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Liz Cheney: Committee informed DOJ that Trump attempted to contact a witness not yet seen in the hearings
By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN
The revelation that the House January 6 committee notified the Department of Justice of an alleged attempt by former President Donald Trump to contact a witness is the latest product of the panel’s probe to involve law enforcement.
The detail, presented by Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, was perhaps the most unexpected moment of the hearing Tuesday. And for the second time, the committee’s public hearings raise the possibility of a witness tampering investigation, in a swift move to bring in the Justice Department even before the committee’s investigation concludes.
Cheney said at the panel’s hearing Tuesday that Trump attempted to contact a witness who has not yet been publicly identified and, according to Cheney, has not been featured in the committee’s presentations.
“That person declined to answer or respond to President Trump’s call, and instead alerted their lawyer to the call. Their lawyer alerted us,” Cheney said. “And this committee has supplied that information to the Department of Justice.”
A spokesman for the DC US Attorney’s Office, which is handling January 6 prosecutions, declined to comment.
After the hearing, Rep. Jamie Raskin said on CNN it’s not clear to the committee if the incident amounts to witness tampering, which is a federal crime.
“We would have to know a lot more about it,” the Maryland Democrat told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “The point is that the committee takes really seriously the ability of witnesses to come in like Cassidy Hutchinson and tell us everything they know without fear of reprisal or coercion. … There’s been a pattern of this happening. And we don’t accept it.”
Raskin added that he believes Trump’s political spheres have shown “a more sophisticated way of controlling these witnesses,” including by paying for defense attorneys.
Getting DOJ interested
With the committee sending the information to DOJ, the incident could prompt interest from department prosecutors and the FBI.
Cheney’s description on Tuesday was the first time the committee has explicitly said it provided information to the DOJ that they discovered during their probe — and is a contrast to how the committee blocked the Justice Department from accessing other information, namely transcripts of interviews, collected so far by the House.
It was not, however, the first public suggestion of witness tampering the committee has made. Previously, the committee noted two incidents where Hutchinson, a former White House aide, received messages about being loyal to Trump.
Those weren’t from Trump himself. But Trump’s personal involvement in this newly disclosed incident raises the stakes if the message was intended to impact a witness’ testimony.
Cheney didn’t disclose the substance of the Trump call, and communicating with a witness alone isn’t necessarily witness tampering. Typically, under federal law, a person communicating with a witness would have to know their approach was wrong, and that it could affect a proceeding.
In the past, Trump associates’ dealings with Congress have been fertile ground for DOJ indictments. The DOJ successfully pursued witness tampering charges before, against Roger Stone for his testimony in the House’s Russia investigation. More recently, the House’s January 6 inquiry brought two criminal contempt of Congress indictments related to testimony about Trump.
Critics of these types of charges sometimes call them “process crimes,” but legal experts often side with prosecutors pursuing witness tampering claims, because of how damaging tampering can be in investigations.
Cheney has already tried to emphasize how serious attempts to influence witnesses may be taken. “Let me say one more time: We will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously,” she said at the hearing Tuesday.
But the conduct she described alone doesn’t establish that the Justice Department has what it would need to bring a case, even if witness tampering is in some ways a more straightforward crime than the seditious conspiracy and obstruction cases the DOJ is pursuing against rioters related to January 6.
“The elements of witness tampering — there are not a lot of elements, did you try to influence a witness who was about to testify?” Boston College Law Professor Robert Bloom told CNN. “Proving it is another matter. Not accepting a call….[we] don’t know why he was calling. It’s not clear to me they have the proof.”‘
The indication that the DOJ had been notified about Trump’s recent conduct comes as scrutiny of the aggressiveness of the Justice Department’s January 6 probe mounts. While the department has made unprecedented progress in the last year and a half in the prosecutions of hundreds of low-level rioters who breached the Capitol, only recently have details about ongoing federal criminal investigations into more high-profile figures — such as ex-DOJ official Jeffrey Clark and Trump campaign lawyers and advisers — become apparent.
Members of the committee have expressed frustration with how the department has approached investigating Trump’s inner circle, hanging back from taking overt investigative steps in the first year after the riot. And some of the members regularly tease the possibility the committee could make formal criminal referrals to the DOJ asking the department to prosecute Trump or others.
Committee says Trump deeply involved
At Tuesday’s hearing, the committee made clear that they saw both Trump’s inner circle and the former President deeply involved in every aspect of the plot to disrupt Congress’ certification of his defeat.
Yet so far, in the DOJ investigation, nearly all the charges have been levied against those on the grounds of the Capitol — keeping the criminal probe a few layers away from Trump’s White House at this time. Criminal investigations traditionally work from lower levels up, while the House select committee has taken aim squarely at Trump in each of their seven public hearings.
“Every one of these elements of the planning for January 6 is an independently serious matter,” Cheney said. “They were all ultimately focused on overturning the election and they all have one other thing in common: Donald Trump participated in each substantially and personally. He oversaw or directed the activity of those involved.”
Among the key themes put forward by the committee Tuesday was that Trump was made aware of the “crazies,” as committee witness Katrina Pierson called them in a deposition, and their potential for danger, and that he anticipated a march to the Capitol on January 6 following his rally. Trump was also told by members of his White House staff, according to depositions played by the committee, that by mid-December it was time for him to move on from his efforts to overturn his electoral loss.
The committee’s emphasis in their hearings on trying to show that Trump knew of the potential for danger and ignored advice not to try to block Congress has led several former prosecutors-turned-defense attorneys to suspect DOJ may want to investigate Trump’s actions.
The committee hearing on Tuesday also tried to connect Trump with the alleged plotting of violence itself — including efforts to obtain weapons by far-right groups ahead of the Capitol breach. Committee members said much of the extremist activity was prompted by public statements from Trump about the election.
Raskin alleged that January 6, 2021, marked the first time that a president who had lost an election “deployed a mob which included dangerous extremists who attack the constitutional system of election and the peaceful transfer of power.”
This story and headline have been updated with additional developments Tuesday.
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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis said he would not live in the Vatican or return to his native Argentina if and when he ever retires, but would instead like to find a church in Rome where he could continue hearing confessions.
“I’m the bishop of Rome, in this case the emeritus bishop of Rome,” Francis said in an interview segment with Spanish-language broadcaster TelevisaUnivision that aired Tuesday.
Francis, 85, denied he was planning to retire any time soon but repeated that “the door is open” after Pope Benedict XVI in 2013 became the first pope in 600 years to step down.
While having a retired pope on hand has gone well, the Vatican needs to better regulate the figure of an emeritus pope, Francis said in the interview.
Some cardinals and canon lawyers have long questioned Benedict’s decisions in retirement, including his continuing to wear the white cassock of the papacy and keeping his papal name, Benedict, rather than reverting back to his birth name, Joseph Ratzinger.
They say those choices and Benedict’s continued presence in the Vatican created confusion among the faithful and enabled Francis’ traditionalist critics to use Benedict as a conservative point of reference, threatening the unity of the Catholic Church.
“The first experience went rather well because he’s a saintly and discreet man, and he handled it well,” Francis said of Benedict in the interview. “But in the future, things should be delineated more, or things should be made more explicit.”
“I think for having taken the first step after so many centuries, he gets 10 points. It’s a marvel,” Francis added.
Francis said he would also step if the time was right before he died while still serving, “if I survive.” He answered “surely no” when asked if he would live in the Vatican as a retired pope or would return to Argentina, and said “maybe” when it was suggested that he might take up residence in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, which is the traditional seat of the bishop of Rome.
He recalled that he had planned to retire as archbishop of Buenos Aires at the time of the 2013 conclave that resulted in him becoming pope. Francis said he had prepared a nice apartment in Buenos Aires where he could continue hearing confessions at a nearby church and visiting the sick at a hospital.
“This is what I thought for Buenos Aires. I think this scenario, if I survive until a resignation – it’s possible I might die before – … I’d like something like this,” he said.
The interview covered other topics. On whether Catholic politicians who support abortion rights should continue receiving the sacraments, Francis repeated it was a matter of conscience for elected officials to work out for themselves. While the Catholic Church opposes abortion, Francis added that priests and bishops should remain pastors.
“When a pastor loses the pastoral dimension, he creates a political problem,” Francis said, referring to the “polarized” debate in the United States concerning President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, both Catholics who support abortion rights.
U.S. bishops considered rebuking Biden for his support of abortion rights, but ultimately backed off a formal rebuke. Pelosi’s bishop, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, has barred her from receiving Communion in his archdiocese, though she recently received Communion during a papal mass at the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Basilica.
Asked what such Catholic politicians should do, Francis said: “I leave it to his conscience and that he speaks to his bishop, his pastor, his parish priest, about that inconsistency.” | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/world-news/ap-international/pope-i-wouldnt-live-in-vatican-or-argentina-if-i-retire/ | 2022-07-13T02:25:42Z | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/world-news/ap-international/pope-i-wouldnt-live-in-vatican-or-argentina-if-i-retire/ | true |
LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tony Roma's, the globally recognized casual family dining brand, joined Stored Value Solutions (SVS) in announcing an expanded international partnership aimed at driving gift card sales and enhancing the overall guest experience with gift cards. Tony Roma's engaged SVS, a worldwide leader in gift card program marketing and management in 2019 to help drive their online gift card sales, significantly enhancing the customer experience.
According to Ramon Bourgeois, Chief Executive Office at Romacorp, the expanded partnership will focus on two key areas: tying gift cards into Tony Roma's loyalty program to increase guest engagement through rewards; and utilizing gift cards as a marketing tool in local rollouts of its new restaurant concept, "Bones and Burgers". Romacorp, Inc. is the parent company of Tony Roma's and Bones and Burgers.
"Our partners at SVS are always helping us find new and better ways to reach and satisfy our guests for whom gift cards are an important part of the dining experience," Gino said. "With our accelerated expansion across the globe, their international expertise in the areas of hospitality and dining is invaluable." Tony Roma's restaurants are in more than 25 countries on 6 continents.
Mark Schatz, President of SVS described the collaboration as a perfect fit. "When both teams are completely committed to the customer experience, solutions reveal themselves," he said. "Casual diners love gift cards, whether they're in Detroit or Dubai. We're proud to be a part of a team at Tony Roma's that keeps that guest-focus at the center of everything they do."
Romacorp, Inc., is the parent company of Tony Roma's restaurants, the world's largest casual dining concept specializing in ribs. Headquartered in Orlando, Florida. Tony Roma's has more than 90 restaurant locations in more than 20 countries and is one of the most globally recognizable names in the industry. The first Tony Roma's restaurant opened 50 years ago in North Miami, Florida. For more information about Romacorp, Inc. and Tony Roma's, visit www.tonyromas.com.
A leading prepaid provider, SVS manages more than 750 million card products and processes over 1.5 billion transactions annually. SVS partners with top retailers around the world to offer stored value solutions that effectively drive the behavior that will lead to business success. SVS is headquartered in Louisville Kentucky, USA, and owned by Atlanta-based FLEETCOR Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: FLT). For more information, visit: www.storedvalue.com.
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TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Japan’s finance minister agreed Tuesday to cooperate in dealing with challenges from the war in Ukraine and promoting free trade, sustainable energy and food security.
Yellen was visiting Tokyo on Tuesday for talks ahead of a meeting of the Group of 20′s financial leaders on the Indonesian island of Bali later in the week.
Before beginning her meeting with Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki, she stressed the importance of effective sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine and said she hoped to gain the support of Japan and other nations in seeking a price cap on Russian oil that would limit funding going to Moscow’s military.
“Our governments have common viewpoints and interests on many of the most pressing priorities affecting our national interests as well as global stability and prosperity. And when we work together, we are each more effective,” she said.
Suzuki welcomed Yellen, saying: “At this time, when the international community faces so many challenges, it is more important than ever for the U.S. and Japan to work together.”
A joint statement issued Tuesday after the talks pledged support for Ukraine in coping with its economic challenges. It also said both sides had welcomed efforts to pursue price caps “where appropriate.”
A price cap would be aimed at curbing the war’s impact on gas and energy prices. Japan, which imports almost all its oil, has suffered an energy crunch recently partly because of the war in Ukraine and a weakening of the yen against the U.S. dollar.
The U.S. Federal Reserve’s moves to curb inflation hovering at a four-decade high by raising interest rates have helped pushed the U.S. dollar higher against many currencies. That includes the euro and the Japanese yen. With the yen trading at 20-year lows, Japan has seen costs skyrocket for many imports, including oil, gas and coal.
The statement from the Treasury Department said Japan and the U.S. will also “consult closely on exchange markets and cooperate as appropriate on currency issues.”
The talks Tuesday had scant immediate impact on exchange rates, with the dollar gaining to 137.25 yen from 136.10 yen.
Yellen is making her first visit to Asia as treasury secretary. She was chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve from 2014-2018.
On Monday, she attended the wake for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated on Friday. Abe, the nation’s longest serving prime minister, was shot Friday by a man who emerged from a crowd, firing a homemade weapon.
Yellen, sitting across from a table from Suzuki, offered her condolences, saying Abe had left a legacy of “revitalizing Japan’s economy and leadership position.”
In their statement, Japan and the U.S. expressed support for a new World Bank fund to help finance pandemic prevention and urged other creditor nations, such as China, to help countries like crisis stricken Sri Lanka deal with their debt problems.
After the G-20 meetings, Yellen is due to visit South Korea.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Before he fled Sri Lanka on Wednesday amid a crushing economic crisis, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was the last of six members of the country’s most influential family still clinging to power.
Rajapaksa, his wife and two bodyguards flew to the city of Male, the capital of the Maldives, according to an immigration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.
His departure comes four days after massive crowds broke into his official residence and occupied his seaside office, and he pledged to leave the country. Protesters also stormed the residence of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who has said he will leave once a new government is in place.
Here is a closer look at the rise and fall of Rajapaksa:
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A FAMILY AFFAIR
For decades, the powerful land-owning Rajapaksa family had dominated local politics in their rural southern district before Mahinda Rajapaksa was elected president in 2005. Appealing to the nationalist sentiment of the island’s Buddhist-Sinhalese majority, he led Sri Lanka into a triumphant victory over ethnic Tamil rebels in 2009, ending a 26-year brutal civil war that had divided the country. His younger brother, Gotabaya, was a powerful official and military strategist in the Ministry of Defense.
Mahinda remained in office until 2015, when he lost to the opposition led by his former aide. But the family made a comeback in 2019, when Gotabaya won the presidential election on a promise to restore security in the wake of the Easter Sunday terrorist suicide bombings that killed 290 people.
He vowed to bring back the muscular nationalism that had made his family popular with the Buddhist majority, and to lead the country out of an economic slump with a message of stability and development.
Instead, he made a series of fatal mistakes that ushered in an unprecedented crisis.
TAX CUTS DRAIN GOVERNMENT FUNDS
As tourism plunged in the wake of the bombings and foreign loans on controversial development projects — including a port and an airport in the president’s home region — needed to be repaid, Rajapaksa didn’t listen to economic advisers and pushed through the largest tax cuts in the country’s history. It was meant to spur spending, but critics warned it would slash the government’s finances. Pandemic lockdowns and an ill-advised ban on chemical fertilizers further hurt the fragile economy.
The country soon ran out of money and couldn’t repay its huge debts. Shortages of food, cooking gas, fuel and medicine stoked public anger at what many saw as mismanagement, corruption and nepotism.
THE END BEGINS
The family’s unravelling began in April, when growing protests forced three Rajapaksa relatives, including the finance minister, to quit their Cabinet posts and another to leave his ministerial job. In May, government supporters attacked protesters in a wave of violence that left nine dead. The anger of the protesters turned against Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was pressured to resign as prime minister and took refuge on a heavily fortified naval base.
But Gotabaya refused to go, triggering chants in the streets of “Gota Go Home!” Instead, he saw his savior in Wickremesinghe, a seasoned opposition politician who he brought in to steer the country out of the abyss. Ultimately, however, Wickremesinghe lacked the political heft and public support needed to get the job done.
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Associated Press journalist Krishan Francis contributed to this story. | https://wgntv.com/news/international/ap-international/a-brief-history-of-the-rise-fall-of-sri-lankas-president/ | 2022-07-13T02:29:29Z | https://wgntv.com/news/international/ap-international/a-brief-history-of-the-rise-fall-of-sri-lankas-president/ | true |
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The president of Sri Lanka fled the country early Wednesday, days after protesters stormed his home and office and the official residence of his prime minister amid a monthslong economic crisis that triggered severe shortages of food and fuel.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his wife and two bodyguards left aboard a Sri Lankan Air Force plane bound for the city of Male, the capital of the Maldives, according to an immigration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.
Rajapaksa had agreed to step down under pressure. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he would leave once a new government was in place.
Lawmakers agreed to elect a new president next week but struggled Tuesday to decide on the makeup of a new government to lift the bankrupt country out of economic and political collapse.
The promised resignations brought no end to the crisis, and protesters have vowed to occupy the official buildings until the top leaders are gone. For days, people have flocked to the presidential palace almost as if it were a tourist attraction — swimming in the pool, marveling at the paintings and lounging on the beds piled high with pillows. At one point, they also burned the prime minister’s private home.
At dawn, protesters began chanting against the president and prime minister, taking a break at one point as the Sri Lankan national anthem blared from speakers. Demonstrators stood still, with their backs straight, and in silence. A few waved the flag.
“I am not happy he has fled. He should be in jail,” said Malik D’ Silva, a 25-year-old protester occupying the president’s office. He has taken part in for protests for the past 97 days.
Rajapaksa “ruined this country and stole our money. We will not stop until we have a new president and prime minister,” D’ Silva said. He said he voted for Rajapaksa in 2019 believing his military background would keep the country safe after Islamic State-inspired bomb attacks earlier that year killed more than 260 people.
Nearby, 28-year-old Sithara Sedaraliyanage and her 49-year-old mother wore black banners around their foreheads that read “Gota Go Home,” the rallying cry of the demonstrations, which have all but dismantled the Rajapaksa political dynasty that ruled Sri Lanka for most of the past two decades.
The two said they hardly slept overnight, chanting alongside hundreds of protesters for hours, until the sun came up.
“We expected him to be behind bars — not escape to a tropical island! What kind of justice is that?” Sithara exclaimed. “This is the first time people in Sri Lanka have risen like this against a president. We want some accountability.”
While lawmakers agreed late Monday to elect a new president from their ranks on July 20, they have not yet decided who will take over as prime minister and fill the Cabinet.
The new president will serve the remainder of Rajapaksa’s term, which ends in 2024 — and could potentially appoint a new prime minister, who would then have to be approved by Parliament.
The prime minister is to serve as president until a replacement is chosen — an arrangement that is sure to further anger protesters who want Wickremesinghe out immediately.
Sri Lankan presidents are protected from arrest while in power, and it is likely Rajapaksa planned his escape while he still had constitutional immunity. A corruption lawsuit against him in his former role as a defense official was withdrawn when he was elected president in 2019.
Corruption and mismanagement have left the island nation laden with debt and unable to pay for imports of basic necessities. The shortages have sown despair among the country’s 22 million people. Sri Lankans are skipping meals and lining up for hours to try to buy scarce fuel.
Until the latest crisis deepened, the Sri Lankan economy had been expanding and growing a comfortable middle class.
Sithara said the people want new leaders who are young, educated and capable of running the economy.
“We don’t know who will come next, but we have hope they will do a better job of fixing the problems,” she said. “Sri Lanka used to be a prosperous country.”
As a restaurant manager in a hotel in Colombo, she used to have a steady income. But with no tourists coming in, the hotel closed, she said. Her mother, Manjula Sedaraliyanage, used to work in Kuwait but came back to Sri Lanka a few years ago after she suffered a stroke. Now the daily medication she needs has become harder to find and more expensive, Sithara said.
The political impasse added fuel to the economic crisis since the absence of an alternative unity government threatened to delay a hoped-for bailout from the International Monetary Fund. The government must submit a plan on debt sustainability to the IMF in August before reaching an agreement.
In the meantime, the country is relying on aid from neighboring India and from China.
Asked whether China was in talks with Sri Lanka about possible loans, a Chinese Foreign Ministry official gave no indication whether such discussions were happening.
“China will continue to offer assistance as our capability allows for Sri Lanka’s social development and economic recovery,” said the spokesman, Wang Wenbin.
On Tuesday, Sri Lanka’s religious leaders urged protesters to leave the government buildings. The protesters have vowed to wait until both Rajapaksa and Wickremesinghe are out of office.
After the storming of the government buildings, “it was clear there is a consensus in the country that the government leadership should change,” said Jehan Perera, executive director of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, a think tank.
The protesters accuse the president and his relatives of siphoning money from government coffers for years and Rajapaksa’s administration of hastening the country’s collapse by mismanaging the economy. The family has denied the corruption allegations, but Rajakpaksa acknowledged some of his policies contributed to the meltdown.
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Associated Press Business Writer Joe McDonald in Beijing contributed to this report. | https://wgntv.com/news/international/ap-international/sri-lanka-lawmakers-to-pick-new-president-but-no-deal-on-pm/ | 2022-07-13T02:31:36Z | https://wgntv.com/news/international/ap-international/sri-lanka-lawmakers-to-pick-new-president-but-no-deal-on-pm/ | false |
SALISBURY, Md.- New images from NASA's James Webb Telescope are garnering national reaction, as the pictures show galaxies outside of our own with infrared technology.
"The further away things get, light from those objects gets stretched out and creates a longer and longer wavelength," explains Nicholas Troup, Assistant Professor of Physics at Salisbury University. "So infrared light is a longer wavelength than visible light. So to be able to view the things from the earliest epochs of the universe, infrared is where you want to be."
The Webb telescope is compared to the Hubble Space Telescope that was launched in 1990, but with significant improvement in clarity and how quickly images are received.
"The James Webb has a six point five diameter mirror and so it is capable of doing things a lot faster than the Hubble Space Telescope can," says Troup. "One of the most famous images from the Hubble was the Hubble Deep Field, where they stared at what they thought was a blank part of the sky for weeks, and unveiled this mosaic of galaxies; James Webb did that in half a day."
Troup also mentions that the telescope's use will extend to identifying other viable planets for human life, "They're going to be able to detect again atmospheric signatures of potential earth-like planets outside of our solar system. This is, you know, ground breaking stuff here."
For more images and updates on what the James Webb Telescope captures visit nasa.gov. | https://www.wrde.com/news/infrared-images-from-webb-telescope-are-the-furthest-yet/article_d0713418-01fe-11ed-8969-07f2734bdbcd.html | 2022-07-13T02:34:23Z | https://www.wrde.com/news/infrared-images-from-webb-telescope-are-the-furthest-yet/article_d0713418-01fe-11ed-8969-07f2734bdbcd.html | true |
WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
914 PM CDT Tue Jul 12 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southeastern Kerr
County through 945 PM CDT...
At 912 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong
thunderstorms from near Cypress Creek, or 4 miles northeast of
Kerrville to 4 miles south of Center Point, moving west 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...
Kerrville, Ingram, Center Point, Cypress Creek, Camp Verde and
Kerrville-Schreiner Park.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3013 9897 2986 9892 2990 9921 3013 9924
TIME...MOT...LOC 0212Z 082DEG 14KT 3006 9903
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southern Castro
At 912 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 4
miles southeast of Dimmitt, moving southeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and pea size hail. The West
Texas Mesonet station near Dimmitt reported a 64 mph gust
at 905 PM. Wind gusts to near 65 mph remain possible with
this storm.
Dimmitt, Hart and Nazareth.
LAT...LON 3463 10223 3450 10200 3431 10200 3431 10246
3449 10238
TIME...MOT...LOC 0212Z 313DEG 8KT 3451 10224
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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Tsaile/Wheatfields community members celebrate the completion of Navajo Route 12
TSAILE/WHEATFIELDS, Ariz. – On July 6, Tsaile/Wheatfield community members celebrated the completion of Navajo Route 12, a primary route for residents, Diné College students and first responders.
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez was joined by Navajo Nation Council Delegate Carl Slater, Tsaile/Wheatfields Chapter officials and community members during a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the occasion.
In 2019, Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer approved funding for the project with the support of the late Council Delegate Nelson S. BeGaye.
The N12 project in Tsaile/Wheatfields includes 10.7 miles of new paving, asphalt placement, roadway excavation and embankment, subgrade treatment where needed, placement of aggregate base course, culvert installations, concrete wing walls, concrete slope blanket and riprap installations, turnouts, and cattle guard, signage, and fencing installations.
