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Testimony in a federal trial reveals local officials knew about the presence of toxic substances in a South Charleston landfill nearly a decade before the public.
South Charleston’s mayor, Frank Mullens, and the city attorney, Michael Moore, knew as early as 2010 that Union Carbide was monitoring its Filmont Landfill, according to testimony in U.S. District Court in Charleston.
Jerome Cibrik, Union Carbide’s remediation expert, testified on Friday that the company sought permission from the city to drill two monitoring wells on city property.
Cibrik testified that the city asked Union Carbide to draft a public relations plan and a set of frequently asked questions for residents. Cibrik said he didn’t know if city officials told the public about the wells. The wells would have been visible from a nearby subdivision, he added.
A copy of the FAQ filed in the court’s docket is stamped “restricted – for internal use only.”
Cibrik’s deposition in a lawsuit in 2019 is the earliest known public disclosure of contamination at the Filmont site.
The owner of an adjacent property, Courtland Co., has sued Union Carbide, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical, four times since 2018. Courtland alleges that Union Carbide has contaminated its property, groundwater in the area, and Davis Creek, which flows into the Kanawha River.
Sampling done in 2011 by Union Carbide across Davis Creek from the Filmont site showed levels of 1,4-dioxane – a synthetic industrial chemical and likely human carcinogen according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – at levels 177 times above the screening level.
Union Carbide’s testing showed the presence of arsenic, 1,4- dioxane, multiple types of ethers, benzene, chloroform and vinyl chloride, which have been measured in groundwater on the site in excess of federally established screening levels, and in some cases dozens of times above federal drinking water limits set by the EPA.
In human health and ecological risk assessments conducted in 2014 and 2015, Cibrik said, Union Carbide concluded that no further action was needed to address the contamination.
The South Charleston City Council unanimously adopted an ordinance in September 2016 prohibiting the extraction of groundwater in industrial areas.
West Virginia Public Broadcasting has reached out to the South Charleston's mayor's office. | https://www.wvpublic.org/energy-environment/2022-07-08/testimony-local-officials-knew-of-toxic-site-years-before-public | 2022-07-08T21:26:23Z | https://www.wvpublic.org/energy-environment/2022-07-08/testimony-local-officials-knew-of-toxic-site-years-before-public | true |
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Vandals destroy 76-year-old woman’s wheelchair ramp
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WCCB) – A grandmother in North Carolina is calling out the suspects who destroyed her wheelchair ramp at her home.
The 76-year-old woman, who did not want to be identified by name, told WCCB she relies on her wheelchair to get around after undergoing several surgeries.
She said she spends her days swinging in her chair, looking after her beloved dogs and minding her own business.
“I like where I’m at if people would just leave me alone,” she said.
Last week, she said her friend drove her to the store, and when she returned hours later, she found piles of debris scattered in her yard.
“I said, ’Oh my God, what happened to my deck?” she said.
It was remnants of her wheelchair ramp and deck. She quickly called police.
According to the incident report, detectives found her wheelchair ramp broken into two pieces and wooden boards broken in half. Officers also noticed tire tracks leading away from the ramp and a piece of a bumper from a truck.
The woman said she has lived there for more than 20 years and never had any problems until now. However, she says that she recently had “a problem” with one person, who she believes is the culprit.
“That’s who I really, in my heart, know that did this. But I can’t prove it, so my heart doesn’t do any good,” she said. “The thing is, they tried to hurt me, and it didn’t go their way.”
The vandalism caused about $5,000 worth of property damage. The woman hopes the person responsible will come forward.
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In a powerhouse collaboration, electronic music stars Dimitri Vegas and David Guetta, The Pussycat Dolls’ Nicole Scherzinger and DJ/producer Azteck have teamed up for Vegas’ second official solo single, “The Drop.” The house-leaning track is accompanied by an animated music video in which the artists are transformed into comic book superhero versions of themselves.
In a vibrant fantasy world, they race to catch “the drop” while zooming past a paradise of volcanoes, lava, craters and dinosaurs. Scherzinger summons a green orb just as Vegas and Guetta speed by (on a hover vehicle and something akin to a motorcycle, respectively). As Guetta catches the orb, Vegas looks upset, and Scherzinger turns into a mythical bat-winged creature. She fire breathes at Guetta, causing him to crash and drop the orb into the ocean, but he is luckily rescued by Vegas’ flying car. The video cuts off, leaving us with a cliffhanger and perhaps a hint that there will be a second part to “The Drop.”
“The Drop” marks the first collaboration of the four musicians, and follows Vegas’ first official single, “Pull Me Closer,” which was released last March.
Vegas is known to EDM fans as half of the duo Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike. Scherzinger has most recently served as a panelist on the hilarious TV game show The Masked Singer, while Guetta’s latest single, “Crazy What Love Can Do,” featuring Becky Hill and Ella Henderson, came out in April. | https://www.spin.com/2022/07/dimitri-vegas-david-guetta-nicole-scherzinger-azteck-team-for-the-drop/ | 2022-07-08T21:32:01Z | https://www.spin.com/2022/07/dimitri-vegas-david-guetta-nicole-scherzinger-azteck-team-for-the-drop/ | true |
DUBLIN, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aptiv PLC (NYSE: APTV), will release its second quarter 2022 financial results on August 4, and will hold an investor call the same day at 8:00 a.m. EDT. The call will be hosted by Aptiv's President and Chief Executive Officer, Kevin Clark, and Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, Business Operations, Joseph Massaro.
A link to the live webcast and presentation materials will be available on the Aptiv Investor Relations website at ir.aptiv.com. A replay will be available two hours following the conference call.
To participate by telephone, please dial 800-289-0741 (U.S.) or +1 323-701-0212 (international) 15 minutes prior to the start of the call and ask to be connected to the Aptiv PLC conference call. The conference ID number is 4936352.
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MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Suburban Atlanta police officers shot and killed a man Thursday who they say pinned an officer with his car and dragged the officer through a motel parking lot.
Esteban Ramirez, 26, of Atlanta, was shot and killed in the suburb of Marietta, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. An unnamed Marietta police officer received minor injuries.
Marietta police spokesman Chuck McPhilamy told WSB-TV that officers were trying to stop Ramirez because he had been identified as a suspicious person.
The GBI said that after officers approached Ramirez in a car, he put the car in reverse, hit a police car, pinned an officer between the two vehicles and then dragged and injured the officer.
Witnesses said police fired multiple times, striking Ramirez in the head. Ramirez was taken to a hospital but died. The officer was treated and released.
GBI agents will present findings to the Cobb County district attorney, who will decide whether to pursue charges. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Police-Georgia-man-killed-after-dragging-officer-17293328.php | 2022-07-08T21:44:09Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Police-Georgia-man-killed-after-dragging-officer-17293328.php | true |
DELAWARE WATER GAP, Pa. — Inside the Hikers Hostel at Presbyterian Church of the Mountain in Delaware Water Gap, you'll hear the stories of folks hiking along the Appalachian Trail.
"I've walked here about 1,300 miles right now so far since March, and we've got about another 900 miles to go before we reach Maine. So this is one step along the way," said Red Beard, a hiker on the Appalachian Trail.
Since 1976, the church along Route 611 has welcomed hikers from around the world, making it the longest-running hiker center on the trail.
"It's very rewarding to see folks come in and spend time here and that we can help them," said David Childs, the coordinator of the hiker's center.
The idea for the center started when attendance at the church began to drop. So the ministry looked to reach out and help those in the community.
"We saw these smelly hikers walking up and down the street of the Appalachian Trail, and we said, 'OK, well, how about this?' And we welcomed them in. In the first year, we had a couple hundred that came in. Now we get about 1,400 or something a year," said Larry Beck, a member of the church.
Congregation members say over the years, the community has welcomed hikers passing through with open arms.
"The community has embraced the whole hiker thing because they come through and they see 'em, and so they open their doors, and they open their restaurants," Beck says.
Sherry Blackman is the pastor of the church, which offers hikers a place to sleep and shower. Hearing so many stories from hikers inspired her to write a book about them.
'I'm just intrigued by the human struggle, and that's really why I wanted to write it to let people know that we are all in this together and that the trail, according to most of the hikers, as you heard them say it, restored their faith in humanity," said Pastor Blackman.
Members of the congregation in Delaware Water Gap say they will continue serving hikers as long as they can.
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Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup have taken their love to Paris.
The Oscar-nominated actress posted a rare photo of the pair on Instagram to celebrate Billy's 54th birthday on July 8. Naomi, 53, shared a selfie of the two outside the Louvre Museum.
"Happy Birthday my love," the Loudest Voice actress captioned the post, adding a kissing lips emoji.
In the comments section, the couple received well-wishes from several fellow celebs, including Chelsea Handler, Julianne Moore, Naomi Campbell and Rose Byrne.
Naomi also shared more photos from their trip to the French capital on her Instagram Stories, including a lunch pic taken at a restaurant across the street from the museum, an image of the Crazy Horse Paris saloon—where they watched a cabaret show, and a shot of the Eiffel Tower with glittering lights.
"Midnight," she wrote. "We are pumpkins."
While Naomi and Billy's relationship was made public in 2017, they didn't make their red carpet debut as a couple until the 2022 SAG Awards in Los Angeles this past February. The Impossible actress and Morning Show star, who have known each other for a long time, starred in the short-lived Netflix series Gypsy together.
Naomi was previously in a relationship with Ray Donovan star Liev Schreiber. The actors, who share kids Sasha, 14, and Kai, 13, announced their split in 2016 after 11 years together.
The exes have continued to co-parent amicably. In June, Naomi posted a family photo to Instagram, which included Billy and Liev, 54, and his partner Taylor Neisen, 30, at Kai's middle school graduation.
"Congratulations to Kai," she wrote. "Class of 2022 #modernfamily #graduation." | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1337350/naomi-watts-celebrates-boyfriend-billy-crudup-s-birthday-with-rare-selfie | 2022-07-08T21:50:33Z | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1337350/naomi-watts-celebrates-boyfriend-billy-crudup-s-birthday-with-rare-selfie | false |
Dispose of unwanted agricultural surplus pesticides at no cost
Published: Jul. 8, 2022 at 3:39 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
ELECTRA, Texas (KAUZ) - Do you have unwanted agricultural surplus pesticides? The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in Wichita County is offering residents the chance to dispose of these materials at no cost.
Officials will be accepting pesticides on Wednesday, July 13 from 8 a.m. to noon at the City of Electra Fairgrounds. Pesticides must be kept in their original containers, and you do not have to exit your vehicle when dropping them off.
Unknown pesticides will reportedly be sampled and identified on site.
Materials that will be accepted include:
- Outdated, discontinued or unwanted agricultural pesticides
- Insecticides
- Herbicides
- Fungicides
- Rodenticides
- Nematicides
- Growth Regulators
- Empty, Triple-Rinsed Plastic Pesticide Containers (55 gal. max)
- Empty or Partial Metal Drums
Materials not being accepted include:
- Explosive ordinances and ammunition
- Petroleum-Based Products
- Paints
- Medical Wastes
- Radioactive Substances
- Household Pesticides, Chemicals and Waste
- Tires
- Fertilizers, Propane or Butane Cylinders
- Chlorinated Hydrocarbons
- Fumigant Canisters
- Used motor oil and other automobile fluids
- Auto Batteries
- Empty Totes
- Methyl-Bromide Cylinders
- Dioxins (2,4-5T, Silvex, TCDD, etc.)
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
7-3-6
(seven, three, six)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
7-3-6
(seven, three, six) | https://www.theintelligencer.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Midday-game-17293266.php | 2022-07-08T21:51:05Z | https://www.theintelligencer.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Midday-game-17293266.php | false |
WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 8, 2022
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be allowed to expire. However small hail, gusty winds and heavy rain
are still possible with this thunderstorm.
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WFO LAKE CHARLES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, July 9, 2022
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* WHAT...For the first Heat Advisory, heat index values up to
109. For the second Heat Advisory, heat index values up to 111
expected.
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David Harbour is ditching the Pilates classes.
The Stranger Things star took on a rigorous workout routine to lose weight after Hopper was imprisoned in a Soviet camp in season four. He enrolled in Pilates and began intermittent fasting, dropping as much as 80 pounds over the course of eight months—but as he recently told GQ, "I don't think I'll ever do that again."
"Yeah, never again," he said, before adding that special effects can do the work. "The prosthetics are too good."
David is equally repelled by the idea of method acting, the process of immersing yourself in a character. He looked back on playing a Scottish King and thinking to himself "'I'm gonna kill a cat' or something: ‘I'm gonna go murder something to know what it feels like to murder," adding, "I didn't actually do it, obviously."
He continued, "Not only is that stuff silly, it's dangerous, and it actually doesn't produce good work."
Of course, Daniel Day Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio and, most recently, Jeremy Strong have been applauded for their respective performances brought about by method acting, but David is nonetheless put off by the process. "He's an extraordinary actor who I'm captivated and fascinated by," he said of the There Will Be Blood actor, specifically. "[But] when he explains his process it sounds like nonsense to me."
If David had gone totally method, essentially transforming into Hopper, he might not have met his wife, Lily Allen. The actor remembered going on their third date and being his candid self, which he worried would put her off. "I was just in this phase, where I was like, I'm just going to be brutally honest about everything, because why lie? And I told her something about my life, about my beliefs," he said. "It would take a really extraordinary person to be accepting of the things that I said. And I remember thinking: Wow, that's somebody I want to be around."
In fact, David previously said that he met the British singer when he was physically at his worst. "It's a true testament to my undeniable charisma when I say that my wife met me at 280 pounds with this beard and this hair," he told the New York Times last July. "We went on a date at the Wolseley [restaurant] in London, and she really fell for me at my worst, physically and hair-wise."
The pair got married in Las Vegas a year later, with Lily's two daughters serving as witnesses. They celebrated their nuptials with a greasy dinner at In 'N Out, where they shared a few pictures of themselves in their wedding attire. "In a wedding officiated by the king himself, the people's princess wed her devoted, low born, but kind credit card holder in a beautiful ceremony lit by the ashen skies courtesy of a burning state miles away in the midst of a global pandemic," he captioned the announcement. "Refreshments were served at a small reception following."
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Prices are rising in all areas for consumers and — if Congress doesn’t act soon — the same thing can be expected for healthcare costs.
Tax credits, underwritten by the American Rescue Plan, that help people pay for their health coverage through the Affordable Care Act, will expire at the end of 2022, raising healthcare costs for an estimated 230,000 Pennsylvanians, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Congress has the power to extend these credits, preventing the rise in premium costs, but one lobbyist said that it’s unlikely to happen if Democrats don’t use the reconciliation process.
Antoinette Kraus, the executive director of the Pennsylvania Health Access Network, said she estimates an average of an 11% increase immediately in health insurance costs — or roughly $1,000 per year — for consumers, without intervention from Congress.
“This year, or more than ever before, we’re hearing from people whose budgets are being squeezed as costs rise,” Kraus said during a Thursday press call. “And that means they have even less to spend on the cost of their health care than they did before.”
Kraus’ group, along with the advocacy groups For Our Future PA, Protect Our Care Pennsylvania, and Family Friendly Pennsylvania organized Thursday’s call.
Roughly 39,000 people could become uninsured in Pennsylvania if the tax subsidies end, the Urban Institute predicted in an April report. The research center also reported that any action from Congress must come by midsummer to “give the Marketplaces, insurers, and outreach programs time to prepare.”
The American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion economic stimulus package signed by President Joe Biden in 2021, raised premium tax credits for state and federal marketplace insurance coverage, and broadened the financial requirements to include more people. These efforts lowered the cost of health coverage for roughly 90 percent of the 374,776 Pennsylvanians signed up through an Affordable Care Act marketplace in 2022.
U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-2nd District, called for Congress to take action.
“This was a short-term break for so many working-class and middle-class families throughout Pennsylvania and throughout the nation,” said Boyle, who also participated in Thursday’s news conference. “For about 375,000 people in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, they will see a dramatic increase in their premiums if Congress doesn’t extend the subsidies, so I urge my colleagues in the Senate to do this.”
“My top priority in Congress has always been lowering costs, especially health care costs,” U.S. Rep. Susan Wild, D-7th District, said in a statement. “The American Rescue Plan’s enhanced insurance premium tax credits saved families $2,400 on average annually and making these credits permanent is another tangible action we must take to lower costs for Americans.”
These representatives are not alone in wanting to extend the American Rescue Plan subsidies.
Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf joined 13 other governors to ask the same of Congress in a late June letter.
“It’s critical that we continue to make affordable coverage as accessible as possible to as many as possible, and I applaud President Joe Biden for his leadership to not only expand coverage as part of ARPA but also to make it permanent,” Wolf said at the time. “I urge Congress to make these subsidies permanent so that Pennsylvanians can continue to have a better quality of life through affordable comprehensive ACA coverage.”
Not every Pennsylvania lawmaker is on board, however. U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., has been a vocal advocate against expanding the tax credits.
Toomey and other U.S. legislators sent a letter to the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Charles Rettig, opposing an IRS proposal to expand the tax credit, saying it would cost taxpayers roughly $45 billion over the next 10 years.
“This action would further the reach of the federal government into Americans’ daily lives, placing more federal red tape between patients and their doctors,” the senators wrote. | https://www.phillytrib.com/advocates-lawmakers-warn-of-healthcare-cost-spike-without-action-by-congress/article_0dbb7a0d-4d26-59a9-aec6-120212b7ac5d.html | 2022-07-08T21:55:37Z | https://www.phillytrib.com/advocates-lawmakers-warn-of-healthcare-cost-spike-without-action-by-congress/article_0dbb7a0d-4d26-59a9-aec6-120212b7ac5d.html | false |
'I might be the oldest - but I feel good and ready to go!': David Moyes is the Premier League’s eldest statesman but the West Ham boss is ready for another crack at upsetting the big beasts
- West Ham United boss David Moyes is the Premier League's eldest statesman
- The Hammers will open the new season against champions Manchester City
- The 59-year-old Scotsman is hoping to upset the top-flights major clubs again
Evian-les-Bains doesn’t shout about its place in literary history — how it was here in this picturesque pocket of south-eastern France that Victor Frankenstein’s wife, Elizabeth, was strangled by his monster in their bridal suite in Mary Shelley’s gothic horror.
The clientele that check into the five-star Hotel Royal Palace wouldn’t be enthralled to read about that on a plaque in reception, least of all the honeymooners.
Yet as Sportsmail sits with David Moyes on the patio overlooking Lake Geneva, the conversation soon turns to talk of another monster.
West Ham United boss David Moyes (pictured) is the Premier League's eldest statesman
West Ham will open the new Premier League season against Manchester City at the London Stadium, meaning Moyes’s men will be the first to try to chase Erling Haaland out of town, minus the pitchforks.
The 59-year-old Glaswegian isn’t fazed about facing the striker who scored a 20-minute hat-trick on his Borussia Dortmund debut.
Instead he says he’s energised at the thought of starting another season with a bang in front of 62,500 West Ham fans in a month’s time.
The 59-year-old is not fazed about facing Manchester City's Erling Haaland on the opening day
Even if he is, in his own words, now the ‘old git of the Premier League’.
‘I didn’t know that!’ Moyes says when informed he is now the oldest manager operating in England’s top flight.
‘I need Roy (Hodgson) to come back. Bring back Tony Pulis. Or Harry (Redknapp). I can’t believe it. I’m not that old!
‘I still feel good and ready to go. Maybe football is a young man’s game but there’s room for more experienced managers as well. I hope there is, anyway.’
Retired club captain Mark Noble’s parting words to Craig Dawson seem fitting now more than ever.
‘I’ll be lying on a beach,’ Noble told the central defender on his way out, ‘while you’ll be chasing Haaland’.
Moyes chuckles. ‘It feels as if we only played City two weeks ago. We went 2-0 up but drew 2-2. Here we go again.
‘The problem is Haaland has a team around him — 10 other players and one of the world’s best managers on the touchline.
'He’ll get over it quite quickly — being new to the English game — because he’s at a top football club.’
West Ham’s defenders will want to give Haaland a harsh welcome to the Premier League, much like the one Moyes received 20 years ago.
It is now two decades since Moyes’s Premier League managerial debut with Everton. He beat Fulham 2-1, then Derby 4-3, then lost 6-2 to Sir Bobby Robson’s Newcastle.
It is now two decades since Moyes’s Premier League managerial debut with Everton
‘Sir Bobby said, “Welcome to the Premier League”,’ recalls Moyes. ‘I’ll never forget that. I went, “Oh, you bugger!” It was a sharp warning from someone incredibly experienced — a “settle down, young man, you don’t think this is all going to be easy, do you?”
‘I’ve still got a letter from Sir Bobby at home. I wrote to him when I was starting out in coaching with Preston because I wanted to go to Barcelona to watch one of his training sessions.
‘I didn’t get a reply and didn’t think I’d get one. Then three months later, I got a letter from Sir Bobby, “I’m really sorry, your letter was at the bottom of the pile”.
Then he added, “But I think I’m about to lose my job to Louis van Gaal”. I didn’t get to go to Barcelona, but I still remember that handwritten letter. It taught me a lot about being a manager.’
Not only the cut-throat nature but the importance of the personal touch. ‘It was the same with Sir Alex (Ferguson),’ continues Moyes.
‘Sir Alex was great at phoning managers when things weren’t good and wanting to help. He was competitive but also someone who thought about others.’
Moyes has spoken about Manchester United (‘it didn’t work and I didn’t do well enough in it’).
About Real Sociedad (‘I wouldn’t change it. I had a great experience. Beating Barcelona at home was fantastic’). About Sunderland (‘it wasn’t a good move and I didn’t enjoy the experience’).
That’s all in the past and we’re here to talk the future with West Ham. There are 58 days left in the transfer window when we meet and over the course of two hours, Moyes nips away to answer and make several phone calls.
Busy? ‘Extremely,’ he says, explaining he tried to go on holiday to Florida with his wife, Pamela, but was glued to his mobile phone.
‘At Real Sociedad I had a sporting director but the manager ought to be the one making the final decisions on the ins and outs. We’re the ones who get hired and fired.’
Moyes went to watch Joleon Lescott 24 times when Everton manager before deciding to sign him over Robert Huth.
Moyes went to watch Joleon Lescott 24 times when at Everton before deciding to sign him
He doesn’t have time for those field trips any more, and he says the rumour mill has been working overtime. ‘We’ve been linked with, what, 80 players? There’s a lot of noise out there.’
Fake news, in other words. What’s real is West Ham have signed defender Nayef Aguerd for £30million from Rennes, midfielder Flynn Downes from Swansea for £12m and goalkeeper Alphonse Areola for £10.5m from Paris Saint-Germain.
Jesse Lingard remains a target, though there are a group of Premier League clubs competing for the 29-year-old free agent.
Talk of Villarreal’s Arnaut Danjuma has gone cold but the chase for Chelsea’s Armando Broja is hotting up.
Jesse Lingard remains a target for West Ham, although they face plenty of competition
West Ham saw an offer turned down for Leeds United’s Kalvin Phillips in January and he’s since signed for Manchester City for £45m. ‘We bid more than that,’ says Moyes, disappointed.
‘We’re trying to be competitive with the big teams. If we can’t, we have to find another way of keeping up with them.’
West Ham used the third-fewest players of any top-flight club in 2021-22 and made the second-fewest substitutions.
West Ham used the third-fewest players of any top-flight club in the 2021-22 campaign
Moyes doesn’t read too much into those statistics — ‘Leicester won the Premier League with the fewest players,’ he says correctly — but he concedes they need reinforcements, so long as they don’t sign any old Tom, Dick or Harry.
‘West Ham supporters are no mugs. They know when a player is committed. In the great old days, this club had top England internationals.
'We’ve certainly got one — in Declan Rice — and hopefully we’re on the way to having a second top one — in Jarrod Bowen.
'We’ve lost Noble, Andriy Yarmolenko, some other boys from the squad, so we’re well aware we need to add to it.’
I ask the inevitable question about Rice, their £150m man. ‘No bids,’ says Moyes of the new club captain. ‘We wouldn’t be taking any, anyway. We’ve said all along he’s not for sale.’
Moyes knows he needs to add to the squad after losing Mark Noble and Andriy Yarmolenko
This tranquil spa town is a long way from the hustle and bustle of Stratford, east London. A waitress brings six bottles of water to the table, placing them by Moyes’s whistle and stopwatch.
‘You’ll only get Evian here,’ she says, smiling, ‘so don’t ask us for anything else.’
While we’re here in France, Arsenal and Chelsea are flying to America, Tottenham to South Korea, and Liverpool to Thailand then to Singapore.
Moyes recalls travelling 24,000 miles and covering five cities in four countries after becoming Manchester United manager in 2013. It wasn’t ideal, but he says that’s what’s needed when a club is in demand.
‘It’s important that West Ham are doing that in the future — getting out there in the world and being seen. It’s what you do as a club when you’re growing.
‘We had offers but I felt because of the short break, and with the World Cup coming up, it was better not to go to Australia this summer. The club were very good — they supported my decision.’
The Hammers spent a week in Scotland and are now in the Swiss city of Lausanne
Looking over at the Swiss city of Lausanne on the other side of Lake Geneva, he adds: ‘For now, we’re enjoying the view here in Evian.’ Despite the serenity, West Ham’s players have endured a testing pre-season.
'They spent a week in Scotland where they did drills on the beach where the famous running scene in Chariots of Fire was filmed.
Now they’ve completed a second week in Evian — one of daily double sessions, one at 10.30am and the other at 5pm — before finishing it with a friendly against Swiss side Servette in Geneva.
‘We’ve had a laugh about pre-seasons in years gone by, when players would come back half a stone overweight and wear bin bags to try to sweat it off,’ says Moyes. ‘It’s different now. Players look after themselves. It’s just about getting them match-ready.’
He’s still waiting on others to return, including Rice, who played 58 games for club and country last season. The England midfielder is among those being afforded an extended break.
