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NEW YORK , July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Energy Transfer LP (""Energy Transfer or the "Company") (NYSE: ET). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Energy Transfer and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On August 8, 2019, Energy Transfer filed its quarterly report on Form 10-Q with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, reporting the Partnership's financial and operating results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2019 (the "2Q19 10-Q"). The 2Q19 10-Q disclosed that two years earlier, in mid-2017 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") Enforcement Staff began a non-public formal investigation "regarding allegations that diesel fuel may have been included in the drilling mud at the Tuscarawas River HDD." On this news, Energy Transfer's stock price fell $0.65 per share, or 4.6%, over the following two trading days, to close at $13.38 per share on August 12, 2019. Then, on December 16, 2021, FERC publicly issued to Energy Transfer an Order To Show Cause And Notice of Proposed Penalty, which proposed a $40 million fine for the inadvertent release incident.
On this news, the price of Energy Transfer shares declined $0.24, or 2.8% over the course of two trading days, to close at $8.25 per share on December 20, 2021.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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BENSALEM, Pa., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. ("Verrica" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: VRCA).
Class Period: May 28, 2021 – May 24, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: August 5, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Verrica investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that there were manufacturing deficiencies at the facility where Verrica's contract manufacturer produced bulk solution for VP-102; (2) that these deficiencies were not remediated when Verrica resubmitted its NDA for VP-102 for molluscum; (3) that the foregoing presented significant risks to Verrica obtaining regulatory approval of VP-102 for molluscum; and (4) that, as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
This press release may be considered Attorney Advertising in some jurisdictions under the applicable law and ethical rules.
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NEW YORK, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Generac Holdings Inc. ("Generac" or the "Company") (NYSE: GNRC). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Generac and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
Generac has asserted that its recent acquisitions (including its 80% interest in Pramac and acquisition of Off Grid Energy) support the Company's "Powering A Smarter World" strategic plan and has touted the role played by Generac's much-hyped strategic distribution partnership with Sunnova. On June 22, 2022, Spruce Point Capital Management ("Spruce Point") published an investment report alleging that Generac is struggling "to suppress core business challenges, while pivoting towards a highly speculative and unproven acquisition spree in clean energy products and services." Among other things, the Spruce Point report: (1) accused Generac of engaging in a pattern of misreporting acquisition revenue contribution between 2019 and 2021; (2) questioned Pramac's ballooning receivables, calling it "a hallmark of channel stuffing"; (3) observed that Generac's press release announcing the Off Grid Energy acquisition obscured the fact that its 80% Pramac business was the end acquiror and found "evidence to suggest a sham revenue transaction at Off Grid Energy"; and (4) opined that Generac's distribution partnership with Sunnova may have been structured to enable Generac to round-trip cash flows.
On this news, Generac's stock price fell $7.41 per share, or 3.37%, to close at $212.57 per share on June 22, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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LAS VEGAS, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) announced today that it will release its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 on Wednesday, July 20, 2022.
The company will release its financial results shortly after the market close of the New York Stock Exchange and will host a conference call to discuss its results at approximately 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time (4:30 p.m. Eastern Time).
A webcast of the conference call may be accessed at the Investor Relations section of the company's website at www.sands.com.
About Sands (NYSE: LVS)
Sands is the world's preeminent developer and operator of world-class Integrated Resorts.
Our iconic properties drive valuable leisure and business tourism and deliver significant economic benefits, sustained job creation, financial opportunities for local businesses and community investment to help make our host regions ideal places to live, work and visit.
Sands' portfolio of properties includes Marina Bay Sands in Singapore and The Venetian Macao, The Plaza and Four Seasons Hotel Macao, The Londoner Macao, The Parisian Macao and Sands Macao in Macao SAR, China, through majority ownership in Sands China Ltd.
Sands is dedicated to being a leader in corporate responsibility, anchored by our core tenets of serving people, planet and communities. Our ESG leadership has led to inclusion on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices for World and North America and recognition as one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies. To learn more, visit www.sands.com.
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By Rupam Jain and Tanvi Mehta
MUMBAI, July 13 (Reuters) - Half a world away from the political drama in London, many Indians are closely following the twists and turns of who replaces Boris Johnson as British prime minister, curious to see how two candidates with Indian ancestry fare.
Rishi Sunak, the bookmakers' favourite to prevail, and Suella Braverman are campaigning for the Conservative party leadership and have made reference to the opportunities Britain gave members of minorities like them.
If either were to win the race for the premiership, they would be the first prime minister of Indian origin in the United Kingdom.
In both cases, their Indian families migrated to Britain in the 1960s in search of better lives. Britain ruled India for about 200 years before the South Asian country gained independence in 1947 after a prolonged freedom struggle.
"It will be a great feeling to see an Indian as the PM of a country which very ruthlessly ruled India for a very long time!" said a Twitter user named Emon Mukherjee.
There are around 1.4 million Indians in Britain, making them its single largest ethnic minority, and the two countries enjoy friendly relations. Bilateral trade stood at 21.5 billion pounds ($25.55 billion) in 2020-21.
Leading Indian industrialist Anand Mahindra joined a steady stream of social media reaction to the possibility of a British prime minister with Indian heritage.
He shared a digitally altered photograph of 10 Downing Street, the prime minister's official residence, with its famous black door adorned with marigolds and mango leaves, symbols of an auspicious beginning in the Hindu religion.
Some Twitter users have run pictures of Sunak under the slogan "The Empire Strikes Back", while Indian newspapers have covered the contest unusually closely.
Sunak, 42, is the son-in-law of Indian billionaire N. R. Narayana Murthy, founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys Ltd INFY.NS.
CONTROVERSY
That connection threatened to dent his popularity in Britain after it was revealed that his wife, Murthy's daughter, had not been paying British tax on her foreign income through her "non-domiciled" status, which is available to foreign nationals who do not regard Britain as their permanent home.
Akshata Murthy later said she would start to pay British tax on her global income.
Murthy is an Indian citizen and owns a 0.9% stake in Infosys. She and Sunak entered The Sunday Times UK Rich List at number 222 with a reported net worth of 730 million pounds, the Sunday Times newspaper reported in May.
Murthy's family, based in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru, has largely avoided discussing Sunak's political journey, and did not respond to a request for comment.
Sunak's colleague Braverman, currently Britain's attorney general and also in the race to succeed Johnson, was born into a Christian family of Indian origin. Her parents migrated to Britain in the 1960s from Kenya and Mauritius.
She has previously spoken about her parents, saying they came to Britain with nothing.
In 2017, Braverman posted on Facebook that her mother was awarded the British Empire Medal for 45 years of service in the National Health Service as a nurse and for voluntary work abroad.
"It was Britain that gave them hope, security and opportunity and this country has afforded me incredible opportunities in education and my career, and I owe a debt of gratitude to this country," Braverman said in a recent speech.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is another recent example of a politician of Indian origin who made it big abroad. Residents of her ancestral village in southern India celebrated her inauguration with firecrackers and gifts of food.
(Additional reporting by Ashish Chandra in Bengaluru; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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NEW YORK, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Generac Holdings Inc. ("Generac" or the "Company") (NYSE: GNRC). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Generac and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
Generac has asserted that its recent acquisitions (including its 80% interest in Pramac and acquisition of Off Grid Energy) support the Company's "Powering A Smarter World" strategic plan and has touted the role played by Generac's much-hyped strategic distribution partnership with Sunnova. On June 22, 2022, Spruce Point Capital Management ("Spruce Point") published an investment report alleging that Generac is struggling "to suppress core business challenges, while pivoting towards a highly speculative and unproven acquisition spree in clean energy products and services." Among other things, the Spruce Point report: (1) accused Generac of engaging in a pattern of misreporting acquisition revenue contribution between 2019 and 2021; (2) questioned Pramac's ballooning receivables, calling it "a hallmark of channel stuffing"; (3) observed that Generac's press release announcing the Off Grid Energy acquisition obscured the fact that its 80% Pramac business was the end acquiror and found "evidence to suggest a sham revenue transaction at Off Grid Energy"; and (4) opined that Generac's distribution partnership with Sunnova may have been structured to enable Generac to round-trip cash flows.
On this news, Generac's stock price fell $7.41 per share, or 3.37%, to close at $212.57 per share on June 22, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
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Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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NANJING, China, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 13, 2022, Triastek, Inc. ("Triastek") announced a collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company ("Lilly"), a leading global pharmaceutical company, to leverage the advantages of 3D printing technology to enable precisely targeted and programmed release of drugs in specific regions of the GI tract.
According to the agreement, the project will focus on the targeted release of drugs in the intestine. Triastek will focus on two aspects: Firstly, conduct an in-depth study of excipient properties and process parameters to maintain drug stability throughout the formulation development and 3D printing process, as well as during drug release. Secondly, identify a unique three-dimensional structure dosage form design, that will permit programmed release of drugs in specific parts of the intestine, with the goal of improving the bioavailability of orally administered drugs.
Triastek is a 3D printing technology platform company, and its pioneering MED® technology has versatile applications in solid dosage forms development and manufacturing. With the facilitation of this collaboration by Lilly China Innovation & Partnerships, Triastek will work with Lilly to explore novel solutions to the oral delivery of drugs.
Triastek is committed to promoting the application of 3D printing technology in the pharmaceutical field. Triastek's 1st and 2nd products (T19 and T20) have received IND clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The company also holds 158 patent applications related to 3D printing of pharmaceuticals with comprehensive patent coverage in the world. Triastek has also established collaborations with a number of multinational pharmaceutical companies, as well as domestic pharmaceutical companies to provide technical solutions for the development of challenging formulations.
Dr. Senping Cheng, founder and CEO of Triastek, said: "the collaboration between Triastek and Lilly is a great example of applying MED® technology for improving the oral delivery of drugs. We envision that the MED® technology of Triastek can be used to solve the challenges in formulations leading to the development of clinically valuable products for our global partners."
Triastek
Founded in 2015, Triastek, Inc. is the global leader in the 3D printing of pharmaceuticals and is pioneering the implementation of digital pharmaceutical solutions. Triastek's novel and proprietary 3D printing technology platform, encompasses dosage form design, digital pharmaceutical product development, and intelligent manufacturing.
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Freed inmates are not being placed on high levels of monitoring when they return to community, watchdog warns
- A watchdog said many criminals are not being monitored enough after prison
- More than a fifth of cases were graded a level lower than they should have been
- Chief Inspector of Probation Justin Russell raised a series of concerns in a report
- An official said referrals for monitoring criminals after jail 'just go into the ether'
Thousands of dangerous offenders in the community are not being placed on high levels of monitoring, a watchdog warns today.
Chief inspector of probation Justin Russell raised a series of concerns about Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (Mappa), which see police, probation and other agencies manage serious criminals after they are freed from jail.
More than a fifth of cases examined by the chief inspector were graded at the lowest ‘Level 1’ when they should have been in ‘Level 2’, which involves far more intense supervision for sex offenders and violent criminals.
(Stock Image) Police, probation and other agencies manage serious criminals when they are freed from jail under Mappa. The watchdog said many offenders are not being monitored enough
Currently there are 86,000 cases at Level 1 – meaning the full number graded too low across England and Wales could run to thousands, Mr Russell said.
The report, published today, also found the way offenders are screened was ‘overly bureaucratic’. Mappa have previously been criticised for a string of failures in high-profile cases.
The report said: ‘The lack of focus on and scrutiny of probation-led Level 1 cases leads to unsatisfactory risk management in too many cases.’
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said it had ‘introduced a range of measures’ to ensure Mappa is being used as robustly as possible.
One criminal justice official told inspectors: ‘We are lucky to get someone to Level 2. I don’t know who is at the screening panels, we’re not told. It just goes into the ether.
‘People tend to avoid Mappa at all costs. Referrals take forever to then be rejected and be told we can just do it ourselves.’
In all, 87,657 offenders were under Mappa arrangements in March this year, a 70 per cent increase over 10 years.
But the number of cases placed under the higher categories of monitoring have fallen.
In March, 156 offenders were on Level 3 - dubbed the ‘critical few’, assessed as being the most dangerous - down from 190 in 2011.
The number on Level 2 halved over the same period to 1,233.
‘We question in this report whether that proportion has actually fallen too low over that time,’ Mr Russell said.
He added that improvements were needed to the way Level 1 Mappa cases are handled and ‘should be a priority for the future’.
In some parts of the country, Level 1 status has ‘little meaning’, the report found. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11011747/Freed-inmates-not-placed-high-levels-monitoring-watchdog-warns.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-07-14T02:00:54Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11011747/Freed-inmates-not-placed-high-levels-monitoring-watchdog-warns.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | false |
Our Supreme Court has gone from being one of the most respected institutions to a national disgrace.
We now have at least three justices who lied during their confirmation hearings. Amy Coney-Barrett, Brett Kavanagh and Neil Gorsuch all said during their hearings that they would not vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. We now know that they are bold-faced liars.
In addition, we have two justices who have had credible accusations of sexual misconduct against them: Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanagh. But what else should we expect from people who were put in place by the liar and cheater commander-in-chief, Donald Trump, who also has had multiple sexual misconduct charges made against him.
Lately, several letters in the VOP have stated that President Biden and Governor Evers are responsible for inflation and shortages. One writer even touted Trump’s “accomplishments.” What all those writers failed to mention is that, at the time of the last election, we were not yet feeling the full impact of the pandemic, nor had Putin invaded Ukraine.
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Another fact they failed to mention is that, if Trump and his lackeys hadn’t called the pandemic a hoax and ignored the science, it would have been under control a lot sooner.
On one point, those writers are correct: Under Trump we would not have higher gas prices because he would have been happy to let his buddy Putin destroy Ukraine and its democracy.
Ferne Cerqua, Kenosha | https://www.kenoshanews.com/opinion/voice_of_the_people/letter-to-the-editor-from-ferne-cerqua-a-national-disgrace/article_dec1d598-fcc4-11ec-a540-f792de685943.html | 2022-07-14T02:06:28Z | https://www.kenoshanews.com/opinion/voice_of_the_people/letter-to-the-editor-from-ferne-cerqua-a-national-disgrace/article_dec1d598-fcc4-11ec-a540-f792de685943.html | false |
Australian blokes are called out over 'disrespectful' act towards glamorous police officer trying to do her job in peace: 'Leave her alone'
- Australian blokes slammed for disrespectful comments towards female cop
- The group yelled in a TikTok, 'damn this one is nice' and 'she should be a model'
- Commenters took offence to the video saying the men 'treat her like an object'
A group of men have been slammed online for their behaviour towards a police officer, commenting on her appearance as she awkwardly tries to ignore them.
The TikTok started with one man saying, 'damn this one is nice' to the female cop, who looked uncomfortable with the group's attention.
The video was captioned, 'Somebody find this police officer and make her a model' as the group of at least four men continue to say things to the woman.
Australian blokes slammed for disrespectful comments towards female on duty officer.The group yell out in a TikTok video, 'damn this one is nice' and 'she should be a model'
The words 'she's definitely in the wrong field' was plastered across the video as the men throw comments at her, mostly telling her she should be a model.
The TikTok from 'Blackmagictvv' amassed more than 2.7million views and received more than 285,000 likes.
The man recording the clip was heard saying, 'this one is beautiful' and 'she should be a model not a police officer'.
Viewers of the video were unimpressed with the group's behaviour towards the female cop, slamming their actions in the comments section.
'Little boys don't know when to stop,' one person wrote.
'"This one is nice", "this one should be a model", why y'all saying "this" as if she's an object,' said another.
'The disrespect,' commented a third.
'Poor woman gets harassed at the station too,' a fourth said.
Another urged the group to 'leave her alone' while plenty labelled the move 'disrespectful'.
Users took offence to the guys actions saying they, 'treat her like an object'. The Tik Tok has been viewed more than 2.7 million times
The TikTok account is followed by more than 30,000 people and regularly posts 'pranks' and videos of police interactions.
In another video, a man can be heard lashing a police officer after the cop said he 'looked like a Daniel'. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11011665/Female-police-officer-harassed-group-Aussie-men-TikTok-video.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-14T02:09:04Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11011665/Female-police-officer-harassed-group-Aussie-men-TikTok-video.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Hyundai unveils 2nd dedicated EV model IONIQ 6
BUSAN, July 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co. on Thursday unveiled its second dedicated EV model IONIQ 6 at the Busan International Motor Show ahead of its local launch in September.
The IONIQ 6 is the second model embedded with Hyundai Motor Group's EV-only electric-global modular platform (E-GMP) following the IONIQ 5, which launched in April last year.
Hyundai will begin receiving preorders for the new model on July 28 and aims to sell 12,000 IONIQ 6 models in the domestic market by the end of this year, Cho Won-sang, vice president in charge of marketing at Hyundai Motor, said in a press conference.
The company will start the production of IONIQ 6 in the third quarter to export it to some European markets late this year and to the United States in the first half of next year, he said.
The IONIQ 6, which Hyundai describes as an electrified streamliner, is aerodynamically sculpted and adopts some sustainable materials to reflect EV customers' values, the company said in a statement.
"The distinctive streamlined design is the result of close cooperation between engineers and designers, with focus on detail and customer-centric values. We have created the IONIQ 6 as a mindful cocoon that offers a personalized place for all," Lee Sang-yup, executive vice president and head of Hyundai Design Center, said.
IONIQ 6's cocoon-shaped interior serves as both a comfortable hideaway and a personal space, with some practical features and sustainable materials, the statement said.
The electric sedan is available in two versions. One is a standard model with a 53 kWh battery pack, and the other is a long-range model with a 77.4 kWh battery. The latter can travel up to 524 kilometers on a single charge.
The company plans to install SK Innovation Co.'s car battery in the IONIQ 6 this year due to supply issues but will use LG Energy Solution's battery from next year, the executive said.
Hyundai said it has no plan to bring batteries from Chinese battery maker CATL at the moment.
The model sells at the starting price of 55 million won (US$42,000), with the prices rising up to 65 million won depending on features.
The IONIQ 6 is reportedly aimed squarely at U.S. electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc.'s Model 3 in global markets.
Hyundai plans to introduce the platform-based IONIQ 7 SUV model in 2024. For its all-electric models, Hyundai uses alphanumeric names, like its bigger rivals, such as BMW, whose models are named Series No. 1-8.
On the same day, Kia unveiled the EV9 flagship SUV concept ahead of its domestic launch next year. Kia's EV6 and EV9 models share the E-GMP platform.
kyongae.choi@yna.co.kr
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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National Weather Service Shreveport LA
806 PM CDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of west central
Nacogdoches County through 830 PM CDT...
At 806 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Douglass, or 11 miles west of Nacogdoches, moving southeast at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Nacogdoches.
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.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 3153 9487 3153 9489 3155 9490 3158 9489
3157 9492 3159 9492 3160 9493 3161 9492
3168 9482 3155 9464 3149 9482
TIME...MOT...LOC 0106Z 323DEG 5KT 3160 9484
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
733 PM CDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT
FOR CENTRAL MARION AND SOUTH CENTRAL CASS COUNTIES...
At 733 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Berea, or 20
miles north of Marshall, moving south at 5 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Jefferson, Berea, Lodi and Pruett.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
746 PM CDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Marion and
northeastern Harrison Counties through 815 PM CDT...
At 746 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Berea, or 19 miles north of Marshall, moving south at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Jefferson, Berea, Lodi and Woodlawn.
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.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 3285 9444 3288 9425 3268 9414 3263 9445
TIME...MOT...LOC 0046Z 343DEG 8KT 3281 9436
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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The rates of infertility continue to rise worldwide and are currently estimated to affect up to 170 million people. Male factors contribute to at least half of infertility cases, including hormonal abnormalities, problems with sperm transport or entry into the uterine tubes, impaired sperm production, and male reproductive tract infections (MRTIs)
MRTIs are responsible for about 10% of male infertility cases. A new Pathogens study discusses the impact of Escherichia coli (E. coli) infection on sperm parameters.
Study: Impact of Escherichia coli Outer Membrane Vesicles on Sperm Function. Image Credit: SciePro / Shutterstock.com
Introduction
Most MRTIs are caused by bacteria including Staphylococcus epidermidis, Streptococcus viridans, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis, and E. coli. In fact, E. coli accounts for 65-80% of bacterial prostatitis, mostly from serotypes O1, O2, O4, and O6.
E. coli adversely affects the functions of sperm that are essential for fertilization of the ovum to form a zygote. This can include reduced sperm motility as the gametes agglutinate following contact with the sugar residues on the cell surface of these bacteria, mainly on types 1 and P fimbria.
With type P fimbria, exposed galactosyl residues found over the whole of the sperm cause head-to-tail agglutination. Comparatively, on type 1 fimbria, the heads of adjacent sperms attach through mannose residues on the surface of this sperm component.
Another cause of sperm immobilization or reduced motility is decreased mitochondrial membrane potential when they counter bacteria. The outcome of these interactions is damage to the sperm head, impaired acrosome integrity, disruption of the acrosome reaction, and cell death. Furthermore, a rise in reactive oxygen species (ROS) like superoxide ions will also cause damage to lipid membranes and genetic material.
The current study examines the effects following exposure of sperm to outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) in E. coli. OMVs are spherical structures with nanoscale diameters and are bounded by lipid bilayers including lipopolysaccharide, phospholipids, and proteins found in the outer membranes.
OMVs also contain material from the cytoplasm and adjacent cellular areas, such as genetic material, in addition to virulence factors such as invasion proteins, evasion proteins, and bacterial toxins.
OMVs participate in protective functions, such as obtaining nutrients and forming insulating biofilms to evade and resist immune attack, as well as transfer genes, while also helping the pathogen to achieve host entry and infection. These vesicles also deliver toxins, adhesins, and immunomodulators to the host cell.
Taken together, the researchers of the current study determined the mechanisms by which exposure to OMVs would affect sperm function in vitro. These findings are expected to assist in the development of effective counter-strategies to minimize MRTI damage.
Study findings
OMVs with a mean diameter of approximately 100 nm were obtained from E. coli cultures and purified. OMVs were subsequently added to purified sperm for periods of time varying from 30 to 90 minutes. The effects on sperm motility, viability, and form were then evaluated.
The viable percentage and morphology of sperm did not vary; however, motility was normal in only half of exposed sperm as compared to 65% in controls, with the remaining sperm being immotile. Sperm function declined after exposure to OMVs for 45 minutes.