The Navajo Engineering and Construction Authority was contracted to complete the project.
“This is a major accomplishment for the community, for the people who use this route daily,” Nez said. “Our very own Navajo construction professionals completed the project under the leadership of NDOT Director Garret Silversmith. The road improvement will help address safety concerns and increase access to school, work, health, and emergency services. Now, many Diné College students and employees can commute on this route safely on a daily basis.”
Nez said throughout all weather conditions and the uncertain impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, NDOT continued with the construction and remained on schedule to complete the N12 project.
The Nez-Lizer administration said it appreciated the support of past and present chapter leadership and community members for advocating for a safer route for community members, emergency responders, school buses and Diné College students. Based on their efforts, legislation to fund the project was brought forth by the late Delegate BeGaye and eventually signed into law.
“When we have all the partners on the same page and creating solutions, we can make investments and decisions that can improve our communities’ safety, health, and growth. Today, we celebrate many years of hard work, commitment, and advocacy,” Slater said.
“It’s indeed a wonderful collaborative achievement for the communities of Tsaile and Wheatfields,” Silversmith said.
Silversmith said he appreciated President Nez, Vice President Lizer, NECA, Navajo Nation Council, chapter leadership, Federal Highway Administration and NDOT staff for working together to finish the project.
“The new roadway corridor contains many improvements, including new bridges, safety elements, new asphalt surface, and more,” he said.
During the event, former Tsaile/Wheatfields Chapter President Zane James said since 2008, past chapter leadership, community elders, NDOT official Marco Sells and former Arizona Department of Transportation official Mike Blankenship have been working hard to prioritize the road project.
“Today is a bittersweet celebration because many of our elders and past leaders have passed on and did not have the opportunity to see the finished road. Together, we worked hard to provide a safe road for our children and grandchildren,” he said.
“Transportation infrastructure improvements to highways, bridges, dams, and dirt roads are the most obvious need in rural communities,” Lizer said. “The improvements to N12 will bring significant benefits to elders, students, families, and first responders. We appreciate the community members’ patience while NDOT and NECA as they completed the pavement. Congratulations to all of the residents and everyone who laid their hands to this great work.”
Also in attendance at the community celebration was 24th Navajo Nation Council Delegate Kee Allen Begay, Jr., Tsaile/Wheatfields Chapter President Devon Begay, Chapter Vice President Stanley Kedelty, NECA officials Stanley Yazzie and Brett Grubbs, and Lukachukai Chapter President Paula S. Begay.
The Nez-Lizer Administration commended the Navajo Nation Division of Transportation for working closely with chapter leadership and community members for completing the N12 project and for managing over 100 road projects across the Navajo Nation.
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Only the best babysitters in the building.
It turns out Selena Gomez isn't just a talented actress, singer and makeup mogul—but a great sitter as well. Jessica Simpson recently shared that Selena took her 10-year-old daughter, Maxwell Johnson, to see her first concert while babysitting her.
As for who they saw perform? Jessica noted in an Instagram Live with Suneel Gupta that it was for Olivia Rodrigo's SOUR tour.
The "Irresistible" singer explained that her family crossed paths with Selena after Maxwell became mutual friends with one of Selena's little sisters (Selena's mom Mandy Teefey shares Gracie Elliot Teefey, 9, with Brian Teefey, while Selena's dad Ricardo Joel Gomez shares Victoria Gomez, 8, with Sara Gomez.)
"So she went with Selena," Jessica noted. "She met a really good friend of Selena's little sister, so Max got to go to her first concert."
Jessica–who is also mom to son Ace Johnson, 9, and daughter Birdie Johnson, 3—admitted that she "was sad" when her eldest daughter crossed this first off her list without her. Although Maxwell has seen her mom onstage with Willie Nelson, Jessica hoped that one of her own shows would be Maxwell's first official concert.
"I always thought it was going to be me as her first concert," Jessica said. "But she's 10 years old. She got to see a live show."
Nonetheless, she is thankful to both Olivia and Selena for giving Maxwell that experience. "Thank you Olivia Rodrigo for that show," she said. "And thank you Selena for being a great babysitter."
And that's not the only epic event Maxwell has had on her agenda. She was recently in attendance at North West's 9th birthday party alongside Penelope Disick, 9 and Tracy Romulus' daughter Ryan Romulus, 10.
The event featured camping mixed with North's passion for special effects, according to mom Kim Kardashian.
"We took about eight kids, eight girls, and we went camping in the wilderness," Kim said on The Tonight Show last month. "And she wanted it to be really spooky. And she wanted, like, these mannequin heads. And she taught everyone—there was a whole class that she taught her friends how to do special effects wounds and scars."
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With the MLB All-Star break set to begin in less than one week, the Boston Red Sox traveled to Tampa Bay on Monday to take on the Rays to start an AL East divisional clash. These two teams met earlier in the month starting on July 4th for a three game series which the Rays took two games to one. Yesterday, Tampa Bay took the first game of a four game series putting up 14 hits on their way to a 10-5 victory. Yandy Diaz led the way, going 3 for 3 with three RBI. Diaz has led the MLB with a .510 average and a .583 on base percentage in the past 15 days.
Starting the homestand strong #RaysUp
— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) July 12, 2022
Red Sox Returning
Tonight, lefty Chris Sale will make his season debut on the mound for Boston after recovering from a fracture in his right rib cage dealt in late February. Sale made four rehab starts in the minors and is finally ready to make a start for the Red Sox tonight. Recently announced All-Star starter at third base Rafael Devers is also expected to return to the lineup for Boston tonight after missing three games with a back injury. With these two stars set to return tonight, the Red Sox will look to even up the series.
Chris Sale is back after his Tommy John surgery @RedSox
Tonight vs Rays pic.twitter.com/0FaeJrRJR0
— Edward Peña | BFT ⚾️ (@BaseballFor2day) July 12, 2022
Rafael Devers (back) to return to lineup Tuesday https://t.co/4ie5BXAxyP
— NBC Sports EDGE Baseball (@NBCSEdgeBB) July 11, 2022
Series Outlook
It’s a fight for second place right now in the AL East with the Rays (46-40) sitting only half a game behind the Red Sox (47-40) going into tonight’s game. Both teams have been making strides as they head towards the All-Star break and look to gain an edge over each other in a division that seems as if its standings are changing by the day. Boston sits atop the AL wild card race with Tampa Bay right on their tail in second.
Tampa Bay can take over second place in the AL East and first place in the AL wild card race with wins in two out of the three remaining games in the series. Of course, with the fluctuation in the AL East, only time will tell how the standings will shape up.
Left handed starting pitcher Shane McClanahan of the Rays will head to Los Angeles next week along with Devers and shortstop Xander Bogaerts of the Red Sox to play in the MLB All-Star game. Until then they will continue to duke it out in the Bay tonight amidst a tight divisional race. | https://www.wruf.com/headlines/2022/07/12/rays-take-on-red-sox-before-all-star-break/ | 2022-07-13T02:39:40Z | https://www.wruf.com/headlines/2022/07/12/rays-take-on-red-sox-before-all-star-break/ | false |
NBA approves harsher penalty for 'transition take foul' originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington
The NBA has seen enough of intentional fouls to stop fast breaks.
Starting with the 2022-23 NBA season, there will be a harsher penalty for team that commit "transition take fouls," the league announced on Tuesday.
The take foul has become more common in recent years as a way to stop another team from getting an easy transition basket. Instead of it counting as a normal foul, the offensive team will now be awarded with one free throw and possession. The free throw can be attempted by any player on the floor, similar to a technical foul.
There is one exception to the rule, however. Teams can commit take fouls in the final two minutes of the fourth quarter and overtime without triggering the new, increased penalty.
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Authorities are investigating a series of bomb threats made Tuesday against several universities and colleges in Hampton Roads.
Regent University in Virginia Beach, Tidewater Community College in Chesapeake, Virginia Peninsula Community College in Hampton and Norfolk State University all received threats Tuesday, according to school and public safety officials. No explosives were found on any of the campuses.
TCC Chesapeake received a threat of a backpack bomb with a timer located in some unknown area on campus, according to the Chesapeake Fire Department. It was unclear if the other universities received threats that were similar in nature.
Chesapeake police and fire departments were on the scene of the TCC on Cedar Road at 11:47 a.m. and gave the “all clear” at 11:58 a.m., TCC spokesperson Laura Sanford said.
University and Virginia Beach police conducted a sweep of the Regent campus and issued an “all clear” at 1:10 p.m., said Chris Roslan, a spokesperson for Regent.
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VPCC police received a call of a threat at 12:18 p.m. Everyone was cleared to return by 2:18 p.m., according to a spokesperson for the college.
At NSU, a university spokesperson said the call regarding a bomb threat was made to Norfolk police just before noon. An all clear was issued at 1:17 p.m.
An FBI spokesperson said Tuesday the bureau was aware of the bomb threats “received by multiple colleges and universities,” but declined to comment on how many colleges in the region received threats. | https://richmond.com/news/local/education/authorities-investigate-bomb-threats-made-to-at-least-4-hampton-roads-universities/article_d1243f0c-4302-5e39-adf3-a0caf7b2568d.html | 2022-07-13T02:44:46Z | https://richmond.com/news/local/education/authorities-investigate-bomb-threats-made-to-at-least-4-hampton-roads-universities/article_d1243f0c-4302-5e39-adf3-a0caf7b2568d.html | true |
Deloitte Launches Zero Trust Access, a New Managed Security Service
NEW YORK, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To help organizations adopt zero trust more quickly and efficiently, Deloitte is launching a new managed service – Zero Trust Access— that offers a cloud-native approach to securing communications between users, on any device, and enterprise applications, wherever they may reside.
The Zero Trust concept commits to removing implicit trust within an information technology (IT) ecosystem and replacing it with a risk-based approach to accessing organizational resources across identities, workloads, data, networks and devices. This trend is gaining momentum, given legacy approaches to security architecture are no longer suitable to secure the ubiquitous nature of the modern enterprise.
Part of the newly expanded Zero Trust by Deloitte, Zero Trust Access facilitates zero trust adoption and the evolving needs of organizations in protecting their applications, infrastructure, and data. Following the integration of recently acquired talent and technology into existing Deloitte services, the Zero Trust Access managed service connects users to applications through a frictionless cloud-native solution that is inherently scalable, resilient, agile, and secure. Further, the managed service is available standalone, integrated with other Deloitte offerings, or as part of a broader solution leveraging technologies from Deloitte's alliances ecosystem.
"As perimeter-based approaches are no longer suitable to secure the modern enterprise, many organizations are working to enhance protection for their IT ecosystems via zero trust," said Andrew Rafla, Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory's zero trust offering leader and principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP. "Zero Trust Access was built as a turnkey managed service helping ourselves and our clients accelerate adoption of this transformative security framework. Our goal was to create a cost-effective solution that can be delivered standalone or complementary to a broader ecosystem and ultimately help decrease the burden on IT and security teams who likely need to manage multiple heterogenous solutions to achieve similar outcomes."
With innovative data protection leveraging device-level secure microcontainer technology, Zero Trust Access helps protect infrastructure while also enabling organizations to protect sensitive enterprise data and enforce least privilege through dynamic access control to enterprise assets. The managed service can replace remote access solutions inclusive of virtual private network (VPN), virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and desktop as a service (DaaS), all of which typically require significant capital expenditure for infrastructure, high operating costs, and technology management overhead.
Zero Trust Access includes features such as ephemeral connectivity built upon secure peer-to-peer (P2P) communication, conditional access and continuous authorization, as well as robust data protection for data at-rest, in-use, and in-transit are consistently applied to each session, regardless of the type or location of the applications being accessed (e.g., legacy hosted applications, software as a service (SaaS), thick-client, web-based applications). Implementation of Zero Trust Access can help organizations leverage outcome-based solutions that improve business agility, enhance user productivity, and reduce cost and complexity of security operations.
"Beginning zero trust adoption isn't simple, fast or easy for most organizations," Deborah Golden, Deloitte Risk & Financial AdvisoryCyber and Strategic Risk leader and principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP. "We're launching Zero Trust Access as the first in many adoption-enabling services and solutions to come, so that our clients are better able to modernize their security programs, enable agile operations and confidently advance with emerging technologies and transformative risk management principles that can build more resilient security practices."
About DeloitteDeloitte provides industry-leading audit, consulting, tax and advisory services to many of the world's most admired brands, including nearly 90% of the Fortune 500® and more than 7,000 private companies. Our people come together for the greater good and work across the industry sectors that drive and shape today's marketplace — delivering measurable and lasting results that help reinforce public trust in our capital markets, inspire clients to see challenges as opportunities to transform and thrive, and help lead the way toward a stronger economy and a healthier society. Deloitte is proud to be part of the largest global professional services network serving our clients in the markets that are most important to them. Building on more than 175 years of service, our network of member firms spans more than 150 countries and territories. Learn how Deloitte's more than 345,000 people worldwide connect for impact at www.deloitte.com.
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WFO BOSTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
952 PM EDT Tue Jul 12 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of eastern Windham,
southwestern Norfolk, southeastern Worcester, northwestern Bristol,
northern Kent, Providence and northern Bristol Counties through 1045
PM EDT...
At 951 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Pomfret, or 11 miles northeast of Mansfield, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph, penny size hail and brief heavy
rain.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Strong winds could cause minor damage such as downed
branches. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible.
Locations impacted include...
Providence, Fall River, Warwick, Cranston, Pawtucket, Taunton, East
Providence, Woonsocket, Coventry, Cumberland, North Providence,
Franklin, West Warwick, Johnston, North Attleborough, Plainfield,
Attleboro, Mansfield, Easton and Smithfield.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Get indoors when you hear thunder. Do not resume outdoor activities
until at least 30 minutes after the storm has passed.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. For your
safety, go indoors or to your vehicle.
LAT...LON 4195 7213 4212 7114 4178 7111 4180 7112
4174 7115 4173 7110 4173 7129 4174 7129
4173 7130 4173 7134 4179 7137 4178 7139
4173 7138 4172 7210
TIME...MOT...LOC 0151Z 263DEG 42KT 4186 7203
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
857 PM CDT Tue Jul 12 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Armstrong, northeastern Randall, southwestern Carson and southeastern
Potter Counties through 930 PM CDT...
At 856 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles west of Washburn, or 8 miles east of Amarillo, moving northeast
at 10 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...
Amarillo, Washburn and Pantex.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3510 10170 3524 10184 3545 10165 3520 10139
TIME...MOT...LOC 0156Z 230DEG 9KT 3521 10170
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
914 PM CDT Tue Jul 12 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southeastern Kerr
County through 945 PM CDT...
At 912 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a cluster of strong
thunderstorms from near Cypress Creek, or 4 miles northeast of
Kerrville to 4 miles south of Center Point, moving west 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...
Kerrville, Ingram, Center Point, Cypress Creek, Camp Verde and
Kerrville-Schreiner Park.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3013 9897 2986 9892 2990 9921 3013 9924
TIME...MOT...LOC 0212Z 082DEG 14KT 3006 9903
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southern Castro
At 912 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 4
miles southeast of Dimmitt, moving southeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and pea size hail. The West
Texas Mesonet station near Dimmitt reported a 64 mph gust
at 905 PM. Wind gusts to near 65 mph remain possible with
this storm.
Dimmitt, Hart and Nazareth.
LAT...LON 3463 10223 3450 10200 3431 10200 3431 10246
3449 10238
TIME...MOT...LOC 0212Z 313DEG 8KT 3451 10224
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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iDesign Partners with YouTube Star, Television Host and Author Rosanna Pansino to Launch New Home Organization Line at The Container Store
The collection features more than 40 products made of eco-friendly materials and clear solutions that reduce plastic waste by an average of 39 water bottles each.
SOLON, Ohio, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global storage, home décor and organizational products company iDesign announced today a new product line made in collaboration with New York Times bestselling author and YouTube star Rosanna Pansino available exclusively at The Container Store (NYSE: TCS). The Rosanna Pansino Collection by iDesign includes clear storage bins, canisters, mixing bowls, turntables, a cake dome, and more. The products are made of sustainable materials including 100% recycled clear plastic, bio-filled recycled plastic and Paulownia wood.
The collection will feature sleek and stylish Coconut and Clear colorways, with a total of 40 customizable home organization products. Made with 100% recycled plastic, the clear storage containers help reduce plastic waste by an average of 39 water bottles each.
With over 3 billion views and 20 million global followers across her social media platforms, Rosanna is one of the top 5 food influencers in the world. She has one of the most popular cooking channels on YouTube and is one of the highest-paid content creators on the platform. As an award-winning cooking content creator, Rosanna knows how to create a beautifully organized kitchen that is a joy to cook in.
"Home organization is something I've always been passionate about. Many people think of the kitchen or closet when it comes to organizing, but every single room of the house can be put together in a way that makes your life easier," says Rosanna Pansino. "I love how sustainable this new home organization line is, and iDesign is the perfect partner with their laser focus on sustainability being what sets them apart from other houseware product companies. Together, we are finding every way possible to make products of the future."
The perfect combination of style and function, this collection is a sustainable way to organize any living space – big or small. All storage options are customizable with the ability to mix and match with dividers and inserts.
"At iDesign, we're proud to create high-quality, innovative products within the housewares industry and this unique collection is a continuation of that effort," said Aaron Taylor, Senior Vice President of Global eCommerce and Marketing. "Collaborating on this collection made perfect sense given Ro's cooking expertise and our passion for developing sustainable home organization solutions."
Products from the Rosanna Pansino Collection by iDesign will be sold exclusively at The Container Store starting on July 13. Become an Organized Insider with The Container Store to get early access to the collection online starting July 11.
"We are proud to be offering this collection exclusively at The Container Store," said Chief Merchandising Officer of The Container Store, John Gehre. "As we continue to grow our sustainable product assortment, this addition enhances the sustainable options we offer our current customers and also introduces our store to Rosanna's audience who may not have shopped with us before."
Celebrate the launch with Rosanna and her closest friends as they take over a location of The Container Store via livestream on Rosanna's YouTube ChannelWednesday, July 13 at 7:30 p.m. EST.
About iDesign
iDesign, founded by Bob Immerman in 1974, began as a housewares design company with a core goal in mind - to offer innovative storage products for the home at a reasonable price. Based in Solon, Ohio, just outside of Cleveland, iDesign has grown to be a global leader in housewares with distribution facilities in NorthEast Ohio, Europe and China selling to over 100 countries across multiple continents. iDesign's mission is to make everyday living easier with innovative products designed to help people organize and enhance their homes with style. Through the use of recycled and recyclable materials, sustainable packaging, and the removal of chemicals from manufacturing, iDesign commits to sustainable business practices to protect the planet. For more information on iDesign visit www.idesignlivesimply.com.
About The Container Store
The Container Store Group, Inc. (NYSE: TCS) is the nation's leading specialty retailer of organizing solutions, custom closets, and in-home services – a concept they originated in 1978. Today, with locations nationwide, the retailer offers more than 10,000 products designed to transform lives through the power of organization. Visit www.containerstore.com for more information about products, store locations, services offered and real-life inspiration.
For more information, please contact:
iDesign
McPherson Strategies
Susan McPherson
idesign@mcpstrategies.com
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Heatwave hits London
Tourists walk in Parliament Square in London, Britain, July 11, 2022.
London is currently experiencing a heatwave as temperature hit a high of 32 degrees Celsius in west London on Monday. (Photo by Stephen Chung/Xinhua)
A woman uses a fan to keep cool on a bus on Westminster Bridge in London, Britain, July 11, 2022.
London is currently experiencing a heatwave as temperature hit a high of 32 degrees Celsius in west London on Monday. (Photo by Stephen Chung/Xinhua)
A man buys an ice cream in London, Britain, July 11, 2022.
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday released two reports arguing that removing dams on the lower Snake River may be needed to restore salmon runs to sustainable levels in the Pacific Northwest, and that replacing the energy created by the dams is possible but will cost $11 billion to $19 billion.
The reports were released by the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
“Business as usual will not restore salmon,” said Brenda Mallory, chair of the council. “The Columbia River system is the lifeblood of the Pacific Northwest.”
If the four Snake River dams were ultimately removed, it would be largest such project in U.S. history. In 2012 the Elwha Dam on Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula was removed to restore habitat. At the time, the National Park Service said the elimination of the Elwha Dam was the largest such project in U.S. history.
Many salmon runs continue to decline, which environmentalists blame on dams, Mallory said, and her office is leading multi-agency efforts to restore “abundant runs of salmon to the Columbia River Basin.”
Mallory cautioned that the Biden administration is not endorsing any single long-term solution, including breaching the dams.
A draft report by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found changes are needed to restore salmon, ranging from removal of one to four dams on the lower Snake River to reintroduction of salmon to areas entirely blocked by dams. A second report studied how power supplies could be replaced if dams are breached.
“These two reports add to the picture — that we are working alongside regional leaders to develop — of what it will take over the decades ahead to restore salmon populations, honor our commitments to Tribal Nations, deliver clean power and meet the many needs of stakeholders across the region,” Mallory said.
More than a dozen runs of salmon and steelhead are at risk of extinction in the Columbia and Snake rivers.
Billions of dollars have been spent on salmon and steelhead recovery, but the fish continue to decline, speakers said, and it is time to try a different approach. Dam breaching is opposed by grain shippers, irrigators, power producers and other river users. Dam supporters blame declining salmon runs on other factors, such as changing ocean conditions.
“We need to go to larger-scale actions,” NOAA scientist Chris Jordan said in a briefing on the report Monday.
“We are at a crucial moment for salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River Basin when we’re seeing the impacts of climate change on top of other stressors,” said Janet Coit, an administrator for NOAA Fisheries.
Six Republican members of Congress from the Northwest blasted the reports as biased.
“They are cherry picking points to justify breaching the Lower Snake River Dams, which will permanently and negatively impact our way of life in the Pacific Northwest,” said a statement from U.S. Reps. Dan Newhouse, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and Jaime Herrera Beutler, all from Washington, Cliff Bentz of Oregon, Russ Fulcher of Idaho and Matt Rosendale of Montana.
Kurt Miller, executive director of Northwest RiverPartners, which is made up of river users, said electricity ratepayers will see higher bills if the dams are breached. The rate increases could reach 65%, Miller said.
“The study confirms the fact these dams are irreplaceable for the region if we want to meet our emissions reduction objectives and maintain a reliable grid at an affordable cost,” Miller said.
The issue has percolated in the Northwest for three decades, sparking court fights and political debates over the future of the four dams on the Snake River that environmentalists blame for the decline in salmon and steelhead.
U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, kicked off the latest round of debates in 2021, when he released a plan saying it would cost $34 billion to remove and replace the dams’ services in order to save salmon. U.S. Sen. Patty Murray and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, both Democrats, are also preparing a report, with their recommendations expected later this summer.
Last month, Murray and Inslee announced that replacing the benefits provided by the four giant hydroelectric dams on the lower Snake River in Washington state would cost $10.3 billion to $27.2 billion.
Breaching the dams would significantly improve the ability of salmon and steelhead to swim from their inland spawning grounds to the Pacific Ocean, where they spend most of their lives, and then back to their original spawning grounds to procreate and die, Murray and Inslee said.
Major benefits of the dams include making the Snake River navigable up to Lewiston, Idaho, allowing barges to carry wheat and other crops to ocean ports. Eliminating the dams would require truck and rail transportation improvements to move crops.
The dams also generate electricity, provide irrigation water for farmers and recreation opportunities for people. Breaching the dams would require an act of Congress. Newhouse and McMorris Rodgers have introduced a bill to protect the dams, which are located in their districts.
In the late 1800s, up to 16 million salmon and steelhead returned to the Columbia River Basin every year to spawn. Over the next century and a half, overfishing whittled that number down. By the early 1950s, just under 130,000 Chinook were returning to the Snake River.
Construction of the first dam on the lower river, Ice Harbor, began in 1955. Lower Monumental followed in 1969, Little Goose in 1970, and Lower Granite in 1975. The dams stretch from Pasco, Washington, to near Pullman, Washington, and stand between migrating salmon and 5,500 miles (8,850 kilometers) of spawning habitat in central Idaho.
The dams have fish ladders, but too many of the salmon die as they swim through the dams and across slack water reservoirs on their migrations.
In 1991, Snake River salmon and steelhead were listed as endangered species, requiring production of a federal recovery plan.