Stuart Pearce has left West Ham’s backroom staff to seek a better work-life balance — ‘Psycho’ will still work in a consultancy role from time to time — but Mark Warburton has joined.
Will Noble follow? ‘We’ll bring him in somewhere. He wants to be involved. He’s been training to be the likes of a sporting director in the future.’
An interesting idea and one which would ease the workload on Moyes who, right now, appears part-manager and part-director of football.
With that, his phone is buzzing and he’s got to go. There are deals to be done before the squad’s second session of the day.
'See you back in London,’ says the Premier League’s eldest statesman, excited as ever to try to take West Ham to the next level. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10996329/David-Moyes-eldest-statesman-ready-crack-upsetting-big-beasts.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-08T21:58:24Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10996329/David-Moyes-eldest-statesman-ready-crack-upsetting-big-beasts.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Amazon Warehouse: You don't have to wait until Prime Day for massive discounts
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RELATED: What to know about Amazon Prime Day 2022
But you don't have to wait until July 12 to save big, thanks to a rather unknown corner of Amazon that offers big savings year-round.
It's called Amazon Warehouse.
WHAT IS AMAZON WAREHOUSE?
Amazon Warehouse is a little-known corner of Amazon, offering deals on hundreds of thousands of warehouse-damaged, returned, open-box and pre-owned products.
Essentially, if a product is returned or is warehouse-damaged, it can no longer be sold as "new."
CLICK HERE TO EXPLORE THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE.
Enter Amazon Warehouse. Here you will find all of these items, at an extremely discounted price. There are deals on countless items, including some of the most sought-after earbuds, computers, designer clothes and furniture.
According to Amazon, all products go through a quality check before being sold — even in the warehouse. All items function properly or like new, company officials say.
If you are unhappy with that purchase, Amazon will offer a replacement within 30 days, or when there is a product available in their inventory.
Check out some of the best Amazon Warehouse deals we recently found below:
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Two Iowa police officers are taking the unusual move of suing six people who participated in a 2020 protest in Des Moines after the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, accusing them of assault.
All six people were arrested during the July 1, 2020, protest, and five already pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of assault on a police officer and/or interference with official acts. One of them, Indira Sheumaker, was later elected to the Des Moines City Council.
The lawsuit, first reported by Axios Des Moines, was filed by Peter Wilson and Jeffrey George as individuals and not as representatives of the Des Moines Police Department. They are seeking an unspecified amount for actual and punitive damages.
It will likely be met with skepticism by the court, said Robert Bloom, a professor at Boston College Law School, who noted that the claims of assault and battery appear to be applying criminal complaints to a civil action.
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Experts also note that Iowa is among several states that have adopted what’s known as the “fireman’s rule,” which holds that firefighting and policing are inherently dangerous jobs and generally bars emergency responders from suing or collecting damages for injuries that occur in the course of their duties. The rule typically includes some exceptions — such as gross negligence of a property owner or if injury was caused by willful, wanton or intentional action.
The protest was among demonstrations against racism and police brutality that erupted worldwide following Floyd's killing. It began as a rally at the Iowa State Capitol to push for the restored voting rights to felons and turned violent as police led away arrested protesters.
Des Moines protesters have said police escalated tensions and were heavy-handed in their handling of arrests.
The suit describes protesters’ actions as “nothing short of domestic terrorism.”
No charges related to the protest were found against one of the lawsuit defendants in online court records. Only one person was sentenced to jail time — four days — while the others received probation, fines or both.
One person named in the suit, Brad Penna of Des Moines, said he thinks it's intended to “intimidate, function as a scare tactic, and to retaliate” against protesters who fought back against what they saw as unjust police aggression.
Penna was originally charged by police with assault on an officer, but that was dropped when he pleaded guilty to interference of officials acts and paid a $250 fine. Penna was among five protesters who later successfully sued the state after the Iowa State Patrol banned them from State Capitol grounds.
The officers' lawsuit accuses Penna of pulling on Wilson’s hands and arms to prevent an arrest, causing scrapes and bruises to the officer — an accusation Penna denies.
“I did not touch Pete Wilson, or any officer, and the video footage and evidence shows that,” Penna said Thursday in an email to The Associated Press. “I urged and yelled at Pete Wilson to get off a young Black woman’s head. That was it. Someone may have scratched him, but it wasn’t me. I did not hurt Pete Wilson, not to mention the comparison to protesters literally being thrown to the ground, pepper sprayed, and the like.”
Des Moines attorney Mark Hedberg, who represents Wilson and George, did not return repeated phone messages left by the AP seeking comment.
Other defendants named in the lawsuit either could not be reached for comment or did not return messages seeking comment. That includes Sheumaker, who pleaded guilty in 2021 to a reduced misdemeanor count of assault on a police officer and was sentenced to two years’ probation.
Later that year, Sheumaker was elected to the City Council on a platform that focused, in part, on police reform.
Bloom, the Boston College Law School professor, wondered if the officers' lawsuit wasn't more about airing grievances over the Des Moines Black Lives Matter organization, which is mentioned throughout the complaint, though it is not named as a defendant.
Bloom said he doesn’t expect to see more such lawsuits by police seeking damages from people they arrest.
“The police already have a remedy in this case, and the remedy is to charge criminally,” Bloom said. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/2-iowa-officers-sue-2020-protesters-accuse-them-of-assault/article_011b2491-8859-5765-b8eb-d8dab0e24f4d.html | 2022-07-08T22:01:48Z | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/2-iowa-officers-sue-2020-protesters-accuse-them-of-assault/article_011b2491-8859-5765-b8eb-d8dab0e24f4d.html | false |
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Schedules have returned to normal and the work-life balance that many developed during the pandemic has quickly withered away, leading to burnout, work fatigue, and frustration.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, roughly 47 million workers in the U.S. quit their jobs last year. Some health experts call the Great Resignation a mental health crisis. A recent study by JobSage found one in four adults quit a job due to their mental health.
Mindy France is a mental health therapist with Novant Health. She said taking at least one mental health day a month can be good for your overall health.
“A mental health day is a day someone would take to recharge and regroup, step away from work, step away from your responsibilities, those that can cause that significant strain and burn out,” France said. “Do something that would allow you to recharge and get the necessary rest. The idea is that once you're recharged and regrouped, you can come back and be more successful in doing the things that you normally do on a daily basis."
France said a mental health day can look different for each individual person. It can be anything like shopping, hiking, or just shutting off mobile devices and taking quiet time for yourself.
“I think it helps increase the quality of one’s life,” France said. “We often feel like we just have to push through and keep pushing and we're really being hard on our bodies, you know a lot of times we think about the physical effects of doing hard labor and don't necessarily think about the emotional and psychological effects of work and responsibilities"
If you can't take a full day to recharge, France said even taking an hour or two a week can be beneficial. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/health/reports-show-1-in-4-adults-quit-their-job-due-to-mental-health-experts-say-at-least-one-mental-health-day-a-month-is-beneficial/83-af201a60-8f4c-4791-be54-fc57716c650f | 2022-07-08T22:02:19Z | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/health/reports-show-1-in-4-adults-quit-their-job-due-to-mental-health-experts-say-at-least-one-mental-health-day-a-month-is-beneficial/83-af201a60-8f4c-4791-be54-fc57716c650f | false |
There is a new name on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list — Ruja Ignatova, known as the CryptoQueen. It's a story of international fraud at a scale rarely seen.
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There is a new name on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list — Ruja Ignatova, known as the CryptoQueen. It's a story of international fraud at a scale rarely seen.
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UVALDE, Texas — A grieving community in Uvalde welcomed events from the Houston Astros Friday morning. The foundation set up outside of H-E-B giving away ice cream and other promotional items to families. Memorial Park in Uvalde was even more packed with families enjoying a baseball game with the Astros Youth Academy players.
“I think it helps to see the support, it’s helping us for the community to grieve with our children, with our families, with those families involved,” said Macy Briones, a mom of three young girls in Uvalde. Briones said she brought her kids to help uplift them and bring them some happiness.
For Uvalde Little League President JJ Suarez, Friday’s events with the Astros were “a real blessing for our community.” Weeks after hosting their own tournaments in honor of the 21 lives lost, Suarez hopes every game moving is played with the Uvalde community at heart.
“It’s been a lot of prayer, a lot prayer’s been going on,” he said. “It’s good to see them coming out here."
Owner and Chairman of the Houston Astros, Jim Crane, privately met with Uvalde families Friday.
“We just felt this was something we needed to do to put a little smile on everybody’s face, our players are heroes and they’ll get to see their heroes,” Crane said.
Some Uvalde families are expected to travel to Houston in August to meet the major league Astros players and spend the day with them on their home field. “All the guys will lean in and it should be a fun day for them,” Crane added. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/special-reports/uvalde-school-shooting/astros-foundation-offers-support-in-uvalde-baseball-texas-mlb-houston/273-4a095dd4-8f2a-49c9-b7e9-7ce1665d432d | 2022-07-08T22:03:30Z | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/special-reports/uvalde-school-shooting/astros-foundation-offers-support-in-uvalde-baseball-texas-mlb-houston/273-4a095dd4-8f2a-49c9-b7e9-7ce1665d432d | false |
Willie Morrow, Black hair care pioneer, has died By Gabe O'Connor, Patrick Jarenwattananon Published July 8, 2022 at 4:17 PM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 2:23 William Lee Morrow, a Black hair care pioneer who helped popularize the Afro pick in the 1960s and 1970s, has died at age 82. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.wbaa.org/2022-07-08/willie-morrow-black-hair-care-pioneer-has-died | 2022-07-08T22:04:41Z | https://www.wbaa.org/2022-07-08/willie-morrow-black-hair-care-pioneer-has-died | false |
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BREVARD, N.C., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cermount, recognized for its SQF level dietary supplements and dry foods packaging services, offers quality-centered contract manufacturing while employing an all-inclusive and mission-driven workforce. Along with its parent company, Transylvania Vocational Services (TVS), and ongoing contracts with the US Government for food banks and the US Military, Cermount has continued to thrive and expand its private label food manufacturing and supplements business during these last two years.
Cermount is invested in the future with a current facility upgrade and line expansion. New vertical and horizontal form-fill-and seal equipment, additional filling lines, and a high-speed Bosch encapsulation machine are just a few of the recent investments. Additional square footage was added to accommodate new growth and dedicated line space for dietary supplements blending, encapsulation, bottling, and powder filling opportunities.
"Cermount plans to continue to expand our facility and capabilities to accommodate the growing needs of our customers and the market," said VP of Business Development and Marketing Beth Rich. "We also have exciting new capabilities planned for the upcoming year—such as single serve cups, different pack sizes and styles, and additional material offerings. We have been fortunate that our recent growth has allowed for us to make these types of investments back into our organization."
Cermount is flexible with a variety of packaging options, production run sizes, and an overall ease of market entry. The R&D Team can assist new customers with custom food development or simply enhance a current formula. Overall, Cermount is responsive, easy to work with, and there to help meet the start-to-finish manufacturing needs of most any project requirements.
"Certified Quality. Trusted Service," the Cermount motto, is built on the mission of its parent company, Transylvania Vocational Services (TVS), providing competitive employment to adults with disabilities for over 50 years. TVS has a state-of-the-art dry food manufacturing facility fulfilling contracts for the federal government. Cermount's new capabilities and expansion combined with TVS's mission and expertise make for a winning combination and why both are trusted and respected by industry partners. By "manufacturing with a mission" these organizations work to enhance the dignity and quality of life of individuals with disabilities and barriers to employment. For more information visit www.cermount.com.
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HOUSTON (AP) — In a career with so many accomplishments, Justin Verlander’s success this season after missing almost two years with an elbow injury has been particularly sweet.
“Of course,” the Houston Astros right-hander said when asked if his stellar start means a lot to him. “Yeah, absolutely. We’ve talked about it a lot, just so much hard work since the since the surgery and it’s nice to see it pay off and hopefully — knock on wood — it continues.”
Verlander got his MLB-leading 11th win, Yordan Alvarez hit his 26th homer and the Astros beat the Kansas City Royals 5-2 on Thursday to take the series 3-1.
Jose Altuve added a homer and three RBIs for the Astros, who bounced back after a 7-4 loss Wednesday night that snapped an eight-game winning streak.
Verlander (11-3) grinded through six innings, allowing seven hits and two runs — one earned — with eight strikeouts to lower his ERA to 2.00 in his remarkable return from Tommy John surgery. His ERA, opponent average (.190) and WHIP (0.97) all rank second in the AL.
“I had to make some pitches in some big spots and trust my defense behind me,” he said. “Every game is not going to go perfectly without traffic. Today was one of those games where you had to grind a bit.”
The Royals led 2-0 and Kris Bubic (1-6) had walked five batters but had allowed just one hit — a single by Jake Meyers in the second — when Martín Maldonado doubled with one out in the fifth.
Altuve then jumped on the first pitch, sending it into the seats in left field to tie it at 2-2.
There were two outs in the inning when Alvarez connected on his opposite-field shot to the first row in left field to put the Astros on top 3-2. His 26 home runs rank second in the AL to Yankees star Aaron Judge, who has 30.
Altuve was asked if he’s impressed by what Alvarez does day after day.
“We enjoy the way he goes out there and everything he does,” Altuve said. “So sometimes we get surprised, sometimes not. We’ve seen good swings from him and it seems like every day he comes ready to hit the ball.”
Houston added two insurance runs in the eighth on a sacrifice fly by Altuve and an RBI double by Aledmys Díaz.
Ryan Pressly pitched a scoreless ninth for his 18th save.
Verlander has 24 wins against the Royals, which is his most against any team and ties him with Nolan Ryan for fourth-most in league history against Kansas City.
The Royals led early in this one just as they had in the first three games of the series.
Emmanuel Rivera and Edward Olivares hit consecutive singles to start the second. Rivera was picked off trying to steal third for the second out before a single by Nicky Lopez scored Olivares to put Kansas City up 1-0.
Olivares got things going in the fourth when he singled with no outs and made it all the way to third on the play on an error by center fielder Meyers. The Royals made it 2-0 when Olivares scored on a sacrifice fly by Kyle Isbel.
Verlander took a one-hopper hit by MJ Melendez off the leg with one out in the fifth. It didn’t slow him down, as he chased the ball after it deflected off his leg and made the throw in time to beat Melendez to first.
Rivera singled to start the sixth before Verlander walked Isbel with one out. After a short visit to the mound, Verlander retired Lopez and Cam Gallagher on groundouts to preserve the lead and end his day.
Bubic yielded four hits and three runs while tying a career high with six walks in 5 1/3 innings for his second straight loss.
Manager Mike Matheny was disappointed in the number of walks Bubic issued Thursday.
“I just want him to continue to understand how his aggressiveness is going to be very beneficial to him,” Matheny said. “But I thought his stuff was good.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Royals: INF Bobby Witt Jr. was out of the lineup for a second straight game after fouling a ball off his hand Tuesday night. He still had some swelling Thursday, but Matheny said he expected Witt to hit in the cage and that he was still listed as day to day.
Astros: SS Jeremy Peña was scratched from the lineup about an hour before the game due to health and safety protocols. Manager Dusty Baker said Peña was sick but would travel with the team to Oakland Thursday night.
DUSTY’S MILESTONE
Thursday’s win was a milestone for Baker, moving him out of a tie with Walter Alston into sole possession of ninth place on the all-time wins list with 2,041.
UP NEXT
Royals: Brady Singer (3-3, 4.30 ERA) will face Cleveland’s Aaron Civale (2-5, 7.05) on Friday night in the opener of a three-game series against the Guardians.
Astros: José Urquidy (7-3, 4.15) will oppose Oakland’s Paul Blackburn (6-3, 2.90) when the Astros open a three-game series against the Athletics on Friday night.
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When the new TV reboot of “A League of Their Own” debuts on Prime Video this summer, fans of the beloved 1992 film it shares a title with will see a familiar face in a different getup.
Rosie O’Donnell, who stared as third baseman Doris Murphy in the film, is officially returning for the reboot, this time playing a sharp-dressing local bar owner named Vi. According to Entertainment Weekly, Vi is a “warm, gregarious” fan of the Rockford Peaches, the all-female baseball team at the center of both the original film and new series.
O’Donnell retweeted a link from the publication, which shows the former talk show host in character, photographed at a bar, wearing a sharp pinstriped suit and donning a sleek gray hairstyle. It’s quite a tonal shift from the bat-wielding young brunette in the Peaches uniform from the film!
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While the series will once again center on the true story of a group of women who fought to play professional baseball during World War II, the reboot will introduce a new lineup of characters who weren’t in the film.
Created by Abbi Jacobson, star of Comedy Central’s acclaimed “Broad City,” and comedy writer Will Graham, the series stars Jacobson, along with D’Arcy Carden, Chanté Adams, Kate Berlant and former “Parks and Recreation” star Nick Offerman.
“There’s no crying in baseball, or at Prime Video,” Vernon Sanders, co-head of television for Amazon Studios, said in a press release. “Will and Abbi have taken a classic movie, reimagining it for a new generation with new characters and their own fresh, modern vision on a timeless story of big dreams, friendship, love, and, of course, baseball.”
The series will join Prime Video’s lineup of impressive originals created by women, which includes “Fleabag,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Transparent” and “Catastrophe,” all of which have won Emmys or at least been nominated.
Along with O’Donnell, the original film starred Geena Davis, Tom Hanks and Madonna. Directed by Penny Marshall, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” in 2012.
Prime Video’s “A League of Their Own” debuts Aug. 12 exclusively on the streaming platform.
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UK MP Steve Baker backs AG Suella Braverman for PM -The Telegraph
July 8 (Reuters) - Britain's Conservative Party lawmaker Steve Baker has endorsed Attorney General Suella Braverman to replace Boris Johnson as the next prime minister, The Telegraph reported on Friday.
"With immovable loyalty, I am backing Suella for Conservative leader and prime minister," Steve Baker wrote in the paper.
Former British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday he was running to replace Johnson, who the previous day announced he would stand down.
(Reporting by Shivani Tanna in Bengaluru Editing by Chris Reese)
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After a chaotic week in which gun safety measures were struck down by the Supreme Court and enacted by Biden, the time to act is now. Recently, I was standing inside the Dirksen Senate Office Building, waiting to be ushered into the Senate gallery to witness the voting on and passage of the first piece of commonsense gun legislation in nearly 30 years. The committee room buzzed with energy, and as I looked around, I came to realize that it was full of gunshot survivors who are fierce advocates of responsible gun ownership. Some of them had been trying to end gun violence for decades. Those survivors include myself, a trauma surgeon. I was nearly killed after being shot in the throat at age 17 after a high-school football game. A stray bullet fired during a fight that had nothing to do with me ruptured my trachea and injured my carotid artery. Over the past decade, I have seen another vantage point of this uniquely American problem by treating hundreds of gunshot wound victims. This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views expressed by the author or authors are not necessarily those of Scientific American.
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Elon Musk wants to break off his agreement to buy Twitter.
In a letter to the company, filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk accuses Twitter of making "false and misleading representations" about the prevalence of fake accounts on its platform. He says the company has not complied with its obligations to share data and information that he says he needs to evaluate its business.
"Sometimes Twitter has ignored Mr. Musk's requests, sometimes it has rejected them for reasons that appear to be unjustified, and sometimes it has claimed to comply while giving Mr. Musk incomplete or unusable information," Musk's lawyer, Mike Ringler, wrote.
Legal experts say this may not be sufficient grounds to break off the $44 billion deal without Musk being on the hook for a hefty fine. In response to Musk's letter, the chair of Twitter's board said it planned to sue.
"The Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery," said Bret Taylor in a tweet, referring to a Delaware court that handles corporate disputes.
The billionaire CEO of Tesla and Space X struck a deal to buy the social media company back in April. But almost immediately, he started hinting – and then saying outright – that he had cold feet. In May he declared the purchase was "on hold" while he looked into Twitter's accounting of how many users are not real people, but automated bots or spam. Soon after, Twitter agreed to give him access to its "firehose" – a real-time stream of more than 500 million tweets posted every day. Since then, the two sides have been sharing information and working to close the transaction.
On Thursday, the Washington Post reported the deal was "in jeopardy" because Musk doubts that Twitter's spam figures are verifiable. His team was "expected to take potentially drastic action," the Post reported.
Bots may not be the only factor in Musk's change of heart. While his offer of $54.20 a share was initially seen as a lowball price for Twitter, given that it was trading above $70 last year, tech stocks and the market as a whole have fallen sharply since he struck the deal.
Twitter shares are now trading around $37, down nearly 30% from the day Musk's purchase was announced. In May, Musk even said he might seek to negotiate a lower price.
On Thursday, Twitter had pointed to a statement the company issued in June saying it is "has and will continue to cooperatively share information" with Musk and that "we intend to close the transaction and enforce the merger agreement at the agreed price and terms." The company was expecting to hold a shareholder vote on the deal by mid-August.
Musk signed a merger agreement
The two sides signed a legal agreement that Musk would buy Twitter for $54.20 a share. If either side broke off the deal, they could be on the hook to pay a $1 billion fee to the other party.
In his letter on Friday, Musk cites Twitter's alleged refusal to turn over more information about bots as grounds to abandon the deal. But legal experts say that would be an uphill battle.
For years, Twitter has publicly said it estimates less than 5% of daily users who see ads are spam or bots (but has also cautioned the number could be higher).
Musk disputes this, saying he believes as many as 20% of accounts may be fake. While Twitter gave Musk access to its firehose of public data, it told reporters this week its spam estimates are also based on private data, such as users' IP addresses, phone numbers, locations and behavior – and are therefore difficult for outsiders to verify.
Even if Twitter's 5% figure is incorrect, that still might not be enough to let Musk back out or change the terms of the deal without paying a hefty price.
"Merger agreements are drafted to avoid exactly what Musk is doing, which is try to find some tiny little false thing and then say, 'Whoops, I get to walk away now," said Ann Lipton, a business law professor at Tulane University Law School. "They specifically say things like, you can't back out unless it's not just false, but incredibly false, hugely false, massively damaging to the company."
Twitter has a strong case against Musk, say experts
The merger agreement includes what's known as a "specific performance clause," which says Twitter can take Musk to court to force him to go through with the purchase as long as he still has financing in place.
While that may sound risky – and costly – for Twitter, Lipton says the company's case would be "very strong," and its board has compelling incentives to see the sale through. Investors are expecting to receive $54.20 a piece for their shares. The board's view, according to a person familiar with the deal talks, is that the sale agreement with Musk is the most valuable part of Twitter right now.
"They would much rather have the $54.20 without a court fight, but it's worth fighting over," Lipton said. Given the company's current share price, "$54.20 seems like an unbelievable deal for Twitter. So there is a lot that they could sacrifice that would still make it worth it in the end if they got to force Musk to close."
Musk might try to get Twitter at a discount
Still, some Wall Street analysts say Twitter's board and management should be open to accepting a lower price to avoid a lengthy legal battle.
"There's no chance it's getting done at $54.20," said Angelo Zino, analyst at CFRA Research. "You're either going to see a 15 to 20% drop in the offer price to get Elon Musk engaged again, or he continues to play the bot card."
Taking Musk to court could be even more damaging to Twitter at a time when uncertainty over the deal and what the billionaire's ownership might mean are weighing heavily on the company. Morale is already low and some employees are leaving. CEO Parag Agrawal has shaken up his executive ranks and announced a hiring freeze and spending cuts.
Going to court "doesn't bode well for the business prospects of your company, and it further adds uncertainty to the employee base," Zino said.
That's also a risk for Musk, Lipton said. "What if he has to buy the company and now he's kind of undermined it at the same time?"
Ultimately, she said, the billionaire's antics, however chaotic, appear to have a single goal: "I don't think he's committed to winning. I think he's committing to not spending $44 billion on Twitter."
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MONTRÉAL — After a historically bad season, the Philadelphia Flyers earned a top-five draft pick.
On Thursday, they used it to bring in a young talent, selecting power forward Cutter Gauthier with the fifth overall pick.
Gauthier, who has been a part of the U.S. National Team Development Program (U.S. NTDP,) brings size, versatility and a scoring touch to an organization that lacked all three of those things last season.
At 6-foot-3 and 194 pounds, the 18-year-old Gauthier is already bigger than all but four of the Flyers’ forwards (Sean Couturier, Kevin Hayes, James van Riemsdyk, and Zack MacEwen are the only ones who top him in height and weight). The Flyers have emphasized that they want to become “harder to play against,” and one way to do that is to get bigger and stronger.
Gauthier told The Inquirer at the NHL combine that he plays his best hockey when he uses his size.
In the past, Gauthier has played both center and left wing. He plans to play center next season at Boston College, and center is an area where the Flyers badly lack organizational depth. However, his ability to play on the wing will help if the Flyers have another season full of injuries like this past one.
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This past season, Gauthier played 54 games with the NTDP and finished second on the team in goals with 34. He also had 31 assists for a total of 65 points. While scoring is much more difficult at the NHL level, Gauthier is among an elite group of players, like Auston Mathews and Cole Caufield, who have scored more than 30 goals in a season with the NTDP.
If he continues to develop, he would be a major asset to a Flyers team that didn’t have a single 30-goal scorer in 82 games. Van Riemsdyk led the way with 24 goals, followed by Cam Atkinson who had 23.
During his interview with The Inquirer at the combine, Gauthier listed his shot, his skating ability, and his hockey IQ as his best traits, which both Dan Marr, the director of NHL Central Scouting, and Logan Cooley, his linemate with the NTDP, confirmed.
He showed off his athleticism with top-10 finishes in five tests at the combine, including the 5-10-5-yard shuttle run (4.46 seconds), the Wingate mean power output (11.6 watts/kg) and peak power output (combine-best 18.3 watts/kg), the standing long jump (112.0 inches), and consecutive pull-ups (15).