After an hour, sperm motility decreased by over 10%, while at 1.5 hours, the motile and immotile sperm percentages were about 40% and 60%, respectively. Conversely, motility remained at 60% in controls at this time point.
OMV exposure also caused ROS to form and accumulate within the sperm’s neck region over time, with the first significant elevation reaching 18% after 45 minutes. At one hour and 90 minutes, ROS levels were almost 40% higher, which was about twice that of the control group and equivalent to that in benzene-treated sperm.
Sperm DNA damage also occurred and increased with time of treatment. Beginning with damage in over a quarter of sperm at 45 minutes and a DNA fragmentation index (DFI) of 27%, DNA damage subsequently exceeded that of the positive control sperm by 15% at one hour and ultimately peaked at 1.5 hours. At this point, almost 40% of OMV-exposed sperms exhibited DNA fragmentation, which was double the proportion of untreated sperms.
Implications
The study findings indicate that OMVs, which are produced by many pathogenic bacteria like E. coli, have a significant role in the disease process by mediating bacterial virulence. Herein, the effects of OMVs on human sperm are reported for the first time and appear to reduce sperm function as a result of impaired motility and DNA damage.
Interestingly, no alterations were described for sperm morphology or viability. Morphological changes might have been masked by the surface binding of OMVs, as these vesicles bind to surface receptors to activate signaling pathways.
Other researchers have observed apoptosis of sperm to occur one hour following exposure to E. coli. However, this is not necessarily contradictory, as the current study may have used too low a concentration of OMVs for too short an exposure time to cause observable sperm death.
The accumulation of ROS is associated with rapid oxidative stress and causes membrane lipid peroxidation of the sperm. Sperm motility is subsequently reduced through several mechanisms including loss of flexibility of the sperm, disruption of the cellular processes that contribute to motility, and mitochondrial damage as a result of ROS-linked reduction in adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which provides energy for motility.
DNA damage also occurred as a result of OMV exposure and was likely due to ROS, which cause strand breaks, cross-linkages, and chromosomal rearrangements to occur. ROS-associated apoptotic processes could also contribute to this outcome.
Further research will provide a more detailed description of the pathogenesis of sperm injury due to OMVs.
Journal reference:
- Folliero, V., Santonastaso, M., Dell’Annunziata, F., et al. (2022). Impact of Escherichia coli Outer Membrane Vesicles on Sperm Function. Pathogens. doi:10.3390/pathogens11070782. | https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220713/Bacterial-infections-cause-sperm-dysfunction-via-their-outer-membrane-vesicles.aspx | 2022-07-14T02:18:35Z | https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220713/Bacterial-infections-cause-sperm-dysfunction-via-their-outer-membrane-vesicles.aspx | true |
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya thinks a fight between Ryan Garcia and Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis is possible later this year with the help of the fans to apply pressure on PBC.
De La Hoya says PBC boss Al Haymon prefers in-house fights, keeping his fighters away from boxers not affiliated with his company.
But De La Hoya says he’s worked with them before, and he believes it’s possible that a fight between the unbeaten Ryan (22-0, 18 KOs) and WBA ‘regular’ lightweight champion Gervonta (27-0, 25 KOs) can happen.
De La Hoya admits that the 23-year-old Ryan is the driving force to make the fight with Tank Davis. This is what Ryan wants, and he says he will not stand in his way.
If this is Ryan’s desire to take on what some boxing fans feel is the best fighter in the 135-lb division, Oscar won’t keep him from achieving his goal.
Many boxing fans feel that Ryan has no chance against Tank Davis and is only pushing for this fight to fatten his already monstrous $10 million bank account. But Ryan should fight Tank Davis now while he’s still unbeaten than later after one of the fringe contenders he routinely faces beats him.
“His determination and the fact that the criticism and all the noise that he’s hearing from everyone,” said Oscar De La Hoya to Fight Hub TV on why he believes Ryan Garcia will knockout Javier Fortuna on Saturday.
“It just makes you want to elevate your game to a whole new level. I can see him putting a lot of pressure on himself but just letting it all out once that bell rings,” De La Hoya continued about Ryan Garcia.
“Let’s go,” said Oscar when told that Ryan wants to push for the Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis fight if he successfully defeats Fortuna. “Yes, it’s very possible [to make Ryan vs. Tank Davis]. We’ve worked with PBC before in the past.
“It’s not easy, but I’m going to start pushing it hard, and if I have to start pushing it hard in the media, then I’m going to do so.
“If the fans get behind me and push for that fight and really demand that fight, then we can make it happen because over there at PBC, we know that Al Haymon likes to keep his fighters away from everyone else, meaning fighters that aren’t signed with Showtime.
“If the fans can get behind me and push for that fight and really rally and get that fight going, then I think we can pressure them to once and for all make that fight happen. If that’s what Ryan wants, then that’s my obligation as his promoter to get that fight [against Tank Davis] done.
“The bottom line is he wants the fight, and as his promoter, if he wants the fight, then we get him the fight; it’s as easy as that,” said De La Hoya when asked why is he so keen to match Ryan Garcia against Gervonta Davis this early in his career.
“I strongly feel that Ryan and Tank are special fighters, meaning they will fight through adversity; they will get knocked down just the way Ryan did against [Luke] Campbell and get back up and win the fight.
“I think if Gervonta ever gets knocked down, he’ll get back up to win a fight. They have special talents; they have the IT factor. So, I think it’s not too early for any one of those fighters I think it’s the right time.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Mike Trout is still expected to play in next week's All-Star Game despite dealing with upper back spasms.
The Los Angeles Angels superstar wasn’t in the lineup for Wednesday's game against the Astros and could miss at least the next two games. Trout Tuesday night's loss to Houston during the fifth inning.
The three-time AL MVP was selected earlier this month to appear in his 10th All-Star Game, which will be played next Tuesday at Dodger Stadium.
“We’ve talked to him about that. He’s expected to be available for that game,” trainer Mike Frostad said Wednesday. “He’s been dealing with a lot of stuff throughout the entire year. And, you know, this is just one more thing to add to the pile. He’s got a good pain threshold. He’s played through a lot.”
Frostad said MRI and CT scans on Trout's back did not show any muscle strains or tightness. Trout first mentioned having back spasms last week while the team was in Miami for a series against the Marlins, the trainer said.
Trout — who is hitting .270 with 24 homers and 51 RBIs — has been bothered by several minor injuries this year. He is 6 for 36 (.167) with one homer, four RBIs and 16 strikeouts this month for the Angels, who have dropped nine of 10.
Astros manager Dusty Baker, who will manage the AL squad, said he discussed Trout's status with Angels interim manager Phil Nevin during batting practice.
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White sox sixth. Yoan Moncada walks. Luis Robert singles to left field. Yoan Moncada to second. Jose Abreu doubles to deep right field. Luis Robert to third. Yoan Moncada scores. Eloy Jimenez called out on strikes. Andrew Vaughn grounds out to shallow infield, Amed Rosario to Josh Naylor. Jose Abreu to third. Luis Robert scores. AJ Pollock flies out to deep right field to Nolan Jones.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. White sox 2, Guardians 0.
Guardians seventh. Josh Naylor grounds out to shallow infield, Lucas Giolito to Jose Abreu. Franmil Reyes singles to right field. Nolan Jones walks. Franmil Reyes to second. Owen Miller reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Nolan Jones out at second. Franmil Reyes to third. Andres Gimenez pinch-hitting for Austin Hedges. Andres Gimenez reaches on error. Owen Miller to second. Franmil Reyes scores. Fielding error by Josh Harrison. Myles Straw grounds out to shallow right field, Josh Harrison to Jose Abreu.
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A woman driving a U-Haul van reportedly led law enforcement on a high-speed chase early Wednesday along more than 70 miles of Interstate 5 across Whatcom, Skagit and Snohomish counties that didn’t end until she apparently ran out of gas in Everett.
“The highest speed was 100 mph, but it 90 to 100 mph through most of the pursuit,” Washington State Patrol Trooper Jacob Kennett told The Bellingham Herald. “That’s moving for a U-Haul van. Most of them have stickers that say not to drive faster than 55.”
The Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office booked the 43-year-old woman into Whatcom County Jail at 11:02 a.m. Wednesday, July 13, on suspicion of DUI, attempting to elude police vehicles, driving with a suspended license and operating a vehicle without an ignition interlocking device.
The incident began shortly after 12:30 a.m. when the Lummi Nation Police Department attempted to pull over the driver for suspected DUI after the U-Haul was seen swerving and driving into oncoming traffic, Kennett reported.
“At some point, they reported seeing someone in the U-Haul throw a bong out the window,” Kennett said.
The U-Haul got on southbound I-5, where the sheriff’s office and Bellingham Police Department picked up the chase, according to the Bellingham incident log. At around the Bow Hill scales, the State Patrol took over the pursuit, Kennett said.
The U-Haul continued to speed south through Skagit County and into Snohomish, according to Kennett.
At the Smokey Point exit, the driver got off the freeway, crossed over the bridge and entered the northbound lanes still heading south, Kennett said.
“Amazingly, it didn’t hit anyone, though I understand there were a few near misses when it was going the wrong way,” Kennett said.
Four miles later at 116th Street Northeast, the driver again exited the freeway and got back on, this time in the southbound lanes, where she continued to Everett, according to Kennett.
“I talked to the troopers who were following it at that point, and they said it was just like the U-Haul ran out of gas, Kennett said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. inflation surged to a new four-decade high in June because of rising prices for gas, food and rent, squeezing household budgets and pressuring the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates aggressively -- trends that raise the risk of a recession.
The government's consumer price index soared 9.1% over the past year, the biggest yearly increase since 1981, with nearly half of the increase due to higher energy costs.
Lower-income and Black and Hispanic American have been hit especially hard, since a disproportionate share of their income goes toward essentials such as transportation, housing and food. But with the cost of many goods and services rising faster than average incomes, a vast majority of Americans are feeling the pinch in their daily routines.
For 72-year-old Marcia Freeman, who is retired and lives off of a pension, there is no escape from rising expenses.
"Everything goes up, including cheaper items like store brands," said Freeman, who visited a food bank near Atlanta this week to try and gain control of her grocery costs. Grocery prices have jumped 12% in the past year, the steepest climb since 1979.
Accelerating inflation is a vexing problem for the Federal Reserve, too. The Fed is already engaged in the fastest series of interest rate hikes in three decades, which it hopes will cool inflation by tamping down borrowing and spending by consumers and businesses.
The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of the year, and many analysts believe the trend continued in the second quarter.
"The Fed's rate hikes are doing what they are supposed to do, which is kill off demand," said Megan Greene, global chief economist at the Kroll Institute. "The trick is if they kill off too much and we get a recession."
The likelihood of larger rate hikes this year pushed stock indexes lower in afternoon trading. The central bank is expected to raise its key short-term rate later this month by a hefty three-quarters of a point, as it did last month.
As consumers' confidence in the economy declines, so have President Joe Biden's approval ratings, posing a major political threat to Democrats in the November congressional elections. Forty percent of adults said in a June AP-NORC poll that they thought tackling inflation should be a top government priority this year, up from just 14% who said so in December.
After years of low prices, a swift rebound from the 2020 pandemic recession — combined with supply-chain snags — ignited inflation.
Consumers unleashed a wave of pent-up spending, spurred by vast federal aid, ultra-low borrowing costs and savings they had built up while hunkering down. As home-bound Americans spent heavily on furniture, appliances and exercise equipment, factories and shipping companies struggled to keep up and prices for goods soared. Russia's war against Ukraine further magnified energy and food prices.
In recent months, as Covid fears have receded, consumer spending has gradually shifted away from goods and toward services. Yet rather than pulling down inflation by reducing goods prices, the cost of furniture, cars, and other items has kept rising, while restaurant costs, rents and other services are also getting more expensive.
The year-over-year leap in consumer prices last month followed an 8.6% annual jump in May. From May to June, prices rose 1.3%, following a 1% increase from April to May.
Some economists believe inflation might be reaching a short-term peak. Gas prices, for example, have fallen from the eye-watering $5 a gallon reached in mid-June to an average of $4.63 nationwide Wednesday — still far higher than a year ago.
Shipping costs and commodity prices have also begun to fall, and pay increases have slowed. Surveys show that Americans' expectations for inflation over the long run have eased — a trend that often points to more moderate price increases over time.
"While today's headline inflation reading is unacceptably high, it is also out-of-date," President Biden said Wednesday. "All major economies are battling this COVID-related challenge."
The latest disappointing data on inflation came out at the outset of Biden's trip to the Middle East, where he will meet with officials from Saudi Arabian to discuss oil prices, among other subjects.
Republican members of Congress have blamed the higher prices on Biden's economic policies, specifically his $1.9 trillion financial support package approved in March.
There have been signs that inflation was slowing before — last summer, and in April of this year — only for it to surge again in subsequent months.
"There may be some relief in the July numbers — commodity prices have come off the boil, at least — but we are a very, very long way from inflation normalizing, and there is no tangible sign of downward momentum," said Eric Winograd, an economist at asset manager AB.
For now, the relentless pace of price increases is frustrating many Americans.
Delores Bledsoe, a truck driver hauling freight from Carlisle, Pennsylvania to Wisconsin on Wednesday, said her fuel costs have tripled. "It's making me want to get out of the truck and go drive an Uber," said Bledsoe, who lives in Houston. "It's depressing."
Some people are placing blame on companies for using inflation as a cover to raise prices beyond the amount they need to cover their own higher costs.
"I feel the inflation pain every day," Susana Hazard said this week outside a grocery store in New York City. "Every day, everything is going up and up, more than inflation — they're price-adjusting. Because even if inflation doesn't happen, they've raised the prices."
Most economists say corporate price gouging is, at most, one of many causes of runaway inflation and not the primary one.
Housing and rental costs are rising steadily as solid job gains encourage more Americans to move out on their own. Rents have risen 5.8% compared with a year ago, the most since 1986. And the cost of decorating homes is still increasing at a rapid pace — furniture prices are up 13% from a year ago — even as retailers such as Walmart and Target experience rising inventories, which should help lower prices.
The biggest shock has been energy prices, which soared 7.5% just from May to June. Gas prices have skyrocketed nearly 60% compared with a year ago.
Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, so-called core prices rose 0.7% from May to June, the biggest such spike in a year. Core prices jumped 5.9% from a year ago.
Inflation is surging well beyond the United States. with 71 million people pushed into poverty in the three months after Russia invaded Ukraine, the U.N. Development Program said last week.
The war's economic damage has been especially severe in Europe, with its reliance on Russian oil and natural gas squeezing businesses and consumers with sharply higher bills for utilities, groceries, gasoline and more. Inflation reached decades-high levels of 8.6% last month in the 19 countries that use the euro currency and 9.1% in the United Kingdom in May.
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NEW YORK, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of The Charles Schwab Corporation ("Charles Schwab" or the "Company") (NYSE: SCHW). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Charles Schwab Therapeutics and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On July 2, 2021, Charles Schwab disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") that the Company "has been responding to an investigation by the [SEC] arising from a compliance examination" and that "[t]he investigation largely concerns historic disclosures related to the Schwab Intelligent Portfolios® (SIP) digital advisory solution." Accordingly, Charles Schwab disclosed that "[g]iven the investigation's status, Schwab's second quarter 2021 financial results will include a liability and related non-deductible charge of $200 million."
On this news, Charles Schwab's stock price fell $2.03 per share, or 2.79%, to close at $70.77 per share on July 6, 2021, the next trading day.
Then, on June 13, 2022, the SEC announced that it "charged three Charles Schwab investment adviser subsidiaries" who "agreed to pay $187 million to harmed clients to settle the charges." The SEC charged Charles Schwab with misleading investors that used its robo-adviser product, Schwab Intelligent Portfolios. Instead of the touted "disciplined portfolio construction methodology" that sought "optimal return[s]", Charles Schwab's "own data showed that under most market conditions, the cash in the portfolios would cause clients to make less money even while taking on the same amount of risk."
On this news, Charles Schwab's stock price fell $1.98 per share, or 3.18%, to close at $60.24 per share on June 13, 2022.
The Pomerantz Firm, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Paris is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, the Pomerantz Firm pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 80 years later, the Pomerantz Firm continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomerantzlaw.com
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Joanna Lumley and Tom Dean to be recognised with honours at Buckingham Palace
Actress Dame Joanna Lumley and Olympic swimmer Tom Dean are among those who will be recognised with honours at Buckingham Palace.
Absolutely Fabulous star Dame Joanna, known for playing Patsy Stone in the sitcom, will be appointed a dame commander for services to drama, entertainment and charitable causes.
The 76-year-old actress was made an OBE in 1995 by the Queen, but will receive the higher accolade from the Princess Royal at the investiture ceremony on Thursday.
Dame Joanna has made a name for herself campaigning for the rights of Gurkhas to settle in the UK and also supports numerous environmental campaigns.
She was born in Kashmir and moved to England as a child. Her father was a major in the Gurkha Rifles.
Olympic swimming champion Dean is expected to pick up his MBE for services to swimming.
The 22-year-old was the first British male in more than a century to win two golds at the same Games at Tokyo 2020.
He became a double Olympic champion with gold medals in the 4x200m freestyle relay and the 200m freestyle on his Games debut.
Other prominent sportsmen being made MBEs are Dylan Fletcher-Scott for services to sailing and Thomas McEwen for services to equestrianism.
Fletcher-Scott made Team GB sailing history at Tokyo by winning the men’s 49er gold with partner Stuart Bithell.
McEwen helped Great Britain win its first Olympic eventing team gold medal since 1972 at Tokyo, and also secured individual silver.
Away from sport, Professor Kathleen Stock, former professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, is due to be made an OBE for services to higher education.
She quit the university last year amid a row over her views on gender identity.
Her decision came after an anonymous group, reportedly set up by students, launched a campaign to get her sacked amid accusations of transphobia. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11012151/Joanna-Lumley-Tom-Dean-recognised-honours-Buckingham-Palace.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-14T02:34:26Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11012151/Joanna-Lumley-Tom-Dean-recognised-honours-Buckingham-Palace.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Flood leaves 44 people unaccounted for in southwest Virginia
July 13 (Reuters) - More than 40 people have been reported unaccounted for by loved ones after floodwaters swept a riverfront Appalachian community in southwestern Virginia on Wednesday, triggered by heavy rains in the area, local authorities said.
As many as 18 search-and-rescue teams, including swift-water rescue crews, were dispatched to the area in and around Whitewood, Virginia, early in the day, Buchanan County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Eric Breeding told reporters.
Well over 100 houses in the area have been damaged, and many roads and bridges had been washed out by mudslides and high water, a Virginia state emergency management official told the same news briefing, carried by local television station WCYB, based in Bristol, Virginia.
Breeding said there were no confirmed fatalities or serious injuries so far, and that the 44 people listed as unaccounted reflected the number of individuals whose loved ones have reported their whereabouts as unknown after floods struck.
They were not considered "missing" as yet, since many were likely to have been merely left unreachable because of telephone and electricity service disruptions in the region.
Still, Governor Glenn Youngkin declared a state of emergency in southwestern Virginia in order to hasten disaster assistance to the flood-stricken area.
The downpours blamed for the flooding were part of a larger storm system that struck the mid-Atlantic region Tuesday night and early Wednesday, with showers continuing into the morning hours.
"Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding in Buchanan County, along with power outages, impacts to roads and other infrastructure and significant resource and operational challenges," Youngkin said in his declaration.
Whitewood, an unincorporated Appalachian community of about 500 people, is located along the Dismal River in Buchanan County near the border of both West Virginia and Kentucky. (Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Michael Perry) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11012071/Flood-leaves-44-people-unaccounted-southwest-Virginia.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-14T02:34:45Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11012071/Flood-leaves-44-people-unaccounted-southwest-Virginia.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Morning Digest | Rishi Sunak tops first round of Tory race for next U.K. PM; India has achieved clean energy targets before deadline, says Power Minister, and more
A select list of stories to read before you start your day
Rishi Sunak tops first round of voting in Tory leadership contest
Former finance minister Rishi Sunak led the field of Conservative MPs bidding to become Britain’s next Prime Minister in the first ballot of Tory lawmakers on Wednesday, as the race narrowed to six with the elimination of two candidates. Mr. Sunak, an early frontrunner who quit as finance minister last week to help trigger outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s downfall, topped the contest with 88 votes, followed by former defence minister Penny Mordaunt, on 67.
India has achieved clean energy targets before deadline, says R. K. Singh
India has achieved clean energy targets nine years ahead of schedule Power Minister R.K. Singh said at the Sydney Energy Forum in Sydney, Australia, on July 13. India has installed 162 GW (1 GW is a 1000 MW) of renewable energy capacity which is 41% of the 402 GW of electricity installed.
Modi government distances itself from Rajapaksas in latest twist to see-saw relationship
Distancing itself from the Rajapaksa family that has been pushed out of power by angry protestors in Sri Lanka, the government made it clear that it has not offered outgoing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his brother and former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa, and others who may wish to flee Sri Lanka, any support. New Delhi is watching the situation in Colombo closely, even as efforts get underway for the Sri Lanka Parliament to elect the next President next week.
A local court in Ahmedabad on Wednesday remanded former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in police custody till July 20 in the forgery and evidence fabrication case related to the 2002 riots in Gujarat. Mr. Bhatt was arrested through transfer warrant on Tuesday and produced before the additional chief metropolitan magistrate on Wednesday.
Transgender trainee-pilot Adam Harry told to reapply for medical test
In a temporary win for transgender trainee-pilot Adam Harry, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has requested him to submit a new application for medical assessment required for further training to become an airline pilot two years after he was told that a hormone therapy he was undergoing for gender transition rendered him “unfit” to fly. The DGCA has also clarified that there were no restrictions on transgender people seeking pilot’s licence and a hormone therapy alone will not preclude anyone from flying.
SpiceJet pilots give call for ‘mass sick leave’
A section of SpiceJet pilots have given a call for a “mass sick leave” on July 14 to protest against pay cuts at the airline in the past two years. Pilot sources said that they were unhappy over massive pay cuts the airline continued to impose which amounted to a deduction equivalent of “70%” of their pre-pandemic salary. Pilots also claim that the airline has been deducting contributions towards employee’s provident fund and tax deducted at source but was not depositing them with the Employee’s Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) and Income Tax department.