The U.S. government has spent more than $17 billion trying to recover Snake River salmon, through improvements to fish ladders and other measures, with little to show for it. | https://www.postregister.com/news/nation/white-house-dams-may-need-to-be-removed/article_216c6526-5e91-51f4-ba53-2e6699a13b1a.html | 2022-07-13T02:58:17Z | https://www.postregister.com/news/nation/white-house-dams-may-need-to-be-removed/article_216c6526-5e91-51f4-ba53-2e6699a13b1a.html | false |
A rock memorabilia dealer and two other men are charged with scheming to sell allegedly ill-gotten, handwritten lyrics to "Hotel California" and other hits by the Eagles.
The three men pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges including conspiracy and criminal possession of the stolen property. Their lawyers insist the three are innocent, characterizing it as a "civil dispute" over ownership.
The trove of documents included Henley's notes and lyrics for "Hotel California" plus two others from that Grammy-winning 1976 album: "Life in the Fast Lane" and "New Kid In Town." The Eagles' longtime manager thanked prosecutors for bringing the case.
“The DA’s office alleges criminality where none exists and unfairly tarnishes the reputations of well-respected professionals,” the attorneys said in a statement. “We will fight these unjustified charges vigorously. These men are innocent.”
A statement from the band called the items “an integral part of the legacy Don Henley has created over the course of his 50-plus-year career” that need to be returned “for him and his family to enjoy and preserve for posterity.” | https://www.kxxv.com/news/national/3-charged-in-scheme-to-sell-stolen-lyrics-from-the-eagles-hit-hotel-california | 2022-07-13T02:58:29Z | https://www.kxxv.com/news/national/3-charged-in-scheme-to-sell-stolen-lyrics-from-the-eagles-hit-hotel-california | true |
LeBron James is publicly criticizing the United States' handling of WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner's case in a trailer for an upcoming episode of his television show: "The Shop: Uninterrupted."
Griner is on trial in Russia for drug possession. She pleaded guilty last week and will appear again in court on Thursday. It's unclear when the show was filmed, although in the trailer, it's mentioned she had been in Russia for over 110 days which would be roughly five weeks ago.
Since that time, in addition to the start of the trial and the guilty plea, Griner's wife Cherelle has had a phone conversation with President Joe Biden. Biden has also recently received a letter from Brittney Griner and sent her a letter back.
“Now, how can she feel like America has her back?” James said in the trailer. “I would be feeling like, ‘Do I even wanna go back to America?’”
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said Washington would continue to work for the release of Griner, as well as other Americans held by Moscow, including former Marine Paul Whelan.
“We will not relent until Brittney, Paul Whelan, and all other wrongfully detained Americans are reunited with their loved ones,” he tweeted last week. | https://www.kxxv.com/news/national/nba-star-lebron-james-critical-of-us-efforts-to-get-brittney-griner-home | 2022-07-13T02:58:47Z | https://www.kxxv.com/news/national/nba-star-lebron-james-critical-of-us-efforts-to-get-brittney-griner-home | true |
CLEVELAND, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL), a leading independent investment bank and financial advisory firm, is pleased to announce the addition of Eliott S. Musick as a new Managing Director within its Business & Industrial Services (BIS) vertical. Eliott brings specialized M&A and strategic advisory experience to the firm with a particular focus on the Facility & Field Services sector. Based in New York City, he will also help continue to expand BGL's presence on the East Coast.
"BGL's strong commitment to advising the marketplace includes identifying and supporting M&A and capital markets bankers with deep industry knowledge and relationships," said Effram Kaplan, Head of the firm's BIS vertical and Environmental & Industrial Services Group. "Eliott is a highly respected banker with strong relationships across the Industrial Services industry, and he has a proven track record in executing efficient transactions. We are very pleased to welcome him to BGL and excited about the additional resources we are able to offer our clients."
Eliott's 15 years of experience working with middle market businesses spans all facets of M&A and corporate advisory, capital raising, debt financing, and principal investing. His clients primarily include private, public, and private equity-backed companies across the industrial, infrastructure, engineering, and commercial services sectors.
"BGL has a reputation in the market as a strong, sector-focused M&A platform with excellent client service," said Musick. "Their EIS team, in particular, has led the North American market in transaction volume for the past several years. I am excited to join them and help expand their growth within the Facility & Field Services sector."
Prior to joining BGL, Eliott led the Industrial & Infrastructure Services effort at Macquarie Capital and founded Pointe Falls Growth Partners, a private investment firm focused on investing growth capital in lower middle market businesses within the Services & Specialty Industrials sectors. Eliott started his career as a consultant at Deloitte and CGI Group. He holds an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business and earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Carnegie Mellon University.
Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) is a leading independent investment bank and financial advisory firm focused on the global middle market. The firm advises private and public corporations and private equity groups on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructurings, business valuations and opinions, and other strategic matters. BGL has investment banking offices in Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, and New York, and real estate offices in Chicago, Cleveland, and San Antonio. The firm is also a founding member of Global M&A Partners, enabling BGL to service clients in more than 30 countries around the world. Securities transactions are conducted through Brown, Gibbons, Lang & Company Securities, LLC, an affiliate of Brown Gibbons Lang & Company LLC and a registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC. For more information, please visit www.bglco.com.
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Rivera: Democrats are frightened, frustrated and angry
Geraldo Rivera highlights the issues Democrats are having with Biden
Geraldo Rivera discussed how Democrats are "frustrated" and "frightened" by how poorly Biden is doing and how they do not want to see him attempt another run for president on "Hannity."
SEAN HANNITY: THE PRESIDENT CONTINUES TO PLAY ONE BLAME GAME AFTER ANOTHER
GERALDO RIVERA: You know, I think Democrats are frightened. They're frustrated. They're angry. They're bitter. They don't understand why Joe Biden is doing so poorly. They blame it now on his age. And he is, you know, more frail than he has been. But I also think that when you shake it all down and despite the alarming stories and the fact that so many Democrats are turning on Biden, including The New York Times and New York Magazine bastions of the liberal establishment, it seems to me, I think that in a head to head between Biden and Trump, I think that the Democrats would say anybody but Trump. And we'll take Biden, however, if we have to carry him in on, you know, on a stretcher. I don't know why they have unforced errors, though, Sean. I don't know why they can't seem more competent.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
6-2-5-9
(six, two, five, nine)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
6-2-5-9
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA) — Fort Lauderdale police need help identifying a woman they said stole over $52,000 worth of cash and items from a man’s home on June 10.
Surveillance video released by police showed the woman walk into the victim’s apartment building with him around 1:30 a.m.
The items stolen included the victim’s two designer watches, iPhone, wallet and $1,000 in cash. The total value of the items stolen were $52,500.
Video showed the suspect leave the apartment building by herself about two hours later.
The suspect is described as a being a 5-foot-4, 120 pound Black female, with shoulder length red hair and possibly a neck tattoo.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Erik Kirtman at 954-828-6070. | https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/woman-stole-52k-in-cash-items-from-mans-home-florida-police-say/ | 2022-07-13T03:13:21Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/woman-stole-52k-in-cash-items-from-mans-home-florida-police-say/ | true |
-- Convention returns in person October 17-20 at the Javits Center --
WASHINGTON, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Registration opens today for NAB Show New York, October 17-20, 2022 (exhibits October 19-20) at the Javits Center. The event's mid-point timing six months following NAB Show in Las Vegas provides a unique opportunity for the NAB Show community to connect at a major East Coast venue. Attendees will gain strategic insight and engage with technology that is transforming broadcasting and the larger media and entertainment business.
Produced by the National Association of Broadcasters and co-located with the AES New York 2022 Convention, NAB Show New York offers hands-on learning and discovery of advanced product features, applications and workflows that promote superior audio and video experiences.
Exhibits Pass registrants receive full access to NAB Show New York and AES exhibits as well as education on the show floor, including an experiential zone featuring special theaters, demonstrations and networking activities.
Conference programs requiring separate registration include:
- Cybersecurity for Broadcasters Retreat (October 17-18)
- Post|Production Conference NYC (October 18)
- The Streaming Summit (October 18)
- TV2025: Monetizing the Future (October 19)
- *NEW — The Radio Experience at NAB Show New York (October 19-20)
- *NEW — NAB Marconi Radio Awards (October 19)
"We are thrilled to be back in person in New York and look forward to delivering an exceptional experience for exhibitors and attendees," said Chris Brown, NAB executive vice president and managing director, Global Connections and Events. "The success of NAB Show in Las Vegas reinforced the power of live events and the desire for a return to in-person trade shows. NAB Show New York is an important touch point for the industry to re-engage with the technology and thought leaders who are revolutionizing the art of storytelling and moving the business forward."
For information on registration packages and to register, click here.
Press registration will be open for qualified members of the media later this month.
Produced by the National Association of Broadcasters and co-located with the AES New York 2022 Convention, NAB Show New York will be held October 17-20, 2022 (exhibits October 19-20) at the Javits Center. Located in the media capital of the world, NAB Show New York offers hands-on learning, discovery and insights into the technology and business strategies that is transforming media and entertainment. Through exhibits, conferences and networking events, NAB Show New York spotlights the products, practices and leaders promoting superior audio and video experiences.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council said Tuesday that more needs to be done to counter disinformation and misinformation about the U.N.’s 12 peacekeeping operations, which have faced growing attacks especially on social media.
A Brazilian-drafted presidential statement approved by all 15 council members said the U.N. must “improve the culture of strategic communications across civilian, military and police components” of peacekeeping missions in order to protect civilians — a key mandate for the U.N.’s 90,000 peacekeepers in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe.
The council noted “with great concern the increasing amount of disinformation and misinformation directed against United Nations peacekeeping operations, which may negatively impact missions and peacekeepers.”
Brazilian Foreign Minister Carlos França, whose country holds the council presidency this month and chaired Tuesday's meeting, said that “strategic communications are essential for a successful peacekeeping operation.”
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the council that the world in which peacekeepers operate “is more hazardous today than any time in recent memory,” with geopolitical tensions reverberating locally and conflicts “more complex and multi-layered.”
“Peacekeepers are facing terrorists, criminals, armed groups and their allies — many with access to powerful modern weapons, and many with a vested interest in perpetuating the chaos in which they thrive,” the U.N. chief said.
But, he added, “The weapons they wield are not just guns and explosives. Misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech are increasingly being used as a weapon of war.”
Guterres said a recent survey found that nearly half of all U.N. peacekeepers feel misinformation and disinformation severely affect their work and threaten their safety and security.
As an example of false information spreading “like wildfire,” Guterres said a fake letter alleging that U.N. peacekeepers in Mali were collaborating with armed groups “went viral on WhatsApp and was picked up by national media.” It stirred up hostility and resentment against peacekeepers and made their efforts to protect civilians even harder, he said.
Lt. Gen. Marcos Da Costa, commander of the peacekeeping force in Congo, told the council that it operates in a country where successive surveys find “an overall poor perception” among the population about the mission’s relevance in improving their security.
“Anti-mission sentiment prevails in certain parts of the country that even prevent some of our deployments,” he said. “Unfair speeches by several actors against the mission put in risk the safety of our peacekeepers. The extensive use of social media by armed groups and other spoilers undermines the confidence in the U.N.”
He said these armed militias “use regular information warfare techniques” and their fake news diffusing through messaging and social media is difficult to distinguish from reality.
“These emerging technologies are driving a fundamental change to the character of the war, and peace operations are already being affected,” Da Costa said.
Guterres said the U.N. is moving to improve communications in peacekeeping operations between uniformed and civilian personnel, seek military and police officers skilled in communicating, and work with tech and media companies and member states to collect and share best practices. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/UN-stresses-key-communications-role-to-combat-17301215.php | 2022-07-13T03:25:00Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/UN-stresses-key-communications-role-to-combat-17301215.php | false |
Asian shares bounce, markets on edge ahead of U.S. inflation data
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July 13 (Reuters) - Asian stocks gained on Wednesday, taking back some of their recent losses, while the euro hovered just above parity against the dollar ahead of a highly anticipated U.S. inflation report later in the global day.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan (.MIAPJ0000PUS) gained 0.65%, snapping two straight days of losses, after having slumped to its lowest in two years the day before.
Taiwanese stocks led the gains, with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp (2330.TW) a regional and local index heavyweight rallying 4%, after Taiwan's finance ministry said on Tuesday it would activate its stock stabilisation fund. The market (.TWII) fell to a 19-month low that day.
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Japan's Nikkei (.N225) was up 0.45% after losing nearly 2% the previous day.
But most moves felt insubstantial ahead of the release of U.S. inflation data for June, which economists polled by Reuters expect to have accelerated by 8.8% on an annual basis, a 40-year peak. read more
A high inflation print would likely be read by the U.S. Federal Reserve as a sign they need to continue with aggressive interest rate rises to get on top of surging prices, even if this might push the economy into recession.
The Fed increased rates by a supersized 75 basis points in its last meeting.
"Sharp weakness in oil prices in July suggests that June's (inflation) may mark a peak, however. If so, the most dynamic phase of Fed tightening could conclude with a 75bps rate rise on 27 July," said analysts at ANZ.
"However, our expectation is that underlying strength in core inflation and still deeply negative real policy rates means 50bps rate rises will still be appropriate after the summer."
Underscoring the global inflation concerns, South Korea's central bank on Wednesday raised rates by 50 basis points, the biggest increase since the bank adopted the current policy system in 1999, and New Zealand's central bank also increased rates by the same amount. read more
Worries of higher rates contributing to slowing global economic growth has been a major factor in stock market declines this year, while in currency markets, the main effect has been to boost the safe-haven dollar.
The euro was at $1.00265 on Wednesday morning, as investors remained focused on whether it would fall below 1 U.S. dollar for the first time since 2002.
It dropped to just a whisker away on Tuesday, falling as low as $1.00005.
The dollar was also firm on other peers, and its index measure against major rivals was holding solidly at 108.27.
The U.S. benchmark 10-year yield was 2.9743%, having traded either side of 3% for the last week.
Oil prices paused their overnight declines. Brent crude was little changed at $99.55 a barrel with U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude at $95.78.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 4" game were:
4-4-3-7
(four, four, three, seven)
¶ Maximum prize: $500
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 4" game were:
4-4-3-7
(four, four, three, seven)
¶ Maximum prize: $500 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Pick-4-game-17301251.php | 2022-07-13T03:29:06Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Pick-4-game-17301251.php | false |
JOHNSON CITY, NY – Harpursville Post 1596 beat Johnson City Post 1305 for the second night in a row, this time by a score of 6-0.
It was an early pitchers duel with key plays made by both sides.
Harupursville’s Caden Fortunato turned a double play in the bottom of the first to quiet an early rally from JC.
Peyton Brzozowy, showed off his skills on the mound for JC, striking out the side in the top of the second.
Logan Firmont, on the hill for Harpursville, also had a phenomenal day, not allowing a single run.
Harpursville opened the scoring in the top of the third thanks to a single to left field from Brady Buttice, scoring Firmont to make the score 1-0.
Brzozowy would escape a jam in the third inning with the bases loaded thanks to back-to-back strikeouts but it would not be enough to come out victorious. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/sports/local-sports/harpursville-post-1596-defeats-johnson-city-post-1305-6-0/ | 2022-07-13T03:29:34Z | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/sports/local-sports/harpursville-post-1596-defeats-johnson-city-post-1305-6-0/ | false |
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Chris Sale worked five scoreless innings in his season debut, but the Boston bullpen couldn't hold a two-run lead in a 3-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night.
Sale, out all season with a fracture in his right rib cage, allowed three hits with one walk and struck out five. The lefty reached 97 mph on his fastball during a 78-pitch, 53-strike outing.
“I felt better as it went on,” Sale said. “Feeling strong in the fourth and fifth inning, that's nice. I'll just keep building off of that.”
The Red Sox are hoping the 33-year-old Sale can boost their chances of making the playoffs. This was just his 10th start for Boston since 2019; he missed 2020 and most of 2021 following Tommy John surgery.
“Sale was tough,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said. “He looked really sharp for not having pitched all season long in the big leagues.”
Corey Kluber (5-5) allowed two runs and four hits in six innings to beat the Red Sox in consecutive starts. The right-hander went six shutout innings in a 7-1 victory at Boston last Wednesday.
The Rays went up 3-2 in the sixth when pinch-hitter Francisco Mejía had an RBI single off Matt Strahm (3-3). Two more runs scored when the Red Sox made two errors on the same play.
Brooks Raley worked the ninth for his fifth save in six chances.
Boston second baseman Trevor Story left the game when he was hit on the right hand by a pitch he swung at in the fifth inning. He was scheduled to undergo X-rays late Tuesday night.
Tampa Bay trailed 2-1 with two out in the sixth when Taylor Walls lined a single off Strahm's left wrist. The left-hander then threw wildly to first base, allowing Isaac Paredes to score. First baseman Franchy Cordero then threw off the mark to the plate, and Mejía scored the go-ahead run.
Alex Verdugo got Boston’s first hit off Kluber when he flared a single to left with one out in the fifth. He went to third when Jeter Downs — Story's replacement — had a soft single to center. Boston took a 2-0 lead on Cordero’s RBI sacrifice bunt and a run-scoring triple by Bobby Dalbec.
Verdugo was picked off at third in the seventh when Boston had runners on the corners with no outs.
Boston All-Star Rafael Devers, who sat out the previous three games with lower back pain, went 1 for 4 as the designated hitter. Regular DH J.D. Martinez, added to the AL All-Star team Tuesday, didn't play because of a tight back.
JUST A MINUTE
Sale’s first pitch was briefly delayed when he dropped his Pitch Com device en route to the mound. He walked from the mound back toward the third-base line where he retrieved it.
“A rookie move,” Sale said with a smile. “It fell out of my hat. A nice little circus act before we get going.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Red Sox: INF/OF Kiké Hernández (right hip flexor strain) had his rehab assignment ended and will be re-evaluated. “We had to back off and now see if there’s something else going on that we haven’t seen," Cora said. ... RHP Garrett Whitlock (right hip) worked two scoreless innings for Double-A Portland and could rejoin the Red Sox this weekend.
Rays: 2B Brandon Lowe, out since May 16 with a lower-back injury, went 3 for 4 for Triple-A Durham and could be back this weekend.
MOVING DAY
Red Sox: Sale was reinstated from the 60-day injured list and righty Brayan Bello was optioned to Triple-A Worcester.
Rays: RHP Luke Bard was optioned to Triple-A Durham and righties Ralph Garza Jr. and Tommy Romero were recalled.
UP NEXT
Boston right-hander Josh Winckowski (3-3) and Rays All-Star left-hander Shane McClanahan (9-3) are Wednesday night’s starters in a matchup of southwest Florida high school products.
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Aerial Powers pours in 35 as Lynx top Mercury in 2 OTs
Aerial Powers poured in a career-high 35 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, leading the Minnesota Lynx to a 118-107 double overtime victory over the Phoenix Mercury on Tuesday in Minneapolis.
Phoenix's Skylar Diggins-Smith made a game-tying bucket at the buzzer ending the first overtime, but the Lynx scored the first seven points of the second OT to pull away.
Rachel Banham supplied 25 points and seven assists for the Lynx (9-15), who won their third game in a row. Kayla McBride had 17 points, Sylvia Fowles contributed 14 points and 14 rebounds, and Jessica Shepard chipped in with 13 points with 12 rebounds.
Sophie Cunningham led the Mercury (10-15) with a career-best 36 points and added seven rebounds and five steals. Skylar Diggins-Smith logged a season-high 32 points and 10 assists, and Diana Taurasi had 17 points as Phoenix fell for the third time in four games.
Minnesota held a 47-45 halftime advantage.
Diggins-Smith made two free throws with two seconds remaining in the third quarter to give the Mercury a 68-67 lead. She also drained a 3-pointer in the opening minute of the fourth for a two-point edge.
The Lynx then erupted with a 15-0 run. Banham hit back-to-back 3-pointers, sandwiched by Fowles layups. Banham then set up Shepard for two consecutive baskets. Fowles added a free throw to make it 84-71 with 4:51 to go.
Phoenix then made a spirited run, closing the gap to one point with 12 unanswered points. Cunningham scored eight during that span. After a pair of Lynx free throws, Diggins-Smith tied it with 1:09 left on a 3-pointer.
Powers scored on a putback of a missed free throw with 29.6 seconds remaining to put Minnesota on top 88-86. A Banham free throw nudged the lead to three points, but Cunningham sent the game to overtime at 89-89 by sinking a 3-pointer with four seconds left.
Banham scored the first five points of the initial overtime session. McBride hit a jumper with two minutes left for a 98-93 Minnesota lead.
Cunningham cut the Lynx's advantage to 99-98 on a layup with 25.9 seconds to play. Powers made two free throws but Cunningham tied it once again with a 3-pointer.
McBride hit two free throws with two seconds left before Diggins-Smith's drained a trey to force another five-minute session.
The Lynx's runaway early in the second OT included another Banham 3-pointer. This time, the Mercury couldn't recover as they never got closer than five points again.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana authorities have once again been blocked from enforcing a near total ban on abortion, this time under a judge’s order released Tuesday by a state court in the capital.
Judge Donald Johnson’s order halts enforcement temporarily while lawyers for a north Louisiana clinic and other supporters of abortion rights pursue a lawsuit challenging the legislation. Johnson set a hearing for next Monday.
State Attorney General Jeff Landry criticized the ruling in a series of posts on Twitter.
“To have the judiciary create a legal circus is disappointing,” Landry wrote in one post.
“The rule of law must be followed, and I will not rest until it is. Unfortunately, we will have to wait a little bit longer for that to happen,” he added.
Kathaleen Pittman, director of the north Louisiana clinic that was the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, expressed relief in a phone interview. Pittman said the Hope Medical Group for Women clinic in Shreveport is ready to resume counseling and abortions. Louisiana’s two other clinics are in the capital, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans.
“We look forward to arguing for a preliminary injunction before Judge Johnson next Monday and, in the meantime, we take solace in the fact that crucial healthcare for women has been restored in the state of Louisiana,” Joanna Wright, an attorney for the clinic, said in an email.
The suit originated in New Orleans, where a judge issued a temporary order blocking enforcement on June 27, just three days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its 1973 ruling establishing nationwide abortion rights.
But a second New Orleans judge sent the case to Baton Rouge on Friday, saying state law required that it be heard in the capital. Judge Ethel Julien then said that because the case was no longer going to be heard in her court, she did not have the authority to extend the temporary restraining order blocking the law’s enforcement.
Prior to Johnson’s ruling, which was dated Monday, July 11, attorneys for Landry had argued in a filing in Baton Rouge that the temporary restraining order could not be renewed once it expired.
Louisiana’s law includes “trigger language” that made it effective when the Supreme Court reversed abortion rights.
The lawsuit’s plaintiffs don’t deny that the state can now ban abortion as a result of the Supreme Court ruling, but they say current state law is unconstitutionally vague. They contend that Louisiana now has multiple, conflicting trigger mechanisms in the law. They also argue that the state law is unclear on whether it bans an abortion prior to a fertilized egg implanting in the uterus.
And while the law provides an exception for “medically futile” pregnancies in cases of fetuses with fatal abnormalities, the plaintiffs note it gives no definition of the term and that state health officials haven’t yet provided a list of conditions that would qualify. The suit claims the state law is unclear on when the ban takes effect and on medical exceptions to it.
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Best value for toys and games on Prime Day
With so many deals across all departments, navigating Prime Day can be tricky and overwhelming. Still, there is no shortage of discounts and value to be had when shopping for toys and games during the annual Amazon celebration.
From jigsaw puzzles to card games, STEM toys to action figures, there are some key deals to watch out for come Prime Day on July 12 and July 13.
