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The new immune networks have implications for developing immunotherapies and understanding autoimmune diseases
SAN FRANCISCO, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Using new technologies to study thousands of genes simultaneously within immune cells, researchers at Gladstone Institutes, UC San Francisco (UCSF), and Stanford School of Medicine have created the most detailed map yet of how complex networks of genes function together. The new insights into how these genes relate to each other shed light on both the basic drivers of immune cell function and on immune diseases.
"These results help us flesh out a systematic network map that can serve as an instruction manual for how human immune cells function and how we can engineer them for our benefit," says Alex Marson, MD, PhD, director of the Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology and co-senior author of the new study, published in Nature Genetics.
The study, conducted in collaboration with Jonathan Pritchard, PhD, professor of genetics and of biology at Stanford School of Medicine, is also critical to better understand how variations in a person's genes are connected to their risk of autoimmune disease.
Immune Insights from CRISPR
Researchers know that when the immune system's T cells—white blood cells that can fight infections and cancer—become activated, levels of thousands of proteins within the cells change. They also know that many of the proteins are interconnected such that changes in the level of one protein can cause changes in the level of another.
Scientists represent these connections among proteins and genes as networks that look somewhat like a subway map. Mapping these networks is important because they can help explain why mutations in two different immune genes might lead to the same disease, or how a drug might have an impact on many immune proteins at once.
In the past, scientists have mapped out a part of these networks by removing the gene for each protein, one at a time, and studying the impact on other genes and proteins, as well as on immune cells' overall function. But this kind of "downstream" approach only reveals half the picture.
"We really wanted to look at what is controlling key immune genes," says Jacob Freimer, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in both the Marson and Pritchard labs, and first author of the new paper. "This kind of upstream approach hadn't been done before in primary human cells."
This upstream approach would be like mapping out the subway routes by first identifying main hubs and then figuring out the routes to those key stations, rather than by painstakingly reconstructing the whole network from disparate satellite stations.
Freimer and his collaborators turned to the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system, which allowed them to disrupt thousands of genes at once. They concentrated on genes that make a type of proteins known as transcription factors. Transcription factors are the switches that turn other genes on or off and can control many genes at once. The scientists then studied the impact of disrupting these transcription factors on three immune genes known to play an important role in T cell function: IL2RA, IL-2, and CTLA4. These three genes were hubs that anchored the upstream mapping efforts.
"This let us go through over a thousand transcription factors and see which ones have an impact on these immune genes," says Freimer.
An Interconnected Network
The researchers suspected that they would find connections between the genes regulating IL2RA, IL-2, and CTLA, but they were surprised by the extent of the connectivity they discovered. Among 117 regulators found to control levels of at least one of the three genes, 39 controlled two of the three, and 10 regulators simultaneously altered levels of all three genes.
To help fill out the immune gene map even more, the team next took a more traditional downstream approach, removing 24 of the pinpointed regulators from T cells to show the full list of genes they regulate—other than IL2RA, IL-2, and CTLA4.
The researchers showed that many of the regulators controlled each other. The transcription factor IRF4, for instance, altered the activity of 9 other regulators and was itself regulated by 15 other regulators; all 24 controlled levels of IL2RA. In other cases, regulators were themselves regulated by IL2RA, in so-called "feedback loops."
As in a dense subway network, each hub was connected to many others, and the connections ran both ways.
"There were cases where a transcription factor was regulating IL2RA, but then IIL2RA itself also controlled that same transcription factor," says Freimer. "It appears that these kinds of feedback loops and regulatory networks are much more interconnected than we previously realized."
Back to Patients
Among the full list of genes controlled by the regulators studied, the research team found a high number of genes already linked to immune diseases, including multiple sclerosis, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis.
The new map helped reveal how genetic changes associated with these diseases can appear in different genes but—because of regulatory connections between genes—end up having the same net effect on cells. It also points to key groups of genes that might be targeted by drugs to treat immune diseases. The study suggests there's a central network of important genes, and when this network is perturbed, it can increase a person's disease risk.
"When we understand the ways in which these networks and pathways are connected, it starts to help us understand key collections of genes that need to function properly to prevent diseases of the immune system," says Marson.
About the Research Project
The paper "Systematic discovery and perturbation of regulatory genes in human T cells reveals the architecture of immune networks" was published in the journal Nature Genetics on July 11, 2022.
Other authors are Christian Garrido of Gladstone; Oren Shaked and Jessica Cortez of UCSF; and Sahin Naqvi, Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong, Arwa Kathiria, Amy Chen, and William Greenleaf of Stanford School of Medicine.
The work and the authors were supported by National Institutes of Health (R01HG008140, RM1-HG007735, T32AI125222, and 5F32GM135996-500 02); the Burroughs Wellcome Fund; the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub; the Innovative Genomics Institute; the American Endowment Foundation; the Cancer Research Institute; the Jordan Family; Barbara Bakar; the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy; a Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship; a Stanford Graduate Fellowship; and a Stanford Center for Computational, Evolutionary, and Human Genomics Fellowship.
About Gladstone Institutes
To ensure our work does the greatest good, Gladstone Institutes focuses on conditions with profound medical, economic, and social impact—unsolved diseases. Gladstone is an independent, nonprofit life science research organization that uses visionary science and technology to overcome disease. It has an academic affiliation with the University of California, San Francisco.
About UCSF
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is exclusively focused on the health sciences and is dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. UCSF Health, which serves as UCSF's primary academic medical center, includes top-ranked specialty hospitals and other clinical programs, and has affiliations throughout the Bay Area. Learn more at ucsf.edu, or see our Fact Sheet.
Sources
Gladstone Institutes: Julie Langelier | julie.langelier@gladstone.org | 415.734.2019
UCSF: Robin Marks | robin.marks@ucsf.edu | 628.399.0370
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The new immune networks have implications for developing immunotherapies and understanding autoimmune diseases
SAN FRANCISCO, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Using new technologies to study thousands of genes simultaneously within immune cells, researchers at Gladstone Institutes, UC San Francisco (UCSF), and Stanford School of Medicine have created the most detailed map yet of how complex networks of genes function together. The new insights into how these genes relate to each other shed light on both the basic drivers of immune cell function and on immune diseases.
"These results help us flesh out a systematic network map that can serve as an instruction manual for how human immune cells function and how we can engineer them for our benefit," says Alex Marson, MD, PhD, director of the Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology and co-senior author of the new study, published in Nature Genetics.
The study, conducted in collaboration with Jonathan Pritchard, PhD, professor of genetics and of biology at Stanford School of Medicine, is also critical to better understand how variations in a person's genes are connected to their risk of autoimmune disease.
Immune Insights from CRISPR
Researchers know that when the immune system's T cells—white blood cells that can fight infections and cancer—become activated, levels of thousands of proteins within the cells change. They also know that many of the proteins are interconnected such that changes in the level of one protein can cause changes in the level of another.
Scientists represent these connections among proteins and genes as networks that look somewhat like a subway map. Mapping these networks is important because they can help explain why mutations in two different immune genes might lead to the same disease, or how a drug might have an impact on many immune proteins at once.
In the past, scientists have mapped out a part of these networks by removing the gene for each protein, one at a time, and studying the impact on other genes and proteins, as well as on immune cells' overall function. But this kind of "downstream" approach only reveals half the picture.
"We really wanted to look at what is controlling key immune genes," says Jacob Freimer, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in both the Marson and Pritchard labs, and first author of the new paper. "This kind of upstream approach hadn't been done before in primary human cells."
This upstream approach would be like mapping out the subway routes by first identifying main hubs and then figuring out the routes to those key stations, rather than by painstakingly reconstructing the whole network from disparate satellite stations.
Freimer and his collaborators turned to the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system, which allowed them to disrupt thousands of genes at once. They concentrated on genes that make a type of proteins known as transcription factors. Transcription factors are the switches that turn other genes on or off and can control many genes at once. The scientists then studied the impact of disrupting these transcription factors on three immune genes known to play an important role in T cell function: IL2RA, IL-2, and CTLA4. These three genes were hubs that anchored the upstream mapping efforts.
"This let us go through over a thousand transcription factors and see which ones have an impact on these immune genes," says Freimer.
An Interconnected Network
The researchers suspected that they would find connections between the genes regulating IL2RA, IL-2, and CTLA, but they were surprised by the extent of the connectivity they discovered. Among 117 regulators found to control levels of at least one of the three genes, 39 controlled two of the three, and 10 regulators simultaneously altered levels of all three genes.
To help fill out the immune gene map even more, the team next took a more traditional downstream approach, removing 24 of the pinpointed regulators from T cells to show the full list of genes they regulate—other than IL2RA, IL-2, and CTLA4.
The researchers showed that many of the regulators controlled each other. The transcription factor IRF4, for instance, altered the activity of 9 other regulators and was itself regulated by 15 other regulators; all 24 controlled levels of IL2RA. In other cases, regulators were themselves regulated by IL2RA, in so-called "feedback loops."
As in a dense subway network, each hub was connected to many others, and the connections ran both ways.
"There were cases where a transcription factor was regulating IL2RA, but then IIL2RA itself also controlled that same transcription factor," says Freimer. "It appears that these kinds of feedback loops and regulatory networks are much more interconnected than we previously realized."
Back to Patients
Among the full list of genes controlled by the regulators studied, the research team found a high number of genes already linked to immune diseases, including multiple sclerosis, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis.
The new map helped reveal how genetic changes associated with these diseases can appear in different genes but—because of regulatory connections between genes—end up having the same net effect on cells. It also points to key groups of genes that might be targeted by drugs to treat immune diseases. The study suggests there's a central network of important genes, and when this network is perturbed, it can increase a person's disease risk.
"When we understand the ways in which these networks and pathways are connected, it starts to help us understand key collections of genes that need to function properly to prevent diseases of the immune system," says Marson.
About the Research Project
The paper "Systematic discovery and perturbation of regulatory genes in human T cells reveals the architecture of immune networks" was published in the journal Nature Genetics on July 11, 2022.
Other authors are Christian Garrido of Gladstone; Oren Shaked and Jessica Cortez of UCSF; and Sahin Naqvi, Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong, Arwa Kathiria, Amy Chen, and William Greenleaf of Stanford School of Medicine.
The work and the authors were supported by National Institutes of Health (R01HG008140, RM1-HG007735, T32AI125222, and 5F32GM135996-500 02); the Burroughs Wellcome Fund; the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub; the Innovative Genomics Institute; the American Endowment Foundation; the Cancer Research Institute; the Jordan Family; Barbara Bakar; the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy; a Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship; a Stanford Graduate Fellowship; and a Stanford Center for Computational, Evolutionary, and Human Genomics Fellowship.
About Gladstone Institutes
To ensure our work does the greatest good, Gladstone Institutes focuses on conditions with profound medical, economic, and social impact—unsolved diseases. Gladstone is an independent, nonprofit life science research organization that uses visionary science and technology to overcome disease. It has an academic affiliation with the University of California, San Francisco.
About UCSF
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is exclusively focused on the health sciences and is dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. UCSF Health, which serves as UCSF's primary academic medical center, includes top-ranked specialty hospitals and other clinical programs, and has affiliations throughout the Bay Area. Learn more at ucsf.edu, or see our Fact Sheet.
Sources
Gladstone Institutes: Julie Langelier | julie.langelier@gladstone.org | 415.734.2019
UCSF: Robin Marks | robin.marks@ucsf.edu | 628.399.0370
View original content to download multimedia:
SOURCE University of California, San Francisco; Gladstone Institutes | https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/07/11/scientists-map-networks-disease-associated-immune-genes/ | 2022-07-11T22:20:44Z | https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/07/11/scientists-map-networks-disease-associated-immune-genes/ | false |
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A proposal in front of the Indianapolis City-County Council on Monday night would require groups to register with the city government before coming downtown to feed people who are homeless.
Failure to do could cost a pretty penny.
“Camron” is homeless and asked News 8 to blur his image. He said he spends a fair amount of time in and around University Park, just south of the War Memorial in downtown Indianapolis. He says when the food-donation vehicles show up, he leaves. The crowd and the mess are just too much for him.
“Maybe force them to throw away the things they give away, you know, pick up after themselves,” “Camron” said.
Andrew Merkley, administrator of homelessness policy and eviction prevention from the city government’s Office of Public Safety, explained why the City-County Council is considering the registration of groups that feed people who are homeless. “The council came to OPHS concerned about some recent incidents that we were seeing at unsanctioned distribution sites, and they were looking for ways to curb issues we have seen at that site.”
Issues have included piles of trash left behind after donation events.
In May during a food-donation event at University Park, a woman was stabbed to death in broad daylight.
University Park is technically owned by the state government. The area most often used to feed the homeless is fenced off, and a dumpster is the place to combat the litter.
Under the proposed city ordinance, donations would be allowed in public spaces as long as the city is notified.
Markley said, “Council wanted to give the ordinance a little bit more teeth and, with that, there is a ciliation that is added in the current language and some fines that could be associated for those that don’t register.”
Fines would start at $250 for a first offense, and $500 for a second one. The Office of Public Health and Safety has already put the registration form on its website, and there is no cost to register. There are several restrictions; for example, no home-cooked meals, and groups must follow some basic food-safety preparation procedures.
A few groups have called the proposed ordinance an unnecessary hurdle, but Merkley said, “This is just for us to have general knowledge of who is serving when and what they seem to understand as long as it is not prohibiting people from doing that important engagement. … There hasn’t been a lot of push back so far.”
The council was to hear the proposal for the first time on Monday night. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/i-team-8/ordinance-would-require-registration-to-feed-homeless-in-front-of-the-indianapolis-city-county-council/ | 2022-07-11T22:22:59Z | https://www.wishtv.com/news/i-team-8/ordinance-would-require-registration-to-feed-homeless-in-front-of-the-indianapolis-city-county-council/ | true |
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's nationalist prime minister will speak at a conference of prominent U.S. conservatives this summer, the latest sign of tightening relations between Hungarian and American conservatives.
The press chief for Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Monday that the autocratic leader had been invited to give an opening address at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas on Aug. 4. His appearance will come after a lengthy address he gave to CPAC Hungary in May, the first ever iteration of the conference in Europe.
In power since 2010, Orban has come under intense criticism in the European Union for rolling back democratic institutions under what he calls an “illiberal democracy." His government has been accused of taking over much of Hungary's media, exerting undue influence over the judiciary and electoral system and overseeing the enrichment of politically connected oligarchs.
But his tactics have won him popularity at home as well as the admiration of some American conservatives, who like his tough stance on migrants and LGBTQ issues and his rejection of liberal pluralism. Fox News host Tucker Carlson, for example, broadcast from Hungary’s capital Budapest for a week in 2021 and delivered an address by video link to CPAC Hungary in May.
At that conference, Orban called Hungary “the bastion of conservative Christian values in Europe” and urged U.S. conservatives to defeat “the dominance of progressive liberals in public life” as he said he had done in Hungary.
CPAC's website describes the conference as “the largest and most influential gathering of conservatives in the world."
Also speaking at the conference in Dallas, which is Aug. 4-7, will be former President Donald Trump, who endorsed Orban’s bid for reelection in April and urged Hungarian voters to give him another term.
Orban and his party won a resounding victory in elections April 3, extending his administration for four more years. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Hungarian-nationalist-PM-Orban-to-deliver-speech-17298058.php | 2022-07-11T22:25:23Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Hungarian-nationalist-PM-Orban-to-deliver-speech-17298058.php | true |
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PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man charged with killing three officers in an ambush while police were serving a protective order has been indicted on 20 charges.
Lance Storz, 49, was indicted by a grand jury Monday on three counts of murder of a police officer and six counts of attempted murder of an officer, according to media reports. Storz opened fire on a group of officers on June 30 at his home in Floyd County, a rural hilly county in Appalachia, according to police.
Storz was also indicted on seven counts of wanton endangerment against a police officer, three counts of assault and one count of assaulting a service animal. A police dog was also killed in the ambush.
The slaying of three officers was the deadliest for law enforcement in a single incident in Kentucky since a prison riot left three guards dead in 1923.
Storz's wife had sought to get away from him, according to an emergency protective order, and he became irate and wouldn't let her leave, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.
She was able to sneak out when officers went to check on her, but when police returned with a protective order, Storz allegedly opened fire.
Storz is charged with killing Floyd County sheriff's Deputy William Petry, Prestonsburg police Capt. Ralph Frasure and Officer Jacob Chaffins. The officers were laid to rest last week.
Officials said Storz fired on officers with a .308-caliber rifle and AR-15 assault rifles. Chaffins was hit by a shot fired from more than 200 yards (180 meters) away and died the next evening at a hospital. Storz later surrendered. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Kentucky-man-indicted-in-slaying-of-3-police-17298010.php | 2022-07-11T22:34:08Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Kentucky-man-indicted-in-slaying-of-3-police-17298010.php | false |
MLB Expanded Pitching Comparison
For Games of Tuesday, July 12
NOTE: Only games with one or both pitchers designated are listed below
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TEAM REC-Team's Record in games started by today's pitcher.
CAR-Career record versus this opponent.
VS OPP-Pitcher's record versus this opponent. | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/MLB-Expanded-Pitching-Comparison-17298023.php | 2022-07-11T22:34:19Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/MLB-Expanded-Pitching-Comparison-17298023.php | false |
WFO LAKE CHARLES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 11, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
347 PM CDT Mon Jul 11 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 7 PM CDT TUESDAY...
* WHAT...For the first Heat Advisory, heat index values up to
109. For the second Heat Advisory, heat index values up to 107
expected.
* WHERE...Portions of central and west central Louisiana and
southeast Texas.
* WHEN...For the first Heat Advisory, until 7 PM CDT this
evening. For the second Heat Advisory, from noon to 7 PM CDT
Tuesday.
* 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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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-LAKE-CHARLES-Warnings-Watches-and-17297903.php | 2022-07-11T22:37:12Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-LAKE-CHARLES-Warnings-Watches-and-17297903.php | false |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has tested positive for COVID-19 and reports experiencing very mild symptoms, his spokesman said Sunday night.
Schumer, 71, is fully vaccinated and has received two booster shots, spokesman Justin Goodman said in a statement.
The New York Democrat will follow federal health guidelines and quarantine this week while working remotely, Goodman said.
“Anyone who knows Leader Schumer knows that even if he’s not physically in the Capitol, through virtual meetings and his trademark flip phone he will continue with his robust schedule and remain in near constant contact with his colleagues,” Goodman said. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/senate-majority-leader-schumer-tests-positive-for-covid-19/ | 2022-07-11T22:38:06Z | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/senate-majority-leader-schumer-tests-positive-for-covid-19/ | false |
Opinion: How craft beer may reduce methane from cows
Even though it is tough sometimes to find the “good” in the world, good things are happening; we just need to search for the positive news.
In the June 28 bulletin put out by the United States Department of Agriculture Research Service, there was an article highlighting work being accomplished at our very own Warren Wilson College, Asheville Sustainability Research, LLC of Asheville, NC and the Agricultural Research Service.
So, let’s start from facts that we can substantiate: methane, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases are the top four greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases trap sunlight and allow the Earth to become warmer. Carbon dioxide (79%) emissions are mainly from fossil fuel combustion, deforestation and cement production. Methane (11%) main sources are fossil fuel production, agriculture and landfills. Nitrous oxide originates from fertilizer applications, fossil fuels and biomass combustion and other industrial processes. Fluorinated gasses come from stationary refrigeration, air conditioners (car and building) and heat pumps.
The need to lessen greenhouse gases can come at all fronts, and it seems that worldwide, folks are looking at ways to reduce methane production.
We, here at the Gaston County Landfill collect the methane gas before in enters the atmosphere and convert it to fuel that runs generators that produce electricity.
Warren Wilson College, Asheville Sustainability Research and Agricultural Research Services have been working on the use of spent brewer’s yeast. The Asheville area is full of breweries, and once the brewer’s yeast has done its job in the production of beer, it is discarded.
This team has discovered that this yeast, when mixed into livestock feed, not only provides extra sources of protein and vitamins, may also cut down on the amount of methane released by said livestock.
The United States, Ireland, Norway and Australia and a few of the countries are actively investigating ways to reduce the methane coming from cows. Cattle are vital to the economy and the livelihood in many cultures, but as they eat grasses and hay, their digestive systems convert some of that into methane that they burp (more than the other option) gas.
Other researchers have found that the addition of algae can cut methane production considerably.
In countries that have ample supply of algae, especially a red alga, Asparagopsis, the addition of this nutrient causes a substantial reduction of gas. Well, if you are a country that has water as borders, this is a wonderful way to utilize a natural resource.
Some countries are considering farming and raising the algae, drying and pelletizing to use as a nutrient supplement, and this is happening in Norway.
But, for the folks in western Carolina, the team in Asheville has discovered some of the same positive results using spent brewer’s yeast! There had been some experimentation with red clover to achieve some of these results, but this will be more advantageous to both the breweries and to the cows.
A researcher in Lexington Kentucky, Michael Flythe along with Robert Bryant and Rhys Burns, Christopher Feilder-Cree, Denia Carlton and Langdon Marti have estimated that the brewing process generated 15 to 18 tons of spent brewer’s yeast per 2641 gallons of finished beer. That’s a lot of spent yeast!
The science behind this is that the yeast absorbs humolones and lupolones (compounds that provide flavor to beer); they also can be responsible to prevent the gut bacteria in cows from releasing methane. So, in essence, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the name of the yeast, works with the hops and other ingredients to produce flavorful beer. The same leftover yeast can then be fed to cows and in their systems helps to tamp down the production of methane.
We may not have red algae in the mountains, but the team from Warren Wilson College is creative and working to solve whatever greenhouse gas problem they can.
Nan Kirlin is the recycling coordinator for Gaston County. | https://www.gastongazette.com/story/opinion/2022/07/11/opinion-how-craft-beer-may-reduce-methane-cows/10031359002/ | 2022-07-11T22:38:22Z | https://www.gastongazette.com/story/opinion/2022/07/11/opinion-how-craft-beer-may-reduce-methane-cows/10031359002/ | false |
WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 11, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Austin San Antonio has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Central Williamson County in south central Texas...
* Until 500 PM CDT.
* At 414 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Granger, and
is nearly stationary.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Georgetown, Taylor, Granger, Weir, Jonah, Waterloo and Walburg.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | https://www.michigansthumb.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-AUSTIN-SAN-ANTONIO-Warnings-Watches-and-17297963.php | 2022-07-11T22:38:24Z | https://www.michigansthumb.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-AUSTIN-SAN-ANTONIO-Warnings-Watches-and-17297963.php | false |
Choosing a full XL mattresses
Finding the right mattress is vital to enjoying a restful night’s sleep and waking up invigorated and ready for what’s ahead. A variety of factors go into finding the perfect fit, including space available and whether you’re sleeping alone or with others.
With the length of a queen-size and the width of a full, the full XL mattress provides a happy medium for taller individuals seeking solitary respite in their bed. This luxury hybrid model by BedStory is our best pick. Read ahead for key aspects of what you need to know before buying the perfect full XL mattress to sleep well at night.
What to know before you buy a full XL mattress
Dimensions of the mattress
Full XL mattresses measure 54 x 80 inches. As such, these are the right size for taller individuals, especially growing teens. Due to the width, they’re not recommended for couples. This size is suitable for kid’s bedrooms, dorms or guest rooms.
Innerspring, foam or hybrid base
There are three main types of mattress, all of which come in full XL sizes.
Innerspring mattresses feature internal coils or springs that provide a relatively firm sleep at an affordable price. Coils vary in design and durability, with individually pocketed ones providing the most longevity and focused support.
Foam mattresses come in at a higher price and are relatively soft, conforming to the sleeper’s body. They tend to provide the “sleep-in” feel many users desire. Foam materials include memory foam, cooling gel foam or latex, which is a more durable and sustainable material.
Hybrid mattresses combine an innerspring base with one or more layers of foam on top for a luxury mattress that provides both comfort and support to all sleepers. The number of layers and materials included varies across brands and is the costliest of the three types.
Firmness of the mattress
How soft or firm a mattress is informs to what extent you’re comforted and supported when you sleep. Firmness is measured on a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 being the softest; common choices fall around 5 or 6. Those who sleep on their back want a slightly firmer mattress, since their neck and spine are in alignment. Anyone who sleeps on their side or stomach should opt for a slightly softer option that gives a bit while still supporting your hips and shoulders.
Thickness of the mattress
The average thickness of a mattress ranges from 8-10 inches, and users should go thicker or thinner depending on their weight and size. If you have a mattress that’s too thin for your body, you’ll sink in excessively and wear out the materials more quickly. However, a mattress that’s too thick may find you sleeping atop the mattress instead of properly sinking in and enjoying the comfort features.
What to look for in a quality full XL mattress
Breathability
It’s recommended to seek out mattresses that are breathable and promote increased airflow, particularly for those who sleep warm or sleep in hotter, more humid conditions. Memory foam tends to trap in heat — this is often offset by infusing gel or graphite to cool the material. Latex is another cooler material option, while individually pocketed coils in innerspring mattresses allow for quality airflow.
Motion transfer
Some mattresses are equipped to absorb and isolate movements; these also are typically quieter than other options. This is useful if you sleep with a pet, or if you regularly use a laptop or other device on your mattress.
Edge support
Certain mattresses reinforce the edges to assist users in more easily getting into and out of bed. This is useful for anyone who may sit at the edge of the bed, taking their time to get ready in the morning or night. Particularly if you’re placing your full XL mattress in the corner of a room, look for supportive edges.
Cost of a full XL mattress
Most full XL mattresses cost $200-$400, with hybrid options on the higher end of the range.
Full XL mattress FAQ
How do I best maintain a full XL mattress?
A. A mattress protector is one of the best ways to keep your mattress healthy, particularly if the mattress is being used by a teenager. The protector can prevent dirt, dust and bacteria from seeping in, and most block out liquids too, which is especially important for foam top layers. It’s recommended to air out and rotate the mattress every few months for more even usage.
How important is the right mattress type for children and teens?