Gyanvapi dispute | Now, masjid panel too seeks removal of Vishnu Shankar Jain over ‘conflict’
As the district court in Varanasi continued hearing the ongoing Gyanvapi mosque-Kashi Vishwanath temple civil dispute, the Muslim side on Wednesday filed an application seeking that advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, one of the lawyers leading the Hindu side, should be barred from appearing for the plaintiffs given his conflict of interest because of his position as Standing Counsel for U.P. government in the Supreme Court.
Congress questions Finance Minister’s interest in tackling inflation
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is more interested in Uranus and Pluto than tackling inflationary trends, the Congress said on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference a day after the government released the latest inflation figures, party spokesperson Gourav Vallabh took a dig at Ms. Sitharaman for tweeting pictures of the galaxy taken by NASA’s James Webb telescope instead of sharing her plan for containing inflation.
Islamic State-linked ‘Amaq’ releases video of Srinagar attack
Amaq, an online propaganda portal linked to the Islamic State (IS), on July 13 released a purported video online where an attacker aims at policemen from a close range apparently in Srinagar’s Lal Bazaar area. A militant attack left one police officer dead and two others injured on Tuesday (July 12) evening.
Congress leader’s comments on Droupadi Murmu triggers war of words with BJP
Congress leader Ajoy Kumar triggered a a controversy on Wednesday after he described the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) Presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu as a “decent person” but representing an “evil philosophy of India”. Hitting back at the Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders tweeted that the comment against Ms. Murmu represented “Congress’ evil philosophy of entitlement”.
Couple held for smuggling 45 hand guns at Delhi airport: Customs
The Customs Department arrested an Indian couple at the Indira Gandhi International Airport on July 13 on the charge of attempting to smuggle in 45 guns brought from France. Those arrested have been identified as Jagjit Singh and Jaswinder Kaur, residents of Defence Colony in Haryana’s Gurugram. They arrived at the IGI Airport’s Terminal-3 on July 11 from Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam by flight no.VJ 895. During interrogation, the accused told the agency they had earlier smuggled in 25 such guns valued at ₹12.50 lakh from Turkey.
James Webb Space Telescope’s first images show stunning range
In the order in which they were released, the five images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope were the following: a deep field picture in which the telescope gazed into a galaxy cluster that is about 13.1 billion light years away; a hot gaseous exoplanet that is about 1,000 light years away — a spectrum of its atmosphere which carried the chemical fingerprint of water vapour; a violent explosion that marked the death of a massive star, known as the Southern Ring; a group picture of five galaxies — Stephan’s Quintet, about 300 million light years away and a picture of Carina nebula, which is 7,600 light years away, showing crops of new stars being born.
Consistency is the target, result will follow: Neeraj Chopra
With the World Athletics Championships just two days away, Neeraj Chopra is gradually getting into the competition zone. The Olympic champion has had a good beginning to his 2022 season and is inching closer to the elusive 90m mark. But the pressure of it is clearly more on those following him than the man himself, going by his interaction with select media ahead of the event.
Mehuli Ghosh, Shahu Mane win mixed rifle gold
It was another golden day for Indian shooting as Mehuli Ghosh and Shahu Tushar Mane combined to beat Eszter Meszaros and Istvan Peni of Hungary 17-13 for the mixed air rifle gold in the shooting World Cup in Changwon, Korea, on Wednesday. The Indian pair, which had topped qualification with 634.3, asserted itself in the gold match against a top class opposition.
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
908 PM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM EDT
FOR EAST CENTRAL ULSTER AND NORTHERN DUTCHESS COUNTIES...
At 907 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Rhinebeck,
moving east at 30 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect considerable
tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes,
roofs, and outbuildings.
Locations impacted include...
Kingston, Rhinebeck, Hyde Park, Pine Plains, Red Hook, Millbrook,
Lake Katrine, Stanfordville, Staatsburg, Port Ewen, Bethel, Milan,
Smithfield, Salt Point, Norrie Heights, Lithgow, Linden Acres,
Shunpike, Fraleighs and Shekomeko.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
This is a DANGEROUS SITUATION. This storm is producing widespread
wind damage near and north of the Rhinebeck, NY area. SEEK SHELTER
NOW inside a sturdy structure and stay away from windows.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — The surveillance video showing the Robb Elementary School shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers is putting into focus testimony given by the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety last month.
The video was leaked to the Austin American-Statesman days before victims’ families were set to watch the video for the first time.
The 77-minute video shows officers rushing into the school minutes after the gunman fired shots as he entered a classroom. The officers then run from the door after additional shots were fired.
It would be more than an hour, as officers from multiple agencies arrived, before officers would breach the classroom door and kill the shooter.
The video also shows the moments one of the officers learned his wife, teacher Eve Mireles, was shot and dying, according to Texas State Rep. Joe Moody.
“That’s my wife’s classroom,” an officer can be heard saying on the leaked video.
Texas DPS Director Steven McCraw described that moment and their findings during testimony in front of lawmakers in June.
“He tried to move forward into the hallway. He was detained, and they took his gun away from him and escorted him off the scene,” McCraw said.
McCraw also faced questions about why officers, including his own, did not advance and breach the classroom sooner.
“It is our policy to follow the on-scene commander. It is dangerous if you do not,” McCraw said during a June Senate hearing.
ALERRT released a report in early July criticizing the law enforcement response to the May 24 shooting. The report stated “when the officers were fired at, momentum was lost. The officers fell back, and it took more than an hour to regain momentum and gain access to critically-injured people.
The leaked video shows most of the gunshots were fired inside of the classroom before officers entered the elementary school. But, throughout the more than an hour officers were in the building, more gunfire was audible through the surveillance recording. Still, officers did not advance on the classroom door.
Instead, multiple officers stood at the end of the hallway with their rifles focused on the area just outside the classroom door where the shooter was located.
It is unclear if the video the Texas House Investigatory committee plans to release to families, and the public, on Sunday will show more of the response.
A source close to the committee told Nexstar’s KXAN the video set to be released Sunday will be a 77-minute unedited video of the school hallways with no sound.
The leaked video by the Austin American-Statesman Tuesday included cell phone video, body-worn camera video, and surveillance video from outside of the school.
The committee also plans to release its report, which will include parts of the never-before-heard testimony given by the Uvalde Sheriff and Uvalde CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo during closed-door sessions. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/video-shows-moment-uvalde-officer-learns-his-wife-was-shot-texas-rep-says/ | 2022-07-14T02:42:50Z | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/video-shows-moment-uvalde-officer-learns-his-wife-was-shot-texas-rep-says/ | false |
WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
909 PM CDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern De
Soto, southwestern Caddo Parishes in northwestern Louisiana and east
central Panola Counties through 945 PM CDT...
At 908 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles west of Stonewall, or 15 miles southwest of Shreveport, moving
south at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Stonewall, Keachi, Kickapoo and Spring Ridge.
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.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 3235 9406 3238 9388 3221 9375 3216 9407
TIME...MOT...LOC 0208Z 348DEG 24KT 3229 9397
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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Maine Drug Store Chain LaVerdiere’s Would Have Turned 100 In 2022
If you were a kid in Maine in the 1980s or early1990s, you remember LaVerdiere’s. Yes, they were a regional pharmacy chain, but they were so much more. This was especially true for kids.
In addition to medications and toiletries, they stocked toys and season decorations. At Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, the 4th of July, and Halloween, you could get whatever you needed to decorate your home, classroom, or workplace. On top of that, at Halloween, they had a big selection of Halloween costumes and accessories.
About forty of the chain's locations had an attached arcade. If you lived in a small town that did not have an actual arcade, there is a good chance that the first place you played Space Invaders, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, the T2 game, or Hard Drivin' was at one of their arcades.
According to the KJ, the now defunct chain would have celebrated its 100th birthday in 2022. The first location opened at 177 Main St. in Waterville in 1922. It was in the space that is now occupied by Selah Cafe. Later, the store moved to a location on Kennedy Memorial Drive. Toward the end of its run, the chain expanded into New Hampshire and Vermont. The chain was sold to Rite Aid in 1994.
If you were a former employee of the chain, you may want to check this out. According to the newspaper article, a reunion of former employees will be held at Fort Halifax in Winslow this Saturday (July 16th).
Do you have a memory of the chain? Share it with us through our app or on Facebook.
Personally, I remember LaVerdiere's as being the first place that I used my own money to buy something. It was allowance money that I used to buy a toy boat that had a wind up propeller. After playing with it for about five minutes, I sunk it. It never worked right again. Lesson learned... | https://q961.com/maine-drug-store-chain-laverdieres-would-have-turned-100-in-2022/ | 2022-07-14T02:46:06Z | https://q961.com/maine-drug-store-chain-laverdieres-would-have-turned-100-in-2022/ | false |
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Scranton Police had the 500 block of Luzerne Street shut down as they responded to an incident, Wednesday evening.
Police and Scranton’s Special Operations Group, a strategic law enforcement team to resolve incidents involving a public threat, arrived on the scene around 7:00 p.m. and stayed for several hours.
Eyewitness News crews on the scene say police were attempting to serve a warrant and demanding the suspect to come out of the home with their hands up.
According to the Scranton Police, the suspect barricaded himself in the 500 block of Luzerne Street.
Earlier, the Scranton Police Department asked the public to avoid the area but didn’t specify what the nature of the incident was.
This is an active investigation and Eyewitness News will update you with information as it’s available. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/crime-courts/active-police-presence-in-scranton/ | 2022-07-14T02:49:59Z | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/crime-courts/active-police-presence-in-scranton/ | true |
WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
927 PM CDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southwestern De Soto
and northwestern Sabine Parishes, southeastern Panola and
northeastern Shelby Counties through 1015 PM CDT...
At 926 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 6 miles south of Stonewall to 13 miles
southeast of Deberry to 11 miles north of Joaquin. Movement was
southeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds ahead of the line of storms could knock down
tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor damage
to outdoor objects is possible.
Locations impacted include...
Center, Mansfield, Logansport, Joaquin, Converse, Shelbyville,
Huxley, South Mansfield, Keachi, Grand Cane, Longstreet, Stanley,
Gloster, Keat Chie, James, Kickapoo, Deadwood, Reeds Store and
Paxton.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
These storms may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 3175 9422 3212 9417 3220 9402 3220 9375
3193 9354 3174 9375
TIME...MOT...LOC 0226Z 333DEG 28KT 3217 9382 3218 9398 3213 9408
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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First on CNN: Trump tried to call a member of the White House support staff talking with January 6 committee, sources say
By Ryan Nobles, Dana Bash, Annie Grayer and Zachary Cohen, CNN
Former President Donald Trump tried to call a member of the White House support staff who was talking to the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.
The support staffer was not someone who routinely communicated with the former President and was concerned about the contact, according to the sources, and informed their attorney.
The call was made after former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified publicly to the committee. The White House staffer was in a position to corroborate part of what Hutchinson had said under oath, according to the sources.
CNN was told the position of the witness Trump tried to call, but not the person’s name. Details about the witness Trump tried to contact have not been previously reported.
The initial revelation about Trump’s phone call was made in a dramatic moment at the end of this week’s hearing by committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney. Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, revealed that Trump “tried to call” an unnamed witness in the committee’s investigation. She said that witness “declined to answer or respond” to Trump’s call and instead alerted their lawyer. The committee has since supplied that information to the Department of Justice.
“We will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously,” Cheney said Tuesday during the hearing.
A spokesperson for the House select committee declined to comment. A Trump spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request to comment.
Rep. Pete Aguilar, a California Democrat who serves on the committee, told CNN on Tuesday that the individual Trump tried to call has been speaking with the panel.
“Trump himself had called someone who has been talking with us,” Aguilar said.
A source familiar with the panel’s investigation added that the committee has spoken to the person Trump tried to call, but not as part of a deposition.
Mississippi Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the committee, told CNN Wednesday that Trump attempting to call this witness was concerning enough to raise it to the Department of Justice.
“From my vantage point, it is highly unusual to do that, and that’s why we more or less put that in the hands of the Justice Department, for them to make that decision,” Thompson said, when asked if the act of Trump calling the person was enough evidence to determine whether he was attempting to intimidate a witness. “We are concerned about witnesses’ safety.”
This is not the first time the committee has raised concerns about potential witness tampering.
“This has been an ongoing pattern and we’re trying to send the message that witness tampering is a crime in the United States of America. People should not be approaching witnesses to try to get them to alter their testimony,” Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, who serves on the panel, told CNN on Tuesday.
At the end of the hearing featuring Hutchinson last month, Cheney brought up two examples of possible witness intimidation without naming a witness or who had made contact. Sources have told CNN that both instances recounted by Cheney in that June hearing had been directed at Hutchinson, and that Hutchinson believes the messages were intended to influence her testimony.
In one instance, Cheney said a witness received a call in which someone said: “(A person) let me know you have your deposition tomorrow. He wants me to let you know that he’s thinking about you. He knows you’re loyal, and you’re going to do the right thing when you go in for your deposition.”
Multiple sources previously told CNN the witness was Hutchinson and the “person” referred to in the message, which was redacted in the version projected on a screen during the hearing, was former White House chief of staff Meadows.
Ben Williamson, a spokesperson for Meadows, denied that Meadows or anyone in his “camp” attempted to intimidate Hutchinson or influence her testimony.
“No one from Meadows camp, himself or otherwise, ever sought to intimidate or shape her conversations with the committee,” Williamson told CNN.
The second example previously cited by the committee — a witness statement detailing the pressure campaign from Trump’s orbit — also involved Hutchinson, the sources told CNN.
“What they said to me is, as long as I continue to be a team player, they know that I’m on the team. I’m doing the right thing. I’m protecting who I need to protect, you know, I’ll continue to stay in good graces in Trump World,” Cheney said at the hearing, relaying the witness statement that sources now say is Hutchinson. “And they have reminded me a couple of times that Trump does read transcripts and just to keep that in mind as I proceed through my depositions and interviews with the committee.”
This story has been updated with additional details Wednesday.
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Amazon has provided Ring doorbell footage to law enforcement 11 times this year without the user’s permission, a revelation that’s bound to raise more privacy and civil liberty concerns about its video-sharing agreements with police departments across the country.
The disclosure came in a letter from the company that was made public Wednesday by U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who sent a separate letter to Amazon last month questioning Ring’s surveillance practices and engagement with law enforcement.
Ring has said before it will not share customer information with police without consent, a warrant or due to “an exigent or emergency” circumstance. The 11 videos shared this year fell under the emergency provision, Amazon’s letter said, the first time the company publicly shared such information. The letter, dated July 1, did not say which videos were shared with police.
Brian Huseman, Amazon’s vice president for public policy, wrote in the letter that in each instance, “Ring made a good-faith determination that there was an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to a person requiring disclosure of information without delay.”
In such cases, Huseman wrote Ring “reserves the right to respond immediately to urgent law enforcement requests for information,” adding the company makes a determination as to when to share video footage without user consent based on information provided to it in an emergency request form and circumstances described by law enforcement.
Some prior requests from law enforcement have raised concerns about how police might be attempting to use Ring footage. Last year, the non-profit digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation reported the Los Angeles Police Department requested Ring footage of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.
In a statement, Markey’s office said the findings show a close relationship between Ring and law enforcement and a proliferation of police using the platform.
Amazon said in its letter 2,161 law enforcement agencies are enrolled in Ring’s Neighbors app, a forum for residents to share suspicious videos captured by their home security cameras. That number represents a five-fold increase since November 2019, according to the senator’s office.
“As my ongoing investigation into Amazon illustrates, it has become increasingly difficult for the public to move, assemble, and converse in public without being tracked and recorded,” Markey said in a statement.
Among other things, the senator’s statement also criticized the company for not clarifying the distance Ring products can capture audio recordings. The company had said in its response letter what Ring captures “depends on many conditions, including device placement and environmental conditions.”
The Ring disclosure comes as Amazon is facing broader antitrust scrutiny in Congress about its ecommerce business, and accusations of undercutting merchants that sell on its platform by making “knock-offs,” or very similar products, and boosting their presence on its site. Markey and several other Democratic lawmakers are also pushing for a bill that prohibits the use of biometric technology by federal agencies and tie federal grant funding to states and localities on the condition they put a moratorium on the use of such technology. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/amazon-handed-ring-footage-to-police-without-user-consent/ | 2022-07-14T02:58:29Z | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/amazon-handed-ring-footage-to-police-without-user-consent/ | false |
NEW YORK, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Ebix, Inc. ("Ebix" or the "Company")(NASDAQ: EBIX). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Ebix and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On June 16, 2022, Hindenburg Research published a report entitled "Ebix: This House of 'Cards' Seems To Have a Glaring Fake Revenue Problem" (the "Hindenburg Report"). The Hindenburg Report asserted, among other things, that "[i]n February 2021, Ebix's auditor, RSM, resigned because Ebix wouldn't provide evidence regarding 'unusual transactions related to the Company's gift card business in India'"; that "corporate records reveal that the unusual transactions seem to have accelerated since the auditor's resignation"; that Ebix appeared to have misrepresented the existence and/or sales of its EbixCash retail distribution network; and that "virtually ever claimed feature" of the Company's app "didn't work". The Hindenburg Report stated that "[w]e think a substantial portion of EbixCash's gift card revenue is non-existent."
On this news, EbixCash's stock price fell $8.81 per share, or 37.65%, to close at $14.59 per share on June 16, 2022.
The Pomerantz Firm, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Paris is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, the Pomerantz Firm pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 80 years later, the Pomerantz Firm continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomerantzlaw.com.
CONTACT:
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Pomerantz LLP
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Palmyra’s Carpenter plays Pinehurst
Published: Jul. 13, 2022 at 9:51 PM CDT|Updated: 10 minutes ago
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Palmyra’s Noah Carpenter has watched golf at Pinehurst on TV. This week, he got to play three rounds at the famed location.
Carpenter participated in the NHSGA High School Golf National Invitational. The 17-year-old was among 330 golfers at the prestigious event.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the "Pick Four-Evening" game were:
1-5-7-1, Fireball: 3
(one, five, seven, one; Fireball: three)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the "Pick Four-Evening" game were:
1-5-7-1, Fireball: 3
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
938 PM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Litchfield and northeastern Dutchess Counties through 1030 PM EDT...
At 937 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Amenia, or 18 miles east of Rhinebeck, moving east at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Torrington, Amenia, Sharon, Pine Plains, Norfolk, Canaan, Millerton,
Falls Village, Cornwall Bridge, Bethel, Salisbury, Goshen, Cornwall,
Smithfield, South Norfolk, West Torrington, Sodom, South Canaan,
Lithgow and Wangum Village.
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 4199 7366 4199 7363 4198 7353 4201 7353
4205 7325 4204 7315 4179 7311 4177 7363
TIME...MOT...LOC 0137Z 262DEG 26KT 4189 7355
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
...COASTAL FLOOD STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT
TONIGHT...
* WHAT...Up to one foot of inundation above ground level in
vulnerable areas near the waterfront and shoreline.
* WHERE...Southern Nassau and Southern Queens Counties.
* WHEN...Until midnight EDT tonight.
* IMPACTS...Brief minor flooding of the more vulnerable
locations near the waterfront and shoreline.
Do not drive through flooded roadways.
...COASTAL FLOOD STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM EDT
THURSDAY...
* WHAT...Up to one half foot of inundation above ground level
expected in vulnerable areas near the waterfront and shoreline.
* WHERE...In Connecticut, Southern Fairfield County. In New
York, Southern Westchester County.
* WHEN...Until 2 AM EDT Thursday.
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN DUTCHESS COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 945 PM EDT...
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.
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CEDARHURST, N.Y., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The securities litigation law firm of Kuznicki Law PLLC issues this alert to shareholders of Outset Medical, Inc. ("Outset" or the "Company") (NasdaqGS: OM), if they purchased the Company's shares between September 15, 2020 and June 13, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). Shareholders have until September 6, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in the securities class action lawsuit.
Shareholders are encouraged to contact us at https://kclasslaw.com/cases/securities/nasdaqgs-om/, by calling toll-free at 1-833-835-1495 or by email (dk@kclasslaw.com).
Kuznicki Law PLLC is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a Company lead to artificial inflation of the Company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
Kuznicki Law PLLC
Daniel Kuznicki, Esq.
445 Central Avenue, Suite 344
Cedarhurst, NY 11516
Email: dk@kclasslaw.com
Phone: (347) 696-1134
Cell: (347) 690-0692
Fax: (347) 348-0967https://kclasslaw.com
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The United Kingdom, Singapore and Bahrain have asked its citizens to avoid non-essential travel to Sri Lanka as an economic collapse in the country have led to massive protests. The island nation is experiencing a severe economic crisis which has led to shortages of basic necessities including medicines, cooking gas, fuel and food.
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled to the Maldives on Wednesday, is expected to fly to Singapore today.
Protesters in Sri Lanka defied tear gas, water cannon and a state of emergency to storm the Prime Minister's office on Wednesday after the country's embattled president fled overseas, with the crowd demanding both men step down in the face of an economic crisis. Meanwhile, a curfew imposed to restore some order was lifted this morning. | https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/sri-lanka-crisis-live-updates-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-resignation-protests-ranil-wickremsinghe-uk-singapore-ask-citizens-to-avoid-travel-to-sri-l-3155920 | 2022-07-14T03:12:51Z | https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/sri-lanka-crisis-live-updates-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-resignation-protests-ranil-wickremsinghe-uk-singapore-ask-citizens-to-avoid-travel-to-sri-l-3155920 | true |
WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
909 PM CDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern De
Soto, southwestern Caddo Parishes in northwestern Louisiana and east
central Panola Counties through 945 PM CDT...
At 908 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles west of Stonewall, or 15 miles southwest of Shreveport, moving
south at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Stonewall, Keachi, Kickapoo and Spring Ridge.
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.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 3235 9406 3238 9388 3221 9375 3216 9407
TIME...MOT...LOC 0208Z 348DEG 24KT 3229 9397
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
856 PM CDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of south central
Harrison and northwestern Panola Counties through 930 PM CDT...
At 856 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles northeast of Tatum, or 10 miles southwest of Marshall, moving
south at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Carthage, Tatum, Beckville, Darco and Fairplay.
