.S. description of Griner as “wrongfully detained” and warned that “attempts by the American side to make noise in public ... don’t help the practical settlement of issues.”
The White House said Biden called Cherelle Griner on Wednesday to assure her that he’s doing all he can to win her release as soon as possible. They spoke after Biden read a letter from Griner in which she said she feared she’d never return home.
Washington hasn’t disclosed its strategy in the case and the U.S. may have little leverage with Moscow because of strong animosity over its actions in Ukraine. The State Department’s designation of Griner as wrongfully detained moves her case under the supervision of its special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, effectively the government’s chief hostage negotiator.
Asked about the possibility of Griner being swapped for a Russian jailed in the U.S., Ryabkov, the senior Russian diplomat, noted that until her trial is over “there are no formal or procedural reasons to talk about any further steps.”
He warned that U.S. criticism, including a description of Griner as wrongfully detained and dismissive comments about the Russian judicial system, “makes it difficult to engage in detailed discussion of any possible exchanges.”
“The persistence with which the U.S. administration ... describes those who were handed prison sentences for serious criminal articles and those who are awaiting the end of investigation and court verdicts as ‘wrongfully detained’ reflects Washington’s refusal to have a sober view of the outside world,” Ryabkov snapped.
Griner’s trial was adjourned after its start last week because two scheduled witnesses did not appear. Such delays are routine in Russian courts and her detention has been authorized through Dec. 20, suggesting the proceedings could last months.
Although Griner’s supporters initially kept a low profile, calls for Washington to act spiked after the trial’s first day on July 1.
An organization called Win With Black Women wrote Biden saying Blinken has called Cherelle Griner, “assuring her and stating publicly that Brittney’s safe return was a matter of personal priority; however, we are concerned that the rhetoric does not appear to align with the actions taken to date. We urge you to make a deal to get Brittney back home swiftly.”
Russian media have speculated repeatedly that Griner could be swapped for Russian arms trader Viktor Bout, nicknamed “the Merchant of Death,” who is serving a 25-year sentence in the U.S. after being convicted of conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens and providing aid to a terrorist organization.
Russia has agitated for Bout’s release for years. But the wide discrepancy between Griner’s alleged offense and Bout’s global dealings in deadly weapons could make such a trade unpalatable to Washington.
Others have suggested that she could be traded along with Paul Whelan, the former Marine and security director serving 16 years in Russia on an espionage conviction that the U.S. has described as a setup.
Whelan’s brother, David, said he did not have enough information to know whether Griner’s plea would be good or bad news for her and his brother.
“The conviction rate is so high in Russia, and so certain, that I could see the guilty plea as an attempt to just move the process forward,” David Whelan said, noting the Russian government won’t discuss “any release of Ms. Griner until she is convicted, sentenced, and potentially appeals or seeks a pardon.”
Her plea probably means that Washington and Moscow “will be able to seek a resolution faster than they could have before. But it doesn’t change the underlying calculus that the U.S. needs to find a concession that Russia will accept in order to return either or both Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan.” he added.
Russia has shown no signs of backing off.
“This is a serious offense, confirmed by indisputable evidence. ... Attempts to present the case as if the American was detained illegally do not hold up,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexei Zaitsev said Wednesday.
“The law has been violated, and arguments about the innocent nature of Griner’s addiction, which, by the way, is punishable in some U.S. states, are inappropriate in this case,” he said.
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AP Basketball Writer Doug Feinberg in New York and Ellen Knickmeyer in Washington contributed. | https://www.mcall.com/sports/national-sports/ct-brittney-griner-pleads-guilty-russia-20220707-txjea4wykneyrdaahcxvc6erne-story.html | 2022-07-07T22:27:57Z | https://www.mcall.com/sports/national-sports/ct-brittney-griner-pleads-guilty-russia-20220707-txjea4wykneyrdaahcxvc6erne-story.html | true |
The former Ohio police officer who shot and killed Tamir Rice in 2014 in Cleveland resigned Thursday as the sole officer of a small town in Pennsylvania, after being sworn in earlier this week.
"Effective this morning Timothy Loehmann has officially withdrawn his application for Tioga Borough Police Officer," officials said on the town's website.
NEW: Borough of Tioga, PA says former Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann has withdrawn his application to be a police officer there. Loehmann was fired by @CLEpolice for lying on his job application following the deadly shooting of Tamir Rice. @WEWS #WEWS pic.twitter.com/4y6tbyu75k
— Scott Noll (@ScottNoll_News) July 7, 2022
Tioga is a small borough in Pennsylvania with a population of around 700 people.
The town's mayor, David Wilcox, told WEWS on Wednesday that he was unaware of Loehmann's background as hiring and firing is done by the borough council—something the mayor said the council president led him to believe had been done and there were no issues.
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The mayor said he sat in on Loehmann's interview and his time in Cleveland came up but nothing was ever mentioned about his role in Rice's death.
The council unanimously approved Loehmann's hiring at $18 per hour. He was hired on a 90-day probationary period, and according to the mayor, the intention was to promote him to chief after a successful period.
The hiring prompted dozens of protesters to express their displeasure with the council's decision.
The former Cleveland officer was one of three candidates being considered by the town. Wilcox said he never saw Loehmann's resume.
"I was not allowed to take his resume or look into his background," the mayor said.
This isn't the first time Loehmann was hired as a police officer and then resigned following his departure from Cleveland.
He was briefly hired as a part-time officer by the police department for the small Ohio village of Bellaire in 2018, but shortly after reports of Loehmann's new job surfaced, he withdrew his application.
Loehmann is the officer who shot and killed the 12-year-old in 2014. Rice was playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center when he was shot by Loehmann.
He was fired by the Cleveland Division of Police in 2017, more than two years after the fatal shooting, for lying on his application and violating other administrative policies.
City officials charged Loehmann for failing to provide truthful information on his application. Officials said they discovered Loehmann was in the process of being fired from his previous department for his “lack of maturity” and an incident involving an emotional meltdown during firearm training, according to Cleveland police.
Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association President Jeff Follmer issued the following statement regarding Loehmann being brought on as an officer by another department:
"Timothy Loehmann was cleared of all charges with his use of force. The only administrative charges after a civilian review was that he was found to have allegedly lied on his application. Timothy Loehmann was not given a fair chance in this area and deserves a fair chance in another city." | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/former-ohio-officer-who-killed-tamir-rice-resigns-from-pennsylvania-police-department | 2022-07-07T22:31:12Z | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/former-ohio-officer-who-killed-tamir-rice-resigns-from-pennsylvania-police-department | false |
Winnipeg Transit gets $478 million in government funds
Winnipeg Transit gets $478 million in government funds
Winnipeg’s transit system is getting an overhaul, including electric buses, a new garage, and a complete redesign of the city’s transit network, thanks to $478 million in funding from all three levels of government.
Premier Heather Stefanson made the announcement Thursday, along with Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman and Winnipeg South MP Terry Duguid and others at the Seel rapid transit station in Fort Garry.
The funding comes from the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program, with $203 million being paid by the Canadian government, $153 million coming from the Province of Manitoba, and the City of Winnipeg covering the remaining $122 million.
Stefanson says she’s happy to be collaborating with other levels of government on such an important issue.
“Two of the six projects will support the electrification of Winnipeg’s public transit system with the purchase of 100 electric fuel cell buses. Today’s announcement is not only good for the environment, it’s also good for our economy,” the premier said.
Winnipeg is home to New Flyer Industries, one of North America’s largest bus manufacturers.
Winnipeg Transit will also add 150 new diesel buses to the fleet to meet growing transit needs.
The goal, according to Mayor Brian Bowman, is to eventually have a completely electric bus fleet.
“This is one of the most aggressive transitions to zero emissions in Canada,” he said.
The money will also replace the 70-year-old North Transit garage with a larger, more environmentally-friendly building set up to charge and maintain the new electric buses.
The other four projects include: initial design work for downtown rapid transit corridors, new radio technology for all buses, 325 new wheelchair securement devices, and a complete redesign of the entire transit route network.
“I was nervous about whether Winnipeggers would embrace a complete overhaul of the route system, because that’s significant change,” said Bowman. “The routing system and network have never been overhauled, it’s just been piecemeal additions over the course of the life of the city.”
These six projects are part of the city’s Transit Master Plan, which was adopted by council in April 2021. The plan is available on the city’s website and outlines how the transit system will be improved over the next 25 years.
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Ukraine urges Canada not to hand over gas turbine to Russia
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Putin to Ukraine: Russia has barely started its action
With Russia's military action in Ukraine in its fifth month, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday warned Kyiv that it should quickly accept Moscow's terms or brace for the worst, adding ominously that Russia has barely started its action. | https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg-transit-gets-478-million-in-government-funds-1.5978539 | 2022-07-07T22:31:19Z | https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg-transit-gets-478-million-in-government-funds-1.5978539 | true |
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A four-day workweek sounds appealing to workers. Possibly alarming to employers.
A bill introduced in the California legislature earlier this year proposed a regular pay rate for 32 hours of work per week, with overtime kicking in after that. The measure stalled in committee for a lack of broad support but could resurface in 2023.
Meanwhile, 4 Day Week Global, a nonprofit foundation associated with Oxford University, is piloting a six-month trial of a four-day workweek "with no loss of pay for employees." More than three dozen companies in the U.S. and Canada are participating in the experiment, with a total of 150 organizations and 7,000 employees involved worldwide.
Of more than 1,000 U.S. adult employees surveyed by research firm Qualtrics in January, 92% said they would support their employer going to a four-day workweek; 79% of them said it would help mental health, and 82% said it would make them more productive.
Will more employers embrace the change?
The change can be challenging
"I've always been curious about burnout. It truly affects those that should be thriving," says Lisa Belanger, CEO of ConsciousWorks in Canmore, Alberta. She consults with businesses on workplace well-being. In her quest to find "how work is meant to be," she decided to explore a four-day workweek herself.
Results have been mixed, at best, she says.
"I think I've failed so far in my own personal experiment," Belanger says. Business travel plans or other work-related responsibilities often interrupted her Day Five off.
"One of the reasons it's so challenging for me, and most people, to do a four-day workweek is other people are working on that fifth day, so you're getting email and you're getting pulled in," Belanger says.
Altering consumer behavior and expectations
"People are realizing that while this might be an intriguing or interesting idea, there's probably some trade-offs," says Benjamin Granger, head of employee experience advisory services at Qualtrics. He says the company's research indicates concerns regarding customer frustration if staffing changes have an impact on response time.
Widespread adoption would have to reach critical mass, where companies believe they have to adopt a shorter workweek to compete in the workforce, he adds. And consumer behavior and customer expectations and services would need to be reshaped.
"We're not even close to that yet," he says.
If it's not a four-day workweek, there are other levers to pull when it comes to workplace flexibility, Granger says.
Those could include perks that make a job more attractive, like choosing the hours you want to work rather than the usual 9-to-5, or the ability to run errands during the workday.
Few employees would be willing to take a pay cut
Less than 4 in 10 (37%) of the employees surveyed by Qualtrics would be willing to take a 5% or more pay cut for a four-day workweek. But nearly three-quarters (72%) of those surveyed said a four-day workweek would mean they would have to work longer days.
However, 10-hour days often aren't childcare friendly. And if a company offers to pay for only four days of eight hours each, it could indicate a shorter workweek might be the result of a company trying to reduce expenses.
Considering the trade-offs
"I think there is a lot of work and research that an organization has to do before it pulls the trigger on this," Granger says.
A four-day workweek — or other workplace flexibility — might begin with a series of discussions. If there is interest on both sides of the payroll, Granger suggests a trade-off analysis: "Look statistically at the factors that people would be willing to trade off, and would it be worth it to them?" If interest remains strong, the organization could run a pilot program with a small group of employees before a wider rollout.
If a four-day workweek isn't in your near future, Belanger offers these ideas for employees to possibly seek — and employers to consider:
• Occasional extended weekends off. Belanger says this allows time away without the stressful "work is piling up while I'm away" feeling during longer vacations.
• A meeting-free Friday or a reduction in the number of meetings overall.
• Email, instant messaging or texting hiatuses. "Telepressure" — the compulsion to quickly respond to work-related messages of any kind — is a real thing, Belanger says.
"You need a couple of hours every single day where you're wholly not working — 100% not working," for mental health, she adds.
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Rafael Nadal withdraws from Wimbledon due to an injury
Two-time Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal has pulled out of the tournament due to an abdominal muscle injury. The decision was made a day before he was scheduled to face Nick Kyrgios in the men's semifinals.
"Unfortunately, as you can imagine, if I am here, it's because I have to pull out from the tournament," Nadal said during a news conference.
Nadal had been experiencing discomfort in his stomach muscle for about a week, but the pain became nearly unbearable during the first set of his fifth-set victory in the quarterfinals on Wednesday. He wore tape on his abdomen during the match and required a medical timeout to take painkillers. He said he had considered stopping after the match.
On Thursday's off-day, however, Nadal went to the All England Club for some light practice, mostly hitting forehands and backhands. He did attempt a few serves, which he was unable to play with full force. He said the serves also caused the most discomfort during Wednesday's quarterfinals match against Taylor Fritz.
Nadal said he had a tear in one of his abdominal muscles. Nadal said that it didn't make sense to keep going in the tournament, and described it as "very tough circumstances."
"I think it's obvious that if I keep going, the injury is going to be worse and worse, and that's the thing that I can say now and feel very sad to say that," he said.
Nadal's withdrawal means that Kyrgios advanced to his first final at a major tournament, and will face either Novak Djokovic or Cam Norrie for the championship on Sunday. Nadal won the Australian Open and French Open earlier this year, and a victory at Wimbledon would have expanded his Grand Slam record to 23 titles. | https://www.npr.org/2022/07/07/1110336360/rafael-nadal-withdraws-from-wimbledon-due-to-an-injury | 2022-07-07T22:33:33Z | https://www.npr.org/2022/07/07/1110336360/rafael-nadal-withdraws-from-wimbledon-due-to-an-injury | false |
There’s a famous saying that no military plan survives its first contact with the enemy. The greatest theorist on war, Carl von Clausewitz, often explained that strategy must be dynamic, constantly changing and rejuvenating itself. In his famous treatise “On War,” he wrote that some generals “consider only unilateral action, whereas war consists of a continuous interaction of opposites.” The West needs to take these lessons to heart in its struggle with Russia and adjust its strategy — which is in danger of failing.
The core of the West’s strategy has been two-pronged: to provide Ukraine with arms, training and money as well as imposing massive sanctions on Russia. That basic idea still makes sense, but the balance needs to change. It is now clear that the economic war against Russia is not working nearly as well as people thought it would. President Vladimir Putin cares less about what these sanctions do to the Russian people than he does about what they do to the Russian state. And thanks to rising energy prices, Bloomberg News projects the Russian government will make considerably more revenue from oil and gas than it did before the war, around $285 billion this year compared with $236 billion in 2021.
Meanwhile, Europe is facing its worst energy crisis in 50 years.
The basic problem with the economic war against Russia, as I have argued before, is that it is toothless because it exempts energy. The Russian economy is fundamentally an energy economy. Revenue from oil and gas alone make up almost half of the Russian government’s budget. And unfortunately, the solution would not be for the West to stop buying Russian energy altogether because, with less supply in the world’s markets, that would only drive prices even higher. Having developed a dangerous dependence on Russian energy over the past two decades, Europe cannot quickly change that without plunging into a deep and protracted recession.
Look at what is already happening on the continent, where natural gas prices are now 700 percent higher than they were at the beginning of last year. On July 11, Nord Stream 1, the pipeline through which Germany gets most of its Russian gas, is scheduled to close for maintenance. It is possible that Putin will decide to punish the West and Germany by not letting it reopen. If so, Germany — Europe’s largest economy — will almost certainly fall into a recession. Putin’s strategy appears to be to impose costs on the West and play for time, assuming that cracks in the coalition against him will grow as economic pain in these countries grows.
Western countries are still not treating this challenge as a paramount priority. The Netherlands has a huge gas field, but it’s actually slowing production. Germany still will not reverse its self-defeating phaseout of nuclear energy. The Biden administration is still making it harder to finance long-term investments in natural gas and oil. It also cannot seem to find a way to restore the Iran nuclear deal — a move that would bring an enormous influx of new oil supplies onto the world market and almost certainly stabilize the price. I understand that there are valid objections and concerns with all these policies — but the priority has to be to defeat Putin.
Meanwhile, Putin’s real vulnerability is on the military front. The Russian army has expanded its control in the Donbas region of Ukraine but at great cost. Thousands of Russia’s soldiers have died, its supplies are dwindling, and most important, it is finding it very tough to get recruits. The Economist reports that the government is having a hard time filling the ranks and is offering new recruits triple the median wage.
Russia is suffering heavy losses of weapons that will be difficult to replace, especially when they require sophisticated technology — almost all of which it used to import from the West and its allies. Recently, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo revealed that captured Russian equipment is being found to contain computer chips that were taken out of refrigerators and dishwashers.
Western leaders should recognize that economic sanctions simply will not work in a time frame that makes any sense. They should increase as much of the supply of energy worldwide as they can but also dial back those sanctions that clearly are causing more pain to the West than Russia. Meanwhile, they should amp up military support to Ukraine, erring on the side of taking more risks. Freeing up the blockade around Odessa would be a huge economic win for Ukraine, and a shattering symbolic defeat for Russia.
Winter is coming. Homes in Europe might not have enough heat. Troops in Ukraine will find it harder to dislodge Russians once the snow blankets the land. Time is not on our side. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/07/west-allies-ukraine-strategy-failing/ | 2022-07-07T22:36:39Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/07/west-allies-ukraine-strategy-failing/ | false |
DECATUR — A Decatur father, angered at a woman’s criticism of him for neglecting his “fatherly duties,” retaliated by hitting her car with a piece of wooden table before smashing a glass storm window over the woman, police said.
A sworn affidavit from Decatur police said the 23-year-old victim suffered cuts to her face, head and arms.
“I observed (her) to be bandaged by Decatur Fire Department firefighters who told her to seek medical attention for her injuries due to her needing stitches for the wounds…” said Officer Malcolm Livingston, who signed the affidavit.
The defendant, Kristopher L. Leggions-Lovelace, 23, was arraigned Thursday in Macon County Circuit Court on charges of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm and criminal damage. He has yet to enter a plea.
Livingston said the violence happened on the afternoon of July 1 in the 1200 block of West Green Street. Leggions-Lovelace had arrived to pick up his children and the victim, a friend of the children’s mother, got into a heated dispute with him.
“...She was arguing with him about not living up to his fatherly duties,” Livingston added. “She stated Leggions-Lovelace left out of the residence and took a piece of a wooden table which was by the curb and struck her Dodge Dart, causing a dent and a scratch to the rear door of the vehicle.”
The victim estimated the damage to her car would cost more than $800 to repair and she told police she had rushed up to Leggions-Lovelace to confront him after he struck her vehicle.
“...Leggions-Lovelace picked up a glass storm window and hit her with it,” said Livingston. “The glass storm window broke on her, causing several cuts and lacerations…”
Police said they found and arrested the defendant within an hour of the incident. He is due back in court for a preliminary hearing July 20 and remained in the Macon County Jail Thursday. His bail is set at $10,000, requiring him to post a bond of $1,000 to be released.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The suspect in the killing of professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in Texas tried to change her appearance and used several aliases as she moved around Costa Rica in an attempt to establish herself as a yoga teacher before she was tracked down by U.S. and local authorities, investigators said Thursday.