A. Quality sleep is important for all ages, especially young ones, as a restful night can enhance energy, focus and motivation. Conversely, poor sleep can lead to lethargy, poor eating habits and a lack of concentration. Preteens and teens require lengthy, adequate sleep to stay healthy, according to Healthline.
Best full XL mattresses
Top full XL mattress
BedStory 12-Inch Hybrid Mattress
What you need to know: Luxury hybrid mattress great for all sleep positions and needs, particularly those who sleep warm.
What you’ll love: Strong, pocketed coil base and two foam layers provide both support and comfort. Gel-infused foam sleeps cool. Isolates motion and relieves pressure on sore joints.
What you should consider: Expensive. Not for thinner, slighter individuals.
Where to buy: Amazon
Top full XL mattress for the money
Linenspa 6-Inch Innerspring Mattress
What you need to know: Simple yet effective mattress comfortable for young ones; it also comes at a great price.
What you’ll love: Medium firmness caters to most sleepers. Steel coils provide support and longevity. Features a soft, comfortable top. Includes 10-year warranty. Inexpensive.
What you should consider: Thickness is not best for adults.
Where to buy: Amazon
Worth checking out
LUCID 10-Inch Gel Memory Foam Mattress
What you need to know: Medium-firm memory foam mattress with comfort, surprising cooling features and durability.
What you’ll love: Gel-infused layer helps cool the body, providing a better sleep. Charcoal-infused base foam is strong, supportive and therapeutic. Average thickness accommodates most users.
What you should consider: Takes time for full decompression and odor dissipation.
Where to buy: Amazon
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Depp’s lawyers urge judge to leave jury verdict intact
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Lawyers for Johnny Depp are urging a Virginia judge to leave his $10 million defamation judgment intact after attorneys for his ex-wife, Amber Heard, asked the judge to set aside the verdict on multiple grounds, including an apparent case of mistaken identity with one of the jurors.
In court papers filed Monday, Depp’s lawyers dispute arguments from Heard’s team that the jury’s verdict was nonsensical and unfounded. They also say that the Heard team’s complaints about the juror’s identity are irrelevant.
Last month, a civil jury in Fairfax awarded $10.35 million to Depp after they found he was defamed by Heard when she wrote a 2018 op-ed piece in The Washington Post about domestic violence.
The jury also awarded $2 million to Heard on her counterclaim that she was defamed by one of Depp’s attorneys after he called her allegations a hoax.
Heard’s lawyers filed motions earlier this month asking the judge to toss out the verdicts on a variety of legal theories.
On Monday, Depp’s lawyers filed their response. They argue that there was nothing inconsistent in the fact that the jury awarded judgments in favor of both Depp and Heard. They said the jury verdict form allowed jurors to be very specific about which statements were libelous, and that the verdict makes sense when you look at the specific statements cited by the jury.
As for the confusion over the juror’s identity, Depp’s lawyers say it’s too late for Heard’s team to object. According to court papers, a summons went out to a 77-year-old man. But the man who responded in his place was his 52-year-old son, who has the same name and lives at the same address.
Depp’s lawyers argue that if Heard’s team had concerns, they should have spoken up at the time because it was apparent that the man who served was not 77 years old, even though court paperwork described him as such.
Judge Penney Azcarate has not yet indicated if she plans to hold a hearing to hear arguments on the motions to set aside the verdict.
The verdict in Depp’s favor in Virginia came about two years after a similar trial in the United Kingdom in which Depp sued a British tabloid after he was described as a “wife beater.” The judge in that case ruled in the newspaper’s favor in 2020 after finding that Heard was telling the truth in her descriptions of abuse.
Jurors in the Virginia case were not told that the judge in the British case had ruled against Depp.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Twitter are bracing for a legal fight after the billionaire said Friday he was abandoning his $44 billion bid for the social media company.
Twitter is vowing to challenge Musk in court to uphold the agreement. Shares of Twitter slid more than 11% on Monday. Here’s a look at what could happen next.
WHY IS MUSK BACKING OUT?
There are a lot of reasons why Musk might have had second thoughts. But he alleged Friday that Twitter has failed to provide enough information about the number of fake accounts it has.
Twitter said last month that it was making available to Musk a “firehose” of public raw data on hundreds of millions of daily tweets. But Musk’s lawyers have argued that the company was providing Musk with sometimes “incomplete or unusable information” and less data than it offers some of its big customers.
Twitter said last week it uses a mix of public and private data to determine the amount of spam. Private user data isn’t available publicly and thus isn’t in the data “firehose” that it gave Musk. That would include IP addresses, phone numbers and location. Twitter said such private data helps avoid misidentifying real accounts as spam.
Twitter has said for years in regulatory filings that it believes about 5% of the accounts on the platform are fake. But on Monday Musk continued to taunt the company, using Twitter, over what he has described as a lack of data.
WHAT IS TWITTER’S RESPONSE?
Twitter declared its intent to sue Musk. The company 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 purchase, which the company’s board has approved and CEO Parag Agrawal has insisted he wants to consummate.
The chair of Twitter’s board, Bret Taylor, tweeted Friday that the board is “committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon” with Musk and “plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery.”
The trial court in Delaware frequently handles business disputes among the many corporations, including Twitter, that are incorporated there.
WHO’S GOING TO WIN?
It’s almost impossible to predict the outcome of any protracted legal battle. But law and business experts believe Twitter likely has the stronger case.
Morningstar analyst Ali Mogharabi noted that Twitter has described its estimate of fake and spam accounts for years in regulatory filings while explicitly noting that the number might not be accurate given the use of data samples and interpretation.
Given current market conditions, Mogharabi said, Twitter may also have a solid argument that the layoffs and firings of the past weeks represent “an ordinary course of business.”
“Many technology firms have begun to control costs by reducing headcount and/or delaying adding employees,” he said. “The resignations of Twitter employees cannot with certainty be attributed to any change in how Twitter has operated since Musk’s offer was accepted by the board and shareholders.”
The case could also end in a settlement, for instance with the two sides negotiating a lower price. If Musk wins, there’s also the question of the $1 billion breakup fee. He can certainly afford it, but will he want to pay?
WHAT HAPPENS TO TWITTER NOW?
The Musk saga has been, to put it mildly, a distraction for Twitter’s workers, executives and even users. Some employees have quit, while others were laid off or fired. Job offers have been rescinded and discretionary spending curtailed.
“For Twitter this fiasco is a nightmare scenario,” Wedbush analyst Dan Ives, who follows the company, wrote Monday. He said the result would be “an Everest-like uphill climb for Parag & Co.” given concerns over employee morale and retention, advertiser concerns and other challenges.”
Twitter itself is unlikely to go anywhere regardless of whether or not it changes hands. But if the turmoil continues it could scare away advertisers. If too many engineers and other employees leave, the platform’s quality could suffer as well.
“The one bright spot is that if (Twitter) is ultimately victorious in the courts, it could potentially take north of the $1B in break-up fees that Musk could have to pay,” said CFRA Analyst Angelo Zino.
IF HE LOSES, WILL MUSK COMPLY?
Even if Musk loses the court case, some observers wonder if the world’s richest man will abide by the outcome. That’s in part based on his antagonistic approach to unfavorable actions from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over Musk’s tweets claiming he had the funding to take Tesla private in 2018.
That led to a securities fraud settlement with the SEC requiring that his tweets be approved by a Tesla attorney before being published. But the SEC later investigated whether the Tesla CEO violated the settlement with tweets last November asking Twitter followers if he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock.
Musk had argued that the agency can’t take action about his tweets without court authorization. This time, however, he could very well face an actual court order to pay the $1 billion breakup fee — or to finish the acquisition even if he doesn’t want to.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden welcomed a crowd to the White House lawn Monday to showcase a new law meant to reduce gun violence, celebrating “real progress” after years of inaction. But he also lamented the country remains “awash in weapons of war” — with the 16-day-old law already overshadowed by yet another horrific mass shooting.
The bill, passed after recent gun rampages in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, incrementally toughens requirements for young people buying guns, denies firearms to more domestic abusers and helps local authorities temporarily take weapons from people judged to be dangerous.
But the “celebration” Monday morning came a week after a gunman in Highland Park, Illinois, killed seven people at an Independence Day parade, a stark reminder of the limitations of the new law in addressing the American phenomenon of mass gun violence. And it comes as Democratic governors have taken up the mantle of offering outrage in the face of gun violence.
Biden hosted hundreds of guests on the South Lawn, including a bipartisan group of lawmakers who crafted and supported the legislation, state and local officials — including Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering — and the families of victims of both mass shootings and everyday gun violence.
“Because of your work, your advocacy, your courage, lives will be saved today and tomorrow because of this,” Biden said.
“We will not save every life from the epidemic of gun violence,” he added, “But if this law had been in place years ago, even this last year, lives would have been saved.”
Still, Biden said, “we’re living in a country awash in weapons of war.” He repeated his call on Congress to pass a federal ban on assault weapons and high capacity ammunition magazines — or at minimum to require more stringent background checks and training before purchases.
He also said Congress should pass legislation to hold gun owners legally accountable if their weapons are improperly stored and are used to commit violence. He noted that he owns four shotguns and said he keeps them secured at his home.
“We can’t just stand by,” Biden said. ” With rights come responsibilities. If you own a weapon, you have a responsibility to secure it and keep it under lock and key.”
Biden on Saturday invited Americans to share with him via text — a new White House communications strategy — their stories of how they’ve been affected by gun violence, tweeting that “I’m hosting a celebration of the passage of the Safer Communities Act.” He told some of their stories on Monday — of people traumatized by shootings and kids left orphaned.
The new law is the the most impactful firearms-violence measure Congress has approved since enacting a now-expired assault weapons ban in 1993. Yet gun control advocates — and even White House officials — say it’s premature to declare victory.
“There’s simply not much to celebrate here,” said Igor Volsky, director of the private group Guns Down America.
“It’s historic, but it’s also the very bare minimum of what Congress should do,” Volsky said. “And as we were reminded by the shooting on July 4, and there’s so many other gun deaths that have occurred since then, the crisis of of gun violence is just far more urgent.”
Volsky’s group, along with other advocacy groups, was holding a news conference on Monday outside the White House calling on Biden to create an office at the White House to address gun violence with a greater sense of urgency.
Biden has left gun control policy to his Domestic Policy Council, rather than establishing a dedicated office like the one he opened to address climate change or the gender policy council he started to promote reproductive health access.
“We have a president who really hasn’t met the moment, who has chosen to act as a bystander on this issue,” Volsky said. “For some reason the administration absolutely refuses to have a senior official who can drive this issue across government.”
During his remarks Monday, Biden was heckled by Manuel Oliver, whose son Joaquin was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Biden briefly paused his speech and asked Oliver, who was shouting, to sit down, before adding “Let him talk, let him talk,” as he was escorted out of the event.
The president signed the bipartisan gun bill into law on June 25, calling it “a historic achievement” at the time.
On Monday, Biden said the law’s passage should be a call for further action.
“Will we match thoughts and prayers with action?” Biden asked. “I say yes. And that’s what we’re doing here today.”
On Friday, Biden responded to the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by taking note of how the shooting had shocked people in Japan. The country has a strikingly low incidence of gun violence compared to the U.S., which has experienced thousands of gun deaths already this year.
Most of the new law’s $13 billion in spending would be used for bolstering mental health programs and for schools, which have been targeted by shooters in Newtown, Connecticut, and Parkland. The law was the product of weeks of closed-door negotiations by a bipartisan group of senators who emerged with a compromise.
It does not include far tougher restrictions that Democrats and Biden have long championed, such as a ban on assault-type weapons and background checks for all gun transactions. Prospects are slim for any further congressional action this year. | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/biden-celebration-of-new-gun-law-clouded-by-latest-shooting/ | 2022-07-11T22:43:57Z | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/biden-celebration-of-new-gun-law-clouded-by-latest-shooting/ | true |
(AP) – Our view of the universe just expanded: The first image from NASA’s new space telescope unveiled Monday is brimming with galaxies and offers the deepest look of the cosmos ever captured.
The first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is going to show the farthest humanity has ever seen in both time and distance, closer to the dawn of the universe and the edge of the cosmos. That image will be followed Tuesday by the release of four more galactic beauty shots from the telescope’s initial outward gazes.
The “deep field” image released at a White House event is filled with lots of stars, with massive galaxies in the foreground and faint and extremely distant galaxies peeking through here and there. Part of the image is light from not too long after the Big Bang, which was 13.8 billion years ago.
“We’re going to give humanity a new view of the cosmos,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told reporters last month in a briefing. “And it’s a view that we’ve never seen before.”
The images on tap for Tuesday include a view of a giant gaseous planet outside our solar system, two images of a nebula where stars are born and die in spectacular beauty and an update of a classic image of five tightly clustered galaxies that dance around each other.
The world’s biggest and most powerful space telescope rocketed away last December from French Guiana in South America. It reached its lookout point 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth in January. Then the lengthy process began to align the mirrors, get the infrared detectors cold enough to operate and calibrate the science instruments, all protected by a sunshade the size of a tennis court that keeps the telescope cool.
The plan is to use the telescope to peer back so far that scientists will get a glimpse of the early days of the universe about 13.7 billion years ago and zoom in on closer cosmic objects, even our own solar system, with sharper focus.
Webb is considered the successor to the highly successful, but aging Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble has stared as far back as 13.4 billion years. It found the light wave signature of an extremely bright galaxy in 2016. Astronomers measure how far back they look in light-years with one light-year being 5.8 trillion miles (9.5 trillion kilometers).
“Webb can see backwards in time to just after the Big Bang by looking for galaxies that are so far away that the light has taken many billions of years to get from those galaxies to our telescopes,” said Jonathan Gardner, Webb’s deputy project scientist said in a recent media briefing.
How far back did that first image look? Over the next few days, astronomers will do intricate calculations to figure out just how old those galaxies are, project scientist Klaus Pontoppidan said last month.
The deepest view of the cosmos “is not a record that will stand for very long,” Pontoppidan said, since scientists are expected to use the telescope to go even deeper.
Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s science mission chief said when he saw the images he got emotional and so did his colleagues: “It’s really hard to not look at the universe in new light and not just have a moment that is deeply personal.”
At 21 feet (6.4 meters), Webb’s gold-plated, flower-shaped mirror is the biggest and most sensitive ever sent into space. It’s comprised of 18 segments, one of which was smacked by a bigger than anticipated micrometeoroid in May. Four previous micrometeoroid strikes to the mirror were smaller. Despite the impacts, the telescope has continued to exceed mission requirements, with barely any data loss, according to NASA.
NASA is collaborating on Webb with the European and Canadian space agencies.
“I’m now really excited as this dramatic progress augurs well for reaching the ultimate prize for many astronomers like myself: pinpointing “Cosmic Dawn” — the moment when the universe was first bathed in starlight,” Richard Ellis, professor of astrophysics at University College London, said via email. | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/biden-to-reveal-first-image-from-nasas-new-space-telescope/ | 2022-07-11T22:44:03Z | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/biden-to-reveal-first-image-from-nasas-new-space-telescope/ | false |
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There were older couples and younger ones, gay, straight and nonbinary couples, couples of different races and from different places, all joining together to pay tribute to love.
"Celebrate Love: A (Re)Wedding was thrown by New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
"We thought about what does NYC actually need right now? We realized we really need to bring back our rituals, all the things we couldn't do together, and so a wedding was at the top of the list," said Shanta Thake, Chief Artistic Officer at Lincoln Center.
Five hundred couples were invited to register for free.
And many did.
"We had this beautiful wedding planned with friends and family in Lisbon in April 2020. And March rolled around and we were a month out from the wedding, and the world closed down and we knew that wasn't going to happen," said Lauren Gibbs.
Instead, she and Rob Jenkins had a small ceremony on their stoop, with his dad officiating and friends watching both on zoom and from chalked hearts on the sidewalk, carefully placed six feet apart.
But this celebration gave the couple room to relax and enjoy themselves, finally. "It's been a really weird and challenging two years and it's nice to find these moments to reflect and bring joy to ourselves, to each other, and to those around us," Gibbs said.
The trees on the outdoor plaza were wrapped in twinkle lights, with lanterns hanging from branches. Some couples wore bridal gowns and suits, others had special his-and-her masks. Staff members handed out bouquets and flower crowns. There were henna stations, a 360-degree photo booth, and champagne.
But most importantly, there were the loved ones celebrating with the couples; parents, friends, children.
Not all couples were kicking off marriages. Fabiola and Carlos Escobar came to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. He wore a purple tie; she wore a flowy white gown and sequined veil she picked up at Nordstrom Rack. Accompanying them as witness and flower girl was their young granddaughter Brianna, 7, who was asked what she learned about love by watching her grandparents.
"To be nice," she said. "To be helpful. To be respectful. To be proud of yourself."
The couples processed down an aisle, two-by-two, where they were welcomed by Mayor Eric Adams, and serenaded by Broadway stars. An imam, a rabbi and a minister blessed their unions.
And then they all gathered under a 10-foot-tall disco ball set up on top of the iconic fountain, under the stars - and danced.
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LONDON (AP) — Monty Norman, a British composer who wrote the theme tune for the James Bond films, has died. He was 94.
A statement posted Monday on Norman’s official website said: “It is with sadness we share the news that Monty Norman died on 11th July 2022 after a short illness.”
Born Monty Noserovitch to Jewish parents in the East End of London in 1928, Norman got his first guitar when he was 16. He performed with big bands and in a variety double act with comedian Benny Hill before writing songs for early British rockers Cliff Richard and Tommy Steele and composing for stage musicals including “Make Me an Offer,” “Expresso Bongo,” “Songbook” and “Poppy.”
Norman was hired by producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli to compose a theme for the first James Bond film, “Dr. No,” released in 1962.
He drew on a piece he had written for a proposed musical adaptation of V.S. Naipaul’s “A House for Mr. Biswas,” shifting the key riff from sitar to electric guitar. The result — twangy, propulsive, menacing — has been used in all 25 Bond thrillers.
Producers hired composer John Barry to rearrange the theme, and Barry was widely assumed to have written it — to Norman’s chagrin. Barry, who died in 2011, went on to compose scores for almost a dozen Bond films, including “Goldfinger” and “You Only Live Twice.”
Norman went to court to assert his authorship, suing the Sunday Times newspaper for libel over a 1997 article asserting the theme was composed by Barry. He won in 2001 and was awarded 30,000 pounds in damages. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-international/monty-norman-composer-of-the-james-bond-theme-dies-at-94/ | 2022-07-11T22:45:31Z | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-international/monty-norman-composer-of-the-james-bond-theme-dies-at-94/ | false |
LONDON (AP) — Candidates to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister scattered tax-cutting promises to their Conservative Party electorate on Monday, as party officials set out rules to narrow the crowded field of almost a dozen candidates to two contenders by next week.
Little-known junior minister Rehman Chishti became the 11th candidate to declare he wants to succeed Johnson, who quit as Conservative leader on Thursday amid a party revolt triggered by months of ethics scandals. Other contenders include Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak, Treasury chief Nadhim Zahawi, trade minister Penny Mordaunt, former health secretaries Sajid Javid and Jeremy Hunt, and backbench lawmakers Tom Tugendhat and Kemi Badenoch.
The new leader will be chosen in a two-stage election, in which the 358 Conservative lawmakers reduce the race to two candidates through a series of elimination votes. The final pair will be put to a ballot of party members across the country. Under Britain’s parliamentary system, the new Conservatives leader will automatically become prime minister without the need for a general election.
The party’s 1922 Committee, which runs leadership contests, announced that nominations will officially open — and close — on Tuesday. The first round of voting will take place Wednesday, and the second on Thursday, with candidates who fail to get at least 30 votes eliminated at each round.
Candidates will need to be nominated by at least 20 lawmakers to get onto the first ballot, a number that may knock out some contenders before voting even starts.
The party aims to complete the parliamentary stage of the election before lawmakers break for the summer on July 21. That means a new leader is expected to be announced when the House of Commons returns on Sept. 5.
Many Conservatives are wary of leaving Johnson in office for too long, concerned a lame-duck leader is the last thing Britain needs with war raging in Ukraine, food and energy price increases driving inflation to levels not seen in decades, and growing labor unrest. Some also worry Johnson — brought down by scandals over money, rule-breaking and his handling of sexual misconduct allegations against lawmakers — could do mischief even as a caretaker prime minister.
In the wide-open leadership contest, contenders are striving to set themselves apart from the perceived front-runner Sunak, who already has the backing of more than three dozen lawmakers.
Many have repudiated the tax increases Sunak introduced to shore up U.K. finances battered by the coronavirus pandemic and Brexit — a 1.25% income-tax rise for millions of workers, and an increase in corporation tax next year from 19% to 25%. Most candidates say they will scrap one or both.
“I want to cut all taxes,” said Hunt, who pledged to slash corporation tax to 15%. Truss said she would start slashing taxes “from day one,” and Tugendhat said he would “lower taxes across every aspect of society.”
Sunak, whose resignation on Tuesday helped topple Johnson, has cast himself as the candidate of fiscal probity, and warned rivals not to tell the public “comforting fairy tales.”
All the candidates are trying to distance themselves from the drift, disorganization and rule-breaking that sank Johnson — though most of them have served in his government, and some still do.
They are seeking to appeal to an electorate of about 180,000 Conservative members that, in many ways, doesn’t represent the country as a whole: It’s older, whiter, more affluent and much more strongly in favor of Brexit, the country’s departure from the European Union.
None has so far renounced Johnson’s most contentious policies: Legislation to rip up parts of its Brexit deal with the EU, and a plan to send some asylum-seekers arriving in Britain to Rwanda that is being challenged in the courts.
The party battle has already turned fractious. Rivals have criticized Sunak’s record as finance minister, and Zahawi, the current Treasury chief, is fending off claims he is being investigated over his tax affairs. Zahawi said he was being “smeared” and was unaware of any investigation.
Tony Travers, a professor of government at the London School of Economics, said “it would be hard to exaggerate how nasty” the contest already is, with candidates’ teams leaking about one another to the media.
“It really is a war of all against all — and will get worse,” he said.
Oddsmakers say Sunak is likely to be one of the final two contenders, but the race is highly unpredictable. Truss and Mordaunt both have strong support, while Tugendhat, a former soldier on the party’s center-left, and right-wing rising star Badenoch have secured big-name support and could surprise more experienced rivals.
Johnson clung to power for months despite accusations that he was too close to party donors, that he protected supporters from bullying and corruption allegations, and that he misled Parliament about government office parties that broke COVID-19 lockdown rules.
But Johnson was brought down by one scandal too many — this one involving his appointment of a politician who had been accused of sexual misconduct.
Johnson himself didn’t plan to endorse a candidate.
“I wouldn’t want to damage anybody’s chances by offering my support,” he said.
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National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
421 PM CDT Mon Jul 11 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern
Gillespie County through 500 PM CDT...
At 421 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Rocky Hill, or near Fredericksburg, moving south at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 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...
Fredericksburg, Stonewall, Blumenthal, Luckenbach, Cain City,
Grapetown and Rocky Hill.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3035 9898 3034 9874 3014 9863 3014 9899
TIME...MOT...LOC 2121Z 339DEG 7KT 3023 9881
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Faeroe Islands government is proposing an annual catch limit of 500 white-sided dolphins for 2022 and 2023, after last year's slaughter of more than 1,400 dolphins in a day led to international condemnation.
The killing is part of a four-century-old traditional drive of sea mammals into shallow water, where they are killed for their meat and blubber.
The hunt in the North Atlantic islands is not commercial and is authorized, but environmental activists claim it is cruel.
The government said "aspects" of last year's catch were not satisfactory, and it was unlikely to be a sustainable level of catch.
On Sunday, the government said the capping measure was “in response to the unusually large catch” on Sept. 14, 2021.
The proposal should be implemented as an executive order by July 25.
Defenders of the hunt were worried last year after 1,428 white-sided dolphins were killed because it was higher than usual and took place with minor organization.
In 2020, only 35 white-sided dolphins were killed.
According to data kept by Islanders, usually up to 1,000 sea mammals — chiefly pilot whales — are killed annually.
The two animals are not endangered species. | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/faeroese-put-a-cap-on-dolphin-hunt-after-huge-2021-kill | 2022-07-11T22:49:36Z | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/faeroese-put-a-cap-on-dolphin-hunt-after-huge-2021-kill | false |
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — One week after a shooting at a Fourth of July parade that left seven dead, the Chicago suburb of Highland Park held a moment of silence Monday morning to mark the exact time police say the first shot was fired.
More than 100 people gathered and hugged each other in a downtown plaza for a tribute that began at 10:14 a.m. and lasted longer than the planned two minutes. Churches in the community along Lake Michigan north of Chicago tolled their bells seven times.
The event was held not far from the building where a gunman fired dozens of shots from the roof along the parade route. A huge memorial of flowers along with chairs holding photographs of the seven victims is now there.
The tribute came a day after restaurants and small shops in the business district where the shooting occurred and had been blocked off with crime scene tape since the shooting reopened.
Robert E. Crimo III, 21, has been charged with seven counts of first-degree murder and, according to prosecutors, will face several counts of attempted murder and other charges. More than 30 people were wounded in the attack. Authorities have said that Crimo, of neighboring Highwood, legally purchased five weapons and planned the attack for weeks. | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/week-after-july-4-parade-shooting-a-moment-of-silence/ | 2022-07-11T22:52:04Z | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/week-after-july-4-parade-shooting-a-moment-of-silence/ | true |
(The Hill) – The Biden administration on Monday said doctors and hospitals need to follow federal law and provide abortions if there is a medical emergency and the health or life of the patient is at risk, regardless of state law.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reaffirmed that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) protects providers when offering legally-mandated, life- or health-saving abortion services in emergency situations.
Administration officials said the federal government can penalize doctors or hospitals that fail to provide care in those circumstances.
“Under the law, no matter where you live, women have the right to emergency care — including abortion care,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement. “Today, in no uncertain terms, we are reinforcing that we expect providers to continue offering these services, and that federal law preempts state abortion bans when needed for emergency care.”