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.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 3226 9455 3228 9453 3236 9449 3239 9449
3240 9450 3239 9451 3240 9453 3240 9454
3244 9454 3248 9431 3218 9426 3213 9455
TIME...MOT...LOC 0156Z 353DEG 21KT 3239 9443
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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COLORADO SPRINGS — Colorado Springs Police have arrested Brian and Steven Yi on felony charges for allegedly selling fentanyl pills, cocaine, THC gummies, marijuana, and assorted pills at a Colorado liquor store.
According to police, detectives were able to make several undercover purchases from the location on N Academy near the intersection of Austin Bluffs Drive. Those buys took place in May.
This Monday, members of the Armed Violent Offender Unit arrested the brothers at the location on felony drug and conspiracy charges.
There's no information available yet on whether additional suspects could face charges in this investigation. The liquor license for the business is not in the name of the brother but the owner has the same last name, according to state records.
Items seized in the release include:
- $36,000 in cash
- 2,000 fentanyl pills
- 2.36 lbs cocaine
- 1.55 lbs THC gummies
- 2.14 lbs marijuana
- 14.6 grams Xanex
- 11.3 grams oxycodone pills
- 3 handguns
- 1 semiautomatic rifle
In a release, CSPD Chief Adrian Vasquez stated “Greed is what drives the drug business, not a lack of knowledge about the dangers of fentanyl. This is where criminal laws must step in and hold people accountable. While I am immensely proud of the work of our officers and detectives, they can only work within the laws that are written by the legislature. This is a community problem that will require a community response to fix.”
He added that recent legislation from the Colorado General Assembly "fails to understand how and why suspects are distributing fentanyl in our community."
The Fentanyl Accountability and Prevention Bill was signed by Governor Polis in May. Opponents raised concerns about a provision that allowed people to claim they did not know they possessed fentanyl, which was taken out of the final measure.
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UO student creates Oregon22's title sequence to be seen by a billion viewers
When Quinn Connell signed up for motion graphics class class for their winter term at the University of Oregon, he didn't expect to spend the next six months finalizing a 30-second video that would be shown to a billion people.
Connell, a 19-year-old cinema studies major who uses he/they pronouns, created an intro title sequence for the 10-day World Athletics Championships Oregon 22, which kicks off Friday. The organization asked UO to work with students to develop the title sequence that will be shown in the beginning of the championships − both on the international broadcast and on the main screen at Hayward Field, where the competition is being held.
Connell's vibrant production was chosen as the winner. In it, clips of athletes are highlighted with colorful ribbons of light that keep pace with high-energy music.
Students in UO's introductory motion graphics class created their own promotional sequences starting in mid-January to match the projectrequest of Oregon22. Out of about a dozen students, Connell's video was selected by Oregon22 as the winner.
"The fact that I did win was completely mind boggling," Connell said. "It still doesn't quite feel real, to be honest."
He said the competition was a close call, with several great entries from his classmates.
Read more:Oregon22 organizers encourage preparation, vigilance as Eugene, state host the world
Working with World Athletics
Connell came to UO with eight years of video editing and graphics experience under their belt, but he's been drawn to film for as long as he can remember. He began working with stop-motion claymation as a child, then went on to experiment with live action before he eventually found visual effects, which became his passion.
The introductory motion graphics class, offered by Nikki Dunsire who is the Oregon Reality Lab manager, seemed like the perfect fit. He would have taken the class anyway, he said, but the Oregon22 project was an added incentive.
The Oregon Reality Lab, based on the university's Portland campus, is "a multidisciplinary teaching and research facility" run by the School of Journalism and Communication. Dunsire said they specialize in 3D production, virtual reality and augmented reality development.
Since taking an interest in film, Connell had been commissioned by family, schools, community groups and a YouTube channel for video editing and visual effects, but said this was their first time working with such a large, structured company on a video project.
They mentioned learning about the "professional pipeline" through the lengthy process. Connell added that this was the longest period − six months − he had spent working on such a "short" project, clocking in at just 34 seconds. They submitted the entry in March, were named the winner in April and then finalized the sequence by mid-June.
"With the amount of revisions and shot replacements and graphical modifications I did through this whole process, I basically made like two or three different intro title sequences," Connell said.
"This was definitely unprecedented in a lot of ways. This is a massive organization with a lot of existing rules and ideas about how they want to present themselves to the world. It was a lot of following along with that and learning how they wanted me to perform. It was very professional."
Connell balanced Oregon22's brand guidelines with his own vision, which resulted in the "big, bold, colorful" end result.
More Oregon22:Where will athletes be staying, eating while they're in Eugene?
Dunsire, who uses she/they pronouns, said Connell did the best job at following all the organization's requests. She worked closely with Connell after his video was selected as the finalist to help them complete it for a global audience.
For Connell and the other students in the class, Dunsire said this project offered great real-world experience for the students who plan to go into the film, commercial or media industry with post-production. It was especially valuable practice for an introductory course.
"I think what can be challenging for students at times is being able to recognize that the work that they're producing is for a client at the end of the day," Dunsire said. "Feedback and revisions aren't reflective of you, as a person, they're reflective of the work. That can be very challenging for students, because we get very, very glued to our ideas. But Quinn did a great job of listening to what it was that they were looking for."
Representing Oregon and looking forward to the future
Connell's sequence will be shown during the beginning of Friday's first events. Connell and Dunsire are excited to see it air.
Connell and Dunsire both graduated from Lake Oswego High School, but about 20 years apart. They said they are happy to represent Oregon and the university on a global scale.
After an exciting summer, Connell will be starting their sophomore year at UO in the fall. He still has a lot of energy and excitement for visual effects. He plans to take as many media, film and effects classes as possible in the next three years.
Ducks in Oregon22:Oregon — the school and the state — will be well-represented at the World Athletics Championships
"I'm hoping to just get as much experience and meet as many people as possible while I'm in this sort of college incubator environment," Connell said. "Once I'm out, I hope to just immediately get into a pretty good position at some kind of post-production agency, commercial agency. … Some kind of production or video editing role in a professional space would be amazing."
Dunsire said they believe Connell can do anything he puts his mind to, given his fierce motivation. They hope Connell will continue along this path with the new knowledge he gained from the class and his experience working with Oregon22.
"With a few exceptions, most of the students came in having not done this kind of work before," Dunsire said. "Throughout the quarter, the students got a firsthand look of what it is like to work with a client.
"You can't provide a student any more real-world experience than this while they're still in school."
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
955 PM CDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of south central
Anderson County through 1030 PM CDT...
At 954 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Palestine, moving south at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Palestine and Elkhart.
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 3157 9545 3155 9558 3155 9574 3156 9571
3158 9573 3160 9571 3162 9571 3165 9574
3165 9575 3162 9575 3160 9576 3185 9575
3185 9546
TIME...MOT...LOC 0254Z 359DEG 9KT 3173 9562
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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Perseverance rover scouts spot for 1st mission that will launch from Mars
The Perseverance rover now has a new job: acting as a location scout on Mars.
In addition to collecting the first samples from an ancient river delta on the red planet, the robotic explorer has been scouting out flat areas around Jezero Crater that could serve as a landing site for the Mars Sample Return Campaign.
This ambitious initiative, a joint venture between NASA and the European Space Agency, will rely on multiple missions to fetch samples collected by Perseverance and return them to Earth over the next decade. These specimens will be the first Martian samples returned to Earth.
"I'm a geologist, meteorologist, photographer, etc. Now I can add 'location scout' to the list. I've been scoping out spots where Mars Sample Return spacecraft could set up operations -- including the first launchpad on another planet," read a tweet from the rover's Twitter account.
As Perseverance investigates the site of an ancient lake that existed billions of years ago, it's collecting rocks and soil. This material is of interest because it could contain evidence of past microscopic organisms that would reveal whether life ever existed on Mars.
Scientists will have the chance to use some of the most sophisticated instruments around the world to study these precious samples.
A pathway of innovations
The campaign to return Martian samples to Earth will begin in the mid-2020s, when a rocket launches on a mission to Mars carrying a Sample Retrieval Lander and a fetch rover.
Once the lander arrives at Mars, it will touch down near Jezero Crater and release the fetch rover to retrieve samples from areas where Perseverance has stashed them on the Martian surface.
There is also a possibility that Perseverance itself may keep some samples aboard and deliver them to the lander.
The fetch rover isn't the only spacecraft hitching a ride on the lander, however. It will also deliver the Mars Ascent Vehicle — the first rocket that will ever launch from the Martian surface, with the samples tucked safely inside.
A separate mission will launch from Earth in the mid-2020s, called the Earth Return Orbiter, to rendezvous with the Mars Ascent Vehicle.
Onboard the Earth Return Orbiter is the Capture/Containment and Return System, which will collect the container of samples from the Mars Ascent Vehicle while both vehicles are in orbit around Mars.
The Earth Return Orbiter will then head back to our world. Once the spacecraft is close to Earth, it will release the Earth Entry Vehicle that contains the cache of samples, and that spacecraft will touchdown on Earth in the early to mid-2030s.
Robotic components for the campaign are currently being tested at NASA and ESA centers.
Seeking a Martian pancake
In order to land on — and launch from — Mars, the sample return mission needs a flat surface with a 200-foot radius without sand dunes, angled terrain or rocks more than 7.5 inches in diameter cluttering the area. Obstacle-free, pancake-flat terrain will also make it easier for the fetch rover to retrieve the samples.
"The Perseverance team pulled out all the stops for us, because Mars Sample Return has unique needs when it comes to where we operate," said Richard Cook, Mars Sample Return program manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, in a statement.
"Essentially, a dull landing place is good. The flatter and more uninspiring the vista, the better we like it, because while there are a lot of things that need to be done when we arrive to pick up the samples, sightseeing is not one of them."
The sample return team has used the rover's cameras to survey a flat area they call the "landing strip." The area, long and flat like a runway at an airport, was previously spotted in images taken by orbiters circling the planet. Perseverance has been able to capture a better view from the ground.
"We had been eyeing these locations since before Perseverance's landing, but imagery from orbit can only tell you so much," said Al Chen, Mars Sample Return systems engineering and integration manager at JPL, in a statement.
"Now we have some up-close-and-personal shots of the landing strip that indicate we were right on the money. The landing strip will more than likely make our shortlist of potential landing and caching sites for (Mars Sample Return)." | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/perseverance-rover-scouts-spot-1st-mission-launch-from-mars/40606115 | 2022-07-14T03:35:07Z | https://www.wvtm13.com/article/perseverance-rover-scouts-spot-1st-mission-launch-from-mars/40606115 | true |
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Kyleigh Brunette is your typical eight-year-old girl. She enjoys sports, playing with her siblings, and loves her family. But what you might not know is that at just six years old, her world came to a halt after her dad, 32-year-old Jordon Wakefield, died by suicide.
"I miss him every day," said Kyleigh.
It wasn't until a couple of months ago that Kyleigh learned what actually happened from her mom. That conversation inspired Kyleigh to set up a lemonade stand right down the street from her house the week of her dad's birthday, July 9.
"We wanted to raise the money in honor of my dad so that no other kid would have to go through losing a parent," said Kyleigh.
"After everything she's been through, to come out on top and to use it to push her and drive her further. That's just, it's amazing," said Kyleigh's mom, Brittany Brunette-Thimmesch.
In total, Kyleigh ended up raising $800 for mental health awareness. On Wednesday, she took her initiative a step further by driving to the Mental Health America organization in Sheboygan to surprise the non-profit with a donation.
"I am so proud of her. She is the most incredible, most incredible eight-year-old I could've ever asked for," said Brittany.
Kyleigh says while her dad may not be here, she knows he's smiling down and watching her.
"I miss my dad a lot and I can't wait to see him again soon," said Kyleigh.
And she's continuing to inspire others along the way.
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U.B.: Can your government help finance it yourself ? Or have enough funds available that would require your participation, at least of invoiced receievabes which are non - negotiable which by doing both might put the US and Russia \"more of less \"equal.\nNo reply required (these words belong not only you), but my answers to many more QI, I had not seen...: I have the answers: we have to take these days what money have ROANOKE, Va. – The response from law enforcement in the Uvalde shooting has been widely criticized and the leak of the video inside the school raises even more questions.
10 News wants to warn you that you may find some of this video disturbing. WSLS believes it is important to show the video because the events of that day have been under intense scrutiny. WSLS has chosen not to air or publish the story with the audio due to the sensitivity of this – but it is available through a number of other outlets if you wish to view it in its entirety.
Families of the victims in Uvalde, as well as the nation, continue to mourn the lives lost on that day, but leaked surveillance footage from inside the school has reignited the anger towards the police response.
10 News asked Dr. Tod Burke, former police officer and retired professor of criminal justice, to weigh in on the video.
“It seemed like the police’s initial response was quick, so that wasn’t really where the issue was,” said Burke.
Despite arriving at Robb Elementary School within minutes of the shooter, police did not go into the classroom.
“Now remember it’s the initial officers at the scene that need to go in quickly, and check the doors, get inside and neutralize the shooter as quickly as possible,” Burke added.
But that was not done – The video shows officers retreating in the hallway after the shooter fired at them.
“The idea of waiting around for backup, that used to be the old days: you stop, you secure the scene, you wait for the SWAT team to arrive, but meanwhile people are being shot, people are being killed,” Burke said.
Burke said that being trained to wait for backup is outdated and that now, law enforcement is taught to get in quickly.
Instead, officers gathered in the hallway and waited over an hour to confront the shooter. Local, state, and federal agencies were there, with seemingly no plan.
“Decide this is happening, now what are you going to do, who’s going to do what?” Burke said. “But everybody should be on the same page, should use the same communication.”
Officers rushed into the classroom and killed the gunman one hour and 14 minutes after police initially arrived and after 19 students and two teachers were killed.
Burke said he hopes this tragedy will reinforce the importance of training and preparedness. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/14/former-police-officer-weighs-in-on-delayed-law-enforcement-response-in-uvalde-school-shooting/ | 2022-07-14T03:43:31Z | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/14/former-police-officer-weighs-in-on-delayed-law-enforcement-response-in-uvalde-school-shooting/ | false |
TPG Telecom said it was “surprised” and “disappointed” by a social media campaign waged against its proposed network sharing deal with Telstra.
The telco said it and Telstra had lodged a response today to the “smaller set of submissions” made to the ACCC from opponents of the agreement, while welcoming “overwhelming support” from others.
Optus is the deal’s major opponent, and there has been no love lost in the regulatory tussle over whether or not the network and spectrum sharing deal should be allowed to proceed.
TPG Telecom said that “in almost all instances”, opponents had “failed to provide a rational argument” against the proposal, and in some cases had “mischaracterised” the proposal or relied on “factual errors”.
It accused “lobby groups and minor industry players” of not properly reading the details - or, more seriously, of “deliberately ignoring the information provided.”
Unsurprisingly, however, the fiercest rebuke was saved for Optus, and particularly the telco’s use of social media.
TPG Telecom's general manager of external affairs James Rickards said the telco “was surprised by the recent attempts by Optus and its leadership team to leverage the suffering of communities affected by bushfires and floods for social media stunts criticising the arrangement.”
“It is a disappointment to our industry Optus chose to use emotionally manipulative images of kangaroos seeking to escape a bushfire, in an increasingly desperate attempt to stop a competition-enhancing arrangement,” Rickards said.
“Such posts have been recognised by the Australian public for exactly what they are: misguided and inappropriate.”
TPG accused Optus of engaging “in scaremongering and rolling out its executives to trumpet the same lines regarding resiliency and future regional investment”, which it described as “an insult” to regional mobile users.
An Optus spokesperson has been contacted by iTnews for comment.
TPG said that Optus was concerned about losing customers and market share to a TPG that was newly bolstered by Telstra’s network.
“If [the network sharing agreement is] approved, TPG will finally be in a position to compete for Optus and Telstra customers and intends to take market share in all regions,” it said. | https://www.itnews.com.au/news/tpg-blasts-emotionally-manipulative-optus-campaign-against-telstra-deal-582645?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=iTnews+ | 2022-07-14T03:43:31Z | https://www.itnews.com.au/news/tpg-blasts-emotionally-manipulative-optus-campaign-against-telstra-deal-582645?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=iTnews+ | false |
CEDARHURST, N.Y., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The securities litigation law firm of Kuznicki Law PLLC issues this alert to shareholders of Unilever PLC (NYSE: UL), if they purchased the Company's American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") between September 2, 2020 and July 21, 2021, inclusive (the "Class Period"). Shareholders have until August 15, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in the securities class action lawsuit.
Shareholders are encouraged to contact us at https://kclasslaw.com/cases/securities/nyse-ul/, by calling toll-free at 1-833-835-1495 or by email (dk@kclasslaw.com).
Kuznicki Law PLLC is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a Company lead to artificial inflation of the Company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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SÃO PAULO, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A. (NYSE: GOL and B3: GOLL4), Brazil's largest domestic airline, announces today preliminary air traffic figures for the month of June 2022, compared to the same period in 2021.
Highlights:
- GOL's total supply (ASK) increased 68.6%. Total seats increased 74.1% and the number of departures increased by 79.6%. GOL's total demand (RPK) increased by 54% and the load factor was 76.7%.
- GOL's domestic supply (ASK) increased 55.9% and demand (RPK) increased by 40.6%. GOL's domestic load factor was 75.7%. The volume of departures increased by 73.9% and seats increased by 68.6%.
- GOL's international supply (ASK) was 223 million, the demand (RPK) was 198 million and international load factor was 88.6%.
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About GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A. ("GOL")
GOL is Brazil's largest airline, leader in the corporate and leisure segments. Since its founding in 2001, it has been the airline with the lowest unit cost in Latin America, which has enabled the democratization of air transportation. The Company has alliances with American Airlines and Air France-KLM, in addition to making available to Customers many codeshares and interline agreements, bringing more convenience and ease of connections to any place served by these partnerships. With the purpose of "Being First for Everyone", GOL offers the best travel experience to its passengers, including: the largest inventory of seats and the most legroom; the most complete platform with internet, movies, and live TV; and the best loyalty program, SMILES. In cargo transportation, GOLLOG delivers parcels to various regions in Brazil and abroad and has a partnership with Mercado Livre. The Company has a team of 14,000 highly qualified airline professionals focused on Safety, GOL's number one value, and operates a standardized fleet of 142 Boeing 737 aircraft. GOL's shares are traded on the NYSE (GOL) and the B3 (GOLL4). For further information, visit www.voegol.com.br/ri.
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ST. IGNACE, Mich. (WJMN) — A woman has been arrested in the death of a baby found in a vault toilet at a campground in 1997, the Mackinac County Sheriff’s Office says.
Authorities say the woman, formerly of Garnet, Michigan, was arrested in Wyoming Tuesday and is awaiting extradition back to Michigan, where she will be charged with homicide-open murder.
The investigation began in 1997 when the Mackinac County Sheriff’s Office and Michigan State Police found the remains of an unidentified baby in a vault toilet at the Garnet Lake Campground in Hudson Township. They called the child Baby Garnet, but the baby was never identified and the case went cold.
In the summer of 2017, investigators turned back to the case. They ultimately turned to forensic genealogy — searching public DNA databases — to find relatives of Baby Garnet. They said a genealogist provided them with the mother’s name.
Investigators say the 58-year-old woman confirmed she was the mother of the child and made “additional statements” that led them to arrest her.
It’s not yet known when the woman will be extradited back to Michigan. Her name was not released pending arraignment. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/arrest-made-in-1997-death-of-baby-found-in-michigan-campground-toilet/ | 2022-07-14T03:49:53Z | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/arrest-made-in-1997-death-of-baby-found-in-michigan-campground-toilet/ | true |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 4" game were:
0-9-8-5
(zero, nine, eight, five)
¶ Maximum prize: $500
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Daily Pick 4" game were:
0-9-8-5
(zero, nine, eight, five)
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Lucas Giolito pitched one-run ball into the seventh inning and the Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland 2-1 on Wednesday night after Guardians' starter Aaron Civale exited after one inning because of a sore right wrist.
Giolito (6-5) yielded an unearned run in 6 1/3 innings and extended his dominance of Cleveland hitters. The right-hander is 5-1 with a 0.83 ERA in 10 starts against Cleveland since May 17, 2019.
Giolito's strong outing, along with RBIs by José Abreu and Andrew Vaughn, helped the White Sox earn a split of the four-game series between the teams battling for second place in the AL Central Division.
Civale allowed two hits and threw 20 pitches in the scoreless first inning. Civale's injury forced manager Terry Francona to use five relievers, one day after the teams played a doubleheader.
Eli Morgan and Enyel De Los Santos each pitched two scoreless innings, but the White Sox got on the board in the sixth inning, scoring two runs off Sam Hentges (2-2) in the sixth. A double by Abreu scored Yoán Moncada, who had drawn a leadoff walk. Vaughn followed with an RBI groundout.
Liam Hendriks pitched the ninth and earned his 18th save in 21 chances.
Giolito retired the first batter in the seventh and was lifted after Franmil Reyes singled and rookie Nolan Jones walked. Owen Miller hit into a fielder’s choice. Miller was ruled out at first, but the call was reversed after a replay review.
Second baseman Josh Harrison’s fielding error on a ground ball by pinch-hitter Andrés Giménez allowed Reyes to score. Myles Straw grounded out to end the inning.
Civale missed a month earlier this season because of a left glute injury. The right-hander returned June 21 and was making his fifth start since coming off the injured list. Civale is 2-5 with a 6.17 ERA in 12 starts this season. He sprained the middle finger on his pitching hand last season and was out from June 21 to Sept 7.
Chicago’s All-Star shortstop Tim Anderson remained in the game after being hit on the leg by Luis Robert’s sharply hit grounder while running the bases in the seventh.
Left fielder Eloy Jiménez came up limping after catching José Ramírez’s liner to end the sixth and was removed from the game with tightness in his right leg.
LOOKING AHEAD
Chicago begins a four-game series Thursday night against AL Central-leading Minnesota at Target Field. The White Sox haven’t been over .500 since they were 22-21 on May 25, which has led to a stretch that manager Tony La Russa admitted hasn’t been fun.
“We’ve got expectations for a reason,” he said. “We’ve got talent.”
La Russa believes his self-evaluation process as a manager never stops.
“If you’re preaching accountability for the players, you better start with yourself,” he said. “I think our record should be better, so I should manage better.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
White Sox: C Yasmani Grandal (back spasms) was 2 for 3 with a walk as the designated hitter for Triple-A Charlotte on his rehab assignment Tuesday night. He was placed on the injured list June 13.