Although Gauthier grew up in Arizona and lives in Michigan, he has connections to the Flyers organization through both of his parents. His father, Sean Gauthier, was a goalie for the Reading Royals for one season and played in the Florida Panthers organization when Flyers general manager Chuck Fletcher was an assistant GM there. His mother, Kim, is from Reading, Pennsylvania, and Gauthier spent summers in the area.
At No. 5, Gauthier is the Flyers’ highest draft pick since Nolan Patrick was selected No. 2 overall in the 2017 draft.
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WASHINGTON — Bradley Beal and the Wizards renewed their commitment to each other when he agreed to a five-year deal worth up to $251 million to stay in Washington.
There hasn’t been much evidence that the Wizards can back up that belief. Since drafting Beal in 2012 to play alongside point guard John Wall, the Wizards have made five playoff appearances, never advancing beyond the second round — and the last time they got even that far was five years ago, the last full season Wall played in Washington.
Since then, the Wizards have had a revolving door at point guard alongside Beal, who averaged over 30 points in 2019-20 and 2020-21, and haven’t persuaded a big-name free agent to join him in a star-driven league.
“We have the opportunity to show the NBA what happens, the commitment that we’ll make to our players, to their career,” general manager Tommy Sheppard said. “You’re talking about one of the most coveted free agents on the market re-signing with the Washington Wizards, committing to what he believes, that we can win here.”
This season, the Wizards will surround Beal with big man Kristaps Porzingis, acquired in a midseason trade with Dallas; Kyle Kuzma, who became the team’s primary scorer with Beal sidelined by injury in the second half of last season; a new point guard in Monte Morris, acquired in a trade with Denver; and a collection of young role players including Rui Hachimura, Deni Avdija, Corey Kispert and Daniel Gafford.
“We’re doing everything we can to make that mix right. We’re a free agent away,” owner Ted Leonsis said. “We’re always looking at how we can improve, and Tommy has been given the green light and I’ve said no to nothing. I want to win.”
Beal has become rooted in the Washington area through philanthropic efforts and has shown a growing awareness of social issues. He began his news conference by lamenting the imprisonment of WNBA star Brittney Griner in Russia; the mass shooting at a July 4 parade in Highland Park, Illinois; and a spate of gun violence in his hometown of St. Louis.
His two young sons attended the news conference and Beal noted that because of his financial security, “they think they won’t have to work for anything. I have to try to find that balance and figure it out. You don’t see that all the time, especially in the Black community.”
Beal said he’s comfortable with his decision and that winning a championship in Washington would be more satisfying than chasing a title with a “super team.”
“You proved all the doubters wrong. You did everything you possibly could to make it work and you did it. That would mean everything to me,” Beal said. “That would mean more than leaving and playing with four All-Stars. And, having conversations with guys who have done that, it’s not always great. It’s not always fun. It’s not always what you think it is.”
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MARYLAND, USA — Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a series of profiles of the candidates running in Maryland's gubernatorial race leading up to the July 19 primary elections.
In less than two weeks many voters in Maryland will head to the polls, ahead of the general election in November, to help elect politicians in a number of races, including a tight race to replace Larry Hogan, who has reached his term limits.
To help prepare voters, WUSA9 is sitting down with both the Republican and Democratic gubernatorial candidates to learn more about their platforms and priorities.
Wes Moore, 43, boasts a list of accomplishments. He’s a bestselling author, veteran, and former CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation. With experience in a variety of sectors, Moore believes he is the best candidate to lead Maryland as its next governor. In his campaign headquarters located in Bowie, WUSA9’s Larry Miller questioned Moore on some of the issues important to voters: the economy, gas prices and school safety.
ECONOMY & GAS PRICES:
Larry: “Mr. Moore, Good to see you.”
Wes: “Good to see you too.”
Larry: “This race is starting to tighten. It's getting more competitive. How do you see this playing out?”
Wes: “I'm incredibly excited about where we are. Just today, we received the endorsement from pretty much the entire Prince George's County council. You add that on to the fact we've received the support of County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, State's Attorney Aisha Braveboy and Steny Hoyer.”
Larry: “Families are paying more at the gas pump. They're getting slaughtered at the grocery store. It's tough out there. How does your administration respond to the needs of folks that are trying to keep food on the table and keep gas in the car?”
Wes: “I know we have to move with a sense of urgency to protect families, to protect Marylanders. We've gotta focus on getting people back to work. That means fixing a broken childcare system, which we are going to prioritize. It means job reskilling and job retraining. Getting people into the jobs of now and the future. It also does mean providing people a little economic relief."
Larry: “Are you suggesting checks for families?”
Wes: “I am suggesting we have to be able to deal with inflationary pressure by dealing with the supply side which means getting people back to work. It's one of the reasons, when I talk about my priorities, we're going to accelerate the minimum wage. There's no reason for us to get a $15.00 minimum wage by 2025.”
VIOLENCE
Larry: “What do you say to families about trying to keep them safe? What exactly will your administration do to ensure the crime rate comes down?”
Wes: “We need for the state to take it personally. And for the state to be a real partner with our local jurisdictions. That means getting at the root causes of why we are seeing so much crime. It also means figuring out parole and probation. Why we have a third of all people who are conducting violent crimes, are in some way shape or form, in violation of parole and probation. That's a state function.”
SCHOOL SAFETY
Larry: “Your position on SROs in schools?”
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BENSALEM, Pa., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Unilever PLC ("Unilever" or the "Company") (NYSE: UL).
Class Period: September 2, 2020 – July 21, 2021
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: August 15, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Unilever investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that, in July 2020, Ben & Jerry's board passed a resolution to end sales of its ice cream in "Occupied Palestinian Territory"; (2) the risks attendant to the Ben & Jerry's board's decision; (3) the foregoing risked adverse governmental actions for violations of laws, executive orders, or resolutions aimed at discouraging boycotts, divestment, and sanctions of Israel adopted by 35 U.S. states; and (4) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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Projects and Plans on Offense
While Bears offensive coordinator Luke Getsy coached Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay quarterbacks, the Packers offense always lacked a marquee tight end.
They had Jimmy Graham on the downside of his career, developed Robert Tonya and Josiah Deguara and always had reliable Marcedes Lewis as a fallback for a needed shorter reception but above all to block.
Aaron Rodgers didn't count on them a lot, but when he did they seemed to produce.
It's unknown whether that was Rodgers' preference, or the way the Packers called plays, but either way Getsy will have his own take on how to use Bears tight ends.
It must be important to his offense because the Bears have brought in a couple of experienced role-playing tight ends to support Cole Kmet. Both are in this resumption of the 2022 training camp roster rundow, along with three young wide receivers who are vying or either a roster spot or the practice squad.
No. 84 TE Ryan Griffin
6-foot-6, 255 pounds
The Dossier: A sixth-round pick by the Tennessee Titans in 2013, the 32-year-old tight end is among the oldest Bears and is an above-average run blocker who had rookie experience in the wide zone scheme of offensive coordinator Rick Dennison, then again last year with the Jets in Mike LaFleur's offense. Griffin has depedable hands with a 65.2% rate of catches/targets. He has 206 career receptions for 2,158 yards and 14 touchdowns. He's only had more than 34 receptions once, in 2016 with Houston.
2022 Prospectus: Griffin is competing with James O'Shaughnessy at the No. 2 tight end spot for playing time. Like with all backup tight ends, he needs to have special teams abilities. He played on half of special teams snaps for the Jets the last two years and 44% of them in 2019. His status as a starter for most games his teams played from 2018-21 indicates he'd have an edge for No. 2 tight end but he is a different type tight end than O'Shaughnessy, who is more of a movement and H-back type and is 10 pounds lighter but is an excellent pass blocker. Unless either California undrafted rookie Jake Tonges or Iowa State undrafted rookie Chase Allen or former Giants string-bean veteran Rysen John show unexpected ability, Griffin would appear to be the favorite for second tight end. If Tonges or Allen develops quickly, Griffin's roster spot could be in jeopardy as a 32-year-old player. But even a young, rebuilding team can use a few veterans to provide guidance.
No 83 WR Dazz Newsome
5-11, 190
The Dossier: Their sixth-round draft pick last year was cut and then brought back to languish but learn on the practice squad. He finally got onto the roster for three games with a start at season's end and showed very little as a receiver but did display some of the punt return wizardry he had at North Carolina. He broke a 28-yard return against Seattle, had a 17-yarder against Minnesota and made six punt returns for a 12.5-yard average.
2022 Prosectus: The punt return skill alone could be a reason for Newsome making the roster, but it's not like the Bears are going to be hurting for return people. Velus Jones, Trestan Ebner and some veterans can also do it. If Newsome doesn't show an ability to handle the slot receiver spot, it would be easy for a new regime to part ways with a sixth-round pick made by the previous regime. However, if he does stay competitive in the receiver battle then expect he'd get a nod for fifth or sixth receiver over a veteran journeyman like Tajae Sharpe, David Moore or Dante Pettis because of that punt return ability. From the way the Bears talk about Velus Jones, it seems unlikely they'd want to devote too many returns to him because it could cost them a valued TD threat at receiver. This helps players like Newsome, but working against him is how the new coaches like bigger receivers who can block. Newsome is average to below average in this regard.
No. 82 WR Isaiah Coulter
6-2, 198
The Dossier: The former Rhode Island standout and 2020 fifth-round pick by the Texans was waived by Houston ad signed last training camp by the Bears. Cut and put on the practice squad whe he hadn't really had much chance to learn the playbook before the 53-man roster was made, he managed to get onto the field for three games and 21 offensive plays at season's end with one target and no catches. His size paints him as a possible X-receiver type and his 4.45-second speed with a 36-inch vertical leap backs this up.
2022 Prospectus: He'll be a long shot for the roster but has all the physical tools this coaching staff likes in its receivers. He had seven 100-yard receiving games in college and made 132 receptions for 1,855 yards in three years. Coulter has been active in making catches at OTAs and minicamp and preseason will be big for him to make a statement that he's better to retain than some of the experienced veteran free agents they signed. He'll be a long shot and it seems more likely he'd continue on as a developmental project with the practice squad. He's a player who needs to show he can use his speed on special teams coverage units, if not on return teams.
No. 81 WR Kevin Shaa
5-10, 166
The Dossier: The chief deep threat for Titans 2022 draft pick Malik Willis, Shaa haul in 82 passes for 1,364 yards and 12 TDs with the Liberty Flames. He's an undrafted free agent.
2022 Prospectus: A long shot for the roster. First, he needs to eat some food. At 166 he's build along the lines of former Bears wide receiver Johnny Knox. Shaa did display excellent speed and made a number of catches in rookie camp and against third-team players in OTAs. He was reported to have run a 4.39 pro day 40 and actually is only about 7 pounds lighter than Darnell Mooney was as a rookie. His speed and past chasing Willis' deep passes might lead the Bears to keep him for development on the practice squad.
No. 80 TE James O'Shaughnessy
6-4, 245
The Dossier: A Naperville North product who was drafted in the fifth round by Kansas City while Bears GM Ryan Poles was with the Chiefs in 2015, he was dealt after two seasons to the Patriots, who then waived him before the season. O'Shaughnessy wound up with the Jaguars in 2017 and made 34 of his 40 starts there with his best two back-to-back receiving seasons coming in the last two seasons. He had 24 and 28 catches in those seasons despite missing 11 games with injuries. He has 112 catches for 1,108 yards and three TDs.
2022 Prosectus: A potential H-back or target on third-and-short, he could also be deployed as an extra pass blocker. Pro Football Focus labeled him the 14th best pass-blocking tight end in the NFL last year. Because he had a bigger role on offense, his special teams play dwindled to 69 total snaps the past three seasons but earlier he had seasons when those constituted 64% or more of his team's reps on teams. He'll need to revert back to those days now but the Bears could use him in specialty situations with three-tight end formations on offense, like goal line, short yardage and third-and-long. If younger undrafted tight ends develop, he could be challenged for his roster spot, just like Ryan Griffin. He'll be battling for playing time behind Cole Kmet with Griffin.
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American haute couture cycling brand Jelenew, making more women love cycling
WILMINGTON, Del., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, American actress Kat Graham appeared on the red carpet of the 75th Cannes Film Festival wearing a mix of Jelenew professional cycling pants and Stephane Rolland, which caused a buzz in the field of fashion and sports technology. For a while, Jelenew and professional cycling pants were highly sought after by the public, and KOLs and KOCs scrambled to post-professional cycling pants shapes on social platforms such as ins, leading the trend of professional cycling pants. Professional cycling pants can improve riding comfort and make many women fall in love with the "hip-lifting" effect.
The History of Women's Cycling
The original source of the name of cycling pants is "the pants worn by their court knights." Originally the pants were designed for men, and it wasn't until 1896 that the first woman wore them. The history of cycling pants is tied to the history of women's use of bicycles in pursuit of equality.
The bicycle proved to be one of the most effective tools for women's empowerment as it democatized. It gives women the freedom to travel and opens up new horizons. However, some inherent social concepts have limited the development of female bicycle travel. These were the inventions of men who, for example, claimed that the bicycle would disrupt the established social order: "It allows women to move around the whole neighborhood without restrictions, which is dangerous for the patriarchal system," Thierry Paquot said. Finally, some doctors at the time claimed that bicycle use led to inappropriate sexual behavior in women.
We must admit that men still dominate today's cycling world. However, for women, bicycles are not only a means of transportation, fitness, and entertainment but also a "key" to freedom and independence. Bicycles have played a pivotal role in women's pursuit of equality.
In 1896, a high-wheeled bicycle with a large front wheel and a small rear wheel swept Europe. However, because the bicycle was too tall, even men couldn't handle it well, and they often fell, and European women in long skirts at the time couldn't try it. In 1888, the inventor adjusted the front and rear wheels of the bicycle and invented the safety bicycle. This safety bike has the same size front and rear wheels and looks a lot like today's bikes. Unlike high-wheeled bicycles, its inclined beam design and safe and lightweight construction make it easy for women to ride on the bicycle.
In 1983, Frances Willard, the leader of America's largest women's group, decided to try cycling. She trained herself for a week to maintain sufficient physical strength, strengthen leg strength and balance, etc. In November of the same year, she officially tried cycling and became the first woman in the world to ride a bicycle. She also wrote a book called Wheel Within a Wheel to get more women to ride bikes. The book mentioned that "women want to change their social status, they need to do something that has never been done before, and go to the unknown and wider world. It is not difficult to ride a bicycle, as long as you keep a clear head, steady hands, and strong double legs. This sport can give us a healthy body." Since then, more and more women have begun to cycle, and some European women have even traveled worldwide on bicycles. Some of them have organized cycling clubs and often carry out cycling activities.
At the time, bicycles gave women freedoms they never had before, and thousands of women took to the streets on their bikes. But they were still bound by their clothing, and their wide skirts became a hindrance to cycling. So they all shortened their skirts and changed their petticoats to bloomers. Subsequently, fashion designers designed a kind of loose trousers suitable for cycling, officially introducing trousers into the field of women's fashion. This caused a great shock at the time, but the tide of history is irreversible. Women also began to appear on the professional cycling scene, and at the time, women's cycling was even more popular than men's. As a result, female athletes' income has become increasingly considerable, and cycling has brought significant changes to women.
In 1985, the British writer Louis said, "The wheel of freedom represents a new dawn. Women can feel their true independence. They begin to focus on cycling, exercising, reading, and enriching their souls." Feminism Author Susan Brownnell Anthony also commented: "The bicycle is a 'free machine' that liberates women more than anything else because it gives women a sense of freedom and independence." That same year, the National American Woman Suffrage Association was formed, and they biked through the city, lobbying for women's suffrage. The association's founder said: "Bicycles liberate women from their inherent family life. We must ride bicycles to open the door to women's suffrage!"
Today, cycling still plays an essential role in women's empowerment. For example, World Bicycle Relief donated 50,000 bicycles to African students, 70 percent of which went to girls. If girls can bike to school, they can get an education. Afghanistan has a national women's cycling team where women can achieve independence and break gender barriers. In Iraq, Iran, and Syria, women often ride bicycles, challenging the traditional regulations of conservative cultures, breaking the shackles, and protesting against social discrimination against women cycling.
The rise of the women's sports market has helped Jelenew create clothing with sports functions and haute couture aesthetics, making more women fall in love with cycling.
The rise of women's sports in recent years has made women not satisfied with simply surviving in the men's sports market, and they need a more professional market to meet their needs. The women's sports market is quietly rising. In 2021, the American professional cycling brand Jelenew was established to " make more women fall in love with cycling." This is an American professional cycling brand for women and the world's first high-definition professional cycling brand. It is the first to introduce haute couture into the R&D and design of professional cycling apparel, creating apparel that combines athletic performance and haute couture aesthetics. As the world's first high-definition professional cycling brand, Jelenew's products are no less than other market leaders in sports performance and technology. Haute couture technology allows the jersey to fit the rider's body better, reducing wind resistance during riding.
The founding team of Jelenew is made up of a group passionate about cycling. Among the members are luxury haute couture designers, senior cycling enthusiasts, and digital technology experts. They came together because of their love for cycling, with a sense of mission of "making more women fall in love with cycling," and hoped to use Jelenew to give full play to their professional advantages. When they paid attention to the fact that traditional cycling pads are very unfriendly to women in terms of physical health, function, and beauty, and there is much room for optimization, they developed a five-point V-shaped pad according to women's body structure and the needs of riding.
Compared with the traditional cycling pad, Jelenew designed the seat cushion into a five-point V-shaped distribution design according to the physiological characteristics of female genitalia and the force during riding. The critical stress points, such as the upper parts, are thickened to protect the key stress regions when women ride. This new type of riding seat cushion can increase the cushioning effect, diffuse the pressure distribution, effectively reduce the pressure and discomfort during riding, reduce the risk of numbness in the buttocks and legs, and improve blood circulation. It will bring a healthy and comfortable riding experience to female cyclists. In addition, Jelenew will also apply the clothing technology in high fashion to the design of cycling equipment, making them more beautiful while maintaining excellent functionality, and visually bringing a better riding experience, makes more people fall in love with cycling.
Women are becoming increasingly important in cycling, and we also hope that more and more cycling brands like Jelenew that care about women will appear and contribute to better women's cycling.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today received a notice of purported termination from Elon Musk and the Twitter Board issued the following statement in response:
We are committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plan to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Ohioans who get someone pregnant unintentionally may have to reach deep into their pockets — and stand before a judge — if new legislation succeeds.
Weeks after Ohio’s six-week abortion ban took effect, state Sen. Tina Maharath (D-Columbus) introduced a bill Thursday to allow pregnant people to sue a sexual partner for causing an unintended pregnancy, ostensibly to level the playing field when it comes to the steep costs of pregnancy.
“Too often, this cost is solely the mother’s to bear, especially in the case of an unintended pregnancy,” Maharath said in a release. “However, the father shares equal responsibility for the pregnancy and it is only right that he pays equally for it.”
Under Senate Bill 262, pregnant Ohioans can file a civil suit no later than five years after conception against whoever caused them to have an unintended pregnancy — and anyone who “aids or abets” the impregnator — regardless of the circumstances.
A judge who finds by a preponderance of the evidence that pregnancy was indeed unintended must award the pregnant plaintiff at least $5,000, in addition to court costs and attorney’s fees.
Ohio Right to Life President Mike Gonidakis lambasted Maharath’s legislation as a waste of time and taxpayer money, calling on abortion rights advocates to find “actual solutions” to protect women and children.
If not, they should “simply walk away from the Statehouse,” he said in an email.
“As usual, pro-choice politicians only offer gimmicks and slapstick humor as solutions to women’s issues,” Gonidakis said. “This so-called legislation will not see the light of day and has a zero percent chance of even getting a committee vote.”
Julia Cattaneo, who told NBC4 in March about traveling to New York for an abortion she obtained at 14 years old, said Maharath’s bill could help strengthen child support laws while providing those impregnated by sexual violence an avenue to justice “other than just the criminal courts, which are usually just a slap in the hand.”
“This would give the victim a way to get financial support and hopefully more resources,” Cattaneo, 65, who is now living in Columbus and retired from a career in social work, said. “It also validated that the action of getting someone pregnant does not stop with that action.”
However, she expressed concern about the impregnator not having the financial means to face a civil suit or fork over at least $5,000 to the person they got pregnant.
The main issue she said SB 262 presents is the possibility that the burden of proving an unintended pregnancy — which could be tough to demonstrate in court — will fall on the pregnant plaintiff.
“What I would like to see is a bit more general,” Cattaneo said. “Any person who forces an individual to follow through with an unwanted pregnancy should have to take responsibility for that individual and the outcome of that forced birth.”
Lizzie Whitmarsh, a spokesperson for Ohio Right to Life, said in an email that SB 262 is offensive, as it implies that women “are too stupid” to make responsible choices with a sexual partner, instead shifting the blame on men.
“Isn’t this what feminist[s] have fought against for years?” she said. “Women are smarter than that. We are not helpless victims that have no say over the choices we make, including those choices in the bedroom.”
She added that Maharath’s bill denigrates a pregnancy by treating it as “something ugly and inconvenient, worthy to be sued over.”
Just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending 50 years of abortion rights, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost successfully petitioned a judge to lift an injunction against Ohio’s 2019 heartbeat bill, effectively outlawing abortion once fetal cardiac activity is detected.
Maharath called the six-week ban a “draconian” measure that prohibits abortion before many people even know they are pregnant.
During a press conference Thursday in which President Biden shared his plans to sign an executive order protecting abortion access in the U.S., he mentioned a case in Ohio that made national headlines where a 10-year-old girl was forced to travel to Indiana to receive an abortion, as state law barred her from receiving the procedure.
“This law is already having devastating effects, as we learned that a 10-year-old rape victim had to travel out of state to receive an abortion,” Maharath said. “While this situation is tragic and should never have happened, I am relieved that she had the resources to leave Ohio to have a necessary medical procedure.”
Pending in the Ohio Statehouse are two bills that would ban abortion outright, with no exceptions for rape or incest. While lawmakers are no longer in session, the Republican-dominated legislature could pass either bill as soon as their return in November. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/bill-would-let-ohioans-sue-over-unintended-pregnancies/ | 2022-07-08T22:29:37Z | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/bill-would-let-ohioans-sue-over-unintended-pregnancies/ | false |
ARKANSAS, USA — On Friday, President Joe Biden signed an executive order that aimed at protecting some rights to abortion.
Following Biden's action, Arkansas politicians, such as Governor Asa Hutchinson, shared their disapproval of the president's decision.
"The President's remarks today on states who protect life are misleading. His attack on the Supreme Court and disrespect for the role of states further divides our country. There has been incorrect information about Arkansas's trigger laws. Here are the facts," said Governor Hutchinson.
Hutchinson honed in on what he referred to as incorrect information surrounding trigger laws in the state, saying the following:
- This law does not impact contraception, including IUDs and "Plan B"
- It also does not impact treatment for an ectopic pregnancy
- The current Arkansas law prohibits abortions with the exception to save the life of the mother
- Over the past seven years, we have worked to provide more resources to expecting mothers, and we are continuing our efforts to care for all life in Arkansas.
The governor isn't alone in his criticism, with Attorney General Leslie Rutledge also sharing her disapproval in the following statement:
“Two weeks ago the U.S. Supreme Court correctly ruled that the Roe decision was wrong the day it was decided almost 50 years ago. Despite President Biden’s grandstanding, the Supreme Court made it clear that there is no constitutional right to an abortion. In Arkansas, we will always protect life.” | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/politics/arkansas-politicians-biden-abortion-executive-order/91-e71f2b9e-1445-4121-8a16-54aa96d28ba0 | 2022-07-08T22:30:52Z | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/politics/arkansas-politicians-biden-abortion-executive-order/91-e71f2b9e-1445-4121-8a16-54aa96d28ba0 | false |
The first person ever convicted by a New Hampshire jury for a cold-case murder will spend the next 40 years in New Hampshire state prison, according to the lead prosecutor in the case.
Concord resident Richard Ellison, 49, received the minimum 40-year sentence Friday in Merrimack County Superior Court. In April, a jury found him guilty of the 2005 murder of Robert McMillan, an elderly, disabled man who burned to death in a house fire set by Ellison.
"We're very pleased that the Cold Case Unit has successfully prosecuted a homicide and that the court established an appropriate sentence despite the passage of time," said Susan Morrell, the chief of the unit and the prosecutor in the case.
Morrell said that the motive appeared to be anger. Ellison was mad that Steven Carter, who lived in a duplex beside McMillan, had kicked him out of the duplex.
"It was a very trivial motive to set a house on fire," she said. Ellison's defense attorneys had requested a minimum sentence of 20 years incarceration.
The verdict and sentence were a long time coming. Authorities charged Ellison, an area roofer, with the murder in October 2018.
Last September, Judge John Kissinger declared a mistrial after a juror's mother died during deliberations. The jury was down to a bare 12 and had already said it was deadlocked.
Both trials lasted roughly six weeks and involved more than 40 separate witnesses. A key witness -- Carter's girlfriend, Robin Theriault -- died before the second trial started, apparently of COVID-19, Morrell said.
Her prior testimony was played for the second Ellison jury.
The jury cleared Ellison of first-degree murder but convicted him of second-degree murder.
His criminal record includes 38 prior convictions, and on Thursday jailers found him in possession of a hand-made weapon.
Morrell said only one other cold-case charge went to trial, which also involved arson. In 2014, a Cheshire County jury deadlocked on charges involving the arson-related deaths of four people in a Keene apartment building.
Prosecutors later decided to not retry David McLeod in that case.
Morrell said all the other cold-case prosecutions involved negotiated pleas. | https://www.unionleader.com/news/courts/cold-case-murderer-will-spend-40-years-in-prison/article_73405bac-2ecb-52d1-8e82-b030a067bf30.html | 2022-07-08T22:38:34Z | https://www.unionleader.com/news/courts/cold-case-murderer-will-spend-40-years-in-prison/article_73405bac-2ecb-52d1-8e82-b030a067bf30.html | true |
SAN FRANCISCO, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today received a notice of purported termination from Elon Musk and the Twitter Board issued the following statement in response:
We are committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plan to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery.