Amazon Prime Day toy & game deals
Melissa & Doug Stack & Count Wooden Parking Garage
This educational activity is from a popular and trusted name in children’s toys; it also comes at a decent discount this Prime Day. Designed for kids ages 3 to 5, this wooden tower toy helps young ones learn to count with its colorful cars and numbered markers. Kids can play with the cars and stack them as desired. Sold by Amazon
Thomas Kinkade Disney Dreams Puzzle Collection
With four 500-piece jigsaw puzzles offered in this collection, there is great value at a discounted price, especially for Disney fans. Colorful scenes from four animated properties, including “Fantasia” and “Tangled,” are featured in this set that provides worthy challenges for puzzle-goers young and old. Sold by Amazon
Lego Star Wars Imperial TIE Fighter
One of many instantly recognizable ships in the “Star Wars” universe, this Lego TIE Fighter features over 400 pieces and stands over six inches high upon completion. It comes with three mini figurines, including a stormtrooper and TIE fighter pilot, all of which can fit into the ship’s cockpit. It also features two spring-loaded blasters, making this build not just a stationary decoration, but a fun interactive toy as well. Sold by Amazon
Aquarius Marvel Avengers Collage Puzzle
This imposing jigsaw puzzle is reserved for those who have plenty of patience, spare time and space. With 3,000 pieces, this Avengers-themed puzzle comprises movie posters from the entirety of Disney’s MCU (save for Spider-Man), including “Black Panther” and “Captain Marvel.” When you do finish this worthy challenge, the final image measures 32 inches by 45 inches. Sold by Amazon
Scattergories 30th Anniversary Edition
This classic game has endured for 30 years due to its simple premise, high replay value and the lively atmosphere it creates. Players try to come up with answers that fit in a category beginning with a specific letter, but a ticking clock and the need to create a unique response adds pressure and fosters funny results. Sold by Amazon
Jurassic World Dominion Giganotosaurus
It’s the biggest predator in the latest “Jurassic World” film, so naturally, the toy version of the Giganotosaurus is no slouch either. This detailed and imposing figure spans over 40 inches from snout to tail. You can pose the mouth and legs and set up for meal time with compatible mini figurines that the Giganotosaurus can swallow whole. Just open up its belly to remove the toys when it’s full and ready to hunt again. Sold by Amazon
Play-Doh Modeling Compound 10-Pack
Inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame almost 25 years ago, Play-Doh continues to be popular among kids for its ease of use and creative potential. This inexpensive pack features 10 jars, each with a different color, allowing for imaginative designs while building dexterity during screen-free playtime. Sold by Amazon
Inspired by the classic Nintendo characters, this Super Mario-themed UNO card game is a simple and fun activity for the entire family. It welcomes two to seven players and is ideal for young ones in a game about matching colors and numbers. Sold by Amazon
Marvel fans can pre-order this discounted Funko Pop figurine featuring Mighty Thor, aka Jane Foster, in her first appearance in the newest MCU film “Thor: Love and Thunder.” Wearing the iconic winged helmet and red cape, Mighty Thor is ready for battle against Gorr the God Butcher as she wields a mended Mjolnir. Sold by Amazon
Smithsonian Optics Room Planetarium
Illuminate your child’s bedroom with this engaging and educational projector by Smithsonian. You can choose between a combination of maps of the Northern Sky to cast to the ceiling, showcasing planets, asteroids and other bodies from outer space. It even includes a projection of a spaceship and an astronaut. The projector also functions as a calming night light and features an electric timer and automatic shut-off. Sold by Amazon
Paw Patrol: The Movie Seven Puzzle Bundle
For young ones just starting to engage with puzzles, this set inspired by “Paw Patrol: The Movie” provides seven easy and engaging activities featuring Chase, Skye, Liberty and more of the crew. Each puzzle includes either 24 or 48 pieces, making them suitable for those ages 4 and up as they learn coordination, problem-solving and patience. Sold by Amazon
Tashami Nations Shin Ultraman Figure
While this high-end action figure is no small investment, it’s a detailed and faithful expression of Japanese superhero Shin Ultraman, a recent reimagining of the iconic kaiju. It stands over 1 foot tall and features numerous points of articulation for posing. It also includes three different sets of hands to create more looks. There’s a stand as well for putting on display and batteries to light up Ultraman’s eyes. Sold by Amazon
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Evgeni Malkin is returning to the Pittsburgh Penguins after all, sticking around on the eve of free agency hours after the goalie carousel kept spinning around the NHL.
Malkin late Tuesday night signed a $24.4 million, four-year deal that counts $6.1 million against the salary cap through 2026. He had as recently as Monday told the team he was testing the market.
“Evgeni is a generational talent who will be remembered as one of the greatest players in NHL history,” general manager Ron Hextall said. “His hockey resume and individual accomplishments speak volumes about him as a player, and we are thrilled to watch him continue his remarkable legacy in Pittsburgh.”
Before Malkin stole the headlines by re-signing, the Minnesota Wild added another shift to the NHL’s offseason goalie shuffle when they traded Cam Talbot to the Ottawa Senators for Filip Gustavsson.
The Senators had an opening after dealing Matt Murray to Toronto. The Wild intended to bring back Talbot in the same timeshare with Marc-Andre Fleury they used down the stretch on the way to the best regular-season record in franchise history, but general manager Bill Guerin changed his mind five days after re-signing Fleury.
“Sometimes you just know in your gut that things might not work out, and somebody might not be happy. I don’t want a player to be like that either, and sometimes it’s best to just move on,” Guerin said. “There was no drama. We don’t want to create drama.”
The 37-year-old Fleury, a three-time Stanley Cup winner along side Malkin in Pittsburgh, started all but one of Minnesota’s playoff games in the first-round loss to St. Louis. Talbot didn’t hide his disappointment about having to wait until the elimination game to see the ice in that series.
Guerin said Talbot did not directly request a trade.
“Cam is a wonderful guy. He’s a big part of where our culture is today, and it’s not that he would have been a problem,” Guerin said. “It’s just, you know, sometimes there’s a little awkwardness and that’s not always the best thing.”
Talbot, who has a $3.67 million salary-cap hit on the final year of the contract he signed with the Wild in 2020, will slide in next to Anton Forsberg in Ottawa’s net. The 35-year-old Talbot went 13-0-3 in his last 16 regular-season starts.
With Fleury in the fold on a two-year, $7 million contract, Gustavsson will be the clear No. 2 goalie for Minnesota while top prospect Jesper Wallstedt develops in the AHL. The swap also netted almost $3 million in cap space for the strapped-for-space Wild.
The 24-year-old Gustavsson mostly struggled through 18 games with the Senators last season, going 5-12-1 with a 3.55 goals-against average. He was a 2016 second-round draft pick by Pittsburgh, when Guerin was in the front office there.
Also Tuesday, the Philadelphia Flyers placed forward Oskar Lindblom on waivers with the intent of buying out the final year of the 25-year-old cancer survivor’s contract.
General manager Chuck Fletcher called it a “very difficult decision” to free up salary-cap space by cutting a player who recovered from being diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma. The Flyers will donate $100,000 in Lindblom’s name to a Philadelphia organization that supports families impacted by cancer.
“No one can question the desire, will and strength to overcome all that Oskar has been through off the ice in order to return to the game he loves,” Fletcher said in a statement released by the team. “Oskar’s commitment to his teammates and impact in our room has been immeasurable. He is truly an inspiration to us all and he will always remain a special part of the Philadelphia Flyers family. We wish him all the best as he continues his NHL career.”
Unless claimed, Lindblom will become an unrestricted free agent once the NHL’s signing period opens Wednesday. He was entering the final season of a three-year contract, which counted $3 million against Philadelphia’s salary cap.
Lindblom is from Sweden and was selected by the Flyers in the fifth round of the 2014 draft. He spent five seasons in Philadelphia.
He was diagnosed with cancer in December 2019 and missed the remainder of the season before returning to play Games 6 and 7 in the Flyers’ second-round series loss to the New York Islanders in August, when the Eastern Conference playoffs were played in Toronto due to COVID-19.
Lindblom returned the following season, scoring eight goals and 14 points in 50 games and winning the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, which is presented to a player who best embodies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication.
Overall, Lindblom has 50 goals and 97 points in 263 career games.
Ottawa defenseman Michael Del Zotto, New Jersey forward Janne Kuokkanen and San Jose forward Rudolfs Balcers also were placed on waivers for the purpose to buy out the final year of their contracts.
Elsewhere:
— The Buffalo Sabres re-signed pending unrestricted free agent forward Vinnie Hinostroza to a one-year contract worth $1.7 million. The seventh-year player returns for a second year in Buffalo after scoring 13 goals and 25 points in 62 games last season.
— Veteran defenseman Alexander Edler is staying in Los Angeles after signing a one-year contract worth $750,000. The 36-year-old Edler had three goals and 19 points in 41 games in his first year with the Kings last season, while missing 36 games with a broken ankle.
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AP Sports Writer Dan Gelston contributed to this report.
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More than two months after a fire devastated the Crisis Center of Comal County, the nonprofit is slowly trying to bounce back with the help of the community.
Since the fire made the building that houses victims of domestic violence and sexual assault uninhabitable, the center has received an outpouring of support from local businesses, organizations and individuals looking to help financially and through other donations.
“I have been and remain in awe of what this community can do for people who need it,” Crisis Center of Comal County CEO Julie Strentzsch said. “I have never seen anything like it.”
Heritage Homes and Ranches with the help of Gruene Grove owner, Chris Rue, raised about $2,000 through their Pup Pup Parade event, and 92.1 KNBT-FM used the profits from their annual Americana Music Jam to help the center by donating more than $70,000.
So far the nonprofit organization has received approximately $100,000 through various charitable giving campaigns from the community — but there is still more to be done.
The building and land it was on was insured for roughly $1.2 million but the estimated cost of the property was closer to $1.9 million.
With more than $1 million worth of damages, the center is left trying to make up the difference.
Strentzsch said rising property values and unforeseen replacement costs because of inflation is driving the balance left after insurance coverage.
“(If you’re in) the nonprofit world and you have a building that you own, and you’re worried about it, insure your property for replacement costs — it’s worth the extra money — don’t cut corners there,” Strentzsch said. “Two years ago this might not have been a big deal, but with everything after the pandemic, and the cost of supplies going up — (the financial loss is) considerable.”
The source of the fire that consumed part of the building came from a bedroom toward the back of the facility. Inside the unoccupied room was a pack-n-play that caught fire, however, there were no accelerants nearby that could have set the playpen ablaze. The fire has been ruled an accident.
All staff members and residents evacuated the building safely, but the building was left unusable.
In the meantime the center has been able to find temporary living arrangements by housing them in homes of volunteers willing to host them for a 30-day period.
Moving every 30 days is proving to be stressful for the team and the lack of stability causes a lot of agitation and worry for those in their care, but the crisis center is working hard to find a better solution.
“We’re still reviewing our options and looking for the best one that will fit our needs,” Strentzsch said.
Services offered by the crisis center such as counseling and support groups are still being offered to those in need thanks to a church willing to provide them the space they need to continue their operations.
Fundraisers are still in the works to raise money to help the crisis center secure a more stable solution. On July 24, Water 2 Wine New Braunfels is hosting the You’re a LifeSaver benefit for the crisis center, and coming up the nonprofit will hold their annual Walk a Mile in her Shoes event.
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Tiger Woods will start his sixth Open at St Andrews late on Thursday as the highlight of the first round draw for the 150th championship.
The three-time champion – twice on the Old Course – has been paired with US Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick and rising US star Max Homa for the first two rounds.
The surprise is that Woods is as late as 3pm – closer to the US TV network’s preference.
The group will start at 10am in Friday’s second round.
As revealed yesterday, 1999 Open champion Paul Lawrie has the honour of hitting the first ball of the 150th Open.
He is joined in the 6.35am slot by former US Open champion Webb Simpson.
The third member of the group is the former Scottish Open champion Min Woo Lee of Australia.
The first hit on Friday will be by the 1989 champion Mark Calcavecchia.
Lawrie and the American performed the same role as “honorary starters” 12 years ago at St Andrews.
The key pairings of Thursday’s morning wave include defending champion Collin Morikawa, 2014 winner and championship favourite Rory McIlroy and newly crowned Scottish Open champion Xander Schauffele at just before 10am.
‘Graveyard’ tee times
The group following is also primetime stuff, with 2019 champion Shane Lowry, PGA champion Justin Thomas and European Ryder Cup player Viktor Hovland.
The players committed to the rebel LIV Golf Tour have not, as some mischievously suggested, been given the ‘graveyard’ tee times.
In fact, a succession of them will play at a favourable early-morning part of the draw on Thursday.
Phil Mickelson, Open champion nine years ago at Muirfield, plays at 7.30am – although he has often said he prefers an afternoon tee time on the first day at the Open.
His partners are fellow American Kurt Kitayama and Australia’s Lucas Herbert.
Patrick Reed (7.41am), Bryson DeChambeau (7.52am) and Brooks Koepka (8.03am) follow in the next three groups.
DeChambeau is playing with the original big bomber, 1995 Open champion John Daly.
Bob has early morning draw on Thursday
Scotland’s big hope, Robert MacIntyre, also has an early-morning draw, at 8.25am. Bob plays with the USA’s Cameron Young and KH Lee of Korea.
Scotland’s third competitor, Aberdeen’s David Law, starts at 2.15pm on Thursday. His partners are Japan’s Shugo Imahira and Australian Jason Scrivener.
The afternoon wave of big starters on Thursday begins at 1.15pm. LIV defector Dustin Johnson plays then with Australian duo Adam Scott and Mark Leishman.
Leishman was in the three-way play-off in the last Open at St Andrews, in 2015.
World No 1 and Masters winner Scottie Scheffler is in the next group at 1.26pm. He plays with England’s Tyrrell Hatton and the Chilean star Joaquin Niemann.
As well as Woods and Fitzpatrick, Jordan Spieth has a late first round time, at 3.10pm, with World No 3 Jon Rahm and American Harold Varner III.
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SHENZHEN, China, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tencent Music Entertainment Group ("TME," or the "Company") (NYSE: TME), the leading online music and audio entertainment platform in China, today launched TME Business Intelligence for Artists to provide partners with services that enable music labels and artists to access real-time data on the performance of musical works and observe music industry trends.
With a catalog of tens of millions of tracks, TME BI for Artists updates data 150 times a day by data mining across multiple platforms. Featuring various modules, including data overview, artist overview, song performance, and digital album analysis, it illustrates all the key information needed for labels to track the performance of works under copyright ownership. It also allows artists to understand their listeners, and helps content creators to capture music industry trends and user preferences, equipping music professionals with a better understanding of the business value behind the data.
Using access to TME Research Institute, TME BI for Artists develops industry reviews and in-depth analysis reports on a regular basis. It brings fresh insights to content creators and the whole industry, which will drive business growth as well as improve the efficiency of content creation, promotion and distribution. TME BI for Artists also presents selected industry news to guide music professionals on emerging market trends. With coverage from music charts to music data, and from individual services to business services, TME BI for Artists aims to promote the healthy development of China's music industry.
As a leading player in China's music industry, TME is deepening and executing its dual engine content-and-platform strategy. TME continues its efforts in technology innovation and resource integration to invigorate the music service ecosystem, supporting and empowering more content creators to maximize their potential and value, and creating more opportunities for the whole industry.
TME BI for Artists Pro now is available on WeChat Mini Program and the official website.
About Tencent Music Entertainment
Tencent Music Entertainment Group (NYSE: TME) is the leading online music and audio entertainment platform in China, operating the country's highly popular and innovative music apps: QQ Music, Kugou Music, Kuwo Music and WeSing. TME's mission is to use technology to elevate the role of music in people's lives by enabling them to create, enjoy, share and interact with music. TME's platform comprises online music, online audio, online karaoke, music-centric live streaming and online concert services, enabling music fans to discover, listen, sing, watch, perform and socialize around music. For more information, please visit ir.tencentmusic.com.
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A rare amber warning has been issued across a large part of the UK, stating there could be a danger to life or potential serious illness due to the heatwave.
There is even a 30% chance that Sunday could be the hottest day ever recorded in the UK (highs of 38.7C were recorded in Cambridge in July 2019).
With such extreme temperatures, it’s important to look after your wellbeing – making sure you are drinking enough water and not spending too much time in the sun.
“Signs of heat exhaustion include dizziness, headaches, excessive sweating and pale, clammy skin, cramps in your arms and legs, fast breathing or pulse, breathlessness and feeling very thirsty,” says Dr Angela Rai, GP at The London General Practice (thelondongeneralpractice.com). See your GP or call 999 if you are worried about any of these symptoms.
“However, these symptoms can also indicate other health conditions,” she says.
So at what point should you be concerned that symptoms you feel in the heat might point something more worrying?
– Loss of appetite
“In hot weather, you may notice a decrease in your appetite,” says Dr Bryony Henderson, lead GP at digital healthcare provider, Livi (livi.co.uk).
“This is because our bodies are trying to regulate our body temperature by cutting down on heat-generating functions like the digestion of food. However, if you have been experiencing a persistent loss of appetite that doesn’t seem to be related to a simple explanation, such as the hot weather, consult with your GP.”
– Feeling thirsty
It is important to stay hydrated during a heatwave, particularly as you might be losing more fluids than normal due to sweat. But what if your thirst feels like it just cannot be quenched?
This could be “a sign of high sugar or diabetes”, said Dr Rai, so you might want to see a doctor.
– Breathlessness
Breathlessness could be a sign of heat exhaustion – along with dizziness, headaches, cramps and nausea. Dr Henderson says: “It’s important to take action to cool your body down quickly and avoid heatstroke. Move to a shady area or cool room as soon as possible, then lie down and raise your feet slightly.
“Make sure to drink plenty of water or a sports drink. Cool your skin by spraying it with tepid water or switching on a fan, and, if you can, try placing ice packs on your groin, armpits or neck. If you’re still feeling unwell 30 minutes after cooling down, call emergency services.”
If breathlessness persists – or you suspect it is not due to the heat – Dr Rai says it can also be a sign of heart or lung conditions. She recommended watching out for signs of wheezing, as this could potentially signal “an underlying lung condition”.
– Fingers swelling
If you regularly wear rings, you will be well acquainted with the feeling of panic when you realise your fingers have swollen up in the heat, making it difficult to slide them off. And it is not just your fingers – your shoes might feel tighter, too.
Dr Henderson said this is “because the blood vessels in our bodies expand to send more blood to the skin to cool down the body”.
There is a simple fix for it though – “Running your hands under a cool tap can help to reduce swelling and remember to keep hydrated by drinking plenty of water,” she says.
While fingers and feet typically do swell in the heat, Dr Rai adds: “It can also be linked to autoimmune and rheumatological conditions.”
– Clammy skin
Feeling sweaty is part and parcel of extreme temperatures. However, if your normal sweating is coupled with pale and clammy skin, Dr Rai said this can be associated with heart conditions, especially if there is also chest pain.
She added: “If there is chest pain and sweating, this could be angina or even signs of a heart attack, and urgent medical attention is required.” | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3484486/how-to-look-after-your-wellbeing-as-heatwave-continues/ | 2022-07-13T03:55:03Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3484486/how-to-look-after-your-wellbeing-as-heatwave-continues/ | true |
Japan bid a final goodbye to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday as his funeral was held at a temple days after his assassination shocked the nation.
Abe, the country's longest-serving prime minister, remained influential even after stepping down two years ago for health reasons. He was gunned down Friday during a campaign speech in the western city of Nara.
Hundreds of people, some in formal dark suits, filled sidewalks outside Zojoji temple in downtown Tokyo to bid farewell to Abe, whose nationalistic views drove the governing party's conservative policies.
Mourners took photos and some called out “Abe san!” as a motorcade with the hearse carrying his body accompanied by his widow, Akie Abe, slowly drove by the packed crowd.
“I believe there were many things he left unfinished as a politician,” public broadcaster NHK quoted Akie Abe as saying. “But he planted many seeds and I’m sure they will sprout.”
Abe’s long-time ally and mentor, Finance Minister Taro Aso, described him as “the most talented politician in postwar Japan who raised Japan’s international profile.”
About 1,000 people, including Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, governing party leaders and foreign officials, attended the funeral at the temple.
Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te also attended in a private capacity, Taiwan's Central News Agency reported, prompting a formal protest from China. Beijing considers Taiwan a breakaway province and objects to any expression of its independent political identity.
The hearse traveled through Tokyo's main political district, Nagata-cho, where Abe spent more than three decades after being first elected to parliament in 1991. It then drove slowly by the governing party headquarters, where senior lawmakers in dark suits stood outside and prayed, before heading to the prime minister's office, where Abe served a total of nearly a decade.
Kishida and Cabinet members pressed their hands before their chests as they prayed and bowed toward the hearse heading to a crematorium.
On Sunday, two days after Abe's killing, his Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner won a landslide victory in elections for the upper house, the less powerful of parliament's two chambers.
That could allow Kishida to govern uninterrupted until a scheduled election in 2025. But Abe's death also opens up a period of uncertainty for his party. Experts say a power struggle within Abe's party faction is certain and could affect Kishida's grip on power.
Kishida has stressed the importance of party unity after Abe's death.
Abe’s assassination has shaken Japan, one of the world's safest nations with some of the strictest gun laws.
The suspect, Tetsyua Yamagami, was arrested on the spot Friday and is being held at a local prosecutors’ office for further investigation. They can detain him for up to three weeks while deciding whether to formally press charges.
Police said Yamagami cited a rumored link between Abe and an organization the suspect hated as the motive for the killing. Media reports said the organization was the Unification Church and that Yamagami disliked it because donations made by his mother to the group had bankrupted his family.
The head of the Japanese branch of the South Korean-based church, known for its anti-communist stance and mass weddings, confirmed on Monday that the mother was a member. He said Abe was not, but may have spoken at groups affiliated with the church.
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Police this week inspected a building related to the church in Nara after the suspect told investigators that he had test-fired a homemade gun there the day before the assassination. They found several holes in the building believed to be bullet holes, NHK and other Japanese media reported.
On Tuesday, National Police Agency chief Itaru Nakamura said police failed to fulfill their responsibility to protect Abe. “I feel deep regret and shame,” he said. He told reporters that the agency will set up a task force to review guarding procedures.
Abe, the son of an earlier prime minister, became Japan's youngest leader in 2006 at age 52. He left after a year in office due to health reasons but returned to power in 2012.
He vowed to revitalize the nation and lift its economy out of its deflationary doldrums with his “Abenomics” formula, which combines fiscal stimulus, monetary easing and structural reforms.
His long-cherished goals, shared by other ultraconservatives, were to revise Japan's pacifist constitution drafted by the United States after World War II and transform Japan's Self Defense Force into a full-fledged military.
Abe, who was 67, left office in 2020, citing a recurrence of the ulcerative colitis he had since he was a teenager. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/japan-says-final-goodbye-to-assassinated-former-leader-shinzo-abe/3297871/ | 2022-07-13T03:56:33Z | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/japan-says-final-goodbye-to-assassinated-former-leader-shinzo-abe/3297871/ | false |
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
933 PM CDT Tue Jul 12 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN CARSON AND SOUTHEASTERN POTTER COUNTIES...
At 932 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 9 miles north of
Washburn, or 14 miles northeast of Amarillo, moving northeast at 10
mph.
HAZARD...Golf ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible.
People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail
damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles.
Locations impacted include...
Panhandle and Pantex.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Heat index values up to 109.
* WHERE...Portions of North and Central Texas.
* WHEN...Until 9 PM CDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity will increase the
risk for heat-related illnesses to occur, particularly for
those working or participating in outdoor activities.
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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Indiana man accused of dismembering girlfriend’s body
FOWLER, Ind. (AP) - A western Indiana man allegedly dismembered his girlfriend’s body and put her remains in trash bags after she died earlier this month, authorities said.
Edward A. Bagwell, 60, is charged with abuse of a corpse and failure to report human remains. He’s being held at the county jail in lieu of $300,000 bond.
GRAPHIC WARNING: Story contains details that some may find disturbing.
After Bagwell’s girlfriend, Rita Spigner, died in early July he allegedly cut off her legs and stuffed her torso in one trash bag and her legs in another, according to a probable cause affidavit filed by prosecutors, the (Lafayette) Journal & Courier reported.
Benton County deputies arrived at Bagwell’s home in Ambia, a small Benton County town just east of the Illinois border, on July 3 and found Spigner’s bagged remains.
Bagwell told Indiana State Police detectives that after he and Spigner smoked methamphetamines she began acting erratically and scratching at his leg, the affidavit states.
He said he slapped Spigner in the head to get her to stop, but she fell and began convulsing and he later found her dead, court records state.
Bagwell told officers he used his electric chain saw to cut off Spigner’s legs and placed them in one trash bag, and Spigner’s torso in another, according to the affidavit.
An autopsy showed that Spigner died from heart troubles.
Online court records do not list an attorney for Bagwell who could speak on his behalf.
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After Donnie Watson led Braswell through its first five years of existence, the Bengals are now on their second baseball coach in as many seasons with Bryant Lopez taking the helm this summer.
Lopez originally joined Braswell before last season as an assistant coach under Rob Thomas, who left after one season as head coach. A former college baseball player at North Central Texas College and UT-Arlington, Lopez got his first head coaching job in his hometown of Copperas Cove in 2019 and led the program for two seasons before moving to the Dallas-Fort Worth area in the summer of 2021.