Guardians: LHP Anthony Gose (strained triceps) is expected to begin a throwing program early next week. He was placed on the IL on July 3. … OF Oscar Gonzalez (right intercostal strain) is taking swings in the batting cage. He hasn’t played since June 29.
UP NEXT
White Sox: RHP Johnny Cueto (3-4, 2.91 ERA) looks to go 4-0 lifetime against the Twins on Thursday. Chicago is 1-5 versus Minnesota this season.
Guardians: RHP Triston McKenzie (6-6, 3.47 ERA) is scheduled to start against the Tigers on Thursday night. Cleveland was swept in a four-game series at Detroit last week.
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Jennifer Lopez rocks a plaid jacket and jeans while leaving a dance studio in Los Angeles
Jennifer Lopez was spotted as she left a dance studio in Los Angeles on Wednesday afternoon.
The 52-year-old hitmaker cut a seriously stylish figure as she made her way out of the establishment and hopped into a waiting Bentley convertible that was being driven by a friend.
The singer-songwriter's outing occurred prior to the release of two major motion pictures in which she is set to star.
Out and about: Jennifer Lopez was spotted as she left a dance studio in Los Angeles on Wednesday afternoon
Lopez rocked a plaid button-up jacket on top of a white t-shirt while leaving the dance studio.
The On The Floor singer also donned a wide-legged pair of blue jeans that added a bit of extra color to her outfit.
The Marry Me star sported a set of dual-tone boots and accessorized with a stylish pair of aviator-style sunglasses.
Her beautiful dark blonde hair was tied into a lengthy ponytail that fell onto her back during her outing.
Fashionable: Lopez rocked a plaid button-up jacket on top of a white t-shirt while leaving the dance studio
Comfortable clothing: The On The Floor singer also donned a wide-legged pair of blue jeans that added a bit of extra color to her outfit
Although Lopez is well known for her work as a dancer, she has also carved out an impressive career as an actress.
The performer is currently set to star in the forthcoming action-thriller movie The Mother.
The film will be centered on a reclusive assassin who is brought out of retirement when her daughter is targeted by a group of assailants.
Different roads: Although Lopez is well known for her work as a dancer, she has also carved out an impressive career as an actress
In addition to starring in the feature, the hitmaker will also serve as one of its producers.
Other cast members in the forthcoming feature include Joseph Fiennes, Gael Garcia Bernal and Omari Hardwick.
The Mother is currently set to be released on the Netflix streaming platform later this year.
Dual roles: In addition to starring in the feature, the hitmaker will also serve as one of its producers
Coming soon: The Mother is currently set to be released on the Netflix streaming platform later this year
Lopez will also star in the forthcoming romantic comedy-action feature Shotgun Wedding.
The movie will follow a pair of arguing families who have to work together when their wedding party is taken hostage.
The film's cast also boasts performers such as Jennifer Coolidge, Cheech Marin and Lenny Kravitz.
Leading woman: Lopez will also star in the forthcoming romantic comedy-action feature Shotgun Wedding
Stacked cast: The film's cast also boasts performers such as Jennifer Coolidge, Cheech Marin and Lenny Kravitz
Armie Hammer was previously set to serve as the male lead for the feature, but he was later replaced by Josh Duhamel after being faced with allegations of abuse in January of last year.
Although filming was supposed to commence in 2019, it began two years later and concluded last April.
Shotgun Wedding was previously scheduled to premiere this past June, although it is currently expected to be released on the Amazon Prime Video service next year.
Worth the wait: Although filming was supposed to commence in 2019, it began two years later and concluded last April | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11012089/Jennifer-Lopez-stylish-performer-leaving-dance-studio-Los-Angeles.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-14T03:54:44Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11012089/Jennifer-Lopez-stylish-performer-leaving-dance-studio-Los-Angeles.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
1010 PM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Litchfield and southeastern Berkshire Counties through 1045 PM EDT...
At 1010 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Norfolk, or 13 miles northwest of Torrington, moving northeast at 45
mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Sheffield, Becket, Norfolk, Otis, Canaan, Sandisfield, Falls Village,
Ashley Falls, Salisbury, New Marlborough, Colebrook, Cornwall,
Monterey, Tyringham, South Norfolk, Sodom, South Canaan, Hartsville,
Konkapot and Wangum Village.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 4194 7350 4201 7349 4238 7308 4237 7307
4233 7306 4231 7303 4231 7300 4225 7300
4215 7303 4215 7307 4212 7306 4211 7307
4209 7307 4204 7305 4204 7302 4181 7329
TIME...MOT...LOC 0210Z 218DEG 38KT 4201 7323
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Lucas Giolito pitched one-run ball into the seventh inning and the Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland 2-1 on Wednesday night after Guardians' starter Aaron Civale exited after one inning because of a sore right wrist.
Giolito (6-5) yielded an unearned run in 6 1/3 innings and extended his dominance of Cleveland hitters. The right-hander is 5-1 with a 0.83 ERA in 10 starts against Cleveland since May 17, 2019.
Giolito's strong outing, along with RBIs by José Abreu and Andrew Vaughn, helped the White Sox earn a split of the four-game series between the teams battling for second place in the AL Central Division.
Civale allowed two hits and threw 20 pitches in the scoreless first inning. Civale's injury forced manager Terry Francona to use five relievers, one day after the teams played a doubleheader.
Eli Morgan and Enyel De Los Santos each pitched two scoreless innings, but the White Sox got on the board in the sixth inning, scoring two runs off Sam Hentges (2-2) in the sixth. A double by Abreu scored Yoán Moncada, who had drawn a leadoff walk. Vaughn followed with an RBI groundout.
Liam Hendriks pitched the ninth and earned his 18th save in 21 chances.
Giolito retired the first batter in the seventh and was lifted after Franmil Reyes singled and rookie Nolan Jones walked. Owen Miller hit into a fielder’s choice. Miller was ruled out at first, but the call was reversed after a replay review.
Second baseman Josh Harrison’s fielding error on a ground ball by pinch-hitter Andrés Giménez allowed Reyes to score. Myles Straw grounded out to end the inning.
Civale missed a month earlier this season because of a left glute injury. The right-hander returned June 21 and was making his fifth start since coming off the injured list. Civale is 2-5 with a 6.17 ERA in 12 starts this season. He sprained the middle finger on his pitching hand last season and was out from June 21 to Sept 7.
Chicago’s All-Star shortstop Tim Anderson remained in the game after being hit on the leg by Luis Robert’s sharply hit grounder while running the bases in the seventh.
Left fielder Eloy Jiménez came up limping after catching José Ramírez’s liner to end the sixth and was removed from the game with tightness in his right leg.
LOOKING AHEAD
Chicago begins a four-game series Thursday night against AL Central-leading Minnesota at Target Field. The White Sox haven’t been over .500 since they were 22-21 on May 25, which has led to a stretch that manager Tony La Russa admitted hasn’t been fun.
“We’ve got expectations for a reason,” he said. “We’ve got talent.”
La Russa believes his self-evaluation process as a manager never stops.
“If you’re preaching accountability for the players, you better start with yourself,” he said. “I think our record should be better, so I should manage better.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
White Sox: C Yasmani Grandal (back spasms) was 2 for 3 with a walk as the designated hitter for Triple-A Charlotte on his rehab assignment Tuesday night. He was placed on the injured list June 13.
Guardians: LHP Anthony Gose (strained triceps) is expected to begin a throwing program early next week. He was placed on the IL on July 3. … OF Oscar Gonzalez (right intercostal strain) is taking swings in the batting cage. He hasn’t played since June 29.
UP NEXT
White Sox: RHP Johnny Cueto (3-4, 2.91 ERA) looks to go 4-0 lifetime against the Twins on Thursday. Chicago is 1-5 versus Minnesota this season.
Guardians: RHP Triston McKenzie (6-6, 3.47 ERA) is scheduled to start against the Tigers on Thursday night. Cleveland was swept in a four-game series at Detroit last week.
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STARR COUNTY, Texas (Border Report) — A remote 1.7-mile section of the state-funded border wall is still under construction in rural Starr County near the small border town of La Grulla.
The wall is 30 feet tall and is being built using surplus supplies from Trump-era border wall contracts that were halted by the Biden administration.
Before the wall is completed, Texas lawmakers must consider paying for border security initiatives currently in place, specifically the $4 billion state-funded Operation Lone Star.
During a Texas Senate Finance Committee hearing on border security spending this week, Vice-Chairman Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa called Operation Lone Star a “bottomless pit” and questioned whether taxpayers can continue to fund it at the current rate.
During Tuesday’s six-hour marathon hearing, Hinojosa repeatedly asked state officials to explain how much money has been spent already on Operation Lone Star and the state-funded border wall and whether more will be needed when the new fiscal year begins on Oct. 1.
The hearing was held in Austin after reports that the Justice Department is investigating Operation Lone Star.
“I want the public to understand the challenges we are facing on border security in taking on some of the responsibilities the federal government has failed to address,” said Hinojosa, a Democrat from the border town of McAllen. “I’m very much concerned about the money. I don’t think quite frankly this can continue forever but at some point, we need to find a way to manage the situation as best as we can but continue to pressure the federal government to do its job. As a state, ourselves, the amount of money we’re spending on border security and the amount of people coming across is like a bottomless pit and I’m very concerned about that.”
The numbers presented by the Legislative Budget Board were astronomical, and Hinojosa said at times he became frustrated and confused over whether the funds will run out before the Legislature convenes in January when lawmakers can vote on new budgets.
Texas National Guard Adjutant Gen. Thomas Suelzer testified that $1.35 billion more will be needed for the Fiscal Year 2023 to maintain current National Guard troop operations.
Sarah Hicks, budget and policy director for the Office of the Governor, said the funds are being well spent and were part of previous border security packages approved by the Texas Legislature.
She said an initial $250 million was given to fund the state-built border wall.
“The long-term protection will come in the form of barriers, however, until barrier can be constructed we must rely on a significant and visible law enforcement presence to dissuade those who consider breaking the law,” Hicks testified.
But Hinojosa said that at the current spending rate, the 805 miles of border wall that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants to build would cost $17 billion and take 34 years to complete. And he said he doesn’t think the state can afford it.
He also complained that the money spent “keeps shifting” and said independent sources have told lawmakers that spending has already topped $5 billion for border security.
“I have not seen a set of numbers that don’t move around,” Hinojosa said.
“The real problem is the flow of immigrants, it appears, are not being deterred by the billions that we’re spending if 18,000 per day are coming over,” said State Sen. John Whitmire, a Democrat from Houston told the committee.
Committee Chairwoman Sen. Joan Huffman, a Republican, defended the mission of Operation Lone Star.
“Securing our national border is a federal responsibility. We’ve said that from the beginning but we, the state, simply don’t have the resources to take on 100% of our security forces indefinitely. But until the federal government steps up to ensure long-term security, we have a duty to act to support effective border security, combat illegal immigration and foster lawful immigration,” Huffman said.
Abbott reports that since Operation Lone Star begin in March 2021, there have been over 274,000 migrant apprehensions and 16,700 criminal arrests.
There were over 5,000 apprehensions during the 4th of July weekend alone, Huffman said.
Hicks said that $55 million in private donations have been received to help build the border wall, which Abbott wants to extend for hundreds of miles.
And $116,000 in private donations have been received to help bus migrants to Washington, D.C.
She also said the state has spent $1.5 million on 121 trips to the nation’s Capitol carrying 4,428 migrants from 28 countries.
Abbott last week also announced that DPS troopers and Texas National Guard would arrest and start busing migrants to the border ports of entry. | https://www.krqe.com/news/border-report/texas-border-wall-operation-lone-star-a-bottomless-pit-for-funds-state-senator-says/ | 2022-07-14T03:58:42Z | https://www.krqe.com/news/border-report/texas-border-wall-operation-lone-star-a-bottomless-pit-for-funds-state-senator-says/ | false |
US tourist falls into Mount Vesuvius after climbing forbidden path to take selfie atop volcano, miraculously survives
A 23-year-old tourist from the US miraculously survived a fall into the Mount Vesuvius crater in Campania, Italy, on Saturday.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- A 23-year-old tourist from the US miraculously survived a fall into the Mount Vesuvius crater in Campania, Italy
- After ignoring the warning signs, Carroll tried taking a selfie atop the volcano - and dropped his phone into the crater
- He somehow managed to stop his fall and later was rescued by local guides
A 23-year-old tourist from the US miraculously survived a fall into the Mount Vesuvius crater in Campania, Italy, on Saturday.
Philip Carroll, from Baltimore in the US state of Maryland, was hiking on an unauthorised trail along with his relatives.
The path had signs warning of danger and forbidden access.
Paolo Cappelli, president of the Presidio Permanente Vesuvio base on the summit of the 4,000-foot volcano, told NBC News, "This family took another trail, closed to tourists, even if there was a small gate and ‘no access’ signs."
After ignoring the warning signs, Carroll took a selfie atop the volcano - and dropped his phone into the crater.
"He tried to recover it, but slipped and slid a few meters into the crater. He managed to stop his fall, but at that point, he was stuck. He was very lucky. If he kept going, he would have plunged 300 meters into the crater," Cappelli said.
Local guides saw what happened with binoculars from the opposite side of the rim and rushed to help. They rappelled into the crater to pull Carroll back to safety.
He suffered minor injuries including cuts and bruises on his arms and back.
Carroll was taken into custody by the local Carabinieri police.
The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius took place in 1944. It is still active but is in a state of repose and unlikely to erupt anytime soon, according to the website of the Vesuvius National Park.
Mount Vesuvius is still considered one of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes due to its physical proximity to major towns like Naples.
The mountain's highest peak reaches 4,190 feet. The crater has a diameter of 1,476 feet and is 984 feet deep.
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Citing “numerous” reports of illegal evictions throughout the state, California Attorney Rob Bonta on Wednesday took steps to make sure law enforcement officers are working to prevent tenants from losing their homes without a valid court order.
Illegal or “self-help” evictions take many forms, including a landlord changing the locks on someone’s home without authorization, shutting off the water or electricity in an attempt to force a tenant out, or removing a renter’s personal property, Bonta said during a virtual media briefing. In an effort to stop those breaches of law, Bonta issued legal guidance that lays out a law enforcement officer’s responsibility to intervene.
The issue is part of California’s broader housing crisis, which has hit the expensive Bay Area particularly hard.
“California’s families are facing a housing affordability crisis at levels never seen before,” Bonta said. “We are facing an eviction crisis. About one in seven renters in California is behind in their rent, potentially facing eviction. This crisis looks like a single mom whose bout with COVID-19 left her unemployed. The crisis is a young professional whose employer again illegally sent their paycheck late. This crisis is an elderly couple on a fixed income relying on life-saving medication that just doubled in price.”
California’s last remaining statewide rules preventing evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic expired last month, freeing many landlords to remove tenants who are behind on rent or who have posed other problems. But landlords must go through the courts — a process that can take weeks or months — and wait for a judge to order the local sheriff’s office to remove a tenant.
All too often, local tenants’ rights activists say, landlords try to skirt the legal process and take matters into their own hands. Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment is suing a Richmond landlord accused of illegally locking his tenant, Clara Luz Realageno, out of her studio apartment last year. Leah Simon-Weisberg, legal director for the alliance, said she saw a 500% increase in calls about illegal evictions during the pandemic. The surge has slowed down, but it’s still a major issue. Now, she gets calls from tenants throughout California at least once a month.
The issue has inspired some cities — including Concord, which passed its ordinance in June — to adopt new laws that explicitly prohibit landlords from harassing tenants. Tenants and activists in Antioch are trying to get the city council there to pass similar protections.
Ericka Mora, an Oakland renter, said she was the victim of an attempted illegal eviction when her landlord put chains on the door of her basement apartment last month, locking her out until she and her neighbors broke the chains. Mora said her landlord had given her verbal notice that she needed to vacate the apartment because it was going to be sold, but never took her to court or gave her any eviction paperwork. Earlier this week, she said, the landlord shut off her water.
“I want to move, but I don’t have money to move,” Mora said in Spanish. “I’m a single mother with two kids, and I can’t.”
Simon-Weisberg applauded the guidance Bonta issued Wednesday, calling it “really important.” Too often when law enforcement is called to the scene of an illegal eviction, they say it’s a civil matter and decline to get involved, she said. Or they will believe and side with the landlord.
“One of the issues has been, consistently, when these things happen, the police don’t seem to know they have a role,” she said, “so it’s great for them to create that clarity.”
Forcing a tenant out of their home illegally is a misdemeanor offense, Bonta said. In that situation, law enforcement officers should instruct the landlord to let the tenant back into their home, and tell the landlord to seek legal advice to obtain a court-ordered eviction. Officers should write a report about the incident, even if they do not make an arrest.
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office concurs with Bonta’s guidance, said Lt. Ray Kelly, public information officer.
“We already do what he has prescribed,” Kelly said in an email. “We will continue to educate landlords and tenants.”
The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, Oakland Police Department and San Jose Police Department did not immediately respond to questions.
Bonta wouldn’t say how many calls his office has received about illegal evictions, but he said the number is “significant.”
“(It is) enough of a concern across the state that we felt it was important to remind law enforcement of their responsibilities under the law,” he said. “While landlords may be frustrated, they do have a responsibility to do things the right way if eviction is a necessary step.”
To report illegal landlord activity to the state’s Housing Strike Force, email housing@doj.ca.gov. To find a free, local attorney, visit lawhelpca.org. | https://www.times-standard.com/2022/07/13/california-ag-puts-law-enforcement-on-notice-over-illegal-evictions/ | 2022-07-14T04:01:10Z | https://www.times-standard.com/2022/07/13/california-ag-puts-law-enforcement-on-notice-over-illegal-evictions/ | true |
Barilaro inquiry a 'huge scandal': Labor
Revelations about the appointment of former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro to a taxpayer-funded trade job in New York City have become a "huge scandal", Labor says.
An upper house inquiry examining how Mr Barilaro landed the role as the state's senior trade and investment commissioner to the Americas has already found evidence of political interference and shown a public servant lost her job in the process, Opposition Leader Chris Minns says.
"Through their efforts we've determined that far from this being an independent process, it's been politically interfered with," Mr Minns told reporters on Thursday.
The inquiry heard on Monday that former public servant Jenny West was initially offered the role in August last year before it was given to Mr Barilaro last month.
Mr Barilaro has since withdrawn from the position amid public scrutiny and insists proper processes were followed.
"We've also discovered that (Ms West's) substantive role in the NSW public service was yanked from her after she was denied the New York position," Mr Minns said.
"Obviously, this is a huge scandal, and it'll be interesting to see what the NSW government's response is.
"I still haven't heard any convincing reason why the eminently qualified Jenny West was sacked from her position and John Barilaro was placed into it."
The inquiry, formed in mid-June, heard from Investment NSW chief executive Amy Brown last month and from Ms West on Monday.
Portions of Ms West's testimony were sent to the state's Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Deputy Premier Paul Toole said on Wednesday it was important the inquiry was able to investigate the appointment.
"We need to ensure that the inquiry process runs its due course. I'm not going to pre-empt the outcome of what that inquiry might be," Mr Toole told reporters.
He said he didn't have conversations with Mr Barilaro about the appointment.
Ms West, a former deputy secretary for Investment NSW, told the inquiry that after being offered the role by Ms Brown and given a briefing signed by then-premier Gladys Berejiklian, her offer was rescinded.
She said Ms Brown later told her the job would be a "present for someone".
Ms West was made redundant from her role at Investment NSW in November.
Her testimony conflicted with statements made by Ms Brown, who told the inquiry she withdrew the offer after the relationship between Ms West and the government became "irreconcilable".
Two staffers who worked for Mr Barilaro will give evidence to the inquiry on Monday, along with Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment general counsel Chris Carr. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11012269/Barilaro-inquiry-huge-scandal-Labor.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-14T04:02:32Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11012269/Barilaro-inquiry-huge-scandal-Labor.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Ukraine: US crypto investor reported held by separatists
The US state department has said it is aware of reports an American national living in Ukraine is being held captive by pro-Russian separatists.
Suedi Murekezi, 35, a Rwandan-born crypto investor, is said to have been arrested last month in the Russian-occupied port city of Kherson.
Friends and family say the US Air Force veteran has been falsely accused of joining pro-Ukraine protests.
He is reportedly in the same jail as two US fighters captured last month.
The state department said on Wednesday it was "aware of these unconfirmed reports".
But it declined to provide further comment "due to privacy considerations".
Mr Murekezi's family has been in daily contact with the agency, according to the Guardian.
The outlet reports that the missing American lived in Minnesota and spent eight years in the US Air Force until 2017, when he began investing in shares and cryptocurrencies.
Drawn to Ukraine by the country's liberal bitcoin regulations, Mr Murekezi made business trips to the country before permanently settling in Kherson two years ago, the Guardian said.
Sele Murekezi told the paper his brother had called on 7 July to say he was being held in the self-proclaimed, pro-Russian Donetsk People's Republic, along with two other Americans.
Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, 27, and Alexander Drueke, 39, both of whom travelled from the US state of Alabama to join a Ukrainian volunteer unit, have been held captive since early June.
But unlike Mr Huynh and Mr Drueke allegedly, Mr Murekezi did not take part in any fighting in Ukraine, according to his family.
"They are using him as a pawn for their own propaganda purposes," his brother said, expressing concern he may be particularly poorly treated because he is black.
Project Dynamo, a US-based non-profit that evacuates American civilians from risky situations abroad, has warned Mr Murekezi could face the death penalty in Donetsk.
"From what I understand, his only crime is that he is an American," said co-founder Bryan Stern.
Last month, two British men and a Moroccan man were sentenced by a court in Donetsk to be executed by firing squad. | https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-us-crypto-investor-reported-023832095.html | 2022-07-14T04:08:31Z | https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-us-crypto-investor-reported-023832095.html | true |
LONGPORT — Ventnor Beach Patrol's Stacey Price had a hand in all of her team's scoring Wednesday, and that was just enough to win the Longport Women's Lifeguard Invitational.
Price and rowing partner Lt. Meghan Holland started the evening off with a 13-second win in the doubles row in 11 minutes, 10 seconds. A half-hour later, Price took the singles row by 12 seconds.
Finally, in the surf dash that ended the event, Price was part of a foursome that took fourth to give Ventnor three points and the team championship by one point. The other members were Madison Lisitsin, Olivia Kulakowski and Samantha Keough.