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BELLINZONA, Switzerland (AP) — Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were acquitted on charges of defrauding FIFA by a Swiss criminal court on Friday, a rare positive outcome for the pair who were among soccer’s most powerful figures before being embroiled in corruption investigations.
The case was centered around a $2 million payment from FIFA to Platini with Blatter’s approval in 2011, for work done a decade earlier. The verdict followed an 11-day trial last month at the Federal Criminal Court of Switzerland in Bellinzona.
“First of all, I have to say that I’m very happy man,” the 86-year-old Blatter told reporters on the courthouse steps. “I am a happy man because I also have to express thanks to the court today, to this city, for people in the court, the way they have analyzed the situation and they have explained why both of us we haven’t done anything.”
Swiss prosecutor Thomas Hildbrand had requested a 20-month suspended sentence for both Blatter and Platini. Instead both were cleared and were also awarded a sum for costs during the trial, while Blatter also received 20,000 Swiss francs ($20,500) compensation for being morally wronged, the court said.
Blatter and Platini sat quietly at separate tables with their lawyers while the verdict was announced. Later, there was a burst of applause from the small public audience as both men started to walk out of the courtroom, after a brief conversation with each other and an exchange of wry smiles.
“Following the decision of the judges of the Court of Bellinzona, this morning, I wanted to express my happiness for all my loved ones that justice has finally been done after seven years of lies and manipulation,” Platini said. “The truth has come to light during this trial.”
“I kept saying it: my fight is a fight against injustice. I won a first game. In this case, there are culprits who did not appear during this trial. Let them count on me, we will meet again. Because I will not give up and I will go all the way in my quest for truth.”
The three federal judges said prosecutors didn’t sufficiently prove their case, so they had to apply the principle of “in dubio pro reo” in which a defendant must not be convicted when doubts remain about their guilt.
Any appeal has to be announced within 10 days.
“FIFA takes note of the first instance judgement related to the indictment which was filed by the OAG (Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland) and will await the full, written, reasoned judgement in order to assess and decide the next procedural steps,” FIFA lawyer Catherine Hohl-Chirazi said.
Blatter announced his plan in June 2015 to resign early as president, in the fallout from a sprawling American corruption investigation. Less than four months later, a separate but cooperating case by Swiss prosecutors led to the Platini payment being investigated.
The fallout removed Blatter from office but also ended Platini’s campaign to succeed his former mentor and saw the French soccer great removed as president of UEFA, the governing body of European soccer.
“Believe me, going from being a legend of world soccer to a devil is very difficult, especially when it comes to you in a totally unfair way,” Platini added.
Both Blatter and Platini have long denied wrongdoing and claim they had a verbal deal in 1998 for Platini to get extra salary that FIFA could not pay at the time. Platini signed a contract in August 1999 to be paid 300,000 Swiss francs ($300,000) annually.
That defense first failed with judges at the FIFA ethics committee, which banned them from soccer, and later in separate appeals at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Platini finally got a legal victory in the first criminal case after losses in five civil courts, including at the European Court of Human Rights.
His ban by FIFA for unethical conduct expired in October 2021 and Friday’s verdict should clear the way for Platini to return to work in soccer.
“I don’t know. I am so young, I have time in front of me,” said the 67-year-old Platini, when asked if his time in soccer was over.
Platini did not identify current FIFA president Gianni Infantino though it seemed clear he was one of the “culprits” referred to.
Infantino was the UEFA general secretary for six years under Platini and won the FIFA presidency in a February 2016 election as an emergency candidate after his boss was implicated in the criminal investigation. Platini has long claimed to be victim of a conspiracy to deny him the FIFA top job and filed a criminal complaint against Infantino and others in France last year.
Infantino faces re-election next March and Platini could yet try to challenge for a job he often described as a destiny for him. However, he laughed loudly when asked if he would run for the presidency.
Infantino faces his own legal jeopardy in a separate investigation by Swiss special prosecutors of his undisclosed meetings about the FIFA cases in 2016 and 2017 with former attorney general Michael Lauber.
Seeming frail at court, Blatter was banned by FIFA ethics judges again last year into 2028 for alleged self-dealing in management bonuses.
“My ban from football was not fair,” Blatter said. “But I’m still here now and with this decision of the court it gives me not only more credit, because I still have some credit, but it gives me new stamina to work for FIFA, to work for football.”
Blatter was asked if he had a message for Swiss compatriot Infantino.
“No, I will not speak about my countryman,” he said. “But he will think about his attitude when he is now listening to the decision taken by this court.”
Blatter is also a suspect in a separate Swiss criminal proceedings — also led by prosecutor Hildbrand — probing $1 million paid by FIFA in 2010 to the Trinidad and Tobago soccer federation controlled then by now-disgraced soccer official Jack Warner.
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AP Sports Writer Graham Dunbar in Geneva contributed to this report
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SEOUL — Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday, stunning a nation where gun violence and political attacks are rare. Japan's influential and longest-serving prime minister worked to revitalize the nation's economy — with his namesake "Abenomics" policy — and rebuild its role on the global stage. He was 67.
Abe was giving a speech for a candidate in Nara, a city in western Japan, just ahead of Sunday's parliamentary elections, when a man fatally shot him from behind with a handmade firearm.
Police arrested the suspect identified as Tetsuya Yamagami, a 41-year-old unemployed former member of Japan's maritime defense force. Police say he confessed to the crime, but his motive remains unclear.
The assassination elicited shock, horror and contrasting views from a public that was deeply divided about his policies.
"Maybe such a thing is normal in the U.S. But this took place in Japan, and I am shocked," said a man with the surname Shimizu, who was unwilling to give his first name because, he explained, he is distrustful of the media. He spoke on the street in Kyoto, about 30 miles north of Nara. "I feel like the clock is going backward."
A woman surnamed Otake, who also declined to give her full name citing the same reason, was less surprised. "I think that various problems that Japan has now were brought about during his administration," she said. "I'm against Abe."
The country has not seen violence like this in decades
Japan's gun control laws are tight, handguns and rifles are banned outright, and shooting deaths are extremely rare. The scant gun crime is often associated with the yakuza crime syndicates.
Bloodshed has been absent from Japanese politics for more than six decades, most of which the Liberal Democratic Party, to which Abe belonged, has had a lock on power.
In the early 1960s, violent street clashes erupted between the political left and right over Japan's security treaty with the United States, and a socialist party leader was killed by a sword-wielding assassin.
A consensus later emerged among politicians to keep political sparring out of the public view, behind a harmonious facade.
"By and large, I think you can say that the politics here have been based on the principle of nonviolence, and the disagreements could be heated, but they have remained at the verbal level, so far," according to Koichi Nakano, a political scientist at Sophia University in Tokyo.
"Even among people who didn't particularly like his politics, I think there would be genuine, widespread sorrow," said Tobias Harris, academic and author of the biography The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan. "I expect [his death] to be more of a unifying event than a polarizing event."
Born into a political family
Abe was born in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 1954. After graduating from the capital's Seikei University in 1977, he moved to the U.S. and spent three semesters at the University of Southern California, studying English, political science, history and international relations, according to USC.
Abe belonged to a prominent political family. He was the grandson of Nobusuke Kishi, a World War II-era official who went on to become prime minister. (Kishi also suffered an assassination attempt, a stabbing, which he survived.) And Abe's father, Shintaro Abe, was a foreign minister.
But it was Shinzo Abe who would serve longer than any other — as prime minister from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020.
He pledged to "take back Japan" to restore its pre-WWII position as Asia's preeminent power and its economic dynamism of the 1960s.
Yet while "nostalgia was a potent vehicle for mobilizing political action," Harris said, Abe "wasn't just recreating the past, he was actually trying to make a new Japan."
In a 2016 speech, Abe said, "We should look to the future, rather than worry about the present."
A coined economic agenda and a defense rethink
One of his most famous and lasting policies was Abenomics, which he launched in 2013 to jumpstart the economy after more than two decades of deflation.
The policy involved ramping up government spending and monetary easing. He also pushed for reforms like cutting corporate taxes and red tape as well as liberalizing sectors of the economy.
Arguably one of his biggest legacies involved opening up the traditionally male-dominated labor market to Japanese women.
After the devastation of World War II, Japanese law put limits on using military force except for national self-defense. But in 2014, Abe's Cabinet reinterpreted the Constitution to allow the armed forces to aid an allied nation under attack, even if Japan itself was not.
He was unable to muster enough public support to amend the Constitution, a goal his party has pursued since its inception in 1955.
Abe helped lay the groundwork for Japan to side with the U.S. in its ongoing rivalry with China.
"Abe was of the view that Japan's power position is dependent on its strong alliance with the United States," said political scientist Nakano, at a time when Japan was in demographic decline and China, in 2010, surpassed Japan as the world's second-largest economy.
After Abe finally stepped down in 2020, he continued to wield power in his party, becoming the head of its strongest faction and a reputed kingmaker.
Analysts say Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who served as Abe's foreign minister, has struggled to emerge from his ex-boss' shadow and pursue his own goals, while avoiding alienating Abe's political faction.
Leaders present and past salute Abe
Leaders around the world have been united in their grief and outrage at the killing of Abe.
President Biden said he was "stunned, outraged and deeply saddened," and called his death a "tragedy for Japan and for all who knew him."
Former President Barack Obama, whose tenure overlapped with Abe's, also paid tribute. "I will always remember the work we did to strengthen our alliance, the moving experience of traveling to Hiroshima and Pearl Harbor together," Obama said.
Abe was also one of the first foreign leaders to cultivate a relationship with former President Donald Trump, as they bonded over wagyu beef burgers, sumo wrestling and golf.
On Friday, Trump praised Abe as a "unifier" and a "great man and a great leader."
Abe's assassination comes as Japan is already debating his legacy.
"A lot of people, including his critics, wanted to have a cooler-headed, rational discussion about the pros and cons," and successes and failures of Abe's policies, said Nakano.
But some debates may have to wait until the national sense of shock and mourning dissipate.
Chie Kobayashi contributed to this report in Kyoto.
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Top Corsair headsets
It might be easy to mistake American hardware maker Corsair’s logo for three stylized figures walking in line, but there is no mistaking the excellent audio quality of its headsets.
The company has been making accessories and peripherals since 1994, and its distinct logo is a nod to the origin of its name. A corsair was a privateer and essentially a pirate, and the logo is three ship sails behind each other.
But it hasn’t had to plunder or raid other manufacturers to become one of the best in the gaming industry. That is done through high-quality components, excellent manufacturing and affordable gadgets.
Wired vs. wireless
There are two types of headsets from Corsair, and generally from all headset makers:
- Wired: These headsets connect to your gaming platform or computer through a 3.5-millimeter connection. For Xbox and PlayStation, the headset plugs into the controller, while it connects directly to the computer. Wired headsets don’t need recharging but somewhat limit your movement.
- Wireless: These headsets connect to your platform of choice through Bluetooth or a 2.4-gigahertz wireless connection. It is also common to find that certain wireless headsets can function as wired, too.
A thing to note, though, is that Microsoft uses a proprietary wireless system. So even though a headset says it’s wireless, that doesn’t mean it will work on the Xbox as well as it does on the PlayStation. To function with Microsoft’s console, it must be certified for Xbox One use.
But there are ways around that. Most headset makers throw in a wireless adapter with their audio device, which connects to the Xbox through a USB port. The wireless headset then connects to the adapter to provide you with sound.
Audio quality
For many gamers, the audio quality of the headset is the most important feature. The overwhelming majority of Corsair headsets feature large 50-millimeter speakers that help with sound quality.
Larger speakers can produce a wider range of audio frequencies, making 7.1 surround sound not only possible but also impressive. The technology lets you hear the faintest of sounds, so you can determine the exact origin and direction.
Affordable headsets tend to only have stereo sound, which isn’t nearly as good as surround. Stereo lets you hear audio on both channels, but you won’t be able to tell exactly where the sound comes from — you’ll only know if it’s to the left or right of you.
Comfort
A headset must be comfortable to wear for prolonged periods. Crucial elements are the padding on the headband and the softness of the ear cups. If neither can support long use, you could experience pressure or tension.
Especially on the cups, check that they are covered in a breathable fabric to keep moisture from accumulating. In rare cases, excess moisture can cause pain or ear infection.
While the padding on the headband is vital, a good-quality headset has an adjustable headband so it can fit snugly. The ear cups should reach the ears comfortably, without putting pressure on your skull.
But when you take them off, they should also be comfortable. You don’t want large ear cups on your collarbone to restrict your head movement when taking a break. If that’s a concern for you, look for a headset with rotating or swivel ear cups. This lets you rest the headset flat against your upper chest.
Best Corsair headsets
Corsair Void RGB Elite Wireless Premium Gaming Headset
This headset is essential if you want to hear the faintest of sounds in your game. It has large 50-millimeter speakers covered with breathable microfiber mesh and thick padding. It has an omnidirectional microphone and is compatible with PCs and Sony’s PS5 console through a 2.4-gigahertz connection.
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Corsair HS60 PRO – 7.1 Virtual Surround Sound Gaming Headset
With 7.1 surround sound on a PC, there’s nothing that you can’t hear with this headset. It has custom-tuned 50-millimeter speakers, a detachable unidirectional microphone and a gold-plated 3.5-millimeter connector. The headband is solid and has padding all around.
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Corsair Virtuoso RGB Wireless SE Gaming Headset
It has a solid headband with ample padding to reduce wearing pressure from long gaming sessions. The 50-millimeter audio drivers have thick memory foam covered in synthetic leather. The omnidirectional microphone is broadcast-quality and detachable.
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Corsair HS50 Pro – Stereo Gaming Headset
Certified for use with the Discord chatting app, this headset is great value. Even though it is only capable of stereo sound, it has large 50-millimeter audio drivers that provide excellent sound quality. It has a detachable microphone and is compatible with all platforms that use a 3.5-millimeter connection.
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Corsair HS75 XB Wireless Gaming Headset
This wireless headset has a battery life of around 20 hours and is easily recharged through a USB cable. It’s officially licensed for use with Microsoft’s Xbox One, meaning you don’t have to use a wireless adapter. It has custom-tuned 50-millimeter speakers, a detachable microphone and adjustable ear cups covered in memory foam.
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Corsair HS60 Haptic Stereo Gaming Headset with Haptic Bass
This wired headset has 50-millimeter speakers with haptic bass that lets you feel the slightest rumble. The cross-stitch headband is padded with the same memory foam as the ear cups, which sit comfortably. It has a detachable microphone and is compatible with devices that accept a USB audio connection.
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Corsair HS35 Stereo Gaming Headset
This affordable option is great if you need headphones that don’t have fancy features. It’s compatible with 3.5-millimeter devices, has 50-millimeter audio drivers and a unidirectional detachable microphone.
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Report: Cuomo wrongly used state resources to promote book
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo improperly used state resources for a book he received $5.1 million to write, according to a report by a law firm.
New York’s soon-to-be-disbanded ethics commission, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, voted Thursday to make the report public. It had sought the investigation by the law firm to learn more about how the book deal was approved and the role played by the commission itself.
The report says the ethics commission failed to assert itself as a watchdog agency against the governor and should have asked for more information from Cuomo’s office.
Cuomo had already written 70,000 words of what was expected to be an 80,000-word book before he submitted a request seeking approval by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics for the book in 2020.
That meant Cuomo wrote and publicized the book at a time when it interfered with his responsibilities as a governor leading the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the report said.
In December, the commission ordered Cuomo to turn over money from his book, “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Cuomo has filed a lawsuit accusing the commission of violating his rights and showing bias against him.
The commission is being disbanded by Gov. Kathy Hochul, like Cuomo a Democrat, over concerns about its transparency and independence. The commission is exempt from the Freedom of Information Law and the Open Meetings Law, and it is made up of 11 members nominated by the governor.
Cuomo spokesperson Richard Azzopardi in a statement that the report provided a measure of vindication by confirming the governor’s office provided all that was required by the commission for approval.
“There is some poetry to the fact that this feeble stunt — authored by the very law firm that is representing JCOPE in our lawsuit — is the last act from this incompetent biased, score settling dinosaur of a bureaucracy,” he said.
Meanwhile, the state attorney general’s office continues to investigate whether Cuomo broke the law by having members of his staff help write and promote his pandemic leadership book. Attorney General Letitia James’ office said Friday that the investigation, which began in April 2021, is ongoing.
The former special counsel in the governor’s office, Judith Mogul, said that no state resources were used in writing the book, and that any staff assisting the former governor on the book were doing so on their own time, in a memo accounting her interactions with the ethics commission.
The report said the book raised several ethical issues, finding Cuomo “misused the power and authority of his office to create, market and promote for enormous personal profit.”
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The New York Yankees, led by right fielder Aaron Judge, face the Boston Red Sox in a regular season game on Friday, July 8, 2022 (7/8/22) at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Here’s what you need to know:
What: MLB regular season
Who: Red Sox vs. Yankees
When: Friday, July 8, 2022
Where: Fenway Park
Time: 7:10 p.m.
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Here’s a recent MLB story from the Associated Press:
Sandy Alcantara is pitching like a contender for the Cy Young Award. If he wins it, that would be a first for the Miami Marlins.
The Marlins have had an MVP in Giancarlo Stanton, but never in the franchise’s three-decade history have they had a Cy Young winner. Alcantara threw a complete game in a victory over St. Louis on Wednesday night. He’s 8-3 with a 1.95 ERA.
Kevin Brown of the Marlins was second to John Smoltz in the 1996 Cy Young race, and Dontrelle Willis was edged by Chris Carpenter in 2005. Almost every franchise in the major leagues right now has had at least one Cy Young winner and at least one MVP, but a few are still missing one of those two awards:
Diamondbacks (MVP): Arizona has won a World Series and once had five Cy Young Awards in an eight-year stretch thanks to Randy Johnson and Brandon Webb. The Diamondbacks have never had an MVP, however.
Mets (MVP): The Mets have had seven Cy Young winners but no MVPs. They’ve certainly come close to ending that drought. Tom Seaver was narrowly beaten out by Willie McCovey in the Mets’ championship season of 1969, Keith Hernandez finished second to Ryne Sandberg in 1984, and Darryl Strawberry was second to Kirk Gibson in 1988.
Rangers (Cy Young): Even when Texas won American League pennants in 2010 and 2011, the starting rotation didn’t have anyone really stand out. In terms of Baseball Reference’s wins above replacement stat, the best season by a Rangers pitcher was by Mike Minor in 2019, when he finished eighth in the Cy Young vote.
Rays (MVP): David Price and Blake Snell have won Cy Young Awards for Tampa Bay, but fittingly for a team that has a reputation for doing more with less, the Rays haven’t had an MVP.
Rockies (Cy Young): The least surprising entry on this list. Coors Field isn’t conducive to great pitching seasons. Ubaldo Jimenez did finish third in the Cy Young vote in 2010.
HOUSTON vs. NEW YORK
The Astros made quite a statement during a stretch of nine consecutive games against the Yankees and Mets, going 7-2. Houston won two in a row at home over the Mets, then split four games on the road against the Yankees. The Astros swept another two-game series against the Mets on the road, then returned home and beat the Yankees on Thursday night.
That last single game was to make up part of a series that was put off because of the lockout.
TRIVIA TIME
Of the teams that have had at least one Cy Young winner, which has currently gone the longest without one?
LINE OF THE WEEK
Michael Perez homered three times for Pittsburgh in an 8-7 victory over Milwaukee on Thursday night. That came a day after Bryan Reynolds hit three home runs for the Pirates in a win over Washington that ended in the same 8-7 score.
Perez had four hits in his big game Thursday.
COMEBACK OF THE WEEK
The Cleveland Guardians went 5-3 against Minnesota last month, and they trailed in the eighth inning or later in all five of the victories. On Wednesday night, Cleveland scored four runs in the bottom of the 10th to beat the Twins 7-6. Josh Naylor hit a two-run homer with two outs to give the Guardians the victory.
TRIVIA ANSWER
The Baltimore Orioles have not had a Cy Young winner since 1980, when Steve Stone won. That capped a stretch in which the Orioles won six Cy Youngs in 12 years. Mike Cuellar (1969), Jim Palmer (1973, 1975 and 1976) and Mike Flanagan (1979) won in addition to Stone.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
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Elon Musk announced he will walk away from his tumultuous $44 billion offer to buy Twitter, leaving the deal on the verge of collapse. The Tesla CEO sent a letter to Twitter's board Friday saying he is terminating the acquisition.
But Twitter isn't accepting Musk's declaration. The chair of Twitter's board, Bret Taylor, tweeted in response that the board is “committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery.”
Twitter could have pushed for a $1 billion breakup fee that Musk agreed to pay under these circumstances. Instead, it looks ready to fight to complete the deal, which the company's board has approved and CEO Parag Agrawal has insisted he wants to consummate.
The possible unraveling of the deal is just the latest twist in a saga between the world’s richest man and one of the most influential social media platforms. Much of the drama has played out on Twitter, with Musk — who has more than 100 million followers — lamenting that the company was failing to live up to its potential as a platform for free speech.
On Friday, shares of Twitter fell 5% to $36.81, well below the $54.20 that Musk had offered to pay. Shares of Tesla, meanwhile, climbed 2.5% to $752.29.
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Musk lawyer Mike Ringler wrote in the letter to Twitter dated Friday that for nearly two months, Musk has sought data to judge the prevalence of “fake or spam” accounts on the social media platform.
“Twitter has failed or refused to provide this information. Sometimes Twitter has ignored Mr. Musk’s requests, sometimes it has rejected them for reasons that appear to be unjustified, and sometimes it has claimed to comply while giving Mr. Musk incomplete or unusable information,” the letter said. It also said the information is fundamental to Twitter’s business and financial performance, and it’s needed to finish the merger agreement.
"This is a disaster scenario for Twitter and its board,” Wedbush analyst Dan Ives wrote Friday in a note to investors. He predicted a long court fight by Twitter to either restore the deal or get a $1 billion breakup fee that was specified in the contract. “From the beginning this was always a head scratcher to go after Twitter at a $44 billion price tag for Musk and never made much sense to the Street, now it ends (for now) in a Twilight Zone ending with Twitter’s Board back against the wall and many on the Street scratching their head around what is next.”
On Thursday, Twitter sought to shed more light on how it counts spam accounts in a briefing with journalists and company executives. Twitter said it removes 1 million spam accounts each day. the spam accounts represent well below 5% of its active user base each quarter. To calculate how many accounts are malicious spam, Twitter said it reviews “thousands of accounts” sampled at random, using both public and private data such as IP addresses, phone numbers, geolocation and how the account behaves when it is active, to determine whether an account is real.
Last month, Twitter offered Musk access to its “firehose” of raw data on hundreds of millions of daily tweets, according to multiple reports at the time, though neither the company nor Musk confirmed this. Private data, which isn’t available publicly and thus not in the data “firehose” that was given to Musk, includes IP addresses, phone numbers and location. Twitter said such private data helps avoid misidentifying real accounts as spam.
Ringler also alleged that Twitter broke the agreement when it fired its revenue product leader and general manager of consumers, as well announcing the layoff of one-third of its talent acquisition team. The sale agreement, he wrote, required Twitter to “seek and obtain consent” if it deviated from conducting normal business. Twitter was required to “preserve substantially intact the material components of its current business organization,” the letter said.
Musk’s flirtation with buying Twitter appeared to begin in late March. That’s when Twitter has said he contacted members of its board — including co-founder Jack Dorsey — and told them he was buying up shares of the company and interested in either joining the board, taking Twitter private or starting a competitor. Then, on April 4, he revealed in a regulatory filing that he had became the company’s largest shareholder after acquiring a 9% stake worth about $3 billion.
At first, Twitter offered Musk a seat on its board. But six days later, Agrawal tweeted that Musk will not be joining the board after all. His bid to buy the company came together quickly after that.
Musk had agreed to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share, inserting a “420” marijuana reference into his offer price. He sold roughly $8.5 billion worth of shares in Tesla to help fund the purchase, then strengthened his commitments of more than $7 billion from a diverse group of investors including Silicon Valley heavy hitters like Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.
Inside Twitter, Musk’s offer was met with confusion and falling morale, especially after Musk publicly criticized one of Twitter’s top lawyers involved in content-moderation decisions.
As Twitter executives prepared for the deal to move forward, the company instituted a hiring freeze, halted discretionary spending and fired two top managers. The San Francisco company has also been laying off staff, most recently part of its talent acquisition team. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Elon-Musk-says-he-s-terminating-44B-Twitter-17293454.php | 2022-07-08T22:59:08Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Elon-Musk-says-he-s-terminating-44B-Twitter-17293454.php | false |
Police in central California were searching for a woman they say set a tent on fire, killing a man and injuring a woman inside, authorities said Friday.
The 35-year-old man and 40-year-old woman were inside a tent on Airport Way and Mormon Slough in Stockton when the suspect set them and their tent ablaze Thursday, the Stockton Police Department said in a brief statement.
Both were taken to a hospital, where the man died, police said.
Authorities released no other information. A call from The Associated Press seeking more information was not immediately returned Friday.
Thursday’s fire is not the first to break out in Mormon Slough where homeless people live in an encampment. In November 2019, two people were hospitalized for injuries after another fire in Mormon Slough, the Stockton Record reported. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Man-killed-woman-injured-after-their-tent-was-17293568.php | 2022-07-08T22:59:44Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Man-killed-woman-injured-after-their-tent-was-17293568.php | true |
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball players said Friday for the first time that they are prepared to accept a draft of international amateur players but proposed it include far more money than management’s plan and a more liberal structure.