“I was happy and very thankful I was given the opportunity to teach and coach last year as a last-minute assistant coach hire,” Lopez said. “I knew looking for a head coaching job up in this area was eventually going to be a road I was going to take. That opportunity presented itself to me here at Braswell sooner than expected.”
As the head coach at Copperas Cove, a 6A school, Lopez had his first season shortened by the pandemic before compiling a 19-16 record and making the playoffs in 2021.
A three-year letter winner in his playing days at Copperas Cove, Lopez held a career batting average of .400 with 67 stolen bases and was named first-team all-district and an honorable mention all-state selection as a second baseman his senior season in 2007. He went on to spend two seasons playing college ball at NCTC before finishing his playing career with UTA.
He then entered the coaching world as an assistant at Legacy Christian Academy before serving in the same role at McKinney Boyd. Lopez returned to Copperas Cove as an assistant in 2017 and was promoted to the head coaching role two years later after learning under the tutelage of longtime baseball coach Bob Macy.
“[Macy] pretty much groomed me for that job because he knew he was retiring,” Lopez said. “From the different drills, ideologies, how to push kids, the conditioning, weights and everything that’s essential to a program, I kind of just soaked that in and continued that on at Copperas Cove.”
Since taking over as Braswell’s new head man in May, Lopez’s main priorities were having one-on-one meetings with the players toward the end of the school year and now conducting the offseason strength and conditioning program.
The Bengals are coming off a 12-12-2 season this past spring and lost Arkansas commit and major-league prospect Jayson Jones to graduation this offseason. Braswell’s baseball program secured the school’s first-ever district title and playoff win in any sport in 2018, when the Bengals were District 5-5A co-champions and took Game 1 of their bi-district playoff series with Aledo before falling in three games.
Lopez said the team has set a goal of returning to the playoffs in 2023.
“Making the playoffs, that’s a step in the right direction for us, and I think it’s attainable,” Lopez said. “It’s essential that we have trust in the team, cohesiveness, play with each other and have accountability.
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Amarillo has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Carson County in the Panhandle of Texas...
Southeastern Potter County in the Panhandle of Texas...
* Until 1030 PM CDT.
* At 927 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 9 miles northwest
of Washburn, or 13 miles northeast of Amarillo, moving northeast at
10 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible.
Hail damage to vehicles is expected.
* Locations impacted include...
Panhandle and Pantex.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
...FLOOD ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 930 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
The Flood Advisory will expire at 930 PM CDT this evening for
central Randall county including the city of Canyon.
Flood waters have receded. The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no
longer expected to pose a threat. Please continue to heed remaining
road closures.
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Dog thief breaks into home and steals family dog
ORLANDO, Fla. - A Lake Nona man says someone broke into his home and stole his Australian Shepherd.
"We were shocked!" Shocked by their surveillance, to discover a dog thief in their home, while everyone was away.
Cesar Chavira says 1 ½ year old Oscar is an important member of his family. "He’s like my little son. When I get him home, I can take him for a car ride, because he loves car rides." Cesar says the thief shattered a window and got inside his Lake Nona home, taking Oscar the Australian Shepherd.
Orlando police are investigating, looking for the suspect spotted in this surveillance. "The fact that they went into my house, that made it more upsetting. And then they took my dog."
They took Oscar, but left Stormy the husky behind. Even she’s heartbroken over losing her furry friend. "She still looks disappointed. You could tell she’s not the same."Cesar believes Oscar will be used to breed. He says Australian Shepherds are expensive dogs. According to Aussieuniversity.com they range from 600 to three-thousand-dollars. "It’s a beautiful dog."
Cesar doesn’t think any of his neighbors are to blame. "I’ve gone to parks around the area. Somebody probably followed me home."
He’s determined to find his friendly, brown dog, with freckles on his nose. "There’s a 100-percent I’m not giving up until I get him."
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KANSAS (KSNW) — Drivers nationwide may find more law enforcement watching the highways a little more than usual this week.
Operation Safe Driver Week, started by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, is observed from July 10 through July 16. This observance aims to reduce the number of crashes involving commercial trucks through education, traffic enforcement strategies, and interactions with law enforcement.
However, any driver will be cited if dangerous driving such as speeding, distracted driving, following too closely, improper lane change, and/or drunk or drugged driving is observed.
“Unfortunately, yesterday, Kansas had its 31st tragic fatal crash involving a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) when a pickup ran into the back of a turning CMV on US-160 in Stanton County. Last year there were a total of 52 fatal crashes involving CMVs in Kansas. At this rate, that number will be exceeded this year. Many of these crashes were the result of unsafe driving and poor decisions. That is the purpose of these initiatives, to educate everyone to be safe when traveling on the highways, whether they are in a commercial or personal vehicle. We want everyone to arrive at their destination safely.” said Gary Davenport, KCC Deputy Director of Transportation.
In addition, special investigators from the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) are teaming up with Kansas Highway Patrol Troopers and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Investigators to conduct inspections at weigh stations around the state, where they will be talking to motor carriers about the need to focus on improving their driving routines when sharing the road with others.
The KCC offers some safety best practices for drivers to keep in mind when sharing the road with large trucks this summer.
- Give them space and maintain a safe following distance
- Pass with care, and don’t cut them off
- Stay out of the blind spots — if you can’t see their mirrors, they can’t see you
- Signal your intentions
- Focus on driving, not your phone
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2022 MLB All-Star Game: Check out AL, NL uniforms originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
Baseball’s biggest stars will take the diamond in Los Angeles next week, and there will be a tint of Hollywood glamour on their uniforms.
Major League Baseball and Nike unveiled the jerseys and hats for the 2022 MLB All-Star Game on Monday. Here’s a glimpse at the uniforms for Tuesday’s Midsummer Classic:
The National League, which is the home team for the All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium, will wear white uniforms. On the front, each player will have the traditional home script for their respective MLB team with gold lettering.
The American League has dark gray jerseys with the same gold lettering to go along with the road script for the player’s respective team.
The jerseys are “inspired by the fame and fortune of the city of angels,” according to Nike. The manufacturer also said “the club-specific chest graphic is drawn from the gold sheen of Hollywood award shows.”
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New Era will supply the hats for the contest. Both leagues have black hats with gold logos for each player’s respective MLB team. The caps also have an All-Star Game patch on the right side and a palm-leaf design on the bottom of the brim.
This marks the second straight season where players will wear All-Star Game-specific jerseys during the game. In 2021, the NL wore white uniforms and the AL was decked out in navy blue jerseys and pants during the game at Coors Field in Denver.
Players traditionally have worn their team’s home and away uniforms during the All-Star Game. All-Star jerseys were still provided in prior years, but they were mostly seen during the Home Run Derby. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/2022-mlb-all-star-game-check-out-al-nl-uniforms/3012470/ | 2022-07-13T04:15:28Z | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/2022-mlb-all-star-game-check-out-al-nl-uniforms/3012470/ | false |
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It’s looking like Jeter Downs is about to get some work as the Red Sox’ regular second baseman.
Trevor Story was hit by a pitch on the right hand and had to leave Tuesday’s game, a 3-2 loss to the Rays, in the fifth inning.
Manager Alex Cora told reporters in Tampa that the team was getting X-rays on Story’s hand, but results were not yet announced as of Tuesday night.
It was a scary moment as Story swung at a high-and-tight fastball from Corey Kluber that caught the top of Story’s hand and sandwiched it between the ball and the bat. Story went down in immediate pain and departed after a quick visit from the trainer.
The bright spot of the night was Downs, who stepped into a 3-2 count against a former Cy Young winner and stroked a single to left-center that began a two-run inning.
Downs added a sharply-hit single in the seventh that moved Alex Verdugo to third base and put runners on the corners with nobody out, but Verdugo was then picked off third and the Sox never scored.
With two outs in the ninth, the rookie once again put together a nice plate appearance as he drew a full-count walk to bring the go-ahead run to the plate, but Franchy Cordero struck out swinging to end the game.
Downs was unexpectedly called into action this weekend when Christian Arroyo was placed on the injured list and could be in line for regular duty at second base if Story has to miss any time.
Downs was developed as a shortstop but has played 108 games at second in the minor leagues. In Worcester, he was hitting .217 with an .812 OPS and 16 homers in 67 games. | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/13/red-sox-2b-trevor-story-to-get-x-rays-on-injured-hand-jeter-downs-shines-in-relief/ | 2022-07-13T04:19:12Z | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/13/red-sox-2b-trevor-story-to-get-x-rays-on-injured-hand-jeter-downs-shines-in-relief/ | false |
AGATHA Uvero broke her silence on social media on Wednesday midnight, revealing horrifying acts of abuse she experienced from her former ex-fiance, and the father of her child, Paul Desiderio.
The former UAAP courtside reporter uploaded a series of tweets around 1:30 a.m. that detailed the Blackwater guard's alleged actions.
"I really didn't wanna do this but the threats have been difficult and I owe this to myself and to women out there," she tweeted.
"I've talked to Paul so many times but he kept telling me to do it, and said that if his career goes down, it's my fault. I'm done with your gaslighting, Paul."
Agatha Uvero alleges abuse from PBA guard Paul Desiderio
Uvero chronicled the assault she said she experienced throughout their relationship, some of them were done when she was pregnant with their child.
"Paul Desiderio in the whole of our relationship: Strangled me until I almost threw up, gripped my face so hard to cause bruises, punched me using my own hands, threw me onto a table, a bed, and a wall," Uvero wrote.
"Hit my face into a card window, kicked my body twice as I lay on the floor after strangling made me week, locked me in a room telling me I wouldn't leave that room alive or both of us would die... [some] happened while I was two months pregnant with his child.
"I can say this truth with my whole heart. I swear to you all, if I was lying may God punish me," she continued.
The 25-year-old mom also revealed she suffered post-traumatic stress disorder from the experience, and that she's speaking up on behalf of women who may be exerpiencing the same fate.
"We won't let them be the victors while we hide as silent victimes. Please ladies, we can't allow this to keep happening. Men should be accountable for their actions," she ended.
In a separate tweet, she also uploaded a screenshot of a conversation where she asks the PBA player to get a professional check up, which he rejected, even threatening her.
"Pag nalasing ako, baka may magawa pa ko sayo, hindi ako okay, promise!" Desiderio said in the screenshot.
Uvero also apologized to the family of Desiderio, whom she claimed were 'kind' towards her.
Uvero gave birth to their son April last year.
Just last June, she announced publicly that they have broken up after a long-term relationship that begun in their University of the Philippines college days where saw action, and Uvero served as a courtside reporter.
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3 railway cars producers fined for price fixing
SEOUL, July 13 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's antitrust regulator said Wednesday it has decided to impose a combined fine of 56.4 billion won (US$43.1 million) on Hyundai Rotem Co. and two other railway system makers for price fixing.
Hyundai Rotem and Woojin Industrial Systems Co. colluded to pre-set a prospective bidder between January 2013 and November 2016 for six rounds of bidding for railroad cars, according to the Fair Trade Commission (FTC).
The two firms and Dawonsys Co. also colluded to fix the amount of supply of railway cars between February and December 2019 for five rounds of bidding put forward by Korea Railroad Corp. and other railway operators.
The FTC said it will closely monitor any anti-competition activities in the public transit industry and take stern actions against them.
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WARREN COUNTY, Ohio (WDTN) – An officer is in critical condition and a suspect is dead after a shooting in Clearcreek Township Tuesday night.
The incident happened in the 5900 block of North State Route 48. Clearcreek Township Police Chief John Terrill told 2 NEWS crews on scene that two officers went to a home for a domestic violence call.
During police response a male at the home shot an officer. Another officer at the scene shot the suspect who shot the first officer. The suspect died.
The officer shot is in stable, but critical condition in the ICU. Terrill said the officer has been with the department for about 14 years.
The identity of the officer has not been released at this time nor the suspect’s identity.
Terrill said police were called to the scene because the suspect was reportedly ramming his wife’s car with an ATV. The chief confirmed that this is not the first time police were called to the home.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is investigating the incident.
2 NEWS crews are at the scene of Miami Valley Hospital where the officer was taken. Our crews saw CareFlight land at the scene.
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23XI Racing got a jump on the 2024 Cup Series season with the surprising announcement Tuesday that it signed Tyler Reddick to join the NASCAR team owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin.
Reddick, a two-time Xfinity Series champion, is in his third full season driving for Richard Childress Racing. He is coming off his breakthrough first career Cup victor y on July 3 at Road America.
The 26-year-old Reddick still has one season left driving for RCR, a potentially awkward situation the team addressed in a tweet when it wrote the “ timing of this announcement could not be any worse.”
It seemed a perfect moment to strike for 23XI. The race team fields cars this season for Bubba Wallace and Kurt Busch and both drivers are signed through the end of next season. Hamlin said he expected 23XI to remain a two-car organization and did not address how Reddick and the other drivers would fit — though at 43, Busch’s career could be winding down. Both drivers won a race — Wallace won last season at Talladega; Busch this year at Kansas — for 23XI.
The 26-year-old Reddick signed a multi-year deal with 23XI and is now positioned as an anchor for the team for years ahead.
“I watched him, I raced against him, I wanted him and I got him,” Hamlin said.
Reddick made the playoffs last season and finished 13th in the points standings. His win at Road America earned him a second straight playoff berth and solidified his credentials as a driver on the rise. He’s made 93 career starts and has 11 top-five finishes — five this season – for RCR.
Reddick said his decision should have not been a “total shock” to team owner Richard Childress and that he was ready to chase championships in the No. 8 Chevrolet with the time he has left at RCR.
“We’re going to see it through together and we’re going to go out and make the most of it,” Reddick said. “We’re going to try and grow together.”
Hamlin said Busch and Wallace were expected to return in 2023 and it was too early to determine all the important details for Reddick such as sponsor, car number — and even which driver he would replace in the lineup, if any at all.
Hamlin said he wanted Busch, the 2004 Cup champion, to end his career with 23XI.
“Once he’s done driving, he’s going to have a nice cushy office job at 23XI,” Hamlin said.
The race team was founded in 2021 with Wallace as the lone driver. Busch was added this season. The only Black driver in the Cup series, Wallace has struggled this season and has two top-10 finishes in 19 Cup races. Hamlin said “all scenarios are always out there” but appeared committed to keep 23XI a two-car lineup.
Reddick, who is part of a two-car lineup at RCR with Austin Dillon, “crashed” a scheduled Toyota video call Tuesday that included Hamlin, Toyota Racing Development David Wilson and 23XI Racing President Steve Lauletta. Reddick defended the decision to announce his 2024 jump almost a year and a half ahead of his scheduled first points race for 23XI Racing in the Daytona 500.
“I feel like it gives everyone time to figure out what lies ahead,” Reddick said. “I feel like it’s better to do it now than in the playoffs. There’s no reason to kick the can down the road.”
The decision to announce a driver signing this far out from his debut has happened before in NASCAR — and 23XI strongly felt Reddick, who won the Xfinity Series title in 2018 with JR Motorsports and 2019 with RCR, was too talented to let him test the free-agent market.
“It’s not unprecedented but it is rare,” Hamlin said, “and so is Tyler.”
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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Keen to immerse himself in the history of the Old Course at St. Andrews, Jon Rahm attempted to pick the brains of the great Lee Trevino at the home of golf this week.
Rahm was fascinated to learn, for example, that the storied course was meant to play clockwise rather than the other way round.
“A little bit of interesting history,” Rahm said on Tuesday, before adding with a smile: “I don’t know if it’s true.”
Indeed, Rahm would love to use some of his down time at the British Open to visit a couple of the bookstores in St. Andrews in a search for more golf history. He said there are too many people around town to do that, though, so is relying on some of his own memories to fire him up ahead of a bid for a second major title.
And it’s no surprise that one stands out.
“I don’t want to go with the obvious,” he said, “but 1984 was very special for Spanish people. I’m going to go with that — that image of Seve celebrating. It’s an iconic image not only for us but for the world of golf.”
That image, of the much-loved Seve Ballesteros twice thrusting his arm into the air before walking off the 18th green with his arm around his caddie, marked the second of his three wins at golf’s oldest major championship.
No Spaniard has won it since. Rahm has long dreamed of emulating his compatriot and idol.
“This is truly the pinnacle of golf,” he said. “I don’t think it gets any better than winning at St. Andrews.
“No offense to any other tournament in the world. It’s the oldest championship on the oldest course and where it all started.”
Rahm’s first — and so far only — competitive rounds at the Old Course were during the Dunhill Links Championship on the European tour in 2019. He learned about the vagaries of the wind off St. Andrews Bay, the risk-and-reward element of the course, and — of course — to not hit it right.
Since then, he has become the world’s top-ranked player and validated that status by winning his first major title at the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines in 2021.
A second major looked like being in reach in his title defense at Brookline last month, when he went into the final round a shot off the lead even though he was “searching for his swing.”
A closing 74 dropped him into a tie for 12th, and he arrives at St. Andrews at No. 3 in the world ranking and on the back of a tie for 55th place at the Scottish Open last week over the links at The Renaissance Club.
Finishing third at Royal St. George’s last year was his best performance in five British Opens and, for Rahm, there would be nowhere better to lift the claret jug than at St. Andrews on the 150th staging of the event.
Jack Nicklaus, who won at St. Andrews in 1970 and 1978, once said: “If you’re going to be a player people will remember, you have to win the Open at St. Andrews.”
Rahm can see where Nicklaus is coming from.
“It can almost put your career to another level,” he said, “just because how great of a venue this one is.”
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Financial regulators in central China’s Henan and Anhui provinces have promised to give some bank customers some of their deposits back after a protest over their frozen accounts Sunday turned violent.
In statements issued late Monday, officials said customers with deposits of 50,000 yuan (about $7,400) or less would be reimbursed. They said others with larger bank balances would get their money back at a later, unspecified date.
The bank protests drew wide attention because angry depositors who tried to go to Zhengzhou in Henan to try to get their money back from the six financially troubled rural banks were stopped from traveling by a health app on their cellphones. On Sunday, they staged their largest protest yet, which police and plainclothes security broke up with force.
The protesters are among thousands of customers who opened accounts at the banks in Henan and neighboring Anhui province that offered relatively high interest rates. They later found they could not make withdrawals after media reports that the head of the banks’ parent company was wanted for financial crimes.
The announcement by regulators was received with skepticism by customers who have been organizing protests online and offline since April to try to get their money back.
“This does not actually solve the problem,” said Xu Zhihao, a bank customer who didn’t take part in the protest Sunday.
The People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank, guarantees deposits of customers up to 500,000 yuan ($74,000), but that won’t be enough to cover some peoples’ losses.
One protester, who gave only her last name, Ding, said she and her mother had 800,000 yuan ($119,000) in savings deposits at multiple banks.
“They made this announcement because we put our lives on the line. This less than 50,000 yuan isn’t what we are owed. It’s more a payment to keep social stability,” said Ding, who declined to give her full name out of fear of reprisal. She said and her husband were hit by plainclothes security staff during a protest Sunday, when several people were injured.
Multiple protesters told the AP that some people were hospitalized after being hurt when police and plainclothes security officers used force to disperse the protesters, though most of the injuries were scrapes or cuts.
The bank customers started their accounts online through financial platforms such as JD Digits, which is owned by e-commerce giant JD.com, drawn by offers of higher interest rates, such as five-year fixed deposit accounts paying an interest rate of just over 4%.
When they realized they couldn’t withdraw their money, they tried to contact the banks, the local Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission and the central bank.
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Billy Carter, brother of President Jimmy Carter, feeds peanuts to an elephant named Beulah during a press conference at Pocono Hershey Motor Lodge, White Haven. Carter was in the area because he was one of the hosts of Movin’ On 1977, a three-day spectacular taking place at Pocono International Raceway, Long Pond.
May 28 to 30, 1977: The worlds of country music, C.B. radio enthusiasts and truckers converged at Pocono International Raceway in Long Pond on Memorial Day weekend.
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OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – A Kissimmee man was arrested Monday, facing charges for six counts of child neglect after children were taken to the hospital, according to reports released by the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies said they responded to hotel room 510 at the Knights Inn in Kissimmee July 5 after reports came in about a drowning, with call notes indicating someone’s head was in a toilet.
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Reports show eight people were found in the room: Larry Rhodes, Jr., 22; his girlfriend, Bianca Blaise, 25; and six other individuals whose names and ages have not been released.
According to the reports, one of the six individuals did not have a pulse and was not breathing, so CPR was administered. Records show the individual was taken to the hospital with a life-threatening brain bleed and was on life support.
Deputies added that another individual has visible injuries, swollen eyes and light blood in their mouth. In addition, deputies said another child had multiple injuries and bruises on their face.
Deputies also said Rhodes and Blaise told deputies there was “a physical altercation between siblings” in the hotel room.
Other individuals in the room whose names and ages have not yet been disclosed suffered multiple bruises, and one had hemorrhaging to his left eyeball, deputies said.
The sheriff’s office reported that all children involved were taken to their respective hospitals for treatment.
Records show that deputies spoke with inhabitants in the adjoining room, who told them they had heard a “thud” from room 510 approximately five to fifteen minutes before deputies arrived. Deputies said the inhabitants told them they believed it was a child falling.
Reports show deputies executed a search warrant on the room, finding several swabs of suspected blood, two firearms and multiple firearm magazines.
Deputies said blood spatters were present in a corner where Blaise had told them she’d sent someone to stand “as punishment.”
In a later interview, Blaise described to investigators how she and Rhodes disciplined the others living in the room, including “whoopings,” being made to stand in the corner and having them perform exercises.
Deputies said Blaise told them she returned to the hotel room on July 5, she found one of the inhabitants with their head in the toilet bowl, though she said it looked as though they were drinking water from the bowl. Deputies added Blaise told them it wasn’t until Rhodes went into the bathroom that Rhodes told her to call 911.
Reports indicate Blaise was unable to provide deputies with an explanation for several of the injuries incurred by the other people in the room, though she speculated some could have been a result of Rhodes hitting them.
Rhodes and Blaise both face charges for six counts of child neglect with great bodily harm with total bail set at $15,000 each. Blaise has since bonded out of jail following her arrest.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SoniVie, an Israeli company developing a novel proprietary Therapeutic Intra-Vascular Ultrasound (TIVUS™) System to treat a variety of hypertensive disorders, announced that on May 30th 2022 the first patient was treated with its Renal Artery Denervation TIVUS™ technology, as part of the recently FDA IDE-approved Pilot study to treat Hypertension (the REDUCED1 study).
The procedure was successfully performed with TIVUS™ at the Kaplan Medical Center by Professor Michael Jonas, Principal Investigator of the REDUCED1 study, who commented: "We were able to use the TIVUS catheter to rapidly and efficiently perform UltraSound based renal denervation in our patient suffering from uncontrolled HTN. TIVUS's catheter excellent ease of use and its ability to denervate at significant depth of the perivascular space allowed for a short, simple and straightforward procedure. We will closely follow our patient and look forward to continuing enrolment in this exciting trial."
Renal Denervation with TIVUS™ is a minimally invasive procedure that uses high-frequency non-focused Ultra-Sound energy to ablate nerves in the renal artery. This causes a reduction in the nerve activity, which may decrease blood pressure. This procedure is designed for patients who suffer from resistant hypertension.
Resistant hypertension is defined as blood pressure higher than 140/90 mmHg despite use of three antihypertensive medications of different classes at the best tolerated doses, one of which must be a diuretic.
"Millions of people world-wide suffer from resistant hypertension which substantially increases the risk of heart attack, stroke and kidney failure. We are genuinely happy for this important step forward. There is a lack of effective therapeutic solutions for these patients" says Christian Spaulding, CMO, SoniVie LTD.
"This procedure represents a great fulfilment for SoniVie team, whose expertise and achievements have been focusing on developing TIVUS™ technology for the Renal Denervation indication, both providing a promising treatment to the hypertensive patient and a high performing, easy to use device to the physician", says Tomaso Zambelli, CEO, SoniVie LTD.
About SoniVie
SoniVie is a medical device company developing the TIVUS™ Ultrasonic Denervation System, the only platform denervation technology with active development programs in three therapeutic areas: pulmonary artery denervation for pulmonary hypertension, renal artery denervation for resistant hypertension, and total lung denervation for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with chronic bronchitis. These diseases affect millions of patients in the United States and Europe.