The scoring was 7-5-4-3-2-1 for the first six places, and Ventnor won with 17 points. Ocean City, which won the surf dash, was second with 16 points. Atlantic City took third with 12. Longport, the defending team champion, also scored 12 points, but Atlantic City had a higher finish in the doubles, the South Jersey Lifeguard Chiefs Association's tiebreaker.
"It's always good to win it," said Price, 26, a former Jacksonville University rower. "I loved doing three events. I had no idea if we had won it (the team title) when it was all over. We were all having fun, and when you end up with the win it's even better."
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The Ventnor gave a roar when Holland and Price won the doubles, and they kept cheering as they carried the two in the boat off the shoreline after they crossed the finish line.
"I'm really excited to have the opportunity to row with Stacey, she's such a great athlete," said Holland, 39, the bow. "The level of the women athletes in lifeguarding has skyrocketed. Stacey is so athletic and skilled.
"We weren't first off the (halfway) flag, but coming in we got into a good rhythm and got some help (from the waves)."
Price won the singles in 5 minutes, 25 seconds and A.C.'s Morgan Simpson was second in 5:31.
Longport scored all 12 of its points in the swim as Meghan Fox won by 38 seconds in 12:31 and teammate Jordyn Ricciotti finished second.
"It was a very rough ocean today and it was important to stay calm," said Fox, 18. "I had to keep to my course. I used our patrol station as a landmark (to guide her to shore on course). It was a good swim."
In the paddleboard, which had a box course in the ocean, Brigantine's Grace Emig, Ocean City's Mia Gallaghe and Wildwood's Bella Taylor were about even coming to the shore. Emig won the sprint to the finish line on the beach for a win by two seconds in 3:42.
"I'm very happy to win. It was very close," said Emig, 23, the daughter of Brigantine Beach Patrol Chief Kip Emig.
Ocean City's Morgan Decosta, Haley Clayton, Annie Dollarton and Kat Soanes won the surf dash by eight seconds over Margate in 1:56. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/ventnor-edges-ocean-city-to-win-longport-womens-lifeguard-invitational/article_b6dcc76a-02d5-11ed-b1fd-9f81e103c08b.html | 2022-07-14T04:09:54Z | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/ventnor-edges-ocean-city-to-win-longport-womens-lifeguard-invitational/article_b6dcc76a-02d5-11ed-b1fd-9f81e103c08b.html | false |
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LAS VEGAS — The NBA has completed the process of changing the transition take foul rule, ending years of discussion about what to do with the long-maligned tactic.
And, also as expected, the play-in tournament is going to be around for the foreseeable future.
The league’s board of governors finalized those two matters Tuesday, approving a plan to award one free throw when teams are disadvantaged by the take foul — as well as removing the “experimental” designation from the play-in element to the postseason.
“Generally, it was upbeat coming out of our meeting,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said. “People are thrilled that as we head into next season, it looks like we’ll be on our normal track in terms of when the season starts, in terms of our protocols around the game, particularly around the health and safety of our players.”
It wasn’t a surprise that the league changed the penalty on take fouls; Silver told The Associated Press in early June that it would change, though he cautioned that the new rule might still be tweaked in future years.
The take foul — in which the defender does not make a play on the ball — is what the league classifies as one that occurs either “during a transition scoring opportunity or immediately following a change of possession and before the offensive team had the opportunity to advance the ball.” The exception is in the final 2 minutes of the fourth quarter or overtime.
The new penalty for such a foul is one free throw, which may be attempted by any player on the offended team in the game at the time the foul was committed, along with continued possession.
Silver addressed a number of other topics, including:
REVENUE
The NBA is coming off a massive financial year, with revenue topping $10 billion for the first time and basketball-related income reaching $8.9 billion, another record.
Silver said the numbers are particularly strong considering the league is still dealing with a pandemic, and it wasn’t that long ago when some questioned whether sports could survive the coronavirus — at least in the sense of whether people would want to gather again.
“The numbers did surprise me to a certain degree because it exceeded projections, and the projections represent where we think our business is going,” Silver said. “I think it’s quite remarkable from where we came 2 1/2 years ago.”
KEVIN DURANT
Kevin Durant is under contract for four more years with the Brooklyn Nets, and his trade request has been one of the biggest stories of the offseason.
It hasn’t been one that Silver has particularly enjoyed.
“This needs to be a two-way street,” Silver said. “Teams provide enormous security and guarantees to players, and the expectation in return is that they’ll meet their end of the bargain. There’s always conversations that go on behind closed doors between players and representatives and teams, but we don’t like to see players requesting trades and we don’t like to see it playing out the way it is.”
PLAY-IN TOURNAMENT
The play-in tournament has generally been considered a success, so it was no surprise that the league is keeping it around.
The play-in tournament — in its current form — has been used in each of the last two seasons, where the teams that finish seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th in the East and West meet to determine the final two playoff spots in each conference.
The No. 7 team plays the No. 8 team, with the winner clinching the No. 7 seed in the playoffs. The No. 9 team plays the No. 10 team, with the loser eliminated and the winner moving on to face the team that lost the 7-8 game. The winner of that matchup is the No. 8 seed.
It’s been a hit, primarily because it tends to give a March Madness feel — four elimination games before the playoffs even begin — and gives more teams incentive to not tank for better odds in the draft lottery.
There was a play-in element in 2020 as well in the restart bubble at Walt Disney World, when Portland beat Memphis for the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference. Memphis could have gotten the No. 8 seed that year by beating Portland twice; the Blazers had to win only one game to claim the spot.
ABA PAYMENTS
The NBA and the NBPA announced a new program — jointly funded — to provide payments to approximately 115 ABA players who played at least three seasons but didn’t qualify for NBA pensions. They’ll get “recognition payments” of $3,828 per year of service.
“Our players have a genuine sense of appreciation for those who paved the way and helped us achieve the success we enjoy today,” NBPA Executive Director Tamika Tremaglio said. “We have always considered the ABA players a part of our brotherhood and we are proud to finally recognize them with this benefit.”
Silver said the league and the players “felt a need to act on behalf of these former ABA players who are aging and, in many cases, facing difficult economic circumstances.” | https://www.kokomotribune.com/sports/nba-stiffens-take-foul-penalty-will-keep-play-in-tournament/article_6a10efce-02e4-11ed-b18e-97739d986d12.html | 2022-07-14T04:12:55Z | https://www.kokomotribune.com/sports/nba-stiffens-take-foul-penalty-will-keep-play-in-tournament/article_6a10efce-02e4-11ed-b18e-97739d986d12.html | true |
ARKANSAS, USA — The draft plan describes how ARDOT wants to administer the federal electric vehicle infrastructure program.
The nearly $5 billion-dollar federal plan would create electric car charging stations along interstates every 50 miles including here in Arkansas.
“These are federal dollars that are coming in, you know we’ve got five years to really map this out and make it successful for Arkansas, so we want to make sure we do It right,” Says ARDOT Deputy Public Information Officer, Ellen Coulter.
Electric car owners have to plan ahead on their commutes because most local charging stations only charge at 20 miles per hour.
“A lot of times there either in use or the 3 over here are currently being worked on so there’s only one available and for me, I live in Fayetteville so it’s a 20-25-minute drive if I want to speed charge my car,” explains Luke George.
Luke George is a Seattle native and he’s used to having access to multiple fast-charging stations. with only two in northwest Arkansas he says driving has been a struggle.
“I think adding more of these would be super helpful for all-electric car owners,” says George.
The state’s draft plan shows Arkansas would receive the first $8 million of the funding this year for a total of $54.1 million over five years. ARDOT says it needs the community’s help to determine what people would like to see in Arkansas.
“Public comment is huge for what we do. We want the public’s input, their opinions and these electric vehicles are a very hot topic right now,” said Coulter.
For drivers like Luke George, driving long distances in the state of Arkansas isn’t in the cards for him right now.
“For me, honestly no. Time is valuable and sitting for an hour or two when you’re on empty, when you have to get from point A to point B just isn’t really worth it so that’s why I still have my gas car at home,” said George.
The final plan will be submitted to the joint office of energy and transportation by Aug. 1, and ARDOT is taking comments up until Tuesday, July 19.
ARDOT says if you would like to leave a comment on the draft plan, you can go through its website or send an email. ardot_nevi@ardot.gov.
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Perseverance rover scouts spot for 1st mission that will launch from Mars
The Perseverance rover now has a new job: acting as a location scout on Mars.
In addition to collecting the first samples from an ancient river delta on the red planet, the robotic explorer has been scouting out flat areas around Jezero Crater that could serve as a landing site for the Mars Sample Return Campaign.
This ambitious initiative, a joint venture between NASA and the European Space Agency, will rely on multiple missions to fetch samples collected by Perseverance and return them to Earth over the next decade. These specimens will be the first Martian samples returned to Earth.
"I'm a geologist, meteorologist, photographer, etc. Now I can add 'location scout' to the list. I've been scoping out spots where Mars Sample Return spacecraft could set up operations -- including the first launchpad on another planet," read a tweet from the rover's Twitter account.
As Perseverance investigates the site of an ancient lake that existed billions of years ago, it's collecting rocks and soil. This material is of interest because it could contain evidence of past microscopic organisms that would reveal whether life ever existed on Mars.
Scientists will have the chance to use some of the most sophisticated instruments around the world to study these precious samples.
A pathway of innovations
The campaign to return Martian samples to Earth will begin in the mid-2020s, when a rocket launches on a mission to Mars carrying a Sample Retrieval Lander and a fetch rover.
Once the lander arrives at Mars, it will touch down near Jezero Crater and release the fetch rover to retrieve samples from areas where Perseverance has stashed them on the Martian surface.
There is also a possibility that Perseverance itself may keep some samples aboard and deliver them to the lander.
The fetch rover isn't the only spacecraft hitching a ride on the lander, however. It will also deliver the Mars Ascent Vehicle — the first rocket that will ever launch from the Martian surface, with the samples tucked safely inside.
A separate mission will launch from Earth in the mid-2020s, called the Earth Return Orbiter, to rendezvous with the Mars Ascent Vehicle.
Onboard the Earth Return Orbiter is the Capture/Containment and Return System, which will collect the container of samples from the Mars Ascent Vehicle while both vehicles are in orbit around Mars.
The Earth Return Orbiter will then head back to our world. Once the spacecraft is close to Earth, it will release the Earth Entry Vehicle that contains the cache of samples, and that spacecraft will touchdown on Earth in the early to mid-2030s.
Robotic components for the campaign are currently being tested at NASA and ESA centers.
Seeking a Martian pancake
In order to land on — and launch from — Mars, the sample return mission needs a flat surface with a 200-foot radius without sand dunes, angled terrain or rocks more than 7.5 inches in diameter cluttering the area. Obstacle-free, pancake-flat terrain will also make it easier for the fetch rover to retrieve the samples.
"The Perseverance team pulled out all the stops for us, because Mars Sample Return has unique needs when it comes to where we operate," said Richard Cook, Mars Sample Return program manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, in a statement.
"Essentially, a dull landing place is good. The flatter and more uninspiring the vista, the better we like it, because while there are a lot of things that need to be done when we arrive to pick up the samples, sightseeing is not one of them."
The sample return team has used the rover's cameras to survey a flat area they call the "landing strip." The area, long and flat like a runway at an airport, was previously spotted in images taken by orbiters circling the planet. Perseverance has been able to capture a better view from the ground.
"We had been eyeing these locations since before Perseverance's landing, but imagery from orbit can only tell you so much," said Al Chen, Mars Sample Return systems engineering and integration manager at JPL, in a statement.
"Now we have some up-close-and-personal shots of the landing strip that indicate we were right on the money. The landing strip will more than likely make our shortlist of potential landing and caching sites for (Mars Sample Return)." | https://www.wgal.com/article/perseverance-rover-scouts-spot-1st-mission-launch-from-mars/40606115 | 2022-07-14T04:18:34Z | https://www.wgal.com/article/perseverance-rover-scouts-spot-1st-mission-launch-from-mars/40606115 | true |
WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
1054 PM CDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of central Sabine Parish
in northwestern Louisiana and northeastern Sabine Counties through
1130 PM CDT...
At 1054 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Many to near Patroon. Movement was
southeast at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Milam, Many, Florien, Fisher, Negreet, Sexton, Mount Carmel and
Columbus.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
These storms may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
If on or near middle to lower Toledo Bend, get out of the water and
move indoors or inside a vehicle. Remember, lightning can strike out
to 10 miles from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder,
you are close enough to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter
now! Do not be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.
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MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
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The saga of “Fake Drake” has reached levels of pure comedy ever since the viral celebrity impersonator first went public last November to admit that he receives thousands of dollars to make appearances as the real-life Take Care hitmaker.
After word got out that Drake himself isn’t too fond of having a doppelgänger out there making a living off his name and likeness, “Frake” as some now call him decided to challenge his muse to a celebrity boxing match with a promise to drop the 6 God act if he loses.
Although Fake Drake has yet to get confirmed for a face-off with the man he carbon copied, another celebrity has stepped up to defend his friend against anything further swagger-jacking — Lamar Odom!
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“I hear this news that this fake lookalike want to fight my man Drake,” Odom said in his video announcement to confirm the boxing match (seen above), further adding, “But my man don’t really get his hands dirty. So what I’m gon’ do [is] I’m gonna step in the way and I’m gonna take that fight.” Damon Feldman of Celeb Boxing told TMZ that the fight has been confirmed for October 15, although it’s still being determined whether they’ll battle it out in Atlantic City or Miami.
Odom is no stranger to the world of celeb boxing, having squared up against Ojani Noa, infamous ex-husband of Jennifer Lopez, and troubled ’00s pop star Aaron Carter. The former NBA star won in both fights, and seems to be looking forward to maintaining his undefeated record.
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Although Frake has quite the competitor to go up against — Lamar is 6’10, fam! — it doesn’t look like he’s backing down anytime soon.
Peep his training video below, and we’ll keep you updated on this soon-to-be-entertaining matchup:
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
02-13-23-30-31
(two, thirteen, twenty-three, thirty, thirty-one)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
02-13-23-30-31
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Community solar projects can help bring the economic benefits of solar — the extra credits that those with solar panels see on their monthly bills — to Granite Staters who don’t have solar power themselves. (NHPR ANNIE ROPEIK PHOTO)
Gov. Chris Sununu signed into law last week a new process to help community solar programs for low and moderate income residents get off the ground.
Community solar projects can help bring the economic benefits of solar — the extra credits that those with solar panels see on their monthly bills — to Granite Staters who don’t have solar power themselves.
There are a lot of reasons why someone might not be able to put solar panels on their home, said Jude Nuru, director of community solar initiatives for New Hampshire at ReVision Energy. The roof might not work for an installation, or a family might not have the up-front money to pay for panels.
“Some people also live in multi-family apartments where there is a landlord. Maybe you are living in a rental property, and you want solar, and your landlord is not willing to install solar,” he said.
But, Nuru said, matching a community solar project with customers has been one big challenge for solar developers, among other factors that create a difficult environment for developments in New Hampshire.
“Eversource, for example, has the electricity or fuel assistance programs, and they know the individuals that are on it. So it's much easier for a utility like Eversource to be able to locate where these customers can be found,” he said.
Under the new law, New Hampshire’s Department of Energy will create a process for matching developers with customers. The state’s utility companies will share a list of their customers who would qualify for a lower and moderate income community solar program, developers will register their projects with the state, and the department will select households to enroll.
Those enrolled would see a credit on their electricity bill, and households could opt-out if they wish.
A fix for the challenge of finding customers could create an impetus for more community solar development in the state, Nuru said.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
5-0-2-2
(five, zero, two, two)
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5-0-2-2
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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — A wildfire that threatened a grove of California’s giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park was burning eastward into the Sierra National Forest on Wednesday.
The fire will continue to grow over the next few days, according to a fire update Wednesday night.
“The combination of continued warm and dry weather conditions along with the heavy accumulation of large fuels is creating the perfect recipe for the very active fire behavior we are seeing,” the update said.
Meanwhile, firefighting preparations had already been underway in the national forest.
“We’ve brought in Sierra National Forest folks from the get-go, kind of anticipating that this may happen,” said Nancy Philippe, a fire information spokesperson.
Containment lines within the park, including along the edge of the grove, were holding, firefighting operations official Matt Ahearn said in a video briefing earlier in the day.
The fire had been entirely within the national park since breaking out July 7, when visitors to the Mariposa Grove of ancient sequoias reported smoke.
Authorities have not said how the fire started and whether it involved a crime or some type of accident.
Park Superintendent Cicely Muldoon told a community meeting this week that it was considered a “human-start fire” because there was no lightning that day.
Philippe said a park ranger who is a trained investigator was on the scene almost immediately when the fire was reported, and a law enforcement team continues to investigate.
Philippe said she believed they had found the point of ignition, but declined to release further information, citing the active investigation.
The fire in the southern portion of Yosemite forced evacuation of hundreds of visitors and residents from the small community of Wawona, but the rest of the park has remained open to summer crowds.
One firefighter suffered a heat injury and recovered, but no structures have been damaged.
Flames mostly skirted the Mariposa Grove, though it did leave its mark on some of the trees.
The Galen Clark tree, named for the park’s first custodian, and three trees that greet visitors when they arrive at the popular destination, were partly charred but none were expected to die because their canopy didn’t burn, said Garrett Dickman, a park forest ecologist who toured the site.
Dickman credited periodic intentional burns in the undergrowth beneath the towering trees with helping the grove survive its first wildfire in more than a century.
Small, targeted fires lit over the past 50 years essentially stopped the fire in its tracks when it hit the Mariposa Grove and allowed firefighters to stand their ground and set up sprinklers to further protect the world’s largest trees, Dickman said.
“We’ve been preparing for the Washburn Fire for decades,” said Dickman, who works for the park. “It really just died as soon as it hit the grove.”
The sequoias are adapted to fire — and rely on it to survive. But more than a century of aggressive fire suppression has left forests choked with dense vegetation and downed timber that has provided fuel for massive wildfires that have grown more intense during an ongoing drought and exacerbated by climate change.
So-called prescribed burns — most recently conducted in the grove in 2018 — mimic low intensity fires that help sequoias by clearing out downed branches, flammable needles and smaller trees that could compete with them for light and water. The heat from fires also helps cones open up to spread their seeds.
While intentional burns have been conducted in sequoias since the 1960s, they are increasingly being seen as a necessity to the save the massive trees. Once thought to be almost fireproof, up to 20% of all giant sequoias — native only in the Sierra Nevada range — have been killed in the past two years during intense wildfires.
Fighting fire with fire, which is used in limited applications to reduce threats to property or landmarks, is a risky endeavor and has occasionally gotten out of control.
In New Mexico, firefighters were working Tuesday to restore mountainsides turned to ash by the largest wildfire in the state’s recorded history that broke out in early April when prescribed burns by the U.S. Forest Service escaped containment following missteps and miscalculations.
The Santa Fe County Commission in an afternoon meeting blasted federal officials and unanimously passed a resolution calling on the Forest Service to conduct a more comprehensive environmental review as it looks to reduce the threat of wildfire in the mountains that border the capital city.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "SuperLotto Plus" game were:
12-19-20-36-42, Mega Ball: 3
(twelve, nineteen, twenty, thirty-six, forty-two; Mega Ball: three)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "SuperLotto Plus" game were:
12-19-20-36-42, Mega Ball: 3
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
02-04-17-24-30
(two, four, seventeen, twenty-four, thirty)
Estimated jackpot: $25,000
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
02-04-17-24-30
(two, four, seventeen, twenty-four, thirty)
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ROME — An American tourist had to be rescued on Mount Vesuvius near Naples after he apparently slipped into the Italian volcano's crater while trying to recover his fallen cellphone, news reports and the association of Vesuvius park guides said.
The tourist and family members were cited by Carabinieri police because they went off the authorized path to get closer to the crater on Saturday afternoon, apparently to take a selfie, the LaPresse news agency said.
The head of the Confesercenti tourism association for Vesuvius, Paolo Cappelli, said four volcano guides responded immediately after one noticed the tourist had fallen into the crater and was in "serious difficulty."
In a statement, Cappelli said the guides lowered a rope 15 meters (50 feet) into the crater, pulled the tourist out and provided initial first aid, after he suffered abrasions on his legs, arm and back. Carabinieri park police then arrived and brought the American to the police station to file the complaint, Cappelli said.
Mount Vesuvius, which erupted in AD 79 and devastated the nearby town of Pompeii, is a popular spot for hiking.
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AKRON, Ohio — Hundreds of mourners filled a downtown Akron theater Wednesday to pay their last respects to Jayland Walker, a young Black man killed by police officers, in a city that has been on edge since his death.
Friends and family members recalled Walker as kindhearted and genuine, with a love of music and basketball and dreams of starting his own business. But the message from the pulpit was also about the troubling circumstances of his death.
“Social bonds are weak and unraveling,” the Rev. Marlon Walker said. In a polarized society, he said, “the Black voices are unheard.”
The pastor lamented that victims of crime often become vilified and that “all this is compounded by complacency by our leadership.”
Jayland Walker, 25, was killed in the early hours of June 27 after police chased him, first in vehicles and then on foot, following an attempted traffic stop. Officers believed that he had shot at them from his car and feared that he was preparing to fire again, police have said. But Walker was unarmed at the time he was killed. He sustained more than 60 gunshot wounds.
Eight officers who were involved in the shooting were placed on administrative leave, police said.
In the weeks since the shooting, Akron, a city of about 200,000 people in northeastern Ohio, has been roiled by protests.
City leaders have imposed a nightly curfew in an attempt to keep the peace, canceled a July 4 celebration and declared Wednesday a day of mourning. The mayor and police chief said this week that rumors about the identities of the officers involved have led to threats by “outside agitators”; police have not made the officers’ names public.
Walker’s family and supporters have called on protesters to demonstrate peacefully, even as they have decried violence by police.
“We are hurting as a city and hurting as a family,” the Rev. Robert E. DeJournett, pastor of St. Ashworth Temple, Church of God in Christ, said at a news briefing Monday.
“Not having protest violence is a two-way street,” DeJournett said. “The protesters need to be nonviolent, but that goes for law enforcement as well.”
On Wednesday afternoon, Walker lay in an open coffin on the stage of the Akron Civic Theater as mourners walked by.