The announcement follows President Biden’s executive order on reproductive health issued Friday, and comes as the White House fends off criticism for its seemingly sluggish response to the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.
EMTALA has been on the books for over 30 years. Under the law, if an emergency medical condition is found to exist, the hospital must provide available stabilizing treatment or an appropriate transfer to another hospital that has the capabilities to provide stabilizing treatment.
HHS officials on a call with reporters said the administration is not making any new policy or changes to the existing law. The point of the guidance is to remind providers that the EMTALA law exists, and preempts any state restrictions.
The law leaves it up to a physician to determine what qualifies as an emergency medical condition for a pregnant patient, but the administration listed examples such as ectopic pregnancy, complications of miscarriage or severe preeclampsia.
Under the law, providers don’t need to wait for a patient’s condition to worsen. If there is an emergency, a physician or other provider must provide stabilizing treatment.
Any state laws or mandates that employ a more restrictive definition of an emergency medical condition are preempted by the federal statute, HHS said.
The guidance from the administration comes as dozens of states enact strict abortion bans in the wake of the ruling. Some states make explicit exceptions for the health and life of a mother, but others don’t.
Providers in some states have said they fear prosecution under the news laws if they perform an emergency abortion. Senior HHS officials told reporters the guidance is meant to provide reassurance for those hospitals and physicians that they should trust their clinical judgment.
“We heard a lot from physicians that we needed to be clearer on these points because people were still too scared to treat people,” a senior HHS official said.
In a letter dated Monday, Becerra reassured health providers they will be protected.
“[I]f a physician believes that a pregnant patient at an emergency department, including certain labor and delivery departments, is experiencing an emergency medical condition as defined by EMTALA, and that abortion is the stabilizing treatment necessary to resolve that condition, the physician must provide that treatment.”
EMTALA is a complaint driven process, and an investigation can’t occur without a complaint to the federal government.
Each violation will cost a hospital $119,942 if it has over 100 beds, and $59,973 for hospitals under 100 beds.
Hospitals could also lose their Medicare and Medicaid provider agreements, and private citizens who are harmed by a physician’s or hospital’s failure to provide stabilizing treatment may file a civil suit against the hospital to obtain damages.
Additionally, an individual physician could also face civil penalties of $119,942 per violation. | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/white-house-says-hospitals-doctors-must-give-abortions-in-emergencies/ | 2022-07-11T22:52:11Z | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/white-house-says-hospitals-doctors-must-give-abortions-in-emergencies/ | false |
NEW YORK (AP) — Didn’t make it to Stonehenge for the solstice? There’s still time to catch Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and bathes the urban canyons in a rosy glow.
The last two Manhattanhenge sunsets of 2022 are Monday and Tuesday. Some background on the phenomenon:
WHERE DOES THE NAME MANHATTANHENGE COME FROM?
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson coined the term in a 1997 article in the magazine Natural History. Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium at New York’s American Museum of Natural History, has said that he was inspired by a visit to Stonehenge as a teenager.
The future host of TV shows like PBS’ “Nova ScienceNow” was part of an expedition led by Gerald Hawkins, the scientist who first theorized that Stonehenge’s mysterious megaliths were an ancient astronomical observatory.
It struck Tyson, a native New Yorker, that the setting sun framed by Manhattan’s highrises could be compared to the sun’s rays striking the center of the Stonehenge circle on the solstice.
Unlike the Neolithic Stonehenge builders, the planners who laid out Manhattan did not mean to channel the sun. It just worked out that way.
WHEN IS MANHATTANHENGE?
Manhattanhenge does not take place on the summer solstice itself, which was June 21 this year. Instead, it happens about three weeks before the solstice and again about three weeks after. That’s when the sun aligns itself perfectly with the Manhattan grid’s east-west streets.
For 2022, peak Manhattanhenge occurred at 8:12 p.m. May 30 and takes place again at 8:20 p.m. Monday. That’s when the full sun appears to hover between buildings just before sinking into the Hudson River.
On the days before and after — May 29 and July 12 this year — the top half of the sun’s disk sits above the horizon and the top half is below at the precise moment of alignment.
WHERE CAN YOU SEE MANHATTANHENGE?
The traditional viewing spots are along the city’s broad east-west thoroughfares: 14th Street, 23rd Street, 34th Street, 42nd Street and 57th Street. The farther east you go, the more dramatic the vista as sun’s rays hit building facades on either side. It is also possible to see Manhattanhenge across the East River in the Long Island City section of Queens.
IS MANHATTANHENGE AN ORGANIZED EVENT?
Manhattanhenge viewing parties are not unknown. The beverage company San Pellegrino hosted an “exclusive Manhattanhenge celebration” on a bridge spanning East 42th Street in 2018.
But Manhattanhenge is mostly a DIY affair. People gather on east-west streets a half an hour or so before sunset and snap photo after photo as dusk approaches. That’s if the weather is fine. There’s no visible Manhattanhenge on rainy or cloudy days.
DO OTHER CITIES HAVE ‘HENGES’?
Similar effects occur in other cities with uniform street grids. Chicagohenge and Baltimorehenge happen when the setting sun lines up with the grid systems in those cities during March and September, around the spring and fall equinoxes. Torontohenge occurs around Feb. 16 and Oct. 25.
But Manhattanhenge is particularly striking because of the height of the buildings and the unobstructed path to the Hudson. | https://cbs4indy.com/science/ap-science/explainer-when-is-manhattanhenge-where-can-you-see-it/ | 2022-07-11T22:52:35Z | https://cbs4indy.com/science/ap-science/explainer-when-is-manhattanhenge-where-can-you-see-it/ | true |
WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 11, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
440 PM CDT Mon Jul 11 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southern Kendall,
northwestern Bexar and west central Comal Counties through 530 PM
CDT...
At 440 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Kreutzberg, or 8 miles northeast of Boerne, moving southeast at 15
mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 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...
Boerne, Fair Oaks Ranch, Bulverde, Cross Mountain, Walnut Grove,
Guadalupe River State Park, Kendalia, Leon Springs, Kreutzberg,
Welfare, Nelson City, Bergheim, Sisterdale, Timberwood Park,
Government Canyon State Natural Area, San Geronimo, Cascade Caverns,
Anhalt, Specht Store and Crown.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3003 9852 2973 9845 2958 9881 2969 9881
2972 9878 2974 9882 2991 9884
TIME...MOT...LOC 2140Z 323DEG 11KT 2988 9864
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Burleson and
west central Brazos Counties through 515 PM CDT...
At 441 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Caldwell, moving south at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail.
Southwestern Bryan, Caldwell, Snook, Lyons and Deanville.
LAT...LON 3070 9667 3066 9641 3035 9646 3045 9685
TIME...MOT...LOC 2141Z 021DEG 11KT 3055 9661
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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New program provides free transportation and swimming for those affected by London pool closures
New program provides free transportation and swimming for those affected by London pool closures
With a heat alert in place, there aren’t many places people would rather be than the local pool.
However with the closure of Thames Pool and Glen Cairn Pool, many Londoners are left without a place to take a dip in their neighbourhood.
"We use to go there everyday and we would book the double-swim session for two hours," says 11-year old Nora Courchaine.
The City of London has tried to remedy that situation by giving people an alternate place to swim for the summer season. They are allowing people to use the South London Community Pool (SLCP) on Bradley Ave.
The City of London is using South London Community Pool as a replacement for Thames Pool and Glen Cairn pools which were closed this summer (Source: Brent Lale/CTV London)
"We know how important these pools are to the community," says JP McGonigle, the director of sport and recreation for the city of London.
"When we have these types of situations arise, we feel it's very, very important for us to turn around and respond."
McGonigle says families can get a swim pass by calling the customer service line or via email. Once information is exchanged they will give you a key tag at the aquatic facility.
"We have handed out so far about 2,200 free recreational swim passes to those impacted by those closures," says McGonigle.
"Those passes can be used at any pool on any day throughout the city for recreational swim purposes."
The city is also providing transportation to and from SLCP on Monday and Friday. The bus picks people up at Tecumseh Public School or Glen Cairn Parking lot at 1:00 pm, and the bus leaves the SLCP at 3:30 to return.
Families are taking advantage of transportation provided by the City of London to South London Community Pool on Bradley Ave. (Source: Brent Lale/CTV London)
"We would have gone every two days to Thames, and we don't have a car so that's really good that they have a bus," says Nelly Murariau, a parent who lives near Thames Pool and took advantage of the bus program.
The buses have only been running for a week, and are seeing about 20-30 people riding. McGonigle expects that to pick up through the summer. Having a certified school bus driver taking the kids back and forth is reassuring to parent Anna Hendrikx who has to work.
"We are very fortunate it's two families right now that are on the bus that normally go to Thames Pool every afternoon," says Hendrikx.
"They just enjoy their freedom away from parental supervision and so it's nice to have this bus taking them to another pool that is covering for our pool while it's been fixed."
The free passes will last until the end of the outdoor season which is at the beginning of September.
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JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s president ordered the suspension Saturday of all dredging-related activities in the country until evidence-based studies are carried out on their on surrounding communities and the ecosystems they rely on.
Salva Kiir Mayardit’s announcement, which was made during his address on the country’s 11th independence anniversary, means the dredging project on the Bahr el Ghazal-Naam river, approved by the cabinet last year, and the century-old Jonglei canal project will now be halted.
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 11, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Austin San Antonio has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Central Williamson County in south central Texas...
* Until 500 PM CDT.
* At 414 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Granger, and
is nearly stationary.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Georgetown, Taylor, Granger, Weir, Jonah, Waterloo and Walburg.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 11, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
440 PM CDT Mon Jul 11 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southern Kendall,
northwestern Bexar and west central Comal Counties through 530 PM
CDT...
At 440 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Kreutzberg, or 8 miles northeast of Boerne, moving southeast at 15
mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 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...
Boerne, Fair Oaks Ranch, Bulverde, Cross Mountain, Walnut Grove,
Guadalupe River State Park, Kendalia, Leon Springs, Kreutzberg,
Welfare, Nelson City, Bergheim, Sisterdale, Timberwood Park,
Government Canyon State Natural Area, San Geronimo, Cascade Caverns,
Anhalt, Specht Store and Crown.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3003 9852 2973 9845 2958 9881 2969 9881
2972 9878 2974 9882 2991 9884
TIME...MOT...LOC 2140Z 323DEG 11KT 2988 9864
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Burleson and
west central Brazos Counties through 515 PM CDT...
At 441 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Caldwell, moving south at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail.
Southwestern Bryan, Caldwell, Snook, Lyons and Deanville.
LAT...LON 3070 9667 3066 9641 3035 9646 3045 9685
TIME...MOT...LOC 2141Z 021DEG 11KT 3055 9661
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 11, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
512 PM CDT Mon Jul 11 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Milam
County through 545 PM CDT...
At 510 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Thorndale. This storm was nearly stationary.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Thorndale, Rockdale, and Sandow.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3071 9726 3078 9708 3055 9697 3046 9715
TIME...MOT...LOC 2210Z 242DEG 1KT 3062 9723
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern
Williamson and northwestern Lee Counties through 600 PM CDT...
At 514 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Thorndale, or 12 miles east of Taylor, moving southeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and nickel size hail.
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Thrall, Tanglewood, Sandoval and Noack.
LAT...LON 3046 9715 3053 9703 3049 9699 3038 9728
3039 9730 3063 9735 3068 9725
TIME...MOT...LOC 2214Z 336DEG 9KT 3056 9722
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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PARIS (AP) — French lawmakers on Monday failed to pass a no-confidence motion requested by a leftist coalition to symbolically mark their opposition to President Emmanuel Macron’s government and economic policies.
Although the vote failed, it was a new slap for Macron’s leadership. It came as Macron’s critics in parliament questioned his close relations with Uber and business lobbyists after an international media investigation revealed details of his conversations with Uber executives when Macron was France’s finance minister.
The leftist coalition, known as Nupes, championed the no-confidence motion in the wake of Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne’s first major speech to the National Assembly after last month’s parliamentary election.
Only 146 legislators approved the motion, far short of the 289 needed. While many lawmakers are angry at Macron’s policies, some opposition parties are also against the leftists and didn’t join them in the vote.
“Emmanuel Macron is the president of the lobbies, who drives for Uber,” said Mathilde Panot, the Nupes leader in the National Assembly. She called the vote an act of “defiance” and a reminder that many voters see Macron as representing the business world instead of struggling workers.
Macron’s government says it’s trying to do both. Borne, defending the government in parliament, called the vote a “political tactic” by lawmakers who are “angry with history” because they are no longer in power.
Nupes is the largest opposition force in the lower house of parliament, with 151 seats. Macron’s centrist alliance lost its majority in last month’s election but still has the most seats, at 250.
The conservative Republican party, which holds 62 seats, did not take part in the vote.
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen, runner-up in the last two French presidential elections and a staunch opponent of the leftists, denounced the no-confidence vote as a political move aimed to “make the Fifth Republic crumble.”
Still, speaking Sunday on French broadcaster BFM, Le Pen said her National Rally party, the largest right-wing opposition party with 89 seats, will use “all available power we have in the parliament against the government.”
The Uber investigation revelations fueled the anger of Macron’s critics.
“We have a president of the republic who wants to impose an American (business) model” on France, Communist Party lawmaker Fabien Roussel said on BFM. He accused Macron of wheeling and dealing with Uber executives and lobbyists behind the back of fellow members.
Several other left-wing officials criticized Macron after an international conglomerate of investigative journalists, including France’s Le Monde newspaper, revealed his meetings and communication with Uber executives and their lobbyists between 2014 and 2016, when Macron was minister of economy and finance. A lawmaker with the far-left France Unbowed party, Alexis Corbier, said an investigation into the matter might be launched in the parliament.
Uber has been operating in France since 2011. Its appearance unleashed furious resentment from French taxi drivers’ unions and years of legal battles over regulations and protections for its drivers.
Macron’s allies dismissed allegations that he did anything wrong.
“It’s amazing that the country is offended that the minister of economy had met with business leaders,” Aurore Berge, the leader of Macron’s Renaissance party in parliament, said Monday on broadcaster CNews. “Fortunately, he was doing his job.”
Normally, a new government in France requests a vote of confidence from the parliament to give more legitimacy to their agenda. But after the governing party lost its majority, Borne didn’t take that risk, breaking a long-time tradition.
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The California Highway Patrol responded at 5:52 p.m. to reports of a speeding motorcycle crashing east of the Caldecott Tunnel, with an SUV possibly being involved. The CHP closed the freeway until 6:19 p.m.
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TOKYO (AP) — The Unification Church acknowledged Monday that the mother of the man accused of assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is a member, but that an investigation is ongoing into media speculation that her donations may have angered her son and led to the killing.
Police have said the suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, told investigators he wanted to kill Abe because of his rumored connection to an organization he resented, which police did not identify. Japanese media reports said it was a religious group, and cited large donations by his mother and his anger over her subsequent bankruptcy as a possible motive.
Tomihiro Tanaka, head of the Unification Church’s Japan branch, acknowledged at a news conference that she was a member, but declined to comment on the specifics of her donations, saying a police investigation is underway. Speaking in generalities, he confirmed some people had made generous donations, but stressed none was forced.
The church is also known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, founded in South Korea by the late Sun Myung Moon.
Tanaka brushed off the media reports as speculation, stressing the motive was still unclear.
“Trying to understand how such hatred may have possibly led to the killing is totally perplexing,” Tanaka said.
Abe was not a church member, but may have spoken at some events held by affiliated groups, Tanaka said.
Abe was fatally shot last Friday in Nara in western Japan while campaigning for Sunday’s parliamentary elections. Video and photos taken by people in the crowd show the suspect pulling out a homemade gun. Two smoke-filled blasts were fired. Abe collapsed and was later declared dead at a hospital.
“This is something that should never have happened, and I feel a deep outrage,” Tanaka said, bowing deeply. “My heart aches that Japan has lost a loved and respected leader.”
Such bows are part of Japanese protocol to express condolences and do not necessarily signify admission of guilt.
Tanaka said Yamagami’s mother joined the church in the late 1990s and has been participating in church events about once a month lately. There were years in between during which she did not come at all, he said.
Although the church has had scandals related to donations, compliance measures were set up in 2009, and there have not been any major troubles since then, Tanaka said.
“The amount of donations is up to each individual,” he said. “We are grateful to those who give large donations, but nothing is required.”
The news conference started with Tanaka bowing in a solemn moment of prayer. “As a religious leader, I take this extremely seriously,” Tanaka said of Abe’s assassination.
Japanese media reports say Yamagami’s mother declared bankruptcy in 2002, but Tanaka said records dating back 20 years couldn’t be confirmed and that details were unknown.
Yamagami is under custody and not available for comment.
The Unification Church has been embroiled in controversies over the years. Since its founding in 1954, Moon built a business empire with hundreds of ventures in more than a half dozen countries, from hospitals and universities to newspapers and a ballet troupe.
The controversial practices include mass arranged weddings, often pairing followers from different countries, aimed at building a multicultural religious world.
In Japan, famous actresses have joined the church, while politicians courted friendly ties because of the church’s influence. The Japan branch was founded in 1959. Church spokesperson Ahn Ho-yeul said the church has 300,000 believers in Japan and 150,000-200,000 in South Korea.
The church’s beliefs are based on the idea that love in marriage and family is what God wants for world peace and harmony.
The majority of Japanese people adhere to a mix of Shinto and Buddhism.
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Far out: NASA space telescope’s 1st cosmic view goes deep
(AP) — Our view of the universe just expanded: The first image from NASA’s new space telescope unveiled Monday is brimming with galaxies and offers the deepest look of the cosmos ever captured.
The first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is the farthest humanity has ever seen in both time and distance, closer to the dawn of time and the edge of the universe. That image will be followed Tuesday by the release of four more galactic beauty shots from the telescope’s initial outward gazes.
The “deep field” image released at a White House event is filled with lots of stars, with massive galaxies in the foreground and faint and extremely distant galaxies peeking through here and there. Part of the image is light from not too long after the Big Bang, which was 13.8 billion years ago.
“We’re going to give humanity a new view of the cosmos,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told reporters last month in a briefing. “And it’s a view that we’ve never seen before.”
The images on tap for Tuesday include a view of a giant gaseous planet outside our solar system, two images of a nebula where stars are born and die in spectacular beauty and an update of a classic image of five tightly clustered galaxies that dance around each other.
The world’s biggest and most powerful space telescope rocketed away last December from French Guiana in South America. It reached its lookout point 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth in January. Then the lengthy process began to align the mirrors, get the infrared detectors cold enough to operate and calibrate the science instruments, all protected by a sunshade the size of a tennis court that keeps the telescope cool.
The plan is to use the telescope to peer back so far that scientists will get a glimpse of the early days of the universe about 13.7 billion years ago and zoom in on closer cosmic objects, even our own solar system, with sharper focus.
Webb is considered the successor to the highly successful, but aging Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble has stared as far back as 13.4 billion years. It found the light wave signature of an extremely bright galaxy in 2016. Astronomers measure how far back they look in light-years with one light-year being 5.8 trillion miles (9.3 trillion kilometers).
“Webb can see backwards in time to just after the Big Bang by looking for galaxies that are so far away that the light has taken many billions of years to get from those galaxies to our telescopes,” said Jonathan Gardner, Webb’s deputy project scientist said during the media briefing.
How far back did that first image look? Over the next few days, astronomers will do intricate calculations to figure out just how old those galaxies are, project scientist Klaus Pontoppidan said last month.
The deepest view of the cosmos “is not a record that will stand for very long,” Pontoppidan said, since scientists are expected to use the telescope to go even deeper.
Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s science mission chief said when he saw the images he got emotional and so did his colleagues: “It’s really hard to not look at the universe in new light and not just have a moment that is deeply personal.”
At 21 feet (6.4 meters), Webb’s gold-plated, flower-shaped mirror is the biggest and most sensitive ever sent into space. It’s comprised of 18 segments, one of which was smacked by a bigger than anticipated micrometeoroid in May. Four previous micrometeoroid strikes to the mirror were smaller. Despite the impacts, the telescope has continued to exceed mission requirements, with barely any data loss, according to NASA.
NASA is collaborating on Webb with the European and Canadian space agencies.
“I’m now really excited as this dramatic progress augurs well for reaching the ultimate prize for many astronomers like myself: pinpointing “Cosmic Dawn” — the moment when the universe was first bathed in starlight,” Richard Ellis, professor of astrophysics at University College London, said via email.
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AP Aerospace Writer Marcia Dunn contributed.
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 11, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
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National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
451 PM CDT Mon Jul 11 2022
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL WILLIAMSON COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 500 PM CDT...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. However gusty
winds are still possible with this thunderstorm.
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“Beloved” local meteorologist attacked in his home
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - 19 News meteorologist Jon Loufman was attacked and severely beaten in his home on July 9, according to Bay Village police.
Loufman has been hospitalized since the attack, and according to police, was in stable condition.
Officers arrested Loufman’s son, Daniel Loufman.
He is charged with felonious assault and is currently being held on a one million dollar bond.
Julia Loufman, Jon’s wife, was also arrested and is being charged with obstructing justice during the investigation.
She is being held on a $30,000 bond.
Both Julia and Daniel Loufman pleaded not guilty to the charges; they were arraigned via video this afternoon in Rocky River municipal court.
Jon Loufman has been fixture on Cleveland television for decades and was inducted into the Ohio Broadcaster Hall of Fame in 2002.
In addition to television, Jon is active in the local soccer community and has a passion for teaching.
He has traveled to hundreds of local schools to present his “Atmosphere Adventures” program.
Loufman also taught meteorology at Case Western Reserve University and Lakeland Community College.
“We were devastated to hear about the brutal attack of our friend and colleague”, said WOIO general manager Matt Moran. “Jon is not only a true professional, he’s a beloved member of the 19 News family. Our prayers are joined with so many others in the community who are wishing him a full and speedy recovery.”
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Gary Moeller, who succeeded Bo Schembechler as Michigan’s coach and later led the Detroit Lions as interim coach, died Monday. He was 81.
The University of Michigan announced his death, and no cause was provided.
Moeller had his first coaching job at Bellefontaine High School in 1965. In 1967, he became the freshman football coach at Miami University in Oxford. Two years later, he went to Michigan as an assistant for Bo Schembechler.
Moeller was promoted from offensive coordinator to lead the Wolverines' program in 1990 and was 44-13-3 over five seasons.
“Gary Moeller was a great family man, great friend, great coach, and a man of integrity and high character,” Lloyd Carr, who succeeded Moeller as Michigan's coach, said in a statement. “I admired him, I respected him and I loved him.”
The two-time Big Ten coach of the year won a conference championship in each of his first three years and had four bowl victories, including the 1993 Rose Bowl over Washington. He resigned in May 1995, less than a week after he was arrested on charges stemming from a drunken outburst at a restaurant in suburban Detroit.
Moeller bounced back in his personal and professional life, becoming tight ends coach for the Cincinnati Bengals that same year. He went on to lead the Lions' linebackers and was their interim coach in 2000 after Bobby Ross quit midway through the season.
Moeller was 4-3 as Detroit's interim coach and was perhaps a missed kick away from keeping his job. He was fired after Chicago's Paul Edinger made a 54-yard field goal with 2 seconds left to lift the Bears to victory in the regular-season finale, knocking the Lions out of playoff contention.
“He also suffered bad breaks, and poor timing in his career,” former Michigan player and broadcaster Jim Brandstatter said. “But, you never heard Gary Moeller complain or make excuses. He was a class act. He was a good man.”
The Jacksonville Jaguars hired Moeller to be their defensive coordinator in 2001 and he later coached the Bears' linebackers for two seasons.
Moeller, who was from Lima, Ohio, played linebacker and was a captain for Woody Hayes at Ohio State. He was an assistant for Schembechler at Miami (Ohio) and joined him on his first staff at Michigan in 1969.
Moeller struggled in his first head coaching job, going 6-24-3 from 1977 to 1979 at Illinois. He returned to work for Schembechler and later made a successful transition to coaching offense and became an innovative coordinator.
With a relatively wide-open approach and willingness to throw the ball as head coach, he helped Desmond Howard win the Heisman Trophy in 1991 during a stretch in which the Wolverines set a Big Ten record by winning 19 straight conference games.
“He was one of the giants in modern football history at Michigan,” Brandstatter said.
He is survived by his wife, Ann, their daughters, Susan, Amy and Molly, and their son, Andy, who was a linebacker and captain for the Wolverines and an assistant coach for the Cleveland Browns.
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For more than two years, the Biden administration has said that Palestinians are entitled to the same measure of “freedom, security and prosperity” enjoyed by Israelis. Instead, they’ve gotten U.S. aid and permits to work inside Israel and its Jewish settlements.
The inconsistency is likely to come up when President Joe Biden visits Israel and the occupied West Bank this week for the first time since assuming office.
Israeli officials will likely point to the thousands of work permits issued to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, allowing them to make far higher wages and injecting much-needed cash into economies hobbled by Israeli restrictions. Biden will likely tout the tens of millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinians he restored after it was cut off during the Trump years.
Supporters say such economic measures improve the lives of Palestinians and help preserve the possibility of an eventual political solution.
But when Biden is driven past Israel’s towering separation barrier to meet with Palestinians in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, he will hear a very different story — about how Israel is cementing its decades-long military rule over millions of Palestinians, with no end in sight.
“Economic measures do have the potential to positively contribute to making peace, but that would require Israel and the U.S. having a plan to end this 55-year-old military occupation,” said Sam Bahour, a Palestinian-American business consultant based in the West Bank.
“They don’t, so any so-called economic ‘confidence-building measures’ are merely occupation-entrenching measures,” Bahour said,.
Israel’s short-lived coalition government issued 14,000 permits to Palestinians in Gaza, which has been under a crippling blockade since the Islamic militant group Hamas seized power 15 years ago. Israel says the blockade is needed to prevent Hamas from arming itself.