Kaitlin Armstrong, 34, had cut and darkened her hair, and had a bandage on her nose and discoloration under her eyes when she was arrested at a beachside hostel on a immigration charge on June 29, Brandon Filla, deputy U.S. Marshal said a news conference to detail the 43-day search for her.
Filla declined to say whether authorities believed Armstrong had some sort of surgery to change her facial features. Filla said Armstrong told investigators when she was arrested that the bandage was for an injury from a surfing accident.
“When she was encountered by uniformed officers in Costa Rica, she didn't give her true identity at first,” Filla said. “But when she was taken into custody and questioned, minutes later she confessed to her true identity.”
Armstrong had moved around Costa Rica visiting yoga studios and hostels while investigators searched for her, Filla said.
“She took a journey," Filla said. “She was really trying to build something to where she could instruct yoga there in Costa Rica.”
Armstrong was taken back to Texas and is now in custody in Travis County, where she is being held on a $3.5 million bond on murder and other charges. Armstrong's attorney, Rick Cofer declined comment Thursday.
Wilson, 25, was found dead May 11, and Austin police on May 19 issued a murder warrant for Armstrong.
Armstrong left Austin for New York shortly after Wilson was killed, then flew from Newark, New Jersey to Costa Rica using the passport of someone “closely associated with her,” Filla said, without identifying that person.
Whether that person will face charges will be a matter for federal prosecutors, he said.
Wilson, a competitive gravel and mountain bike racer and Vermont native known as “Mo,” had been in Austin for a cycling event. According to an affidavit, Wilson had previously dated Armstrong’s boyfriend, cyclist Colin Strickland, who has cooperated with investigators and is not a suspect.
According to the affidavit, Armstrong’s SUV was seen on surveillance video outside the home where Wilson was found shot to death. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Cyclist-murder-suspect-moved-around-Costa-Rica-17291141.php | 2022-07-07T22:38:02Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Cyclist-murder-suspect-moved-around-Costa-Rica-17291141.php | false |
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper signed 11 bills on his desk into law Thursday, including legislation that addresses sexual assault, domestic violence and alcohol sales.
The signed bills were among more than three dozen that the General Assembly sent Cooper in the last two days of its work session, which ended Friday.
One signed measure makes clear that hospitals or medical offices can’t attempt to bill victims of sexual assault or their insurance companies for forensic medical examinations, leaving it to a special state fund that's already been in place to cover the payment.
The bill, which also expands the number of criminal offenses for which a conviction requires a defendant to provide a DNA sample, came amid reports that dozens of medical facilities may have been sending such bills to insurance companies. The bill also raises the maximum amounts that the fund will pay the hospitals and medical offices to perform the exams.
“Victims of sexual assault deserve access to a rape kit without being further victimized by being charged for it,” Cooper said in a news release. "This new law will also strengthen the state’s DNA database used to catch criminals by including domestic violence and assault crimes.”
With another signed bill, patrons of North Carolina’s standalone bars no longer have to become paid members of the establishments first to get a drink.
State Alcoholic Beverage Control laws have for decades regulated what is commonly known as “private bars.”
But the designation meant the establishments’ owners had to charge a usually nominal fee so a potential patron could become a member and get beer, wine or a mixed drink. Operators complained that required them to check everyone coming through the door and keep membership lists.
Under the new rules, contained in a broader alcoholic beverage law approved by wide margins in the House and Senate, private bars will now be known in state law as bars that primarily sell alcoholic beverages and don’t serve prepared food.
Other measures signed Thursday also would:
— clarify the rules for recently created “social districts” and “common area entertainment permits,” in which customers of establishments that sell alcoholic beverages can take their drinks on the street or to shared seating areas and consume them.
— allow judges to extend domestic violence protective orders temporarily should a hearing to renew the order be scheduled after the current order expires.
Cooper has until Sunday night or Monday night — depending on the bill — to act on the remaining measures on his desk, which include the legislature's proposed adjustments to the state budget. A bill becomes law without his signature if he doesn't sign or veto it by the deadline. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/NC-governor-signs-bills-addressing-sexual-17291187.php | 2022-07-07T22:38:10Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/NC-governor-signs-bills-addressing-sexual-17291187.php | true |
What is sRGB? The display tech explained
If you’re shopping for a monitor or another tech device with a screen, then you may have come across the term sRGB. Here’s what it means.
There are many different ways to measure the quality of a screen, and one of the potential metrics often cited by manufacturers is the percentage of sRGB that the product may offer. But what does this actually mean?
sRGB, which stands for “Standard Red Green Blue”, is a “colour space”, meaning that it is a standardised range of specific colours which are produced by combinations of the three additive primary colours listed in its name. The specific coordinate values belonging to this colour space are published by the International Color Consortium.
In the video below, you can watch the scientist Karl Lang explain the concept of its standardisation across various industries and products:
What does the percentage of sRGB signify?
When reading our product reviews, you may notice that a screen is given a percentage sRGB score when it has been carefully measured by a colorimeter.
This number refers to the proportion of the colour space that it is able to reproduce, with a higher percentage indicating a wider range. If a product has a relatively low score, that means it has fewer colours on offer in the sRGB space, whereas if a product has a higher score it has mor colours in that space and can potentially reproduce images more faithfully.
Are there alternatives to sRGB?
Despite sRGB being very widely used and quoted across the industry, it is not the only colour space that’s in use; alternatives include Adobe RGB and DCI-P3, and both of these contain more colours than sRGB (by approximately 25%), with the latter of these also being the one used by HDR content. In fact, when we perform tests on smartphones or laptop screens, many of the best devices offer 100% coverage of the sRGB colour spectrum but are likely to score lower for DCI-P3 or Adobe RGB. | https://www.trustedreviews.com/explainer/what-is-srgb-4247220 | 2022-07-07T22:43:27Z | https://www.trustedreviews.com/explainer/what-is-srgb-4247220 | true |
NEW YORK , July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Meridian Bioscience, Inc. ("Meridian" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: VIVO), in connection with the proposed acquisition of the Company by SD Biosensor, Inc. ("SDB") and SJL Partners LLC ("SJL"). Under the merger agreement, the Company's shareholders will receive $34.00 in cash for each share of Meridian stock owned, leaving SDB owning approximately 60% and SJL owning approximately 40% of Meridian. The transaction is valued at approximately $1.53 billion.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Sandra Lindsay is still in shock, after a recent phone call.
“The President of the United States wants to speak to me? That has to be a prank call,” Lindsay said.
But it was no joke, and Thursday she was one of 17 recipients of the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom.
President Joe Biden says she was selected for her work as a Long Island Jewish Medical Center critical care nurse, and for being the first American to receive a COVID-19 vaccine outside of clinical trials.
“She poured her heart into helping patients fight for their lives and to keep their fellow nurses safe…today, she receives our nation’s highest civilian honor,” the President said.
“Never in my wildest dreams would I think that I would hold this place in history, but I am honored and humbled,” Lindsay said.
In addition to saving lives, Lindsay says the vaccines also relieved some of the burden on healthcare workers.
“My colleagues and I in healthcare, in the medical community, have worked tirelessly to get to this point,” Lindsay said.
She continues to advocate for vaccines and mental health for health care workers and says this Medal of Freedom is not just for her.
“I share this Medal of Freedom with all my fellow healthcare workers, my nurses, every single person who worked throughout the pandemic, in the United States, all over the world,” Lindsay said. | https://www.yourbasin.com/washington/washington-dc/president-biden-awards-first-covid-vaccine-recipient-with-medal-of-honor/ | 2022-07-07T22:46:48Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/washington/washington-dc/president-biden-awards-first-covid-vaccine-recipient-with-medal-of-honor/ | true |
More men seeking vasectomies with the future of abortion in doubt
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The Supreme Court reversal of Roe v. Wade has produced a rise in vasectomies. More men are now seeking the surgery as a way to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
“It certainly appears a little bit more than coincidental,” Dr. Christopher Schrepferman of First Urology said. “I mentioned it to some of the guys I was doing a vasectomy on today and 2 of the 4 said that was part of their trigger or pressure to go ahead and call and make the appointment.”
Before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, a half million men a year in the U.S. were getting vasectomies. The 10 to 15 minute procedure with a three-day recovery has long been established as a reliable way to prevent unwanted pregnancies that could lead to abortions.
Last year at this time, First Urology saw 75 vasectomy appointments over a 2 week period. This year, coinciding with the Supreme Court decision, they saw that number jump during the same period to 189, a 152% increase.
”I think that most men,” Schrepferman said. “If you ask them individually would be pleased that their wives don’t have to face that decision perhaps. Because even if they would prefer having a choice, it’s not always a simple process for them.”
Since the Supreme Court decision was handed down, the most common age group of men seeking vasectomies at First Urology is 35 to 45 or 45% of cases. That’s followed by ages 25 to 35 or 40% of cases.
”Generally it’s been a positive for them,” Schrepferman said. “They’re taking more proactive steps to handle the situation with their spouse.”
Schrepferman said vasectomies do not come with a guarantee. He said one out of 1500-2000 cases results in unplanned pregnancies.
Schrepferman, a vasectomy reversal specialist said reversals are also not 100 percent successful.
“They’re getting better but they’re not a hundred percent,” he said. “When I counsel patients about vasectomies, I ask them to consider that a permanent decision.”
Copyright 2022 WAVE. All rights reserved. | https://www.wkyt.com/2022/07/07/more-men-seeking-vasectomies-with-future-abortion-doubt/ | 2022-07-07T22:48:36Z | https://www.wkyt.com/2022/07/07/more-men-seeking-vasectomies-with-future-abortion-doubt/ | true |
Good Samaritans restrain accused carjacker until Marion deputies arrive
An Ocala man was tied up with a belt and held by bystanders after deputies say he tried to carjack a woman.
The suspect also tried to break into a nearby home.
Body camera video shows the arrest of 51-year-old Normad Rosario-Otero after Marion County deputies say he attempted to carjack a woman but was stopped by a good Samaritan.
Investigators say carjacking was not his only crime.
"We heard a loud bang outside the bedroom window, and all I could hear was a guy screaming,” Joshua Lewis, a victim, said.
Lewis says around 6 a.m. Tuesday morning he awoke to Rosario-Otero banging on the windows of his home and yelling
"He was just screaming. He was like ‘ahhh,’” Lewis said.
Lewis wasn't sure if Rosario-Otero was trying to break in but grabbed a broom in case.
"He didn't try to come all the way up but he was right there, so I was just kind of poking at him. ‘Hey! Get back or I'm gonna hit you with the broom if I have to,’” Lewis said.
Lewis said Rosario-Otero took off toward the intersection of Southwest 60th Avenue and Highway 200 where, according to deputies, he tried to enter multiple cars, and ultimately got inside a woman's SUV through her passenger door.
According to the arrest affidavit, once inside the 74-year-old woman's car, Rosario-Otero grabbed the steering wheel and reached his foot over to press the gas but the woman kept her foot on the brake and that is when a good Samaritan showed up to save the day.
Another driver who was stopped at the intersection saw the older woman struggling with Rosario-Otero so he walked over, pulled Rosario-Otero out of the car and restrained him with a belt until law enforcement arrived.
Investigators say after his arrest, Rosario-Otero told them he didn't remember the incident because he used cocaine, Xanax pills and alcohol the night before.
He was taken to the hospital for treatment and faces multiple charges including carjacking and attempted burglary.
He’s being held on just over $100,000 bond. | https://www.wesh.com/article/good-samaritan-ties-up-carjacker/40547852 | 2022-07-07T22:49:25Z | https://www.wesh.com/article/good-samaritan-ties-up-carjacker/40547852 | false |
WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 7, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
427 PM CDT Thu Jul 7 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Swisher
County through 500 PM CDT...
At 426 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles southwest of Happy, or 11 miles northwest of Tulia, moving
northeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Happy.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
Very heavy rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3475 10172 3458 10172 3448 10200 3475 10200
TIME...MOT...LOC 2126Z 238DEG 14KT 3463 10195
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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Fulham remain in talks to sign West Ham centre-back Issa Diop after Marco Silva's side see two bids already rejected for the Frenchman by Hammers... and remain in talks for Arsenal's Bernd Leno
- Fulham are remaining in pursuit of West Ham centre-back Issa Diop
- The French defender has been deemed surplus to requirements by Hammers
- Marco Silva's side have already seen two bids rejected for the 25-year-old
- The newly promoted side also remain in talks for Arsenal goalkeeper Bernd Leno
Fulham have made two offers for West Ham defender Issa Diop as they try to convince David Moyes to sell.
Their initial offer of £10m plus add-ons was rejected and a new bid of £12million plus a further £8m in add-ons has been put forward for the 25-year-old.
The two sides could soon come to an agreement over a fee for the defender, with the Hammers wanting to recoup the £20million for the 25-year-old who arrived from Toulouse in 2018.
Fulham remain in pursuit of West Ham central defender Issa Diop in the transfer market
Marco Silva's side are looking to bring in a number of reinforcements in the summer window
The 25-year-old centre-back, who arrived as a club record signing, has been deemed surplus to requirements by David Moyes and his staff ahead of the upcoming season.
The Frenchman is one of five central defender options, with his chance of a starting spot lowering following the summer arrival of Nayef Aguerd from Rennes in a deal worth €30m (£25.3m).
Diop has been slowly fading out of the West Ham starting eleven having only made 13 Premier League appearances in the previous campaign - compared to 32 caps in 2019-20.
The Frenchman has dropped down the pecking order for the Hammers in the last year
West Ham completed the £30m signing of Moroccan defender Aguerd from Rennes last month
As reported by Sportsmail last month, the Cottagers remain in talks with Arsenal over a move for are pressing goalkeeper Bernd Leno.
Marco Silva wants to find a new number one this summer after Paulo Gazzaniga and Marek Rodak both played in the Cottagers' Championship-winning season.
Out-of-contract Lazio shot-stopper Thomas Strakosha has also been on the club's radar, but Leno looks set to be the target that they will pursue.
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Which treadmill for running is best?
If you don’t want to spend too much money on a monthly gym membership but still want to exercise regularly, purchasing a treadmill for running at home might be the perfect option for you. Owning a treadmill is great because you can exercise whenever or wherever in your home you want. For example, you can place your treadmill in the basement or an area away from the rest of the house so that you won’t be disturbed during your treadmill workout. What’s more, you can store your treadmill in front of the television so that you can watch TV during your workout.
Modern at-home treadmills for running have plenty of controls and features to make your running workout more engaging and effective. If you’re looking for a device that’s suitable for different fitness levels, the NordicTrack X32i Treadmill is your best bet.
What to know before you buy a treadmill for running
Consider your fitness goals
It’s crucial to pinpoint your fitness goals before purchasing a treadmill to use at home. Think about what you will use the treadmill for. For example, if you mostly want to use the treadmill for walking, then you can purchase a basic treadmill that simply gets your legs moving.
If you want to use the treadmill for running, then you should purchase a well-made and durable treadmill with a top-quality motor. And if you want to train for a marathon, you need to find a high-end and top-quality treadmill.
Think about the treadmill size you need
Consider the size of treadmill you want and need. There are small and compact treadmills out there, but they don’t work for everyone. For instance, taller runners typically can’t use compact treadmills because they limit their stride. Keep in mind that the length of the treadmill belt needs to accommodate your stride.
On the other hand, the width of the treadmill belt is also crucial. It’s essential that you feel comfortable running on your new treadmill. And if you have a small space and need a treadmill to fit the space in your home, keep in mind that there are some excellent folding treadmills on the market.
Find a treadmill with excellent safety features
Your treadmill needs to come with a safety key and emergency stop function, as well as handrails for balance. Before purchasing your treadmill, make sure that the treadmill belt is long enough and that you can reach the controls when needed, even if you are running quickly.
What to look for in a quality treadmill for running
Control panel and interface
Every treadmill comes with a control panel and interface, but you need to figure out which kind of control panel you require. Some treadmills have simple displays with basic statistics like your pace and distance traveled, while others have built-in color screens that help you see your progress in real-time.
Impact protection
Running on a treadmill will put less stress on your body than running or training outside since the treadmill’s surface is softer than pavement. Yet, you should still find and purchase a treadmill that helps protect your joints from impact.
Incline capability
If you are training for an event or race, you need to be able to change the incline of your treadmill. Find a treadmill that comes with this incline capability and figure out the maximum angle before making your purchase.
How much you can expect to spend on a treadmill for running
There are budget-friendly treadmills for running out there for $400-$500, but you can expect to pay about $500-$1,000 for mid-range treadmills for running with decent motors and essential features. And high-end treadmills for running with all the bells and whistles typically cost about $1,000 or more.
Treadmill for running FAQ
How fast should I run on a treadmill?
A. It’s important to run at a speed that feels comfortable to you, particularly if you are fairly new to running. You should use the talk test to determine which speed feels comfortable to you. In other words, at which speed can you run while talking without feeling too out of breath?
Begin at a running speed that feels fairly easy to you, then increase your level of effort over time. You should also use a running and walking training program if you are just starting out.
Will I get a good workout running indoors on a treadmill?
A. Yes, you can get a good workout while running indoors on a treadmill. Of course, indoor treadmill training is different from jogging or running outdoors, but running inside is still an excellent cardio workout.
What’s the best treadmill for running to buy?
Top treadmill for running
What you need to know: This incredible treadmill from the trusted brand NordicTrack is perfect for people of all fitness levels.
What you’ll love: Considered the best of the best, this top-quality treadmill includes a suspension system to protect your lower joints from too much impact and stress. It also comes in a home-treadmill design and is quieter than many other treadmills.
What you should consider: It’s important to consider that this treadmill is fairly expensive.
Where to buy: Sold by NordicTrack
Top treadmill for running for the money
What you need to know: This affordable and feature-packed NordicTrack treadmill comes with high-quality features for an amazing user experience.
What you’ll love: This budget-friendly treadmill offers FlexSelect cushioning to help simulate the real road-running experience and lessen the impact on your joints. The treadmill also comes with cross-training classes, global running scenery and an automatic trainer-control function.
What you should consider: You need to pay for the iFit family membership after the first year.
Where to buy: Sold by NordicTrack
Worth checking out
Sunny Health and Fitness Asuna Space Saving Treadmill
What you need to know: This portable Sunny Health and Fitness treadmill is an excellent option for people who lack space in their homes.
What you’ll love: This treadmill features integrated speakers with an auxiliary port on the media bar, as well as floor stabilizers on the bottom to ensure less movement. It also comes with a folding tool and transportation wheels to store it out of sight when needed.
What you should consider: Keep in mind that there is no incline option on this treadmill, and it can only go up to 8 miles per hour.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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WNBA star Brittney Griner pleaded guilty in Russia on Thursday to drug possession and smuggling charges, telling a Moscow court she brought marijuana into the country by accident.
Griner was arrested at a Moscow airport in February after Russian officials claimed she had cannabis oil in her luggage. A Russian judge ordered Griner, the Phoenix Mercury center who played in Russia during the WNBA off-season, to remain in custody.
"I would like to plead guilty on the charges against me, but I had no intention on breaking any Russian law," she said in court. "I was in a rush packing and the cartridges accidentally ended up in my bags."
The hearing on Thursday saw another witness questioned before Griner pleaded guilty. The WNBA player is expected to give her testimony at a later date and has requested time to prepare for it. The session adjourned until July 14.
If convicted on drug smuggling charges, Griner could face 10 years in a Russian prison.
Griner's plea could bring the verdict in her case closer, which would then allow her defense team and U.S. officials to trigger proceedings to try and secure her release.