“When I think about Jayland, I think about someone who had the biggest heart,” said Robin Elerick, Walker’s cousin and one of the speakers. “He was so sweet and so authentically genuine, and that’s what I’ll always remember about him.”
Sitting outside, Darlene Pearson, 78, a cousin of Walker’s mother, said his violent death had left her frightened of police for the first time in her life.
Pearson choked back tears as she described watching the police video of the shooting. Walker, she said, “was in no way a threat to public safety that they had to kill him in that way.”
Lynette Williams, a local preschool teacher, said her young students, too, have been saying they are scared of police.
“The mayor and the chief of police need to sit down and talk to us face to face,” Williams said. “They need to see our eyes as we talk, to see the emotion and the hurt of this case. You can’t do that by talking to the public on a Zoom call from your office.”
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is investigating the shooting, and its findings will be turned over to county prosecutors to present evidence to a grand jury to determine if any officers will be charged criminally. Akron police are also conducting an internal investigation to determine if officers followed procedures, including the department’s pursuit policy. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/a-day-of-mourning-in-ohio-where-a-young-black-man-was-killed-by-police/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-07-14T04:48:39Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/a-day-of-mourning-in-ohio-where-a-young-black-man-was-killed-by-police/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | true |
LeBron James shared his thoughts on Brittney Griner's imprisonment in Russia in the trailer for an upcoming episode of The Shop, and the NBA superstar has some serious feelings.
The 35-second long trailer for the episode gives a brief look at James' conversation with co-host Maverick Carter, the show's creator, Paul Rivera, and the episode's guests, actor Daniel Kaluuya and Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford. The episode touches on Griner's detainment, Black art and more from a New York-based barber shop.
In the clip, James wonders how Griner feels after being in prison for over 110 days, noting that he could understand her reconsidering returning to the United States in light of the country’s efforts to bring Griner back home. "Now, how can she feel like America has her back?" he asks his guests. "I would be feeling like, 'Do I even want to go back to America?'"
James has been a vocal supporter of Griner since her arrest. In tweets following the release of The Shop trailer, the 37-year-old took to social media to clarify his comments in apparent response to criticism on his feelings toward the US government.
James stressed that his words weren't "knocking our beautiful country."
"I was simply saying how she's probably feeling emotionally along with so many other emotions, thoughts, etc inside that cage she's been in for over 100+ days," he explained. "Long story short #BringHerHome."
Griner has been detained in Russia since February after police said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage. The eight-time All-Star pleaded guilty Thursday to drug possession charges that could see a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. A Russian judge ordered Griner, the Phoenix Mercury center who played in Russia during the WNBA off-season, to remain in custody.
"I would like to plead guilty on the charges against me, but I had no intention on breaking any Russian law," she said in court. "I was in a rush packing and the cartridges accidentally ended up in my bags."
The U.S. has said Griner is being wrongfully detained, but in a July 4 letter to President Joe Biden, the 31-year-old admitted she was "terrified" she might remain imprisoned in Russia "forever."
"On the 4th of July, our family normally honors the service of those who fought for our freedom, including my father who is a Vietnam War Veteran. It hurts thinking about how I usually celebrate this day because freedom means something completely different to me this year," the basketball pro shared in her letter.
"I realize you are dealing with so much," Griner added, "but please don't forget about me and the other American detainees. Please do all you can to bring us home."
Vice President Kamala Harris, speaking on Face the Nation on Sunday, said, "We're gonna do everything we can to bring her home as soon as possible."
"We take very seriously and we've been very clear, Brittney Griner, and there are sadly other Americans who are being unlawfully detained around the world, and it is on our highest priority list to bring those folks home," Harris said. "And so you are right, the president and I and Jake Sullivan and others have been in touch with Cherelle Griner, Brittney Griner's wife, to do what we can to lend support. I can't talk to you about the details, what's happening behind the scenes, but I can tell you that it is one of our highest priorities to bring these Americans home."
Griner's wife, Cherelle, revealed that President Biden sent Griner a letter. "I was able to read the letter, and it brought me so much joy, as well as BG," Cherelle said. "I believe every word that she said to him he understood. And he sees her as a person, and he has not forgotten her, which was her biggest cry in her letter."
Cherelle added she was grateful to the Biden administration for "exhausting all efforts" to bring the basketball player home. Cherelle said the Biden administration is the first her wife ever voted for.
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National Ice Cream Day 2022 is Sunday: Get ready to snag some sweet deals
In case you needed an excuse to indulge — National Ice Cream Day is just about here!
Sunday, July 17, is National Ice Cream Day.
You can snag a discount — or even a free treat — at these places.
Celebrate the sweet day with one of these deals from your favorite retailer.
Check out this list below.
Cold Stone Creamery
Cold Stone Creamery is offering customers a surprise deal: The deal will appear on Sunday, July 17, via the Cold Stone app.
The creamery is also offering free delivery for online orders from July 15 through July 17 as well.
A piece of cheesecake, strawberies and a chocolate biscuit are mixed together with a portion of vanilla and chocolate ice cream on a cold stone and formed into a scoops in "Schlecks" ice cream shop in Hamburg, Germany, 25 March 2017.
Cold Stone will be celebrating "double" on National Ice Cream Day — it will also be be commemorating OREO’s 110th birthday.
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They will sell two new OREO Creations — OREO Cookie Goldmine and OREO Cookie Confetti & Crème — in stores through August 30.
Oatly
Wait — how do you celebrate National Ice Cream day if you don't consume dairy products?
Oatly is the world’s original and largest oat milk company. It will be taking over 25 traditional ice cream trucks to give away its 100% non-dairy frozen dessert bars.'Oatly plans to distribute over 16,000 dessert bars in ice cream trucks across Los Angeles, New York City and St. Louis on Sunday, July 17.
Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen is offering customers $1 off any of its dipped cones on National Ice Cream Day: Customers need to download the DQ app.
The deal includes the company's classic chocolate dipped cone.
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Baskin-Robbins
Celebrate National Ice Cream Day with $5 off any purchase of $15 or more from July 17 through July 23 with the code "BECOOLER" at checkout for online orders.
In addition, Baskin-Robbins also debuted its new flavor of the month: OREO S’mores.
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Pressed
Go the healthy route as you celebrate the day.
On Sunday, July 17, customers can receive a size-one freeze for just $3 at participating Pressed locations.
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EXCLUSIVE: The astonishing flood warning that Australia has ignored for more than 200 years - and why it's coming back to bite us now
- Blame over the huge impacts on thousands of people hit by floods is heating up
- Many people don't understand why people lives near the Hawkesbury River
- A 200 year old letter re-emerged with warnings from the NSW governor in 1817
As the bill for recent flood damage in Australia rockets into the billions, the blame game over why homes are still being built in flood prone-areas and why people would buy them is heating up.
In early July, the Hawkesbury Nepean River in north-western Sydney reached a peak of 13.8 metres, enough to submerge thousands of homes and render 239 completely unliveable.
An estimated 50,000 people were evacuated.
Within one week, the Insurance Council of Australia estimated claims from the July floods at $97.8million. The total cost for all of the devastating flooding that has hit the eastern states in 2022 is far greater.
Despite this, plans for development around the Hawkesbury River continue.
Within 20 years, 12,000 new homes are expected to be constructed on flood-prone land in Sydney's northwest growth area - adjacent to the Hawkesbury-Nepean River, which has flooded four times in 18 months.
There are also fears that the figure for new homes is vastly underestimated, and that if the Warragamba Dam wall is raised, thousands more properties will be added, and flooding could actually get worse.
Locals are concerned that could happen because the dam would hold more water with a raised wall - potentially unleashing even more water into the surrounding valley in the event of continual rain.
While everything from climate change to buyers' greed, developer corruption and government incompetence has been blamed for thousands of homes being deemed unliveable in the Hawkesbury Nepean region, it's also clear almost everyone has ignored warnings since colonisation.
As the bill for Australian flood damage rockets into the billions the blame game over why homes are still being built in flood prone-areas and why people would buy them is heating up
While parallels between Sydney in 1817 and now are few - the city way back then had fewer than 20,000 residents and no need to develop housing beyond the inner city - the fact is people knew flooding drowned the area 200 years ago
An official government notice way back in 1817 warned settlers they faced calamities from building near the Hawkesbury river but shouldn't expect compensation
A damning two hundred year-old document resurfaced in which ex-Sydney governor Lachlan Macquarie expressed 'astonishment and surprise' at people failing to learn from flood 'calamities'.
A damning two hundred-year-old document has resurfaced in which Sydney governor at the time, Lachlan Macquarie, expressed 'astonishment and surprise' at people failing to learn from flood 'calamities'.
While parallels between Sydney then and now are few - the city back then had less than 20,000 residents and no need to develop housing beyond the inner city.
The move west was to find farming land, but ex-convicts still wanted to build homes on the floodplain - despite evidence of massive floods there even around 1800 - so they could grow food.
According to historian, Grace Karskens, in 1799, the Hawkesbury-Nepean River rose to 15.6m during flooding - and nearly 20m in 1806 - but neither deterred settlers.
She said many early settlers took risks with floods because they tended to live in temporary homes.
By contrast, homeowners in western Sydney now set up lifetime homes in places where they literally get washed away.
The first documented warning came in 1817, when Governor Macquarie issued a plea to settlers about building too close to the Hawkesbury-Nepean River.
Floods have ravaged south-east Queensland and NSW in 2021 and 2022 (Pictured, Jodie McCosker takes a break from cleaning her flood-damaged Millers Forest home)
Governor Macquarie wrote that 'experience' had shown losses were 'inevitable' and that people who ignored warnings were being deliberately 'blind' to their best interests and didn't deserve compensation.
'Those who, not withstanding, shall perversely neglect the present admonition and exhortation to their own benefit, must be considered wilfully and obstinately blind to their true interests, and undeserving any future indulgences,' he wrote.
The NSW State Archives interpreted this to imply 'that unless they follow his advice, there will be no compensation from the government in the future'.
The latest estimated bill for insurance claims from just the February floods in New South Wales and Queensland was quoted at $4.8billion in June, but will be many times higher given waves of catastrophic flooding since.
It's only going to get much, much worse too.
More than 140,000 people live on the Hawkesbury Nepean floodplain now - a number planned to double by 2050.
Anthony Albanese was angrily confronted by a furious local whose property has been repeatedly flooded in recurring disasters - but he says no-one is helping him
The expert and public response across multiple media platforms has pointed the finger at several players - developers, buyers and government approval processes.
The public response is often bemusement.
'So who's at fault here? The stupid developers for developing an area known to flood, or the stupid people who will inevitably buy there,' wrote one Reddit contributor.
'We need to take more responsibility for our own actions and simply let developers waste their money and go bankrupt. They'll stop developing floodplains when we stop buying it.'
'The 'stupid people who buy there' are not to blame at all,' said another.
'We have a housing crisis. If the only choice is to purchase a house that might flood or be homeless, a lot of people might risk the house on a flood plain.'
However others were not so sympathetic.
'Don't buy in a flood area, I really can't believe people are still doing it,' wrote one anonymous Australian on Reddit.
'They knew it was a flood zone that suffered bad floods recently, so they decided it sounded like a bargain despite the mountains of evidence pointing towards Australia only suffering worse floods, bushfires and extreme weather over the coming years.'
Experts are quick to point out the major causes are nature and geography, but also agree there is too much infrastructure and housing in the area that is exposed to flooding.
The local partly blamed the floods on the strategic release of the Warragamba Dam to prevent it overflowing, but which then sends flood water crashing downstream into the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley
Locals angrily told Premier Dominic Perrottet and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese when they recently visited flooded areas that the strategic release of the Warragamba Dam to prevent it overflowing sent floodwaters downstream into the surrounding valley.
'You [are] releasing the dam at 97.9 per cent when the catchment areas are full, and the cry comes from the government that it's not a flood mitigation dam,' one Akubra wearing local seethed at the leaders.
More than 140,000 people live on the Hawkesbury Nepean floodplain now - a number planned to double by 2050
The latest estimated bill for insurance claims from just the February floods in New South Wales and Queensland was quoted at $4.8billion in June, but will be many times higher given waves of catastrophic flooding since
Professor Jamie Pittock, from Australian National University, was scathing about plans to allow thousands of homes to be built below the probable maximum flood (PMF) level, which is regarded as a worst-case scenario during flooding.
'It is stark raving, barking mad to build below the PMF in the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley,' he told The Guardian.
'The Hawkesbury-Nepean valley in the flood of 1867 was 20 metres deep. Nothing is going to save a house in a 20 metres flood and it's the height of stupidity to allow development in that sort of place.'
Dale Dominey-Howes, Honorary Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney acknowledged in The Conversation the pressure on western Sydney local governments to 'build homes and more homes despite the known flood risk'.
But he noted 'in an ideal world, nothing would be built on a floodplain'.
'Let's be honest: some land just should not be built on,' he said.
Macquarie's 200-year-old warning is a stark reminder that shock over flooding around the Hawkesbury Nepean valley isn't a new realisation | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11001127/Sydney-floods-astonishing-warning-Australia-ignored-200-years.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-14T04:57:39Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11001127/Sydney-floods-astonishing-warning-Australia-ignored-200-years.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
ROME — An American tourist had to be rescued on Mount Vesuvius near Naples after he apparently slipped into the Italian volcano's crater while trying to recover his fallen cellphone, news reports and the association of Vesuvius park guides said.
The tourist and family members were cited by Carabinieri police because they went off the authorized path to get closer to the crater on Saturday afternoon, apparently to take a selfie, the LaPresse news agency said.
The head of the Confesercenti tourism association for Vesuvius, Paolo Cappelli, said four volcano guides responded immediately after one noticed the tourist had fallen into the crater and was in "serious difficulty."
In a statement, Cappelli said the guides lowered a rope 15 meters (50 feet) into the crater, pulled the tourist out and provided initial first aid, after he suffered abrasions on his legs, arm and back. Carabinieri park police then arrived and brought the American to the police station to file the complaint, Cappelli said.
Mount Vesuvius, which erupted in AD 79 and devastated the nearby town of Pompeii, is a popular spot for hiking.
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Stop fighting in Ukraine: Russian soldier's mum speaks out
By Steve Rosenberg
Russia Editor, Moscow
- Published
On 20 February, Valya received a call from her son in the Russian army. His unit was "on exercises" near the Ukrainian border.
"He said they were doing firing practice and living in tents," Valya tells me. "That was the last time I spoke to him."
Four days later, Russian troops invaded Ukraine.
Russia's offensive has brought untold suffering to its neighbour. Since President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion, thousands of civilians have been killed in Ukraine.
But back home, there are consequences too, for the families of Russian servicemen who have been sent into battle.
Valya is not her real name. Fearing repercussions from the authorities for speaking out, the mother has asked us to conceal her identity.
But she's keen to share her story. She wants to talk to us about her son and what she thinks of the Kremlin's "special military operation".
"At the beginning of March, a sergeant telephoned me from my son's base. He probably called all the parents," she says.
"He told me the lads are fine, that they're in contact with them every day. We kept in touch throughout March and he kept saying that they were fine.
"Then a man claiming to be a friend of my son sent me a message. I didn't know him. He found me on social media. He told me my son's leg had been blown off and that he was dead. I made lots of calls and tried to meet officials. But no one could tell me anything.
"Eventually the sergeant I'd been talking with said to me: 'Your son last made contact on 23 February.'
"'So why have you been calling [to say everything is fine]? Just to calm us down?'
"'Sorry, I'm only a sergeant,' he'd said."
Valya tried to find out more. "I wrote to my son's unit," she recalls.
"I wrote to the military district office. I wrote to the Defence Ministry. And then I wrote to them all again.
"No-one has given me the basic information: where, when and how my son disappeared. All I've been told is that he was taking part in the 'special military operation' and that he is missing."
How many Russian servicemen have been killed in Ukraine? It is a criminal offence in Russia to report anything other than the official figures.
But official figures are hard to come by. Russia's defence ministry hasn't updated the official military death toll since 25 March.
Back then, it stood at 1,351 Russian soldiers killed. The following month, the Kremlin admitted "significant" troop losses in Ukraine.
In an effort to justify the invasion, the Russian authorities and state media attempt to dehumanise Ukrainians in the eyes of the Russian public.
They denounce Ukrainian soldiers and officials as "ultra-nationalists" and "Nazis". They claim that Ukraine is the aggressor, and Russia the liberator.
But Valya does not see Ukraine as the enemy.
"If our country had been attacked like this, we would also be defending ourselves, like they are. We'd defend ourselves and we would be angry, too," she says.
Many Russians do believe the official government line and support the "special military operation", as it is presented to them on state TV. In Russia the Kremlin controls TV and, therefore, the messaging.
But not completely. Valya is in contact with soldiers' mothers across Russia. She claims that among mothers there is growing resentment towards the authorities over who is being sent to fight in Ukraine.
"They hate the government. They hate Putin," Valya tells me. "They all want this war to end. All the mothers do.
"We're the lowest class. We're simple country folk. All the lads doing the fighting are from remote regions of Russia. Not Muscovites. There are no sons of government officials there.
"If the mothers of all the soldiers there now, and the mothers who've lost sons, if they all rose up, can you imagine how big that army would be? And they will. Their nerves will snap.
"Stop. Stop all this. Stop it and protect our children."
Since speaking with us, Valya has received official notification that her son was killed in Ukraine. One more Russian soldier who won't be returning home. | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62149895 | 2022-07-14T05:07:15Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62149895 | true |
ROUGHRIDERS 11, ROCKHOUNDS 4
At Riders Field, Frisco
TOP HITTERS: Frisco’s Justin Foscue was 2-for-4 with a double, walk, four RBI and a run scored. Teammates Jonathan Ornelas and Dustin Harris were each 2-for-4 with an RBI and three runs scored, while Trey Hair was 2-for-4 with a double, two RBI and a run scored. .., Jordan Diaz, William Simoneit and Sahid Valenzuela each had two hits for the RockHounds.
TOP PITCHERS: Frisco starter Owen White improved to 3-0 on the season after he allowed three runs on three hits, one walk and struck out five over five innings. … Midland’s Chester Pimentel allowed two hits and struck out three over two scoreless innings in relief.
HIGHLIGHTS: Midland took a 3-2 lead with three runs in the top of the third inning as Brett Harris, Logan Davidson and Diaz each drove in a run. … Frisco took the lead for good, 7-3, with a five-run fifth inning as Foscue had a two-run single and Hair had a two-run double to highlight the frame. … The RoughRiders added four insurance runs in the eighth.
NOTES: Midland saw its nine-game winning streak come to an end and dropped to 7-1 on the road trip and 11-3 in the second half of the Texas League season. … The RockHounds committed three errors, while Midland pitchers walked seven batters in the loss. … Midland and Frisco meet in the third game of a six-game series at 7:05 p.m. Thursday at Riders Field.
ROUGHRIDERS 11, ROCKHOUNDS 4
Midland 003 000 010 -- 4 10 3
Frisco 200 050 04x -- 11 9 1
Harris, Conley (5), Pimentel (5), Charles (7), Plunkett (8) and Simoneit. White, Church (6), Hernandez (7), Anderson (8) and Procyshen. W – White (3-0). L – Conley. 2B – Midland: Valenzuela (3), Harris (9), Davidson (12), Simoneit (12); Frisco: Foscue (20), Hair (14), Procyshen (4), Harris (11).
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SANTA FE – The state of New Mexico has agreed to pay $90,000 to settle some of the litigation accusing the Children, Youth and Families Department of mishandling a case in which a baby suffered brain damage after being returned to her biological family.
The settlement covers whistleblower allegations filed by Kelly Mazy, who until this summer served as a child protective services investigator for CYFD.
She had accused the agency of retaliation after she raised concerns about CYFD’s handling of a child welfare case involving a Romanian couple in Lea County.
The couple was already facing child abuse allegations when CYFD sent the children back to live with their dad for a trial home visit in April 2020, court documents say.
The parents subsequently disappeared with the kids – one of whom, a baby, was later “dumped” by the mom at a North Carolina hospital, with brain damage that left her permanently blind, according to a federal lawsuit.
The resolution of Mazy’s suit covers just one component of the litigation that has emerged in the aftermath.
Mazy’s whistleblower lawsuit includes a second plaintiff, Ivy Woodward, also a former CYFD employee. Woodward’s part of the suit is set for trial in late September.
A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of the children is also pending and there is separate litigation involving a foster parent.
Parts of the legal conflict are sealed, making it difficult to fully explain the entirety of the allegations and their status.
But a civil rights lawsuit filed on behalf of the children alleges this sequence of events:
• In June 2019, police officers found the children and their biological parents, Luiza Badea and Andrei Ducila, in a Hobbs parking lot living out of a van, with the children in poor health and malnourished.
Some of the kids had tooth decay so advanced that they had to be put on diet of soft foods.
The children went into CYFD custody and the parents were charged with child abuse.
• In February and March 2020, Woodward, then working for CYFD, observed the family during supervised visits and determined the parents were incapable of caring for their children.
• CYFD sent the children to live at their father’s home on a trial visit in April 2020 and the whole family went missing shortly after the mother was released from jail.
• CYFD hindered law enforcement efforts to find the children, including a refusal to allow an Amber Alert.
• In November 2020, the mother “dumped” the baby at a North Carolina hospital with a fractured skull and brain damage. The baby’s injuries left her blind. The other children were later found in Houston.
The Children, Youth and Families Department, in turn, is seeking to have the federal lawsuit dismissed, asserting qualified immunity and other legal defenses.
The agency says a court found the parents had completed a parenting plan. Furthermore, returning the kids to their biological parents for a trial home visit “did not create a danger” to them.
The children, in any case, are back in CYFD custody. The parents entered guilty pleas to the 2019 charges of child abuse.
Resignation part of deal
In the state lawsuit, Mazy had asserted that she was retaliated against after complaining about CYFD’s response to the family leaving New Mexico. She alleged that CYFD had refused to report the children missing.
CYFD, in turn, said there was no evidence to support the allegation of retaliation and that Mazy’s claims didn’t rise to the level of protected speech under the Whistleblower Protection Act. The agency said the police already knew the children were missing and that Mazy was never terminated or demoted.
The state’s whistleblower law prohibits public employers from retaliating against employees who speak out against government wrongdoing.