Israel also increased the number of permits issued in the West Bank, where well over 100,000 Palestinians work inside Israel and the settlements, mostly in construction, manufacturing and agriculture. It has even begun allowing small numbers of Palestinian professionals to work in higher-paying jobs in Israel’s booming high-tech sector.
The government billed those and other economic measures as goodwill gestures, even as it approved the construction of thousands of additional settler homes in the occupied West Bank.
The Biden administration has adopted a similar strategy, providing financial assistance to Palestinians but giving Israel no incentive to end the occupation or grant them equal rights. Even its relatively modest plan to reopen a U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem serving Palestinians hit a wall of Israeli opposition.
Ines Abdel Razek, advocacy director at the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy, says both the United States and the European Union are “throwing money at the Palestinians” instead of owning up to their complicity in the occupation.
“All Biden is trying to do is maintain a certain quiet and calm, which for Palestinians means entrenched colonization and repression,” she said.
Michael Milshtein, an Israeli analyst who used to advise the military body in charge of civilian affairs in the territories, says the theory of “economic peace” — or promoting economic development in the absence of peace negotiations — goes back decades.
He says it’s making a resurgence because of the prolonged lack of any peace process and the political crisis within Israel, but at best will only bring temporary calm.
“This is the way to preserve stability,” he said. “This is not a way to solve deep political problems.”
For individual Palestinians, the permits are a godsend. Their average wage inside Israel is around $75 a day, twice the rate in the West Bank, according to the World Bank. In Gaza, where unemployment hovers around 50%, tens of thousands lined up for the permits last fall.
But critics say the permits — which Israel can revoke at any time — are yet another tool of control that undermines the development of an independent Palestinian economy.
“Every permit Israel issues to Palestinian workers goes to serve Israel’s economic development and hollows out Palestine’s workforce, so we in the private sector will remain unable to create a different economic reality,” Bahour said.
Even as it issues work permits, Israel is tightening its grip on what’s known as Area C — the 60% of the West Bank under full Israeli control according to interim peace agreements signed in the 1990s. The Palestinian Authority has limited autonomy in an archipelago of cities and towns.
Area C includes most of the West Bank’s open space and natural resources. The World Bank estimates that lifting heavy restrictions on Palestinian access to the area would boost their economy by a third. Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war, and the Palestinians want it to form the main part of their future state.
That’s not on the table.
Israel’s political system is dominated by right-wing parties that view the West Bank as an integral part of Israel. Even if Lapid, who supports a two-state solution, manages to form a government after Nov. 1 elections — which recent polls suggest is unlikely — his coalition would almost certainly rely on some hard-line parties.
It’s often argued that even if economic measures do not lead to a political solution, they still promote stability — but history hasn’t borne that out.
In the 1980s, nearly half of Gaza’s labor force was employed in Israel and workers could travel in and out with ease. Hamas, which opposes Israel’s existence, burst onto the scene in 1987 with the outbreak of the first Palestinian intifada, or uprising against Israeli rule. The second Palestinian uprising, in 2000, also erupted during a period of relative prosperity.
The Gaza permits, the first to be issued since the Hamas takeover, appear to provide a powerful incentive for the militant group to maintain calm, as any rocket fire could cause thousands of people to lose good-paying jobs. Then again, conflict between Israel and Hamas has always come at a staggering cost to Palestinians.
In the West Bank, where far more Palestinians have the coveted permits, a recent wave of violence has brought deadly attacks inside Israel and near-daily military raids.
A recent poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that 65% of Palestinians support the so-called confidence-building measures, including the issuing of permits. The survey included 1,270 Palestinians from across the West Bank and Gaza, with a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
But the same poll also found some striking measures of despair: Support for a two-state solution dropped from 40% to 28% in just three months, and 55% of those surveyed support “a return to confrontations and armed intifada.”
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DEARBORN, Mich. (WXIN) — Ford drivers affected by an under-hood fire recall may have to wait months to fix their vehicle.
On Friday, Ford Motor Company announced it found a remedy for a recall that affects more than 66,000 2021 Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUVs. The recall was initiated in May in response to fires that the company said could happen even when engines were off.
So far, Ford has received 21 reports of under-hood fires, with 18 incidents impacting vehicles owned by rental companies. In May, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that of the 16 reports known at the time, 12 happened while the vehicle was parked and off. There were also three reports of fires while the vehicle was moving.
One person has been injured so far in connection with the recall.
While Ford initially said it didn’t know what was causing the fires, on Friday the company said it tracked the issue down to the circuit board.
During the pandemic, a supplier had a change in manufacturing location. Ford said the printed circuit boards produced at the facility are uniquely susceptible to a high-current short. They were supplied to Ford and installed in Expedition and Navigator SUVs that were produced during the recall window.
In a release, Ford said it communicated repair procedures to dealers and is working to make parts available as soon as possible. However, this process may take longer for the majority of drivers.
To fix the issue, dealers will inspect the battery junction box for melting damage. If they see any damage, they will replace the entire component. They will then remove the engine fan ground wire from the box with an 800-watt cooling fan system.
For those vehicles with a 700-watt cooling fan system, the process will be the same with one change: The dealer will install an auxiliary box with a wire jumper.
The first remedy will fix the issue for about a third of the vehicle population. It can be done immediately. The second remedy will fix the remaining affected cars, but the parts won’t be available until early September.
In the meantime, Ford is telling people to keep driving their vehicles, but park outside and away from structures. They are telling dealers not to demonstrate or deliver any of the recalled vehicles.
For people in unique circumstances where they can’t park outside and away from structures, the company is offering rental vehicles. These vehicles are offered at no charge except for fuel and insurance while the vehicle is at the dealership. People in this situation should contact their dealer for guidelines and limitations. | https://www.wane.com/news/fix-for-ford-engine-fires-may-not-be-available-until-early-september-for-most-drivers/ | 2022-07-11T23:06:15Z | https://www.wane.com/news/fix-for-ford-engine-fires-may-not-be-available-until-early-september-for-most-drivers/ | false |
(AP) – Our view of the universe just expanded: The first image from NASA’s new space telescope unveiled Monday is brimming with galaxies and offers the deepest look of the cosmos ever captured.
The first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is going to show the farthest humanity has ever seen in both time and distance, closer to the dawn of the universe and the edge of the cosmos. That image will be followed Tuesday by the release of four more galactic beauty shots from the telescope’s initial outward gazes.
The “deep field” image released at a White House event is filled with lots of stars, with massive galaxies in the foreground and faint and extremely distant galaxies peeking through here and there. Part of the image is light from not too long after the Big Bang, which was 13.8 billion years ago.
“We’re going to give humanity a new view of the cosmos,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told reporters last month in a briefing. “And it’s a view that we’ve never seen before.”
The images on tap for Tuesday include a view of a giant gaseous planet outside our solar system, two images of a nebula where stars are born and die in spectacular beauty and an update of a classic image of five tightly clustered galaxies that dance around each other.
The world’s biggest and most powerful space telescope rocketed away last December from French Guiana in South America. It reached its lookout point 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth in January. Then the lengthy process began to align the mirrors, get the infrared detectors cold enough to operate and calibrate the science instruments, all protected by a sunshade the size of a tennis court that keeps the telescope cool.
The plan is to use the telescope to peer back so far that scientists will get a glimpse of the early days of the universe about 13.7 billion years ago and zoom in on closer cosmic objects, even our own solar system, with sharper focus.
Webb is considered the successor to the highly successful, but aging Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble has stared as far back as 13.4 billion years. It found the light wave signature of an extremely bright galaxy in 2016. Astronomers measure how far back they look in light-years with one light-year being 5.8 trillion miles (9.5 trillion kilometers).
“Webb can see backwards in time to just after the Big Bang by looking for galaxies that are so far away that the light has taken many billions of years to get from those galaxies to our telescopes,” said Jonathan Gardner, Webb’s deputy project scientist said in a recent media briefing.
How far back did that first image look? Over the next few days, astronomers will do intricate calculations to figure out just how old those galaxies are, project scientist Klaus Pontoppidan said last month.
The deepest view of the cosmos “is not a record that will stand for very long,” Pontoppidan said, since scientists are expected to use the telescope to go even deeper.
Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s science mission chief said when he saw the images he got emotional and so did his colleagues: “It’s really hard to not look at the universe in new light and not just have a moment that is deeply personal.”
At 21 feet (6.4 meters), Webb’s gold-plated, flower-shaped mirror is the biggest and most sensitive ever sent into space. It’s comprised of 18 segments, one of which was smacked by a bigger than anticipated micrometeoroid in May. Four previous micrometeoroid strikes to the mirror were smaller. Despite the impacts, the telescope has continued to exceed mission requirements, with barely any data loss, according to NASA.
NASA is collaborating on Webb with the European and Canadian space agencies.
“I’m now really excited as this dramatic progress augurs well for reaching the ultimate prize for many astronomers like myself: pinpointing “Cosmic Dawn” — the moment when the universe was first bathed in starlight,” Richard Ellis, professor of astrophysics at University College London, said via email. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/biden-to-reveal-first-image-from-nasas-new-space-telescope/ | 2022-07-11T23:07:12Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/biden-to-reveal-first-image-from-nasas-new-space-telescope/ | false |
WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 11, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
510 PM CDT Mon Jul 11 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of west central
Bandera, northern Uvalde and southern Real Counties through 600 PM
CDT...
At 509 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Tuff, or over Leakey, moving south at 10 mph.
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...
Leakey, Camp Wood, Montell, Garner State Park, Tuff, Rio Frio, Reagan
Wells, Utopia, Concan, Vance, Barksdale and Lost Maples State Natural
Area.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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TIME...MOT...LOC 2209Z 353DEG 9KT 2975 9977
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — Sure, it’s been a wild NASCAR Cup season, with seemingly everyone in the field capable of taking the checkered flag.
Through all the chaos, one driver has emerged as the clear favorite.
Chase Elliott is the guy everyone else is chasing.
The 26-year-old became the first three-time winner in the Cup series with a thrilling victory at his home track Sunday, making a timely block on the final lap to fend off Corey LaJoie’s bid to become the most unlikely winner yet in a year filled with surprises.
Elliott checked off another box on his increasingly impressive resume with the win at Atlanta Motor Speedway, joining his father Bill as the only Georgia-born drivers to take first at the historic track.
That made for a raucous celebration in front of the main grandstand, where Elliott celebrated with a crowd that cheered every move by the No. 9 Chevrolet.
But setting emotions aside, it was another masterful performance by NASCAR’s steadiest driver — the kind that have become the norm rather than the exception.
“I just saw a look in his eye all day,” said four-time Cup champion Jeff Gordon, now the vice chairman of Hendrick Motorsports. “You could hear it in his voice over the radio. He was just very focused and determined.”
Elliott won the first two stages of the Atlanta race. He led 96 of the 260 laps, more than twice as many as anyone else on the treacherous, high-banked track. And at the end, after surging by LaJoie with just under two laps to go and taking the white flag still out front, he aggressively slid up the track going into Turn 1 to prevent LaJoie from pulling off the same move.
LaJoie, with only one top-five finish in his career, stayed on the gas, ran out of room and smacked the wall. Elliott sped away unscathed, his victory assured as soon as the yellow flag came out.
“Just a lot of motivation behind it and confidence coming into it,” Gordon said. “And now the confidence is only going to build along with the team. That’s a great combination to have at this point in the season.”
Elliott was a bit apologetic about his closing move, but LaJoie had no complaints.
It was just good, hard racing — and Elliott is as good as anyone in that department.
“I hate to throw a megablock like that,” he said. “But, heck, we’re on the last lap. … The guy is coming with a massive run. Am I taking a chance of crashing when I threw it up in front of him? Absolutely. But I didn’t think I was going to get another shot at him if I let him grab the lead right there.”
In addition to his wins at Dover, Nashville and Atlanta, Elliott has a runner-up finish at Road America, a fourth-place showing at Circuit of the Americas and a fifth-place result from Darlington.
He has seven other top-10 finishes and just missed another with an 11th at Phoenix. He has only placed outside the top 20 four times in 19 races.
What makes Elliott’s performance even more impressive is that it’s come in a season with 13 different winners already, including five drivers claiming their first career victory.
“There have been a lot of winners,” Kurt Busch said, “but Chase Elliott has been that consistent rock.”
With a comfortable lead in the point standings and a playoff spot all locked up, Elliott surely has his sights on a second Cup championship to add to the one he captured in 2020.
But crew chief Alan Gustafson said it’s far too soon to start looking ahead. There’s still seven races to go in the regular season, beginning with next weekend’s event on the 1.058-mile oval at Loudon.
“A lot of things can happen,” Gustafson said. “Just focus on trying to improve. There’s still things we can do better.”
Elliott has never won at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, managing one top-five showing in eight Cup appearances.
Of course, the Dawsonville native had a similar record on his home track before Sunday’s victory.
Sporting a mustache that appears modeled after Atlanta Braves rookie pitcher Spencer Strider, Elliott hopes to carry on what’s been a winning run for sports in his home state.
The Braves are the reigning World Series champions. The Georgia Bulldogs won college football’s national title in January.
A few weeks ago, Elliott made a promotional appearance in Atlanta with both teams’ championship trophies, along with the Cup he won two years ago.
“The way the fans, the way the Atlanta Braves organization and the University of Georgia have all just kept me as part of the family is really special and meaningful to me,” Elliott said. “Ultimately, I’m just a fan of them. I’ve grown up watching them. I think it was really cool to include me and my team.”
Actually, he fits right in.
Who knows? Elliott may have another trophy to display before the year is done.
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 11, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
429 PM CDT Mon Jul 11 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT
FOR CENTRAL WILLIAMSON COUNTY...
At 429 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Granger, moving
southwest at 5 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Georgetown, Taylor, Granger, Weir, Waterloo and Jonah.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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WELLINGTON, July 12 (Reuters) - New Zealand posted a seasonally net migration loss of 828 permanent and long-term migrants in May, data from Statistics New Zealand showed on Tuesday.
The number of short-term visitors to New Zealand rose 26.3 percent on a year ago. (wellington.newsroom@thomsonreuters.com; +6448027979)
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McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — Federal authorities are referring more migrant cases to criminal federal courts, putting them at the highest levels since the coronavirus pandemic began, according to new data.
Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) reports that the number of cases referred to federal prosecutors exceeded 2,000 in April, up significantly from just 700 cases that were referred to criminal courts at the height of the pandemic in July 2020.
The April data, the latest available, could signify a new policy or “practice decision,” by the Biden administration regarding those who try to illegally cross into the United States, TRAC researcher Austin Kocher told Border Report.
Crossing into the United States in between legal ports of entry is typically a misdemeanor, however, migrants who try to cross multiple times and are apprehended by law enforcement can be referred to federal prosecutors and charged with illegal re-entry, which is a criminal charge.
“If someone has already been deported before or been charged with unlawful entry they can charge them with an unlawful re-entry which is a more serious criminal charge. So they can actually file fed criminal cases in the courts,” Kocher said.
The statutory maximum term of imprisonment for illegal re-entry depends on the defendant’s prior criminal record, but in general, an individual who has no criminal history is subject to a two-year maximum, according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
A 10-year maximum applies if the defendant’s removal was preceded by a conviction for three or more misdemeanors involving, drugs, crimes against the person, or both; preceded by any felony; or based on certain, specified grounds.
If the prior conviction before the removal was an “aggravated felony,” the statutory maximum is 20 years.
According to the Commission’s Interactive Data Analyzer, the average sentence length for illegal reentry offenders sentenced in FY21 was 13 months.
In April, there were 2,015 migrant cases referred by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials to federal prosecutors — up 31% from April 2021, TRAC reports. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials also send referrals, but those numbers have been fairly consistent since 2016.
Most of the federal referrals have been geographically concentrated along certain areas of the Southwest border in Arizona and West Texas, TRAC reports.
In March, there were 725 cases referred to federal prosecutors in Arizona and 636 cases sent in April. There were nearly 600 cases referred in West Texas in April. That’s much more than California, which had 140 cases in April, and South Texas, where 444 cases were referred in March and 413 cases were referred in April.
Typically, migrants charged with federal crimes are held in federal criminal facilities, not migrant detention facilities, Kocher said, and these cases tend to move very quickly through the court system.
But it’s up to federal prosecutors in various border communities to pursue federal criminal re-entry charges against the migrants.
According to TRAC, there are over 1.8 million backlogged immigration court cases nationwide. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/border-report/migrant-criminal-case-referrals-are-up-along-southwest-border/ | 2022-07-11T23:14:30Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/border-report/migrant-criminal-case-referrals-are-up-along-southwest-border/ | false |
Oklahoma housing market causing trouble for Afghan refugees
Catholic Charities said some families still aren’t in permanent housing.
Catholic Charities said some families still aren’t in permanent housing.
Catholic Charities said some families still aren’t in permanent housing.
Oklahoma’s housing market has caused trouble for our Afghan refugees.
Catholic Charities said some families still aren’t in permanent housing. The majority of Oklahoma’s Afghan refugees are big families, requiring large apartments but those are hard for anyone to find right now.
"Oklahoma City’s housing market is about a 98% occupancy. So, we have not done enough as a city and as a state in our affordable housing," said Patrick Raglow, executive director of Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City.
| MORE | Oklahoma Catholic Charities recognized for work with Afghan refugees
Catholic Charities said there isn’t enough housing to go around.
Leaders said 1,000 Afghan refugees fled to Oklahoma City last September. About 150 refugees are still living in hotels.
"The majority of them have signed leases, but the spaces that they’re going to move into are not yet available," Raglow said.
The executive director said it comes down to finding living space without breaking the bank.
"They have to be able to afford the place. We could put them in a place really nice while there’s federal support for their lodging, but when the federal support goes away they have to be able to stay there," Raglow said.
Housing isn’t the only uphill battle.
| MORE | Oklahoma City-based competition helps Afghan refugee rebuild her business
"It be like when everybody talking English and it’s so hard for me because when I live in Afghanistan when I was going to school, every people talk in my language and I understand that," said an Afghan student.
Catholic Charities said up to 500 refugee children will be heading to public schools scattered throughout central Oklahoma in the fall, thousands of miles away from what they knew.
"The answer to the question of what was the most difficult thing for them was everything. We’ve come a long way and we’ve got a long way to go," Raglow said.
If you want to help send the students off to school on the right foot, Catholic Charities are looking for backpacks and new shoes. | https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-housing-market-afghan-refugees/40578630 | 2022-07-11T23:16:02Z | https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-housing-market-afghan-refugees/40578630 | true |
DEARBORN, Mich. (WXIN) — Ford drivers affected by an under-hood fire recall may have to wait months to fix their vehicle.
On Friday, Ford Motor Company announced it found a remedy for a recall that affects more than 66,000 2021 Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUVs. The recall was initiated in May in response to fires that the company said could happen even when engines were off.
So far, Ford has received 21 reports of under-hood fires, with 18 incidents impacting vehicles owned by rental companies. In May, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that of the 16 reports known at the time, 12 happened while the vehicle was parked and off. There were also three reports of fires while the vehicle was moving.
One person has been injured so far in connection with the recall.
While Ford initially said it didn’t know what was causing the fires, on Friday the company said it tracked the issue down to the circuit board.
During the pandemic, a supplier had a change in manufacturing location. Ford said the printed circuit boards produced at the facility are uniquely susceptible to a high-current short. They were supplied to Ford and installed in Expedition and Navigator SUVs that were produced during the recall window.
In a release, Ford said it communicated repair procedures to dealers and is working to make parts available as soon as possible. However, this process may take longer for the majority of drivers.
To fix the issue, dealers will inspect the battery junction box for melting damage. If they see any damage, they will replace the entire component. They will then remove the engine fan ground wire from the box with an 800-watt cooling fan system.
For those vehicles with a 700-watt cooling fan system, the process will be the same with one change: The dealer will install an auxiliary box with a wire jumper.
The first remedy will fix the issue for about a third of the vehicle population. It can be done immediately. The second remedy will fix the remaining affected cars, but the parts won’t be available until early September.
In the meantime, Ford is telling people to keep driving their vehicles, but park outside and away from structures. They are telling dealers not to demonstrate or deliver any of the recalled vehicles.
For people in unique circumstances where they can’t park outside and away from structures, the company is offering rental vehicles. These vehicles are offered at no charge except for fuel and insurance while the vehicle is at the dealership. People in this situation should contact their dealer for guidelines and limitations. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/fix-for-ford-engine-fires-may-not-be-available-until-early-september-for-most-drivers/ | 2022-07-11T23:16:02Z | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/fix-for-ford-engine-fires-may-not-be-available-until-early-september-for-most-drivers/ | true |
Ten million people were WFH at the start of the year after remote working DOUBLED during Covid pandemic, figures show
- Home-working more than doubled across the UK after the Covid pandemic hit
- Millions mainly based in the office still spent one day a week in makeshift studies
- Men, the over-60s and professionals were the most likely to be based at home
- It comes after the Mail revealed most Whitehall offices are still one third empty
Almost ten million people were working from home at the start of this year, official figures show.
Home-working more than doubled across the UK after the pandemic struck, the Office for National Statistics found. Millions more who were mainly based in the office still spent at least one day a week working from their kitchen tables or makeshift studies.
Men, the over-60s and professionals were most likely to be based at home, while tradesmen, carers and those working in leisure were least likely.
Tradesmen, carers and those working in the leisure sector were the least likely to WFH
It comes after the Daily Mail revealed most Whitehall offices are still more than a third empty, despite ministers urging civil servants to get back to their desks. Analysis of the Labour Force Survey found that just before the Covid outbreak, between October and December 2019, there were 4.7 million people across the UK working at home.
But by January to March this year, even after the Government order to work from home was lifted, the figure had more than doubled to reach 9.9 million. This accounts for almost a third (31 per cent) of the British workforce, the ONS said.
It also found that ‘half of those who worked from home as a result of the coronavirus pandemic reported spending less as a result’. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11003631/Ten-million-people-WFH-start-year-remote-working-DOUBLED-pandemic.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-11T23:16:41Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11003631/Ten-million-people-WFH-start-year-remote-working-DOUBLED-pandemic.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
DeWalt impact drivers
DeWalt is one of the most trusted brands in power tools. Their products are American-made and the go-to choice for professional contractors and consumers alike. When it comes to impact drivers, they make some of the best.
If you’re comparing a few of their models but are confused about what the various specifications mean and which one to pick, this guide will clear everything up for you. Our favorite model is the DeWalt 20V MAX XR. It features an efficient brushless motor and offers three-speed settings for precision work.
Impact drivers vs. drills
Impact drivers may look like standard drills, but they incorporate a hammering action that makes them superior for driving fasteners into stubborn materials. While you can certainly use a regular drill to drive a long screw into a piece of wood without drilling a pilot hole first, it is often a bit of a struggle to get the initial penetration. If you are driving a lot of fasteners into wood or another dense material, you’ll quickly drain the battery as well.
Impact drivers have more torque than standard drills, and they combine this with the hammering action mentioned above, which dramatically improves penetration. This not only makes your work easier but the driver’s as well, resulting in longer battery life.
What to consider when choosing a DeWalt impact driver
Power
For the most part, DeWalt only sells cordless impact drivers, so you’ll have to consider the battery voltage and amp-hours when selecting a model.
You can choose between 12, 18, and 20-volt options. 12-volt tools are best for light-duty work, while 18 and 20-volt drivers are better suited to heavy-duty tasks. 12-volt models are often slightly lighter and more affordable. However, they are less versatile. You’ll never run into a situation where an 18 or 20-volt model can’t do the job of the 12-volt driver, but you cannot say the opposite.
When it comes to how long the battery will last, amp hours are the most critical specification. The higher the amp hours, written as Ah, the longer the battery will last.
Torque
The torque of an impact driver refers to its twisting force. It may be written in inch-pounds or foot-pounds. 1 foot-pound is equal to 12 inch-pounds. If two drills have the specifications written in different units, you can either divide or multiply one of them by 12 to get an accurate comparison. The higher the inch/pounds or foot/pounds, the more torque a tool has and the better it can drive fasteners into hard and dense materials.
Speed settings
DeWalt impact drivers come in single and three-speed options, though this is a bit misleading as even single-speed models feature a variable speed trigger. That being said, having a model that allows you to choose a maximum RPM setting minimizes the chances of drilling too hard and too fast into delicate materials.
Impacts per minute
The impacts per minute, sometimes written as blows per minute, is another specification you will see on DeWalt impact drivers. This will vary with speed and is less important of a consideration than power, torque and speed when determining how well an impact driver will handle tasks.
Size and weight
Most DeWalt impact drivers are lightweight and compact, making them easy to handle and get into tight spaces. If you are using your driver for extended periods, though, every ounce matters, so you may want to factor both size and weight into your decision.
LEDs
Many DeWalt impact drivers feature LEDs that illuminate your work area. This can be very helpful when working in dim locations where it may be difficult to see what you are doing. They will automatically turn on when you squeeze the trigger and stay on for an additional 20 seconds after releasing it.
How much can you expect to spend on a DeWalt impact driver
Despite being a top name in the game, DeWalt tools are still quite affordable. 12-volt impact driver kits that include a battery and charger or bare-tool 18- and 20-volt models are available for as little as $100. 18 and 20-volt kits start around $200 and increase in price depending on how many batteries and other accessories are included.
DeWalt impact driver FAQs
What is the difference between an impact driver and a hammer drill?
A. Impact drivers apply rotational impacts, while hammer drills apply forward impacts. This makes the former better for driving fasteners and the latter better for creating holes in masonry.
Are brushless motors better?
A. Brushless motors are more efficient than brushed motors. This makes them a better choice for cordless tools, where efficiency translates to longer battery life.
What is the best DeWalt impact driver?
Top DeWalt impact driver
What you need to know: Both powerful and lightweight, the 20V MAX XR is an ideal choice for contractors and home DIYers alike.
What you’ll love: It features three-speed settings and is equipped with bright LEDs to illuminate your work area.
What you should consider: The high price may put it out of reach for some people.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Top DeWALT impact driver for the money
What you need to know: This budget-friendly option features a brushless motor for efficient operation and can handle most light-duty tasks around the house.