Russian media had speculated that Griner could be a part of a prisoner swap similar to the one U.S. and Russia arranged in the spring, exchanging former Marine Trevor Reed with pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was jailed years ago on drug smuggling charges.
A high-ranking Russian diplomat signaled earlier Thursday that Moscow would be prepared to negotiate Griner's fate, but only after the court hands its verdict. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov also criticized U.S. attempts "to stir hype" around Griner's case after the U.S. government classified her as "wrongfully detained" and assigned a "hostage envoy" to work on her case.
"We have a long-established form of discussing these issues, and the attempts of the American side to stir hype and make noise in the public sphere are clear to us, they do not help the practical solution of the issue," Ryabkov said, according to TASS news agency.
In a handwritten letter from Griner that was delivered to the White House on Monday, the WNBA player wrote how terrified she is that she may be imprisoned in Russia "forever."
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke with Griner's wife Cherelle on Wednesday. The White House said he sought "to reassure her that he is working to secure Brittney's release as soon as possible, as well as the release of Paul Whelan and other U.S. nationals who are wrongfully detained or held hostage in Russia and around the world."
This story was originally published by CBS News on July 7, 2022.
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NEW HANOVER COUNTY, N.C. (WBTW) — The husband of “One Tree Hill” actress Bevin Prince was killed Sunday in a lightning strike off the North Carolina coast, according to officials.
William Friend, 33, was killed in the lightning strike, Lt. Jerry Brewer with the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office tells Nexstar’s WBTW.
Deputies responded Sunday afternoon and found Friend on his boat. He was transferred to a sheriff’s office boat where he was given CPR and taken to an ambulance at Bradley Creek Marina, officials said.
Bisnow, where Friend was CEO, released a statement Wednesday about his death.
“What made Will special was his innate ability to inspire and motivate people — to raise people higher than they thought possible,” Gregg Mayer, Bisnow Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, said in the statement. “That is the culture he fostered at Bisnow and, ultimately, that will be his lasting legacy.”
Friend was hired at Bisnow in 2010 and became CEO in 2015 at the age of 27, according to the company.
Friend and Prince, who married in 2016, moved to Wrightsville Beach when the pandemic hit to be closer to family, where the two created a fitness business, the company said.
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(NEXSTAR) – Don’t worry, it’s not the hot-dog combo.
A trip to the Costco food court might cost a little more these days, seeing as U.S. locations have raised the prices of two popular menu items — the fountain soda and the chicken bake — at wholesale clubs across the country.
The 20-ounce sodas, which were formerly priced at $0.59, are now selling for $0.69, while the chicken bake, which sold for $2.99 apiece, is now $3.99, according to information provided to Nexstar from several Costco locations throughout the U.S.
A representative for Costco’s corporate offices declined to comment on reports of increased prices, but employees at Costco outlets in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois and Texas have all confirmed the new pricing after being contacted by Nexstar.
“It’s sad but true,” one of the employees said.
Costco’s leadership, however, had recently calmed concerns over rumored plans to increase the price of the hot-dog-and-soda combo, one of the food court’s most popular items.
In a May 2022 earnings call with investors, Costco SVP Bob Nelson even took a moment to address those rumors after becoming aware of “incorrect information floating around on social media.”
“Let me just say, the price — when we introduced the hot-dog-soda-combo in the mid-’80s — was $1.50. The price today is $1.50, and we have no plans to increase the price at this time.”
Unfortunately, the same can’t be said of Costco’s membership fees. In March 2022, Costco CFO Richard Galanti discussed the possibility of a membership hike in the near future, “especially in light of companies like Amazon and Netflix raising their fees” earlier in the year.
Galanti said Costco had raised its membership fees three times over the last 15 years, or approximately once every “five years and seven months,” on average. If the intervals between Costco’s previous increases (the last being in 2017) hold steady, customers may expect to start paying higher membership fees in 2023.
“You guys will know when we tell you, and at some point it will happen,” Galanti told a USB analyst during the March presentation. “But stay tuned.” | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/costco-has-raised-prices-of-2-popular-food-court-items-at-locations-across-the-country/ | 2022-07-07T23:03:41Z | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/costco-has-raised-prices-of-2-popular-food-court-items-at-locations-across-the-country/ | false |
NEW YORK , July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Meridian Bioscience, Inc. ("Meridian" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: VIVO), in connection with the proposed acquisition of the Company by SD Biosensor, Inc. ("SDB") and SJL Partners LLC ("SJL"). Under the merger agreement, the Company's shareholders will receive $34.00 in cash for each share of Meridian stock owned, leaving SDB owning approximately 60% and SJL owning approximately 40% of Meridian. The transaction is valued at approximately $1.53 billion.
If you own Meridian shares and wish to discuss this investigation or have any questions concerning this notice or your rights or interests, visit our website:
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Weiss Law is investigating whether (i) Meridian's board of directors acted in the best interests of Company shareholders in agreeing to the proposed transaction, (ii) the $34.00 per-share merger consideration adequately compensates Meridian's shareholders, and (iii) all information regarding the sales process and valuation of the transaction will be fully and fairly disclosed. Notably, the merger consideration is below the $46.00 median price target set by analysts, and at least one analyst set a price target for the Company of $62 per share, $28.00 above the per-share merger consideration.
Weiss Law has litigated hundreds of stockholder class and derivative actions for violations of corporate and fiduciary duties. We have recovered over a billion dollars for defrauded clients and obtained important corporate governance relief in many of these cases. If you have information or would like legal advice concerning possible corporate wrongdoing (including insider trading, waste of corporate assets, accounting fraud, or materially misleading information), consumer fraud (including false advertising, defective products, or other deceptive business practices), or anti-trust violations, please email us at stockinfo@weisslawllp.com
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MILWAUKEE – Mayor Cavalier Johnson says his administration firmly believes that Milwaukee’s streets should be safe for everyone.
“Not just for automobiles but for pedestrians and stroller-pushers and bicycle riders and scooter riders as well,” Mayor Johnson told WTMJ.
So his administration has rolled out what it calls its “Vision Zero” plan. That plan includes completely changing some of the street infrastructure in some of the most heavily-traveled parts of the city.
“We’re allocating millions of dollars to address problem intersections along Capitol Drive, Congress, Fond du Lac Avenue, 60th Street and other neighborhoods similar to those across the city that have these high incidents of reckless driving crashes,” Mayor Johnson said.
Another part of the plan includes a proposal to reduce the posted speed limit on residential streets in Milwaukee to 20 miles-per-hour.
But when reckless drivers are going highway speeds on residential streets, is lowering the speed limit by five miles-per-hour actually going to make a difference?
Mayor Johnson says he thinks it will.
“I think it’s important for us to remember that it’s only a few people… It’s the minority of folks who are out there who are driving recklessly,” Mayor Johnson said.
“But because they’ve been doing it for so long, it seeps into other motorist behaviors behind the wheel.”
He mentioned people who feel forced to speed just to keep up with traffic so they don’t cause an accident.
“Lowering the speed limit, I think, would put us in a position where, the folks who are operating vehicles in a responsible manor, it puts us in a position where they’re slowing down so they’ll slow down the traffic behind them as well. Including the folks who are attempting to drive recklessly. So whether it’s directly or indirectly, the potential change in policy would have an impact on folks who are driving recklessly, including at speeds high and above what’s already posted.”
You can listen to more from Mayor Cavalier Johnson and his plan to combat reckless driving and traffic fatalities in Milwaukee in the player at the top of the page. | https://wtmj.com/homepage-showcase/2022/07/07/milwaukee-mayor-johnson-details-plans-for-reducing-deaths-on-city-streets/ | 2022-07-07T23:07:45Z | https://wtmj.com/homepage-showcase/2022/07/07/milwaukee-mayor-johnson-details-plans-for-reducing-deaths-on-city-streets/ | true |
Brazil's Bolsonaro says Western sanctions against Russia have failed
BRASILIA, July 7 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that the economic sanctions imposed by the West against Russia had not worked, echoing comments by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The comments by Bolsonaro, who met with Putin days before the Ukraine invasion in February, are likely to go down badly with the United States and many European countries, which have previously criticized Brazil's engagement with Russia.
"The economic barriers that the United States and Europe imposed against Russia did not work," Bolsonaro told supporters, adding that his position towards Putin and the war "was one of balance."
Bolsonaro said that stance had allowed him to acquire fertilizers, a key input for Brazil's vast agricultural sector, from Russia. He also said Russia shared Brazil's concerns over "sovereignty" of the Amazon.
The president has often described criticism by other nations of his stewardship of the rainforest as an infringement on Brazil's sovereignty.
Earlier on Thursday, Putin said it was obvious that Western sanctions were creating difficulties, "but not at all what the initiators of the economic blitzkrieg against Russia were counting on."
In June, Bolsonaro and Putin discussed global food security in a phone call, and confirmed their intention to strengthen their strategic partnership. (Reporting by Maria Carolina Marcello; Writing by Peter Frontini; Editing by Sam Holmes) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10993145/Brazils-Bolsonaro-says-Western-sanctions-against-Russia-failed.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-07T23:09:06Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10993145/Brazils-Bolsonaro-says-Western-sanctions-against-Russia-failed.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 7, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
510 PM CDT Thu Jul 7 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Harris
County through 545 PM CDT...
At 509 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Downtown Houston, moving northeast at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and isolated street flooding.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Greater Eastwood, Near Northside Houston, Midtown Houston, Greater
Fifth Ward, Downtown Houston, Greater Third Ward, Second Ward, Fourth
Ward, Macgregor, Neartown / Montrose, University Place, eastern
Greater Heights, Memorial Park, Afton Oaks / River Oaks Area,
Greenway / Upper Kirby Area, southeastern Northside / Northline,
Eastex / Jensen Area, Hunterwood, El Dorado / Oates Prairie and
Settegast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 2970 9535 2972 9541 2975 9543 2988 9533
2982 9520
TIME...MOT...LOC 2209Z 223DEG 5KT 2975 9536
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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GENOA, Italy (AP) — Fifty-nine people went on trial Thursday for the 2018 collapse of Genoa’s Morandi bridge, accused of manslaughter and other charges in the deaths of 43 people.
The defendants include former executives and experts of the company that manages many of Italy’s bridges and highways, as well as former officials of the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.
A huge section of the Morandi Bridge broke off during a violent rainstorm on Aug. 14, 2018, when highways were packed with vacationers, sending cars plunging into the dry riverbed below.
Prosecutors have alleged the defendants knew the bridge, which was built in the 1960s, was at risk of collapsing and that corners were cut on maintenance to save money.
The bridge’s designer had recommended regular upkeep to remove rust, especially due to the corrosive effect of moist air from the nearby Ligurian Sea, and maintenance to counter the effect of pollution on concrete.
In April, a Genoa judge approved plea bargain requests by both the highway company, Autostrade per Italia, and the Spea engineering company, to pay 29 million euros ($33 million) to the Italian government in exchange for avoiding a trial.
The lawyer for former Austostrade CEO Giovanni Castellucci, who is among the defendants, said the trial would show that the bridge collapsed not as a result of maintenance negligence but due to an original “construction defect.”
“This is why 43 people died in a terrifying and absurd way,” lawyer Giovanni Paolo Accinni told reporters Thursday outside the Genoa tribunal, the LaPresse news agency reported.
A replacement bridge, designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano, a Genoa native, features 43 lamps in memory of people who perished.
The governor of Liguria, Giovanni Toti, said the start of the trial was important for the region but also relatives of the 43 victims.
“Starting today, justice and truth are closer and we hope will arrive quickly,” Toti wrote on Facebook. “It’s the only way to rebuild the trust between citizens and the state that collapsed on that Godforsaken Aug. 14.”
After the collapse, the Italian government forged a deal in which the Benetton fashion family agreed to sell its ownership stake in Autostrade.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A British Royal Navy vessel seized a sophisticated shipment of Iranian missiles in the Gulf of Oman earlier this year, officials said Thursday, pointing to the interdiction as proof of Tehran’s support for Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the embattled country.
The British government statement was striking in that it provided some of the strongest findings to date that Tehran is arming the Houthis against the Saudi-led military coalition with advanced weapons smuggled through the Persian Gulf.
The U.K. Embassy in the United Arab Emirates described the seizure of surface-to-air-missiles and engines for land attack cruise missiles as “the first time a British naval warship has interdicted a vessel carrying such sophisticated weapons from Iran.”
“The U.K. will continue to work in support of an enduring peace in Yemen and is committed to international maritime security so that commercial shipping can transit safely without threat of disruption,” said James Heappey, Minister for the Armed Forces.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not respond to a request for comment.
The announcement signals an escalation as Western officials have in the past shied away from public statements that definitively blame Iran for arming Yemen’s Houthis with military contraband. The route of the smuggled shipments through the Arabian Sea or Gulf of Aden, however, has strongly suggested their destination.
Despite a United Nations Security Council arms embargo on Yemen, Iran has long been suspected of transferring rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, missiles and other weaponry to the Houthis since the disastrous war began in 2015. Iran denies arming the Houthis, independent experts, Western nations and U.N. experts have traced components back to Iran.
Citing a forensic analysis last month, the British navy linked the batch of rocket engines seized earlier this year to an Iranian-made cruise missile with a 1,000-kilometer range that it said the rebels have used against Saudi Arabia.
The Houthis also used the cruise missile to attack an oil facility in Abu Dhabi in January of this year, the British navy said, an assault that killed three people and threatened the key U.S. ally’s reputation as a haven of stability. The U.S. military launched interceptor missiles during the attack, signaling a widening of Yemen’s war.
The HMS Montrose’s helicopter had been scanning for illicit goods in the Gulf of Oman on January 28 and February 25 when it spotted small vessels speeding away from the Iranian coast with “suspicious cargo on deck.” A team of Royal Marines then halted and searched the boats, confiscating the weapons in international waters south of Iran.
A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer supported the British warship’s February operation. Fifth Fleet Vice Adm. Brad Cooper said the seizure reflected the Navy’s “strong commitment to regional security and stability.”
The Houthis seized Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, in September 2014 and forced the internationally recognized government into exile. A Saudi-led coalition armed with U.S. weaponry and intelligence joined the war on the side of Yemen’s exiled government in March 2015.
Years of fighting have ground into a bloody stalemate and pushed the Arab world’s poorest nation to the brink of famine. A tenuous truce that began around the holy Muslim month of Ramadan appears to be holding, although both sides have accused each other of violations. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/uk-warship-seizes-advanced-iranian-missiles-bound-for-yemen/ | 2022-07-07T23:15:38Z | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/uk-warship-seizes-advanced-iranian-missiles-bound-for-yemen/ | true |
Mexico seizes ‘historic’ half-ton of fentanyl at warehouse
Published: Jul. 7, 2022 at 5:39 PM CDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico’s army and National Guard have made what they call a “historic” seizure of over a half-ton of fentanyl at a warehouse in the northern city of Culiacan.
Synthetic opioids like fentanyl have been behind a major increase in overdose deaths in the United States.
As little as two milligrams of fentanyl can be lethal.
The nearly 1,200 pounds found at the warehouse could have produced millions of the counterfeit pills in which fentanyl is usually offered.
The Defense Department said Thursday that over a half-ton of meth was also found in the July 2 raid.
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CHICAGO (AP) — In 2019, Robert E. Crimo III was too young to apply independently for a gun license in Illinois.
His father sponsored the application just months after an unidentified family member called police to report that the son had a collection of knives and had threatened to “kill everyone.”
Illinois State Police reviewed the license application and found no reason to deny it because Crimo had no arrests, no criminal record, no serious mental health problems, no orders of protection and no other behavior that would disqualify him.
By 2021, the 21-year-old man had purchased at least five weapons. Now he’s accused of using a semi-automatic rifle to open fire on a crowd of unsuspecting July 4 paradegoers in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, killing seven people and wounding at least 30 more.
The accused gunman’s parents are also under scrutiny as the reeling community questions why they apparently supported their son’s interest in guns only months after he reportedly threatened suicide and violence.
Anti-gun violence advocates are encouraged to see police and prosecutors investigating anyone who may have contributed to the attack, including the accused shooter’s parents.
“For too long we have only held the individual that’s pulled the trigger accountable for their actions that have led to the violence,” said Christian Heyne, vice president of policy at the Brady campaign. “But the more we understand about gun violence on the whole, the more we understand that other people made it possible.”
Legal experts, though, said it’s incredibly difficult to prove criminal charges against a shooter’s parent or guardian. More often, they face civil lawsuits where legal standards of proof are less stringent.
That is the case in the May 14 shooting in Buffalo, New York, where 10 Black people died in an attack by an 18-year-old white gunman. The prosecutor there has said no one else is expected to be criminally charged, although court filings indicate the parents may face at least one lawsuit.
One exception is still moving through a Michigan state court, where in December a prosecutor charged the parents of a 15-year-old boy with involuntary manslaughter following the fatal shooting of four students at the teenager’s high school. He was charged as an adult with murder and terrorism.
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT CRIMO’S HISTORY?
Police have said Crimo had two previous encounters with authorities.
In April 2019, Crimo attempted suicide by machete, according to a police report obtained by The Associated Press that noted a “history of attempts.”
In September 2019, police returned after a family member reported that Crimo had a collection of knives and had threatened to “kill everyone.” But according to Illinois State Police, both Crimo and his mother disputed the threat of violence.
“The individual told police he did not feel like hurting himself or others and was offered mental health resources,” the statement said.
Police have said father Bob Crimo — a former candidate for mayor of Highland Park — later told investigators the knives belonged to him, and authorities returned them.
When the younger Crimo applied for a state gun license in December 2019, his father supported it, a requirement for applicants who are under 21.
WHY IS IT RARE FOR PARENTS TO FACE CHARGES?
Proving a criminal charge requires convincing jurors or a judge of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. That’s difficult in a scenario where the defendant didn’t personally take action, said Paul Cain, a professor of law at Northern Illinois University.
“They have to show the parents aided and abetted crime in some way for there to be an accountability based charge,” Cain said. “That’s the getaway car driver who didn’t actually go in and rob the store at gunpoint … but performed some action to allow that robbery to go forward.”
Katherine Schweit, retired FBI agent who developed the agency’s active shooter program, agreed that prosecutors’ challenge is showing a strong connection to the crime — “where they could have prevented it and chose not to.”
“Just because somebody knows that someone isn’t as safe as the rest of us would like them, that doesn’t mean that person can be charged,” she said. “There has to be some level of proximate cause attached.”
Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart declined this week to say whether his office will pursue charges against Crimo’s parents.
In media interviews, Bob Crimo has said he does not expect to face charges and does not believe he did anything wrong by helping his son get a gun license through the state’s established process.
WHEN HAVE CHARGES BEEN BROUGHT?
The involuntary manslaughter charges filed in Michigan against James and Jennifer Crumbley made international headlines because the decision was such a departure from the norm.
Prosecutors accused the Crumbleys of failing to keep their son away from the semi-automatic rifle his father had purchased and taking no action after school officials found a drawing and written threats at the boy’s desk hours before the shooting.
“The notion that a parent could read those words and also know that their son had access to a deadly weapon that they gave him is unconscionable — it’s criminal,” Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald said as she announced the charges.
The Crumbleys have pleaded not guilty, and their attorneys have said they were devastated after learning their son was accused in the killings.
In May, an Illinois man was found guilty of illegal delivery of a firearm to a person who had been treated for mental illness within the past five years. Prosecutors said the father gave his son an assault-style rifle that he later used to shoot and kill four people in 2018 at a Waffle House in Tennessee, despite knowing the son had received mental health treatment.