The company's offices are located in Rosh Haayin, Israel and in Newark, NJ, USA
CONTACT: Tomaso Zambelli, tomaso@sonivie.com
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Driver rescued after being trapped in crashed vehicle in Alachua County
Published: Jul. 12, 2022 at 11:59 PM EDT|Updated: 34 minutes ago
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ALACHUA, Fla. (WCJB) - Alachua County Fire Rescue units responded to a call of a trapped person in a wrecked vehicle Tuesday.
The crash involved a vehicle trapped in the woods along Peggy Road in Alachua.
When units arrived they used hydraulic rescue tools to remove the driver safely.
No injuries were reported.
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With uncertain days ahead in the NFL, former All-Pro running backs Adrian Peterson and Le’Veon Bell will collide in an exhibition boxing match July 30 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
Speaking Tuesday at their prefight news conference, Bell and Peterson each displayed ample respect for one another, offered little in terms of smack talk or predictions and offered the most notable takes on what lies in front of them on the gridiron.
Bell, who spent time with the Baltimore Ravens and Tampa Bay Buccaneers last season, does not plan to play football in 2022 as he focuses singularly on boxing.
"It's been a challenge I've been willing to accept, something I took on," Bell said at the presser, hosted by event promoter Social Gloves. "Boxing is something that, you know, they always say it's something you can't play boxing. Last year, I almost sat out the whole year to try to focus on boxing because I kind of knew that was what I wanted to transition to. This year, I know I'm not going to be playing this year because I want to focus on boxing. So, this transition for me has kind of been like, I guess, another opportunity for me. I'm just ready to showcase what I'm about.
"This is not just a one-off. This is, I guess like my introduction to kind of show what I'll be doing and how I'll be going about myself. Just an intro."
Whether it's Peterson's intro, that would seem to be less definitive, as the NFL's No. 5 all-time leading rusher appeared to leave the door open for NFL and boxing opportunities.
"This is something that I definitely can see myself doing going forward as well, just depending on how things kind of play out for me," said Peterson, who appeared at the press conference via video. "But since I've started, this is something that I'll continue to do. I'll continue to stay in the ring, continue to practice, get my skills right because it's a different ballgame when you step in that square. Fortunately for me, I have some great guys around me that are experienced. My gym in Houston, we have a ring in there. We have a lot of guys sparring all the time, and I've had the opportunity in the past to get in there with those guys a couple times and here recently, obviously, getting ready for the fight. I just been kind of grinding, so I might see this continue to do something going forward. So, even after this fight, I will still be on my same routine, waiting for that next opportunity to present itself."
A grand total of 21,472 rushing yards and zero rounds boxing are the combined numbers Bell and Peterson will enter the ring with for their heavyweight bout.
Peterson, 37, played in four games in the 2021 season, three for the Tennessee Titans and one for the Seattle Seahawks. Peterson (14,918 career rushing yards) has now played in 17 seasons and for seven teams. Bell, 30, played in eight games in 2021 -- five with the Ravens and three with the Bucs.
Bell indicated he's been working at his boxing craft for some time and believes his advantages and style will somewhat mirror his rushing style, that of being patient and picking his shots, using his quickness to lead him.
"I obviously feel like I'm more quick than 99% of the people that I'm going to be in the ring with," Bell said. "My speed, my quickness, my timing, it's really going to be unmatched. It's kind of hard to explain in terms of football and try to translate it to boxing, but just my style of football you try and turn the field more and you can see. Like, people say I'm patient. I pick my holes this, that and the other – it's just really all timing. That's all it really was. It kind of came easy to me, was timing. Boxing kind of like is all timing, and I think that's what makes me quick, that's kind of like what separates me as an athlete than most guys in the NFL or the NBA or many other guys that have tried to translate to this sport. My timing and my speed and quickness, that's what I'm going to showcase on the 30th. You guys are going to see it. I've been wanting to showcase so much on the internet and I've just been holding off because I've been wanting everyone to kind of wait for the build-up on the 30th to see exactly what I'm going to bring in this ring."
Peterson, meanwhile, believes his tenacity and a perceived power advantage will give him an edge.
"I know Le'Veon is strong as well, but I will give myself the edge when it comes to being explosive and having the power," Peterson said. "Obviously, you gotta pick and choose when you deliver that power. I'm still new to this, you know, but like I said earlier, anything I do I'm going all in and I have a great team around me. So, I feel like when it comes to being more explosive, more powerful, I have the edge. I think I might be a little taller, longer arm length as well. I think my No. 1 attribute is my mentality. The toughness and grit about me that has got me through so much even outside of football. I'll bank on that, for sure."
The Bell-Peterson showdown will take place on the undercard of Social Gloves 2, a card that continues the trend of boxing events featuring social media personalities, athletes and celebrities. Social Gloves 2, which will be a pay-per-view stream, is set to be headlined by YouTube personalities Austin McGroom and AnEsonGib. It will also feature ex-NBA player Nick Young fighting rapper Blueface, and rapper DGG toeing the line with rapper PnB Rock.
Greats on the gridiron in years past and novices in the boxing ring, Peterson and Bell will collide. What happens after for each of them would seem to be as interesting as what happens in their exhibition bout. | https://www.nfl.com/news/le-veon-bell-s-focus-on-boxing-beyond-july-30-clash-against-adrian-peterson | 2022-07-13T04:44:21Z | https://www.nfl.com/news/le-veon-bell-s-focus-on-boxing-beyond-july-30-clash-against-adrian-peterson | true |
Simone Biles may be a gymnastics GOAT, but she's still balancing some tricky situations. Biles recently revealed that a flight attendant had mistaken her for a child and offered her a coloring book.
The 4-foot-8-inch athlete shared what happened on her Instagram Story last week, writing, "not the flight attendant trying to give me a coloring book when I board.....I said 'no I'm good I'm 25.'"
Despite the honest mistake, Biles should probably be more than recognizable by now. She's an alum of two Olympic games, where she's taken home four gold medals and is now the most decorated gymnast, man or woman, of all time. Earlier this month, she received the 2022 Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden.
Biles was recognized for both her athletic prowess and her advocacy for athletes, foster children, and victims of sexual assault. Most notably, she has been outspoken about her experience as a survivor of sexual assault by former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
Last month, she and dozens of other former gymnasts sued the FBI for failing to stop the now-convicted sports doctor when the agency first received allegations against him. Together, they are seeking over $1 billion.
Biles' fiancé, Jonathan Owens, also attended the White House ceremony, taking a moment to celebrate his wife-to-be on Instagram.
"You're one of the strongest people I know and are so deserving, I'm so blessed to be able to experience this with you. You motivate me more everyday to be the best version of myself. Such a inspiration, I love you so much babe," Owens wrote on Instagram.
The couple announced their engagement in February, one day after Valentines Day.
"THE EASIEST YES," Biles captioned a series of photos on Instagram. "I can't wait to spend forever & ever with you, you're everything I dreamed of and more! let's get married FIANCÉ 💍🥺🥲🤎 @jowens_3."
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GREENSBORO — Students who qualify for reduced-priced breakfast or lunch will receive those meals for free this year.
The state budget, just recently signed by Gov. Roy Cooper, includes one-time funding to cover the difference in cost, according to Guilford County Schools Chief Financial Officer Angie Henry.
Henry shared the news as part of an update on the impacts of the state and county budget to the school system at a Guilford County Board of Education meeting on Tuesday night.
All students have been getting free meals during the pandemic. However, that’s expected to change next year as the federal waivers that granted free meals across the board have expired.
Instead, some schools with higher levels of poverty will still be able to provide free meals to their students. At other schools, though, free meals will be available only to students whose families demonstrate financial need.
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Henry said that county commissioners had given $19.2 million more this year to the district in annual operations funding. Of that, $13.2 million in additional money would fund local salary supplement increases for teachers, assistant principals and principals. The remainder would cover required distributions to public charter schools and to help pay for state-legislated raises for locally-funded positions.
In a brief interview last week, Henry said the county’s funding will not be enough to cover the $5.5 million in increased compensation for classified staff, custodians, cafeteria workers and teacher assistants that the district had included in its request to commissioners. That request was for $25.7 million — more than the $19.2 million the district received.
Henry said the school system’s budget is not yet finalized and that administrators will look at whether there is any money budgeted for other purposes that can be redirected to cover the classified staff increases.
She also said Tuesday that county commissioners had fully funded the district’s request of $10 million in “capital outlay” funds for the 2022-23 fiscal year to cover expenses such as HVAC and roof repairs at some schools. That money marked a notable increase the district has received for this category, and included about $2 million in lottery funds.
Henry said the county has typically been using most of the lottery money it receives to pay down debt on school construction. However, the county didn’t spend all the money it has received each year. Those accrued leftovers were turned over to the district in this budget. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/education/guilford-students-eligible-for-reduced-price-lunch-will-get-it-free-this-year/article_e38b901e-022d-11ed-b01f-b328c7431af5.html | 2022-07-13T04:51:08Z | https://greensboro.com/news/local/education/guilford-students-eligible-for-reduced-price-lunch-will-get-it-free-this-year/article_e38b901e-022d-11ed-b01f-b328c7431af5.html | false |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Night" game were:
01-02-03-04-05-07-10-13-16-17-18-20
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SDSU to play Oklahoma State in football in 2024
Published: Jul. 12, 2022 at 10:55 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
BROOKINGS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - Men’s basketball isn’t the only SDSU team making scheduling waves Tuesday. Jackrabbit football has announced that they will be traveling to Stillwater to face Oklahoma State in 2024.
It will be the first ever matchup between the two schools. The game is slated to be played on August 31st, 2024. It will be the first Big 12 team that the Jacks have faced since Iowa State in 2018, before the game was cancelled due to poor weather.
SDSU now has five future games against FBS opponents, that includes this year’s opener at Iowa on September 3rd. Others include at Northwestern in 2026, and two games against Nebraska in 2028 and 2030.
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Sioux Falls West walks off Renner in marathon game
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - Sioux Falls West and Renner went the distance and then some in their Legion Baseball matchup Tuesday evening, as West took the 6-5 walk-off win in the 11th inning.
Nick Pellicotte hit the game winning single on a 1-0 count. Post 307 started the scoring in the second inning, when Leo Hueners scored on a wild pitch from Kyler Miritello. Preston Konechne added to that with an RBI single to make it 2-0 after two innings.
Renner would score two more in the third inning, at one point leading 4-0. But Sioux Falls West scored three in the bottom of the third inning to pull back within striking distance. Renner would add another in the fourth, but West would tie it all up with two more runs in the bottom of the 6th.
Renner picked up the loss even out-hitting Sioux Falls West eight to seven. Renner is home Wednesday night in a double-header matchup against Post 74 Brookings. Sioux Falls West takes a day off, before returning to Harmodon to take on Harrisburg on Thursday.
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More than a century ago, naturalist John Muir took President Theodore Roosevelt to camp beneath an ancient, gnarled tree in Yosemite National Park.
The tree, known as the Grizzly Giant, was more than 2,000 years old, stood more than 200 feet tall and spread branches that were several feet in diameter. Soon after, Roosevelt, who described the tree and its surrounding grove as a “temple,” extended federal protections for the park in the Sierra Nevada of California.
In the past several days, however, the Grizzly Giant has been threatened by the Washburn fire, which has torn through more than 3,000 acres of brush and timber in the southern part of the national park, and prompted evacuation orders for the tourist-driven community of Wawona, California.
“We have to go to the ends of the earth to protect this tree,” said Garrett Dickman, a forest ecologist with Yosemite National Park, who is helping to manage the efforts to protect the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias, the largest and most popular of the park’s three clusters with more than 500 mature trees.
“The past couple years have been a real wake-up,” he added. “We never thought the giant sequoias would really burn.”
California’s giant sequoias have faced particularly fierce wildfires since 2015, the result of climate change and a lack of frequent fire over the prior century, according to the National Park Service. The imminent threat — which has now reached some of the state’s most exalted trees — has prompted scientists and firefighters to take exceptional steps to save them.
To protect the Grizzly Giant, authorities have set up a sprinkler system that runs intermittently, pumping 15 to 20 gallons of water per minute at the base of the tree to increase humidity, Dickman said. They are clearing debris from the ground, he added, as well as chopping down smaller trees that could ignite the ancient sequoias.
In other recent fires, firefighters have swaddled the trees in a flame-retardant foil, pumped foam onto them and showered them in pink fire retardant. Dickman said he had also considered pointing misters into the air near at-risk trees to create a “wall of water.” In other instances, he said, arborists have climbed up the giant trees to check for embers or to lop off their burning limbs.
During last year’s Windy fire, which burned through more than 1,700 acres in the Giant Sequoia National Monument, smokejumpers — firefighters who usually leap into an active fire zone by parachute — spent about two days making their way up a smoldering tree, he said.
It took some workshopping, Dickman added. “How do you climb a tree that’s on fire?”
The Mariposa Grove, scientists say, is probably less at risk than some other giant sequoia groves, given the decades of prescribed burning by the National Park Service that they hope has prepared it well to avoid the most serious consequences of a wildfire.
On Tuesday, the fire was 22% contained and moving north, said Stanley Bercovitz, a spokesperson for the U.S. Forest Service. More than 600 firefighters have been working to put out the blaze.
The fire has already burned slowly along parts of the grove’s floor. Scientists and authorities say the priority is to ensure it does not reach the tree canopy. Sequoias can withstand some heat and scorching on their trunks, but flames that reach the crown can torch them, as if it were a giant matchstick.
Once a majority of a giant sequoia’s leaves are gone, it can lose its photosynthetic capacity and die, Nate Stephenson, a scientist emeritus in forest ecology for the U.S. Geological Survey, said. Although giant sequoias need some fire to regenerate, Stephenson added, “the conditions that fires are burning under right now have changed.”
While wildfires occur throughout the West every year, scientists see the influence of climate change in the extreme heat waves that have contributed to the intensity of fires this summer. A majority of Mariposa County is also in exceptional drought, the U.S. Drought Monitor’s highest ranking. Trees affected by drought will compete for limited water, and the stress can help make them more susceptible to insect infestation.
In a 15-month period between 2020 and 2021, an estimated 13% to 19% of the world’s population of sequoia trees were killed or mortally wounded, according to a report by the National Park Service. The number is especially staggering, scientists say, given how few died in the preceding centuries.
“I’ve counted a lot of dead giant sequoias, and I don’t like it,” said Dickman, the forest ecologist, who spent last fall counting the trees felled by the Windy fire. At the end of the day, Dickman would get into his car, put his head on his steering wheel and sob.
“It’s like counting dead people,” he added. “It clobbered me.”
On Tuesday morning, officials said that the mature giant sequoias of the Mariposa Grove had “so far avoided serious damage” from the fire, and that they were feeling confident they could save them.
The cause of the Washburn fire was under investigation, but it was most likely caused by humans, Cicely Muldoon, superintendent for Yosemite National Park, said at a community meeting Monday evening.
“As you all know, there was no lightning on that day,” Muldoon said.
As much as the fight to save the sequoias is a battle against the relentless force of global warming, it is also a bid to save a piece of ancient history and the West’s cultural heritage. The Mariposa Grove — first protected by Abraham Lincoln in 1864 — was “the root of the whole national parks system,” Muldoon noted.
An image of the Grizzly Giant taken in 1861 by Carleton Watkins was among the first photographs of Yosemite sent east, according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and “helped clinch the notion that Yosemite was a relict of Eden in North America.”
According to the National Park Service, camping beneath the Grizzly Giant inspired Roosevelt to establish several other national parks, monuments and forests. In 1905, he created the U.S. Forest Service.
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This picture from our archives captures the moment of triumph for Wolverhampton scrap man Ernest Cox, who owned a significant part of the German navy in the 1920s.
The trouble was, it was at the bottom of the sea.
In the world’s biggest maritime salvage operation, he brought up the ships one by one.
But this behemoth of the deep fought back and it took him years to land this particular “catch".
The raising of the Hindenburg was an epic feat which sealed his reputation.
The story began on June 21, 1919. The German fleet had languished for months at anchor at the British naval base of Scapa Flow in the Orkneys while the victorious Allies decided what to do with it.
Rear Admiral von Reuter hatched a secret plan to, as he saw it, save the honour of the German Navy. On that day he sent out a secret signal to scuttle the fleet. Before the British could intervene the German ships started to list and settle in the water, with the sailors taking to the boats.
Afterwards 1,740 German officers and men involved were interned at Park Hall and Henlle Camps, Oswestry. The deliberate sinking of the German ships was seen as typical "Hun treachery" and there was considerable local hostility.
The Shrewsbury Chronicle of July 4, 1919, reported: "It is persistently rumoured that Admiral von Reuter is allowed considerable liberty, being permitted the use of a motor car within the confines of the huge Park Hall Camp, where he is in captivity, but this is denied by the military, who assert that all the scuttlers are under strict confinement.
"A German naval officer of high rank and wearing a typical 'Tirpitz' beard, was driven to a bank in Oswestry on Saturday morning.
"He was mistaken for von Reuter, and in an incredibly short space of time several hundreds of people assembled in the street and made a hostile demonstration when the stranger left the bank.
"Women, men, and youths yelled and booed, and one man succeeded in striking him on the shoulder with his fist, while another threw a well-aimed cabbage which landed under the ear.
"Superintendent Taylor, Sergeant Pearce, and other policemen were quickly on the spot and prevented further violence."
Ernest Cox had been born on March 12, 1883, at 55 Pool Street, Wolverhampton. In the years after the Great War he was in the scrap metal business in a big way. Looking for more things to scrap, he bought a floating dock, initially intending to scrap it.
Hearing of the sunken German fleet – an absolute scrap gold mine – he began to formulate a plan to use the dock to raise the ships, which must have seemed madcap to others as he had zero experience in marine salvage.
In 1924 the Admiralty, which thought he must be a bit eccentric, agreed, as a start, to sell him 26 destroyers and two battleships.
The way Cox approached the task was groundbreaking and pioneering, and his very lack of knowledge in a field in which there were few experts opened the door to his adopting novel and innovative ways of tackling the formidable problems.
He began with the smaller ships, the destroyers, the method essentially involving creating a cradle for the sunken vessel and then lifting it from the bottom.
But then he moved to the Hindenburg. No ship of its size had ever been salvaged. Nearly 700ft long, the 28,000 ton battlecruiser entered service too late to fight at the Battle of Jutland and had been involved in minor operations in 1917, never firing a shot in anger.
Although lying in 70ft of water, she was so big that her funnels and superstructure poked teasingly clear of the surface. To raise her Cox decided to plug all the holes and pump her out so she would rise to the surface.
But the Hindenburg still had some fight in her and repeated efforts to float her in 1926 took on the flavour of trying to land a thrashing big fish, with the ship heeling over and threatening to capsize. The final straw was a storm which blew up at a critical point. Cox had to let her go again and admit defeat.
He moved on to relatively easier catches, and it was four years before he had another go, using the same method. After some heartstopping moments and various setbacks the SMS Hindenburg was finally brought back to the surface on July 15, 1930. Cox had won.
The story of the raising of the Hindenburg was told as part of a 2005 book by Tony Booth called "Cox's Navy."
"Cox's radical techniques were now being copied by other salvers around the world as the news of his successes spread," he said.
"He was well and truly at the pinnacle of his salvage career. He had nothing more to prove to the experts who once laughed at the jumped-up scrap dealer from Wolverhampton with an insane plan to achieve what they could not even contemplate.
"After four long years and many disappointments, the gamble had eventually paid off – professionally, at least."
After conquering the Hindenburg, Cox moved on to the salvage of some of the other larger German warships.
Nothing was to be taken for granted, with each ship presenting its own challenges, and one constant being that the work was dangerous. In those days before scuba equipment divers worked at the end of air lines and there were a variety of ways to die, including the particularly gruesome "helmet squeeze" which is probably best not to describe in case you're eating your tea.
There were indeed several accidents, some fatal, during the salvage.
In total, he raised 32 warships from the bottom and became something of a national hero, but then turned his back on Scapa Flow and concentrated on his scrapyards, which he ran from Acton, London.
The final balance sheet for his Scapa Flow efforts showed that they had cost £500,000 at contemporary prices, but because of fluctuating scrap metal prices his firm Cox & Danks' declared earnings from them were £490,000 – a £10,000 loss, although Tony Booth's book implies that there may have been something more to it than that.
"What he lost in financial reward Cox certainly made up for in prestige and worldwide acclaim for his somewhat headstrong, but extremely successful, approach to marine salvage – if, indeed, after all the final accounting was considered, he really did present a complete picture of his profit and loss."
Cox's knowledge and experience thereafter made him a go-to person on salvage matters for some years. In 1949 he sold Cox & Danks and eventually settled in Torquay where he died on February 17, 1959.
He had come a long way from the Wolverhampton lad brought up in a cramped Victorian terrace.
His old school, Dudley Road Free School, became Blakenhall community centre, and a plaque on the building commemorates him.
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The third supermoon of 2022 will grace the night sky on Tuesday.
It's also known as a buck moon because it falls in July. The name doesn't come from its appearance — you won't see the shape of a buck on the moon's surface or anything. Instead, it refers to something that's happening in nature.
"The full Moon in July is called the Buck Moon because the antlers of male deer (bucks) are in full-growth mode at this time," as The Old Farmer's Almanac says. "Bucks shed and regrow their antlers each year, producing a larger and more impressive set as the years go by."
What is a supermoon?
What makes this particular buck moon a supermoon is something else. Supermoons by definition happen "when a full moon coincides with the Moon's closest approach to Earth in its elliptical orbit, a point known as perigee," according to NASA.
"During every 27-day orbit around Earth, the Moon reaches both its perigee, about 226,000 miles (363,300 km) from Earth, and its farthest point, or apogee, about 251,000 miles (405,500 km) from Earth."
Supermoons happen when a full moon comes within at least 90% of the perigee.
What to look for
Supermoons in general appear 17% bigger and 30% brighter than when the moon is at its farthest point away from Earth, according to NASA. Supermoons are slightly bigger and brighter than most full moons, too. Just because it's bigger and brighter doesn't necessarily mean you'll see it unaided, so binoculars may give you a better view.
And if you're looking for some photography tips to capture this event, NASA has you covered with these handy tips.
The best times to view the buck moon will be at moonrise and moonset. You can find your local times for those here.
If it's cloudy where you are on Tuesday, don't fret too much. The moon will appear full for about three days, through early Friday morning, so there are still viewing opportunities.
And this isn't the last supermoon of the year either. The sturgeon moon on the night of Aug. 11 will be the final supermoon in this year's set of four.
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BOISE, Idaho —
On Tuesday, Drum Corps International (DCI) held a competition at Eagle High School's Thunder Stadium for marching ensembles from across the nation hoping to advance in the 2022 Drum Corps International World Championships.
DCI has been producing events for marching ensembles for student musicians and performers, between the ages of 18 and 25, for fifty years. The Eagle performance is part of DCI’s 90-event summer tour.
Five award-winning drum corps competed at Boise’s Eagle High School in hopes of advancing to the 2022 DCI World Championships which will be held in Indianapolis this August.
Competitors include: the Columbians from Tri-Cities, WA; the Troopers from Casper, WY; The Academy from Tempe, AZ; the Mandarins from Sacramento, CA; and the Blue Knights from Denver, CO.
"The DCI Boise performance is a key part of the 90-event 2022 Summer Tour and DCI's 50th Anniversary celebration," said Dan Acheson, CEO of DCI. "Whether you are a long-time fan of the drum corps activity or newcomer attending for the very first time, this show will be nothing short of spectacular, as these dedicated elite performance ensembles take the field to showcase their passion and creativity, while celebrating the important educational and cultural contributions of marching music at the highest levels of achievement."
To view the complete 2022 DCI Summer Tour schedule, click HERE.
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Two exhausted armies are battling for eastern Ukraine. Can either of them strike a decisive blow?
By Rob Picheta, CNN
When Vladimir Putin refocused his war in Ukraine on the country’s east three months ago, he did so bruised by the failures of his initial lunge towards Kyiv and desperate for a face-saving success.
After a slow and bloody march through Luhansk was finalized with the capture of the city of Lysychansk, the Russian President might consider himself halfway there.
But the war has arrived at another crossroads and fighters on both sides are steeling themselves for a third act of fighting that could tip the balance of the conflict.
“It’s a very attritional struggle,” said Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow for Airpower and Technology at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), describing the tone of the war after three months of fighting in Donbas.
“It’s a struggle between two armies, both of whom have taken huge losses and are very close to exhaustion.”
Putin’s next move is anticipated to be a drive into Donetsk, which if captured would fulfill the Kremlin’s primary objective: overrunning the entire Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, which has housed Russian-backed separatist factions since 2014.