What you’ll love: It offers 52% more torque yet is 19% shorter than the previous iteration.
What you should consider: Some consumers report receiving faulty batteries.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: The ATOMIC is DeWalt’s most compact 20V impact driver, making it the best option for those often working in tight spaces.
What you’ll love: Thanks to an illuminated ring and a belt hook, it is convenient to carry and use.
What you should consider: It has slightly less torque than the MAX XR.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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“Our hearts are with the victims and their loved ones,”
7-Eleven, Inc. said in a statement. “We are gathering information on this terrible tragedy and working with local law enforcement.”
It wasn’t immediately clear to investigators what prompted the shootings in the cities of Riverside, Santa Ana, Brea and La Habra, or why the violence happened on July 11.
“I think the only person to answer that would be the suspect,” said Officer Ryan Railsback, a spokesperson for the Riverside Police Department, where the first shooting happened at about 1:50 a.m. “There’s no way it can be a coincidence of it being 7-Eleven, July 11.”
In the Riverside case, the gunman robbed the clerk and brandished a gun, then turned the weapon on a customer, opened fire and fled, Railsback said. Police believe the clerk handed over cash from the register.
The second shooting happened around 3:20 a.m., about 24 miles away, in Santa Ana, authorities said.
Officers responding to reported gunshots at the 7-Eleven in that city and found a man dead in the parking lot with one bullet in his upper torso, according to Sgt. Maria Lopez, a Santa Ana police spokesperson.
Lopez said detectives believe the suspect in the Santa Ana killing is the same person who then traveled 12 miles to Brea, where a 7-Eleven employee was found dead of a gunshot wound at about 4:18 a.m.
Less than an hour later, officers in neighboring La Habra were sent to a reported robbery at a
7-Eleven. They discovered two gunshot victims around 4:55 a.m., according to Sgt. Sumner Bohee.
— Associated Press
Appeals court upholds right to record police
A federal appeals court based in Denver has agreed with six of the nation’s other 12 appeals courts that the First Amendment guarantee of free speech gives people the right to film police as they do their work in public.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit ruled Monday in the case of a YouTube journalist and blogger who claimed that a suburban Denver officer blocked him from recording a 2019 traffic stop. Citing decisions from the other courts, the 10th Circuit said the right to record police was clearly established at the time and reinstated the lawsuit of the blogger, Abade Irizarry.
A lower court had said the right wasn’t clearly established at the time, preventing the officer from being sued. U.S. government lawyers intervened in the appeal to support the public’s right to record police.
The court oversees four western and two midwestern states — Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and Utah — as well as parts of Yellowstone National Park in Idaho and Montana.
The ruling comes after Arizona’s Republican governor last week signed a law that went the opposite direction, making it illegal in Arizona to knowingly video police officers eight feet or closer without an officer’s permission.
— Associated Press | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2-dead-and-3-wounded-in-shootings-at-california-7-eleven-stores/2022/07/11/ef56a3fe-ff33-11ec-87e4-55be07124164_story.html | 2022-07-11T23:27:49Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2-dead-and-3-wounded-in-shootings-at-california-7-eleven-stores/2022/07/11/ef56a3fe-ff33-11ec-87e4-55be07124164_story.html | false |
As new monkeypox infections continue to pop up in Washington, some state virologists are beginning to turn their attention toward tracking the virus’s spread.
UW Medicine’s virology lab, the largest genomic sequencing lab in the state, has become one of the few in the country to establish testing for monkeypox, according to a Monday statement. The step comes as the state’s number of monkeypox infections ticks up — totaling at least 16 cases as of last week, including the first infection in a Snohomish County resident.
Over the weekend, Pierce County health officials also reported the county’s first probable monkeypox case in a man in his 30s. He was not hospitalized and is recovering at home, according to a statement from the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.
“Our [lab’s] turnaround time is one to two days right now,” said Alex Greninger, an assistant professor of laboratory medicine at UW Medicine who helps run the virology lab. “This is something we do all the time, for lots and lots and lots of DNA viruses.”
The lab has been sequencing COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic and will continue to track the coronavirus locally, in addition to collecting data on monkeypox spread.
Health care providers can order testing through UW Medicine’s Department of Laboratory Medicine if they think a patient has been infected with monkeypox.
The state also expects to receive about 400 courses of the two-dose monkeypox vaccine through the federal government’s plan to distribute a limited amount of vaccines nationwide, the state Department of Health said last week.
About 272 courses have already been distributed in parts of Washington with known cases and close contacts, the department added.
While early cases occurred in people who had traveled outside Washington, more recent cases have occurred in people who hadn’t traveled recently, meaning they were likely exposed to monkeypox locally, King County public health officials said last week. Officials are working to conduct contact tracing and notify close contacts in these cases, according to the DOH.
Monkeypox can affect anyone, and those who are most at risk are those who have had close skin-to-skin contact with someone with monkeypox. In the recent surge, cases have been reported to be especially prevalent among men who have had close or intimate contact with other men, local health leaders have said, though the risk is not limited to men who have sex with men.
The vaccine can reduce the chance of developing an infection for those who have recently had close contact with someone who has tested positive.
According to the DOH, monkeypox can cause flulike symptoms, swollen lymph nodes and a rash that can appear anywhere on the body. Most recently, people had lesions on the genitals or in the anal area sometimes with or without flulike symptoms, the health authority said.
Anyone who has symptoms of monkeypox or has been in close contact with someone who has been diagnosed should see a health care provider.
Most cases do not require hospitalization and to date, no one in the U.S. has died from the virus. People typically recover within two to four weeks but more serious cases can arise for immunocompromised people, children, people with eczema or who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco will have surgery Tuesday on his right wrist.
Franco has a hamate injury. He left Saturday’s 5-4 loss at Cincinnati after fouling off a 100.2 mph Hunter Greene pitch before striking out.
Manager Kevin Cash said Monday that the 21-year-old Franco will be sidelined for five to eight weeks. Franco is hitting .260 with five homers and 23 RBIs in 58 games in the first season of a $182 million, 11-year contract.
The Rays placed Franco and center fielder Kevin Kiermaier on the 10-day injured list on Sunday.
Kiermaier, 32, is dealing with left hip inflammation. He will see a hip specialist in Tennessee after the All-Star break.
“KK’s going to be down for some time,” Cash said. “We need to let the hip calm down and let the expert give his recommendation. KK might have a decision to make at that point.”
Kiermaier is batting .228 with seven homers and 22 RBIs in 63 games this season.
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By AADIT TAMBE, STEPHEN NEUKAM, KATE SELTZER, RACHEL LOGAN, HENRY KUCZYNSKI, EMMETT GARTNER, TRISHA AHMED, ABBY ZIMMARDI, MICHAEL PURDIE, SHREYA VUTTALURU, JAMIE LIN PINZON / Howard Center for Investigative Journalism
Howard Center for Investigative Journalism
WARREN, Mich. (AP) — While the growing expansion of casinos and state-sanctioned sports betting steal the spotlight, state lotteries have nearly doubled in size over the past two decades, driving a multibillion-dollar wealth transfer from low-income U.S. communities to powerful multinational companies.
A nationwide investigation of state lotteries by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland found that lottery retailers are disproportionately clustered in lower-income communities in nearly every state. The investigation’s analysis of cellphone location data shows that the people who patronize those stores come from the same kinds of communities.
Once rare, lotteries now operate in all but five U.S. states. Driven by more than a half-billion dollars in annual ad spending, lottery ticket sales have grown from $47 billion to $82 billion since 2005, according to La Fleur’s 2022 World Lottery Almanac. In 10 states, lotteries generate more revenue than corporate income taxes.
The investigation also found that a key promise of lotteries across the country — that they support education — doesn’t hold up. Instead, lotteries often compound inequities by disproportionately benefiting college students and wealthier school districts far from the neighborhoods where most tickets are sold.
“Poor people are collateral damage to a cause of raising money for what the legislators feel is good purposes … public safety, local schools,” said Gregory W. Sullivan, a former Massachusetts inspector general and now research director for a free-market think tank in Boston.
The multibillion-dollar wealth transfer starts in places like Warren, Michigan, where Ashley Standifer buys tickets in one of the state’s poorest neighborhoods.
On a snowy April day, Standifer stopped by the Korner Party Store in this Detroit suburb, its largest sign advertising “Beer Wine Lotto,” to buy scratch-off tickets.
She buys scratch tickets three times daily. Four years ago, she won $1,000 on a $3 ticket, but she hasn’t won big since.
“Of course, you know, I’m expecting to get my money back,’’ Standifer said. “But if I don’t … I’m still gonna buy it.”
Standifer’s spending is one small part of the $82 billion spent annually by lottery players, the first input in a nearly nationwide system that brings state-sponsored gambling directly into a majority of U.S. neighborhoods through more than 200,000 stores.
Standifer — and millions of players like her — lose about 35 cents for every dollar they spend.
“Yesterday I spent like $130 and I won like $85,” Standifer said, meaning she lost $45.
Those losses — $29 billion a year nationally — are why lotteries exist. The losses fund government programs and enrich others, including a Canadian private equity billionaire and a Japanese convenience-store conglomerate.
In the popular imagination, the lottery is funded by people who spend a few dollars on a Powerball ticket when the jackpot gets big. This is not reality.
More than two-thirds of lottery sales are of instant scratch-off tickets, which range in price from $1 to $50. A sliver of players are responsible for most of that spending.
A 1999 report to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission found the top 10% of lottery spenders accounted for two-thirds of sales. The most frequent players, the study found, had lower incomes, were high school dropouts and disproportionately Black.
High school dropouts spent four times more per year than college graduates. Black people spent, on average, nearly five times as much as white people.
Some states, like Massachusetts, are aware of frequent players’ importance. A 2016 study commissioned by the lottery showed that the top 10% of players account for about 40% of sales. The average player in that group reported lottery spending of nearly $200 per week.
In South Carolina, players with a household income of less than $35,000 a year spent more than twice as much as players with household incomes between $100,000 and $150,000, according to a 2014 state-commissioned study obtained by the Howard Center.
“When people get down, they probably take the last 10 or 20 dollars to try to make up 100 to 400 dollars,” said Cloyd White, 26, a construction worker from Jasper County, South Carolina, who estimated he spent $40 every day. “It’s a gamble and it’s risky, but I feel like it’s all about God.”
It’s also about choices states make about who can sell lottery tickets.
“There’s a reason why so many lottery outlets are concentrated in low-income areas across the United States,” said Les Bernal, national director of Stop Predatory Gambling.
The Howard Center found that stores in the vast majority of states with lotteries are disproportionately concentrated in communities with lower levels of education and income and higher poverty rates, with larger populations of Black and Hispanic people.
Only Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Utah and Nevada lack lotteries. The Howard Center was unable to obtain lottery retailer locations in South Dakota, but did obtain them for the other 44 states, plus Washington, D.C.
The center’s analysis found:
— In neighborhoods with lottery retailers, the percentage of the population that lives in poverty is higher than in neighborhoods without lottery retailers in all 44 states analyzed and in Washington, D.C.
— The Black population was higher in neighborhoods with lottery retailers than in neighborhoods without lottery retailers in 35 states and Washington, D.C.
— The Hispanic population was higher in neighborhoods with lottery retailers than in neighborhoods without lottery retailers in 37 states and Washington, D.C..
The store where Standifer bought her tickets is in a neighborhood that has a poverty rate almost three times Michigan’s average. It has four lottery retailers, with another 28 in bordering neighborhoods.
Neighborhoods with a lottery retailer in Michigan have a median poverty rate nearly double the rate in neighborhoods without lottery retailers, the center’s analysis found.
The North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries, an industry group, says on its website that it’s misleading to examine where stores are concentrated because people “don’t always buy their lottery tickets in the neighborhoods where they live.”
That’s true. But the Howard Center’s first-of-its-kind analysis of mobile phone location data to study customers of lottery retailers shows they are mostly local.
The center used mobile location data from SafeGraph, a location intelligence firm that collects information about store foot traffic at U.S. businesses. The aggregated SafeGraph data reveals the neighborhoods where a store’s customers live.
A Marathon gas station in Warren, Michigan — a five-minute drive from the Korner Party Store where Standifer played — sold more than $725,000 in lottery tickets in 2020, ranking among the top 20% of retailers statewide.
More than two-thirds of its customers live in the same neighborhood as the gas station or in surrounding neighborhoods, with the average customer living within 1.1 miles of the store.
The Howard Center analysis, which examined store traffic patterns at nearly three-quarters of all U.S. lottery retailers, found similar patterns nationally. In all but Arizona and Washington, D.C, a majority of lottery retailers had a customer base that mainly came from local neighborhoods.
The Marathon gas station’s visitors came from neighborhoods with a household income $16,000 less on average than Michigan’s median of $57,000. In 29 of 44 states it analyzed and in Washington, D.C., the Howard Center found a similar divide, where the average household income of neighborhoods that visited lottery retailers was lower than the state’s overall average income.
A Howard Center review found states recruit retailers based on factors like store security, the ability to hit sales targets and compliance with in-store advertising requirements. The review found no evidence that states consider racial or economic inequity.
As a group, players lose. But there are consistent winners: the multinational companies that run the lotteries on behalf of the states, the stores — including large chains — and advertising and media companies.
Of $29 billion lost by players, those entities — plus state administrators who oversee the process — will keep more than a quarter: $8 billion.
The lottery operations industry is dominated by two private companies, U.K.-based International Game Technology PLC and Canadian-owned Scientific Games Holdings LP.
State-level lobbying by Scientific Games in the 1980s was critical to the expansion of the lottery from one state, New Hampshire in 1964, to nearly every state. Scientific Games just sold its lottery business to Toronto-based private equity firm Brookfield Business Partners LP for nearly $6 billion. Future profits will benefit Brookfield CEO Bruce Flatt, who is worth $4.5 billion, according to Forbes.
Stores get a commission for selling tickets and cashing in winning tickets. They earn, on average, 6%, but also earn substantial bonuses when a customer wins big. They took in $5 billion in 2020, according to the La Fleur’s almanac.
Convenience stores account for nearly two-thirds of lottery sales. Major multinational firms profit from owning thousands of U.S. convenience stores, including the Japanese firm Seven & i Holdings, which has more than 10,000 7-Eleven and Speedway stores.
Many states permit sales at stores that specifically market to low-income clientele. Check-cashing stores, patronized by lower-income people who don’t have bank accounts, sell lottery tickets in 24 states, the Howard Center found.
After prizes are paid out and the costs of running the lottery are paid for, $21 billion of the original $82 billion remains for spending on government programs.
At least two-thirds of the $21 billion is earmarked for education programs.
The Michigan lottery, where Standifer plays, has for decades billed itself as a win for education. The vast majority of the state’s share of lottery funding is used for K-12 education funding.
Studies show the state’s education funding formula is inequitable. Michigan received a grade of “D” for how it allocates funding to low-poverty districts, according to a 2021 report from the Education Law Center.
The report classified 15 states as regressive, which meant high-poverty districts received as much as a third less per student than their low-poverty counterparts. Six of the those states — Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire and Texas – have lotteries that use at least a portion of funds to finance K-12 education programs.
Some states use lottery revenue to fund college scholarships.
In Kentucky, nearly half of lottery scholarship funding supports the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship (KEES), which awards money based on a student’s GPA and test scores.
Nearly 10% of Kentucky high school students are Black, but they were awarded less than 5% of KEES merit-based scholarship funding, a Howard Center analysis of 2020 state scholarship data shows. The average white KEES recipient got an award of $1,745, compared with $1,244 for the average Black KEES recipient.
The same disparity did not appear in the state’s need-based scholarships, where Black students received about 11% of funds.
University of Louisville senior Abby Donahue, 21, said gambling is a “system designed to make you lose.”
But, she added, college is so expensive, and students are so desperate for scholarships, that they do not think about where the money comes from.
Meanwhile, Standifer and millions of others like her continue to play.
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Howard Center reporters Brandie Bland, Jillian Diamond, Vanessa G. Sanchez and Lauren Mowry contributed to this story. Melissa Ellin, Isabel Tehan and Ethan Biddle of Boston University also contributed.
This story by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland was produced in collaboration with Boston University. The Howard Center is funded by a grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation in honor of newspaper pioneer Roy W. Howard.
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We have gouda news for Orlando cheeseheads. Simply Cheese, a new shop for all things fromage, will be opening this month in Winter Park.
The Aloma Avenue shop will serve 40 different types of cheese, as well as charcuterie boards, meats and jams.
The brie-ginning of the shop’s story starts with Midwest-born owner Ann Thornton moving to the Sunshine State. She brought her husband back to her Michigan roots and while there, stepped into a cheese shop and had an epiphany: She needed to found her own local cheese shop.
The shop, at 2258 Aloma Ave., will celebrate its grand opening from 9 a.m until 4 p.m. Saturday, July 23. | https://www.orlandoweekly.com/food-drink/new-cheese-shop-simply-cheese-plans-opening-in-winter-park-this-month-32005502 | 2022-07-11T23:32:20Z | https://www.orlandoweekly.com/food-drink/new-cheese-shop-simply-cheese-plans-opening-in-winter-park-this-month-32005502 | true |
By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Candidates to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister scattered tax-cutting promises to their Conservative Party electorate on Monday, as party officials set out rules to narrow the crowded field of almost a dozen candidates to two contenders by next week.
Little-known junior minister Rehman Chishti became the 11th candidate to declare he wants to succeed Johnson, who quit as Conservative leader on Thursday amid a party revolt triggered by months of ethics scandals. Other contenders include Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak, Treasury chief Nadhim Zahawi, trade minister Penny Mordaunt, former health secretaries Sajid Javid and Jeremy Hunt, and backbench lawmakers Tom Tugendhat and Kemi Badenoch.
The new leader will be chosen in a two-stage election, in which the 358 Conservative lawmakers reduce the race to two candidates through a series of elimination votes. The final pair will be put to a ballot of party members across the country. Under Britain’s parliamentary system, the new Conservatives leader will automatically become prime minister without the need for a general election.
The party’s 1922 Committee, which runs leadership contests, announced that nominations will officially open — and close — on Tuesday. The first round of voting will take place Wednesday, and the second on Thursday, with candidates who fail to get at least 30 votes eliminated at each round.
Candidates will need to be nominated by at least 20 lawmakers to get onto the first ballot, a number that may knock out some contenders before voting even starts.
The party aims to complete the parliamentary stage of the election before lawmakers break for the summer on July 21. That means a new leader is expected to be announced when the House of Commons returns on Sept. 5.
Many Conservatives are wary of leaving Johnson in office for too long, concerned a lame-duck leader is the last thing Britain needs with war raging in Ukraine, food and energy price increases driving inflation to levels not seen in decades, and growing labor unrest. Some also worry Johnson — brought down by scandals over money, rule-breaking and his handling of sexual misconduct allegations against lawmakers — could do mischief even as a caretaker prime minister.
In the wide-open leadership contest, contenders are striving to set themselves apart from the perceived front-runner Sunak, who already has the backing of more than three dozen lawmakers.
Many have repudiated the tax increases Sunak introduced to shore up U.K. finances battered by the coronavirus pandemic and Brexit — a 1.25% income-tax rise for millions of workers, and an increase in corporation tax next year from 19% to 25%. Most candidates say they will scrap one or both.
“I want to cut all taxes,” said Hunt, who pledged to slash corporation tax to 15%. Truss said she would start slashing taxes “from day one,” and Tugendhat said he would “lower taxes across every aspect of society.”
Sunak, whose resignation on Tuesday helped topple Johnson, has cast himself as the candidate of fiscal probity, and warned rivals not to tell the public “comforting fairy tales.”
All the candidates are trying to distance themselves from the drift, disorganization and rule-breaking that sank Johnson — though most of them have served in his government, and some still do.
They are seeking to appeal to an electorate of about 180,000 Conservative members that, in many ways, doesn’t represent the country as a whole: It’s older, whiter, more affluent and much more strongly in favor of Brexit, the country’s departure from the European Union.
None has so far renounced Johnson’s most contentious policies: Legislation to rip up parts of its Brexit deal with the EU, and a plan to send some asylum-seekers arriving in Britain to Rwanda that is being challenged in the courts.
The party battle has already turned fractious. Rivals have criticized Sunak’s record as finance minister, and Zahawi, the current Treasury chief, is fending off claims he is being investigated over his tax affairs. Zahawi said he was being “smeared” and was unaware of any investigation.
Tony Travers, a professor of government at the London School of Economics, said “it would be hard to exaggerate how nasty” the contest already is, with candidates’ teams leaking about one another to the media.
“It really is a war of all against all — and will get worse,” he said.
Oddsmakers say Sunak is likely to be one of the final two contenders, but the race is highly unpredictable. Truss and Mordaunt both have strong support, while Tugendhat, a former soldier on the party’s center-left, and right-wing rising star Badenoch have secured big-name support and could surprise more experienced rivals.
Johnson clung to power for months despite accusations that he was too close to party donors, that he protected supporters from bullying and corruption allegations, and that he misled Parliament about government office parties that broke COVID-19 lockdown rules.
But Johnson was brought down by one scandal too many — this one involving his appointment of a politician who had been accused of sexual misconduct.
Johnson himself didn’t plan to endorse a candidate.
“I wouldn’t want to damage anybody’s chances by offering my support,” he said.
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — One week after a shooting at a Fourth of July parade that left seven dead, the Chicago suburb of Highland Park held a moment of silence Monday morning to mark the exact time police say the first shot was fired.
More than 100 people gathered and hugged each other in a downtown plaza for a tribute that began at 10:14 a.m. and lasted longer than the planned two minutes. Churches in the community along Lake Michigan north of Chicago tolled their bells seven times.
The event was held not far from the building where a gunman fired dozens of shots from the roof along the parade route. A huge memorial of flowers along with chairs holding photographs of the seven victims is now there.
The tribute came a day after restaurants and small shops in the business district where the shooting occurred and had been blocked off with crime scene tape since the shooting reopened.
Robert E. Crimo III, 21, has been charged with seven counts of first-degree murder and, according to prosecutors, will face several counts of attempted murder and other charges. More than 30 people were wounded in the attack. Authorities have said that Crimo, of neighboring Highwood, legally purchased five weapons and planned the attack for weeks.
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By STEFANIE DAZIO
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Olympic volleyball player was attacked Friday in downtown Los Angeles when a man threw a metal object at her face in an assault that fractured multiple bones in her face and left one of her eyes swollen shut, the athlete said in videos posted to social media.
Kim Glass, a silver medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, had been leaving a lunch on Friday afternoon when she saw a man run up with something in his hand. He was on the other side of a car, in the street, when he threw the object — what Glass believes might have been a metal pipe or bolt — at her face.
“He just like looked at me with some pretty hateful eyes,” she said in videos posted to Instagram. “It happened so fast, he literally flung it from the street, he was not even close to me at all.”
Bystanders restrained the man — identified by police as Semeon Tesfamariam, 51 — until officers arrived to take him into custody.
Tesfamariam was booked on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon, according to Officer Drake Madison, a Los Angeles police spokesperson. He is being held without bail. It was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney who could speak on his behalf or when he is scheduled to appear in court.
“USA Volleyball is appalled to learn of this weekend’s brutal attack on our Olympic medalist Kim Glass. Our thoughts are with her and we wish her a speedy recovery,” USA Volleyball President and CEO Jamie Davis said in a statement on Monday.
Glass, a Los Angeles native, posted videos showing her injuries to her eye, nose and cheek. She said she believes her vision will be OK and thanked a doctor for stitches near her eyebrow.
“Just be safe out there,” she said in the videos. “You shouldn’t have to be fearful when you walk.”
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Lawyers for Johnny Depp are urging a Virginia judge to leave his $10 million defamation judgment intact after attorneys for his ex-wife, Amber Heard, asked the judge to set aside the verdict.
In court papers filed on Monday, Depp's lawyers dispute arguments from Heard's team that the jury's verdict was nonsensical and unfounded. They also say the Heard team's complaints about an apparent case of mistaken identity with one of the jurors are irrelevant. Last month, a civil jury in Fairfax awarded $10.35 million to Depp after finding he was defamed by Heard when she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post about domestic violence.
The jury also awarded $2 million to Heard on her counterclaim that she was defamed by one of Depp's attorneys.
On Monday, Depp’s lawyers filed their response. They argue that there was nothing inconsistent in the fact that the jury awarded judgments in favor of both Depp and Heard. They said the jury verdict form allowed jurors to be very specific about which statements were libelous and that the verdict makes sense when you look at the specific statements cited by the jury. | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/depps-lawyers-urge-judge-to-leave-jury-verdict-intact | 2022-07-11T23:37:49Z | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/depps-lawyers-urge-judge-to-leave-jury-verdict-intact | true |
More triple digit heat expected across east Texas
Weather Where You Live
EAST TEXAS (KLTV/KTRE) - The stalled out frontal boundary situated around Groveton, Lufkin, and Lake Sam Rayburn has triggered a few isolated to widely scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. They are few and far between, but we will certainly take any precious, liquid gold, no matter how big or small the amounts may be.
Any rain that is on First Alert Radar right now will fizzle out once we head toward sundown around 8:30 p.m. this evening, giving way to mostly clear skies and muggy conditions overnight as lows drop into the upper 70′s, near 80-degrees.
Heat Advisories have been extended trough tomorrow since air temperatures and heat index values will top out in triple digit territory. Look for daytime highs to reach the lower 100′s with feels like temperatures ranging from 105-110 in the afternoon hours on Tuesday.
There is some minor heat relief coming our way on Wednesday as a summer cold front will slide down through east Texas, offering some a chance for scattered downpours. This will then be followed by some drier air that will lead to highs coming down into the middle-to-upper 90′s. It will still be hot, but not as hot as we take an edge off the heat for Thursday and Friday.
With the front stalling down in deep east Texas, we will keep in some low-end rain chances for those areas on Thursday before everyone goes dry, again, by the time we head toward the weekend.