In 2020, the mother of an Indiana teen was placed on probation for failing to remove guns from her home after her mentally ill son threatened to kill students. He fired shots inside his school in 2018. No one was injured, but the boy killed himself.
In Washington state, the father of a boy who killed four students at a high school in 2014 was convicted of illegally possessing firearms. He was not charged in the shooting, although one of his guns was used. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/explainer-will-parents-face-legal-trouble-in-july-4-attack/ | 2022-07-07T23:17:37Z | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/explainer-will-parents-face-legal-trouble-in-july-4-attack/ | false |
(NEXSTAR) — Lego and Super Mario are set to unleash Bowser’s fury on collectors this fall with the release of the partnership’s largest building set yet. The Mighty Bowser kit features Nintendo’s iconic villain in 2,807 pieces as part of Lego’s adult product line.
The recreation of Mario’s nemesis can launch fireballs and will also have moveable head, neck, mouth, arms, legs and tail, Lego said in its Thursday announcement.
“Just as defeating Bowser was always the ultimate challenge in the Super Mario games, here we’re challenging fans to build the King of the Koopas from nearly 3,000 pieces,” said Senior Designer Carl Merriam. “We know they’re up to the task and will be chomping at the bit to get their hands on this great new addition to the Super Mario line.”
The Might Bowser, priced at $269.99, will be released Oct. 1. Cue the evil Bowser laugh you dreaded from Super Mario 64.
Biggest Lego set ever
While 2,807 is a lot of pieces, it’s far from Lego’s biggest set.
In terms of piece count, the biggest Lego set ever released is the Lego Art World Map, which has over 11,000 pieces. The item can be mounted and pinned with its owner’s travels. Other many-piece releases are the Titanic set (9,090 pieces), Colosseum (9,036), Star Wars Millennium Falcon (7,541) and the Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle (6,020). | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/2807-piece-bowser-coming-to-legos-super-mario-line/ | 2022-07-07T23:17:54Z | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/2807-piece-bowser-coming-to-legos-super-mario-line/ | false |
A Starbucks next to the University of Arizona campus is poised to become the first unionized location of the coffee chain in Tucson and the fifth in Arizona.
Baristas at the Starbucks in Main Gate Square, 814 E. University Blvd., voted 11-3 in favor of union representation on Wednesday.
If the vote is certified by the National Labor Relations Board, the workers will join Starbucks Workers United, which is supported by Service Employees International Union affiliate Workers United.
More than 180 of Starbucks’ 9,000 company-run U.S. stores have voted to unionize since December, according to Workers United. And in the past year, workers in 327 Starbucks stores across the U.S. have petitioned the NLRB to hold union elections, according to agency records.
Starbucks, which unsuccessfully challenged a successful union vote at a Starbucks in Mesa in February, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A group of 10 Tucson baristas informed Starbucks in April of their intention to hold a union vote in a letter to CEO Howard Schultz that alleged the company had engaged in “union-busting” tactics by the company.
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"We are proud to be the first store in Tucson to make this leap, and hope that many more stores will join us in our pursuit of creating a better workplace," Matthew Harrison, a shift supervisor at the Main Gate Square Starbucks and union organizer representing fellow baristas, said in announcing the vote.
Harrison said the company's anti-union tactics were the main driver of the Tucson baristas decision to seek union representation.
"It was their comments on unions and union workers, and just the overall divisiveness that corporate has decided to take over the issue," he said.
While no major workplace issues prompted the union drive, work-hour scheduling and pay have become issues recently, Harrison said, citing high inflation.
Harrison said he hopes Starbucks will voluntarily come to the bargaining table in Tucson, but that remains to be seen given the company's union stance.
"We're really hoping that the company is going to recognize that more and more stores are unionizing and that's not going to slow down," he said.
None of the new unions have begun contract talks with the company to reach collective-bargaining agreements with the company — a process that typically takes a year or more.
Contact senior reporter David Wichner at dwichner@tucson.com or 520-573-4181. On Twitter: @dwichner. On Facebook: Facebook.com/DailyStarBiz | https://tucson.com/news/local/business/baristas-at-ua-area-starbucks-first-in-tucson-to-vote-for-union/article_a1934480-fe1e-11ec-bc98-3ff33cb48f0a.html | 2022-07-07T23:23:21Z | https://tucson.com/news/local/business/baristas-at-ua-area-starbucks-first-in-tucson-to-vote-for-union/article_a1934480-fe1e-11ec-bc98-3ff33cb48f0a.html | false |
Emily and Kobe are freaking out over her possibly being pregnant again in this exclusive clip from Sunday's new episode of 90 Day Fiancé. The couple isn't financially stable and live with their young son, Koban, at Emily's parents' house. The one thing her dad asked for is that she not get pregnant again while they're still living under his roof.
Emily and Kobe met in China and, after a long wait, he was finally able to join Emily in Kansas from his home country of Cameroon when his visa got approved. It's been a rocky adjustment for him, given his and Emily's different parenting styles and their financial situation. In the clip, the couple says that although they both feel it isn't the right time to have another child, Kobe told Emily to stop taking birth control since he said he knew other women who went on birth control and then had a hard time conceiving when they got off of it. He then named other methods they tried that didn't stop the current situation they're in.
"I pulled out when we started and then you told me you had this application on your phone, 'I'm not ovulating right now,'" he tells cameras as Emily looks dumbfounded.
Kobe tells her he doesn't know how he's going to face her family if she's pregnant given that they're living in her father's house. But Emily argues that the pressure is all on her since he can't even legally work yet.
"I love babies, like, I want to have a lot of kids. It's just not the right time," she says. "I mean, we're not even married yet, we're still living in my parents' basement. And on top of that, my dad only has one rule for us, and it's to not get pregnant."
A clearly shell-shocked Kobe agrees.
"It's hard enough trying to figure out our relationship together ... and I don't have the finances to be able to take care of my family," he acknowledges. "So, if Emily is pregnant right now, I don't know how we're going to be able to handle this."
90 Day Fiancé airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on TLC.
ET spoke to the couple in April about their journey on this season of 90 Day Fiancé. Watch the video below for more.
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It's week 9 of RuPauls Drag Race: All Stars 7, and some of the queens are "losing their damn minds" -- and their wigs too! In ET's exclusive sneak peek at the first act of this week's episode, the queens return to the werk room, celebrating Raja's hard-earned second star and grilling a sullen Jaida Essence Hall about the "secrets" of the bejeweled blocked plunger -- which was bestowed upon her in last week's episode.
"This plunger holds as many secrets as pieces of real jewelry I am wearing right now... which is none," Jaida admits to the cameras in her confessional. But the all-winners cast still pretends to keep Raja out of the loop, plotting never to block her so she can't find out.
After a quick star roundup -- which reveals that most queens are sitting pretty with two apiece, while Jaida has three and Shea Couleé and Monet X Change are "on the one-star alliance couch" -- things take a turn for the sillier as they de-drag, with Shea, Yvie Oddly, Jinkx Monsoon and more goofing off for the cameras.
"We are getting closer to the finish line, and the pressure is on," Trinity the Tuck admits of the antics in her confessional. "We're competing against each other, week after week, and it's overwhelming at times."
"I'm starting to think these girls have lost their damn minds," she adds. "There are some people short circuiting!"
Watch the video above to see the full sneak peek from the episode, in which the queens are tasked with coming up with their own social media dance challenge and have to strut their stuff on a "What Lies Beneath"-themed runway -- to be judged by special guest Ben Platt!
New episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars are streaming Fridays on Paramount+.
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The European Union’s plan to include natural gas in a list of activities considered sustainable could derail its progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions at a time when climate scientists are calling for dramatic reductions to planet-warming releases.
The plan, approved Wednesday by European lawmakers, will allow investment in natural gas infrastructure such as natural gas power plants and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals to be considered green investments under certain conditions. Natural gas is a fossil fuel that causes warming of the Earth when it is burned and even more warming when it leaks out unburned.
It comes at a time when the continent is struggling to maintain a reliable gas supply and consumers are suffering from painfully high energy prices. Russia, which supplied about 40% of the EU’s gas before it invaded Ukraine, has reduced the flow of gas to Europe and could make even more draconian cuts, and nations throughout Europe have been scrambling for alternatives to Russian energy.
“This…makes sense only as a death knell for coal,” said Rob Jackson, professor of earth system science at Stanford University. “Otherwise, it’s baffling. We’re approaching 8 billion tons of carbon dioxide pollution a year from gas use alone, and that can’t continue.”
The European Union has a binding commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 and to reach climate neutrality by 2050. And while Europe is working on transitioning to renewable sources such as wind and solar, it doesn’t have enough power lines in place to carry electricity from sunny solar farms and wind-fired turbines.
Natural gas has been promoted as a “bridge fuel” because in a side-by-side comparison of power plants, natural gas produces less carbon dioxide when burned than coal. But that’s not the way climate experts see it.
“We no longer have the luxury of using gas as a clean fuel,” Jackson said. “It’s cleaner than coal, but dirtier than most everything else we use today.”
Meanwhile, European politicians are doing what they can to ensure people can keep the lights on and continue to pay energy bills without going broke.
The decision was welcomed by BDI, Germany’s industrial lobby group, which called for more investments in gas infrastructure including LNG import terminals.
To get more natural gas, Europe is looking to boost imports of LNG from countries such as the U.S., which has ramped up its exports to the continent but can’t produce more LNG without significant, costly expansion of its LNG terminals. And the process of making LNG is energy-intensive: Emissions of carbon dioxide equivalent from the LNG export terminals on the U.S. Gulf Coast were on par with the country of Costa Rica in 2020, according to the Global Carbon Project.
In addition to those emissions, there are massive leaks of methane, a gas with far more damaging climate-warming potential than carbon dioxide, along the natural gas supply chain. For example, in New Mexico’s Permian Basin, the methane leaking into the atmosphere was equivalent to 9% of the gas production for the region, according to a recent study.
“This is an extreme bald-face attempt to greenwash,” said John Sterman, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan Sustainability Initiative.
As part of the plan, gas-fired power plants would have to switch to lower-carbon fuels by 2035. But “the language that says it will only be considered green if it can convert to hydrogen or a renewable source of combustible gas by 2035 doesn’t excuse it,” Sterman said. “That’s 13 years from now. And in the meantime, such plants would be producing significant greenhouse gases, and worsening climate change.”
Building new infrastructure for natural gas could increase the severity of climate change long term, since infrastructure is built to last 30 or 40 years, which means the possibility of burning fossil fuels well beyond the point that climate experts recommend.
Nor does building such infrastructure happen overnight. It takes about four years to build a new LNG terminal, so the approach does not address the needs of Europeans who need to heat homes this coming winter.
Even so, burning natural gas is preferable to burning alternatives such as coal, petroleum or tires, all of which is done in Europe, said Julio Friedmann, fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University.
“Europe is going through a very difficult moment and going through an energy transition at the same time,” Friedmann said. “For now, natural gas is cleaner than many options.”
There are also quicker solutions than building new land-based LNG facilities on the continent.
For example, Germany is planning to bring in several floating LNG terminals. That would help the nation have access to more natural gas, without creating a permanent investment.
“They need the supplies but they want to avoid lock-in,” Friedmann said. “That’s reasonable.”
There are also efforts to get more pipeline gas from neighbors. The European Union has been pleading with Norway, which delivers 20 to 25% of Europe’s gas, as well as Qatar and Algeria, to provide more natural gas.
The need for natural gas extends beyond providing electricity and heating homes. It’s also essential as a feedstock for fertilizer and in producing steel and concrete, Friedmann said. Those are needs that renewable energy can’t fulfill today.
“There are strong limits today on European transmission capabilities,” Friedmann said. “There are strong limits today on the area in which renewables can be built on land.”
There are also many things that can be done to lower the climate impact, such as installing carbon capture and storage technology on new natural gas infrastructure, Friedmann said.
But money would be better spent working to replace home natural gas systems with heat pumps or investing in making homes more energy-efficient to dramatically reduce demand, Sterman said.
“Nobody wants tons of coal or cubic meters of natural gas,” Sterman said. “What people want and need is to be warm in the winter, cool in the summer, and the lights on when they flip the switch…Efficiency is the fastest, safest and cheapest way to provide those wants and needs, with very little in the way of unintended harmful cons, if any.”
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Associated Press writer Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed to this story.
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NATO’s defensive role was once largely limited to the European heartland, a legacy of its origins as a Cold War foil to the Soviet military presence in Eastern Europe. After 9/11, however, its reach was extended to Afghanistan, under the assertion that a treaty member, the United States, had come under armed attack from a hostile party and so warranted support from other alliance members in accordance with their treaty obligations. Over the years, NATO also acquired new members in the Baltic Sea area and Eastern Europe, advancing its defense perimeter all the way to Russia’s borders and inflaming tensions with Moscow. Now, the alliance is about to undertake its most ambitious expansion of all: extending its strategic reach to Asia and the Pacific in an ambitious, US-led campaign to curb China’s rise.
NATO’s new strategic vision, entailing the simultaneous containment of both Russia and China, was to have been anointed as official NATO policy at the summit scheduled for June 28–29 in Madrid, Spain. A new mission statement, identifying China as a “a full-spectrum systemic rival” had been drafted by US and NATO officials as far back as November 2020 for the heads of state to approve in Madrid. But before they could assemble and ratify the document, Russia invaded Ukraine, altering the summit’s priorities. While the broader strategy of containing China remained a major focus of deliberation, countering Russia became NATO’S most pressing concern.
Identifying Russia as both an immediate and long-term threat to alliance security, the NATO leadership agreed to speed deliveries of heavy weapons to Ukraine and to significantly bolster NATO forces deployed among the “frontline” states facing Russia in Eastern Europe. This will involve the deployment of additional US and Allied combat troops in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania, along with other measures. Finland and Sweden will also be incorporated into the alliance, vastly extending its defense perimeter along the Russian border.
The NATO buildup in eastern and northern Europe is ominous in itself and not to be ignored. According to a fact sheet issued by the White House, the US Army will establish a permanent garrison headquarters in Poland, add more permanently stationed troops in Germany and Italy, and commit an enduring rotating combat brigade team to Romania; the Navy will add two destroyers to the four already stationed at its base in Rota, Spain, and the Air Force will forward-deploy two F-35 fighter squadrons in the United Kingdom. These major commitments will move the center of gravity of US force deployments in Europe—now numbering over 100,000 military personnel—much closer to Russia’s land border and to the air and sea space adjoining Russia in the Baltic and Black Seas. This, in turn, will increase the risk of a clash with Russian forces that might escalate into a major conventional war and, from there, to a catastrophic nuclear war.
There is much that can be said about the escalatory risks of deploying so many heavily equipped forces on Russia’s land, sea, and air borders, especially when taking note of NATO’s commitment to the use nuclear weapons in response to an overpowering Russian assault. This applies in particular to the US tactical nuclear munitions stored at Allied bases in Europe for potential use by “dual-capable” aircraft (planes capable of delivering either nuclear or conventional munitions), such as the F-35s deployed in Germany, Italy, and the UK. With Vladimir Putin regularly threatening the use of nuclear weapons in response to a NATO attack on Russia, the danger of miscalculation and overreaction in a crisis can only increase.
But it is the global implications of the Madrid summit that command our greatest attention. Not content merely to identify Russia as an enhanced threat to European security, the NATO leadership found time to embrace the anti-China agenda of the Biden administration, expressed in such White House documents as the Interim National Security Strategic Guidance of March 2021, and to incorporate it into the mission statement they adopted in Madrid. Under this edict, China is to be viewed along with Russia as major challengers to the “rules-based international order” on which alliance security and prosperity supposedly rest. This, in turn, requires that NATO extend its defensive reach not only to nearby areas of Africa and the Middle East, but also to Asia and the Pacific.
“Strategic competition, pervasive instability, and recurrent shocks define our broader security environment,” the NATO document asserts, reflecting US strategic thought. At the root of all this instability, it claims, is a drive by authoritarian states, led by China and Russia, to undermine the “rules-based international order” on which we rely. “Authoritarian actors challenge our interests, values and democratic way of life,” it states. In addition to posing sophisticated military threats to alliance members, “these actors are also at the forefront of a deliberate effort to undermine multilateral norms and institutions and promote authoritarian models of governance.”
The only conceivable response to this, the NATO strategy asserts, is to mobilize alliance members for a long-term struggle to resist and overpower those “authoritarian actors,” especially China. This means not only acquiring advanced nuclear, conventional, and cyber weaponry, but also developing enhanced security ties with like-minded states on China’s periphery. “We will strengthen dialogue and cooperation with new and existing partners in the Indo-Pacific to tackle cross-regional challenges and shared security interests,” the document states.
Adoption of the new strategic concept by NATO ensures that tensions between the United States and its allies on one side, and China on the other, are bound to increase. From Beijing’s perspective, this can only be viewed as a malicious attempt by Washington to incorporate Europe into its ongoing drive to prevent China’s rise—and so will very likely provoke resistance. “We urge NATO to stop provoking confrontation by drawing ideological lines, abandon the Cold War mentality and zero-sum game approach, and stop spreading disinformation and provocative statements against China,” said a spokesperson for the Chinese mission to the European Union. “Since NATO positions China as a ‘systemic challenge,’ we have to pay close attention and respond in a coordinated way. When it comes to acts that undermine China’s interests, we will make firm and strong responses.”
And so, with NATO now committed to an anti-China stance in Asia, we must view the Ukraine conflict as but the opening act in a long-term struggle for global power between the major Western powers and those labeled as “authoritarian actors,” notably Russia and China. This will involve competition and conflict in nearly every sphere: economic, diplomatic, technological, and cultural, among others. At the G7 meeting in Bavaria, for example, leaders of the major Western economies agreed on June 26 (just before the Madrid summit) to raise $600 billion in public and private funds for infrastructure development in developing countries in a belated drive to compete with Beijing’s well-established Belt and Road Initiative. These, and other such ventures, are sure to result in broken supply chains, rising prices, and other economic dislocations, while ignoring such common perils as climate change and recurring pandemics. But it is in the military sphere where the greatest danger lurks: At the very least, this competitive drive will result in periodic crises and clashes over such flash points as Taiwan and the South China Sea; in the worst-case scenarios, these encounters will trigger full-scale wars with a high risk of nuclear escalation.
For the military and political elites who dominate NATO summits and other such conclaves, this long-term struggle for control of Eurasia and the Pacific constitutes the overriding mission of our time, outranking all other global concerns, including climate change, Covid, and systemic poverty. It is striking to note, however, that the NATO leadership met at a time when their own citizens seemed far more concerned about domestic issues that impacted their lives: inflation, record energy prices, ethnic tensions, and, in the United States, abortion and gun violence.
This disconnect between Biden’s lofty statements in Madrid and troubled conditions at home was raised in the very first question directed to the president at his final press conference in Madrid. In a remarkable expression of our current dilemma, Darlene Superville of the Associated Press asked the president, “You’ve come to this summit…after the US Supreme Court overturned constitutional protections for abortion, after the shootings in Buffalo and Texas, at a time of record inflation, and as new polling this week shows that 85 percent of the US public thinks the country is going in the wrong direction. How do you explain this to those people who feel the country is going in the wrong direction?”
All Biden could say in response: “America is better positioned to lead the world than we ever have been.… We have the strongest economy in the world. Our inflation rates are lower than other nations in the world.” In other words, he said nothing that is likely to persuade the average US citizen that a global campaign to contain China—with all the costs and risks that entails—will do anything to address the mounting problems that confront us all. | https://www.thenation.com/article/world/bidens-nato-summit-divides-the-world-into-hostile-camps/ | 2022-07-07T23:26:16Z | https://www.thenation.com/article/world/bidens-nato-summit-divides-the-world-into-hostile-camps/ | false |
Hosted at their cocktail bar and distillery, Romero served their premixed Cuba Libre cocktail in a custom 264-gallon glass.