The union made its proposal Friday during a meeting with MLB. Details were disclosed by a union official who spoke with media on the condition of anonymity because no announcements by name were authorized.
The union proposed that a draft be allocated $260 million for the 2024 signing period with teams having to guarantee slot values while having the flexibility to exceed them within bonus pools, a person familiar with the plan told The Associated Press. That person spoke on condition of anonymity because the details were not announced.
MLB proposed last July 28 that a 2024 draft include spending of $181 million for the top 600 players and $190 million in total, up from $166 million in the 2021 signing period. MLB's proposal contained hard slots, which for 2024 would assign $5,512,500 for the top pick to $2,625,000 for the 10th overall.
The March 10 agreement that ended the 99-day lockout set a July 25 deadline for the union to agree to the draft. Without an agreement, direct draft-pick compensation and the qualifying offer system would remain for major league free agents. That structure has inhibited the market for some players, such as pitchers Dallas Keuchel and Craig Kimbrel in 2019.
Management has long sought an international draft to mirror the amateur draft that began in 1965 for residents of the U.S. and Canada and allows teams exclusive rights to players. Since 1990, the draft has included residents of U.S. territories such as Puerto Rico.
The union said it would agree to management’s 20-round concept but would spread the money differently among the slots. Players would schedule the 2024 draft for late in 2023, while MLB proposed it be held in the January-to-March range.
MLB has said a draft with hard slots would reduce corruption in the international signing market, such as agreements before a player is eligible to sign. MLB maintains giving teams the ability to exceed slots would allow the continuation of corruption, with teams offering specified amounts to players in advance of selection in exchange for players not appearing at showcases or cooperating with other clubs.
MLB and players put restraints in place on international signings with the 2012-16 collective bargaining agreement, but the union has resisted installing a draft to replace signing bonus pools that allow the flexibility to exceed thresholds while incurring penalties.
International amateurs are eligible to sign if they are 17, or at least 16 but will be 17 by Sept. 1 of the first season covered by the contract.
Residents of the U.S. and Canada are eligible for the amateur draft if their high school class has been graduated and the player will be at least 17 within 45 days of the end of the draft. In addition, players enrolled at four-year colleges are not eligible until the end of their junior year.
The international draft would not cover foreign professionals, such as veterans of the Japanese major leagues. MLB defines a foreign professional as a player 25 or older who has played at least six seasons in a recognized foreign league.
Among the issues in a draft would be participation in showcases, and medical and drug testing. The union claims MLB is asking for more stringent rules for international amateurs.
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Juvenile Justice Department on Friday announced that it is offering a 15% permanent pay raise for direct-care staff effective on July 1 as it works to address high staff turnover and employee shortages.
The raise will apply to the following positions:
- Youth Development Coaches (Juvenile Correctional Officers)
- Team Leaders (Dorm Supervisors)
- Case Managers and Case Manager Supervisors
- Cooks
- Food Service Managers
- Youth Safety Managers
- Parole Officers and Parole Supervisors
According to the TJJD, the raise also makes permanent a temporary pay raise that was instituted as an emergency measure in April. Additionally, the raise increases the starting annual pay for Youth Development Coaches (JCO IIIs) from $36,238 to $41,700.
The funding for these pay hikes comes through cost savings from vacant positions and de-prioritizing other planned spending. The TJJD said it will also shift funds from certain contract services that are not currently being used from planned re-entry enrichment programs that will now be postponed.
The department said that, based on projections, it will be able to absorb the cost of raising salaries this biennium through appropriated general revenue.
"TJJD leadership recognizes that this is not the only solution but believes that making pay more competitive will address the immediate crisis of high turnover and begin to stabilize the agency’s workforce," said Interim Executive Director Shandra Carter. "The conversion of the 15% bonus to a permanent salary ladder increase is the first step in stabilizing the agency. Recruiting and retaining qualified staff is a critical component necessary to meet our responsibilities. We are steadfastly committed to helping keep our communities safe and rehabilitating the youth in our care and custody. We will continue to problem solve and seek creative and innovative solutions to the secure facility staffing and county detention bed crisis."
Friday's news comes after the department previously announced it was pausing intakes due to safety concerns caused by the staffing shortage.
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VIDEO: Fishermen catch giant Pacific octopus while fishing in bay
Published: Jul. 8, 2022 at 6:08 PM EDT|Updated: 55 minutes ago
NEWPORT, Ore. (KPTV/Gray News) - A giant Pacific octopus was caught off the coast of Oregon in Yaquina Bay over the weekend.
KPTV reports Nick Johnson shared a video showing the octopus caught on a crab pot as the crabs were being hauled onto a boat.
The fishermen said they freed the octopus from the crab pot and released it back into the ocean.
According to National Geographic, giant Pacific octopuses grow bigger and live longer than any other octopus species. They are also reportedly found in coastal waters that include Oregon, California, Washington, Alaska and Japan.
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Elderly man shoots, kills wife in Texas hospital room before killing self, police say
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - A woman and her husband have died after an apparent murder-suicide at a local hospital in San Antonio, police say.
SAPD says officers were dispatched to a hospital in the 7700 block of Floyd Curl Drive for a report of a shooting around 10:25 a.m. Friday, July 8.
Preliminary information reveals that a hospital employee went to check on the woman, who is in her late 80s, when she discovered the patient and her husband, who is also in his late 80s, deceased in the room with apparent gunshot wounds.
Police believe that the man shot his wife sometime in the morning before turning the gun on himself.
SAPD wants to inform residents that this was not an active shooter situation, and there is no threat to the public.
Homicide detectives with SAPD are actively investigating. No further information has been released.
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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The San Francisco Police Department announced Friday it is offering a $100,000 reward for information that leads to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the suspect(s) in a homicide from 2001. The homicide victim, 25-year-old Paula Brien, was found dead near 455 Harriet Street on June 18, 2001.
Brien was last seen in front of Gina’s Bar (no longer in operation) near 6th and Mission Streets on the day she was found dead, according to a press release. Police say Brien was with an unidentified man in a red car.
The unidentified man she was last seen with has been described by police as a white man, approximately 6 feet tall, muscular in build, and was wearing short pants.
Over 20 years later, the area of 6th and Mission Street has become a hotbed of fentanyl busts in San Francisco’s SoMa Neighborhood. KRON4 has reported at least four such busts in the last three months.
Anyone with information on the homicide is asked to contact the following people:
- Homicide Cold Case Investigator Daniel Cunningham 415-553-9515
- Investigator Daniel Dedet 415-553-1450
- Sgt. Alan Levy 415-553-9245
- Department Operations Center (DOC) 415-553-1071
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The event will be held at the National Press Club and will be moderated by Willie Macc, with an introduction by the grandniece of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, Mayor
Jereleen Hollimon-Miller, Rev. Dr. Jonnie Green Jr., Karen Huger, Dale Davis, Vernon Davis and Lou Gossett Jr. will speak about the topic of increasing health equity through preventive health awareness.
WASHINGTON, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arc Health announced their sponsorship of an event created to honor programs that would have been likely championed by the late, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune. The event is chaired by Ed Miller, CEO of Twin City Outreach Mission, a non-profit organization whose mission is to champion the ideals and programs of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune. The keynote speaker of the event is, Mayor Jereleen Hollimon-Miller, who is the grandniece of Mary McLeod Bethune and sits on the board of Twin City Outreach Mission. The seated luncheon will be organized by Progress Humanity and held at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C. The luncheon will feature a panel of celebrities and public health advocates who will share their personal stories of how they have been affected by health disparities and how they are working to address challenges related to the topic of health equity.
The daughter of former slaves, Mary Jane McLeod Bethune became one of the most important black educators, civil and women's rights leaders and government officials of the twentieth century. The college she founded set educational standards for today's black colleges, and her role as an advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave African Americans an advocate in government.
Our panelists will be speaking about health equity and their advocacy of expanding access to the preventive health services emphasized by the Affordable Care Act. Confirmed speakers for the panel are, Reverend Dr. Johnnie Green Jr., the President and CEO of MPAC – NY (Mobilizing Preachers and Communities), Karen Huger, Alzheimer's research advocate and star of Bravo's Real Housewives of the Potomac, Dale Davis, a retired NBA athlete and sports medicine advocate, and Vernon Davis, a retired NFL athlete and actor. The panel will be followed by a special virtual appearance by actor and civil rights advocate Lou Gossett Jr. who tell his experience of having COVID-19 and the possibility to have remote preventive healthcare accessible to him. Mr. Gossett will be joined by the CEOs of Arc Health and Medpod, as well as Dr. Welch from Parker County Hospital, to give a demonstration of virtual preventive health using Medpod's MobileDoc unit.
Twin City Outreach Mission is working to build a strong, unified business environment; to reinvest in our HBCUs; to facilitate economic development and strengthen communities – all to nurture a diverse, vibrant, and thriving economy that reduces disparities through health, wellness & financial literacy programs.
Arc Health is creating a new layer of preventive health services that enables providers to deliver personalized medicine by monitoring their health in real-time. Paul Adams, Arc Health CEO, said "We are honored to be sponsoring this event today on this very important topic. Healthcare in underserved communities needs to be significantly improved, and quality preventive care is an integral part of the solution."
Medpod is a Henry Schein subsidiary who elevates the medical standard for higher quality care between remote provider and patient, regardless of their physical location — maximizing flexibility and opportunity for doctors' practices.
Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC) is a solutions company for health care professionals powered by a network of people and technology. With nearly 22,000 Team Schein Members worldwide, the Company's network of trusted advisors provides more than 1 million customers globally with more than 300 valued solutions that help improve operational success and clinical outcomes. In 1932, at the height of the Depression and Mary McLeod Bethune's activism, a pharmacist named Henry Schein started our company with the belief that we can fulfill our responsibilities as a corporate citizen by giving back to the communities we serve. Ever since then, we have pursued the ideal of "doing well by doing good." This spirit of individuals helping society is exemplified through Henry Schein Cares, our global corporate social responsibility program.
Dr. Evelyn Bethune, Jon Bower, Donzella Burton, Dale Davis, Vernon Davis, Dr. Jim Felder, Melvin Forbes, Dr. Tracey Fleming, Lou Gossett Jr., Rev. Dr. Johnnie Green, Jr., Karen Huger, Willie Macc, Mayor Jereleen Holliman-Miller, and Bobby "Zorro" Hunter.
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Man arrested at Disney's Hollywood Studios after gun found in backpack, deputies say
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - A man was arrested at Disney's Hollywood Studios last month after a gun was found in a backpack while going through the theme park's security line.
According to the police report, Nathaniel Franco Freeman, 35, voluntarily placed his bag on a security table so it could be inspected by Disney security at the theme park on June 25. However, when Freeman opened a zipper, he took the bag off the table and proceeded to ask a woman he was with if she had taken something out of the bag.
"Did you take it out," the man reportedly asked the woman, according to the report. Authorities found a 40mm Smith and Weston handgun, a magazine, and 13 rounds inside the bag.
Firearms, ammunition, knives, and weapons are not allowed on Disney property. However, Freeman was arrested for carrying a concealed firearm without the proper permit, according to the arrest report.
The Orange County deputy conducted a query based on the gun's serial number, but did not find a permit for Freeman, the report said.
Two days earlier, a man was arrested at Disney Springs after a gun, ammunition, and knife were found in his bag. | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/man-arrested-at-disneys-hollywood-studios-after-gun-found-in-backpack-deputies-say | 2022-07-08T23:11:51Z | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/man-arrested-at-disneys-hollywood-studios-after-gun-found-in-backpack-deputies-say | true |
Letters: On Iowa's tilt toward big government, disturbing things we learned about Trump
Republicans have become party of government intrusion
One hundred new laws took effect in Iowa on July 1 — all passed by the Republicans controlling the Iowa Legislature and signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds. Remember when Republicans said they were the party of less government and local control? Now, with their hands on all the levers of power, they sing a different tune.
Reynolds, through her appointments, has also extended her control to virtually every state board and regulatory agency, and even the Iowa Supreme Court. All now dance to the bidding of Reynolds' big donors. The Environmental Protection Commission is stuffed with representatives of Big Ag. The Iowa Utilities Commission is poised to give powers of eminent domain to her corporate friends in the ethanol industry.
And her packed Supreme Court just overruled any chance Iowans have to protect their farms and homes from corporate agriculture. In that decision, Justice Thomas Waterman wrote: “protecting and promoting livestock production is a legitimate state interest and granting partial immunity from nuisance suits is a proper means to an end.”
So presumably any confined feeding operation can now be built anywhere in the state, with no recourse from any existing farmers or neighbors. This court ruling could also make it impossible for anyone to seek compensation for damages from pesticide drift or any other damages — since Big Ag is now “a legitimate state interest.”
Our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain? Keep voting Republican and you’ll keep losing them.
-Jim Walters, Iowa City
Why Trump must be sent to prison
Many Republicans complain that the Jan. 6 investigation is a partisan attack on Donald Trump. It is not.
There are two Republicans on the committee and all of the witnesses testifying are Republicans who were appointed by Republicans.
The majority of the judges who ruled against Trump's 60 legal attempts to overthrow the results of the election were Republicans and were appointed by Republicans. Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigned on Jan. 7, the day after the attempted coup, as did Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao. Over a dozen other high-ranking administration officials also resigned, including Trump's former chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney. The Republican Vice President Mike Pence refused to follow Trump’s demand to not count the electoral votes on Jan. 6.
It is true that most Democrats oppose Trump but the opposition to Trump includes far too many Republicans to be called partisan.
The Jan. 6 committee has found overwhelming evidence that Trump committed serious crimes. The Justice Department will have no choice but to indict and prosecute him. There are other cases against Trump in the states that are likely to lead to prosecutions as well. There is nothing partisan about prosecuting serious crime. This is a matter of justice.
It won’t be easy to send a man to prison who had 74 million people vote for him to be president, but it has to be done. Trump lied more than 30,000 times while he was president and has been a con man all of his adult life. It is time for his career to end and for millions of Americans to wake up and see what justice looks like.
-Doug Korty, Iowa City
How could Republican leaders say nothing about Trump's fraud?
As the Jan. 6 hearings have revealed, you were duped, Donald Trump is a fraud. He made a fool of himself and tried to make fools out of all the people he tried to fool. The whole election fraud was a myth, a made-up story. Republican legislatures' silence of this fraud is what caused the attack on the Capitol and the attempted overthrow of our government.
These Republican legislatures either think this is what a politician does and this is the way to play the political rules, where any way to cling to power is acceptable. Or they did not know it was a myth, believed the lie and were ignorant of the facts. In any case, why did not these, our Republican leaders, acknowledge it was a lie and inform the public not to believe the lie? Were they really too ignorant to know where to look for reliable answers to what was happening? Were they so simple-minded they believed anything?
They are guilty of the attempted overthrow of the government just as a person is guilty as an accomplice to a murder if they could stop it but did nothing. They were disloyal to our country for political gain from the enemies of our government, our people and our Constitution. They disgraced the oath they took to defend, bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. They will live with that disgrace forever.
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Hess (HES) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, Hess (HES) closed at $100.18, marking a +0.27% move from the previous day. This change outpaced the S&P 500's 0.08% loss on the day. Elsewhere, the Dow lost 0.15%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 0.03%.
Heading into today, shares of the oil and gas producer had lost 21.24% over the past month, lagging the Oils-Energy sector's loss of 19.96% and the S&P 500's loss of 6.03% in that time.
Investors will be hoping for strength from Hess as it approaches its next earnings release. The company is expected to report EPS of $2.25, up 837.5% from the prior-year quarter. Meanwhile, our latest consensus estimate is calling for revenue of $2.75 billion, up 71.86% from the prior-year quarter.
For the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates are projecting earnings of $9.42 per share and revenue of $11.42 billion, which would represent changes of +330.14% and +50.6%, respectively, from the prior year.
It is also important to note the recent changes to analyst estimates for Hess. These revisions help to show the ever-changing nature of near-term business trends. As a result, we can interpret positive estimate revisions as a good sign for the company's business outlook.
Based on our research, we believe these estimate revisions are directly related to near-team stock moves. To benefit from this, we have developed the Zacks Rank, a proprietary model which takes these estimate changes into account and provides an actionable rating system.
Ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), the Zacks Rank system has a proven, outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks returning an average of +25% annually since 1988. Over the past month, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 5.12% higher. Hess is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
Digging into valuation, Hess currently has a Forward P/E ratio of 10.61. This represents a no noticeable deviation compared to its industry's average Forward P/E of 10.61.
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BOZEMAN – The National Weather Service issued a new batch of Severe Thunderstorm Watches through 10 pm Friday night.
This includes all of SW Montana both west and east of the divide. This also includes all of western Montana and up into the central counties of the state.
What does this mean? Watches cover large areas and go out longer in time. This means that within the watch area severe damaging thunderstorms are possible. This does not mean every square inch within the watch area will see severe damaging thunderstorms.
The atmosphere is highly unstable again this afternoon and thunderstorms have been developing over central Idaho and lifting to the NE. As these storms continue to track to the NE they grow and mature and some will strengthen to produce outflow peak wind gusts over 60 mph and a few storms with strong updrafts could produce large damaging hail up to 1” or greater in diameter.
Some thunderstorms will also produce brief heavy rain which could lead to minor flooding in poor drainage areas and ponding on roadways which will be a travel hazard.
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SEOUL — Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday, stunning a nation where gun violence and political attacks are rare. Japan's influential and longest-serving prime minister worked to revitalize the nation's economy — with his namesake "Abenomics" policy — and rebuild its role on the global stage. He was 67.
Abe was giving a speech for a candidate in Nara, a city in western Japan, just ahead of Sunday's parliamentary elections, when a man fatally shot him from behind with a handmade firearm.
Police arrested the suspect identified as Tetsuya Yamagami, a 41-year-old unemployed former member of Japan's maritime defense force. Police say he confessed to the crime, but his motive remains unclear.
The assassination elicited shock, horror and contrasting views from a public that was deeply divided about his policies.
"Maybe such a thing is normal in the U.S. But this took place in Japan, and I am shocked," said a man with the surname Shimizu, who was unwilling to give his first name because, he explained, he is distrustful of the media. He spoke on the street in Kyoto, about 30 miles north of Nara. "I feel like the clock is going backward."
A woman surnamed Otake, who also declined to give her full name citing the same reason, was less surprised. "I think that various problems that Japan has now were brought about during his administration," she said. "I'm against Abe."
The country has not seen violence like this in decades
Japan's gun control laws are tight, handguns and rifles are banned outright, and shooting deaths are extremely rare. The scant gun crime is often associated with the yakuza crime syndicates.
Bloodshed has been absent from Japanese politics for more than six decades, most of which the Liberal Democratic Party, to which Abe belonged, has had a lock on power.
In the early 1960s, violent street clashes erupted between the political left and right over Japan's security treaty with the United States, and a socialist party leader was killed by a sword-wielding assassin.
A consensus later emerged among politicians to keep political sparring out of the public view, behind a harmonious facade.
"By and large, I think you can say that the politics here have been based on the principle of nonviolence, and the disagreements could be heated, but they have remained at the verbal level, so far," according to Koichi Nakano, a political scientist at Sophia University in Tokyo.
"Even among people who didn't particularly like his politics, I think there would be genuine, widespread sorrow," said Tobias Harris, academic and author of the biography The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan. "I expect [his death] to be more of a unifying event than a polarizing event."
Born into a political family
Abe was born in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 1954. After graduating from the capital's Seikei University in 1977, he moved to the U.S. and spent three semesters at the University of Southern California, studying English, political science, history and international relations, according to USC.
Abe belonged to a prominent political family. He was the grandson of Nobusuke Kishi, a World War II-era official who went on to become prime minister. (Kishi also suffered an assassination attempt, a stabbing, which he survived.) And Abe's father, Shintaro Abe, was a foreign minister.
But it was Shinzo Abe who would serve longer than any other — as prime minister from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020.
He pledged to "take back Japan" to restore its pre-WWII position as Asia's preeminent power and its economic dynamism of the 1960s.
Yet while "nostalgia was a potent vehicle for mobilizing political action," Harris said, Abe "wasn't just recreating the past, he was actually trying to make a new Japan."
In a 2016 speech, Abe said, "We should look to the future, rather than worry about the present."
A coined economic agenda and a defense rethink
One of his most famous and lasting policies was Abenomics, which he launched in 2013 to jumpstart the economy after more than two decades of deflation.
The policy involved ramping up government spending and monetary easing. He also pushed for reforms like cutting corporate taxes and red tape as well as liberalizing sectors of the economy.
Arguably one of his biggest legacies involved opening up the traditionally male-dominated labor market to Japanese women.
After the devastation of World War II, Japanese law put limits on using military force except for national self-defense. But in 2014, Abe's Cabinet reinterpreted the Constitution to allow the armed forces to aid an allied nation under attack, even if Japan itself was not.
He was unable to muster enough public support to amend the Constitution, a goal his party has pursued since its inception in 1955.
Abe helped lay the groundwork for Japan to side with the U.S. in its ongoing rivalry with China.
"Abe was of the view that Japan's power position is dependent on its strong alliance with the United States," said political scientist Nakano, at a time when Japan was in demographic decline and China, in 2010, surpassed Japan as the world's second-largest economy.
After Abe finally stepped down in 2020, he continued to wield power in his party, becoming the head of its strongest faction and a reputed kingmaker.
Analysts say Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who served as Abe's foreign minister, has struggled to emerge from his ex-boss' shadow and pursue his own goals, while avoiding alienating Abe's political faction.
Leaders present and past salute Abe
Leaders around the world have been united in their grief and outrage at the killing of Abe.
President Biden said he was "stunned, outraged and deeply saddened," and called his death a "tragedy for Japan and for all who knew him."
Former President Barack Obama, whose tenure overlapped with Abe's, also paid tribute. "I will always remember the work we did to strengthen our alliance, the moving experience of traveling to Hiroshima and Pearl Harbor together," Obama said.
Abe was also one of the first foreign leaders to cultivate a relationship with former President Donald Trump, as they bonded over wagyu beef burgers, sumo wrestling and golf.
On Friday, Trump praised Abe as a "unifier" and a "great man and a great leader."
Abe's assassination comes as Japan is already debating his legacy.
"A lot of people, including his critics, wanted to have a cooler-headed, rational discussion about the pros and cons," and successes and failures of Abe's policies, said Nakano.
But some debates may have to wait until the national sense of shock and mourning dissipate.
Chie Kobayashi contributed to this report in Kyoto.
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 8, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
549 PM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...Far southwest Beaver county and northern Ochiltree county.
* WHEN...Until 745 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 548 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 0.5 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Perryton.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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Robinhood Markets, Inc. (HOOD) Dips More Than Broader Markets: What You Should Know
Robinhood Markets, Inc. (HOOD) closed the most recent trading day at $9, moving -0.22% from the previous trading session. This move lagged the S&P 500's daily loss of 0.08%. Elsewhere, the Dow lost 0.15%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 0.03%.
Coming into today, shares of the company had gained 12.33% in the past month. In that same time, the Finance sector lost 8.36%, while the S&P 500 lost 6.03%.
Investors will be hoping for strength from Robinhood Markets, Inc. as it approaches its next earnings release. The company is expected to report EPS of -$0.30, down 372.73% from the prior-year quarter. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $392.03 million, down 30.66% from the year-ago period.
Looking at the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates suggest analysts are expecting earnings of -$1.34 per share and revenue of $1.7 billion. These totals would mark changes of +82.11% and -6.1%, respectively, from last year.
Investors should also note any recent changes to analyst estimates for Robinhood Markets, Inc.These revisions help to show the ever-changing nature of near-term business trends. As such, positive estimate revisions reflect analyst optimism about the company's business and profitability.
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The Zacks Rank system ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell). It has a remarkable, outside-audited track record of success, with #1 stocks delivering an average annual return of +25% since 1988. The Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 0.75% lower within the past month. Robinhood Markets, Inc. currently has a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
The Financial - Investment Bank industry is part of the Finance sector. This industry currently has a Zacks Industry Rank of 150, which puts it in the bottom 41% of all 250+ industries.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP/NEXSTAR) — Elon Musk’s tumultuous $44 billion bid to buy Twitter is on the verge of collapse — after the Tesla CEO sent a letter to Twitter’s board Friday saying he is terminating the acquisition.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a message for comment. It is not entirely clear whether Twitter’s board will accept the $1 billion breakup fee or if there will be a court battle over the deal.
Musk’s letter reportedly cites lack of information on bot accounts as a reason for the termination.
The possible unraveling of the deal is just the latest twist in a saga between the world’s richest man and one of the most influential social media platforms. Much of the drama has played out on Twitter, with Musk — who has more than 95 million followers — lamenting that the company was failing to live up to its potential as a platform for free speech.
In a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk said Twitter has “not complied with its contractual obligations” surrounding the deal, namely giving Musk enough information to “make an independent assessment of the prevalence of fake or spam accounts on Twitter’s platform.”
Musk’s flirtation with buying Twitter appeared to begin in late March. That’s when Twitter has said he contacted members of its board — including co-founder Jack Dorsey — and told them he was buying up shares of the company and interested in either joining the board, taking Twitter private or starting a competitor. Then, on April 4, he revealed in a regulatory filing that he had became the company’s largest shareholder after acquiring a 9% stake worth about $3 billion.
At first, Twitter offered Musk a seat on its board. But six days later, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal tweeted that Musk will not be joining the board after all. His bid to buy the company came together quickly after that.
Musk had agreed to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share, inserting a “420” marijuana reference into his offer price. He sold roughly $8.5 billion worth of shares in Tesla to help fund the purchase, then strengthened his commitments of more than $7 billion from a diverse group of investors including Silicon Valley heavy hitters like Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.
Inside Twitter, Musk’s offer was met with confusion and falling morale, especially after Musk publicly criticized one of Twitter’s top lawyers involved in content-moderation decisions.