But when and how that takes place is unclear. While Russia has continued intense airstrikes on various fronts in Ukraine, the US-based think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said Sunday that Russian ground troops were in the middle of an operational pause to “rest, refit, and reconstitute.”
That could give Ukraine’s army time to prepare to defend the parts of Donetsk it still holds; chiefly the industrial belt running south from the city of Sloviansk. And the threat of Ukrainian counter-offensives elsewhere in the country, including the key southern city of Kherson, remains.
The next phase of full-scale fighting, when it does break out, may not be the last. But it may determine the future of Ukraine’s heartland region — and analysts say it will go some considerable way to determining the war’s results.
Lessons from Luhansk
The past three months of grueling, grinding warfare in Donbas have looked almost nothing like the opening act of Russia’s invasion, which saw scattergun incursions from north, east and west and ended in a decisive failure to overrun Kyiv and other key Ukrainian cities.
Instead, the Kremlin’s refocused effort has tightened the boundaries of the war, zeroing in on a key path across Luhansk and towards Donetsk to which the bulk of Russia’s resources were directed.
“The second phase of this war has seen Russia returning to basics,” Max Bergmann, the director of the Europe program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told CNN.
That has resulted in sluggish but steady progress for Russia, which has won several weekslong battles for strategic cities and exposed limitations in Ukraine’s arsenal. “They’ve used their mass, their artillery assets, and (have been) pummeling Ukrainian forces while operating in a slow grind,” Bergmann said.
Its advantages in weaponry and firepower have started to show. “All of (Russia’s) electronic warfare, air defense and armored formations can be concentrated on very small areas,” allowing them to “create local superiority” over Ukraine’s more stretched, defensive positions, said Bronk.
“Round one was a knockout for Ukraine. In round two, the Russians won on points,” said Bergmann in his assessment of the war’s opening phases.
But three months of war has taken its toll on both armies, and the capture of Luhansk brings two exhausted militaries to an inflection point.
“Russian forces will likely continue to confine themselves to small-scale offensive actions as they rebuild forces and set conditions for a more significant offensive in the coming weeks or months,” the ISW said on Thursday.
Fighting has continued near the Donetsk-Luhansk border; the Ukrainian military on Friday listed more than 40 towns and villages in Donbas that have come under attack in the last 24 hours, acknowledging “partial success” of a Russian attempt to advance on one front near the city of Bakhmut.
But the ISW nonetheless has assessed that an operational pause for Russian ground troops is underway, and the pace of Russian territorial gains dropped last week following their takeover of Luhansk.
The benefits of some form of lull for both armies are obvious; Russia’s depleted forces need recuperation, while Ukraine’s military is in a race to receive, deliver and become familiar with Western equipment.
“Russian troops that fought through Severodonetsk and Lysychansk very likely do need a significant period in which to rest and refit before resuming large-scale offensive operations,” according to the ISW.
“It seems like we’re in a stasis, but it’s a very unstable balance and we don’t know which way it will break,” Bergmann said. “Behind the scenes, there will be a frantic effort on both sides to prepare for future offensives.” Whichever side uses this period more effectively could be able to seize the upper hand when all-out fighting resumes.
The war’s next flashpoints
Russia’s anticipated next move will be to continue the path it has forged through Luhansk, moving into Ukrainian-controlled parts of Donetsk and attempting to wear down and encircle Ukrainian troops in that oblast too.
Doing so would deliver the symbolically significant Donbas region to Moscow — and complete the main objective that Putin laid out as he launched his invasion in February, when he falsely claimed that those regions are spiritually and culturally Russian, and that Russian speakers were being persecuted there.
But if the timeline and tactics used in Luhansk are repeated in its neighbor region, it will take another bitter and bloody fight.
“There’s two names that are sadly going to become very familiar” as the key battles in the next phase of fighting — the cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, in northern Donetsk. “I suspect they will be the next Severodonestk and Mariupol,” said Samir Puri, a senior fellow in urban security and hybrid warfare at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), who worked as a ceasefire observer in Donbas between 2014 and 2015.
Those cities have been primed to become flashpoints in the war for months; they now sit surrounded to the east and south by Russian-controlled territory and their capture would be a major breakthrough for the Kremlin.
“Probably, they will [attack Sloviansk]. Probably, that is why the incoming hits have become more frequent,” the head of the city’s military-civilian administration, Vadym Liakh, said on Wednesday, adding that currently Ukrainian forces were holding Moscow’s armies on the Siverskyi Donets river.
“I think that as soon as the enemy is able to carry out assault operations, it will begin the destruction of the infrastructure and the city itself,” Liakh said.
The tenor of fighting in the region is likely to look similar to Russia’s drives into cities like Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, whose fall marked the end of Ukraine’s defense of Luhansk.
Ukraine’s defense is again expected to be stubborn. “They want to make this as hard and long a slog as possible for the Russians,” said Bergmann. “That’s how they have pursued this war; they have fought the Russians for every inch of territory, and when it becomes a tactical mistake to keep fighting they withdraw, but not precipitously.”
“You fall back, but as you fall back, you fight.”
But as with Luhansk, Russia will hope to seize the front foot and grind down the Ukrainian resistance, which will struggle to launch effective offenses. “(Ukraine) will have the ability to slowly bleed the Russians through Donetsk,” but may lack the “availability of infantry and armored formations that are equipped and fresh enough to punch forward,” said Puri.
“They’re having to experience a military metamorphosis to get to that offensive capability.”
There will, meanwhile, be flare-ups in other regions that could disrupt Russia’s main objectives in Donbas.
In recent weeks Ukraine has regained Snake Island and had some success with counter-offensives near Kherson, southern Ukraine, which are now ramping up and forcing Russia onto the defensive.
On Monday night, the Ukrainian military struck what it said was a Russian ammunition depot in the town of Nova Kakhovka in Kherson region, in what appeared to be one of the largest attacks inside Russian-occupied territory since the war began. A Russian official said the Ukrainian strike was carried out with a long-range HIMARS artillery system supplied by the United States, but claimed the attack hit a fertilizer warehouse and homes.
Ukraine has begun targeting Russian command posts and ammunition dumps far behind the front lines in both Kherson and Donbas, using newly supplied Western weaponry that has a much greater range than its previous artillery systems.
Serhii Khlan, an advisor to the head of Kherson civil military administration, said Tuesday: “We have already launched attacks along almost the entire front line” — and the Russians were now reinforcing their checkpoints “because the partisan movement is intensifying in the Kherson region. He added that Russia is “preparing for street battles” in the city.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian news outlet Ria-Melitopol reported last week that large amounts of Russian military equipment has been seen moving through Melitopol, including tank and armored vehicle convoys, towards Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. Last week, Russian-appointed authorities in the Kherson region arrested the elected Ukrainian mayor of the city, Ihor Kolykhaiev, hours before announcing plans for a referendum to join Russia.
“The focus for the Russians very much is still in that small area (in the Donbas), whereas for the Ukrainians it seems to be pushing forwards and creating a breakthrough in Kherson,” Bronk said. Doing so “would create really quite a serious problem for Russia.”
Kherson was seized and occupied by Russia in the early days of the invasion. If the Ukrainians were able to seize it back, it would disrupt Russian supply lines, cut its land bridge to Crimea and represent a significant boost to morale.
Grasping for firepower
Russia’s war in Ukraine is pushing towards the six-month mark, and the course of its next phase will depend heavily on the firepower and weaponry each side can still draw on.
The head of the Luhansk region military administration, Serhiy Hayday, said this week that Ukraine is inflicting significant losses on Russia’s armies in the Donbas, and claimed that with the help of additional Western long-range weaponry, “the advantage of the enemy in personnel will be leveled.”
The Russian Ministry of Defense does not regularly report the number of dead and injured among its forces and CNN could not independently verify Hayday’s claims about Russian casualties. Howevery, independent analysts and observers, including some Russian military bloggers, have criticized the effort made by Moscow to capture the city of Lysychansk, saying it was too costly.
“We’ll get a good sense of the depths of Russia’s military reserves” as they push into Donbas, Bergmann said. “The bombarding strategy works if you have a defense-industrial base that is pumping out munitions … (but) they have huge stockpiles, huge reserves.” It also forces an expensive and time-consuming effort to rebuild decimated cities like Mariupol, where virtually all infrastructure was destroyed during Russia’s assault.
Some analysts have speculated that Russia’s increasing use of older, less precise missiles like the KH-22, first developed in the 1960s, suggests its reserves are becoming depleted.
Soviet-era tanks have also been introduced to the frontlines; as early as May, 50-year-old T-62 tanks were being brought out of “deep storage” to assist the effort, according to British intelligence.
Ukraine faces the opposite problem. The country is being sent vast swathes of high-tech, Western weaponry on which it is heavily reliant, and officials are asking at each opportunity for more. But the hodgepodge arrivals of various fighting systems from dozens of countries is providing Ukraine’s military with both a lifeline and a headache.
“It’s a bit of a logistical nightmare; they’re getting lots of different versions (of weaponry) from lost of different countries,” Bronk said. “They don’t take the same ammunition — they have different logistics (and) different maintenance concerns.”
Once weapons arrive at the frontlines — and that process requires a complex supply chain — soldiers need to be taught how to use them.
In some cases, that even requires troops to leave the country. The British army has in recent weeks trained hundreds of Ukrainian troops in Wiltshire, southern England, while Germany has said it plans to teach soldiers how to use the multiple launch rocket system Mars II.
“Ukriane has an immense logistical challenge: they have to shift a military that was rooted in Russian and Soviet equipment, and modernize towards using NATO equipment — while fighting a war,” Bergmann said.
“The big open question is whether (they) can really incorporate the Western weaponry they’re receiving being Russia can reconstitute their forces.”
A lengthy war
The focus of Ukraine’s military and the watching West is on repelling Russia’s next assault in the east.
But if the pace of Russia’s movement through Luhansk is replicated in Donetsk, the war would stretch into the fall and towards the winter — and some analysts are starting to weigh the long-term implications of fighting.
It is far from certain that Putin would halt his invasion if he were to take the entirety of the Donbas. “I don’t think the ambitions of the Russians (beyond the east) have completely dissolved,” Bergmann said. “They’re really determined to control the Donbas, but if they can make gains they’re going to try to make more gains.”
Should Putin look beyond the boundaries of Donbas, he may decide to push towards the banks of the Dnipro River, which bisects Ukraine from north to south. Doing so would represent an effort to seize half of the country, a move that would appall the West and considerably lengthen the war.
NATO nations have repeatedly committed to supporting Ukraine regardless of how long the war takes.
But economic factors will start to bite on all sides if the war is still waging next year. “Even if you have the will (to support Ukraine), you may have significantly diminished capacity if the economy is tanking,” Bronk said, noting spiraling inflation and the struggling financial health of Western nations. But the same is truer still for Russia, whose economy has been badly hit by sanctions.
Ukraine, too, has a potential economic disaster looming and so will continue to rely on Western financial support, as well as military aid. “Its economy has been essentially destroyed by the Russian invasion,” Bronk noted, with the ability to import and export through the Black Sea wiped away and its domestic grain production severely diminished this year. In April, the World Bank predicted Ukraine’s economy would shrink by 45% this year.
In that context, many Western countries could look to peace negotiations for a lifeline. The US and its allies have placed a renewed emphasis on the need for a negotiated settlement to end the war in recent weeks.
But regardless of when and how the war ends, countries throughout the West are already seeking to bolster their own defenses to counter the Russian threat — even while transporting weapons and intelligence to Ukraine.
“Russia has set itself on a course for serious, long-term confrontation with the West,” Bronk said. “(So) the west needs to balance supplying Ukraine with generating their own military capabilities.” Russia, too, will look to preserve much of its military capability to act as a couterweight to NATO’s forces in Europe.
Zelensky told G7 leaders last month that he wanted to end the war in months, not years. “He believes that a grinding conflict is not in the interest of the Ukrainian people,” US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said after the meeting.
Whether that is possible relies on numerous factors, many of which are beyond his control. But experts agree that the coming weeks and months of war in eastern Ukraine will go far in determining the future of Europe’s largest land war in decades.
“The battlefield is going to determine what sort of diplomatic settlement is possible, and whether one is possible,” Bergmann said. “It’s quite unpredictable how this will progress.”
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TAMPA, Fla. — The City of Tampa completed the purchase of a food marker property on Tuesday to move forward with its plans of building a new and "state of the art" recreational complex.
The 1.8-acre purchase of Penny Saver Food Market Property next to Fair Oaks Park on North 34th Street will be used to create a multi-generation complex that will include an athletic field, exercise trail, recreation center and senior center, the city said in a news release.
"This is a big day for East Tampa and a huge moment for our community. Acquiring this property not only removes a blight but helps us create a first class, regional recreational complex," City Council member Orlando Gudes stated in the news release.
City officials originally called off a purchase contract because the property owners did not meet the term of the deal, but they reportedly kept on pushing to make the deal to ensure the "word class complex" would be created in East Tampa.
"This has taken a lot of hard work and persistence to pull off, and I am grateful to the East Tampa CRA's Community Advisory Community for contributing $1 million for this effort," Gudes said.
The Penny Saver building will be demolished in the next 60 days and a ceremony will take place after.
"It has taken a lot of determination and hard work to get to this point, but it will pay off in the end," City of Tampa Mayor Jane Castor stated. "The new senior center and recreation complex will be an East Tampa jewel, and I can't wait to see our kids, jazzy seniors, and everybody else enjoy it." | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/new-tampa-recreational-complex-property-food-market-closes/67-3622bfdb-5aa7-4954-88c5-bb969983cb73 | 2022-07-13T05:27:10Z | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/new-tampa-recreational-complex-property-food-market-closes/67-3622bfdb-5aa7-4954-88c5-bb969983cb73 | true |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
6-1-2
(six, one, two)
¶ Top Prize $500
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
6-1-2
(six, one, two)
¶ Top Prize $500 | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17301368.php | 2022-07-13T05:29:47Z | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17301368.php | false |
Jan. 20, 1929 - July 10, 2022
VALPARAISO - Barbara L. Benham, 93 of Valparaiso, passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 10, 2022. She was born January 20, 1929, in Hebron to Clemoth and Ruby (Gesse) Garvey. Barb worked at Norman Beatty Hospital as an aide and was a short-order cook at Hannon's Frost Top for many years. She was a member of the First Christian Church in Valparaiso and was active in the Mary Circle. Barb enjoyed square dancing with her husband, Lonnie, and playing the part of Mrs. Claus when Lonnie was Santa, visiting various schools, churches, and other organizations. Barb was also a talented cake maker. She will be remembered for her love of family and will be dearly missed.
On January 4, 1946, Barb married her best friend, Lonnie; they were happily married for 72 years until he passed in 2018. Surviving are their children: Leonard (Judy) Benham of Kouts, Byron (Vicki) Benham of Hanna, Shawn (Sue Ann) Benham of Valparaiso, Mary (Dale) Schultz of Valparaiso; nine grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; brother-in-law, Curtis of Post Falls, ID; sister-in-law, Hazel Smith of Post Falls, ID; half-sister, Mabel; half-brother, Freddie; and many nieces; and nephews. Barb never turned friends of her children away when a meal and warm bed was needed.
She was preceded in death by three infants; adult daughter, Susan (Rodney) White; and adult son, Mike (Ann) Benham.
By Barb's wishes, there will be only a private family memorial at a later date. Memorial donations may be made to the VNA Hospice of NWI or the First Christian Church Food Bank. Moeller Funeral Home is entrusted with arrangements. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/barbara-l-benham/article_05c51e79-15b8-510b-a271-9af90709fb71.html | 2022-07-13T05:31:49Z | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/barbara-l-benham/article_05c51e79-15b8-510b-a271-9af90709fb71.html | true |
BISMARCK, N.D. (KXNET)— Tuesday, around 6:40 p.m. Bismarck police responded to the 1,000 block of West Turnpike to what’s described as an active situation. Officers on scene told KX they were responding to a report of one person threatening another person with a gun. Check for updates online and on-air regarding this developing story.
A West Dakota SWAT vehicle on scene in the 1000 block of West Turnpike in Bismarck Tuesday evening. Photo: Christopher Freeman | https://www.kxnet.com/news/local-news/police-respond-to-gun-threat-in-bismarck/ | 2022-07-13T05:32:10Z | https://www.kxnet.com/news/local-news/police-respond-to-gun-threat-in-bismarck/ | false |
Hunter Valley flood recovery focuses on towns of Broke and Bulga
By Blake Doyle and Jenny MarchantBroke resident Evelyn Hardy says she has seen many floods come and go during the past 30 years in her Hunter Valley town.
But she said none of them had been like the the flood that has devastated the small tight-knit community in the past week.
"I had about 15 centimetres or so through my house," she said.
"We did manage to raise a lot of furniture up but it's the damp and mould that's now ruining everything."
She said her sheds had "all gone".
"It's just an absolute mess."
Ms Hardy said it would take more than a one in 50 year flood, like the one that just went through, for her to leave.
Worst flood in 70 years at Bulga
Further up the Wollombi Brook at Bulga, scars of the worst flooding in 70 years can be seen at every turn.
Sodden furniture is packed as neatly as possible out the front of houses to be picked up and disposed of.
The road network is a mess. Some have been entirely washed away.
A temporary walkway is being built across Inlet Road, which was has been reduced to a hole in the ground so people such as Kim Schofield can get to her home.
"The road collapsed so we've got no road to our property," Ms Schofield said.
The couple were relying on a flying fox set-up to get food delivered to them before a temporary bridge was built.
The force of the water has totally changed the landscape of her property.
"It never used to be like that. It's just a mess."
Ms Schofield said she would not be leaving.
"It's a beautiful spot to live," she said.
"Hopefully we can get a bridge in here and it'll be safe again."
Horses up to their necks
Water rose to 1.4 metres in a house at Kurrinda Stud in Milbrodale, just south of Bulga.
Stud workers moved five horses to higher ground.
Another two were lucky to survive after being caught up to their necks in water.
Stud employee Sean Driver said the water rose terrifyingly quickly.
"I drove out of the stud about five o' clock Tuesday afternoon and I drive in the driveway and learned when I got home the water had risen close to three or four metres in 50 minutes," he said.
"It came out of nowhere."
He said there could have been an earlier warning from authorities.
"There needs to be better measures in place because it's just not good enough, you know 45 minutes from nothing, then through your house," he said.
"We need to be warned and the message went out to evacuate after the roads had closed, so what are you supposed to do." | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-13/hunter-valley-flood-recovery-broke-bulga/101233662 | 2022-07-13T05:36:57Z | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-13/hunter-valley-flood-recovery-broke-bulga/101233662 | true |
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Santi Aldama scored 31 points, David Roddy added 20 and the Memphis Grizzlies tied the Las Vegas Summer League record for points in a game in a 120-84 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday.
The Grizzlies (2-1), who never trailed and led by double figures for more than 33 minutes, hit 12 3-pointers, shot 59% from the field and had 31 assists. Their 120 points matched the record set by the Denver Nuggets in 2007.
The 6-foot-11 Aldama, a first-round draft pick in 2021, made 12 of 14 from the field, hit 4 of 5 from 3-point range, grabbed nine rebounds and blocked three shots. Ziaire Williams, the No. 10 pick in the 2021 draft, had 14 points, seven rebounds and eight assists.
Roddy, a 6-foot-5, 255-pound forward who was picked No. 23 overall in June’s draft, was 7-of-11 shooting. Kenneth Lofton Jr. added 11 points, eight rebounds and four assists.
Cam Thomas made 11 of 13 free throws and finished with 29 points for Brooklyn (1-2). The No. 27 pick overall in the 2021 draft, Thomas has scored at least 26 points in each of his three games in Las Vegas and is averaging 28.7 per game. Day’Ron Sharpe added 13 points, nine rebounds and two blocks, and David Duke Jr. scored 12 points.
BULLS 93, RAPTORS 83
Carlik Jones scored 17 points on 7-of-7 shooting with five assists, and Dalen Terry scored all of his 14 points in the first half to help Chicago beat Toronto.
Malcolm Hill added 11 points for Chicago (2-1). Ethan Thompson and Makur Maker scored 10 points apiece.
Toronto scored 12 fourth-quarter points, nine that came as Ryan Hawkins hit three 3-pointers in the final 64 seconds.
Dalano Banton scored 18 points for Toronto (1-1). Jeff Dowtin added 16 points and D.J. Wilson scored 10. Christian Koloko, a 7-foot center out of Arizona, finished with five points, four rebounds and three blocks. The Raptors' only pick (No. 33 overall) in June’s draft, Koloko shot 2 of 8 from the field and 0 for 3 from the free throw line but made his lone 3-point attempt.
The Bulls, who trailed by as many as 10 points in the first quarter, shot 55% (33 of 60) from the field, had 20 assists and scored 36 points off 18 Toronto turnovers.
HAWKS 95, HEAT 88
Tyrese Martin scored 21 points on 9-of-14 shooting, while Chaundee Brown Jr. was 8 of 11 from the field and finished with 18 points to help Atlanta beat Miami.
Chris Clemons, who averaged 30.1 points as a senior at Campbell in 2018-19, scored 15 for the Hawks.
Atlanta (1-2) made 37 of 69 (53.6%) from the field and shot 44.4% (8 of 18) from 3-point range.
Javonte Smart led Miami with 19 points on 5-of-14 shooting. Kyle Allman Jr. scored 14 points and Bryson Williams 11.
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Traveling the back roads for as long as we have has given us a unique perspective, a look at how much things change and how much things stay the same across our state. By stepping back and taking a wide-angle look at the things we have seen over the last half century, we are able to build our own mental image of how things used to be, what they became, and what they are today. It’s almost like one of those time-lapse videos, clicking away in double speed in our brains, showing us the evolution of various parts of Texas.
In the early seventies, we visited West Texas towns that were prospering from oil boom days, but by the mid-eighties some of those same towns were boarded up and withering away. Then, in the late nineties, wind power and fracking were once again bringing big bucks to the coffers of those towns, and they were building new schools with six-man football stadiums carpeted with Astroturf.
Things really do change. And things really do stay the same.
It was 1981 when we first visited the T. C. Lindsey & Co. General Store in Jonesville, a former cotton community that straddles the border with Louisiana. A trading post was established there in 1847, and on the day we first visited, brothers Tom and Sam Vaughan insisted that their mercantile was keeping the town alive and kicking. A mere twelve years later, we found Sam and Tom sitting on the front porch of the store with hardly a customer in sight, and they were ready to lock the door and go home.
But something called us back to Jonesville in 2019. I had heard that the T. C. Lindsey & Co. General Store did not close after the Vaughn Brothers were gone—that it had somehow managed to hang on. This was something I had to see for myself.
As I rounded the corner on the country lane that leads to the store, there she was, in all her glory—still looking like the same place I had visited on my first trip almost forty years earlier. Only the store was not a store. It was something better. Oh, sure, they sold cold drinks and old-fashioned cheeses and some other things you won’t find in your local supermarket. But what they were really selling was a look at the way things used to be, a glimpse at days gone by that you can’t find just anywhere.
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Pirates third. Jake Marisnick homers to left field. Oneil Cruz strikes out swinging. Jason Delay grounds out to shortstop, Miguel Rojas to Garrett Cooper. Kevin Newman grounds out to shortstop, Miguel Rojas to Garrett Cooper.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Pirates 1, Marlins 0.
Marlins third. Brian Anderson singles to center field. Miguel Rojas lines out to right field to Diego Castillo. Nick Fortes doubles to deep right field. Brian Anderson to third. Joey Wendle out on a sacrifice fly to center field to Jake Marisnick. Brian Anderson scores. Jon Berti strikes out swinging.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Pirates 1, Marlins 1.
Pirates fifth. Diego Castillo singles to left field. Jack Suwinski lines out to right field to Bryan De La Cruz. Jake Marisnick flies out to center field to Jesus Sanchez. Oneil Cruz triples to deep right field. Diego Castillo scores. Jason Delay singles to left center field. Oneil Cruz scores. Kevin Newman strikes out on a foul tip.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Pirates 3, Marlins 1.
Marlins fifth. Jesus Sanchez pops out to shallow right field to Kevin Newman. Brian Anderson singles to shortstop. Miguel Rojas reaches on a fielder's choice to second base. Brian Anderson out at second. Nick Fortes singles to shallow left field. Miguel Rojas scores. Joey Wendle grounds out to second base, Kevin Newman to Michael Chavis.
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WFO BOSTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
911 PM EDT Tue Jul 12 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Windham,
central Tolland and eastern Hartford Counties through 1000 PM EDT...