CALGARY, AB, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - On July 7, 2022, Romero Distilling Company (Romero) became the verified GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ holder for the Largest Cuba Libre Cocktail. Surpassing the previous record-holder of 132 gallons, Romero more than satisfied the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ attempt with a 264-gallon Cuba Libre Cocktail.
As Western Canada's premier craft rum producer, Romero is dedicated to continuous improvement through determination, hard work and innovation. Romero uses top-quality Canadian ingredients, including molasses and glacier-fed water from the Rockies to craft their rums and cocktails. All of the distilling equipment Romero uses is also Canadian-made.
The distiller has perfected a dark, amber, and spiced rum that are all distilled in copper pot stills and mature in once-used Kentucky bourbon barrels.
"Romero's GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ Largest Cuba Libre Cocktail, which filled the four-foot cubed glass, was made with the perfect ratio of Romero's award-winning rum, lime juice and cola," says co-owner, Tom Romero. "By using quality locally-sourced ingredients, we have not only made the world's Largest Cuba Libre Cocktail, but also quite possibly the most delicious one yet."
"As the only rum-driven distillery in Western Canada, Romero has afforded many, including myself, the unique opportunity to enjoy quality, locally-crafted rum," says Romero Ambassador and WWE Hall of Famer, Bret Hart. "Whether you are enjoying a bottle of their award-winning dark rum or visiting Romero's prohibition-inspired cocktail bar, you can always count on a luxurious experience."
Romero is built on a rich and mostly untold history of rum-running during Prohibition from the Blairmore Hotel in the Crowsnest Pass. People that are interested in learning more about their rich history are encouraged to visit their cocktail bar in Calgary, Alberta at Suite 300, 688 Heritage Drive SE.
For more information regarding Romero visit romerodistilling.com.
Romero Distilling Co., headquartered in Calgary, AB is a luxury Canadian rum producer, building on the largely untold history of rum-running in the west. Using glacier-fed water that originates on the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rockies and Canadian molasses, Romero is dedicated to continuous improvement through determination, hard work and innovation. The Romero Distilling label can be found at liquor stores across Alberta, British Columbia, Connecticut and soon more retailers across the USA, in addition to their online shop. For more information, please visit romerodistilling.com or check out our social media. Facebook: @romerodistilling, Instagram: @romerodistilling.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Raiders made history Thursday naming Sandra Douglass Morgan as team president. The former chair of the Nevada Gaming Control Board is the first Black woman to be hired as president of an NFL team.
She knows her role will be to help the Raiders usher in a new culture and image to a front office that has been rocked by allegations of disfunction and mistreatment.
“I’m not here to sweep anything under the rug,” Morgan said during her introductory news conference at Allegiant Stadium. “I believe in the promise of the Raiders. I believe in the future of the Raiders.
Morgan offered that the Raiders have a reputation for diversity. But the franchise that hired Tom Flores as the NFL’s first Hispanic head coach and Amy Trask as the league’s first female executive, is facing criticism, accused of operating a front office that has been rocked by turmoil.
A New York Times story from May said more than a dozen ex-employees, some speaking on the condition of anonymity because they signed agreements that prohibited them from discussing their employment publicly, described several issues, including how people were paid and bungled tax payments over several years.
The story said shortly after the team moved to Las Vegas from Oakland, California, it missed a payment for an electric bill that forced power to be cut off in its temporary office.
Before the May story by the Times, longtime team president Marc Badain, who reportedly was close to owner Mark Davis and his father, Al Davis, resigned (July 2021). His successor, Dan Ventrelle, another longtime employee, was fired (May 2022). Executives Ed Villanueva, the chief financial officer, and Araxie Grant, the controller, reportedly resigned in August 2021, just after Badain’s departure.
“Look, there’s been no secret about the reports of turnover,” Morgan said. But before her news conference, where she looked poised and polished, she said she met with team employees and wanted them to know she was committed to “making sure the Raiders family is strong, is in order.”
Morgan has been a resident of the Las Vegas Valley for more than 40 years. Her father, she said, was stationed at Nellis Air Force Base.
“The Las Vegas connection was not a criteria but it was something on the positive side of the ledger,” Davis said of Morgan’s hiring.
Morgan referred to her history over working with and for large organizations and in sports as something that would benefit the Raiders.
She was appointed by Gov. Steve Sisolak in January 2019 as chair of the state Gaming Control Board. She was the first Black woman to serve as chair of the board after being appointed to the Nevada Gaming Commission in April 2018 by then-Gov. Brian Sandoval.
She also was an executive for AT&T, responsible for managing the company’s government and community affairs in Nevada. She was the city attorney for North Las Vegas from 2008 to 2016 and served as an athletic commissioner on the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
She also has a bit of an NFL background. Her husband, Don Morgan, played safety in the league from 1999 to 2002 for the Arizona Cardinals and Minnesota Vikings.
The president position has been vacant since May when allegations first broke of front-office turmoil with the NFL team.
The Carolina Panthers named Kristi Coleman as team president in February, just the second woman team president in the NFL. The league’s first female team president was Kim Pegula, named to the post by the Buffalo Bills in 2018. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/raiders-name-first-female-black-team-president-in-nfl-history/ | 2022-07-07T23:30:30Z | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/raiders-name-first-female-black-team-president-in-nfl-history/ | false |
PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — The first bull run in three years took place Thursday at the San Fermín festival in the Spanish city of Pamplona. No one was gored, but several runners took knocks and hard falls as tens of thousands people reveled in the return of one of Europe’s most famous traditional events.
Six bulls guided by six tame oxen charged through Pamplona’s streets for around two minutes and 35 seconds without provoking too much carnage among the thousands of observers and participants cramming the course.
Several runners were stomped, trampled or shoved to the cobblestone pavement. A animal’s horn smacked at least two men in the head, but neither suffered a skewering.
The Pamplona hospital said six people were brought in for treatment. They included a 30-year-old American man who fractured his left arm and a 16-year-old Spanish girl who lost part of a finger in the bullring, where a pile-up of runners occurred at the entrance. Four Spanish men between the ages of 19 and 45 also were injured.
Ryan Ward, an American tourist from San Diego, California, said the risk of running with the bulls was well worth the rush.
“I feel like I need to cry. It’s just so many emotions built up in me, running with ‘mis amigos’ (my friends). I don’t know where they are, I lost everyone,” he said after finishing the bull run unscathed.
“It felt like two seconds, it was probably like a minute when I actually had the bulls running by me, but it felt so quick, like a blink and it was gone,” Ward continued. “It’s amazing, incredible, one of the best experiences I’ve ever had.”
Thursday’s early morning bull run was the first of eight scheduled. The rest of day usually includes massive drinking, eating and attending cultural events.
Eight people were gored during the 2019 festival, the last held before the coronavirus pandemic. Sixteen people have died in bull runs since 1910, most recently in 2009.
The bulls that run each morning are killed in the afternoon by professional bullfighters. Animal rights activists have campaigned against the slaughter of the animals, but bullfights are still popular among segments of Spanish society and an integral part of the San Fermín festival.
The incredibly popular Pamplona festivities were canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic.
Spain’s strong vaccination program has allowed life to return to more or less normal, but a recent uptick in cases led Pamplona authorities to recommend using face masks when necessary. That said, masks were a very rare sight among the throngs of people packing the city’s square for the official kickoff of the party on Wednesday or during the first bull run.
Thousands of men, and some women, participate in the “encierros,” or bull runs, trying to avoid the massive bulls and oxen that thunder along the narrow, twisting cobblestone streets of Pamplona’s old quarter.
The course of 875 meters (956 yards) is sprayed with a substance to help prevent the bulls from slipping on the tight corners. The run usually is over within three heart-stopping minutes.
Expert bull runners, mostly locals, try to sprint at full steam just in the front of the bull horns before peeling off at the last second. The inexperienced, a group that includes most foreigners, do well enough to scramble out of the way, often ending up in piles of fellow runners.
Almost everyone in Pamplona this week wears the traditional white shirt and pants with red sash and neckerchief for the festival.
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Joseph Wilson reported from Barcelona.
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Beware of the Google Voice scam if you're selling something online
There is a scam that started to circulate last year and if you're selling anything online, you need to be aware of it. It's being called the Google Voice scam.
News 8 On Your Side received an email from a viewer:
"Today we posted a grill to be sold on Facebook Marketplace and a person contacted my wife and asked if she can come to see it and we said yes. She wanted our address and phone number. She said she was sending a text with a verification code and put it in an e-mail. The person never answered back. Do you know what we can expect?"
Here's the scam: If you give them the verification code, they'll try to use it to create a Google Voice number linked to your phone number.
Google Voice would create a different phone number that scammers could use to make calls or send text messages from a web browser or a mobile device to rip people off.
You would not know about this, but the scam number could be traced back to you.
The viewer in this case did respond with the code.
To protect yourself, do not respond to anyone asking you to send a verification code to confirm your identity. | https://www.wgal.com/article/google-voice-scam-targets-online-sellers/40548278 | 2022-07-07T23:33:15Z | https://www.wgal.com/article/google-voice-scam-targets-online-sellers/40548278 | true |
Alligator netted in Wisconsin lake; search on for reptile's owner
OSCEOLA, Wis. - An American alligator is not something you'd expect to find if you're swimming in a Wisconsin lake in the summer. The alligator pictured was netted by crews in Long Lake on Friday, July 1 in the Fond du Lac County town of Osceola.
"When I first found out, I was in shock," said Hunter Anderson of Dundee. "It’s a little weird around here."
"I can’t believe they found an alligator in a freshwater lake," said Rob Larson of Plymouth.
J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue says the alligator was spotted swimming in Long Lake, and kids caught it with a net.
An alligator that was found in Fond du Lac County's Long Lake is seen July 6, 2022, at J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue in Menasha. (WLUK/Chris Schattl)
"It was potentially released into the wild when the person couldn’t take care of it anymore," said John Moyles, J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue.
Another possibility, according to the animal rescue, is that it escaped an outdoor enclosure. Either way, they're looking for its owner.
In the meantime, the gator is in some deep water with the people who swim in Long Lake.
"I’m like, ‘That’s another reason for me not to be in the water,'" said Jim Rosenthal of Dundee.
An alligator that was found in Fond du Lac County's Long Lake is seen July 6, 2022, at J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue in Menasha. (WLUK/Chris Schattl)
"Keep the alligators down in Louisiana and Florida," said John Kootz of Waucousta.
The alligator that was caught was about two feet long. Because of its size, there were mixed reactions when FOX6 asked people what they would do if they saw it staring back at them.
"If the alligator was going north, I’d probably go south," said Kootz.
"I honestly would have tried to catch the alligator," said Anderson.
J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue says the alligator posed no threat to anyone even though the lake was packed with people over the Fourth of July holiday.
An alligator that was found in Fond du Lac County's Long Lake is seen July 6, 2022, at J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue in Menasha. (WLUK/Chris Schattl)
"That’s a concern, that’s for sure," said Rosenthal.
The rescue team plans to place the gator in a sanctuary if no one claims him.
For those on the water Wednesday, it was back to lake life as usual.
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The first man to receive a transplanted pig’s heart died of heart failure due to several factors, not organ rejection, leading the doctors involved in the trial to call it a success. Doctors involved in the University of Maryland Medicine study said in a paper last month that a "complex array of factors" caused heart failure, according to a news release.
David Bennett, 57, received the genetically modified heart on Jan. 7 after the Food and Drug Administration gave emergency authorization on New Year’s Eve.
Before the transplant, Bennett had been hospitalized for six weeks with a life-threatening arrhythmia and had been connected to a heart-lung bypass machine.
The heart may have failed because a drug that is supposed to prevent rejection and infection might have damaged the muscle, the school said.
"The heart was also found to contain evidence of DNA from a latent pig virus called porcine cytomegalovirus (pCMV) through highly sensitive testing that was first detected several weeks after the surgery and was later confirmed during autopsy of the organ," the release said. Whether the virus damaged the heart is under investigation.
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Which manual lawn edger is best?
To have a truly superb, best-in-neighborhood kind of lawn, you’ll need to do more than just mow your grass; you need to edge your lawn around its exteriors and next to your pathways. A correctly edged lawn is the difference between looking nice and looking professionally managed. With a manual lawn edger, you can avoid all the hassles that an electrical version brings.
The best manual lawn edger is the Radius Garden Root Slayer Edger. This manual lawn edger uses an inverted V-shaped tip with a serrated edge to rip through anything in your lawn standing in the way, plus the extended shaft makes it easy for anyone of any height to get the proper leverage.
What to know before you buy a manual lawn edger
Standard vs. rotary
There are two main types of manual lawn edgers, standard and rotary.
Standard: Standard manual lawn edgers use the downward force of your foot to drive the blade into your yard, essentially like a shovel. Unlike a shovel, you won’t scoop out the dirt you’ve just displaced; all you’re doing is cutting a straight edge into the grass.
Rotary: Rotary manual lawn edgers have wheels and a blade that looks very similar to that of a throwing star. Thanks to the wheels, a rotary manual lawn edger can only be used along flat surfaces like a sidewalk or other pathway and along your driveway. The blade turns with the wheels and slices the edge as you go.
What to look for in a quality manual lawn edger
Blade
The blade is the most important part of your prospective manual lawn edger, which means it should be the highest priority to purchase one with the best material you can afford, preferably rust-resistant carbon steel. The shape can be selected based on the type of resistance you expect to meet in your yard, with more crescent shapes being best for rocking the edger to cut through tough materials; serrated blades also help with this task.
Also make sure your manual lawn edger blade has a wide enough blade and large enough lip to allow your foot to sit comfortably for easy application of pressure. Another benefit of wider blades is the chance to complete the edging process that much faster.
Handle
Comfort is first and foremost when narrowing down your purchase decision; while your foot and not your hands will apply the pressure you’ll need, a rough material handle can easily lead to blisters and other sores, not to mention increased fatigue.
There are two main shapes of handle: O and T. An O-shaped handle provides only a nominal increase in control over T, so pick the shape you find more personally comfortable.
How much you can expect to spend on a manual lawn edger
Most manual lawn edgers fall into roughly the same range of prices, no matter the design or brand. For less than $35, you’ll find most of your options, though they don’t feature the best level of ergonomics. The $35 to $55 range is where you start to find the really high-quality blades and the best available handles. Anything more than $55 and you’ll only be looking at powered lawn edgers.
Manual lawn edger FAQ
How often should a lawn be edged?
A. You should only need to maintain the edge of your lawn roughly once a month, though your particular lawn’s make-up could add or subtract from that time. A better practice is to examine the edges of your yard every time you need to mow, and if your edges are starting to lose their straight lines, then it’s time for a touch-up.
How often should I clean my manual lawn edger?
A. Best practices say that every time you finish using any lawn tool, you should clean it. This helps any of your tools to last longer and perform their tasks with greater efficiency; plus, if you move through diseased soil, a proper cleaning ensures you won’t spread it over the rest of your yard.
How should I clean my manual lawn edger then?
A. It’s easier to clean your manual lawn edger than it is to use; when you’ve completed your task, simply spray your manual lawn edger clean of all debris with your yard hose, wipe off what won’t be washed away and make sure it’s dry before being put away.
What are the best manual lawn edgers to buy?
Top manual lawn edger
Radius Garden Root Slayer Edger
What you need to know: This manual lawn edger is built to slice through roots and everything else like butter.
What you’ll love: The blade requires no other maintenance than regular cleaning to maintain its best performance.
What you should consider: While the blade is rarely reported to crack, this manual lawn edger has a lifetime guarantee for free replacement.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Top manual lawn edger for the money
AMES Saw-Tooth Border Edger with T-Grip
What you need to know: This is a moderately priced manual lawn edger with a U-shaped and serrated blade.
What you’ll love: The U-shaped and serrated blade gives this manual lawn edger an equal strength against most any underground root.
What you should consider: The long-term durability of this manual lawn edger isn’t as good as other pricier options.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: As a multipurpose manual lawn edger, the unique blade helps it better maintain your lawn’s edge.
What you’ll love: Not only does this manual lawn edger maintain your lawn’s edges, it will also condition your soil while it works.
What you should consider: It’s important to note that this manual lawn edger is NOT meant to create an edge, only maintain one.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Trailer packed with 40,000 pounds of potato chips catches fire, burns in Florida
OCALA, Fla. - For those who like their chips on the crispy side, a trailer packed with some 40,000 pounds of potato chips was found burning Thursday afternoon in Florida, according to Ocala Fire Rescue.
Firefighters found the trailer in a field near Outlaw Snax in Ocala, Florida, which is northwest of Orlando. According to its website, Outlaw Snax has two chip flavors: spicy ranch and honey sriracha.
The trailer was by itself and not attached to a front cabin, according to the Facebook post. No structures were threatened either.
"Crews from Engine 4 and Rescue 3 attacked the flames using a pre-connected hose line, while firefighters from Engine 3 and Tower 1 prepared to deploy Engine 4’s deck gun - a high capacity jet stream used to knock down fires with a clear line of sight," Ocala Fire Rescue said in its Facebook post.
No injuries were reported. The cause of the fire was not immediately known.
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BOISE — The Chabad Jewish Center on Wednesday celebrated a historic day for Idaho’s Jewish community.
"This is a tremendous milestone that we are here today to celebrate the groundbreaking of the new Chabad Jewish Center," Rabbi Mendel Lifshitz said.
The Chabad Jewish Center has had a presence in Idaho's capital city since 2004.
"When we moved to Boise, Boise had a small Jewish community," Lifshitz said. "It still is a very small community, but it did not have any traditional representation within the Jewish community."
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Idaho’s Jewish population is a bit more than 2,000, about 0.1% of the state's total population, but it's growing.
"During the pandemic, our community has grown tremendously, and we are now looking at being able to provide services to the community,” Lifshitz said.
To help serve the growing Jewish community, the new $3.5 million construction project is going to include Idaho’s first ever Mikvah.
“A Mikvah is a place where Jewish women go on a monthly basis to conduct a private ritual and ceremony between themselves and God and a community of other women," said Dan Berger, chair of the Chabad Jewish Center Building Committee.
The center will also have a new library to honor a community member who died. His father, Moshit Mizrachi, said, “Eli's Children Library. Eli passed away six years ago in a drowning accident. The library is another way of maintaining culture and tradition and religion."
Boise Mayor Lauren McLean spoke at the groundbreaking.
“This event, and what is about to happen here, it more than symbolizes the importance of community, the importance of coming together around the importance of shared values, the importance of having a place,” McLean said.
Leaders at the Chabad Jewish Center say the facility will carry the legacy for future generations.
“We've seen the landscape of Judaism change over the last 18 years and Boise has arrived," Lifshitz said, "Now we need to rise to the occasion and provide for our community.” | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/new-jewish-center-in-boise-will-include-idaho-s-first-mikvah/article_ccbe0852-a358-5acd-8876-9dc61b7851e2.html | 2022-07-07T23:35:42Z | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/new-jewish-center-in-boise-will-include-idaho-s-first-mikvah/article_ccbe0852-a358-5acd-8876-9dc61b7851e2.html | false |
Which grout cleaner is best?
There are quite a few people who actually enjoy cleaning their living space but very few, if any at all, actually enjoy cleaning the bathroom. Besides the litany of obvious reasons, one of the more frustrating tasks in bathroom cleaning, or any tile-based cleaning, is cleaning out the grout.