Rainfall amounts in the next week do not look all that promising. Most areas north of Interstate 20 may not see any rain, while areas south of the Highway 84 corridor could get a quarter-to-half an inch with this mid-week cold front.
To stay on top of the weather conditions in your neighborhood, make sure you download and frequent our KTRE and KLTV First Alert weather mobile applications. It gives you access to our First Alert forecast, severe weather alerts, interactive radar, and featured video updates. It is weather on the go, when you want it, at your convenience, right in the palm of your hand.
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Do your kids love LEGOs? If they do, it’s a smart idea to invest in a LEGO table so they can have their very own station for all their building projects.
LEGO tables consist of a plain kids’ table with a baseplate tabletop. LEGO tables offer far more workable space than a regular baseplate, which gives kids plenty of room to set up entire cities, kingdoms, or command centers.
Find the right LEGO table for your kids with help from this buying guide. At the end, we’re sharing our favorite designs for your consideration. UTEX 2-in-1 Construction Play Table tops our shortlist for its convenient under-table storage.
What to know before you buy a LEGO table
Tabletop size
Tabletop size varies among LEGO tables, with smaller ones measuring around 15 x 24 inches, and larger ones peaking at 36 x 50 inches.
In terms of choosing a suitable size, consider how large your kids’ build projects are.
If they prefer small-scale projects, like some LEGO village or vehicle sets, smaller LEGO tables are ideal. However, if they enjoy sprawling projects, like those seen in LEGO Star Wars or LEGO Architecture kits, they’ll be better served by a larger table.
Height
One of the most important considerations for LEGO tables is height. Kids that prefer sitting while they build may enjoy low-sitting tables, whereas other kids might prefer sitting in a chair.
If you’re learning toward a traditional table and seating design, keep in mind that there are kids’ and adult LEGO tables on the market. For adults who partake in LEGO projects alongside their kids, the latter might be a more practical option depending on the kids’ ages or heights.
Table vs. set
In addition to comparing LEGO tables, take time to consider LEGO table sets. In some cases, it’s more cost-effective to invest in these.
Sets typically include the LEGO table with at least a pair of matching chairs. Some consumers feel it’s a smarter investment than just a table, mostly because it takes the guesswork out of finding chairs at the right height.
What to look for in a quality LEGO table
Construction
Most LEGO tables are made from wood, wood composite, or high-density plastic.
Wood tables are considered the best option if you’d like to invest in quality and durability. Many of these designs are available in multiple finishes or colors to blend in with other furniture.
Wood composite tables are more affordable than wood tables. They often appear and feel just like wood, though they’re nowhere as durable. Some lower-quality composite tables are prone to chipping or peeling as well.
Plastic tables are the most affordable option. They’re lightweight and are easy to keep clean since they can be wiped or vacuumed. and lightweight. However, plastic LEGO tables lack the curb appeal of wood and wood composite tables.
Storage
If your kids have an impressive LEGO collection, it’s worth considering a LEGO table with storage.
A few designs feature below-deck storage in the form of drawers or pockets. Others have wells in the middle or down the sides of the table. There are also LEGO tables with removable tabletops that reveal large storage areas.
Convertible tabletop
A growing category of LEGO tables are those with convertible tabletops.
As multipurpose furniture, they’re considered versatile and cost-effective, especially for small or mixed-use spaces.These designs feature removable or flippable baseplates with a plain tabletop on the other side. The flat side is often used for coloring, arts and crafts, or even remote learning.
How much you can expect to spend on a LEGO table
Affordable plastic LEGO tables cost $60 and below. Tables made with wood or wood composite run between $50 and $150, whereas the best-quality LEGO tables with the most play space run as high as $250 to $400.
LEGO table FAQ
How difficult is it to assemble a LEGO table?
A. For the most part, LEGO tables have simple construction, and it won’t take too long to put them together. However, some LEGO tables can prove challenging to assemble if they have ill-fitting components or confusing instructions.
How do I clean a LEGO table?
A. Wood and wood composite LEGO tables should be cleaned with wood- and finish-safe cleaning products, namely those that are non-toxic and kid-safe. As for the baseplate, you can clean it with a diluted mixture of white vinegar and warm water.
What’s the best LEGO table to buy?
Top LEGO table
UTEX 2-in-1 Construction Play Table
What you need to know: As one of the more durable designs, this LEGO table earns praise from parents and kids alike.
What you’ll love: Equipped with two below-deck storage compartments. Baseplate is compatible with Duplo and LEGO bricks. Tabletop flips over to a flat surface to enjoy other activities.
What you should consider: Some consumers felt the storage area could have been made better.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top LEGO table for the money
Humble Crew Building Blocks Activity Table
What you need to know: This bright, welcoming design has a round design that accommodates four little builders.
What you’ll love: Comes with two matching chairs. Two-in-one design includes a regular table cover for non-building activities. Despite its plastic construction, it’s rather durable.
What you should consider: Center compartment for bricks is pretty shallow.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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KidKraft Gray 2-in1 Square Play Table
What you need to know: Geared toward preschoolers, this low-sitting table has rounded edges and other safety features.
What you’ll love: Assembly is straightforward with step-by-step directions. Comes with a set of third-party bricks. Sprawling play area is accommodating to side-by-side play for several kids.
What you should consider: Younger kids might have difficulty reaching the middle of the table.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Wayfair
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Doctors 'must' provide abortion if life of mother is at stake, Biden admin insists
WASHINGTON - The Biden administration on Monday told hospitals that they "must" provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk, saying federal law on emergency treatment guidelines preempts state laws in jurisdictions that now ban the procedure without any exceptions following the Supreme Court's decision to end a constitutional right to abortion.
The Department of Health and Human Services cited requirements on medical facilities in the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). The law requires medical facilities to determine whether a person seeking treatment may be in labor or whether they face an emergency health situation — or one that could develop into an emergency — and to provide treatment.
"If a physician believes that a pregnant patient presenting at an emergency department is experiencing an emergency medical condition as defined by EMTALA, and that abortion is the stabilizing treatment necessary to resolve that condition, the physician must provide that treatment," the agency's guidance states. "When a state law prohibits abortion and does not include an exception for the life of the pregnant person — or draws the exception more narrowly than EMTALA’s emergency medical condition definition — that state law is preempted."
RELATED: Nationwide abortion ban could raise maternal death rate by 24%, study suggests
The department said emergency conditions include "ectopic pregnancy, complications of pregnancy loss, or emergent hypertensive disorders, such as preeclampsia with severe features."
"It is critical that providers know that a physician or other qualified medical personnel’s professional and legal duty to provide stabilizing medical treatment to a patient who presents to the emergency department and is found to have an emergency medical condition preempts any directly conflicting state law or mandate that might otherwise prohibit such treatment," HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra wrote in a letter to health care providers.
The department says its guidance doesn't reflect new policy, but merely reminds doctors and providers of their existing obligations under federal law.
"Under federal law, providers in emergency situations are required to provide stabilizing care to someone with an emergency medical condition, including abortion care if necessary, regardless of the state where they live," said Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. "CMS will do everything within our authority to ensure that patients get the care they need."
RELATED: How abortion clinics in sanctuary states are handling a surge in out-of-state care | https://www.fox29.com/news/abortion-federal-vs-state-laws-life-of-mother-at-stake | 2022-07-11T23:40:36Z | https://www.fox29.com/news/abortion-federal-vs-state-laws-life-of-mother-at-stake | false |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The head of Texas' state police met again Monday with a committee investigating the Uvalde elementary school shooting as anger over why officers waited so long to confront the gunman mounts among families of the 21 people killed inside a fourth-grade classroom.
Nearly seven weeks after the deadliest school shooting in Texas history, a full account of the slow police response at Robb Elementary School remains incomplete and authorities at all levels have not released requests for public records, including for 911 recordings and body camera footage.
Hundreds of people, including relatives of some of the 19 children killed, gathered and marched in Uvalde under searing 100-degree (37.78 Celsius) heat during the weekend in a renewed push for answers and accountability.
State police and an investigative committee formed by the Texas House say they want to release a 77-minute surveillance video of the hallway where police, armed with rifles and bulletproof shields, gathered during the shooting but waited more than an hour before breaching the classroom. But state police insist they can't because they don't have authorization from the district attorney in Uvalde County.
The investigative committee wants to include the video in preliminary public findings that could be made public later this month. Rep. Dustin Burrows, a Republican who leads the committee, said Monday in a tweet that he planned to show the video to Uvalde residents “regardless of any agreement.”
Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Busbee has not responded to requests for comment about the video.
The committee says it has so far interviewed more than 40 people, including police who were on the scene. All the testimony has happened behind closed doors, which Burrows has said was necessary to elicit more candor from the witnesses.
Witnesses Monday included Uvalde County Sheriff Ruben Nolasco and Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, who has previously met with the committee and has publicly called the law enforcement response an “abject failure."
Some Uvalde residents on Monday joined President Joe Biden on the White House lawn as he showcased a new law meant to reduce gun violence. It is the most impactful firearms-violence measure Congress has approved since the 1994 enactment of a since-expired ban on semi-automatic guns that were defined as “assault weapons.” Yet gun control advocates — and even White House officials — say it’s premature to declare victory.
“I'm using this pain to speak to you today as a Uvaldian," said Dr. Roy Guerrero, a pediatrician in Uvalde who treated some of the victims. "And to speak for the parents and victims who seek the truth, transparency, and ultimately, accountability.” | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Anger-mounts-among-Uvalde-families-new-report-17298179.php | 2022-07-11T23:42:33Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Anger-mounts-among-Uvalde-families-new-report-17298179.php | false |
Ben Guite hadn’t planned on leaving the Maine Mariners, where he just finished his first season as the head coach of the ECHL team.
But after Jamie Dumont stepped down as the head men’s hockey coach at NCAA Division III Bowdoin College, several Bowdoin alumni reached out to him to see if he was interested in the job.
“I know the lifestyle of a pro coach and a college coach, especially at the Division III level. And for [my] family, I felt I at least wanted to look into it,” said Guite, who was named the 10th head coach in Bowdoin College hockey history on Monday.
“From there, the connection was made with [Bowdoin athletic director] Tim Ryan. Tim and I had a good conversation. We talked about my philosophy and what they were looking for from their program,” Guite said.
“I got on campus, met a few of the players and the faculty and the staff, and we just hit it off.”
The 43-year-old Montreal native is replacing Jamie Dumont, who stepped down after six years for personal reasons. While Guite would not disclose the terms of his three-year contract with Bowdoin, it is believed to be worth at least $100,000 per year — more than he was making with the Mariners.
Dumont, a Lewiston native, compiled a regular season record of 42-70-8 during his five seasons at Bowdoin; COVID-19 canceled the 2020-21 season. The Polar Bears were 29-55-6 in NESCAC.
“I wouldn’t have taken the job if I didn’t think I could win. I love to develop players and people and, at the same time, I love to compete and win. That’s part of the process,” Guite said.
Dumont replaced Terry Meagher in 2016 and previously served two stints as an assistant at Bowdoin including the last one from 2011-16.
Meagher retired after registering an overall record of 529-245-54 in his 33 seasons behind the Bowdoin bench.
“My first priority is to establish a [winning] culture I want our team to have,” Guite said. “And build a real good recruiting class that will be coming in for 2023-24.”
The former UMaine player and eight-year Black Bear assistant coach is confident he can be a successful recruiter because of the selling points he has at his disposal.
“We have a beautiful hockey rink,” said Guite, referring to the 13-year-old Sidney J. Watson Arena. “The campus is phenomenal. And we have one of the best academic institutions in the world. There’s a lot going on for the athletic programs at Bowdoin and I’m really excited to come on board at this time.”
Ryan said in a press release that “Ben brings an extensive hockey playing and coaching background to Bowdoin and I am excited for our players, alumni and community members to get to know him as the thoughtful and caring person he truly is. That defines him much more than his considerable hockey accomplishments.”
Guite guided the Mariners to their first ECHL playoff berth this past season. They had 33 wins, 31 losses, five overtime losses and three shootout losses during the regular season and lost their first-round playoff series to Reading in six games.
Guite had a 911-game pro career, including 184 NHL games, after playing four seasons at UMaine in which he notched 47 goals and 49 assists in 146 games. He helped the Black Bears win the NCAA title in 1989-99.
He said the toughest part of his decision was leaving the Mariners, who are a minor league team affiliated with the NHL’s Boston Bruins.
“That was gut-wrenching. I loved every aspect of coaching there. The players were phenomenal, and the staff and the Bruins treated us like gold,” Guite said.
“But this is an opportunity to coach at a really high level and give some stability to my family, which is worth its weight in gold,” he added.
Guite and wife Kristen have two sons, Patrick and Max, and they live in Bangor. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/11/sports/college/ben-guite-leaving-mariners-n6hjn1me0n/ | 2022-07-11T23:46:43Z | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/11/sports/college/ben-guite-leaving-mariners-n6hjn1me0n/ | false |
Far out: NASA space telescope’s 1st cosmic view goes deep
(AP) — Our view of the universe just expanded: The first image from NASA’s new space telescope unveiled Monday is brimming with galaxies and offers the deepest look of the cosmos ever captured.
The first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is the farthest humanity has ever seen in both time and distance, closer to the dawn of time and the edge of the universe. That image will be followed Tuesday by the release of four more galactic beauty shots from the telescope’s initial outward gazes.
The “deep field” image released at a White House event is filled with lots of stars, with massive galaxies in the foreground and faint and extremely distant galaxies peeking through here and there. Part of the image is light from not too long after the Big Bang, which was 13.8 billion years ago.
Seconds before he unveiled it, President Joe Biden marveled at the image he said showed “the oldest documented light in the history of the universe from over 13 billion -- let me say that again -- 13 billion years ago. It’s hard to fathom.”
The busy image with hundreds of specks, streaks, spirals and swirls of white, yellow, orange and red is only “one little speck of the universe,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said.
The pictures on tap for Tuesday include a view of a giant gaseous planet outside our solar system, two images of a nebula where stars are born and die in spectacular beauty and an update of a classic image of five tightly clustered galaxies that dance around each other.
The world’s biggest and most powerful space telescope rocketed away last December from French Guiana in South America. It reached its lookout point 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth in January. Then the lengthy process began to align the mirrors, get the infrared detectors cold enough to operate and calibrate the science instruments, all protected by a sunshade the size of a tennis court that keeps the telescope cool.
The plan is to use the telescope to peer back so far that scientists will get a glimpse of the early days of the universe about 13.7 billion years ago and zoom in on closer cosmic objects, even our own solar system, with sharper focus.
Webb is considered the successor to the highly successful, but aging Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble has stared as far back as 13.4 billion years. It found the light wave signature of an extremely bright galaxy in 2016. Astronomers measure how far back they look in light-years with one light-year being 5.8 trillion miles (9.3 trillion kilometers).
“Webb can see backwards in time to just after the Big Bang by looking for galaxies that are so far away that the light has taken many billions of years to get from those galaxies to our telescopes,” said Jonathan Gardner, Webb’s deputy project scientist said during the media briefing.
How far back did that first image look? Over the next few days, astronomers will do intricate calculations to figure out just how old those galaxies are, project scientist Klaus Pontoppidan said last month.
“The image is spectacularly deeper (than a similar one taken by Hubble), but it’s unclear how far back we’re looking,″ Richard Ellis, professor of astrophysics at University College London, said by email. “More info is needed.”
The deepest view of the cosmos “is not a record that will stand for very long,” Pontoppidan said, since scientists are expected to use the Webb telescope to go even deeper.
Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s science mission chief said when he saw the images he got emotional and so did his colleagues: “It’s really hard to not look at the universe in new light and not just have a moment that is deeply personal.”
At 21 feet (6.4 meters), Webb’s gold-plated, flower-shaped mirror is the biggest and most sensitive ever sent into space. It’s comprised of 18 segments, one of which was smacked by a bigger than anticipated micrometeoroid in May. Four previous micrometeoroid strikes to the mirror were smaller. Despite the impacts, the telescope has continued to exceed mission requirements, with barely any data loss, according to NASA.
NASA is collaborating on Webb with the European and Canadian space agencies.
“I’m now really excited as this dramatic progress augurs well for reaching the ultimate prize for many astronomers like myself: pinpointing “Cosmic Dawn” — the moment when the universe was first bathed in starlight,” Ellis said.
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Barty does not regret retirement, has no plans to become pro golfer
July 11 (Reuters) - Former world number one Ash Barty has no regrets about retiring from tennis in March aged 25 and also does not plan to start playing golf professionally, ending speculation that she would now focus her career on that sport.
Barty sent shockwaves around the tennis world when she unexpectedly announced her retirement at the peak of her game just two months after claiming a third Grand Slam title at the Australian Open.
She had added fuel to the speculation she would become a professional golfer in April by signing up for a series of exhibition tournaments featuring 23 other celebrities from the world of sport.
"I have no regrets about retiring. Not one. I knew it was the right time for me. It was what I wanted to do," she told https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jul/11/ash-barty-a-lot-of-people-may-still-not-understand-my-decision-to-retire The Guardian in an interview on Monday.
"And yeah, it's been incredible. It's been everything that I've ever wanted."
Barty, who also won Wimbledon in 2021 and the French Open in 2019, said she had not watched last week's finals at the All England Club, adding that she did not often watch matches even when she was still playing professionally.
Moscow-born Elena Rybakina become the first player from Kazakhstan to win a Grand Slam singles title by beating Tunisian Ons Jabeur in the Wimbledon final on Saturday.
Novak Djokovic lifted his seventh Wimbledon trophy on Sunday by defeating unseeded Australian Nick Kyrgios.
"I didn't watch this year's Wimbledon finals. Sorry to disappoint. Obviously I was wrapped for Ons and Elena Rybakina, who are both brilliant girls," said Barty.
"It was obviously awesome to see Nick, who I've known for over a dozen years, get to the final.
"I hit enough tennis balls in my life. I don't need to see others hitting them as well."
Barty plays off a handicap of four at her golf club in Queensland and is engaged to a trainee professional but said that she plays only for fun.
"Golf is a hobby and it always will be. I know what it takes to get to the very top of any sport, and I don't have the desire or want to do the work required," she added. (Reporting by Silvia Recchimuzzi in Gdansk; Editing by Ken Ferris) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11003989/Barty-does-not-regret-retirement-no-plans-pro-golfer.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-11T23:52:05Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11003989/Barty-does-not-regret-retirement-no-plans-pro-golfer.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Businesses and residents in seven counties could qualify for low-interest disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration following the June 13-14 derecho windstorm that struck Fort Wayne and the surrounding area.
SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman announced the agency's declaration Monday following week of damage assessments. On July 6, Gov. Eric Holcomb sent a letter to request the declaration, based on the severity of the damages. As a result, business owners and residents can request low-interest loans to repair or rebuild damaged structures in the counties of Allen, Adams, DeKalb, Huntington, Noble, Wells and Whitley in Indiana and Defiance, Paulding and Van Wert counties in Ohio.
“The SBA is strongly committed to providing the people of Indiana with the most effective and customer-focused response possible to assist businesses of all sizes, homeowner and renters with federal disaster loans,” said a statement from Guzman. “Getting businesses and communities up and running after a disaster is our highest priority at SBA.”
Beginning Tuesday, the agency will open a Disaster Loan Outreach Center at the Southwest Allen County Fire District, 7001 Old Trail Road in Fort Wayne. The center will be open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday. The site will close permanently on July 21.
SBA Customer Service representatives will be on hand to answer questions about the loan program and help with applications. Additionally, staff from the Indiana Department of Homeland Security will help answer questions about the Indiana State Disaster Relief Fund, which can be used to cover losses not eligible for SBA loans. Visitors are encouraged to wear a face mask at the site.
Residents in the affected counties will have until Sept. 6, to return applications for physical property damage and April 10 to return economic injury applications.
Visit www.SBA.gov for more information about the SBA disaster loan program. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/residents-could-qualify-for-disaster-loans/article_590942da-014f-11ed-8d6a-3fb01c1b3298.html | 2022-07-11T23:53:58Z | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/residents-could-qualify-for-disaster-loans/article_590942da-014f-11ed-8d6a-3fb01c1b3298.html | true |
(EDITORIAL from Korea Times on July 12)
Turning further to right
: Constitutional revision to gain momentum
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed to take steps to revise Japan's postwar pacifist constitution, elated by his ruling Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) sweeping victory in Sunday's upper house election. "I will focus efforts on putting together a bill that can be discussed in parliament," he said when asked about the constitutional revision.
According to NHK, Japan's only public broadcaster, Monday, the LDP and its coalition partner Komeito snatched a landslide win in the election. They obtained 76 seats -- 63 and 13 each -- among 125 up for grabs, extending their majority in the 248-member House of Councilors, which elects half of its entire lawmakers once every three years. The outcome is causing concerns over Japan's further inclination toward nationalism and conservatism.
The parties advocating for the constitutional amendment -- LDP, Komeito, the Japan Restoration Party and the Democratic Party for the People (DPFP) -- gained 93 seats. Their total seats rose to 177, gaining a two-thirds supermajority of the upper house. The right-wing forces are believed to have gotten a boost from "sympathy votes" following the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who was shot to death by a gunman Saturday.
A constitutional amendment requires support from more than two-thirds of members in both the upper and lower chambers of the parliament with more than majority support in a national referendum. Abe had pushed relentlessly for the amendment. The LDP has also promised to raise defense spending, particularly prompted by NATO's plan to hike its member countries' defense budget to above 2 percent of GDP. Once implemented, Japan's defense outlays, which stand at the world's ninth, will climb to third following the United States and China.
The LDP has also pledged to strengthen Japan's capabilities to retaliate against possible missile attacks from nearby countries such as China and North Korea. Japan will have no more major elections for the next three years. The LDP is assessing this as a "golden period" to push for the constitutional amendment to turn Japan into a "normal" nation that can wage war with other countries. Japan plans to reshape national security strategies this year, which have remained unchanged since 2013.
Despite seemingly hawkish policies, Kishida has been regarded as "moderate" in the LDP, as he has been maintaining relatively dovish stances regarding the constitutional revision and defense issues. Now that Kishida can solidify his grip on power with the election victory, he stands a good chance to wield a freer hand in advancing his own policy agenda.
Japan's move toward a military buildup may help the county strengthen its alliance with the United States further. Yet, it is unlikely to contribute to improving relations with South Korea and China. The abrupt death of Abe should not be used as a means to make Japan turn further to the right. Tokyo should not forget the untold sufferings Imperial Japan inflicted upon Koreans and other Asians before and during World War II.
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A Lockheed Martin-built instrument gives us a closer look at the universe's origins
DENVER, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at a White House press event, NASA released the first image of some of the earliest light in our universe, taken with an instrument that Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) designed and built. The debut photo from the James Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) is the first from one of the most sensitive infrared cameras ever built to observe the universe.
The company created the scientific instrument at its Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Palo Alto, California, for the University of Arizona.
"NIRCam is a first-of-its-kind camera, and we are proud to have built this primary imager on the Webb telescope," said Alison Nordt, space science and instrumentation director for Lockheed Martin. "Our camera is key for observing the first galaxies that formed after the Big Bang and for achieving all the telescope's science objectives. NIRCam also played a crucial role aligning Webb's optics, as it informed what adjustments needed to be made. The image released today demonstrates that NIRCam's performance is excellent for all types of planned science observations."
Capturing the Past to Improve the Future
Webb is the largest, most powerful space telescope ever built, and it will reveal what our universe looked like some 13.5 billion years ago. Throughout the mission, it will seek light from the universe's first stars and galaxies, investigate how galaxies form, explore the birth of stars and study planetary systems – as well as objects in our own solar system.
After playing a major role in aligning Webb's intricate array of mirrors earlier this year, NIRCam will now take science images throughout the entire mission. At one million miles away from Earth in space, it holds the responsibility of functioning with utmost precision and stability in extreme temperatures.
It is critical that Webb continues to provide crystal clear images for the duration of its mission. To enable operations in deep space, Lockheed Martin developed a new technique for bonding NIRCam's optics mounts together. This method guarantees that neither cold nor slight vibrations cause shifts in the microscopically precise alignment of NIRCam's lenses.
NIRCam Continues Lockheed Martin's Exploration Story
NIRCam continues the success of the company's space observation platforms, from the Lockheed Martin-designed, -built and -operated Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes staring deep into space, to earth-facing technologies, which we're building now to observe weather and carbon emissions on our own planet.
Lockheed Martin is also famed for producing some of the most sophisticated science and weather instruments in the industry. Most recently, these include the first-of-its-kind Geostationary Lightning Mapper and the Solar Ultraviolet Imager instruments on NOAA's current GOES-R weather satellites.
For over 50 years, Lockheed Martin has also helped NASA explore every planet of our solar system, and continues to develop new technologies for future space missions.
About Lockheed Martin
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a global security and aerospace company that employs approximately 114,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.
Please follow @LMNews on Twitter for the latest announcements and news across the corporation, and follow @LMSpace to learn more about the latest technologies, missions and people driving the future of space.
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What's happening
Some companies have found slick ways of passing down increased costs to consumers, with extra charges tacked on to your bill at checkout.
Why it matters
New fees and surcharges, a form of drip pricing, are impacting consumers who are already struggling with rampant inflation.
What's next
Knowing what merchants are able to charge can help you manage your budget and make better buying decisions.
Prices for food, fuel and other everyday essentials are on the rise. That's all plain to see, but what about all the hidden costs that are added to your purchase before checkout or tacked on to the receipt without warning? These additional or increased merchant fees are called drip pricing -- and they're inflicting more pain on our wallets at a time when inflation already costs households hundreds more dollars each month.
Businesses often claim these fees are the only way to offset the burden of inflation and supply chain shortages. For consumers, it means the things we buy are pricier than they initially appear.
"Most of the time we find out about these fees when it's time to pay, not before," Ashley Feinstein Gerstley, author of Financial Adulting, told me via email. "Because these fees really run the gamut, you never really know what you are going to get."