As Twitter executives prepared for the deal to move forward, the company instituted a hiring freeze, halted discretionary spending and fired two top managers. The San Francisco company has also been laying off staff, most recently part of its talent acquisition team.
On Friday, shares of Twitter fell 5% to $36.81, well below the $54.20 that Musk had offered to pay. Shares of Tesla, meanwhile, climbed 2.5% to $752.29.
Musk, 51, is currently the wealthiest man in the world, with a new worth of $237.9 billion. In addition to heading EV giant Tesla, Musk is also a cofounder of the spacecraft engineering company SpaceX and The Boring Company, which constructs tunnels and infrastructure.
It’s been a busy week for the mogul, with a surprise reveal of his eighth and ninth children with Tesla project director Shivon Zilis. The children were born weeks after his second child with ex-girlfriend musician Claire Boucher, known professionally as Grimes.
The end of the Musk-Twitter negotiations may jeopardize the possibility of former Pres. Donald Trump from rejoining the social network. Musk previously said he would reverse Trump’s “permaban” after the platform blocked him following the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot. | https://www.koin.com/top-stories/elon-musk-tells-twitter-hes-ending-44b-bid-to-buy-social-network/ | 2022-07-08T23:35:32Z | https://www.koin.com/top-stories/elon-musk-tells-twitter-hes-ending-44b-bid-to-buy-social-network/ | false |
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Whitecaps forward Caicedo undergoes successful knee surgery, out for season
The Vancouver Whitecaps placed forward Deiber Caicedo on the MLS season-ending injury list Friday after he underwent successful surgery a day earlier to repair a meniscus tear in his right knee.
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VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps placed forward Deiber Caicedo on the MLS season-ending injury list Friday after he underwent successful surgery a day earlier to repair a meniscus tear in his right knee.
Caicedo suffered the injury in Vancouver's home game against New England on June 26.
“We are pleased to hear that Deiber's surgery was a success. At the same time, we all feel for him and it's unfortunate he will be out for the remainder of the season," Whitecaps sporting director Axel Schuster said in a release.
"We will be with him throughout his recovery process and look forward to seeing a (fully) fit Deiber at the start of our 2023 pre-season."
Caicedo, a 22-year old native of Barbacoas, Colombia, started 14 of his 19 appearances across all competitions this season. He had one goal and four assists.
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By JENNA FRYER
AP Sports Writer
Matt Kenseth will make his debut this Saturday night in Superstar Racing Experience. The two-time Daytona 500 winner is entered in the final three races of the all-star summer series. He also plans to race next Tuesday night at Slinger Nationals in Wisconsin. He recently turned 50 and has a pair of grandchildren, but he’s training for the London Marathon and constantly trying to feed his competitive spirit.
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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH
Associated Press
An 8-year-old boy whose spine was severed in the shooting at a Fourth of July Parade is conscious for the first time since the attack and asking to see his twin brother, his family said Friday.
Doctors don’t think Cooper Roberts suffered any brain damage from the bullets that hit his chest, the family announced in a statement Friday that confirmed he is paralyzed from the waist down.
The boy was removed from the ventilator. He is in serious condition and is in a great deal of pain, but improving.
He and his twin brother, Luke, who was struck by shrapnel and is home, loved the Fourth of July parade in their Chicago suburb.
But now the family is envisioning a “new normal” for Cooper who was wounded in a hail of gunfire that left dozens of others wounded and seven dead in Highland Park, said Tony Loizzi, a family spokesperson, during a Zoom call with reporters Thursday.
The boys’ mother, Keely Roberts, who is the superintendent of the 2,300-student Zion Elementary School District, also was hurt but not as seriously. Only the boys’ father, Jason Roberts, was unscathed.
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 raised more than $800,000 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.”
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WASHINGTON — ABC’s “This Week” — Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo; Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.; Rahm Emanuel, U.S. ambassador to Japan.
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CNN’s “State of the Union” — Govs. J.B. Pritzker, D-Ill., and Chris Sununu, R-N.H.; Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif.
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By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY
Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — After polls closed in New Mexico’s primary last month, a worker returning ballots and other election materials to the clerk’s office in Santa Fe was followed by a partisan election observer driving so close that mere inches separated their bumpers.
The poll worker was so rattled by the ordeal that she said she may not return for the upcoming November election, according to Santa Fe County Clerk Katharine Clark.
The incident is just one of many in which election officials and workers have felt threatened since the 2020 presidential election and the false claims that it was stolen from former President Donald Trump. A federal effort to investigate these threats has so far yielded three prosecutions since it was launched a year ago.
In the meantime, the harassment and death threats haven’t stopped against those who have pushed back against the false claims. The threats have contributed to an exodus of election officials across the country, particularly at the local level, and made recruiting poll workers even harder — adding to the challenges of conducting smooth elections in the fall.
“I’m a Republican recorder living in a Republican county where the candidate that they wanted to win won by 2-to-1 in this county and still getting grief, and so is my staff,” said Leslie Hoffman, the top election official in Yavapai County, Arizona.
Hoffman announced last week that she was resigning to take another job, saying her decision was motivated largely by “the nastiness that we have dealt with.” Hoffman said the county elections director left for the same reasons.
On Friday, an official with the U.S. Department of Justice was scheduled to update state election officials gathered in Louisiana for their summer conference on the work of the task force that was announced in June 2021.
Three men have been charged by federal prosecutors, with one of them pleading guilty last month. In that case, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold was the subject of multiple threatening posts on social media.
Griswold said the threats have not stopped. Just last week, a caller to her office’s public phone line said: “Hey, I’ve got a message for the secretary and I want you to pass it along. The angel of death is coming for her in the name of Jesus Christ.”
“The fact of the matter is they’ve only done three prosecutions when we know there are literally thousands and thousands of violent threats going to election workers and secretaries of state,” Griswold said. “People are using threats as part of the attack on democracy to try to intimidate election workers, to try to intimidate county clerks and secretaries of state, and they are succeeding in some places.”
Kenneth Polite, assistant attorney general for the department’s criminal division, said federal investigators were working through each report to determine which cases can be successfully prosecuted, noting challenges in attributing threats often made anonymously and weighing free speech protections. He said additional prosecutions are expected.
“The department is committed to protecting our election community from violence and threats of violence,” Polite said in a statement. “These are ordinary people from across the political spectrum filling a vital democratic role for our nation, typically with little recognition or support.”
In the first six months of the task force, members conducted over 20 trainings and outreach events on election threats with state, local, and federal law enforcement as well as election officials and social media companies.
A survey released earlier this year by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU’s School of Law found one in three election officials knew someone who had left a job in part because of threats and intimidation, and that one in six had experienced threats personally.
Federal and state election officials and Trump’s own attorney general have said there is no credible evidence the election was tainted. The former president’s allegations of fraud were also roundly rejected by courts, including by judges Trump appointed.
Experts said it is critical that those making threats are held accountable to deter others from thinking they can do the same.
“The steps that the task force has taken, election officials are appreciative. But absolutely there is more to be done,” said Liz Howard, a former state election official in Virginia now at the Brennan Center.
Among the recommendations that the Brennan Center has made is to expand the task force to include state and local law enforcement agencies that are typically the first contact for an election official.
A group of former and current election and law enforcement officials recently formed the Committee for Safe and Secure Elections, which plans to provide guidance and training for preventing and responding to threats and violence against election officials.
Last month, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — which distributes federal grants to election offices — said its funding could be used to protect election officials against threats. Legislation has also been pursued at the state and federal level to increase penalties for those targeting election workers.
In Colorado, lawmakers passed a bill that makes it a misdemeanor to release online the personal information of an election official for the purpose of threatening them or their family.
On Capitol Hill, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota, held a hearing last year highlighting the threats and urging federal protections for election workers. Klobuchar and other Senate Democrats have sent a letter asking the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI to issue a joint public service announcement to local law enforcement agencies to “ensure that they are aware of both the recent increase in these threats against election officials and federal resources for reporting and countering them.”
Back in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Clark said anxiety remains high among her staff. Employees have been trained on active shooter situations, they have requested bulletproof glass be installed and GPS tracking is used during the transportation of ballot boxes.
While she is concerned about her safety, she says she’s not ready to quit or change careers, noting her responsibility to voters who elected her.
“My dad served in the military, my grandfather served in the military,” Clark said. “I don’t feel it’s bad enough yet to feel that my public service is too much.”
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Associated Press writers Bob Christie in Phoenix and Morgan Lee in Santa Fe, New Mexico, contributed to this report.
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The event will be held at the National Press Club and will be moderated by Willie Macc, with an introduction by the grandniece of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, Mayor
Jereleen Hollimon-Miller, Rev. Dr. Jonnie Green Jr., Karen Huger, Dale Davis, Vernon Davis and Lou Gossett Jr. will speak about the topic of increasing health equity through preventive health awareness.
WASHINGTON, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arc Health announced their sponsorship of an event created to honor programs that would have been likely championed by the late, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune. The event is chaired by Ed Miller, CEO of Twin City Outreach Mission, a non-profit organization whose mission is to champion the ideals and programs of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune. The keynote speaker of the event is, Mayor Jereleen Hollimon-Miller, who is the grandniece of Mary McLeod Bethune and sits on the board of Twin City Outreach Mission. The seated luncheon will be organized by Progress Humanity and held at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C. The luncheon will feature a panel of celebrities and public health advocates who will share their personal stories of how they have been affected by health disparities and how they are working to address challenges related to the topic of health equity.
The daughter of former slaves, Mary Jane McLeod Bethune became one of the most important black educators, civil and women's rights leaders and government officials of the twentieth century. The college she founded set educational standards for today's black colleges, and her role as an advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave African Americans an advocate in government.
Our panelists will be speaking about health equity and their advocacy of expanding access to the preventive health services emphasized by the Affordable Care Act. Confirmed speakers for the panel are, Reverend Dr. Johnnie Green Jr., the President and CEO of MPAC – NY (Mobilizing Preachers and Communities), Karen Huger, Alzheimer's research advocate and star of Bravo's Real Housewives of the Potomac, Dale Davis, a retired NBA athlete and sports medicine advocate, and Vernon Davis, a retired NFL athlete and actor. The panel will be followed by a special virtual appearance by actor and civil rights advocate Lou Gossett Jr. who tell his experience of having COVID-19 and the possibility to have remote preventive healthcare accessible to him. Mr. Gossett will be joined by the CEOs of Arc Health and Medpod, as well as Dr. Welch from Parker County Hospital, to give a demonstration of virtual preventive health using Medpod's MobileDoc unit.
Twin City Outreach Mission is working to build a strong, unified business environment; to reinvest in our HBCUs; to facilitate economic development and strengthen communities – all to nurture a diverse, vibrant, and thriving economy that reduces disparities through health, wellness & financial literacy programs.
Arc Health is creating a new layer of preventive health services that enables providers to deliver personalized medicine by monitoring their health in real-time. Paul Adams, Arc Health CEO, said "We are honored to be sponsoring this event today on this very important topic. Healthcare in underserved communities needs to be significantly improved, and quality preventive care is an integral part of the solution."
Medpod is a Henry Schein subsidiary who elevates the medical standard for higher quality care between remote provider and patient, regardless of their physical location — maximizing flexibility and opportunity for doctors' practices.
Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC) is a solutions company for health care professionals powered by a network of people and technology. With nearly 22,000 Team Schein Members worldwide, the Company's network of trusted advisors provides more than 1 million customers globally with more than 300 valued solutions that help improve operational success and clinical outcomes. In 1932, at the height of the Depression and Mary McLeod Bethune's activism, a pharmacist named Henry Schein started our company with the belief that we can fulfill our responsibilities as a corporate citizen by giving back to the communities we serve. Ever since then, we have pursued the ideal of "doing well by doing good." This spirit of individuals helping society is exemplified through Henry Schein Cares, our global corporate social responsibility program.
Dr. Evelyn Bethune, Jon Bower, Donzella Burton, Dale Davis, Vernon Davis, Dr. Jim Felder, Melvin Forbes, Dr. Tracey Fleming, Lou Gossett Jr., Rev. Dr. Johnnie Green, Jr., Karen Huger, Willie Macc, Mayor Jereleen Holliman-Miller, and Bobby "Zorro" Hunter.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s governor has signed a law that restricts how the public can video police at a time when there’s growing pressure across the U.S. for greater law enforcement transparency.
Civil rights and media groups opposed the measure that Republican Gov. Doug Ducey signed Thursday. The law makes it illegal in Arizona to knowingly video police officers 8 feet (2.5 meters) or closer without an officer’s permission.
Someone on private property with the owner’s consent can also be ordered to stop recording if a police officer finds they are interfering or the area is not safe. The penalty is a misdemeanor that would likely incur a fine without jail time.
There needs to be a law that protects officers from people who “either have very poor judgment or sinister motives,” said Republican Rep. John Kavanagh, the bill’s sponsor.
“I’m pleased that a very reasonable law that promotes the safety of police officers and those involved in police stops and bystanders has been signed into law,” Kavanagh said Friday. “It promotes everybody’s safety yet still allows people to reasonably videotape police activity as is their right.”
The move comes nearly a year after the U.S. Department of Justice launched a widespread probe into the police force in Phoenix to examine whether officers have been using excessive force and abusing people experiencing homelessness. It’s similar to other investigations opened in recent months in Minneapolis and Louisville.
The Phoenix Police Department, which oversees the nation’s fifth-largest city, has been criticized in recent years for its use of force, which disproportionately affects Black and Native American residents.
The law has left opponents like K.M. Bell, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, incredulous.
Federal appellate courts already have ruled that recording police is “a clearly established right,” according to Bell.
The law won’t work in real-life scenarios.
“We’re talking about people being in public and a place they have a right to be. We’re not talking about, like somebody breaking into the (National Security Agency),” Bell said.
Kavanagh, who was a police officer for 20 years, amended the legislation so it applies to certain types of police actions, including questioning of suspects and encounters involving mental or behavioral health issues.
The law also makes exceptions for people who are the direct subject of police interaction. They can film as long as they are not being arrested or searched. Someone who is in a car stopped by police or is being questioned can also film the encounter.
“Those exceptions were based upon input from all sorts of people, including the ACLU,” he said.
Rumblings two years ago about anti-police groups who deliberately approach officers while filming inspired draft legislation. There was a risk of an officer being injured or a suspect escaping or ditching evidence, Kavanagh said.
The Rev. Jarret Maupin, a Phoenix activist, has represented victims of excessive force by police. Some of the cases received more publicity because video captured by bystanders was posted online.
In one case, a Black couple had police officers point guns at them in front of their children in May 2019 after their young daughter took a doll from a store without their knowledge. They received a $475,000 settlement from the city.
Maupin believes the law is a tactic to help police avoid responsibility.
“Proximity is not a luxury in terms of documenting the actions of officers who engage in acts of brutality,” Maupin said. Sometimes the victims and the bystanders have no choice but to be within the proximity that the bill now prohibits.”
Bell said it’s unlikely that other states might follow suit to limit police recording directly given questions about constitutionality.
The new law doesn’t make exceptions for the press.
Media groups including The Associated Press said the measure raises serious constitutional issues. They signed onto a letter from the National Press Photographers Association, or NPPA, in opposition to the bill.
Setting one-size-fits-all conditions like “arbitrary distances” of 8 feet (2.5 meters) for filming police just doesn’t work, said Mickey Osterreicher, attorney for the NPPA. It’s also unclear if someone is breaking the law if an officer approaches them within a few feet.
“What happens when you’re in situations like we saw during all of the protests for the past couple of years, where you have multiple people with cameras? We’re not just talking about journalists,” Osterreicher said. “And you’ve got multiple police officers. Is everybody going to be running around with a ruler?”
Cellphone cameras have transformed policing with one of the biggest examples being the 2020 killing of George Floyd, but Kavanagh said a law like Arizona’s wouldn’t have made an impact since the video in that case was taken from a greater distance away.
Osterreicher argued a police officer could invoke the law even if the person filming is far enough away.
But that didn’t happen in the Floyd case.
“Fortunately, those officers out of all the wrong things that they did, the one thing they didn’t do was tell her to turn off the camera or try to interfere with her recording,” Osterreicher said. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/in-era-of-transparency-arizona-law-limits-filming-police/ | 2022-07-09T00:05:06Z | https://www.wishtv.com/news/national/in-era-of-transparency-arizona-law-limits-filming-police/ | false |
INDIANAPOLIS — The pandemic brought Indy’s tourism juggernaut to a standstill. Now two years later, the industry is beginning to return to pre-pandemic levels.
“Leisure travel continues to be off the charts in the entire country,” says Patrick Tamm, President and CEO of the Indiana Restaurant and Lodging Association (InRLA).
Visit Indy says their projections are showing tourism levels hitting 90% to 95% compared to 2019. They believe hotel occupancy levels are well above that of other cities. Despite the success, InRLA says hotels do struggle between Monday and Thursday because of the ever changing work routine landscape. The shift is helping suburban businesses see greater success.
“A lot of people are staying closer to home, a hybrid schedule, going out to dinner at 5 pm on a Monday is part of the deal now,” adds Tamm.
Downtown remains supported heavily by conventions and sporting events, especially the annual ones they can count on. The Indiana Black Expo is expected to fill downtown in the coming weeks.
“Gen Con is bouncing back [in August]. They have convened here since 2003. We are anticipating their attendance would be 90% to 95%of what it would normally be pre-pandemic,” says Visit Indy Senior Vice President Chris Gahl, adding that when it comes to overall hotel occupancy, “We are in the top quartile nationwide, punching well above our weight class.”
Tamm says youth sporting events at Grand Park in Westfield have been a major catalyst for keeping that occupancy stronger than expected.
“They are throwing off the room nights of maybe the equivalent of major convention centers through out America,” says Tamm.
InRLA says normal business travel rates weren’t expected to return to normal until 2024. They now say projections are aiming for late 2023. | https://cbs4indy.com/indiana-news/indys-tourism-industry-is-approaching-2019-levels/ | 2022-07-09T00:06:12Z | https://cbs4indy.com/indiana-news/indys-tourism-industry-is-approaching-2019-levels/ | true |
TOKYO (AP) — The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in broad daylight Friday shocked a world that has come to associate Japan with relatively low crime and strict gun control.
Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Abe was shot in the back while campaigning in the city of Nara for parliamentary candidates. He died at a hospital, two days before the election.
The suspect apparently circumvented the nation’s ultra-tight gun regulations by building his own weapon. Police said the 15-inch (40-centimeter) device was obviously homemade, and one expert compared it to a muzzle-loading gun. Authorities confiscated similar weapons when they raided the suspect’s nearby one-room apartment.
The motive of the man, who was taken into custody at the scene, remained unclear.
Fatal gun violence is virtually unheard of in Japan, and most Japanese go through life without ever handling, or even seeing, a real gun. Stabbings are more common in killings.
Major universities have rifle clubs, and Japanese police are armed, but gun ownership rights have been a distant issue for decades. Even police rarely resort to firing their pistols.
With a population of 125 million, the country had just 10 gun-related criminal cases last year, resulting in a single death and four injuries, according to police. Eight of those cases were gang-related.
The densely populated capital of Tokyo had zero gun incidents, injuries or deaths during that same year, although 61 guns were seized there.
“Japanese people are in a state of shock,” said Shiro Kawamoto, professor at the College of Risk Management at Nihon University in Tokyo.
“This serves as a wake-up call that gun violence can happen in Japan, and security to protect Japanese politicians must be re-examined,” Kawamoto said. “To assume this kind of attack will never happen would be a big mistake.”
Abe’s security team may face serious questions. But because such attacks are extraordinary in Japan, relatively light security is the norm, even for former prime ministers.
In remarks in Washington, U.S. President Joe Biden described the “profound impact” of the shooting “on the psyche of the Japanese people.”
“This is a different culture — they’re not used to” gun violence “as unfortunately we are. Here in the United States, we know how deep the wounds of gun violence go from communities that are affected. And this assassination is a tragedy that all the people of Japan are feeling.”
Japan’s last high-profile shooting occurred in 2019, when a former gang member was shot at a karaoke venue in Tokyo.
Under Japanese law, possession of firearms is illegal without a special license. Importing them is also illegal. The same rules apply to some kinds of knives and certain other weapons, like crossbows.
People who wish to own firearms must go through a stringent background check, including clearance by a doctor, and declare information about family members. They must also pass tests to show they know how to use guns correctly. Those who pass and purchase a weapon must also buy a special locking system for it at the same time.
Passing those hurdles will allow a license holder to shoot at clay targets. Hunting requires an additional license.
The weapon used in the attack on Abe was probably a “craft-made” firearm, according to N.R. Jenzen-Jones, the director of Armament Research Services, a specialist arms investigations firm.
He compared the weapon to a musket in which the gunpowder is loaded separately from the bullet.
“Firearms legislation in Japan is very restrictive, so I think what we’re seeing here, with what’s probably a muzzle-loading weapon, is not just an attempt to circumvent the control of firearms, but also the strict control of ammunition in Japan,” he said.
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Associated Press writers Jon Gambrell in Lviv, Ukraine, and Aamer Madhani in Washington contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden spoke by phone Friday with the sister of Paul Whelan, an American who has been imprisoned in Russia for more than three years, according to the White House.
Biden’s phone call to Elizabeth Whelan came after Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris s poke earlier this week to the wife of WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been held for more than four months in Russia. Griner pleaded guilty this week to drug charges. Biden also wrote a letter to Griner that was delivered to her when she appeared in a Russian court Thursday.
Elizabeth Whelan criticized the White House earlier this week, arguing the administration was not giving her brother’s case the same level of attention as Griner’s detention.
The White House said in a statement that Biden, in Friday’s call, “reaffirmed that he is committed to bringing Paul home as soon as possible, and the U.S. government will continue its efforts to secure the release of Paul as well as Brittney Griner and all other Americans who are held hostage or wrongfully detained around the world.”
Elizabeth Whelan suggested in a CNN interview Wednesday that her brother was getting less attention than Griner because of her celebrity status. “Why is Paul not getting the same type of level of attention? Why are the Whelans not getting a call? Why is Paul not going to have a letter written by the President?”
White House officials said the Whelans have been included on biweekly calls with the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan had spoken directly with Elizabeth Whelan.
A Russian court convicted Whelan, an American corporate security executive, more than two years ago on charges of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in prison after a closed trial that the U.S. denounced as a “mockery of justice.”
Whelan, a former Marine from Novi, Michigan, has insisted he is innocent, saying he was set up when he was arrested in Moscow in December 2018 while he visiting Russia to attend a friend’s wedding.
Griner was detained in February 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.
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. She faces up to 10 years in prison.
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Which rangefinder binoculars are best?
If you’re into hunting or an avid golfer, rangefinder binoculars are a good tool to have in your arsenal. It helps you determine the distance between yourself and any target, improving your accuracy.
There are many rangefinder binoculars, but the right one depends on what you’ll be using it for and which features appeal to you. A good pair of rangefinder binoculars should provide accurate readings and help elevate your performance on the course or finetune your shooting precision in the field.
What you should know about rangefinder binoculars
Hunting vs. golfing vs. marine
Although there are some versatile hybrid binoculars, golf rangefinders are different from hunting rangefinders. The main difference is that golf rangefinders focus on the nearest target and ignore background surroundings. In contrast, hunting and marine rangefinders look for the furthest target and focus beyond other objects, such as bushes and trees.
Hybrid rangefinder binoculars have a distant and close target mode that can be switched at will, making them suitable for hunting and golfing.
GPS rangefinder vs. laser rangefinder
GPS and laser rangefinder are the most popular, and while each has its advantages, it’s a matter of preference. GPS rangefinders are great for providing golfers with the distance to the green’s front, center and back, but they can’t accurately measure the distance between a ball and the flag.
Laser rangefinders can lock onto anything as long as it’s in your field of vision, and they don’t need to be pre-programmed with GPS courses as GPS rangefinders do. They’re also more accurate and often have interchangeable batteries, which means you don’t have to worry about charging them between rounds.
Ultrasonic vs. optical rangefinder
Many hunting rangefinders use laser or GPS technology, but some use traditional optical or ultrasonic technology to measure distances. Optical binoculars use surrounding objects and the depth of the target. Ultrasonic rangefinders deploy a signal to a target and calculate the time it takes to return to itself to determine distance.
Top features to look for in rangefinder binoculars
Durable build and IP rating
Most rangefinder binoculars have a robust build and offer at least minimal protection against dust and moisture. However, the best ones have an ingress protection, or IP, rating indicating how deep and for how long they can be submerged in water before damaging.
Distance
It depends on what you plan on doing with your rangefinder, but typically they should be able to deliver an accurate reading of a target anywhere from 1,000 to 2,000 yards away. For hunting rangefinders, the further you are from a moving target, the more difficult it is to track it. However, the high-end binoculars use surroundings and other metrics to provide accurate readings that refresh several times per second.
Zoom
Binoculars offering significant magnifying power are essential for hunters to check out the environment hundreds of yards away. It’s usually specified in the binoculars’ product description as a range. For example, a 10-30x range means that 10 times the magnification is the lowest setting, and it can be adjusted to zoom in up to 30 times.
Incline and decline detectors
Incline and decline technology isn’t crucial for golf because you only require a horizontal distance measurement to the hole, but for hunting, the landscape isn’t always as flat as one would like. Many rangefinders have the technology to measure vertical distances to give hunters a precise reading when working with elevations.
Light transmission
Light passing through binocular lenses can significantly affect your image perception. Because of this, many high-end rangefinders are designed to enhance light transmission to reduce this from happening too much. The light transmission rate depends on glass quality, coating, number of lenses and other manufacturing factors.
Best rangefinder binoculars
Top rangefinder binoculars under $1,000
Bushnell Fusion X Rangefinder Binoculars
These binoculars feature ActivSync display technology for morphing out black readings to red tones to provide precise readings no matter the time of day or lighting. They have dual archery and rifle modes, an IPX7 protection rating and exterior lens protection that lets you see targets clearly even in rainy weather.