One of the best grout cleaners is the Clean-EEZ Grout-EEZ Super Heavy-Duty Tile & Grout Cleaner. This professionally graded grout cleaner is packaged with a grout cleaning brush to make sure you’re capable of cleaning properly, and a full bottle can clean up to 250 square feet worth of tiling.
What to know before you buy a grout cleaner
What is grout anyway?
Grout is a paste or mortar that has been placed between tiles to both hold the tiles in place and fill in the gaps between them. It has a textured and porous finish that unfortunately allows molds, mildews and other grime to flourish. Different locations that use tiles like kitchens or bathrooms have their own typical sources of grime, with no location being free of grout’s dirtying influence.
Proper use of grout cleaner
There are multiple formulae of grout cleaner available and they all utilize different applications and cleaning instructions, so make doubly sure you’re checking the specifics of the grout cleaner you choose.
The general instructions typical of most grout cleaners are to clean the tiles, apply the formula and allow it to sit for a period of time before wiping away the cleaner and rinsing and drying the tiles.
What to look for in a quality grout cleaner
Container
Grout cleaner can come in a multitude of forms, but the most common are pour, spray and squeeze bottles.
Pour: Unlike how they sound, pour bottles are NOT made to have their contents dumped onto tile flooring but instead are meant to be used to refill smaller spray and squeeze bottles. You can dump the contents onto your flooring, but it’s far too difficult to control the proper application of the formula.
Spray: Spray bottles are one of the simplest options, allowing you to use variable spray intensities to apply exactly the amount of cleaner you need directly into the grout.
Squeeze: Squeeze bottles use a nozzle as well, but thanks to their more unrefined application, it can be difficult to finely control the application of the cleaner.
Time
As mentioned earlier, different grout cleaners require different amounts of time for the formula to sink into the dirty grout for a proper cleaning. These times can be as short as 10 minutes and as long as 24 hours, and you’ll need to stay away from the surface you’ve applied the cleaner to during the entirety of the soaking phase. Essentially, try to purchase the fastest-acting formula you can find.
Safety
Grout cleaner is a chemical, which means it can be tremendously hazardous to your health if used improperly. That said, you can find special formulas that greatly decrease the chance of negative health effects, such as those that are acid-free, non-toxic and fume-free.
How much you can expect to spend on grout cleaner
Grout cleaner pricing is determined both by the formula it uses and the amount of cleaner it comes with. Most basic, non-toxic and enzyme-based grout cleaners can cost as little as $5-$15, while the tinted cleaners can reach around $15-$20. The strongest oxygen bleach-based grout cleaners can cost as much as $20-$45.
Grout cleaner FAQ
How often is it necessary to clean my grout?
A. It depends on how well the grout is maintained and the conditions of usage that the grout is being exposed to. Typically, a good sign that it’s time to clean your grout again is if it starts to look dingy or dark, which will usually occur around twice a year.
Can grout cleaner be used on tiled walls?
A. Absolutely, though they do require a slightly different cleaning strategy. As most grout cleaner is liquid-based, trying to apply the cleaner to a wall will let all the cleaner run away from what needs to be cleaned, unlike floor-based grout, which can be allowed to soak. Thus, you’ll need to apply the grout cleaner directly to your brush or cloth and then start scrubbing away.
Can grout cleaner remove grout sealant?
A. Some grout cleaners can absolutely strip away any grout sealant that was applied. If you have sealant applied, use a gentle and acid-free/neutral pH formula grout cleaner instead.
What are the best grout cleaners to buy?
Top grout cleaner
Clean-EEZ Grout-EEZ Super Heavy-Duty Tile & Grout Cleaner
What you need to know: This professional-grade grout cleaner includes a grout brush for maximum value.
What you’ll love: One full bottle of this grout cleaner can clean up to 250 square feet of grout.
What you should consider: You really need to apply some elbow grease to effectively utilize this cleaner/brush combo.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top grout cleaner for the money
Grout Pen White Grout Restorer
What you need to know: This is a low-cost and quick alternative to scrubbing away with chemicals and a brush.
What you’ll love: It’s available in both 5 and 15 millimeter sizes and is dry in 5 minutes.
What you should consider: Careful usage is necessary to preserve the tip of the pen; hard application can ruin the pen.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Black Diamond Stoneworks Ultimate Grout Cleaner
What you need to know: If you’ve already got the equipment and just need some more of the cleaner chemical, then this gallon jug is perfect for you.
What you’ll love: The cleaner covers most of the common grime like oils, greases and dirt.
What you should consider: Some of the stains this formula doesn’t cover are calcium stains, water spots and mold or mildew stains.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The family of a man who was fatally shot near an Arkansas hospital while trying to drive away in a stolen truck filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the officer who shot him and several others.
Relatives of Tyrone Washington filed the lawsuit over the 39-year-old’s fatal shooting by a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences officer near the university hospital’s emergency department on Dec. 3, 2020. The lawsuit accuses former UAMS officer Krystal Watson of wrongful death and using excessive force in the shooting.
Watson shot Washington when he began driving off after another officer had reached inside the vehicle, dragging the officer. According to the lawsuit, Watson did not warn Washington of her intent to use deadly force.
The lawsuit said that Washington had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and had gone to UAMS to seek mental health treatment after being discharged from another hospital.
“A reasonably well-trained medical professional who encountered Tyrone around this time would know or should know that Tyrone was in the midst of a mental health crisis and in need of professional help,” the lawsuit said.
Arkansas State Police investigated the shooting and the local prosecutor found no evidence of wrongdoing by Watson or UAMS, a hospital spokeswoman said.
“Our hearts go out to the family of Tyrone Washington,” UAMS Spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said in a statement. “Officer Watson believed the life of her fellow officer, who was being dragged by a stolen vehicle driven by Mr. Washington, was in danger. She acted to save her fellow officer’s life.”
Watson has resigned from UAMS since the shooting, Taylor said. The lawsuit also names as defendants several other officers, UAMS Chancellor Dr. Cam Patterson and St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center, where Washington had been evaluated and discharged before he walked to UAMS.
The family’s lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages, and is requesting a jury trial. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/family-sues-over-arkansas-mans-fatal-shooting-by-officer/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-07-07T23:36:27Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/family-sues-over-arkansas-mans-fatal-shooting-by-officer/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | false |
(NEXSTAR) – Don’t worry, it’s not the hot-dog combo.
A trip to the Costco food court might cost a little more these days, seeing as U.S. locations have raised the prices of two popular menu items — the fountain soda and the chicken bake — at wholesale clubs across the country.
The 20-ounce sodas, which were formerly priced at $0.59, are now selling for $0.69, while the chicken bake, which sold for $2.99 apiece, is now $3.99, according to information provided to Nexstar from several Costco locations throughout the U.S.
A representative for Costco’s corporate offices declined to comment on reports of increased prices, but employees at Costco outlets in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois and Texas have all confirmed the new pricing after being contacted by Nexstar.
“It’s sad but true,” one of the employees said.
Costco’s leadership, however, had recently calmed concerns over rumored plans to increase the price of the hot-dog-and-soda combo, one of the food court’s most popular items.
In a May 2022 earnings call with investors, Costco SVP Bob Nelson even took a moment to address those rumors after becoming aware of “incorrect information floating around on social media.”
“Let me just say, the price — when we introduced the hot-dog-soda-combo in the mid-’80s — was $1.50. The price today is $1.50, and we have no plans to increase the price at this time.”
Unfortunately, the same can’t be said of Costco’s membership fees. In March 2022, Costco CFO Richard Galanti discussed the possibility of a membership hike in the near future, “especially in light of companies like Amazon and Netflix raising their fees” earlier in the year.
Galanti said Costco had raised its membership fees three times over the last 15 years, or approximately once every “five years and seven months,” on average. If the intervals between Costco’s previous increases (the last being in 2017) hold steady, customers may expect to start paying higher membership fees in 2023.
“You guys will know when we tell you, and at some point it will happen,” Galanti told a USB analyst during the March presentation. “But stay tuned.” | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/costco-has-raised-prices-of-2-popular-food-court-items-at-locations-across-the-country/ | 2022-07-07T23:37:53Z | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/costco-has-raised-prices-of-2-popular-food-court-items-at-locations-across-the-country/ | false |
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Alex Cejka birdied two of the final three holes for a 6-under 64 and a two-stroke lead Thursday in the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship.
Cejka birdied the par-3 seventh and par-4 ninth to cap a bogey-free round on Firestone Country Club’s South Course.
“I drove the ball well, which gives you a lot of chances when you’re in the fairway,” Cejka said. “I hit a lot of great iron shots where it gave me a lot of looks and putted well. So I drove it well, hit a lot of fairways, plus every time I kind of had a birdie chance, I take advantage.”
The 51-year-old Czech-born German is chasing his third senior major title after winning the Regions Tradition and Senior PGA last year.
“Every day is a little bit different,” Cejka said. “The rough is pretty severe. If you miss at some wrong spots here, it can be tough, but today was pretty flawless. It’s a pretty day, one of the few days where kind of everything is working — the short game and the putting and the driving. I’m very happy.”
David Toms was second, also closing on the front nine with birdies on Nos. 7 and 9.
Jerry Kelly and Ernie Els shot 67. Miguel Angel Jimenez and Steven Alker were at 68 with Rocco Mediate, Tim Petrovic, Shane Bertsch, Bob Estes, Cameron Beckman and Tom Gillis. Alker, with three victories, and Jimenez, with two, are the only multiple winners on the PGA Tour Champions this year.
Defending champion Steve Stricker opened with a 70.
The tournament is the second of three straight majors on the PGA Tour Champions schedule. Padraig Harrington won the U.S. Senior Open two weeks ago at Saucon Valley. There will be another week off ahead of the Senior British Open at Gleneagles.
Harrington is not in the field. He went from the U.S. Senior Open to the Irish Open and next week is at St. Andrews for the British Open. | https://www.wjhl.com/sports/us-world-sports/alex-cejka-shoots-64-leads-senior-players-championship/ | 2022-07-07T23:38:22Z | https://www.wjhl.com/sports/us-world-sports/alex-cejka-shoots-64-leads-senior-players-championship/ | true |
Dr. Marcy Kamen told ABC News that she is eternally grateful that she and her family were able to make it out of the Highland Park, Illinois, parade mass shooting alive.
At the same time, the 60-year-old physician said that she mourns for the people who weren't so fortunate and the loved ones they left behind.
Kamen was a longtime attendee at the parade and was there with her father, sister, niece and other relatives when shots rang out.
Kamen said she grabbed her niece and ran for cover while her sister stayed with her dad.
"Very quickly there were so many police and helicopters and people screaming, and you [knew] that it wasn't dead fireworks," she told ABC News.
After Kamen made it to safety, she said she found out that her dad had been shot in the arm and transported to the hospital. He survived the shooting.
"I did not know that when I left that my dad got shot and the bullet was six inches above my head," she said. "I was on autopilot and took this kid and left."
Seven people were killed during the shooting, Jacki Sundheim, Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, Stephen Straus, Katherine Goldstein, Eduardo Uvaldo, and couple Irina and Kevin McCarthy. The McCarthys left behind a two-year-old son who was with them at the parade .
Kamen said she feels remorse for those killed and prays for their families.
"There is a little bit of guilt of, 'Oh why did they get killed and we made it,'" she told ABC News.
Kamen said she took solace in the outpouring of help and support she saw while fleeing the scene. From bystanders grabbing children to safety to first responders trying to keep people safe, she said she was amazed at how many people acted selflessly in a scary situation.
"I just hope people saw other people helping each other," she said. | https://abcnews.go.com/US/highland-park-survivor-talks-close-call-bullet-misses/story?id=86393920 | 2022-07-07T23:40:37Z | https://abcnews.go.com/US/highland-park-survivor-talks-close-call-bullet-misses/story?id=86393920 | true |
Suspect sought in violent sexual assault of woman in Center City office building
PHILADELPHIA - Authorities have identified a man accused of sexually assaulting a young woman at an office building in Center City.
Police say Willie L. Harris, 43, is accused of sexually assaulting a woman Tuesday afternoon in an office building on the 200 block of South 13th Street.
Investigators believe the suspect went to the 8th floor of the building and entered an unlocked office just after 2 p.m.
The 22-year-old victim was alone in the office because her co-worked stepped out to get lunch, according to police.
Investigators say the suspect demanded the victim stay seated as he rummaged through the office. She offered him AirPods and other items to try to get him to leave, according to police.
The suspect then became angry and beat the women before sexually assaulting her, police said.
"He is a violent sexual predator, make no doubt about it," said James Kearney, captain of the Philadelphia Police Special Victims Unit.
Police say the suspect fled when the woman's co-worker walked back into the office, interrupting the assault. That co-worker reportedly saw the suspect outside the building prior to the incident.
The suspect was seen running towards 13th and Spring streets before he was lost on surveillance camera. He was seen again on 12th and Spring streets about 20 minutes later.
Authorities say Harris's current address is unknown, but he has ties to Camden and Woodburry, New Jersey, as well as Center City, Philadelphia. He also has several aliases, according to police, such as William Banks, Wil Harris, Billy Smith, Reese Smith, Willie Smith and Maurice Harris.
Anyone with information on the Harris's whereabouts is asked to contact the Philadelphia Police Department's Special Victim's Unit at 215-685-3251. | https://www.fox29.com/news/suspect-sought-in-violent-sexual-assault-of-woman-in-center-city-office-building | 2022-07-07T23:43:27Z | https://www.fox29.com/news/suspect-sought-in-violent-sexual-assault-of-woman-in-center-city-office-building | false |
IOWA, USA — Companies across Iowa are offering to cover abortion-related expenses for their employees in the weeks following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Some businesses, like Nationwide, are not covering travel explicitly but instead allowing employees to use accumulated FSA/HSA funds to pay for their own travel costs.
Others are committing to covering expenses if travel is necessary. A Dotdosh Meredith spokesperson said, “We will now cover travel expenses for employees seeking reproductive healthcare if unavailable within 100 miles of your home.”
Principal said it will also reimburse employees if they must travel out of state for medical procedures, including reproductive care. Amazon has followed suit, offering up to $4,000 per employee annually for treatments including abortions.
Other companies, such as Wells Fargo, emphasized that current coverage will remain in place regardless of the location in which the services are performed.
Starbucks and Tesla announced travel coverage updates back in May when a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion indicated that Roe v. Wade would be overturned.
Hy-Vee is still monitoring the state’s response to “review the offerings and plans we provide,” but has not announced it will cover any abortion-related costs.
The future of abortion in Iowa is dependent on further court decisions, with Gov. Kim Reynolds calling for the Iowa Supreme Court to review several abortion laws that had previously been struck down or blocked.
Below is a list of some companies who have issued statements on employee-related reproductive care expenses, as reported by Axios:
- Wells Fargo
- Amazon
- Tesla
- Starbucks
- Apple
- Ralph Lauren
- Comcast
- Dick's Sporting Goods
- Indeed
- Zillow
- Chobani
- Discord
- Patagonia
- Yelp
- Mastercard
TEGNA, the parent company of WOI-TV/KCWI-TV, released the following information:
"We have continued to enhance our offerings to provide a comprehensive set of reproductive and family planning benefits that include contraception, fertility support, surrogacy, adoption, and access to other services, including abortion. TEGNA is committed to continuing these benefits for all our employees regardless of their location. We are working on expanding our healthcare benefits to cover transportation expenses to access covered medical services that are not available where an employee is located." | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/money/business/iowa-employers-companies-covering-abortion-related-travel-expenses/524-7c475360-6bd5-4ad5-b5fd-a68a28e32f83 | 2022-07-07T23:47:29Z | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/money/business/iowa-employers-companies-covering-abortion-related-travel-expenses/524-7c475360-6bd5-4ad5-b5fd-a68a28e32f83 | false |
NEW YORK – New York Mets pitcher Chris Bassitt said Thursday he “probably won’t” inform team and Major League Baseball officials if he feels COVID-19 symptoms in the future and that MLB should “just stop testing.”
Bassitt was placed on the COVID-19 list on July 1 after complaining about sluggishness to team officials. The right-hander missed his scheduled start against Texas last Friday and only rejoined the team Thursday.
“I probably won’t (again),” Bassitt said before the Mets’ series opener against the Miami Marlins. “There’s no way. There’s no reason.”
Bassitt claimed he was asymptomatic.
“Just stop testing. Stop acting like COVID is far worse than a lot of other things,” he said. “I was never sick.”
He noted that under MLB’s protocols, a positive test could mean ongoing testing that keeps an asymptomatic player out for an extended period.
“I guess the answer is I never should have said anything,” he said.
Bassitt explained he tested himself after feeling sluggish because he has a daughter.
“If I can somewhat be safe I will. I tested myself. It was positive. So I basically had the choice to tell them so I can protect my teammates or not say anything and (put) my teammates at risk. I never had a symptom. I woke up perfectly fine the next day. Have not had a symptom since,” he said.
Bassitt (6-5, 4.01 ERA), whom the Mets acquired in an offseason trade with Oakland, is scheduled to start Friday.
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Indiana ranked highly in a global study of entrepreneurship and innovation.
The research firm Startup Genome ranked Indiana as a Global Top 40 Emerging Ecosystem in its 2022 Global Startup Ecosystem Report. The study looked at 280 entrepreneurial ecosystems encompassing 3 million startups to guide officials on how to foster the startups it describes as "the #1 engine of job creation and economic growth."
Indiana got high marks for talent, early capital funding and performance in the report.
“The Start Up Genome Top 40 ranking is an exciting validation of the hard work of our entrepreneurs — but there is still more, as a state, we can do,” said Indiana Secretary of Commerce Brad Chambers. “We are leaning in and finding innovative new ways to enable our immensely talented young people to propel our economy forward. I see no more important investment of time and resources and no reason that Indiana should not be a Top 5 ecosystem for entrepreneurship worldwide.”
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The study placed Indiana as a Top 15 North American Ecosystem in Affordable Talent, Top 20 North American Ecosystem in Bang for Buck, Top 30 North American Ecosystem and the Top 10 North American Emerging Ecosystem in Talent & Experience. The Hoosier State also placed as a Top 25 North American Ecosystem, Top 10 North American Emerging Ecosystem in Funding and Top 25 North American Emerging Ecosystem in Performance.
The report found Indiana created $3 billion in ecosystem value over the past few years and had a density of talent and startup activity in the life sciences and energy sectors.
“Startup Genome is honored to work with Indiana Economic Development Corporation in accelerating ecosystem growth, job creation and impact in Indiana,” said JF Gauthier, founder and CEO of Startup Genome. “We are excited about Indiana’s startup community’s future because of the increasing investment in its innovative entrepreneurs.” | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/indiana-ranks-highly-in-entrepreneurship-report/article_7f97013f-b8a4-5526-9564-0005d094c6c8.html | 2022-07-07T23:56:23Z | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/indiana-ranks-highly-in-entrepreneurship-report/article_7f97013f-b8a4-5526-9564-0005d094c6c8.html | false |
Is Elizabeth Warren hitting the bottle again? The Massachusetts senator, who just declared war on crisis pregnancy centers, has now pivoted to … charger cords.
Fauxcahontas is vewy, vewy, angwy about why it takes so many different types of charger cords to power a variety of devices at home and work.
Warren said on Twitter on Thursday that “consumers shouldn’t have to keep buying new chargers all the time for different devices. We can clear things up with uniform standards—for less expense, less hassle, and less waste.”