I asked my Instagram followers about these new and surprising fees, and they gave me loads of anecdotes. From restaurants to medical offices to rideshare services, here's a look at some newer (or just surprising) charges that I've discovered. And I'll offer tips on how to manage these unexpected surcharges.
Restaurants are charging more, and not just for food
Many restaurants are still reeling from a fiscal slump during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with rising food and payroll costs, eateries continue to struggle. "Average small business restaurants run on very tight margins of around 3 to 5% pre-tax," said Hudson Riehle, senior vice president of research with the National Restaurant Association. "The typical restaurant business model is not set up to deal with this sustained and accelerated cost of food and labor, which is putting extraordinary pressure on operators, and indications are these will continue."
Here are some of the new fees you may see on your restaurant bill:
Credit card surcharges
Earlier this spring, major credit card companies like Mastercard and Visa increased interchange fees, which is what merchants pay to card issuers every time a customer uses a credit card. Also known as "swipe fees," they cost businesses 1.5 to 3% per transaction. They're most challenging for smaller establishments like restaurants, and some are passing this expense on to customers as a percentage of their total bill.
When Feinstein Gerstley dined out with her family last summer in Sapphire, North Carolina, the restaurant charged a credit card processing fee that she says was not mentioned until the bill arrived: "We were a party of 15 who had drinks, apps, dinner and dessert so the charge was substantial, over $100." Many states permit businesses to pass on their card swipe fees to customers, but they must properly disclose the surcharges on visible signage and their websites. The customer fee also cannot exceed what the business pays to the credit card companies.
Increased labor costs
Back in April, Sarah Morisson saw a $5 surcharge when the bill for her enchiladas arrived at a restaurant in Alpharetta, Georgia. The reason? "Increased labor costs." This may also be called a "kitchen appreciation fee" in some eateries and comes in the form of an added $3 to $5.
Health care charges
Restaurants are competing for workers and offering more benefits as a draw. This added cost may show up on your receipt next time you eat out. In Chicago last month, Rema Shamon noticed a few dollars added to her dining bill labeled "health care for staff." Similarly in West Hollywood, California, Claudia Scott was charged 3% more for "employee health insurance" at a local eatery.
Add-ons for staff who don't get tips
At a sandwich shop in Portland, Maine, a couple weeks ago, Jennifer Steralacci and a friend paid a $4 fee "for non-tipped staff" -- and that was on top of the gratuity. "I didn't recall seeing anything on the menu that indicated this charge," Steralacci told me.
Rideshare and food delivery apps are charging more for gas
Fees were already climbing because of the pandemic, but as rideshare companies compete to hire drivers, they're luring them with sign-on bonuses and higher pay. That's another reason your rideshare total seems more expensive than ever. On top of that, in March, Uber and Uber Eats announced a new fuel fee to help drivers cover the cost of rising energy prices.
That'll cost an additional $0.45 or $0.55 on each Uber trip and either $0.35 or $0.45 on each Uber Eats food order, depending on the location. Uber says 100% of that fee goes to drivers. Rival rideshare company Lyft has also announced a 55-cent fuel surcharge. Grocery delivery app Instacart says it's tacking on a new 40-cent fuel fee, too.
Fees at doctors' offices are adding to the shock, too
Increased supply and materials fees
Keep an eye out for this line-item cost at your next medical visit, which ranges in price. In Dallas, Texas, Kelsie Whittington got hit with an unusual $18 "supply fee" after her son's routine pediatrician visit in May. The medical office explained that it was for pricier bed covers, needles, gauze and other equipment.
With insurance companies slow to issue reimbursements, the clinic was having patients eat the cost. "I was a little shocked at first, then empathetic. I needed to pay for my son's health," Whittington said.
Facility fees
While doctors' offices have been charging facility fees since before the pandemic, patients may not know about them until they receive an itemized bill. According to Consumer Reports, facility fees, which typically cover the cost of maintaining the medical office, urgent care center or clinic that's owned by a hospital, can add hundreds of dollars to a bill... and insurance may only partially cover it.
What can you do about all the extra hidden charges?
To minimize the blow of these new fees and surcharges, we need to gather facts and be prepared to self-advocate. Here are four pieces of advice:
1. Question the fees: We may feel awkward or embarrassed to ask about new and unusual charges. But if a business is not upfront and hasn't disclosed their charges ahead of time, it's within our right to understand and ask questions. We may learn that the fee is justified and we're actually happy to pay it and continue patronizing. In other cases, it may deter us from returning.
2. Ask for a cash discount: Like many gas stations, some restaurants offer cash discounts to help minimize their credit card processing costs. For example, at The Fifth Season restaurant in Port Washington, New York, cash-paying diners receive a 3.5% bill reduction through its Cash Discount Program promoted on the eatery's website.
Even if not advertised, ask if a business will offer you a cash discount, a win-win for both you and the merchant. I've successfully used this trick at small, independently owned stores, too.
3. Think twice about using third party delivery apps: Delivery apps are convenient but they can quickly double the cost of your pizza order after fees, taxes and the suggested 25% tip. Ordering takeout the old-fashioned way by calling the restaurant directly could result in substantial savings. Some eateries may require you to pick up the food, but others may offer free delivery of their own -- just be sure to tip the driver. If you want to stick with third party deliverers, MealMe helps identify the lowest options by comparing pricing across the board.
4. Vote with your feet: It's our choice where and how to spend, and if paying extra fees is too much to bear, we have the right to walk away and patronize a different business next time. When a restaurant manager refused to remove the surprise credit card surcharge, Feinstein Gerstley said a family member in attendance shared the experience on Yelp. "We definitely didn't return to the restaurant," she said.
If a charge does not come with any adequate disclosure, the merchant may be in violation of state laws, so consumer advocates recommend filing a complaint with both your credit card issuer and the state attorney general. According to Riehle, "The restaurant industry is very competitive, and operators know that if a consumer's last experience doesn't meet their expectations, they are likely to vote with their feet." | https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/banking/inflation-is-hiding-in-your-receipts-how-to-spot-shifty-fees-on-your-bill/ | 2022-07-11T23:58:04Z | https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/banking/inflation-is-hiding-in-your-receipts-how-to-spot-shifty-fees-on-your-bill/ | true |
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Bracco Italiano is the 200th breed to be recognized by the American Kennel Club is now a part of their “sporting group” of breeds. The Bracco is a hunter, pointer and retriever that developed to accommodate hunters’ needs and is one of the oldest of the pointing breeds. Bracchi Italiani were introduced in the U.S. in the 1990s and have remained true to their heritage as a versatile gun dog and are tireless in the field.
Choosing the right breed is an important decision, even for the American Kennel Club (AKC). A breed that is officially recognized by the American Kennel Club is able to compete fully and at the highest levels in AKC-sanctioned dog shows, and it has one designated national “parent club” that is the sole steward of its standard − the official breed description used as a blueprint by breeders and judges alike.
You can find more information online at akc.org.
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Researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine will use a $3.25 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to better understand how HIV impacts the human body, from mouth lesions to oral cancer.
HIV is a virus that attacks the body's immune system and interferes with its ability to fight infections. More than a third of HIV patients will develop some form of oral side effects, like mouth ulcers from immune systems and can greatly impact quality-of-life.
The five-year research project will center on a type of white blood cell called regulatory T-cells, otherwise known as "Tregs." These cells help the immune system signal an appropriate response to fight off infection. But sometimes Treg cells can malfunction, resulting in too many or too few of them. That can trigger diseases, including mouth and throat issues and eventually lead to prolonged inflammation. The goal is to identify genetic, microbiome and metabolic biomarkers that cause these oral complications.
Pushpa Pandiyan, an associate professor of biological sciences at the School of Dental Medicine, is leading the research as principal investigator.
We're looking at the dysfunctionality of immune cells and how these cells are associated with inflammatory lesions in the mouths of HIV/AIDS patients. We also know that HIV patients also have a higher prevalence of oral cancer, and we want to see if the metabolic genes in these immune cells are associated with increased rates of cancer."
Pushpa Pandiyan, associate professor of biological sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine
This grant will allow the researchers to build on a previous Case Western Reserve-led study published last fall in Nature Communications, which focused on individuals taking HIV antiretroviral drugs. The research looked at how to increase T-cell counts while reducing the number of cells that behave dysfunctionally and cause inflammation.
Pandiyan said the new NIH grant will support work designed to identify potential targets for therapeutics in HIV-positive patients and increase understanding of the gut microbiome's role in oral manifestations of HIV.
"We'd like to eventually expand our current research to examine the role of bacteria found in the mouth and the gut microbiome," Pandiyan said. "Good bacteria can be helpful while fighting disease, but it can shift in a way that results in unwanted inflammation. These changes in the microbiome affect the cytokines (a type of protein produced by immune and non-immune cells) in HIV patients and warrant further study."
The research team will involve faculty from the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, including: Adam Burgener, Mark Cameron, Mahmoud Ghannoum and Jeffrey Jacobson. | https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220711/Researchers-receive-24325-million-NIH-grant-to-better-understand-the-oral-manifestations-of-HIV.aspx | 2022-07-12T00:10:05Z | https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220711/Researchers-receive-24325-million-NIH-grant-to-better-understand-the-oral-manifestations-of-HIV.aspx | true |
A Nevada man was charged in the 1982 killing of a child in California
A 70-year-old Nevada man has been charged in the 1982 killing of a 5-year-old girl who disappeared while walking to her kindergarten class in California after detectives solved the case using DNA evidence, authorities said.
Robert John Lanoue, of Reno, Nev., was charged last week in the killing of Anne Pham and was due in court Monday in Washoe County for a hearing about his extradition to Monterey County in California.
Pham disappeared while walking to her kindergarten class at Highland Elementary School in Seaside, Calif., on Jan. 21, 1982. Her body was found two days later in the former Fort Ord.
The child had been kidnapped, sexually assaulted and strangled, California authorities said.
Lanoue, who is a registered sex offender in Nevada, was 29 years old at the time of the girl's killing and lived near her home in Seaside, said Monterey County District Attorney Jeannine Pacioni.
The case was reopened in 2020 when investigators with the Monterey County District Attorney's Office Cold Case Task Force worked with the Seaside Police Department to submit evidence from the case for DNA testing after receiving a grant to reopen cold cases.
Lanoue was charged with one count of first-degree murder, with special circumstance allegations that he murdered Pham while committing kidnapping and a lewd act on a child under the age of 14, said Pacioni.
It was not immediately known if Lanoue has an attorney who can speak on his behalf.
On July 6, California investigators obtained a warrant for Lanoue's arrest, Pacioni said. Lanoue was already in the Washoe County jail where he was booked on June 8 for a parole violation, records showed. | https://www.npr.org/2022/07/11/1110974486/nevada-man-charged-1982-child-killing-pham | 2022-07-12T00:11:00Z | https://www.npr.org/2022/07/11/1110974486/nevada-man-charged-1982-child-killing-pham | true |
(WSYR-TV) — With temperatures in the 80s and 90s, the pool is the place to be. For Mark Kane, it’s been a challenge.
“We actually delayed opening our pool this year for about a month,” Kane explained.
He said chlorine, both liquid and tablets, are not only harder to get, but cost more. For the tablets Kane said, “What used to be $20, $30 for a jug is now $100, $130, $140, $150.”
Kane switched his pool to liquid chlorine.
There are jumbo chlorine tablets available at Cannon Pools and Spas.
Cliff Malzman is the CEO of Cannon Pools and Spas. He said while there is a nationwide shortage, it hasn’t impacted his customers.
“It’s caused partly by a supply problem because the nation had most of its chlorine made at one particular plant in Louisana,” Malzman explained. “They were damaged by Hurricane Laura in 2021. They were supposed to be back online in 2022.”
Malzman said its been delayed until 2023. The other factor driving demand: more people bought pools during the pandemic. Malzman did say over the last several years more people with in-ground pools are going with saltwater.
“You can’t taste the salt in the water, but we do put a certain amount in the water, then there is a machine that comes with the pool that transforms that salt in the water into chlorine,” Malzman explained.
If you want to make the switch, he said it’s not hard to do.
“It’s a couple of thousand dollars, and then you never have to buy chlorine or chlorine shock ever again,” Malzman explained.
Mark Kane did get what he needs to open his pool, but he said, “You just have to time your cleaning and your maintenance around those local facilities.”
The Cass Park Pool in Ithaca will be closed at least three days this week but is planning to reopen Thursday, once it receives its chlorine shipment. The Burnet Park Pool in Syracuse reopened Saturday after two years. It is now a saltwater pool. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/diving-into-chlorine-shortage-is-it-impacting-cny/ | 2022-07-12T00:11:24Z | https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/diving-into-chlorine-shortage-is-it-impacting-cny/ | true |
Which Anker wall charger should I buy?
Don’t be fooled into thinking all wall chargers are made the same. With differing port options, power ratings and charging speeds, choosing the correct wall charger can help you keep your devices powered up and ready to go. If you want to upgrade your current wall charger, an Anker wall charger might be the way to go.
Anker offers a wide range of chargers designed for all types of electronic devices. The Anker PowerPort Atom PD 4 has multiple ports and 100 watts of power for quick charging capabilities.
What to know before buying an Anker wall charger
Charging speed
One of the most important aspects of a wall charger is the speed at which it will charge your device. The higher the amperage speed, the quicker the charger will transfer power to your phone, tablet or other electronics.
You can find models that sport charging speeds between 1-3 amps. Anker chargers have a 2.4 amperage speed, which can fully charge most devices in 2 hours or less. Larger devices may take slightly longer, while smaller devices may not need as much time.
Power rating
Besides charging speed, the power rating of your Anker wall charger will determine the type of devices it is capable of charging efficiently. On average, Anker wall chargers will produce an output of 15-60 watts, with some models ranging even higher. Smaller devices like phones and tablets can get by with a power output of fewer than 24 watts, but laptops will likely require somewhere between 30-60 watts.
Device compatibility
Compatibility shouldn’t be an issue for most modern electronic devices. The only restriction you’ll have when using an Anker wall charger is whether your device is rechargeable using a USB connection. Some Anker chargers will feature both USB-A and USB-C charging ports, which allows you to plug in a wider variety of devices, while some will sport just one port style.
What to look for in a quality Anker wall charger
Shape & design
You should consider attributes like shape, design and color before deciding on the best Anker wall charger. Most models are portable and easily storable in a suitcase, backpack or pocket, though some are thinner and more streamlined than others.
There are slim rectangular-shaped chargers available, as well as smaller square-shaped options. Depending on where and how you intend to use your charger, the overall design can play an important role. On the other hand, color mostly comes down to preference, with many models featuring both a black and white version.
Ports
Will you need to charge just one device or multiple devices at the same time? Choose a model that has an adequate number of ports to suit all of your charging needs.
The port style also matters as Anker wall chargers feature both USB-A and USB-C ports. Determine which type of port is required for your specific device so you won’t have any issues when you need a quick power boost.
USB-A ports can fit the traditional style port we associate with USB cables, while USB-C ports are suited for most newer devices that use the smaller inputs.
Light features
Indicator lights are a convenient feature informing you when your phone is actively charging and alerting you when it has reached its maximum battery level.
Portable charging capability
Anker wall chargers are designed to operate when plugged into an electrical outlet. Suppose you are also searching for a battery-powered portable charger. In that case, Anker models double as an on-the-go charger, with the ability to work independently of a power source.
How much you can expect to spend on an Anker wall charger
Depending on your charging needs, you can find inexpensive Anker chargers for just over $10, mid-level options between $25-$50 and powerful high-end chargers that cost up to $100.
Anker wall charger FAQ
Will I need an adapter if I travel?
A. If you are traveling outside of the United States, chances are you will need an adapter to use your Anker wall charger. While Anker chargers are compatible with voltages between 100-240V, the prong style likely won’t match. You can, however, purchase Anker wall chargers designed for alternate outlet types if you know you’ll be needing them often.
Are Anker wall chargers safe for all devices?
A. Anker wall chargers are designed to protect your smartphone and other devices in the case of a short circuit or overheating using a MultiProtect safety system, making them a reliable and safe choice for all situations.
What’s the best Anker wall charger to buy?
Top Anker wall charger
What you need to know: A powerful multi-port option meant for charging several devices at once.
What you’ll love: It doesn’t matter whether you’re charging laptops, smartphones or tablets, the variety of ports and the compact size make this a top-notch charging accessory.
What you should consider: The price is higher than many other wall chargers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Anker wall charger for the money
What you need to know: Highly compact and easy to transport, this Anker charger is ideal for iPhones and iPads.
What you’ll love: The PowerIQ technology optimizes charging speeds, so you will get the most efficient charge possible.
What you should consider: Not designed for charging laptops.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: Small yet powerful, this single-port charger can charge a wide range of devices.
What you’ll love: The small size and 45-watt power output make this the perfect travel companion, able to charge a laptop quickly.
What you should consider: Not a good option if you need to charge more than one device.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Pull down faucets have a long flexible hose that allows the head to be detached from the spout. They are useful for daily cleaning as the extended reach simplifies tasks such as rinsing dirty dishes, filling and washing large pans or cleaning awkwardly shaped items.
There are many designs and styles of faucets with lots of different features. A top pick, the Delta Leland Single-Handle is a contemporary option with a high-arc spout and unique features, such as a leak-proof design, magnetic docking and a powerful ShieldSpray Technology. Choosing the best model for your home will depend on which features best suit your needs.
What to know before you buy a pull down kitchen faucet
Pull out or pull down
A pull down faucet usually has a high-arc spout that provides a good range of motion and leaves plenty of room for putting large items in the sink. However, they require a substantial amount of headroom under the wall cabinets. Pull out options are often more compact and tend to have a longer hose.
Spray options
Ideally, look for a faucet with several different spray settings that can be selected via a button on the head. A high-pressure spray is ideal for rinsing dirty dishes, whereas a steady stream is better for filling the sink or pans.
Finish
Most faucets are available in a range of colors or metallic finishes, such as brushed nickel or stainless steel. This allows you to choose a model that can complement your existing appliances, accessories and hardware. A tarnish-resistant coating will prevent rusting and improve longevity.
What to look for in a quality pull down kitchen faucet
Hose length
As a minimum, look for a faucet with a hose that extends to the bottom of the sink. If you often need to fill pans or other receptacles with water, then an even greater hose reach will allow them to be filled from the countertop.
Tap type
Faucets come in two types: monoblock and dual tap. A monoblock is designed to fit a sink with one mounting hole and has a single lever for mixing the water temperature. A dual tap needs a sink with twin mounting holes and has two taps for separately adjusting the hot and cold water.
Docking
How the head attaches to the spout is an important consideration. A poor design may not stay in place securely or may droop over time. Some models have a magnetic docking feature, which automatically holds the head in place when the hose is retracted.
How much does a pull down kitchen faucet cost?
There are plenty of budget options in the $50 to $100 price range, whereas a high-end faucet with lots of features will start at $200. Some faucets have touch sensors for turning them on and off and can cost as much as $500.
Pull down kitchen faucet FAQ
Are they easy to install?
A. Some faucets include flexible supply lines with push-fit connectors and are easily installed with simple hand tools and moderate DIY skills. However, lack of access may require removing the sink first. If you are unsure, then the installation is best handled by a qualified professional.
Are they reliable?
A. The number of moving parts are all potential leakage points, while the quality of the hose and connectors affect reliability. A faucet made by a reputable company with a metal braided hose and threaded metal connectors will provide the best durability.
Do I need a swivel function?
A. A swivel function provides versatility as it allows the spout to rotate. This makes it easier to use the hose outside the sink and allows the spout to be moved out of the way if necessary. A faucet with a full 360 degrees of rotation provides more versatility than those with only 180 degrees.
What’s the best pull down kitchen faucet to buy?
Top pull down kitchen faucet
Delta Leland Single-Handle Sink Faucet
What you need to know: This product is available in a range of metallic finishes, including Venetian bronze. The included deck plate allows installation on a single or twin hole sink.
What you’ll love: It uses a powerful magnetic docking system to hold the head in place. It has a single lever for controlling the flow pressure and temperature.
What you should consider: The top of the faucet measures 15 inches from the countertop, which may be too high for some users.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Top pull down kitchen faucet for the money
Ufaucet Single Lever Single Handle Pull Out Sprayer
What you need to know: This is a compact faucet with a pull out sprayer. It has 360 degrees of rotation and uses a high-quality metal hose.
What you’ll love: It has a dual spray selector on the head and incorporates a ceramic disk cartridge. Easy-clean rubber jets prevent limescale buildup.
What you should consider: It’s only available with a brushed stainless steel finish.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Kraus Sellette Traditional Pull Down Kitchen Faucet
What you need to know: This faucet is durably made from solid brass with an oil-rubbed bronze finish. It will complement traditional and modern kitchens. It has a counter-weighted hose for smooth retraction.
What you’ll love: Its high-arc spout swivels 360 degrees. It includes flexible supply lines and all the necessary components for installation.
What you should consider: The pull down sprayer head and hose are made from plastic and may need replacing over time.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
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11-year-old stabbed and killed in Hobbs
An 11-year-old boy is dead and another person was injured in a stabbing that took place in Hobbs on Sunday.
According to the Lea County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the 3900 block of Dal Paso Street in Hobbs for reports of a person who was stabbed. When deputies arrived at the scene they found 11-year-old Bruce Johnson Jr. and 49-year-old Mary Johnson had been stabbed multiple times.
The child was taken to Covenant Health Hospital in Hobbs where he was pronounced dead. Mary Johnson was airlifted to a hospital in Lubbock, Texas.
Several witnesses have been interviewed by deputies, but no one has been arrested in the incident.
If you have any information regarding the case, you can contact the Lea County Sheriff's Office at 575-396-3611. | https://www.koat.com/article/11-year-old-stabbed-killed-in-hobbs/40580338 | 2022-07-12T00:13:13Z | https://www.koat.com/article/11-year-old-stabbed-killed-in-hobbs/40580338 | false |
Which disc golf bag is the best?
Disc golf is a great way to get active, have fun and spend time outside. Unlike regular golf, most disc golf courses are free to use without a membership. All you need to play are discs and a bag to carry them.
If you’re in the market for a new disc golf bag, there are several things you’ll need to take into account, such as size, comfort and durability. By taking the time to review the most popular models, you’ll be able to pick the bag that’s right for you easily.
What to know before you buy a disc golf bag
How many discs will you carry?
Knowing how many discs you intend to carry is the most crucial factor in deciding which disc golf bag to buy. For many players, their collection of putters, drivers and mid-range discs grows substantially over time, and they want to carry their entire collection with them on the course. If you have an extensive collection of discs, you may want to consider a bag that you can carry — like a backpack or one with wheels.
If you plan to carry just a few discs, a smaller, over-the-shoulder bag is a more affordable option.
How much does your bag weigh?
Depending on how many discs you intend to carry, your bag can get pretty heavy when fully loaded. With that in mind, you’ll want to ensure that you get a bag that is lightweight to begin with. If your bag is too heavy for you to carry easily, you might run out of steam before you’re done playing, especially if you intend to throw a full 18 holes.
What else will you carry with you?
Most disc golf bags have a cup holder on their side, a helpful feature to stay hydrated while outside. Some bags have convenient loops that allow you to clip on a towel to dry your hands while playing. If your hands tend to sweat while you play, you may want to consider a disc golf bag with a chalk bag to improve your grip.
What to look for in a quality disc golf bag
Durability
When playing disc golf, you’ll set your bag down on dirt, grass and concrete, which can wear down weak materials. Some bags are waterproof, extending the bag’s life if you often play on wet or dewy grass. The bag’s strap needs to be durable enough to consistently handle the weight of your discs as well — especially if you carry a lot of them with you.
Comfort
You must get a bag that doesn’t hurt your back while in use. Many bags have padded shoulder straps and designs meant to distribute the weight of your discs evenly. Some bags have a backpack-like design for added comfort and support, and others even have wheels that allow you to pull the bag behind you. Be sure to avoid overloading any bag with more discs than you can comfortably carry.
Stylish design
In the past, disc golf bags all had the same neutral aesthetic, but nowadays, there are a range of unique options and styles to choose from, including sling bags that can fit a large number of discs while staying slim. Some bags also have unique patterns and designs for added flare. There are plenty of options available to suit any style.
How much you can expect to spend on a disc golf bag
A simple bag that can carry 10-15 discs can cost as little as $15. On the other hand, bags with backpack straps or wheels made to carry 30 discs or more can cost over $100.
Disc golf bag FAQ
What do you need to pack in your disc golf bag?
A. You’ll want to at least have a putter, driver and mid-range disc in your bag. It’s a good idea to pack water, sunscreen, a snack and a towel.
Do they make disc golf bags for kids?
A. Although there aren’t many bags designed specifically for children, most small disc golf bags can be comfortably used by kids as long as you keep them lightweight.
What’s the best disc golf bag to buy?
Top disc golf bag
Dynamic Discs Trooper Disc Golf Backpack
What you need to know: This comfortable bag has two large compartments that fit over 20 discs and several others that you can use for your wallet, keys and more.
What you’ll love: This model includes a limited lifetime warranty that covers any material flaws or defects. Although it isn’t its intended use, many users found that the top compartment is great for keeping drinks cold. This bag is also quite affordable, considering its durability and features.
What you should consider: The zippers tend to get stuck.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best beginner disc golf bag
Dynamic Discs Cadet Disc Golf Bag
What you need to know: Dynamic Discs makes an affordable, comfortable bag that can hold up to 12 discs at a time.
What you’ll love: This bag includes a cup holder and a pocket for your valuables. This is a very durable bag at a low price point. The convenient putter pocket is perfect for quickly accessing one or two of your favorite putters.
What you should consider: Some users felt the bag’s cup holder is too small.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Innova Adventure Pack Backpack
What you need to know: This model is a lightweight, stylish bag made by a trusted disc golf equipment brand.
What you’ll love: This comfortable backpack-style bag can fit up to 25 discs. The shoulder straps are supportive and comfortable, even when the bag is packed full of discs.
What you should consider: The clasps that hold the straps are not as durable as the rest of the pack.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Montreal police searching for teenage boy with autism
Montreal police (SPVM) are asking the public for assistance in locating a missing teenage boy who is non-verbal autistic.