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Astra Optix HBX1600B Laser Rangefinder
These binoculars deliver readings at a fast speed of 0.15 seconds and offer accurate measurements up to 1,760 yards. The high-transmission LCD has three reticle options, and the premium all-glass optical lens provides better light transmission than plastic-lens systems.
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Barska 7×50 WP Floating Battalion Binoculars
These high-performance binoculars are versatile enough for golf, hunting and marine-based activities. They have fully coated optics that deliver a clear image, and a sizable ocular lens provides a comfortable viewing experience. They are waterproof and have rugged armor, making them ideal for various environments.
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Top rangefinder binoculars $1,000-$2,000
Nikon Laserforce Rangefinder Binocular
These binoculars have an outstanding range of up to 1,900 yards and a crisp OLED display with a four-step intensity adjustment feature. They continuously update measurements every eight seconds and have incline and decline technology for providing horizontal distance readings. Also, they have a rugged build, and the multilayer colored lenses adjust chromatic colors.
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Sig Sauer KILO3000 BDX Binocular Rangefinder
This highly advanced rangefinder updates metrics four times per second and sends ballistic drop data through Bluetooth to the reticle for a precise lock-on. It has an advanced, high-definition optical system and delivers impeccable light transmission. Also, it comes with a lens cleaning pen and cloth.
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Other binoculars to consider
These binoculars offer 10x magnification and have high-performance Schott glasses for 95% light transmission. They have a durable build, but the optimized lens diameter makes them lightweight. Also, the long translation and the large focus wheel let you zone in on targets with superb precision.
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Cars stranded in high water
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - A handful of people have been forced to find another ride home Friday afternoon, after high water stranded their cars along 3rd Avenue and 24th Street in Huntington.
One woman, whose car got stuck, tells WSAZ she is not from this area and her GPS directed her this way.
According to Brian Bracey, who is the Executive Director of the Huntington Water Quality Board, storm water and sewer lines are combined in this area. It all flows towards Fifth Avenue and 31st Street.
Bracey says their goals are to create more storage capacity, as well as separate storm water from sewer.
“This has been a hot spot for flooding, both here and on 5th Avenue. Especially there by Gino’s and Cookout. Those particular areas are the ones we’re concentrating on. We received ARPA funds from the city to be able to do this project and we’re in the planning stages right now -- so we understand the amount of water that’s coming through this area,” Bracey said.
Bracey says it could be a couple of years before we see these improvements go into effect -- a lot of planning has to be done.
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POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian regional official warned Friday of deteriorating living conditions in a city captured by Russian forces two weeks ago, saying Sievierodonetsk is without water, power or a working sewage system while the bodies of the dead decompose in hot apartment buildings.
Gov. Serhiy Haidai said the Russians were unleashing indiscriminate artillery barrages as they try to secure their gains in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk province. Moscow this week claimed full control of Luhansk, but the governor and other Ukrainian officials said their troops retained a small part of the province.
“Luhansk hasn’t been fully captured even though the Russians have engaged all their arsenal to achieve that goal,” Haidai told The Associated Press. “Fierce battles are going on in several villages on the region’s border. The Russians are relying on tanks and artillery to advance, leaving scorched earth.”
Russia’s forces “strike every building that they think could be a fortified position,” he said. “They aren’t stopped by the fact that civilians are left there, and they die in their homes and courtyards. They keep firing.”
Occupied Sievierodonetsk, meanwhile, “is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe,” the governor wrote on social media. “The Russians have completely destroyed all the critical infrastructure, and they are unable to repair anything.”
Haidai reported last week that about 8,000 residents remained in the city, which had a prewar population of 100,000. Some Ukrainian officials and soldiers said Russian forces leveled Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk province’s administrative center, before Ukraine’s troops were ordered out of the city late last month to avoid their encirclement and capture.
Luhansk is one of two provinces that make up the Donbas, Ukraine’s industrial region of mines and factories. Pro-Moscow separatists have fought Ukraine’s army in the Donbas for eight years and declared independent republics, which Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized before he sent troops into Ukraine.
After asserting full control of Luhansk, Putin said Russian forces would have a chance to rest and recoup, but other parts of eastern Ukraine have come under sustained Russian bombardment. The Russian leader warned the Ukrainian government in Kyiv that it should quickly accept Moscow’s terms or brace for the worst.
“Everybody should know that, largely speaking, we haven’t even yet started anything in earnest,” Putin said while speaking with leaders of the Kremlin-controlled parliament Thursday.
Ukraine’s presidential office said early Friday that at least 12 civilians were killed and 30 wounded by Russian shelling over the past 24 hours. Two cities in Donetsk — the other Donbas province — experienced the heaviest barrage, with six people killed and 21 wounded.
In northeast Ukraine, four more people were killed and nine were wounded in Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, where Russian shelling hit residential areas.
Commenting on Putin’s ominous statement, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Russian leader was reacting to statements by Ukraine’s government and its Western allies about defeating Russia on the battlefield.
“Russia’s potential is so big that just a small part of it has been used in the special military operation,” Peskov told reporters. “And so Western statements are utterly absurd and just add to the grief of the Ukrainian people.”
Russia’s war in Ukraine, now in its fifth month, has driven millions of people from their homes, killed untold thousands and shattered European security that was arduously reconstructed after World War II. It has also rippled through the world economy by contributing to higher prices for food and fuel. Ukraine has been unable to export millions of tons of grain and other food, and Russia is facing international sanctions for its invasion.
Iryna Venediktova, Ukraine’s prosecutor general, told the AP that her country has recorded 22,000 cases so far related to alleged Russian war crimes — including rape, torture and murder — and an estimated 200 to 300 new cases are recorded each day.
“We must gather the evidence quickly,” Venediktova said, suggesting the numbers could be even higher — largely because of a lack of access to some parts of the country. “It is clear that prosecutors cannot work entirely in the Donetsk region, and the military will not allow it.”
In other developments on Friday:
— The Biden administration said it will send an additional $400 million in military equipment to Ukraine, including four more advanced rocket systems. A senior defense official said the weapons will bolster Ukrainian efforts to strike deeper behind Russian frontlines in the eastern Donbas region.
— Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to the southern Dnipropetrovsk region, where he met with troops and visited a hospital where wounded soldiers were being treated. He said in his nightly video address that he went to personally express his gratitude to those defending Ukraine and also to the doctors and nurses who save the lives of wounded soldiers and civilians.
— Germany’s parliament overwhelmingly approved Sweden and Finland’s requests to join NATO. German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said the two countries’ accession would greatly strengthen NATO’s northern and eastern flanks, noting their strong naval forces in the Baltic Sea and their land forces that know the region bordering Russia well. She suggested that Putin’s efforts to divide and destroy NATO had failed. “He bet on our weakness,” she said. “Now he gets the opposite.” All 30 member countries must agree before the Western military alliance can admit Finland and Sweden.
— A court in Moscow sentenced a Russian municipal council member who had publicly criticized the war in Ukraine to seven years in prison on charges of spreading “knowingly false information” about the Russian military. Alexei Gorinov, 60, criticized Russia’s military actions in Ukraine at a March meeting. A legal aid group said he is the first person ordered to serve prison time under a law that makes it illegal to disparage the Russian military. Russia’s parliament rubber-stamped the law, which carries a maximum prison term of 15 years, a week after the Kremlin sent troops into Ukraine.
— The British Defense Ministry said Ukrainian forces have made advances near the Russian-occupied southern city of Kherson. Meanwhile, the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said Ukrainian partisans blew up a railroad bridge 25 kilometers (15 miles) north of Melitopol, which is to the east of Kherson, on Thursday to disrupt Russian resupply operations.
— On the energy front, the leaders of Greece and Bulgaria inaugurated a new pipeline that will supply natural gas from Azerbaijan to Bulgaria, whose vital supply of Russian gas was cut off in April. And in Germany, energy supply giant Uniper said it is asking the government for a bailout during a growing natural gas crunch due to the war in Ukraine.
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Murru reported from Kyiv, Ukraine. Cara Anna in Kyiv, Ukraine, Lolita C. Baldor in Washington and Associated Press journalists from around Europe contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the common stock of CareDx, Inc. ("CareDx" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: CDNA) between February 24, 2021, and May 5, 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.
CareDx is a diagnostics company that offers diagnostic testing services, products, and digital healthcare software for organ transplant patients and care providers. Testing services for kidney and heart transplant recipients represented at least 85% of CareDx's total revenues, and the Company's AlloSure blood test for transplant recipients was the Company's primary source of revenue. Additionally, the higher reimbursement payment rates for its Medicare-approved tests drove growth of the Company's average sale price ("ASP"), an important metric for investors. Throughout the Class Period, CareDx reported growing revenue and strong demand in the Company's testing services segment. Defendants also emphasized to investors the success of the Company's RemoTraC service – a remote, home-based, blood-drawing service that the Company launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Plaintiff alleges that during the Class Period Defendants misled investors and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Defendants had engaged in a variety of improper and illegal schemes to inflate testing services revenue and demand, including pushing a surveillance protocol through inaccurate marketing materials, offering extravagant inducements or kickbacks to physicians and other providers, and improperly bundling expensive testing services with other blood tests as part of the RemoTraC service; (2) these practices, and others, subjected CareDx to an undisclosed risk of regulatory scrutiny; and (3) these practices rendered the Company's testing services revenue reported throughout the Class Period artificially inflated.
The truth began to emerge on October 28, 2021, when CareDx revealed for the first time that it was the subject of at least three government investigations related to its "accounting and public reporting practices." In response to this news, CareDx's stock price fell 27%, from a closing price of $70.34 per share on October 28, 2021, to a closing price of $51 per share on October 29, 2021.
On April 15, 2022, CareDx's former Head of Community Nephrology, Dr. Michael Olymbios, filed a complaint in California Superior Court that provided extensive detail about: (1) Defendants' misconduct, including the use of RemoTraC to improperly bundle the Company's most expensive testing services, including AlloSure, with other blood tests, that led to the government investigations; (2) Defendants' knowledge of the misconduct throughout the Class Period; and (3) their attempts to conceal the misconduct. In response to this filing, CareDx's stock price fell an additional 8% the next trading day.
Finally, after the markets closed on May 5, 2022, CareDx issued a press release announcing financial results for the first quarter of 2022, reporting a near 5% decline in the ASP of the Company's testing services. In response to this news, CareDx's stock price fell 18.5%, from a closing price of $31.66 per share on May 5, 2022, to a closing price of $25.87 per share on May 6, 2022.
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 22, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery does not require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Backers of a proposed initiative in Oregon that would require people to secure permits to buy firearms say concern about recent mass shootings have buoyed their effort and they have enough signatures to place it on the November ballot.
The Rev. Mark Knutson, a chief petitioner of the initiative, delivered signatures Friday afternoon to the Oregon secretary of state’s office in Salem, accompanied by students and other volunteers. Election officials, who work under Secretary of State Shemia Fagan, will verify that the signatures are from registered voters.
Proponents of the measure say they’ve seen surging interest in the possible November ballot question following recent mass shootings, and they hope the move to put the gun issue before voters catches fire in other states.
“Let’s go across the nation, and go from grief and despair and mourning,” Knutson said. “We just need to take action. If people are afraid, if neighbors are being shot, if our children are in fear — if we don’t take action, what are we doing?”
The initiative supporters needed to deliver at least 112,080 registered voters’ signatures by the Friday deadline to get on the ballot, Knutson said. Proponents say they delivered 161,545 signatures.
It would ban large capacity magazines over 10 rounds — except for current owners, law enforcement and the military — and require a permit to purchase any gun. The state police would create a firearms database.
To qualify for a permit, an applicant must complete an approved firearm safety course, pay a fee, provide personal information, submit to fingerprinting and photographing and pass a criminal background check. The person must apply for the permit from the local police chief, county sheriff or their designees.
Oregon appears to be the only state in America with a gun safety initiative underway for the 2022 election, according to Sean Holihan, state legislative director for Giffords, an organization dedicated to saving lives from gun violence.
The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action has denounced the initiative, saying on its website that “these anti-gun citizens are coming after YOU, the law-abiding firearm owners of Oregon, and YOUR guns. They don’t care about the Constitution, your right to keep and bear arms, or your God-given right of self-defense.”
Voters in two predominantly Democratic neighboring states have already passed gun safety ballot measures.
In 2018, Washington state voters approved restrictions on the purchase and ownership of firearms, including raising the minimum purchasing age to 21, adding background checks and increasing waiting periods. In 2016, voters there overwhelmingly approved a measure authorizing courts to issue extreme risk protection orders to remove an individual’s access to firearms.
California voters in 2016 passed a measure prohibiting the possession of large-capacity ammunition magazines and requiring certain individuals to pass a background check to buy ammunition.
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PHOENIX (AP) — An attorney with the Arizona attorney general’s office told a judge Friday that a 2021 state “personhood” law that gives all legal rights to unborn children can’t be used to bring criminal charges against abortion providers.
The comment from Assistant Solicitor General Kate Sawyer came during a hearing where attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona and an abortion rights group representing abortion providers were seeking an injunction blocking the law.
They said abortion providers are worried that prosecutors will bring charges for crimes like assault and child abuse under the law, which U.S. District Judge Douglas Rayes declined to block last year.
That decision came before the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 24 ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that said women have a right to seek an abortion.
The battle over Arizona’s “personhood” law — one of several in Republican-led states that aim to grant all rights to pre-born children — is playing out despite all abortions being halted in the state. Arizona providers stopped providing the procedure because of concerns that a pre-1901 law that bans all abortions may now be enforceable, as Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich declared on June 29.
That law has been blocked since 1973, but Brnovich has vowed to go to court to remove that injunction.
Attorney Jessica Leah Sklarsky of the Center for Reproductive Rights urged Rayes to block the personhood law, arguing it is unconstitutionally vague on several fronts. One is because it says unborn children should be “acknowledged” to have all rights, and another is because it is unclear how it can be reconciled with criminal laws.
“Both of these flaws independently create all of the problems that the vagueness doctrine is intended to prevent,” Sklarsky told Rayes.
She also noted that the attorney general said in their legal papers that it’s “anyone’s guess” how state judges might apply the law.
But Sawyer said the law does not affect the definitions of a person in criminal statutes, and urged Rayes to reject the abortion providers’ request that he block the personhood law.
“There’s no indication on the face of the statute … that it is meant to create new crimes,” Sawyer said. “In Attorney General Brnovich’s position, the interpretation policies (do) not make any of these applicable to abortion.”
If they really are worried about possible enforcement, they should instead go to state court and request a declaratory judgment saying the personhood law does not allow criminal charges to be filed, Sawyer said,
“Plaintiff’s are not left without recourse here,” Sawyer said.
Rayes, while not indicating how he may rule, seemed perturbed by that answer.
“So you’re saying,” Rayes said, “the way for defendants to address their fear that because its anyone’s guess they might be prosecuted, they can eliminate that,” by hiring a lawyer and filing a lawsuit.
Rayes did not say when he would issue a ruling.
He also will have to reexamine another part of that law that he did agree to block last year. That portion of the 2021 law allows prosecutors bring felony charges against doctors who knowingly terminate pregnancies solely because the fetuses have a genetic abnormality such as Down syndrome.
The Supreme Court last week acted on a request by Brnovich to lift that injunction, and sent it back to Rayes to review in light of its decision to overturn the Roe decision.
States now have wide-ranging rights to limit abortion, and many laws limiting or blocking all abortions that were previously blocked can now be enforced. That has led to battles in many states over which laws are now enforceable.
Arizona is in that position, with Republican Gov. Doug Ducey saying a ban on abortions after 15 weeks that he signed in March takes precedence over the pre-1901 law Brnovich said in in effect.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Feces were mailed to Ohio’s 25 Republican state senators this week, prompting an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, a spokesperson for the lawmakers confirmed Friday.
Mailroom employees in the Ohio Statehouse and post offices in Cleveland and Akron intercepted the letters, which never made it to their intended recipients.
Why they were sent remains unclear. No policy issues or certain grievances were included in the letters, said Senate GOP spokesperson John Fortney. The return addresses on the letters were deemed fake.
Fortney called the incident “outrageous” and a serious health risk.
“This type of biohazard attack doesn’t just stop with the people it’s directed towards,” Fortney said. “This is something that could potentially affect every single employee at the Ohio Statehouse, regardless of their political affiliation.”
He said he isn’t aware of any House members receiving such mail.
The U.S. Postal Service’s law enforcement arm is investigating the matter as a federal crime. It wouldn’t comment Friday about the ongoing investigation, including whether the waste was human or animal.
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DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government’s auto safety watchdog is sending investigators to another Tesla crash, this time one that killed two people along Interstate 75 in Florida.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration confirmed Friday that it sent a Special Crash Investigations team to probe the Wednesday crash into the back of a semi-trailer at a rest area near Gainesville.
The agency would not say if the Tesla was operating on one of the company’s partially automated driving systems.
The 2015 model year Tesla was traveling on Interstate 75 about 2 p.m. Wednesday when, for an unknown reason, it exited into a rest area. It then went into the parking lot and hit the back of a parked Walmart Freightliner tractor-trailer, the Florida Highway Patrol said in a release.
The driver and passenger, both from Lompoc, California, were pronounced dead at the scene.
A message was left Friday seeking comment from Austin, Texas-based Tesla.
NHTSA is investigating 37 crashes involving automated driving systems since 2016. Of those, 30 involved Teslas, including 11 fatal crashes that have killed a total of 15 people.
The agency also said in documents that it’s investigating a fatal pedestrian crash in California involving a Tesla Model 3 that happened this month. It also sent a team to probe a Cruise automated vehicle crash in California that caused a minor injury in June.
NHTSA also has been investigating Teslas on Autopilot crashing into parked emergency vehicles. In a separate probe, the agency is looking at Teslas on Autopilot braking for no apparent reason.
Last week, newly confirmed NHTSA Administrator Steven Cliff told The Associated Press that the agency is intensifying efforts to understand the risks posed by automated vehicle technology so it can decide what regulations may be necessary to protect drivers, passengers and pedestrians. He also says automated systems such as automatic emergency braking have huge potential to save lives.
In June, NHTSA released data from automakers and tech companies showing nearly 400 crashes over a 10-month period involving vehicles with partially automated driver-assist systems, including 273 with Teslas.
The agency cautioned against using the numbers to compare automakers, saying it didn’t weight them by the number of vehicles from each manufacturer that use the systems, or how many miles those vehicles traveled.
Automakers reported crashes from July of last year through May 15 under an order from the agency, which is examining such crashes broadly for the first time.
Tesla’s crashes happened while vehicles were using Autopilot, “Full Self-Driving,” Traffic Aware Cruise Control, or other driver-assist systems that have some control over speed and steering. The company has about 830,000 vehicles with the systems on the road.
The next closest of a dozen automakers that reported crashes was Honda, with 90. Honda says it has about 6 million vehicles on U.S. roads with such systems.
Tesla’s crash number may appear elevated somewhat because it uses telematics to monitor its vehicles and get real-time crash reports. Other automakers don’t have such capability, so their reports may come slower or crashes may not be reported at all, NHTSA said.
Auto safety advocates said driver-assist and self-driving systems have potential to save lives, but not until NHTSA sets minimum performance standards and requires safety improvements to protect all road users.
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AP Writer Curt Anderson contributed from St. Petersburg, Florida. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/business/nhtsa-to-investigate-florida-tesla-crash-that-killed-2/ | 2022-07-09T00:29:22Z | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/business/nhtsa-to-investigate-florida-tesla-crash-that-killed-2/ | false |
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Protesters in Burkina Faso demonstrated Friday against the return of former President Blaise Compaore, as the ruling junta faltered in its efforts to hold a summit on the crisis of jihadi violence.
Compaore, the longtime military strongman ousted by a popular insurrection in 2014, returned to Burkina Faso Thursday to attend the unprecedented meeting with other former leaders.
Junta leader Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba called the meeting which was to include five former presidents. But on Friday only two ex-leaders showed up for the meeting: Compaore and Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo, who ruled the country for nine months between 1982 and 1983 when it was known as Upper Volta.
The meeting devised by Damiba, who had himself appointed interim president, was an attempt to discuss Burkina Faso’s future amid escalating jihadi violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group that has killed thousands and displaced nearly 2 million people.
Former President Roch Marc Christian Kabore who was ousted by Damiba in January, was prevented from attending by protesters who surrounded his house, according to internal security reports for aid workers seen by The Associated Press.
Riot police gathered outside Kabore’s house Friday to control the protesters.
“If Roch Marc Christian Kabore still has some dignity he should normally refuse to go to this meeting. So I am in front of his doors and I said he must not move,” said Ahmed Ki, a Kabore supporter.
Others in the capital protested the return of Compaore, who ruled the country with an iron fist for nearly 30 years. Although in exile in neighboring Ivory Coast, a Burkina Faso court recently convicted him of complicity in the murder in 1987 of former President Thomas Sankara and sentenced him to life in prison.
Lawyers for the Sankara family have called for his arrest.
“Mr. Blaise Compaore was sentenced to life imprisonment by the trial of the military court of Ouagadougou and he is still subject to an arrest warrant issued against him by the military court,” said Benewende Stanislas Sankara, spokesman for the Sankara family.
Local rights organizations warn that by giving Compaore impunity the junta has taken an “extremely serious step,” that undermines the rule of law in Burkina Faso, Chrysogone Zougmore, president of the Burkinabe Movement for Human Rights, told The Associated Press.
In a statement on state television, Damiba defended his decision to allow Compaore to visit the country.
“To the Burkinabe who have expressed their opinions against our approach, we tell them that the process is not made to consecrate impunity, but to contribute to the search for solutions for a Burkina Faso of peace and cohesion,” he said.
The junta will continue discussions with those who were unable to attend the meeting, he said.
The junta’s message of “forgive and forget” isn’t going to be accepted easily by the public, said Laith Alkhouri, CEO of Intelonyx Intelligence Advisory.
“This urgent meeting has proven unsuccessful thus far, and it is, if anything, eroding the already fragile public trust in the governing junta,” he said. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/burkina-faso-junta-faced-with-protests-over-exiled-ex-leader/ | 2022-07-09T00:29:48Z | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/burkina-faso-junta-faced-with-protests-over-exiled-ex-leader/ | false |
Which camera bags are best?
A good-quality camera bag is just as crucial as having the right equipment. You could have a complex camera, but if you don’t have a safe and secure way of storing it, you can’t take it on the road.
While all camera bags might look the same, there are plenty of differences that should influence your decision. The best camera bag for you might not be the biggest, heaviest or most padded. The key is to have enough space for your equipment while still being able to move around easily — and of course, keep your camera undamaged.
Size and comfort
Pack all your gear out and take a look at how much it is. That should give you a rough estimate of the bag size you’ll need. Depending on the number of batteries, additional lenses and flashes, you might need a bigger carrying case than you initially thought.
But the bigger the bag, the more cumbersome it will be. That is where comfort plays a huge role, and you should consider its impact. For heavy photography equipment that includes a drone, a roller case is the best option.
However, a well-padded backpack with sturdy zippers will get you more mileage if you only have basic gadgets. Where possible, try out the camera bag first, and imagine yourself carrying it fully laden for some time.
Customizable compartments
Having enough space in the camera bag for all your tools and gadgets is crucial, but the great thing about most carriers is the customizable compartments. A camera bag is essentially modular, as the internal compartment walls have Velcro on either end.
This lets you change the default configuration to make more space for one gadget or reduce the area for smaller ones. This has a two-fold purpose. First, it keeps your photography equipment snug. And second, it prevents them from banging against each other. For items that don’t quite fit in the primary section, a good quality bag has smaller pockets for loose parts.
Weatherproof
Any photographer knows that the weather can change in an instant. You are never guaranteed sunny skies. Just as your equipment needs to be ready at a moment’s notice, so too does your camera bag.
Look for a good quality bag that is water-resistant, can take a few knocks and can keep the dust and dirt out. It doesn’t need to be fully waterproof, but it should have enough resistance so that you can get out of the rain before soaking your gear.
Best camera bags
Lowepro Freeline Camera Backpack
This camera backpack has four external zippered pockets and a tripod holder by the shoulder straps. The internal compartment is customizable through three bendable walls and two dividers, letting you access your gear from the sides of the bag or when lying flat.
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USA Gear DSLR Camera Backpack Case with 15.6-inch Laptop Compartment
If you need a camera bag with quick access to all your gear, this is the perfect option. The primary compartment opens from the front and has padded dividers for additional protection. The top compartment is perfect for smaller items, and there is a tripod strap on the side.
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Amazon Basics Large DSLR Gadget Bag
A great grab-and-go shoulder bag, it is perfect for photographers who don’t need a lot of space. It has several padded dividers for customization, a slot for a tablet, three external pockets with zippers and a tripod strap on the front.
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Manfrotto MB MA2-BP-BFR Advanced 2 Befree Camera Backpack
This camera backpack has a top compartment to store smaller items, such as cables and batteries, and a slim, zippered pouch on the front for a laptop or tablet. The main compartment is accessed through the back and comes with five padded internal walls to change the configuration.
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This bag has a three-in-one design where your gear is stored in a separate camera pod that slots into the backpack’s main compartment. The lid has several slots for a laptop and tablet, and there is a tripod holder on the top. The camera pod has customizable walls and is easily accessed through an off-the-shoulder opening.
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Caden Camera Backpack for DSLR
If you need a classic camera bag with no added frills, this backpack is an excellent choice. The padded interior is customized through two large walls and two smaller dividers. The lid has a laptop slot and a zippered outer pocket, and the sides have a water bottle holder and a tripod strap.
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Lowepro LP37280 Whistler RL 400 AW II Rugged Camera Roller
This camera bag is perfect for unpredictable days. It features a smaller gear compartment that fits neatly into the larger roller bag. If you don’t need your camera equipment, you just remove that compartment and you have a sturdy travel bag for clothing. It has a water-resistant coating and two roller wheels.