Consumers shouldn’t have to keep buying new chargers all the time for different devices. We can clear things up with uniform standards—for less expense, less hassle, and less waste.https://t.co/rbxLleahIj
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) July 7, 2022
It’s annoying and expensive to have to get a new charger cord with every device. But should Warren and her aging far-Left Senate kin, Ed Markey and Bernie Sanders, the backers of a standardized power cord, really be the high-tech big idea guys in such a venture? Thankfully, in a letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, they don’t actually give ideas on how to standardize cords. No, they simply want to compel it.
The trio contended, “we cannot allow the consumer electronics industry to prioritize proprietary and inevitably obsolete charging technology over consumer protection and environmental health.”
Can anyone check to see which side of the Blockbuster versus Netflix issue Warren, Markey, and Sanders were on? Do you suppose these three thought “nah, Betamax all the way”?
I can hear Warren’s tremulous voice saying that “innovation … should not come at a [customer’s] expense [and] saddle them with incompatible accessories, and compel them to purchase different charging equipment for each device they own,” as if customers don’t currently pay for innovation.
Now, what did I do with my stack of floppy discs, anyway? The government’s using them to run defense systems, as my PJ Media colleague Charlie Martin pointed out on Twitter. Now that’s government innovation.
Did government compel that or did industry standards simply morph and change at the speed of Moore’s Law? Maybe Liz Warren can tell us.
Related: Liz Warren and Her Coven of Witches Don’t Care About Women. Here’s How We Know.
The three senators scolded Big Tech about the environmental impact of charger cords because the “lack of interoperability standards for charging and other device accessories also results in e-waste and environmental damage.” They continued the lecture by blaming Big Tech for the tossed charger cords, saying “their outdated chargers are usually just thrown away,” they lectured. This “When electronics are not disposed of properly, e-waste can spread toxins in water, pollute soil, and degrade the air we breathe.” They must be fun at parties.
Mobile phone chargers today if the Federal Government was involved. pic.twitter.com/SEM3EmJJpA
— SiteAlpha ⛽💸👀FJB! NOMLG (@site_alpha) July 7, 2022
I just purged a bunch of old charger cords that I wouldn’t want touching my new devices. Size matters and so does amperage. Does Liz really want less innovation in this arena–because that’s what happens when the government gets involved.
The three said the EU is standardizing cords so the U.S. should too. Shouldn’t they be required to make a decent electrical outlet first?
The reaction to more government involvement in tech innovation was split on social media. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes said it was a great idea because government interference “standardization … fosters competition and [there’s] less consumer lock-in.” Of course he did. The difference is that the industry generally declares what’s standard and what’s not. The deciders are customers generally, not Liz Warren.
Perhaps after the Democrats are finished taking over Big Tech charger cord innovation they could do something about inflation, financing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and gas prices. Or nah? | https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2022/07/07/sen-liz-warren-now-pivots-to-government-control-of-big-tech-charger-cords-n1611190 | 2022-07-08T00:00:42Z | https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2022/07/07/sen-liz-warren-now-pivots-to-government-control-of-big-tech-charger-cords-n1611190 | false |
MIAMI, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Black is Beautiful, an NFT project by House of First and The Painted House, today announced that Bam Adebayo (Miami Heat Center, NBA All-Star, and Philanthropist) will be joining the project as a Founding Collaborator with a focus on uplifting creators of color across the Web3 space and beyond.
This collection of 1,000 one-of-one masterpiece NFTs was created by Florida-based artist Nick Davis and portrays a stunning depiction of the raw emotions of Black Americans navigating both the joys and struggles of everyday life in America.
"I'm struck by the historic nature of this new collection, providing an incredible opportunity to feature black art and black life in new ways while ensuring opportunities to support greater diversity and increased representation," shared NBA All-Star and Philanthropist, Bam Adebayo.
As a five-star recruit, Adebayo was considered one of the best high school prospects of the 2016 class and committed to the University of Kentucky where he was subsequently selected 14th overall by the Miami Heat in the 2017 draft. A young but versatile big man on a storied team, an All-Star, and now, an Olympic champion, Bam signed a max contract extension with the Miami Heat in 2020. In the house that Bam bought his mother Marilyn in 2020, a sign reads, "Never forget where you came from, and never lose sight of where you are going."
Bam joins an exclusive group of current Founding Collaborators including: Ja Rule (Rapper, Actor & Entrepreneur, Co-Founder of the Painted House), Ashanti (Grammy Award Winning Singer / Songwriter); Shira Lazar (Emmy Nominated Host, Actress, Writer & Blogger); Nely Galan (Latina Media Dynamo, Best-Selling Author & Women's Empowerment Advocate), Deion Sanders (Former NFL and MLB Player, Head Coach at Jackson State) and more. Representing a diverse group of leaders, the Founding Collaborators have come together to provide their time, brands, insights, and relationships to support the mission and advance the project.
True to Bam's principles, Black is Beautiful is focused on philanthropic purpose by partnering with a variety of HBCUs along with Black organizations and institutions - to receive philanthropic grants along with education, access, and engagement opportunities. Additionally, Bam will be collaborating with the project to enhance holder privileges, including exclusive access to live events during Art Basel Miami, CES, SXSW & NFT.NYC, community engagement, unique merchandise, web3 education, and more.
Black is Beautiful will be minting on July 14th and is excited to collaborate with new artists and collectors entering the Web3 space. For more information about the collection and minting details, visit: https://houseoffirst.com/collections/blackisbeautiful
ABOUT BAM ADEBAYO
Bam Adebayo is the dynamic starting center for the Miami Heat. The 2020 NBA All-Star, who also took home the Skills Challenge trophy on All-Star Saturday Night, has become an essential piece of the Heat's core since being drafted 14th overall in the 2017 NBA Draft. In 2019, Bam was named one of the Top 100 NBA Players by Sports Illustrated and has successfully positioned himself to join some elite company in NBA history books. His story to stardom was detailed by Sports Illustrated in 2017 and he is also known for having a very special relationship with his mother who raised him from humble beginnings and continues to play a very vital role in his life today. He founded the BAM Foundation in 2017 to provide support and expand opportunities for single mothers and their children and was named a 2019 Rising Star Honoree by Champions for Philanthropy. Prior to the NBA, Bam was named North Carolina Gatorade Player of the Year (2016), North Carolina Mr. Basketball (2016) and a McDonald's All-American (2016).
ABOUT HOUSE OF FIRST
House of First is a launchpad for the new, novel, and noteworthy in the world of NFTs. The ultimate partner to collectors and creators, it serves as a connection between art, blockchain, and culture. Whether it's an artist's debut NFT collection, or an established creator's next brilliant masterpiece, House of First is a platform for cultivating and uplifting compelling art and extraordinary talent. The platform provides collections with exclusive, early access to remarkable art, unique metaverse experiences, strategic collaborations, real-world meetups, and an inclusive and vibrant global community.
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Tonight will start off dry, but we can’t rule out a few showers late. Showers and thunderstorms become likely again on Friday, and heavy rain and gusty wind will again be threats.
TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with a few showers late night. Low 70
FRIDAY: Mostly cloudy, not as warm, humid with scattered showers and thunderstorms. High 84
FRIDAY NIGHT: Showers ending around midnight, then mostly cloudy and mild. Low 65
SATURDAY: Becoming partly sunny, warm and turning less humid. High 82
It will dry out on Saturday as less humid air moves in. Sunday looks very nice with morning lows in the upper 50 to near 60 and afternoon highs reaching the low to mid 80s along with low humidity. | https://www.wdtn.com/weather/daily-forecast/more-heavy-rain-on-friday/ | 2022-07-08T00:06:43Z | https://www.wdtn.com/weather/daily-forecast/more-heavy-rain-on-friday/ | true |
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — President Joe Biden celebrated 17 new recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in a ceremony at the White House Thursday.
The recipients included civil rights trail blazers, humanitarians and athletes: Olympian Simone Biles, social justice advocate Sister Simone Campbell, former University of Texas President Julieta Garcia, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, former Alabama state legislator Fred Gray, late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Greek Orthodox Father Alexander Karloutsos, Gold Star father and religious freedom advocate Khizr Khan, New York nurse Sandra Lindsay, late U.S. Sen. John McCain, civil rights advocate Diane Nash, Olympian and World Cup soccer champion Megan Rapinoe, former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, late AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, retired Brigadier General Wilma Vaught, actor Denzel Washington and civil rights advocate Raul Yzaguirre.
At 25, Biles is the youngest person to receive the Medal of Freedom. She is the most decorated Olympic gymnast ever.
“She adds to her medal count of 32. I don’t know where you’re going to find room,” Biden joked.
He praised her courage for speaking out against sexual assault within gymnastics, saying she “turned personal pain into greater purpose.”
Jobs and McCain received the award posthumously.
“What Steve left us is something special: technology with the capacity to improve our lives in ways that haven’t even yet been thought of,” Biden said.
He also praised McCain, a prisoner of war, longtime Republican senator and friend.
“We used to argue like hell on the Senate floor but then we’d go down and have lunch together,” Biden said. “I never stopped admiring John. I never said a negative thing about him in my life.”
Denzel Washington was absent from the ceremony after testing positive for COVID-19. The president said he would be honored later.
Including the 17 honored Thursday, only 631 Americans have ever received the award, including Biden himself. He said the new recipients reflect the country at its finest. | https://www.kron4.com/washington-dc/17-receive-presidential-medal-of-freedom/ | 2022-07-08T00:07:47Z | https://www.kron4.com/washington-dc/17-receive-presidential-medal-of-freedom/ | true |
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Las Vegas Raiders introduced a former Nevada gambling regulator Thursday as the franchise's new president, the first Black woman to hold the title with an NFL team.
Team owner Mark Davis said Sandra Douglass Morgan topped his list every time after he spoke to candidates.
“Her experience, integrity and passion for this community will be invaluable to our organization,” Davis said. “From the moment I met Sandra, I knew she was a force to be reckoned with. We are extremely lucky to have her at the helm.”
Morgan, the former chairwoman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, is the third woman and third African-American to become president of an NFL team.
She is also the latest Raiders hire to break barriers. Former Raiders coach Tom Flores was the first Hispanic head coach to win a Super Bowl title and former coach Art Shell was the first Black head coach of the NFL's Super Bowl era.
Morgan, who spent eight years with the city of North Las Vegas, was also the first Black city attorney in the state of Nevada when she served in that role from 2013 to 2016.
“I definitely never want to be the last,” Morgan said, “and I want to get to a point where there is no more firsts.”
Morgan emphasized leadership and full transparency during her introductory press conference at Allegiant Stadium.
"We have so much more to do, and I’m excited to be at the helm of that growth and look forward to ushering in the new chapter for the Raiders,” said Morgan. “The fact is I have accepted this role because I believe in the promise of the Raiders, I believe in the future of the Raiders, and I believe in this organization’s tenets of community, integrity, and most of all, commitment to excellence.”
She takes over a team that has endured tumultuous times in its front office, with two presidents and several longtime executives leaving the organization in less than a year.
After Marc Badain resigned as president last summer, Dan Ventrelle took over in July 2021 on an interim basis and was promoted to the full-time role in January.
But Ventrelle was gone less than a year after joining the organization. In a statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Ventrelle said he was fired in retaliation for bringing concerns from multiple employees to the NFL about a “hostile work environment.”
“It’s no secret that this organization has faced some recent challenges, but I want to be clear, I am not here to sweep anything under the rug or avoid problems or concerns that need to be addressed,” said Morgan. “It is not lost on me that this is a critical and defining moment in the NFL. It’s important to me and it is my intention to make a meaningful contribution well beyond the Raiders family.”
Star defensive end Maxx Crosby, who attended Morgan’s introduction, said Raiders players are excited to start a new chapter.
“It’s incredible,” Crosby said. “First off, just breaking barriers and Mark has done an incredible job and it started with his father. You know, just being transparent and giving everyone an equal opportunity. She’s honestly the best for the job and it’s going to be awesome, we’re excited for the future.”
Coach Josh McDaniels and general manager Dave Ziegler welcomed Morgan in a prepared statement.
“We congratulate Sandra Douglass Morgan on her historic hiring as team president and are excited to welcome her into the Raiders family. Sandra brings impressive leadership experience to the organization and we are thrilled to work with her as we continue to build a championship-caliber culture and team,” the statement said.
Morgan's husband, Don, played with the Minnesota Vikings and the Arizona Cardinals between 1999 and 2002
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AP freelance writer Poppy Cartledge contributed to this story.
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The Pac-12 can make a case as the most successful conference in collegiate athletics, amassing more than 500 NCAA championships while leading the nation in titles 56 of the past 62 years.
But when it comes to the biggest moneymakers, football and men's basketball, the "Conference of Champions” has come up short for years.
The lack of success, particularly in football, combined with the conference's media rights missteps have put the Pac-12 on shaky financial footing, opening the door for two of its marquee schools to jump ship.
Now, with the loss of UCLA and USC to the Big Ten in 2024, the conference and its remaining member schools face an even more uncertain economic future.
“You have exploding costs on one end and your revenue sources are being decimated, which is a tremendous pressure,” Smith College economics professor Andrew Zimbalist said. “On the other hand, what do you do? Well, something pretty radical I think is going to have to happen.”
The Pac-12's dilemma has been building for years.
Once a powerhouse football conference, the Pac-12 has been a bit player in the national championship conversation of late.
Since Oregon was blown out by Ohio State in the 2015 championship game, the Pac-12 has had one team play in the College Football Playoff: Washington in 2017. Oregon has fallen off since Chip Kelly left for the NFL in 2013 and Southern California, once the conference's marquee program, never fully got back on track after the NCAA sanctions of the Pete Carroll era.
The Pac-12 has been just as quiet in men's basketball, getting two teams — Oregon in 2017 and UCLA in 2021 — through to the Final Four.
The lack of success made the Pac-12's football games maybe-watch TV, which in turn has made it more difficult to lure top coaches and recruits away from rival conferences — particularly the football juggernaut SEC.
“In the old days, USC and UCLA would be right up there at the top of the national football heap every year, and they've fallen way down,” Zimbalist said. “And so you need some fill up, some boost to get them to a point where they can really be a strong, strong franchise again — and I just don’t see that.”
The Pac-12 drop-off was compounded by its media rights deals.
As TV packages began to bulge, former Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott pushed for the conference to build its own network instead of partnering with ESPN, Fox or another network. A self-sustained network would allow the Pac-12 to control programming, showcase its highly successful Olympic sports and reap all the financial rewards.
The Pac-12 Networks never soared like Scott envisioned, bogged down, in part, by an inability to reach an agreement with DirecTV, which prevented the conference's sports from reaching millions of homes.
The Pac-12 did work out a lucrative deal to have some of its games shown on ESPN and Fox, but the networks often wanted those to fill late-night time slots on the East Coast.
The deals left the conference in a “Pac-12 After Dark” hole. The Pac-12 had the lowest distribution number among Power Five schools, paying its member institutions $19.8 million in 2021.
By contrast, the SEC distributed $54.6 million to each of its member schools in 2021 and the Big Ten $46.1 million.
Finances mean stability in the world of college sports, so the lure of more money was a big driver in the departures of USC and UCLA, which said it faced cutting sports if it didn't leave for the Big Ten.
The moves in turn will hurt the Pac-12's bottom line; not only did the conference lose two big programs, its foothold in the nation's second-largest media market is going away.
"When you see the rich get richer, people are going to grab for their share,” said Tom McMillen, president and CEO of Lead1, which represents Football Bowl Subdivision athletic directors and programs.
The loss of UCLA and USC puts the Pac-12 at a crossroads.
The conference announced last week that it is pursuing all expansion avenues and pushed up negotiations for its next media rights deal; the current one is set to end in 2024.
The Pac-12 could form a partnership with another conference in need of a lift, like the ACC, which would possibly cause travel problems for smaller sports. It also could add members from a smaller conference like the Mountain West or convince schools from the Big 12 to defect, like Colorado and Utah did in 2011.
The conference also may have its hand forced if several schools bolt for another conference to find stability, perhaps to the Big 12 to form another superconference with the SEC and Big Ten.
“I think you’ll see more consolidation,” McMillen said. “This is not new. This is economics 101. There’s a lot of efficiencies. Think about all this: we have 32 conferences. There’s probably $1 billion of overhead and when you merge conferences, you're obviously streamlining some of that.”
More conference realignment is coming. The fate of the Pac-12 is still to be determined.
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WFO EL PASO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 7, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM
536 PM MDT Thu Jul 7 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH A FLASH FLOOD WARNING...
The threat of flooding continues and a Flash Flood Warning is now in
effect. Please refer to that bulletin for more information.
The National Weather Service in El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
North Central El Paso County in western Texas...
* Until 730 PM MDT.
* At 536 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1.5 and 2 inches of
rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are
possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected
to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Central El Paso, Northeast El Paso, East El Paso, Fort Bliss,
Biggs Field and Fort Bliss Northeast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Excessive runoff from heavy rainfall will cause flooding of small
creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses
to cross flooded roads. Find an alternate route.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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Hosted at their cocktail bar and distillery, Romero served their premixed Cuba Libre cocktail in a custom 264-gallon glass.
CALGARY, AB, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - On July 7, 2022, Romero Distilling Company (Romero) became the verified GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ holder for the Largest Cuba Libre Cocktail. Surpassing the previous record-holder of 132 gallons, Romero more than satisfied the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ attempt with a 264-gallon Cuba Libre Cocktail.
As Western Canada's premier craft rum producer, Romero is dedicated to continuous improvement through determination, hard work and innovation. Romero uses top-quality Canadian ingredients, including molasses and glacier-fed water from the Rockies to craft their rums and cocktails. All of the distilling equipment Romero uses is also Canadian-made.
The distiller has perfected a dark, amber, and spiced rum that are all distilled in copper pot stills and mature in once-used Kentucky bourbon barrels.
"Romero's GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ Largest Cuba Libre Cocktail, which filled the four-foot cubed glass, was made with the perfect ratio of Romero's award-winning rum, lime juice and cola," says co-owner, Tom Romero. "By using quality locally-sourced ingredients, we have not only made the world's Largest Cuba Libre Cocktail, but also quite possibly the most delicious one yet."
"As the only rum-driven distillery in Western Canada, Romero has afforded many, including myself, the unique opportunity to enjoy quality, locally-crafted rum," says Romero Ambassador and WWE Hall of Famer, Bret Hart. "Whether you are enjoying a bottle of their award-winning dark rum or visiting Romero's prohibition-inspired cocktail bar, you can always count on a luxurious experience."
Romero is built on a rich and mostly untold history of rum-running during Prohibition from the Blairmore Hotel in the Crowsnest Pass. People that are interested in learning more about their rich history are encouraged to visit their cocktail bar in Calgary, Alberta at Suite 300, 688 Heritage Drive SE.
For more information regarding Romero visit romerodistilling.com.
Romero Distilling Co., headquartered in Calgary, AB is a luxury Canadian rum producer, building on the largely untold history of rum-running in the west. Using glacier-fed water that originates on the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rockies and Canadian molasses, Romero is dedicated to continuous improvement through determination, hard work and innovation. The Romero Distilling label can be found at liquor stores across Alberta, British Columbia, Connecticut and soon more retailers across the USA, in addition to their online shop. For more information, please visit romerodistilling.com or check out our social media. Facebook: @romerodistilling, Instagram: @romerodistilling.
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The more the merrier, according to Nick Cannon.
Following a report that Elon Musk welcomed twins with Shivon Zilis in November 2021, Elon took to Twitter to share his thoughts on having more children. And now, Nick has also weighed in.
"Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis," Elon wrote in a July 7 tweet. "A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far."
Nick, who will soon welcome his eighth child, then chimed in and commented, "Right there with you my Brother!"
Citing court documents, Business Insider reported that Elon welcomed the two little ones with Shivon, a Neuralink executive, in Austin, Texas, where Elon currently lives. However, neither person has publicly confirmed the news.
Elon and Shivon's twins would mark children No. 9 and 10 for the Space X CEO.
Elon welcomed his first child, son Nevada Alexander, in 2002 with ex-wife Justine Wilson. Nevada passed away at age 10 weeks from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Justine and Elon went on to welcome five more children together: 18-year-old twins Vivian and Xavier and 16-year-old triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian.
Elon is also father to a baby boy named X Æ A-Xii Musk, 2, and a baby girl named Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, 7 months, with the singer Grimes.
As for Nick, the comedian is dad to 11-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe with ex-wife Mariah Carey; 5-year-old son Golden "Sagon," 18-month-old daughter Powerful Queen with Brittany Bell; and 12-month-old twins Zion and Zillion with Abby De La Rosa. And, one month after his and Alyssa Scott's 5-month-old son Zen passed away from brain cancer, Nick announced that he and Bre Tiesi are expecting.
Recently, Nick vocalized how he feels about his expanding family tree in the form of a freestyle rap.
"I gotta say something to all of my kids, your daddy gonna love you whatever it is," he rapped during an appearance on Power 106 FM shared July 5. "All of my children will always be friends, even if their mamas are not in agreeance. Cannon's a gang and we're in allegiance." | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1337242/nick-cannon-reacts-to-elon-musk-reportedly-welcoming-babies-no-9-and-10 | 2022-07-08T00:14:51Z | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1337242/nick-cannon-reacts-to-elon-musk-reportedly-welcoming-babies-no-9-and-10 | false |
Sports-loving Cooper Roberts and his 8-year-old twin brother, Luke, loved the Fourth of July parade in their bucolic Chicago suburb.
But now the family is envisioning a “new normal" for Cooper who was struck in the chest in a hail of gunfire that left dozens of others wounded and seven dead when a gunman opened fire on the parade in Highland Park, said Tony Loizzi, a family spokesperson, during a Zoom call with reporters Thursday.
Luke and the boys' mother, Keely Roberts, who is the superintendent of the 2,300-student Zion Elementary School District, also were hurt but not as seriously. Only the boys' father, Jason Roberts, was unscathed.
Already, Cooper has undergone several surgeries, and is on a ventilator at the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital, his spine severed and his condition critical. He is unconscious and unable to speak to his family, Loizzi said.
“It sounds as if that he’ll have significant issues moving forward,” he explained. The family later confirmed that Cooper was paralyzed from the waist down.
Luke, who was struck by shrapnel, is home. But some of the shards remain in his body because removing them would cause too much damage, Loizzi said. The twins are the youngest of six, and their four older sisters — ages 18 to 26 — are doting on Luke while Cooper is hospitalized.
Meanwhile, the boy’s mother, who was shot twice in the foot and leg area, has undergone two surgeries and may need a third, Loizzi said.
“Quite frankly, she probably should not have been discharged,” Loizzi said. But when she found out Cooper was on a ventilator, she “told her doctors and nurses that they should either discharge or she’d walk out on her own because she needed to be with her son,” Loizzi said.
He said the school district where she works is getting offers of support from superintendents around the state, some of them retired. He said they want to help so she can heal and focus on her family.
“They’re devastated,” he said of the family, “but they’re focusing all of their energy right now on Cooper. It’s been a very emotional time for everybody in their circle. And if you know Keely, she’s just a fighter. And it sounds like Cooper got that part of her in him because he’s fighting as hard as he can.”
Loizzi had few details about the shooting itself. He said he didn’t know where the family was standing along the parade route when shots rang out or who helped them.
“To be honest, I have not had that conversation with Keely," he said. “I have tried not to focus on what exactly happened, and have really kept the focus on what we’re doing to help her and her son.”
Loizzi described the boy as having a “passion" for sports and the Milwaukee Brewers.
“Every time I talk to his mom about him, he’s always very active," he added.
A GoFundMe has been set up to help the family with what Loizzi described as "the obvious ongoing treatment and therapy that Cooper will need." He said that Keely Roberts is a devoted school leader, who works tirelessly for her students and often sends emails in the wee hours of the morning.
“Now," he said, “she and her family need our support. So we just ask you to please continue to keep the Roberts family and all of those impacted by this tragedy in your thoughts and prayers.” | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/new-normal-for-8-year-old-twin-wounded-in-july-4-shooting/V7G4SKJQWBDEHDXMXFD6EDCD5A/ | 2022-07-08T00:17:55Z | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/new-normal-for-8-year-old-twin-wounded-in-july-4-shooting/V7G4SKJQWBDEHDXMXFD6EDCD5A/ | true |
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A second Michigan case of monkeypox has been identified in a person from Detroit, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday.
It's not clear whether the second case is linked to the state’s first confirmed case, which was identified last week in Oakland County, spokeswoman Lynn Sutfin told the Detroit Free Press.
Both remain under investigation, Sutfin said.
Health officials are trying to identify close contacts of the people who have monkeypox and might have been exposed, she said.
“Right now, the information we have suggests that the number of high- and intermediate-risk contacts associated with the two identified cases is small,” Sutfin said.
Michigan is one of 34 U.S. states with known cases of the virus.
Monkeypox belongs to the same virus family as smallpox, but its symptoms are milder. People usually recover within two to four weeks without needing to be hospitalized, but the disease occasionally is deadly. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/State-Detroit-resident-has-Michigan-s-2nd-17291344.php | 2022-07-08T00:19:28Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/State-Detroit-resident-has-Michigan-s-2nd-17291344.php | true |
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Bears receiver David Moore was arrested on drug and weapons charges in his hometown of Gainesville, Texas, last weekend.
In a press release, Gainesville police said officers responding to a possibly intoxicated person at a Taco Bell drive-thru late Sunday night found Moore asleep in the driver’s seat of a silver 2018 Ford F250. Officers smelled marijuana while talking to Moore and found a package of THC edible candies and three pistols while searching the vehicle.
Police arrested Moore and charged him with possession of a controlled substance and unlawful carrying weapons.
The Bears said they are aware of the arrest and “are in the process of gathering more information.” They said they would “refrain from making any further comment.”
Moore signed a one-year contract with Chicago in April. He has 78 receptions over five seasons with Seattle, Denver and Green Bay.
The Bears made big changes after going 6-11 last season and missing the playoffs for the ninth time in 11 years. They fired general manager Ryan Pace and coach Matt Nagy and replaced them with Ryan Poles and Matt Eberflus.
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Why are jeans that are the same size come in such different sizes? AMANDA PLATELL tries out a range of demins with a markedly different fit
- Buying jeans can be the stuff of nightmares for women writes AMANDA PLATELL
- A recent survey found the average woman owns three pairs she never wears
- To illustrate the problem of jean sizes, Amanda tried on four pairs of jeans from five different brands: H&M, Zara, Marks & Spencer, River Island and Tesco’s F&F
Were a poll to be conducted right now of women of all ages and sizes about their most hated shopping experience, buying jeans would top the list.
All we want is to walk into our favourite store, grab our size in a few different shapes and shades, try them on, select the most flattering, pat our bottom and waltz out with a smile.
Instead, thanks to the wildly differing ‘same’ sizes — not only between brands but within shops themselves — buying jeans is the stuff of nightmares.
No wonder a recent survey found that the average woman owns three pairs she never wears because the fit is so bad, while six pairs will be disregarded on a shopping trip.
H&M: While the legs were voluminous, the waist on this pair (L) was a full two inches smaller than my own. My conclusion is that an H&M size 14 is not a size 14. Oddly, the crotch on these jeans (R) was very tight and came up way too high, yet the waistline felt too low. Very tight on the legs, they didn’t look or feel like a 14; I’d put the waist at a 12 and the legs at a 10.
M&S: These (L) are so loose at the waist I feel like I’m wearing a nappy! The crotch is a good two inches lower than it should be, and I can pull them up and down without having to undo the zip or button. By contrast, these skinny jeans (R), which have an elasticated waist, fit perfectly and look flattering, with no pockets at the front to add any bulk to the tummy.
All these jeans from a variety of stores have the same size on the label
You may be a size 14, but standing in the dressing room you’ll soon find that one pair is so roomy you need to go down two sizes, while another is so tight you struggle to get the zip over your tummy. And there’s nothing more depressing than having to reach for the size larger than you were expecting.
So I had a great deal of sympathy when I read about 29-year-old Zoe Evans, when she shared her recent experience of the sizing insanity infecting the High Street. Having bought four pairs of high-waisted size 18 jeans online from River Island, she discovered they differed so much in size as to be comical — if it wasn’t so infuriating.
Sharing a picture of the ludicrous result when the jeans were piled on top of one another, she explained: ‘It wasn’t even a small difference between each pair — one pair of jeans was half the size of the other.
‘I spent £170 on jeans and only one pair was the size I wanted and fitted.’
Part of the problem when it comes to our sizing woes is retailers’ crazy, and frankly dishonest, penchant for vanity sizing, where they try to make women feel better about our bodies by marking bigger sizes as smaller than they really are. For although women’s sizing is supposed to be standardised, there are no legal regulations to make our High Streets abide by it, meaning brands are free to use their own measurements.
As an unashamed denim devotee ever since I got my first Levi’s 501s as a teenager, I defend the right of any woman of any age and size to a pair of well-fitting jeans, without having to be humiliated in the process.
F&F: These legging-style jeans (L) are loose on the waist and thighs. I would need a size smaller. These high-rise skinny jeans (R) were an amazingly good fit and they looked good on the bum. The denim is ludicrously soft, too. I can’t believe they’ve come from a supermarket — and at such a good price. They are just perfect on me.
ZARA: While the fit on the leg and bottom was great, the waist was impossible to do up, which was a real shame (L). These (R) only just did up. The denim was stiff, the crotch was baggy and the jeans were not flattering on the bum. Not a great fit
RIVER ISLAND: Confusingly, although these jeans (L) look small, the stretchy fabric made them too big on the waist. I despair. There’s no way I could do these (R) up, they’re ridiculously small. They should be rebranded a size 10 instead
So to illustrate the hugely varying scale of the problem, I tried on four pairs of jeans each from five different brands: H&M, Zara, Marks & Spencer, River Island and Tesco’s F&F.
All 20 pairs claimed to be a size 14, which would lead any right-thinking person to assume they would all fit. But as these photos illustrate, that was far from the case.
Take M&S; their blue ‘mom’ jeans were so baggy around the waist and crotch that I could have fitted another pair underneath. Yet their indigo skinny style fitted perfectly.
Meanwhile, I couldn’t even zip up the supposed size 14 River Island cropped jeans — surely these were a 10! — yet their skinny pair fitted my legs but had a baggy waist.
I know it’s not just the High Street which has this problem. I love Levi’s 501s, but when I ordered a pair of flares recently in the same size I wear in the traditional style, they were so big I gifted them to a much larger friend.
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Rugby-loving teen is left in coma after suffering horror quadbike crash on Scottish country road
- Callum McDougall, 15, was riding along the A711 in Dumfries and Galloway
- He crashed, was flung from the vehicle and suffered major head trauma
- He remains in Queen Elizabeth hospital in Glasgow in an unconscious state
- Police are trying to ascertain the circumstances of the horror crash
A Scottish schoolboy has been left in a coma after suffering a horror quad bike crash close to his home in Dumfries and Galloway.
Callum McDougall, 15, was riding the powerful Honda quadbike along the A711 near Mutehill without a helmet on Saturday around 1:25pm when he was hurled from the vehicle and struck his head.
He was rendered unconscious in the crash and was airlifted to Queen Elizabeth University hospital in Glasgow where doctors established he had sustained a severe brain bleed that forced his temperature to spike dangerously.
Medical staff managed to get his temperature under control but the 15-year-old, who is a keen rugby player and volunteer at a horse rescue centre, remains in a coma.
Callum McDougall, 15, is in a coma after being involved in a quad bike crash this past weekend
Callum's mother Amy Woodford - a self-employed cleaner - is at her son's bedside while friend Susan Murdoch launched a fundraiser to help support the family.
Susan told The Scottish Sun Callum had moved his arm and coughed since his accident but did so while unconscious and still has not come around.
'It was very serious when [the air ambulance] brought him. Amy hasn't left his side since the accident.
'We want them to know we're all behind them.'
Callum is a pupil at Kirkcudbright Academy in Dumfries and Galloway, and suffered his accident just a few hundred metres from the school on the coastal road.
Police cordoned off the area for hours on Saturday afternoon following the crash as the teen was airlifted to Glasgow and officers set about maintaining and analysing the site.
Susan's online appeal to raise cash for Callum and his family went live on Tuesday and has already drummed up more than £4,000.
Susan described Callum as a 'fantastic boy, very kind and well-mannered'.
She said the rugby-loving teen is in for a 'marathon' of surgeries and rehabilitation provided doctors are able to revive him from his unconscious state.
Callum is a pupil at Kirkcudbright Academy in Dumfries and Galloway, and suffered his accident just a few hundred metres from the school on the coastal road (A711 pictured)
Police Inspector Greg Dinnie said: 'A teenager has sustained serious injuries and it is important that we establish how this crash occurred.
'We are appealing for anyone who may have been driving in this area prior to the crash and may have seen a red coloured quad bike to come forward.
'You may also have been in the area and have dash-cam footage that can help us.
'Please check back and get in touch. Anyone with any information should contact police via 101, quoting incident number 1739 of July 2.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10993113/Rugby-loving-teen-left-coma-suffering-horror-quadbike-crash-Scottish-country-road.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-07-08T00:24:45Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10993113/Rugby-loving-teen-left-coma-suffering-horror-quadbike-crash-Scottish-country-road.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | true |
(The Hill) – At least 47 multinational companies with a presence in Russia, including gas giant BP and aircraft behemoth Boeing, are at risk of having key assets seized by the Russian government.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February spurred dozens of major international companies to pull out of the country amid sweeping sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies.
A report that will be published next week from the Russian monitoring organization the Moral Rating Agency says the Kremlin may soon seize or redirect assets of those companies to a friendlier firm.
Other at risk firms include Shell, Samsung, PepsiCo, Nissan, Intel, Microsoft, Toyota and Ford. In total, the 47 companies at risk of losing assets to Russia make up 24 percent of the 200 largest corporations in the world, according to the Moral Rating Agency.
The founder of the agency, Mark Dixon, said in a statement the organizations anticipates “a tsunami of expropriations or blackmailed concessions over the next couple of months,” potentially affecting the U.S. stock market, which recently dipped into bear market territory.
“Even corporations with a mix of assets at risk and non-asset activities may suffer on both lines of business because it will be difficult for corporations to keep trading with a country that illegally expropriates its factory or assets,” Dixon said.
The report comes after Russia has already moved to seize assets from some companies.
On July 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree allowing a new Russian firm to take complete control of the Sakhalin-2 gas and oil energy project in Russia’s east, according to Reuters. The gas project accounts for about four percent of the world’s liquefied natural gas.
Energy giant Royal Dutch Shell and Japanese corporations Mitsui and Mitsubishi together held just under a 50 percent stake in the Sakhalin Energy Investment company, the outlet noted.
Moscow is also set to pass a law that will allow the Kremlin to seize assets from other western and international corporations.
Russia has been adapting to its new reality as a corporate pariah. In May, a Russian business owner — who purchased 850 restaurant stores from McDonalds— launched a rebranded restaurant chain using its buildings.
The Moral Rating Agency, which earlier this month called out companies for not following through to pull services out of Russia, ranked the 47 corporations in its upcoming report with a threat level rate ranging from one to 10.
On the top of the list is energy giant BP, which has a nearly 20 percent stake in the Russian oil and gas company Rosneft. BP announced it would end its shareholding stake with Rosneft shortly after the Russian invasion.
Snack and drink corporation PepsiCo, which has two plants in Moscow that make up around five percent of its total revenue, is also at the top of the threat list. In March, PepsiCo announced it was suspending the sale of its beverages in Russia.
LG Electronics, which makes Android smartphones, is at a medium threat risk with one production plant in Moscow. Nestlé, known for its candy and chocolate drinks, also holds a medium risk of Russia seizing a subsidiary company that makes up about two percent of its total revenue. Nestlé suspended KitKat and Nesquik sales in Russia, while LG also halted shipments to the country.
Other major corporations — Microsoft, Boeing, Toyota, Volkswagen, Walgreens Boots Alliance and Ford —are at a low risk of the Kremlin seizing or redirecting a small share of assets the companies hold in Russia.
The Moral Rating Agency said several companies made the correct decision when they exited early and sold their assets, including McDonalds, Alphabet (which owns Google), Amazon and Honda.
In his statement, Dixon said Putin is using the threat of expropriation, or seizing assets, as part of his plan to “follow his usual pattern of dividing the enemy.”
“In this case, he will seek to drive a wedge between the corporate and public sectors,” Dixon said. “He’s aware that companies are free to act independently of their governments and will often act selfishly if they are being threatened.”
“He is probably hoping that large corporations will lobby governments not to act in ways that will lose them their assets,” he added. “Putin is trying to throw a cat among the pigeons.” | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/at-least-47-top-companies-at-risk-of-having-russia-seize-key-assets-report/ | 2022-07-08T00:28:31Z | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/at-least-47-top-companies-at-risk-of-having-russia-seize-key-assets-report/ | true |
Did you lose money on investments in Unity Software? If so, please visit Unity Software Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights.
NEW YORK, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP announces that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the securities of Unity Software Inc. ("Unity" or the "Company") (NYSE: U) between March 5, 2021 and May 10, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Unity creates and operates an interactive real-time 3D content platform. The Company's platform provides software solutions to create, run, and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices. One of the tools on the Company's product platform is the Audience Pinpointer, a user acquisition service which uses real-time user valuation at the time of an ad request.
Plaintiff alleges that Defendants made materially false and misleading statements throughout the Class Period. Specifically, Plaintiff alleges that Defendants failed to disclose that: (i) deficiencies in Unity's product platform reduced the accuracy of the Company's machine learning technology; (ii) the foregoing was likely to have a material negative impact on the Company's revenues; (iii) accordingly, Unity had overstated the Company's commercial and/or financial prospects for 2022; and (iv) as a result, the Company was likely to have to reduce its fiscal 2022 guidance.
On May 10, 2022, after the market closed, Unity announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2022. The Company also reduced its fiscal 2022 guidance, citing "challenges with monetization products." Specifically, Unity stated that "a fault in [Unity's] platform . . . resulted in reduced accuracy for [its] Audience Pinpointer tool, a revenue expensive issue given that [the] Pinpointer tool experienced significant growth post the IDFA changes."
On this news, the Company's stock price fell $17.83 per share to close at $30.30 per share on May 11, 2022.
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Texas governor authorizes state to return migrants to border
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has authorized state forces to apprehend and transport migrants to the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Republican on Thursday claimed the enforcement powers of federal agents, pushing the legal boundaries of Texas’ escalating efforts to curb the rising number of crossings.
The federal government is responsible for enforcement of immigration laws.
But for more than a year Texas has patrolled the border with an increasingly heavier hand.
Abbott stopped short of authorizing Texas troopers and National Guard members to take migrants across the ports of entry and into Mexico.
The move raises questions over the training they have to detain and transport migrants and is likely to invite legal challenges.
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