Steven Seila Marakot is an Asian male around 5'6" and 165 pounds. He was last seen Monday morning around 10:30 a.m. in the Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough.
"He is non-verbal autistic and has cognitive difficulties," police say. "It is difficult for him to articulate complete sentences. However, he knows his name and can respond or look toward people who call him. He can also provide his name and address in writing."
Police add that he is comfortable on public transportation but that there is fear for his health and safety.
"He may be confused and disoriented," the SPVM said.
Marakot likes buses, arcades, subways, swimming pools, fast food restaurants and shopping malls.
Anyone with information about him can call 911 or visit a local police station. | https://www.iheartradio.ca/cjad/news/montreal-police-searching-for-teenage-boy-with-autism-1.18196120 | 2022-07-12T00:13:32Z | https://www.iheartradio.ca/cjad/news/montreal-police-searching-for-teenage-boy-with-autism-1.18196120 | true |
Cristiano Ronaldo is “not for sale," Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag said Monday.
The team is in Thailand for a preseason tour but the 37-year-old forward didn't make the trip due to an unspecified family issue, amid doubts over his future at the club.
“He's not with us and it’s due to personal issues,” Ten Hag said at a press conference. ”We are planning with Cristiano Ronaldo for this season so that’s it. I’m looking forward to working with him."
The Portugal star has reportedly asked to leave United.
“He hasn’t told me this. I have read but what I say is Cristiano is not for sale,” Ten Hag said. “Cristiano is in our plans and we want to (have) success together.”
Ronaldo returned to United from Juventus last season after 12 years away from Old Trafford but the team finished in sixth place and only qualified for the Europa League rather than the more prestigious Champions League.
United will also travel to Australia as part of its tour. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/sports/manchester-united-manager-says-cristiano-ronaldo-is-not-for-sale/3296311/ | 2022-07-12T00:15:58Z | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/sports/manchester-united-manager-says-cristiano-ronaldo-is-not-for-sale/3296311/ | false |
Iowans report significant storm damage early morning
By KCCI Staff
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JEFFERSON, Iowa (KCCI) — Early morning storms have brought damage to parts of Iowa Monday.
KCCI viewers report damage in the Zearing area. Patty Lou sent a picture of an old oak tree that came down, and its limbs are all over. Her estimate puts this tree at 18 inches in diameter.
Other viewers report damage in the Jefferson area at the Spring Lake camping area. KCCI Photojournalist Chris Habermann reports significant wind damage to trees at that camping area. From Jefferson, Trisha Emery shared a photo of a BP gas station canopy that had tipped over.
Greene County Sheriff Jack Williams confirmed there were no reports of injuries. He said there are power lines down and power outages in rural parts of the county.
Mary Ealy reported trees down on her farm east of Glidden.
Please note: This content carries a strict local market embargo. If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform. | https://kion546.com/cnn-regional/2022/07/11/iowans-report-significant-storm-damage-early-morning/ | 2022-07-12T00:19:41Z | https://kion546.com/cnn-regional/2022/07/11/iowans-report-significant-storm-damage-early-morning/ | true |
Johnny Depp’s attorneys call Amber Heard’s post-trial motions for a mistrial “frivolous”
By Lauren Delvalle, CNN
Attorneys for Johnny Depp have asked a Virginia judge to deny Amber Heard’s post-trial motions asking for a mistrial, calling the legal arguments “frivolous.”
Heard and Depp were both found liable for defamation in their lawsuits against each other last month. The jury initially awarded $15 million in damages to Depp and only $2 million to Heard. Though, because punitive damages in the state of Virginia are capped at $350,000, the judge reduced Depp’s $5 million in punitive damages to that amount.
Attorneys for Heard asked the court to declare a mistrial and order a new trial in a motion filed last week.
Depp’s attorneys argued in a memo filed Monday that a judge cannot arbitrarily substitute their judgment for that of a jury,
The memo also said Heard’s contention that the damages awarded to her ex-husband are excessive and unsupported by the evidence is “baseless.”
“While Ms. Heard slings an exceptional amount of mud at the wall in the hope that something might stick, the jury’s verdict on damages was perfectly reasonable and supported by the evidence and testimony in this case,” Depp’s legal team states in the memo.
Attorneys for Heard also claimed in a court filing last week that the information on the jury panel list sent to counsel ahead of trial does not appear to match the demographics of one of the jurors, compromising Heard’s rights to due process.
Heard waived her right to challenge the accuracy of the jury panel information because her team didn’t raise the issue with the court at the time, Depp’s attorneys argue.
“Mr. Depp respectfully requests that this Court deny Ms. Heard’s frivolous motion in its entirety and reject her outlandish requests to set aside the jury verdict, dismiss the complaint, or, in the alternative, order a new trial and investigate Juror 15,” the memo says.
Depp sued Heard for defamation over a 2018 op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post in which she described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” Though Depp was not named in the article, he claimed it cost him lucrative acting roles.
Heard countersued Depp, to whom she was married from 2015-2016 before divorcing, for defamation over statements Depp’s attorney made about her abuse claims.
After several weeks of testimony, the jury found that Heard defamed Depp in three separate statements in The Washington Post piece, and that Depp defamed Heard with one statement his attorney made.
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BALI, Indonesia and BANGKOK, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Annually, over 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted. Meanwhile, 830 million people suffer from starvation globally but many countries have food banks to address this issue. In Thailand, SOS has been tackling the food waste and food insecurity problems by collecting surplus food from food industries and redistributing them to vulnerable communities. Since 2016, over 4 million kilograms of food have been rescued. But with the increasing demand for food from many vulnerable communities, we knew we have to find different ways to raise food.
Scholars of Sustenance, the leading expert in Food Rescue, partnered with Allianz Ayudhya, one of the leading Insurance Companies in Thailand, to launch the first Cloud Food Bank platform in the country that aims to redistribute over 600 tons of surplus food by the end of the year.
The goal of the Cloud Food Bank is to systematically manage surplus food. The platform makes donation and distribution easy and efficient. Through a matchmaking system, SOS can manage food supplies from large businesses and individuals, ensuring all the donations are delivered to the neediest. Using this platform, SOS Thailand aims to establish a national food rescue coalition network, creating environmental and social sustainability.
Mr. Thomas Wilson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Allianz Ayudhya said "Throughout Allianz Ayudhya's activities in Thailand, we have committed to the Allianz Group's objective of focusing on socially responsible business practices. The organization strives for long-term success by following ESG principles. Donating food to needy communities across Bangkok has made us aware of the current food shortage, and we're searching for partners to help us meet those requirements. Allianz Ayudhya, a company with competence in technology, offered to provide technology to extend this mission in conjunction with the SOS organization. The Cloud Food Bank platform serves as a central hub for connecting those who want to give food to vulnerable groups of people who are in need. Allianz Ayudhya has invested around 2 million baht to establish this platform, making it more efficient."
Mr. James Leyson, Managing Director of the Scholars of Sustenance Foundation said, "We are delighted that Allianz Ayudhya recognizes the need of fostering societal sustainability. At SOS Foundation, we are constantly focusing on reducing and preventing the negative effects of food waste. Allianz Ayudhya uses technology to expand and digitise our mission, vastly improving management potential in terms of donor access, recipient storage management, and food delivery. Our system currently has over 700 donor organizations and over 1,000 donors in communities across the country. Allianz Ayudhya coming to our aid means we will be able to increase food rescue and distribution by up to 20%. This year, we set a goal of rescuing 1,800 tons of surplus food, which we will be able to distribute more efficiently than ever before."
Those interested in donating or accepting donations should visit the Cloud Food Bank's website at www.cloudfoodbank.org or email info@scholarsofsustenance.org
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LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – Olympic medalist and model Kim Glass took to social media to talk about an assault that left her with fractured facial bones and several cuts in downtown Los Angeles over the weekend.
Glass posted on her Instagram account that she was saying goodbye to a friend after lunch Saturday when a man she described as homeless approached.
“He just like looked at me with some pretty hateful eyes,” said Glass, who thought the man was about to hit the car she was standing near.
Instead, the man flung a metal pipe that struck her in the face.
In the video, Glass can be seen with her right eye swollen shut with deep cuts on her nose and above her right eye.
Stitches were required to close the wound over her eye, she said.
Bystanders came and held the man down until police arrived and took him into custody.
The man, identified Monday as 51-year-old Semeon Tesfamariam, was taken to jail and was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed. He is being held without bail.
Glass said she had no previous interaction with the man and warned others to be ready for anything when out in public.
“There’s a lot of mentally ill people on these streets right now. You shouldn’t have to be fearful when you walk but it’s true … You guys just be safe,” Glass said.
The 2008 Olympic volleyball silver medalist and Sports Illustrated model said she made the video because she was getting a lot of messages and felt the story was going to get out anyway.
She also wanted to assure everyone that her eye was going to be OK after the attack.
The incident occurred as Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón is facing criticism and a recall effort over his approach to crime. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/olympian-kim-glass-attacked-hit-with-metal-pipe-in-los-angeles/ | 2022-07-12T00:23:19Z | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/olympian-kim-glass-attacked-hit-with-metal-pipe-in-los-angeles/ | true |
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – Contact days for high school football have arrived. Coaches can use this time to touch up on things with their players a week before training camp can officially begin in August.
The Preble Hornets hit the field this week as a chance to get some chemistry flowing before the season begins.
The Hornets made it to the postseason for nine straight seasons and then, haven’t seen a sniff of extra football since 2019. This year, due to the influx of senior leadership, they feel like a different squad.
“It’s a lot of the older guys being able to help mentor the younger guys and integrate them into the stuff that we’re doing,” senior Austin Willems said. “Just making the younger guys feel confident around us, and being able to talk to us, hang out with us, ask us questions. Just build them young and be ready for their chance to lead when they’re juniors and seniors.”
Head coach Dustin Gresen is in his 5th year as head coach and he’s more than ready to see his program take the next step. For him, he’s already seen that with the accountability these young men are holding themselves to.
“The progress we had is in the weight room,” Gresen said. “The commitment to the program and our leadership group that’s come together is starting to get the younger kids and younger guys into football. To be the leaders and future of the program.” | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/sports/highschoolsports/preble-looks-to-use-contact-days-to-continue-to-strengthen-football-program/ | 2022-07-12T00:23:33Z | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/sports/highschoolsports/preble-looks-to-use-contact-days-to-continue-to-strengthen-football-program/ | false |
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Giant tun's are large sea mollusks found in the Atlantic Ocean.
This particular giant tun was in a shell larger than your fist. It was found on teh beach between the ferry drop off point and the doc on the western end of Shackleford Banks.
According to Cape Lookout National Seashore, finding a giant tun shell would've been a rare find, but finding one with the animal still alive inside is absolutely incredible.
The animal was released back into the water after having its picture taken a few times. | https://abc11.com/giant-tun-rare-seashell-north-carolina-sea-shell/12044319/ | 2022-07-12T00:24:15Z | https://abc11.com/giant-tun-rare-seashell-north-carolina-sea-shell/12044319/ | true |
For the second winter in a row, native frogs have been found dead or dying across Australia with scientists baffled as to why.
Key points:
- Native frogs are showing up dead or dying in unusual places for the second winter season
- Scientists are investigating the causes of illness
- Frog biologist Jodi Rowley says frog troubles are under-reported
Biologist Jodi Rowley from the Australian Museum and University of NSW said while a deadly fungus had been harming native frog species, it was unlikely to be the sole cause of the latest mass deaths.
"We know that the amphibian chytrid fungus is involved," she said.
"This is a fungus that has been affecting frogs for several decades. They are dealing with their own pandemic.
"But we don't think it's the whole story because it has been around for a while.
"It is causing frogs' deaths, but not to the scale we have been seeing last year and we are hoping we don't see it as bad this year, but we are worried."
Mid North Coast a frog fatality hotspot
While frogs have been found unwell and dead across the country, Dr Rowley said the issue had been heavily reported on the east coast of Australia, particularly throughout New South Wales.
She said green tree frogs especially were struggling on the Mid North Coast of NSW, which was a "hotspot" last year.
During the past two winter seasons, Dr Rowley has collaborated with The Australian Registry of Wildlife Health at Taronga Zoo, and other conservation bodies, to investigate what was threatening native frogs.
She said it had been like trying to solve a "murder mystery".
"Certainly, if a frog is going to die, it will happen once it gets cold because their immune system really slows down," Dr Rowley said.
"We're exploring all kinds of potential pathogens, all kinds of diseases.
"We're doing lots of different tests and looking at things such as toxins and other stressors to try to rule things in and rule things out, to figure what is behind this awful mortality event."
Another 'rough' winter
According to the Australian Museum's latest FrogID report, at least four known Australian frog species have become extinct, with other species on the edge of extinction.
More than 20 per cent of 240 known frog species are considered threatened in Australia.
Dr Rowley said it was crucial that scientists worked out the cause, as the amphibians were an important part of a healthy ecosystem.
"They eat a lot of invertebrates including pest species, and tadpoles eat algae and also compete with mozzies," she said.
Dr Rowley said there were 1,800 reports of dead or dying frogs last winter, but believed the true extent was much greater.
"We know thousands of frogs have died, and that's just the ones we have seen," she said.
"Most of the frog reports we are getting are from people's backyards, from around suburbia in town where people see frogs in unusual places.
"But most frogs are probably dying in the bush out of our sight, and endangered species are probably not getting reported as much because they are rare and hard to find.
"If you do see a frog that is being a bit weird and sitting out in the open when it should be sleeping, do pay attention and report it to us if you can." | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-12/mystery-frog-deaths-return-for-second-winter-season/101198904 | 2022-07-12T00:28:37Z | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-12/mystery-frog-deaths-return-for-second-winter-season/101198904 | true |
We're wigging out over this casting news!
Cate Blanchett is set to join season four of the IFC and AMC series Documentary Now!, co-created by Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers and Rhys Thomas. Blanchett will star opposite Killing Eve's Harriet Waller in the episode "Two Hairdressers in Bagglyport," a comedic take on the documentaries 3 Salons at the Seaside and The September Issue. Waller will play a salon owner, with Blanchett playing her employee, as they prepare for their yearly look-book.
And fans of the emotional documentary My Octopus Teacher will notice some similarities in the episode "My Monkey Grifter," starring The Afterparty's Jamie Demetriou. According to AMC, "My Monkey Grifter" follows a "filmmaker who forms a deep, emotional and financially taxing relationship with a monkey who may have ulterior motives."
Trystan Gravelle, Jonathan Pryce and John Rhys-Davies will star in another episode, "How They Threw Rocks." This remake is made in the style of the Spike Lee movie When We Were Kings, but set in Wales.
Documentary Now!, which premiered in 2015, puts a comedic spin on famous documentaries, with Dame Helen Mirren hosting. Past episodes include "Sandy Passage," a beloved mockumentary of Grey Gardens, in which Hader played Vivienne "Little Vivvy" Van Kimpton and Armisen played Vivienne "Big Vivvy" Van Kimpton.
Season four will largely take place in England, so unfortunately, Hader, who stars in HBO's Barry, won't be in the new episodes. "Bill can't even make it here," Armisen previously told Consequence TV, "but he's a producer and a creator and writer on it. And we're all in touch about it—we have a good text thread going."
Armisen added that the making of the show isn't as organized as people expect, saying, "We sort of throw things together via email and it somehow works. Every season we've done has been like this—it's just complete chaos. And I think, for some reason, the chaos makes it feel more like a documentary. I almost feel like we do it on purpose without realizing it."
A premiere date hasn't been announced yet, but fans can catch up on old episodes on IFC. | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1337572/cate-blanchett-returning-to-documentary-now-for-iconic-role?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | 2022-07-12T00:29:17Z | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1337572/cate-blanchett-returning-to-documentary-now-for-iconic-role?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | true |
It's easy to assume that anyone with a blue check mark on their social media profile leads a glamorous life. But the reality is, as Phoebe Robinson knows, most of these people are still trying to make ends meet.
"When Jessica Williams and I started 2 Dope Queens, the podcast came out April 2016, and it shot to the top of iTunes, like worldwide and everything," the comedian told E! News, "people were like, 'Oh my god, you've made it, like you're killing it blah, blah, blah.' And I was like, y'all podcasting does not, especially during that time, it was not paying a lot."
And Phoebe isn't trying to be humble. Despite the success of 2 Dope Queens, she was still working odd-jobs and trying to pay off student debt, making her feel like a fraud. "People see this one thing," she reflected, "and they think that your whole life is that."
So when Phoebe set out to write and star in the Freeform series Everything's Trash, based on her 2018 memoir Everything's Trash, But It's Okay, she wanted to be real about what it's like as a content creator. "You can have aspirational shows set in New York, but I also wanted it to be grounded in something," Phoebe said. "Like when you're hustling, you got to do whatever to get by."
And by whatever, she means whatever. The show, which also stars Nneka Okafor, Jordan Carlos, Toccarra Cash and Moses Storm, sees the characters jumping through hoops to do various tasks, including arranging a photo shoot. They even hunt down a hawk to use as a prop in said photo shoot.
These quirky scenes are made up for the show, but it's also representative of how different Phoebe's life is from that of her strait-laced brother Jayden (Carlos), who is running for a political office.
This story line is, for the most part, taken from Phoebe's real life relationship with her brother Phil Robinson, an Ohio state representative. "He met his wife freshman year of college and they have two kids and they have this beautiful house," Phoebe explained. "I'm in Brooklyn. You know, I am not married. I don't have kids."
She described how their vastly different lifestyles made her question herself, saying, "I think a lot of times you can get stuck into the idea it has to look one certain way, and if you're not doing that you sort of feel bad about yourself. So with this show, we really wanted to kind of honor that and be like, listen, everyone's journey is different."
It's a struggle that a lot of young people can relate to, especially when they're not following a traditional career path. But Phoebe hopes that viewers resonate with her character and understand that there's no need to compare yourselves to others, even if they are your siblings. "Just be proud of the steps that you're taking to find yourself," she encouraged. "I think that's the biggest thing."
And as she taught in her book, everything's trash and that's okay.
See Phoebe and the rest of the cast in Everything's Trash, premiering July 13 on Freeform. | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1337574/phoebe-robinson-is-peeling-back-the-curtain-in-freeform-s-everything-s-trash?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | 2022-07-12T00:29:24Z | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1337574/phoebe-robinson-is-peeling-back-the-curtain-in-freeform-s-everything-s-trash?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | true |
WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 11, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
703 PM CDT Mon Jul 11 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT
FOR EAST CENTRAL BASTROP COUNTY...
At 703 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Circle D-KC
Estates, or near Bastrop, and is nearly stationary.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Bastrop, Smithville, Camp Swift, Paige, Circle D-KC Estates, Upton,
Bastrop State Park, Hills Prairie, Buescher State Park and Alum
Creek.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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Commercial Ice Leasing Company Opens Fort Myers Branch & Snares More Florida Market Share
FORT MYERS, Fla., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Easy Ice, the only national provider of full-service ice machine subscription solutions, has acquired Thrifty Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, an ice machine leasing and service company that has operated out of Fort Myers, Florida since 1984. This is the latest in a series of acquisitions that have facilitated significant growth for Easy Ice.
"We are actively seeking to expand our footprint in Florida. The acquisition of Thrifty supports that goal by enhancing our customer density in the area along with adding a branch location and service facility in a major Florida market," said Easy Ice CAO Darren Boruff. "Our technology, customer support systems, and industry-leading training protocols enable us to provide uninterrupted, quality service to Thrifty customers through this transition and beyond."
Since its inception in 2009, Easy Ice has achieved notable expansion through a combination of organic growth and strategic acquisitions. This trajectory will continue, largely due to the intentional pursuit of ice machine leasing companies with standards of excellence, culture, and organizational directives that align with Easy Ice. This alignment ensures both operational continuity and a consistent customer experience throughout the transition.
Easy Ice has increased its number of ice machines under management to nearly 30,000 units across 47 states. Other business developments include the acquisition of the leasing division of Johnson Mechanical in Peoria, IL and of Brooks Industries in Oklahoma City, OK, a state-of-the-art refurbishment facility in Lenexa, KS, and multiple executive-level hires. With aggressive growth targets plus funds designated for future purchases, additional acquisitions should be expected in 2022 and beyond.
Easy Ice, co-headquartered in Phoenix, AZ and Marquette, MI, is the national leader in the full-service ice machine subscription industry with warehouse and distribution facilities in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, and Orlando. Since its founding in 2009, the company has rapidly grown its ice machines under management to nearly 30,000 units across 47 states. Easy Ice commercial ice machine subscription programs include installation, cleaning, preventive maintenance, repairs, and backup ice. For more information, please visit www.easyice.com.
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PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Wednesday, July 13, marks National French Fry Day!
Popular fast food chains like McDonald's and Wendy's are offering free fries for the day, but there are some strings attached.
McDonald's is giving away a free large order of fries, no purchase necessary. However, the free fries can only be ordered through the app, not in stores, and customers must be a member of McDonald's loyalty program to cash in on the deal.
Wendy's is offering a longer deal. The popular chain is hosting "Fry Week," in which free fries will come with a specific purchase subject to change each day of the week.
For example, on Tuesday, customers can get free medium fries with any purchase of a salad.
However, these free fries can only be claimed through the app and customer's must also be a part of Wendy's digital loyalty program.
Burger King is also getting into the special day with a unique offer. The burger chain is giving out free Chicken Fries with every $3 purchase on Wednesday. This promotion will be available through the app, website, and at participating websites. The deal is also only available to members of Burger King's rewards program. | https://www.fox43.com/article/life/food/national-french-fry-day-pennsylvania-mcdonalds-wendys-july-13/521-aeba39b9-dc9e-466f-9500-5ca83294663d | 2022-07-12T00:34:49Z | https://www.fox43.com/article/life/food/national-french-fry-day-pennsylvania-mcdonalds-wendys-july-13/521-aeba39b9-dc9e-466f-9500-5ca83294663d | true |
Mesa mother pleads for answers nearly one year after son was killed at birthday party
MESA, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) — A Mesa mother is pleading for answers nearly one year after her son was shot and killed at his own birthday party. Jaime Fernandez Jr. was celebrating his 24th birthday in Mesa near 88th Street and University Drive when his mother, Tina, said he went to his car to get his cellphone. That’s when Tina said Jaime was shot and later died at the hospital on July 17, 2021. “Every day we wake up to the same nightmare, every day,” said Tina. “And I wish my younger sons did not have to see that.”
Nearly a year later, and so far, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has not arrested anyone for Jaime’s death. “I know there is someone out there who knows what happened to my son and I can only ask please call Silent Witness,” said Fernandez. “I have to get justice for Jamie. He’s not here to tell his side of the story.”
Six days from the first anniversary of his death, Tina said an arrest could help ease the pain. “You’re never ever going to get over something like that but it will absolutely take away some of the pain for my kids I believe,” said Tina. If you know anything about Jaime‘s death, please call Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS.
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What is a metaverse again? Maybe, just a game. Samsung's newest "metaverse" move is a game on Roblox, called Samsung Space Tycoon. Its mission? Collect virtual Samsung products.
Samsung used to make VR headsets for its phones and has been quiet on the smart glasses front for now. Instead, the company's metaverse aspirations have largely been marketing efforts in virtual worlds. Samsung created an event space in Decentraland for its last Unpacked product event. Samsung Space Tycoon looks like it's aiming for a younger crowd.
According to Samsung's press release, the game's aiming at Gen-Z with its game, which has collectible product-themed virtual accessories to grab. This isn't Samsung's first partnership with Roblox -- the company hosted a Roblox concert with Charli XCX earlier this year in Samsung Superstar Galaxy.
Samsung Space Tycoon has a Mining Zone where ingredients are found, which can then be combined to make products in a Lab Zone. There are virtual phones, TVs, watches and other virtual items that can transform into gadgets. Apparently, a Z-Flip phone can turn into a scooter for your avatar, and a TV can turn into a helicopter.
Samsung's expected to have another Unpacked product event later this summer to announce its next phones.
According to Samsung's Jinsoo Kim, the whole game is designed to "give our Gen Z customers a chance to experience Samsung products in a way they have never done before." It's an interactive social ad space. So was Samsung's Decentraland space. But both are, notably, virtual worlds largely living outside of VR. Whether Samsung decides to extend its metaverse marketing efforts to VR or AR remains to be seen. | https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/samsungs-next-metaverse-move-is-a-roblox-game/ | 2022-07-12T00:46:00Z | https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/samsungs-next-metaverse-move-is-a-roblox-game/ | true |
BELLMEAD, Texas — If there’s a spot in Central Texas that causes Leon McElyea actual pain and heartache, it’s the corner of New Dallas Highway and Montrose Street in Bellmead.
“I’m out here on this corner every July 3rd, 9:08, same time she got hit,” Leon told 25 News.
Five years ago, his young, vibrant, and loving wife Jana was killed near the intersection in a hit-and-run accident.
No arrest has been made.
“It’s kind of hard when you don’t have your soulmate. You start to feel an emptiness,” says Leon.
During the summer of 2017, the case received public attention as both Leon and Jana’s family pushed for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.
Still, evidence at the scene never led detectives to a place where they could make an arrest.
In an email, Bellmead Assistant Chief Stephen Leonard told 25 News they still welcome tips.
“We do urge citizens to report any information they may have to Crime Stoppers or the Bellmead Police Department,” wrote Leonard.
For Leon, the months and years after Jana’s death led down a bad path. He’s doing better now, and is trying to raise awareness about the case once again.
“Do you have a heart? Have a conscience? Do you believe in God?” said Leon. “I think people out there still know something. Maybe back then you’re scared [… ] times have changed, maybe you know something deep in your heart. Come forward.” | https://www.kxxv.com/hometown/bell-county/five-years-later-bellmead-hit-and-run-remains-unsolved | 2022-07-12T00:47:54Z | https://www.kxxv.com/hometown/bell-county/five-years-later-bellmead-hit-and-run-remains-unsolved | true |
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