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Amazon Basics Holster Camera Case for DSLR Cameras
For an easy carrying option, this shoulder bag has one main compartment large enough for a camera body and one lens. It has a zippered side pocket for smaller items and has no padding on the shoulder strap.
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Mosiso Hardshell Camera Bag with Tripod Holder and Laptop Compartment
This backpack has a waterproof hard shell lid that protects your gear from impacts. The main compartment is large enough to store several pieces of equipment and is customizable through two large walls and five smaller dividers. There is also a slot at the back for a laptop or tablet, and there are two zippered pockets in the lid.
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BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged Friday to help troubled energy giant Uniper after it asked the government for a bailout to cope with surging prices for natural gas due to the war in Ukraine.
In a statement, Uniper said the “stabilization measures” it is seeking were “aimed at ceasing the current accumulation of substantial losses, covering Uniper’s liquidity needs and protecting Uniper’s investment-grade credit rating.”
Scholz assured the company — Germany’s biggest importer of Russian gas — of the government’s support.
“This is a company that is of great important to large parts of the economy and to many consumers,” he said during a visit to a trade fair in Munich. “Everyone can be sure: we will play our part to save Uniper.”
The company said its major shareholder, Finland-based Fortum, was also in talks with the German government to “address the negative impact of the current gas supply restrictions on Uniper.”
“Fortum’s proposal includes a restructuring of Uniper aiming at establishing a security of supply company under the ownership of the German government,” it said.
While the government could take a big stake in Uniper to keep the company afloat or let it pass on higher purchasing costs to consumers, Economy Minister Robert Habeck said Friday that the next steps were still being discussed.
“We won’t let a systemically relevant company become insolvent and cause turbulences on the global energy markets,” he said. “We will act.”
Uniper downgraded its financial outlook for this year last week, pointing to a sharp reduction in gas deliveries by Russia’s Gazprom in recent weeks that has forced it to buy substitute supplies at significantly higher prices.
“Since Uniper cannot yet pass on these additional costs, this results in significant financial burdens,” it said at the time.
Germany activated the second phase of its three-stage emergency plan for gas supplies last month. Triggering the third stage would allow the government to determine which sectors and companies gas suppliers need to prioritize, effectively amounting to state energy rationing.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — When Corion Evans saw three people at a party, the 16-year-old never imagined he would save their lives a few hours later. But that's what happened in the early hours of Sunday when a car drove off a boat launch into a south Mississippi river.
The Mississippi high school student jumped into the Pascagoula River around 2:30 a.m. that day after seeing the car plunge into the waters from the boat ramp under Interstate 10. Three young women he had seen at a nearby party on Saturday had been in the car. They all had gone to a gathering spot near the boat ramp after the party ended.
He ran downhill toward the water as fast as he could.
“I just seen the car in the water, then just seen them in the water saying ‘help.’ So I just took my shirt off, took my shoes off and threw my phone and I jumped in the water,” Evans said.
Undeterred by the dark water, Evans headed straight into the river. Later, he learned, alligators live in the river and its bayous.
“I was scared, but I just focused on keeping everybody calm,” he said. He went on to save all three women in the car and a police officer who responded to the scene.
The driver said she was following her GPS and did not realize she was headed for the water’s edge, according to a Moss Point Police Department news release Wednesday.
“It’s no lights down here or nothing, so everything was just pitch black,” Cora Watson, 19, told WLOX-TV. “The GPS thought we was on top of the interstate. That’s why it was telling us to go straight because it did not say it was water here or nothing.”
The three young women climbed out of the passenger window, WLOX-TV reported. At least one of them managed to get onto the roof of the car. As another struggled to tread water, she managed to hold one hand in the air and call the police.
Moss Point police officer Gary Mercer was dispatched to the scene and said Evans was already in the water when he arrived. Mercer said he jumped into the river and began assisting one of the teenagers who said she couldn't swim. After Mercer tried to carry the girl on his back, she panicked and caused him to go underwater.
"He was trying to come back up but kept swallowing water," Evans said. "He was trying to catch his breath but he tells her, ‘I can’t, I can’t.' That's when I swam over to them."
Evans then helped Mercer and the woman reach the shore. He attributes his physical strength to playing high school football and his swimming experience. He said he learned how to swim as a 3-year-old in his grandmother's pool.
“If Mr. Evans had not assisted, the situation could have turned out differently, instead of all occupants being rescued safely,” said Moss Point Chief of Police Brandon Ashley.
On Tuesday, the Moss Point mayor and board of aldermen presented Evans with a certificate of commendation for his actions.
“We are proud of the young man for having the courage to forget about himself and jump into the water,” Mayor Billy Knight told the AP. “It’s not often enough that you see people put others above themselves.”
The young women gave Evans a gift basket complete with bags of “Life Savers” candy.
Evans, who will be a senior at Pascagoula High School in the fall, wants to study physical therapy or sports medicine in college. A GoFundMe page was started to help pay his tuition, which he is calling a “blessing.”
“I wasn’t supposed to be there," Evans said. “When I ran into that water I was supposed to have already been gone. I feel that I’m being blessed for what I did that night.”
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Hiker found dead at White Sands National Park
A 27-year-old hiker who went missing while visiting White Sands National Park during a solo cross-country trip has been found dead
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — A 27-year-old hiker who went missing while visiting White Sands National Park has been found dead, authorities said Friday.
New Mexico state police and officials at the southern New Mexico park reported that rescue teams discovered the body of Brad Utegaar of Wausau, Wisconsin, earlier this week after a search was initiated over the holiday weekend. A military helicopter and state and federal officers helped with the effort.
Utegaar's car had been parked at the Alkali Flats Trail for two days. His body was found about 2 miles (3.22 kilometers) northeast of the trail.
State Police Officer Ray Wilson said there did not appear to be any foul play and that Utegaar had a backpack and water bottles with him.
Utegaard’s family told authorities in New Mexico that he was on a cross country trip alone.
Several people have died among the white sand dunes over the years, and park officials on Friday warned again about the dangers of hiking in extreme temperatures as there is no shade or water along any of the trails at the park. It was exactly one year ago that a hiker from northern New Mexico was found dead at the park.
Officials recommended that hikers bring at least 1 gallon (3.79 litres) of water per person per day and high energy snacks along with a hat and sunscreen. | https://www.kttc.com/2022/07/08/hiker-found-dead-white-sands-national-park/ | 2022-07-09T00:31:57Z | https://www.kttc.com/2022/07/08/hiker-found-dead-white-sands-national-park/ | false |
‘I don’t think I’m nuts’: Man plans to push peanut (with his nose) 13 miles to mountain peak
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - A Colorado man is getting ready to push a peanut with his nose to the top of a mountain peak while joining a unique club if he’s able to make it to the summit.
Bob Salem will attempt the feat on Saturday up to Pikes Peak, the highest summit of the southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.
“I don’t think I’m nuts. I think I’m eccentrically challenged,” Salem said.
He’s just cracking his way into an odd and exclusive club: The Pikes Peak Peanut Pusher Club.
“I’ll be the fourth,” Salem said.
The club started as a bar bet in 1929, and Salem is trying to be the first person since a rockabilly star did it 60 years ago.
“I like the weird and the strange. I love local stuff,” Salem said.
Salem must reach the summit in under eight days to be the fastest. He said he plans to get to the top in three days with his own original plan and a few snacks.
“Peanuts will probably be one of my snacks,” Salem said.
Salem also said he would be raising money for a homeless charity he supports while taking on the challenge.
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Tony Sirico, the actor who played Paulie ‘Walnuts’ on ‘The Sopranos,’ dies at 79
Tony Sirico, the actor best known as loyal gangster Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri in the HBO drama “The Sopranos,” has died. He was 79.
Sirico died Friday morning in an assisted living facility in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., his manager Bob McGowan confirmed to The Times. No cause of death was revealed, but the actor had dementia.
“He was a very loyal client of 25 years and he’s an ex-Army vet and always gave to charities,” McGowan said of his client, who was born Gennaro Anthony Sirico Jr. “He’s a big contributor to the Wounded Warriors.”
Michael Imperioli, the actor’s “Sopranos” co-star, honored Sirico in an Instagram post shared Friday.
“It pains me to say that my dear friend, colleague and partner in crime, the great TONY SIRICO has passed away today,” Imperioli wrote Imperioli, who played Christopher Moltisanti on the lauded series. “Tony was like no one else: he was as tough, as loyal and as big hearted as anyone i’ve ever known.
“I was at his side through so much: through good times and bad. But mostly good. And we had a lot of laughs. We found a groove as Christopher and Paulie and I am proud to say I did a lot of my best and most fun work with my dear pal Tony. I will miss him forever. He is truly irreplaceable. I send love to his family, friends and his many many fans. He was beloved and will never be forgotten. Heartbroken today.”
While Sirico was most known for his time on the HBO drama starring the late James Gandolfini, his additional credits include “White Hot,” “Goodfellas” and “Family Guy.”
According to a Facebook post by his brother Father Robert Sirico, he is survived by his two children, Joanne Sirico Bello and Richard Sirico, plus “grandchildren, siblings, nieces, nephews and many other relatives.”
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Sampo plc’s share buybacks 07/07/2022
On 07/07/2022 Sampo plc (business code 0142213-3, LEI 743700UF3RL386WIDA22) has acquired its own A shares (ISIN code FI0009003305) as follows:
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On 9 June 2022, Sampo announced a share buyback programme of up to a maximum of EUR 1 billion in compliance with the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (MAR) and the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052. The programme, which started on 10 June 2022, is based on the authorization granted by Sampo's Annual General Meeting on 18 May 2022.
After the disclosed transactions, the company owns in total 2,865,812 Sampo A shares representing 0.54 per cent of the total number of shares in Sampo plc.
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Wallabies face test of depth against England as they look to seal Ella-Mobbs Test series
The Wallabies find themselves in almost unfamiliar territory, with the chance to secure the newly minted Ella-Mobbs Trophy in the second Test against England in Brisbane this evening.
As far as these mid-year three-Test series go, there have only been four of them going all the way back to 2014. The Rugby World Cup years of 2015 and 2019 meant there were no Tests played in June in those years. We just went straight from Super Rugby into a shortened Rugby Championship.
And of those four series, it is only the 2016 series against England where the Wallabies had not won the first Test.
Against France in 2014, the Wallabies won in Brisbane and wrapped up the series in Melbourne, before completing a series clean sweep in Sydney.
And against France again last year, the Wallabies won again in Brisbane but dropped the second Test in Melbourne. A Noah Lolesio penalty goal decided the series back in Brisbane.
The fourth series was against Ireland in 2018, where again the Wallabies won the first Test in Brisbane, but then lost the series following defeats in Melbourne and Sydney.
So, the Wallabies again find themselves leading a series 1-0 going into the second Test, but this playing group would not have any experience of dealing with the pressure successfully.
After his side's miraculous injury-hit and ill-disciplined win in Perth last weekend, Wallabies coach Dave Rennie has been forced into team changes for Brisbane.
With fly half Quade Cooper a late scratching just minutes before kick-off in Perth, the Wallabies lost fullback Tom Banks to an arm injury and prop Allan Ala'alatoa to concussion, while lock Darcy Swain was sent from the field via a red card and is now serving a two-week suspension.
But in naming his side on Thursday, Rennie was forced into making more changes than just those that were obvious from the first Test of the year.
Andrew Kellaway was all set to fill the fullback role after performing admirably there last week in place of the injured Banks, but he has since suffered a hamstring injury and will sit Brisbane out.
His absence gives Jordan Petaia an opportunity in the Wallabies' number 15 jersey that Rennie has been keen on for some time, despite his credentials as a custodian remaining a work in progress.
Centre Len Ikitau had limited opportunities in Perth, but in naming the side without him, Rennie conceded that Ikitau had suffered calf soreness in the series opener.
"He hasn't come right," Rennie said on Thursday.
"He tried to run this morning. He's really close but we didn't want to risk anything and confident he'll be right for next week."
The underlying question here surrounds the nature of Wallabies' injuries, too. Kellaway's hamstring is not thought to be serious, nor is Ikitau's calf. But Ikitau is now the fifth calf injury within the squad.
Wallabies look to wider squad
Taniela Tupou will return this week from a long-term calf injury, Pone Fa'amausili remains sidelined, Jed Holloway was ruled out of a certain Test debut last week, and Cooper's late injury on Saturday was a calf as well.
Asked whether there was something of a trend developing, Rennie instead turned it around to opportunities created and the additional squad strength it builds.
"I wouldn't say it's massively disruptive," Rennie said.
"I've talked about the fact we've got a lot more depth than what we had a couple of years ago and it's an opportunity to highlight that."
Tupou returns for Ala'alatoa in the front row. Plenty thought lock Matt Philip should have started last week and he comes straight in for the suspended Swain.
With Ikitau out, Queensland centre Hunter Paisami comes in, while Brumbies flyer Tom Wright slots into Kellaway's wing spot.
On the bench, highly regarded young Brumbies lock Nick Frost is line for a Test debut, while Waratahs utility back Izaia Perese gets his first chance for the year as well.
Concerned about his team's breakdown performance in Perth — and already down openside Tom Curry, who has returned home to manage his concussion recovery — England coach Eddie Jones has picked an extra backrower in a 6-2 forwards-back split on the reserves bench that leaves no need for guessing his side's game plan.
Bath flanker Sam Underhill comes straight into Curry's number seven jersey and Wasps backrower Jack Willis is the extra forward on the bench.
Jones has shaken up his back line, promoting former England under-20s scrum half Jack van Poortvliet, who scored on debut late last week. Leicester teammate and former Sydney University captain, Guy Porter, was also selected after being unused in the first Test.
Porter was in the Brumbies squad before heading back to the country of his birth in mid-2020. He enjoyed Shute Shield Premiership success with Sydney University before linking up with the Brumbies.
Uncapped Northampton back Tommy Freeman is something of a surprise inclusion on the left wing in place of Joe Cokanasiga, where many thought teen sensation Harry Arundell might be promoted after scoring with his first touch last week.
The Wallabies have won their last 10 Test matches played in Brisbane, with their last loss at Lang Park in the series loss to England in 2016. Both teams will hoping recent venue history works in their favour.
Wallabies: Jordan Petaia, Tom Wright, Hunter Paisami, Samu Kerevi, Marika Koroibete, Noah Lolesio, Nic White; Angus Bell, David Porecki, Taniela Tupou, Matt Philip, Cadeyrn Neville, Rob Leota, Michael Hooper (c), Rob Valetini.
Reserves: Folau Fainga'a, Scott Sio, James Slipper, Nick Frost, Pete Samu, Jake Gordon, James O'Connor, Izaia Perese
England: Freddie Steward, Jack Nowell, Guy Porter, Owen Farrell, Tommy Freeman*, Marcus Smith, Jack van Poortvliet; Ellis Genge, Jamie George, Will Stuart, Maro Itoje, Jonny Hill, Courtney Lawes (c), Sam Underhill, Billy Vunipola
Reserves: Luke Cowan-Dickie, Mako Vunipola, Joe Heyes, Ollie Chessum, Lewis Ludlam, Jack Willis, Danny Care, Henry Arundell | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-09/wallabies-forced-to-make-changes-against-england/101222518 | 2022-07-09T00:35:36Z | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-09/wallabies-forced-to-make-changes-against-england/101222518 | false |
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NEW CANAAN — The Grip it and Rip it Passing Championship kicked off Friday on the fields at New Canaan High School and for many coaches, it is the first time seeing their players compete since last November.
While there are no linemen, blocking or tackling, the passing tournament gets players on the field going up against the some of the best skill players in the tri-state area with 33 teams in the tournament.
The varsity head coaches cannot coach the teams, but they are often on the sidelines watching their players and learning what they can.
“We are trying to get kids to compete with each other, bond with each other and have some fun. Win or lose, it’s about competing and trying to do your best,” Fairfield Prep coach Keith Hellstern. “We look at how they react to the good and the bad. This is a great thing when you have a bunch of younger guys, which we do, they have to get used to this arena if they haven’t done it before. I think that is the biggest value of this.”
It’s not just the coaches, the players are hyped up to get back on the field and take on someone other than their teammates.
“Right now, we are learning how we all play together,” Westhill senior David Moodie said. “The younger guys are stepping up and making a lot of plays and they are getting their feet wet, right now and that’s very important. When the season comes, we have to be ready. We are just focused on being out here together and holding everyone accountable.”
Coaches watching are less concerned with winning games than in the regular season and more focused how they are carrying themselves.
“This type of event allows you to just go see kids play and compete,” Newtown coach Bobby Pattison said. “It’s another form of competition and it’s good to see the kids out here and having fun and going against a high-level of competition.”
For most teams, the speed and skill of an opponents’ top players can only be seen in the tournament.
“You can’t replicate the speed of other teams in practice,” McMahon coach Jeff Queiroga said. “As much as we try, it doesn’t matter how good your backups are, Westhill’s varsity, West Haven’s varsity, New Rochelle’s varsity is going to be faster and be better than our guys we put out there in practice. It’s a good test for us.”
LOVE FOR THE DEFENSIVE BACKS
While many focus on the quarterbacks and receivers, defensive backs sometimes have to cover receivers for up to six seconds, generally longer than they would in a varsity tackle game.
“I like this tournament particularly for defensive purposes,” Queiroga said. “Offensively, the quarterbacks can sit back there for five or six seconds and just throw the ball and that can be unrealistic at times. From a defensive perspective, we are asking our kids to guard those receivers for that time. I like it for that. Especially with all the complicated things passing coordinators are doing these days, it gives the defense a chance to see everything in front of you.”
Aside from not tackling, the defensive players find a lot the same between their jobs in 7-on-7 and their jobs come the fall.
“As a DB, there are a lot of similarities between this and real football. Obviously, the ball is in the air more here but it’s just good to get work with the guys going into a new season and bond with the other DBs,” Ridgefield senior defensive back/wide receiver Robbie Hinkle said. “We have to have good communication with coverages and stuff. It’s not like real football but it’s definitely a really good experience. If it gives us a chance to see where we are at and where we can improve.”
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, July 10, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
715 PM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Heat indices ranging from 103 to 110 and high
temperatures up to 106 expected.
* WHERE...Portions of south central Texas.
* WHEN...From noon to 8 PM CDT Sunday
.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 8, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
641 PM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Lubbock
and southwestern Hale Counties through 700 PM CDT...
At 641 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 5
miles northwest of Abernathy. This storm was nearly stationary.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Abernathy.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3392 10204 3394 10183 3378 10176 3375 10205
TIME...MOT...LOC 2341Z 353DEG 1KT 3386 10193
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading fashion designer whose accessories were used by celebrities and characters in the “Sex and the City” TV series, was arrested in her hometown of Cali, Colombia, and faces extradition to the United States on charges of smuggling crocodile handbags, Colombian prosecutors said Friday.
Nancy Gonzalez faces charges in the U.S. Southern District of Florida that could lead to up to 25 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.
While the sale of some crocodile skins is legal, it requires a certificate, which can be costly and hard to obtain.
Investigators in the United States and Colombia say that Gonzalez smuggled hundreds of handbags by paying passengers to carry them in their personal luggage on flights to the United States and instructed them to say that the items were gifts for their relatives if they were asked any questions by customs agents.
The handbags can sell for up to $10,000 in designer stores in the U.S and Europe.
In 2019, two investigators working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service told The Associated Press that as many as 12 people carrying four handbags each boarded a single flight to the United States with round-trip tickets paid for by Gonzalez. The investigators asked for their identities to remain anonymous in order to not jeopardize their probe.
Gonzalez started out by making belts and transitioned to handbags in the late 1990s following a trip to New York, when she was encouraged by a designer store executive to build up a collection. Salma Hayek, Britney Spears and Victoria Beckham reportedly bought her carefully crafted handbags, though it's not clear if any of those were among the bags allegedly brought in illegally. Her work also was included in a 2008 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
In a 2019 interview Gonzalez told the Miami Herald that she felt “an enormous responsibility and commitment” to improve her products, every time she saw a picture or a video of a celebrity using one of her handbags.
An email sent to Gonzalez's website seeking comment was not immediately returned.
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Joshua Goodman reported from Cleveland, Ohio. | https://www.mrt.com/entertainment/article/Celebrity-designer-accused-of-smuggling-crocodile-17293697.php | 2022-07-09T00:42:39Z | https://www.mrt.com/entertainment/article/Celebrity-designer-accused-of-smuggling-crocodile-17293697.php | true |
WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 8, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
701 PM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Lubbock, northeastern Hockley, southwestern Hale and southeastern
Lamb Counties through 730 PM CDT...
At 701 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles west of Abernathy, moving southwest at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Shallowater, Anton and Reese Center.
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 3393 10197 3378 10184 3358 10205 3370 10224
3386 10225
TIME...MOT...LOC 0001Z 053DEG 6KT 3382 10198
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 8, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
618 PM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...A portion of the Panhandle of Texas, including the
following county, Briscoe.
* WHEN...Until 800 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 617 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing in the advisory
area. An estimated 2 and 3 inches of rain have fallen just
west of Silverton along State Highway 86. Although rainfall
has ended, minor flooding of area roadways can be expected.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Silverton.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Floyd
and northeastern Hale Counties through 645 PM CDT...
At 620 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 5
miles southeast of Plainview, moving north at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Plainview, Aiken and Seth Ward.
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 3404 10154 3404 10176 3429 10189 3430 10150
TIME...MOT...LOC 2320Z 170DEG 7KT 3412 10167
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 8, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
618 PM CDT Fri Jul 8 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...A portion of the Panhandle of Texas, including the
following county, Briscoe.
* WHEN...Until 800 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 617 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing in the advisory
area. An estimated 2 and 3 inches of rain have fallen just
west of Silverton along State Highway 86. Although rainfall
has ended, minor flooding of area roadways can be expected.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Silverton.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Floyd
and northeastern Hale Counties through 645 PM CDT...
At 620 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 5
miles southeast of Plainview, moving north at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Plainview, Aiken and Seth Ward.
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 3404 10154 3404 10176 3429 10189 3430 10150
TIME...MOT...LOC 2320Z 170DEG 7KT 3412 10167
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
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Ex-Whitehall mandarin Lord McDonald accused of 'gloating' after helping to bring down Boris Johnson
- Ex-Whitehall mandarin Lord McDonald sent a celebratory tweet after the PM quit
- The former Foreign Office chief revealed Johnson knew of Pincher allegations
- He yesterday posted a snap of Parliament at sunset, adding: 'It was a good day'
- Tory peer Lord Moylan simply replied to Lord McDonald with the word ‘blob’
The ex-Whitehall mandarin who helped to bring down Boris Johnson was yesterday accused of gloating.
Lord McDonald, who triggered this week’s crisis by publicly accusing No10 of lying, posted online a photograph of Parliament at sunset and added the caption: ‘It was a good day.’
His provocative Twitter message on Thursday evening, just hours after Mr Johnson announced he was leaving Downing Street, had been ‘liked’ more than 10,000 times by yesterday.
But Conservative politicians attacked him, saying it was wrong for an unelected civil servant to celebrate the downfall of a PM. Former MEP David Campbell Bannerman asked: ‘Is this former senior civil servant gloating over a deposed Prime Minister then? Or just a nice sunset?’ Conservative councillor Simon Whelband wrote: ‘An unelected former senior civil servant peer gloating about the end of a Prime Minister who won a huge democratic mandate less than three years ago. Sadly I’m not surprised.’
Lord McDonald is pictured with then-Foreign Secretary Johnson outside No 10 in June 2017
Retired Foreign Office chief mandarin Simon McDonald played a major part in the PM's fall
Mr Johnson (pictured making his resignation speech) quit in large part thanks to McDonald
Tory peer Lord Moylan simply replied to Lord McDonald with the word ‘blob’ – the term used by Mr Johnson’s allies to refer to the Whitehall establishment. Fellow Conservative Baroness Foster replied to the mandarin’s tweet: ‘Really?’
Lord McDonald revealed that Mr Johnson knew of allegations made against Chris Pincher (pictured) when in the Foreign Office
She said it was ‘not a good day’ and asked him if he had been present when Mr Johnson was briefed about accusations against disgraced Tory whip Chris Pincher. An explosive intervention by Lord McDonald on Tuesday morning undermined Downing Street’s account of the scandal.
In a highly unusual move for a career diplomat, he published a letter he had written to the Commons sleaze watchdog claiming that it was ‘not true’ that no formal complaints had been made about Mr Pincher’s conduct or that Mr Johnson had been unaware of them. Lord McDonald was the top Foreign Office mandarin between 2015 and 2020, including the period when Mr Johnson was Foreign Secretary.
Insiders said the pair repeatedly clashed and Mr Johnson thought the ‘Remainiac’ mandarin was trying to ‘undermine him by leaking stories about him being lazy’.
In an interview last year, Lord McDonald said he was ‘soaked’ by the ‘hard rain’ that Mr Johnson’s former top aide Dominic Cummings forecast was coming for Whitehall.
Meanwhile, another former mandarin yesterday accused the current head of the civil service of not doing his job properly.
Sir David Normington, ex-permanent secretary at the Home Office, urged Cabinet Secretary Simon Case to ‘step up’ in the next few weeks.
Lord McDonald was accused of gloating for the seemingly celebratory tweet on Thursday
Lord McDonald took the extraordinary step of publishing revelations about Whitehall conduct
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘He has presided over a decline in standards. He’s had a very difficult Prime Minister to deal with, but he’s sometimes seemed like the bystander at a car crash.’
nA FORMER top Whitehall figure toasted Mr Johnson’s demise with a specially created cocktail last night.
Sir Jonathan Jones, who quit as head of the Government Legal Service over Brexit plans, posted on Twitter a photo of a drink he dubbed the ‘One out of Ten’ – a reference to the PM leaving Downing Street.
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