At 911 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Vernon, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Strong winds could cause minor damage such as downed
branches. Little to no impact from hail is expected.
Locations impacted include...
Manchester, Vernon, Mansfield, South Windsor, Plainfield, Killingly,
Ellington, Tolland, Coventry, Putnam, Thompson, Brooklyn, Woodstock,
Willington, Canterbury, Bolton, Ashford, Pomfret, Chaplin and
Hampton.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Get indoors when you hear thunder. Do not resume outdoor activities
until at least 30 minutes after the storm has passed.
LAT...LON 4180 7251 4190 7250 4198 7183 4172 7185
TIME...MOT...LOC 0111Z 269DEG 34KT 4185 7244
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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LINDSEY, Anthony Eddie
Age 61, of Dayton, born in Lima, Ohio, made his departure peacefully July 2, 2022. Walk-through visitation 9-11:30 am Thursday, July 14, at House of Wheat Funeral Home, Inc., 2107 N. Gettysburg Ave. Funeral service at 11:30 am. (Mask Required). Interment Dayton National Cemetery.
Funeral Home Information
House Of Wheat Funeral Home Inc
2107 N Gettysburg Ave
Dayton, OH
45406
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
705 PM CDT Tue Jul 12 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING HAS EXPIRED...
Temperatures will continue to fall this evening with most areas
now below 105 degrees. For this reason have allowed the Excessive
Heat Warning to expire. Additional Heat Advisories are likely for
the day on Wednesday for parts of South Central Texas.
...HEAT ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED...
now below 105 degrees. For this reason have allowed the Heat
Advisory to expire. Additional Heat Advisories are likely for the
day on Wednesday for parts of South Central Texas..
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of west central Texas, including the following
counties, Concho, Mason, McCulloch and Menard.
* WHEN...Until 915 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 705 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 2 and 3 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Brady, Mason, Melvin, Calf Creek, Camp Air, Katemcy, Grit,
The Intersection Of Us-190 And Ranch Road 1311, The
Intersection Of Highway 29 And Ranch Road 1222 and Us-190
Near The Menard-Mcculloch County Line.
- This includes the following Low Water Crossings...
County Road 120 crossing East Cow Creek, Katemcy crossing,
Behrens School crossing Comanche Creek, Old Katemcy Mason
crossing Comanche Creek, Turkey SpringS crossing, Sandy
crossing, crossings along County Road 138, crossings along
County Road 142, County Road 120 crossing Cow Creek and
County Road 128 crossing Reubes Creek.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Emmy Award nominations announced Tuesday included some snubs and surprises. “This Is Us” and “black-ish” will walk away forever limply and Nathan Lane made history as the most-nominated best comedy guest actor in Emmy history.
Here’s our rundown.
NOT JUST A GAME
“Squid Game,” the brutal Netflix survival drama about desperate adults competing in deadly children’s games for a chance to escape debt, won in its bid to become the first non-English-language drama series ever nominated for top drama.
In the bleak and disturbing series from South Korea, hundreds of men and women on the brink of financial ruin compete in a deadly battle for roughly $38 million in cash. Every game is a traditional Korean children’s game such as Red Light, Green Light, but the consequence of losing is death. The winner is the person who outlasts all opponents.
It remains Netflix’s most popular series. “Squid Game” became the first series to cross the streamer’s 1 billion hours-viewed mark and was awarded 14 Emmy nods in its freshman year. The cultural impact of the show was nearly immediate. People dressed as the pink-jumpsuited “Squid Game” guards for Halloween, TikTok challenges launched and memes filled social media.
The success of “Squid Game” comes three years after the South Korean film “Parasite” won best picture at the Oscars, overcoming what its director Bong Joon-ho called the “one-inch barrier of subtitles.”
FAREWELL, US
This may make “This Is Us” fans cry: The show will go into the TV sunset without ever having won the Emmy for outstanding drama series.
The NBC tearjerker has won Emmys for actors Gerald McRaney, Sterling K. Brown and Ron Cephas Jones but has never been crowned best drama. This past season was the show’s sixth and final one, and it picked up a single nomination this time, for outstanding original music and lyrics, not exactly a rousing goodbye.
“This Is Us” tells the story of the Pearson family across multiple generations via flashbacks, present-day stories and flash-forwards. It premiered on NBC in 2016 starring Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Chrissy Metz, Justin Hartley and Brown.
While some groused that the series was manipulative and overly soap opera-ish, it dealt with real issues like the loss of a parent, struggles with pregnancy, depression, drug addiction, Alzheimer’s disease, obesity, coming out and interracial adoption.
The show has been nominated multiple times for best drama — 2021, 2019, 2018 and 2017 — but lost to shows like “Game of Thrones,” “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Crown.”
LAUGHING MATTER?
Dave Chappelle’s 2021 special “The Closer” which included anti-transgender comments, was nominated for best variety special and directing for a variety special.
Netflix ran into a buzz-saw of criticism not only with the special but in how internal memos responded to employees’ concerns. Netflix employees at one point walked out in protest.
But co-CEO Ted Sarandos wrote that Netflix doesn’t allow titles that are “designed to incite hate or violence, and we don’t believe ‘The Closer’ crosses that line.”
Critics said that while the streaming service offers positive fare for the LGBTQ community, Netflix is having it both ways by also offering a show like Chappelle’s that includes disparaging comments about trans women.
Louis C.K.’s “Sorry” in 2021 was his second self-released special since his career slowed down after admitting to sexual misconduct. It did not move Emmy voters.
LASSOING NODS STAYS STEADY
A dip this year after a romp last year was perfectly understandable, but “Ted Lasso,” the most nominated freshman comedy series in history, kept up the scoring with Emmy voters.
The Jason Sudeikis-led comedy earned 20 nods, the same number of nominations for “Ted Lasso” last year in its debut season, on its way to eventually winning seven trophies, including outstanding comedy series and lead actor for Sudeikis.
The show centers on an American football coach who takes charge of an elite British soccer team in England despite having little knowledge of the game. Sudeikis’ Lasso may be a fish out of water, but he’s relentlessly optimistic and kind, armed with homespun wisdom in the face of hostility.
If the first season established the characters and the tone, the second was about deepening and exploring what the creators have already built, with many secondary characters finding their voices. The dedication to fleshing out characters meant the second season largely abandoned the overall plot machine of the club’s success. The third season — expected to be the last — is already in the works.
The show’s success may be due in part because the world is reeling from the devastating effects of COVID-19 and Lasso’s homespun slogans and kindness in the face of adversity seem to touch a nerve.
‘ONLY MURDERS’ KILLS IT
Hulu’s buzzy true crime satire “Only Murders in the Building” was eligible for the first time this year and slayed with 17 nominations, including writing and outstanding comedy.
It may have helped that stars Martin Short, Steve Martin and Selena Gomez were already appearing in the show’s second season during much of Emmy voting. Short and Martin earned acting nods; Gomez didn’t get one of those but has a producer credit nomination.
In the first season, the three played true crime podcast fans who solved a murder in their apartment building on New York City’s Upper West Side, creating a popular podcast in the process. In the second season, Gomez’s character has been accused of killing the building’s board president. Martin, who plays a washed-up actor, and Short, a faded stage director, want to prove her innocence
Helping the show along are plenty of guest stars, including Tina Fey, Amy Schumer, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Jaboukie Young-White, Jackie Hoffman, Jayne Houdyshell, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Ali Stroker and Sting. But much of the show’s success is due to the chemistry between the three leads, what BuzzFeed called “the terrific trio we never knew we needed.”
STAYING IN HIS LANE
Nathan Lane has made history as the most-nominated best comedy guest actor in Emmy history.
The three-time Tony winner outmuscled the late Fred Willard for the most nominations in the category for his work on “Only Murders in the Building,” leaving him with six nods to Willard’s five.
Lane has yet to win a Primetime Emmy, though he is the recipient of two Daytime Emmys for his voice work in “Timon and Pumbaa” and “Teacher’s Pet.” He has been nominated for best comedy guest actor six times and best drama guest actor once. The previous comedy bids were for his work on sitcoms “Frasier,” “Mad About You” and “Modern Family.”
In “Only Murders in the Building,” Lane plays a deli chain owner/podcast sponsor who is harboring dark secrets.
Lane has won Tonys for the Broadway shows “Angels in America,” “The Producers” and “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.” He also has a Screen Actors Guild for his work in “The Birdcage.”
AN ELEMENTARY CHOICE
Network TV is dead — or is it? “Abbott Elementary″ once again proves it is not.
The hilarious mockumentary became ABC’s first comedy to quadruple its ratings since its premiere, and it nabbed seven nominations. “Abbott Elementary″ follows a documentary crew while they film the lives of teachers and students at a struggling, underfunded Philadelphia school.
It earned nominations for outstanding comedy series, comedy writing, casting and acting for Tyler James Williams, Janelle James and Sheryl Lee Ralph.
It was created and written by comedian Quinta Brunson, who plays Janine Teagues and also earned an acting nod Tuesday. She previously appeared in “A Black Lady Sketch Show” and “Big Mouth,” and is currently working on the script for the second season of “Abbott Elementary.″ It airs on ABC and Hulu.
“Abbott Elementary″ is a true workplace comedy in the vein of “The Office” or “Superstore” and achieved ABC’s highest ratings since the “Modern Family” finale. At one point, it was the most tweeted-about TV comedy of the year.
TV Guide in June called it the best show on television right now, saying it is “revitalizing the network sitcom by shrinking the distinction between broadcast and streaming.”
BROADWAY SATIRE FINDS NO LOVE
The musical theater valentine “Schmigadoon!” didn’t make Emmy voters whip out their jazz hands.
The series starring Cecily Strong with Keegan-Michael Key found hilarity in the clash between modern sensibilities and classic Broadway musical theater norms. But it didn’t get any big Emmy nods, earning nominations for production design, choreography, music composition and original music and lyrics.
The town of Schmigadoon is stuck in the overly cheery Technicolor age, where two hotel rooms cost $1 — unmarried couples should never sleep in one bed, of course — and residents suddenly sing about corn pudding. Strong and Key star as doctors who have grown tired in their relationship and decide to go on a camping retreat, ending up lost in Schmigadoon.
The six-part limited series that premiered on the streaming service last July was filled with some of the best and brightest of Broadway, including Tony winners Alan Cumming, Kristin Chenoweth, Jane Krakowski and Aaron Tveit, plus Oscar-winner Ariana DeBose and legend Martin Short.
Musical television series haven’t always hit the high notes with viewers and critics. “Smash,” a look behind the scenes at a Broadway musical was cancelled after two seasons and won a single Emmy. The CW’s “My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” ran from 2015-2019 and won four Emmys, while NBC’s “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist,” which ran from 2020-2021, won a single statuette, for choreography.
Apple TV+ announced in June that there will be a second season of “Schmigadoon!,” which will parody the musicals of the ’60s and ’70s.
A SAD GOODBYE-ISH
Fans of “black-ish” may feel aggrieved that Emmy love never came, even at the end.
The show — a vehicle for nuanced chapters about racism, parenthood, sexism and police violence all within a comedy — ended its eight-season run this year without ever winning the outstanding comedy series crown or trophies for lead actors Tracee Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson.
The series earned a prestigious Peabody Award and other awards – including multiple NAACP Image Awards — but top Emmys remained out of reach. It got one, for hairstyling, in 2020. This year it got two nominations: hairstyling and costumes.
The series was a network TV rarity: A depiction of a prosperous, tight-knit family of color, the Johnsons, with Black creators shaping their stories.
Anderson did score an impressive seven best comedy actor nominations in a row, plus four additional bids for producing when “black-ish” earned best comedy series nominations in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2021.
‘SEVERANCE’ NOT CUT OFF
“Severance,” Apple TV+’s vicious satire of office culture, managed to charm Emmy voters with 14 nominations.
“Severance” is set in a shadowy corporate headquarters where employees have agreed to get a chip implanted in their brains that separates the personal life from office life. Though conceived before the pandemic, it arrived just as many white-collar workers were making their first tentative steps back to the office — and questioning why.
The show — written by newcomer Dan Erickson, with all episodes directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle — is drenched in paranoia about what corporate work does to people and became one of the most acclaimed series of the year.
Adam Scott stars as the leader of a group who work under bright florescent lights and wander down endless antiseptic corridors, cut off from the world outside. In Season One, the series morphs from satire to thriller as some employees start questioning what is happening to them.
Among the show’s nominations are a berth in top drama series and a best writing honor. Scott earned a lead actor nod, Patricia Arquette got one as a supporting actor and Stiller for directing the episode “The We We Are.”
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Thairo Estrada hit two of San Francisco’s four home runs, Logan Webb struck out eight in six scoreless innings and the Giants routed the Arizona Diamondbacks 13-0 on Tuesday night.
Joey Bart and Yermín Mercedes also connected off Dallas Keuchel, sending the former AL Cy Young winner to his seventh loss in nine decisions.
“It was an excellent day,” Estrada said through an interpreter. “We were able to put the ball in play, we were able to execute and we came out with a win. We were very aggressive and we were able to back up the great job that Webb did.”
Both teams used position players to pitch late in the blowout.
Giants outfielder Luis González pitched the ninth and allowed two singles. It’s the fourth time this season that manager Gabe Kapler has used Gonzalez in relief.
Diamondbacks catcher Carson Kelly made his second appearance of the season on the mound and allowed three runs and three hits in one inning.
Webb (8-4) pitched around traffic in nearly every inning and had two walks in beating Arizona for the third time in four starts. Webb allowed five hits and ended his night on a comebacker by Carson Kelly to end the sixth with two on.
“I don’t think I had probably my best stuff, but we knew going in that this team doesn’t chase at all,” Webb said. “I think they have the lowest chase rate in baseball, so if you don’t have the best stuff, just try to attack the zone and see what happens.”
Estrada hit his eighth home run leading off the third against Keuchel, then crushed a two-run shot off Caleb Smith in the seventh, helping the Giants end a five-game losing streak at Oracle Park. It’s the second multi-home run game of Estrada’s career.
Bart homered with one out in the second. Three batters later, Mercedes added his first of the season, a two-run drive to center. Mercedes also had an RBI double in the first and a RBI groundout in the eighth.
It’s the fifth time this season that the Giants have hit four or more home runs, and first since June 25.
“I thought it was a real group effort,” Kapler said. “We had good at-bats from start to finish.”
A year ago, San Francisco led the National League with a franchise-record 241 home runs. Kapler’s team entered Tuesday with 99.
Keuchel (2-7) remained winless in four career starts against the Giants. The left-hander retired seven batters and allowed eight runs, seven earned, and eight hits.
Leading 1-0, the Giants benefited from a misplayed ball by right fielder Jake McCarthy and scored four runs in the first.
McCarthy started back on David Villar’s high fly, appeared to lose the ball in the sun, then stumbled going forward and the ball got past him. Mercedes and Darin Ruf scored. Villar, who slid head-first into third, got up and scrambled home on an overthrow by second baseman Sergio Alcántara.
“I got a decent read on it, was playing the sun a little but stepped back, foot slipped,” McCarthy said. “Ball should be caught. A ball dropped that shouldn’t drop ever, so that’s just on me.”
Alcántara had two hits for Arizona.
KAP’S MESSAGE TO GONZÁLEZ
Kapler made a mound visit in the ninth inning after González had a pair of fastballs clocked in the mid-80s. “I just didn’t love that he was throwing it hard, especially a guy who’s coming off the IL,” Kapler said. “I think he got caught up in the moment. He’s got a great arm so it’s not surprising to see him throw 85-90 mph, but I don’t think that’s what we really want from him.”
Webb got a chuckle out of the whole thing.
“That was actually funny that Kap had to go out there and tell him to stop throwing it so hard,” Webb said.
SHORT HOPS
Bart’s home run was his first since May 15, when he took Albert Pujols deep. … Austin Slater also had three hits for San Francisco. … Alcántara is 6 for 12 with three RBIs in six games since returning to the Diamondbacks. … Giants pitcher Carlos Rodon was added to the NL All-Star team, replacing Milwaukee’s Josh Hader.
UP NEXT
Diamondbacks RHP Zac Gallen (4-2, 3.62 ERA) pitches the series finale Wednesday afternoon and is winless in four previous starts against San Francisco. The Giants have not announced a starter.
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Dec. 16, 1934 - July 3, 2022
DECLO — DeLores Jean (Kowitz) Smyer, an 87-year-old longtime resident of Declo, passed away Sunday, July 3, 2022, at her home with her husband, Norman, by her side.
DeLores was born December 16, 1934, in her parents' home near Burley, Idaho. She was the eldest of five children born to Fredrick Otto Kowitz and Emma Gerlach Kowitz. In 1944, her family moved to a small farm north of Declo. She completed her education in Declo and graduated Salutatorian of the Class of 1953.
It was in 1951, when her path would cross with Norman Lee Smyer of Albion. The closure of the Albion Normal School brought Albion secondary students to Declo and would mark the opening chapter of a love story that would span 70-plus years. Norman and DeLores were married on November 27, 1953, in the old Declo gymnasium. Together they built a life in this community. They purchased their current property just north of Declo in 1955, then proceeded to welcome four children, build a comfortable and welcoming home, and establish a legacy of service and love.
In 1968, DeLores began her career working with the Cassia County School District, where she spent 46 years at Declo Elementary. In her role as secretary, she served numerous principals and teachers and countless students and families.
After retiring at the age of 82, she continued to volunteer with school registration. Her commitment to community was exemplified through countless hours of service to the Declo schools and Alumni Association, Declo Days planning committee, PTA, Cub Scouts, 4-H, and student programs including Odyssey of the Mind and Renaissance.
Family was of the utmost importance to DeLores. She was exceptional at gathering both immediate and extended family together. Sunday dinners and holidays were always filled with great food, conversation and love.
She is survived by her husband, Norman Smyer of Declo; children, Gaylen (Carolyn) Smyer of Declo, Kevin (Arlene) Smyer of Albion, Debra (Rhett) Matsen of Declo, and Lesa (Jay) Fox of Declo; 14 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; her siblings, Doreen Leonard of Filer, Chuck (Arlene) Kowitz of Declo, Jolene (Joel) Johnstun of Boise, and Lynette (Craig) Brackenbury of Declo; as well as many nieces, nephews and extended family members.
DeLores is preceded in death by her parents; her sister and brother-in-law, Juneal and Walter Quast, Jr.; nephew, Brian Michel; and niece, Teresa Bailey.
A special thank you to the staff of the Idaho Kidney Center Home Dialysis, Horizon Home Health & Hospice, and Minidoka Home Health for their care and services.
The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 7, 2022 at Rasmussen-Wilson Funeral Home, located at 1350 E. 16th St., in Burley, where family and friends will be received from 5 until 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 6, 2022 and from 10 until 10:45 a.m. prior to the service on Thursday. Burial will be in Declo Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Cassia County Education Foundation in memory of DeLores Smyer and designated for Declo Elementary.
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LONDON (AP) — British health officials say there have now been 1,735 confirmed cases of monkeypox and that three-quarters of those cases are in London, according to data released on Tuesday.
In a review of the outbreak published last week, Britain’s Health Security Agency said there were “no signs of a decline” in the monkeypox epidemic and that the virus “continues to be transmitted primarily in interconnected sexual networks of gay, bisexual, or men who have sex with men.” The agency said 97% of cases fell in that category and that there was no evidence of sustained transmission beyond that.
Scientists warn that anyone who is in close physical contact with someone who has monkeypox or their clothing or bedsheets is at risk of infection, regardless of their sexual orientation.
British scientists estimate the outbreak is doubling in size about every two weeks and said it’s likely cases are being undercounted. They said that in nearly 80% of cases, there is no information about whether or not the person had contact with a confirmed case, meaning the virus is spreading undetected.
Scientists have noted that people with unusual symptoms, including only a single lesion, have been detected in the outbreak and say there have also been reports elsewhere of people with no symptoms carrying monkeypox. About 10% of infected people in the U.K. have been hospitalized, but there have been no deaths reported.
British experts said the virus has been spreading through close or sexual contact and that there has been no evidence of airborne transmission.
The Health Security Agency said the number of cases and countries identifying monkeypox “continues to increase steeply,” saying that infections beyond Africa have also been primarily seen in gay and bisexual men. It said there had been three cases of monkeypox in children, who are more likely to suffer serious disease.
Last month, the World Health Organization declined to declare monkeypox a global health emergency, but said it would revisit its decision soon. It said its evaluation of the outbreak could change if there are cases among sex workers, if the virus continues to spread rapidly or if more severe disease is seen.
People with monkeypox often experience symptoms like fever, body aches and a rash; most recover within weeks without needing medical care.
In central and west Africa, where the disease has been endemic for decades, the disease mostly affects people who come into contact with infected wild animals, like rodents or primates. There have been about 1,500 reported cases of monkeypox, including 70 deaths, in Congo, Cameroon and the Central African Republic.
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Did you lose money on investments in Wells Fargo & Company? If so, please visit Wells Fargo & Company Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights.
NEW YORK, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the common stock of Wells Fargo & Company ("Wells Fargo" or the "Company") (NYSE: WFC) between February 24, 2021 and June 9, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Wells Fargo is a diversified financial services company that provides banking, investment, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance products and services.
On May 19, 2022, the New York Times published an article entitled "At Wells Fargo, a Quest to Increase Diversity Leads to Fake Job Interviews". Citing discussions with "seven current and former Wells Fargo employees", including Joe Bruno, a former executive in the Company's wealth management division, the article reported, in relevant part, that "[f]or many open positions, employees would interview a 'diverse' candidate", but "that often, the so-called diverse candidate would be interviewed for a job that had already been promised to someone else." The article further reported that Mr. Bruno was fired after "complain[ing] to his bosses" about the practice. On this news, Wells Fargo's common stock price fell $0.44 per share, or 1.04%, over two trading sessions, closing at $41.67 per share on May 20, 2022.
Then, on June 6, 2022, Reuters published an article entitled, "Wells Fargo pauses diverse slate hiring policy after reports of fake job interviews." The article reported that "Wells Fargo . . . is pausing a hiring policy that requires recruiters to interview a diverse pool of candidates, after the New York Times reported such interviews were often fake and conducted even though the job had already been promised to someone else."
Finally, on June 9, 2022, the New York Times published an article entitled "Federal Prosecutors Open Criminal Inquiry of Wells Fargo's Hiring Practices." The article reported that federal prosecutors are investigating whether Wells Fargo violated federal laws by conducting fake job interviews to meet the Company's Diverse Search Requirement. The article also revealed that, since the New York Times' May 19, 2022 article focusing on the bank's wealth management business, "another 10 current and former employees have shared stories about how they were subject to fake interviews, or conducted them, or saw paperwork documenting the practice", and that "sham interviews occurred across multiple business lines, including its mortgage servicing, home lending and retail banking operations."
That same day, Wells Fargo issued a press release stating that "[e]arlier this week, the [C]ompany temporarily paused the use of its diverse slate guidelines" and that "[d]uring this pause, the [C]ompany is conducting a review so that hiring managers, senior leaders and recruiters fully understand how the guidelines should be implemented…"
Following these disclosures, Wells Fargo's common stock price fell $3.68 per share, or 8.62%, over the following two trading sessions, closing at $38.99 per share on June 13, 2022.
Plaintiff alleges that Defendants made materially false and misleading statements throughout the Class Period. Specifically, Plaintiff alleges that Defendants failed to disclose that: (i) Wells Fargo had misrepresented its commitment to diversity in the Company's workplace; (ii) Wells Fargo conducted fake job interviews in order to meet its Diverse Search Requirement; (iii) the foregoing conduct subjected Wells Fargo to an increased risk of regulatory and/or governmental scrutiny and enforcement action, including criminal charges; and (iv) all of the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to negatively impact Wells Fargo's reputation.
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 29, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member.
If you purchased WFC common stock, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit Wells Fargo & Company Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com.
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Gainesville residents react to a shooting that happened over the weekend
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Residents that witnessed a shooting in Gainesville over the weekend fear crime in their neighborhood.
This happened on SW 26th Terrace when people heard rounds of gunshots at approximately 2:00 a.m.
Gainesville Police Department reported that a four-year-old was injured and was taken to the hospital.
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“It’s scary, scary. Cause there’s a lot of young kids in this neighborhood and I don’t know how they feel about all this stuff going on, said resident Kristy Bentlen.”
The victim’s family members told TV20 the child was taken to the hospital and has recovered.
No one is in police custody at this time.
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