Mazy’s portion of the case was settled for the $90,000 payment. As part of the agreement, she resigned effective July 8.
The state did not acknowledge any liability in reaching the settlement.
A spokesman for CYFD said the agency had no comment and an attorney for Mazy said he couldn’t say much, either.
“I can confirm that the parties have reached a resolution for Ms. Mazy’s case,” attorney Benjamin Gubernick said. “As related cases involving different clients are ongoing, I cannot comment further.”
Settlement of the case comes as CYFD faces pressure in court and from Legislature to better safeguard children from abuse and neglect. | https://www.abqjournal.com/2516049/some-claims-settled-in-childabuse-case-ex-nm-agrees-to-pay-90k-to.html | 2022-07-14T05:12:06Z | https://www.abqjournal.com/2516049/some-claims-settled-in-childabuse-case-ex-nm-agrees-to-pay-90k-to.html | false |
Haywood Highsmith has bigger plans. Nonetheless, the Miami Heat forward offered a reminder Wednesday night at the NBA Las Vegas Summer League that he can be a cut above this level of competition.
Expected to compete for playing time at power forward this season in the wake of P.J. Tucker’s free-agency departure, Highsmith closed with 17 points and seven rebounds in a 75-71 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers’ summer roster on the UNLV campus.
“I feel like summer league has just been an opportunity for me to grow,” Highsmith said.
On a partially guaranteed contract, Highsmith was mostly efficient with his play, closing 6 of 13 from the field, albeit 1 of 7 on 3-pointers. He also produced a highlight blocked shot on Malik Ellison dunk attempt with 14.3 seconds remaining on a play initially called as a foul but then overturned upon replay.
“He does provide some stability for us out there on the floor,” said assistant coach Malik Allen, who is guiding the Heat’s summer roster. “He can figure out how to play with other guys pretty quick.”
By contrast, guard Javonte Smart, who is on a two-way deal with the Heat, scored 20, but it came on 8-of-26 shooting.
Allen said he would have preferred for Smart to take the first, best-available shot, rather than trying to do too much.
“As crazy as it sounds,” Allen said, “there are times he should have taken the first one.”
The Heat also got 13 points and 10 rebounds from Orlando Robinson, the undrafted center out of Fresno State who last week received an Exhibit 10 contract for an invitation to training camp.
“He was more aggressive,” Allen said.
Undrafted University of San Francisco guard Jaramee Bouyea, who received his own Exhibit 10 contract on Tuesday night, closed 1 of 10 from the field.
“He had been finishing those all summer league,” Allen said of Bouyea’s wayward drives.
It also was a rough night for guard Marcus Garrett, who is working his way back from midseason wrist surgery, 0 for 9 from the field and 2 of 6 from the line.
“I think he was overthinking a little bit,” Allen said.
Quadriceps injuries kept Heat big men Omer Yurtseven and Nikola Jovic out for a second consecutive night. Yurtseven, who arrived from Europe last week after playing in World Cup qualifying for Turkey, has yet to play in summer league. Jovic, the No. 27 pick in last month’s NBA draft, last played in Saturday’s victory over the Boston Celtics.
Also held out by the Heat was Mychal Mulder, with the guard on a two-way contract given the night off for rest.
The Heat opened with a lineup of Robinson, Highsmith, Smart, Garrett and Bouyea.
Among those who watched from across the Heat bench were Heat players Bam Adebayo and Caleb Martin, coach Erik Spoelstra, and assistant coaches Chris Quinn and Octavio De La Grana. Former Heat guard Mario Chalmers also was in attendance.
The Heat have two summer-league games remaining, Friday at 10 p.m. Eastern against the Toronto Raptors (NBA TV) and then one additional game either Saturday or Sunday, depending on the seeding result of their first for Las Vegas games.
The loss dropped the Heat to 1-2 in Las Vegas and 2-4 overall in summer league, after going 1-2 in San Francisco in the California Classic.
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CONCERT SERIES: This week’s Yes Ford-Yes Chevrolet 9th Street Live presentation Friday night in downtown Huntington features the Jason Mays Band. Shelem with Dinero Romero will perform next week. The music starts at 7 p.m. on 9th Street between 3rd and 4th avenues. Food and drink will be available from nearby establishments.
TOUR: Reba McEntire is hitting the road this fall! Starting Oct. 13 and running for 17 shows in 12 states over six weeks, Reba will be out there singing all her hits for fans. “I can’t wait to see everyone out on the road again this fall,” she said. One of the tour stops will be at Charleston’s Coliseum and Convention Center on Oct. 20. After her successful tour earlier this year, Reba’s doing it again and bringing along a special guest: “We had so much fun in the spring, and I’m ready to get back out there with my buddy Terri Clark!” Terri Clark added, “Is it October yet? I can’t wait!”
NO. 1: Congrats to Morgan Wallen, who is spending his third week in a row at No. 1 on the Billboard country airplay chart with “Wasted On You.” This three-week stay ties Morgan’s other longest run at No. 1 — back in 2019, Wallen’s “Whiskey Glasses” also had a trio of weeks at the top of the Billboard chart. We’ll have to see if next week brings Morgan Wallen his longest-running No. 1 hit with “Wasted On You.”
MOMENT: During a recent appearance on the Grand Ole Opry, Craig Morgan brought out Jelly Roll, who then shared a story of watching Craig from the audience of the Opry House. The two sang Craig’s classic “Almost Home” in a special moment that could only happen at the Grand Ole Opry — and then Craig presented Jelly Roll with a special gift. Jelly Roll’s current single at country radio is “Son of a Sinner.”
DOWNTIME: Michael Ray’s current single at country radio is “Holy Water.” Michael is playing fairs, festivals and all kinds of shows this summer, including another appearance next week on the Grand Ole Opry before he heads back out on Lee Brice’s “Label Me Proud” tour. Sometimes a tour schedule can be filled with a lot of “hurry up and wait” before an artist hits the stage, so Michael shares how he fills his downtime on tour: “We have downtime on a lot of days more than others, so I’d like to go … kind of view the town. I’m very, very fortunate to have a crew that we’re super tight, so there’s not a lot of time where there’s not laughs or pranks or something pulled on each other. Then I’ve also learned that throughout touring, what helps me keep kind of my mental state good is … just going to the gym for about an hour, hour and a 1/2 or so, and just kind of get that time away to listen to demos, just kind of clear my head.” | https://www.herald-dispatch.com/features_entertainment/big-john-and-bill-cornwell-jason-mays-band-plays-this-week-s-9th-street-live/article_ab7dc275-186f-5559-8ec9-35b5c44b69dd.html | 2022-07-14T05:13:51Z | https://www.herald-dispatch.com/features_entertainment/big-john-and-bill-cornwell-jason-mays-band-plays-this-week-s-9th-street-live/article_ab7dc275-186f-5559-8ec9-35b5c44b69dd.html | true |
Two members of SCCL’s rescue team feared drowned in a swollen stream
Two members of the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL)’s rescue team were reportedly swept away in a swollen stream during a rescue operation to evacuate some villagers, including a pregnant woman stuck in a flood affected village, near Dahegaon in Kumram Bheem Asifabad district on Wednesday.
Sources said that the SCCL’s rescue team from Mandamarri reached the village on Wednesday afternoon to evacuate the villagers stranded at a marooned hamlet on the outskirts of Dahegaon.
Two members, identified as Ramu and Satish, were reportely washed away by the swirling flood water while wading through the surging stream to reach the flood-affected hamlet. Their colleagues with the help of local police launched a search operation to trace the duo.
A NDRF team arrived at the spot to evacuate the villagers stranded in the flood-affected hamlet, when reports last came in.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
3-8-5
(three, eight, five)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
3-8-5
(three, eight, five) | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17304000.php | 2022-07-14T05:18:56Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Evening-game-17304000.php | false |
By MARK GONZALES
Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — Anthony Santander hit a two-run double to spark Baltimore’s three-run first inning, Spenser Watkins and four relievers scattered six hits and the Orioles extended their winning streak to 10 games with a 7-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night.
It’s the Orioles’ longest winning streak in a single season since they won 13 in a row from Sept. 7-22, 1999.
According to ESPN Stats & Info, the only team with a longer current drought without a double-digit win streak in a season is Miami, which has never had one.
With the victory, the Orioles (45-44) also went over the .500 mark for the first time since April 8, 2021, when they were 4-3. Baltimore finished off the game to chants of “Let’s Go O’s!” at Wrigley Field, where the Orioles were playing their first series since 2014.
The Cubs lost their sixth consecutive game, their longest skid since dropping 10 straight games June 4-16.
Watkins (3-1) limited the Cubs to four hits in five-plus innings. Watkins is 3-0 with a 1.19 ERA in his last four starts since being recalled from Triple-A Norfolk on June 25. He allowed a single to Ian Happ to start the sixth and was lifted in favor of Dillion Tate.
Tate, Cionel Perez, Joey Krehbiel and Bryan Baker combined to allow two hits the rest of the way.
Meanwhile, Cubs starter Justin Steele (3-6) — pitching on eight days rest after his girlfriend gave birth Monday to the couple’s first child — retired the final 11 batters he faced over six innings.
But the damage was done in the first two innings. Three of the first four batters reached base, prompting pitching coach Tommy Hottovy to make a mound visit after Santander’s double. But Austin Hays followed with a single, and Santander scored after left fielder Happ misplayed the hit.
The Orioles extended their lead in the second when Trey Mancini hit a double to score Rougned Odor and Cedric Mullins, who was initially ruled to have beaten the relay throw from shortstop Nico Hoerner to catcher Willson Contreras. But a replay overturned the safe call on Mullins, and Steele got Ryan Mountcastle to ground to short to end the inning.
The Cubs scored their lone run off Watkins in the fifth when Christopher Morel tripled and scored on a sacrifice fly by Rafael Ortega.
The Orioles added three runs with two outs in the eighth on a double by Adley Rutschman, a single by Odor and a balk by reliever Daniel Norris.
HENDRICKS OUT INDEFINITELY
Cubs ace Kyle Hendricks will need at least two or three weeks before he can consider playing catch, manager David Ross said. Hendricks hasn’t pitched since July 5, when he threw only three innings at Milwaukee because of a right shoulder strain.
Hendricks, 32, missed a start in early June because of shoulder fatigue but still leads the team with 84 1/3 innings pitched.
HAPP HUMBLED BY EPSTEIN TEXT
Happ was moved by a congratulatory text message on his All-Star selection from Theo Epstein, the Cubs’ former president of baseball operations who oversaw his selection as the ninth overall pick in the 2015 draft.
“And I thanked him for giving me the chance here and to be able to do it in front of these fans and this city,” Happ said of Epstein, now a consultant with Major League Baseball.
Happ rebounded from a miserable 2021 season, when he had a slash line of .175/.284/.318 on Aug. 11.
“He’s becoming an all-around player, and I don’t know I could have said that last year,” Ross said.
RETURN OF THE STOLEN BASE
Jorge Mateo (22) and Mullins (18) have accounted for 40 of the Orioles’ 55 stolen bases, and manager Brandon Hyde will continue to give them the green light.
“Those two guys are such elite base stealers, it’s weapon for us, and a weapon for them,” Hyde said. “I still think it’s an important part of the game.”
MOVES
Cubs: Norris was activated from the 15-day injured list. RHP Matt Swarmer was optioned to Triple-A Iowa.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cubs: INF Nick Madrigal (left groin strain) will spend the rest of the week building strength and volume with the training staff in Chicago. … RHP Ethan Roberts underwent Tommy John surgery in Arlington, Texas.
UP NEXT
The Orioles haven’t named a starter for Friday’s series opener against the Rays.
The Cubs will start RHP Keegan Thompson in Thursday’s series opener against the Mets. Thompson allowed one run in 5 2/3 innings Friday in a 4-3 loss to the Dodgers.
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By LARRY FLEISHER
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — DJ LeMahieu capped his 34th birthday by sliding across the plate on Alexis Díaz’s second straight wild pitch in the 10th inning, and the New York Yankees rallied from a four-run deficit to beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 Wednesday night and stop a three-game losing streak.
Luis Severino allowed three consecutive homers in a span of four pitches in the second inning as Cincinnati built a 4-0 lead, then left with right shoulder tightness.
Cincinnati allowed five unearned runs, four on Jonathan India’s error on Anthony Rizzo’s potential inning-ending double-play grounder in the third. The Reds fell behind 5-4 and went ahead 6-5 before Giancarlo Stanton homered to the short porch in right field off Ian Gibaut in the eighth.
LeMahieu started the 10th inning on second base. Aaron Judge struck out against Díaz (2-1), Anthony Rizzo was intentionally walked and Stanton fell behind 0-2 in the count.
Díaz threw a slider that went off the mitt of catcher Tyler Stephenson. Díaz paused to grab the resin bag, then threw a slide the bounced off Stephenson and bounced toward the first-base dugout as LeMahieu scampered home ahead of the catcher’s throw to Díaz covering the plate.
New York got its big league-high 11th walk-off win and 27th come-from-behind victory, avoiding what would have been its first four-game losing streak this year.
Michael King (6-1), the seventh Yankees pitcher, escaped first-and-third, no-outs trouble in the 10th when Matt Reynolds struck out and Kyle Farmer grounded into a 5-4-3 double play.
Farmer hit a 431-foot drive to left on Severino’s slider, Mike Moustakas connected on a changeup and Stuart Fairchild on a 92 mph fastball.
After Yankees manager Aaron Boone and an athletic trainer came to the mound, Severino finished the inning, He went to the mound to start the third and threw a warmup pitch, then walked off and was replaced by rookie JP Sears.
Severino averaged 94.1 mph with 18 fastballs, down from his season average of 96.1 mph.
This was the third time Severino allowed three homers in a game, the first since Aug. 28, 2017 against Cleveland.
Cincinnati hit three straight homers for the first time since May 5, 2019, against San Francisco’s Jeff Samardzija when Eugenio Suárez, Jesse Winker and Derek Dietrich achieved the feat.
New York allowed three straight homers for the second time this year. Cole did it June 9 in Minnesota when Luis Arraez, Byron Buxton and Carlos Correa took him deep.
Joey Votto drove in two runs and Stephenson hit a sacrifice fly in the fifth off Sears.
Gleyber Torres hit an RBI single after India’s error, and Isiah Kiner-Falefa capped a five-run third off with a three-run double.
Cincinnati starter Mike Minor allowed five runs — one earned — in four innings.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Reds: CF Nick Senzel was a late scratch with back tightness and was caught stealing as a pinch runner in the eighth.
Yankees: OF Aaron Hicks said he is feeling better after bruising his right shin fouling a pitch off his leg in the third inning Tuesday. Hicks underwent an MRI and CT scan that were both negative and hopes to return by this weekend’s series with Boston. … RHP Domingo Germán (right shoulder impingement, injured list since spring training) threw a bullpen session Wednesday and is tentatively to make another rehab start for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre, though it could change depends on New York’s pitching needs by Friday.
UP NEXT
RHP Luis Castillo (3-4, 2.92 ERA) makes his second career start in Yankee Stadium for Cincinnati. In the first inning of his previous start in New York, Castillo got Todd Frazier to hit into a triple play on July 26, 2007. All-Star LHP Nestor Cortes (7-3, 2.74) starts for the Yankees.
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Highlighting Global Talent and Diversity in Swimwear Industry while Inspiring Global Creators
MIAMI, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Uplive, the live video social platform with more than 300 million users in 150 regions worldwide, (IG: @uplive.usa), will participate in Miami Swim Week, which will be held July 14-17. Uplive's coverage will inspire global designers and creators and make it possible for people around the world to see the latest trends in fashion, art, and music.
Miami Swim Week is the premier annual gathering of the world's top designers and innovators in swim- and resort-wear. The event showcases over 100 independent designers from 70 countries in fashion, beauty, and lifestyle categories, all of whom are hoping to make a splash on the runway with their collections.
The collections featured on Uplive will include Hekka Fashion's "Style de Vie," a 30-piece lifestyle capsule of swimwear, apparel, and accessories inspired by the latest fashion trends. Hekka Fashion (IG: @hekka.official), the global online fashion and shopping eCommerce platform, is the sister company of Uplive; both are part of Asia Innovations Group. Miami Swim Week marks the second collaboration between Hekka and Uplive in fashion circles, following the success of the two platforms' New York Fashion Week 2022 Runway Show earlier this year.
"We're pleased to showcase the world's top swimwear fashion event, providing designers and fashion companies at Miami Swim Week with a massive global audience on a premier video platform," says Christine Xu, General Manager of Uplive USA. "As a platform for global performance and discovery, Uplive will both inspire and showcase creativity through this event."
Uplive is also boosting careers of young designers based in emerging markets. Through partnerships with fashion events worldwide, including MTV Fashion Week and Tokyo Fashion Week, Uplive presents designers with an opportunity to establish a global presence in the fashion industry. Uplive is unique in that it enables creators from emerging markets to gain access to larger international audiences and monetize their talents using only a basic smartphone.
The creator economy provides creators with a path to self-expression and an avenue to monetize content and reach millions around the globe. Uplive recognizes the value that can be brought to communities by empowering creative voices from emerging markets. By encouraging individuals to pursue their dreams in music, fashion, drama, TV, and more, Uplive's parent company, Asia Innovations Group, is making a difference in the lives of people around the world.
For example, the most recent Uplive WorldStage Grand Prize winner, native Filipino Harley David Nino, jumpstarted his career by captivating a global audience on Uplive.
"I am grateful that Uplive brought this huge opportunity to me. This is just the beginning of making all my dreams come true," Harley David Nino shared.
By creating a digital platform for artists to express themselves, Uplive is driving the creator economy forward and discovering the next generation of talent.
About Asia Innovations Group
Asia Innovations Group is a leading live social company with more than 600 million registered users located in over 150 regions worldwide. It has built a comprehensive and diverse portfolio as it seeks to achieve its mission of enriching people's lives worldwide through innovative and enjoyable live social products that foster meaningful human connection. Asia Innovations Group's portfolio includes leading apps such as Uplive, the global live video platform, CuteU and Lamour, the dominant dating apps in global emerging markets, as well as other fast-growing voice and game based live social apps. Its e-commerce platform, Hekka Fashion, offers an online shopping experience that brings accessible fashion to users and provides a host of opportunities for collaboration across Asia Innovations Group products. Asia Innovations Group includes operations in eighteen offices around the globe that brings deep local market knowledge across all major emerging markets. Combined with cutting-edge technology and a scalable global infrastructure, Asia Innovations Group is bringing the most exciting innovative product experiences to users across emerging markets. For more information, please visit https://www.asiainnovations.com.
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First and only investigational Phase 3 trial to show positive results in these young children; results follow recent approval of Dupixent in people with eosinophilic esophagitis aged 12 years and older who weigh at least 40 kilograms
Trial met its primary endpoint, with 68% of patients on higher dose Dupixent and 58% on lower dose Dupixent achieving histological disease remission at 16 weeks
Fifth pediatric pivotal trial across three type 2 inflammatory diseases to reinforce the well-established efficacy and safety profile of Dupixent
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. and PARIS, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) and Sanofi today announced that a Phase 3 trial assessing the investigational use of Dupixent® (dupilumab) in children aged 1 to 11 years with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) met its primary endpoint of histological disease remission at 16 weeks with both higher and lower dose weight-tiered regimens. There are no approved treatments for children with EoE under 12 years of age.
"Dupixent is the first medicine to alleviate key signs of eosinophilic esophagitis in children as young as 1 year of age in a Phase 3 trial. The efficacy of Dupixent demonstrates that in this age group, as in adults, IL-4 and IL-13 are key drivers of the type 2 inflammation underlying this debilitating disease," said George D. Yancopoulos, M.D., Ph.D., President and Chief Scientific Officer at Regeneron, and a principal inventor of Dupixent. "Eosinophilic esophagitis can turn the basic and life-sustaining act of eating into a painful experience at a point in children's lives when proper nutrition and achieving a healthy weight is critical to ensuring they grow and thrive. The positive results from this Phase 3 pediatric trial show Dupixent has the potential to improve signs of eosinophilic esophagitis and support healthy weight gain in children from their first birthday."
EoE is a chronic inflammatory disease that damages the esophagus and prevents it from working properly. The results seen with Dupixent in adults and children with EoE demonstrate that IL-4 and IL-13 are key drivers of the type 2 inflammation underlying this disease. In children, common symptoms of eosinophilic esophagitis include acid reflux, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, trouble swallowing, and a failure to thrive. These symptoms can impact growth and development, and can cause food-related fear and anxiety which can persist through adulthood. Diet adjustments, which oftentimes include the elimination of many foods, is the standard treatment for EoE, as well as the use of treatments not approved for the disease. These include proton pump inhibitors, swallowed topical corticosteroids, or in severe cases, a feeding tube, which may be used to ensure proper caloric intake and weight gain. Of the approximately 21,000 children under the age of 12 in the U.S. currently being treated for EoE, about 9,000 do not satisfactorily respond to the unapproved therapies they have been treated with and potentially require advanced therapy.
"We are incredibly excited to share results from this Phase 3 pivotal trial evaluating Dupixent in young children suffering from eosinophilic esophagitis – the first ever to show positive results across a variety of primary and secondary endpoints. The lack of treatment options for children living with eosinophilic esophagitis leaves many caregivers with the stress and burden of adapting their child's meals and their entire family's daily schedules to ensure healthy growth and development. In some cases, they must resort to off-label use of poorly studied treatments like steroids that can pose serious health risks when used long term," said Naimish Patel, M.D., Senior Vice President, Head of Global Development, Immunology and Inflammation at Sanofi. "The faster and larger than anticipated enrollment in this trial further emphasizes the unmet treatment needs for children with EoE and underscores the significance of these first-ever positive results."
In the Phase 3 trial, 102 children aged 1 to 11 were randomized to receive Dupixent, in either a higher dose (n=37) or lower dose (n=31) regimen based on body weight, or placebo (n=34). At 16 weeks, 68% of children on higher dose and 58% of patients on lower dose Dupixent achieved the primary endpoint of significant histological disease remission (peak esophageal intraepithelial eosinophil count of ≤6 eosinophils [eos]/high power field [hpf]) compared to 3% of children on placebo (p<0.0001 for both). Additionally, children receiving higher dose Dupixent experienced the following changes at week 16:
- 86% reduction in peak esophageal intraepithelial eosinophil count from baseline compared to a 21% increase for placebo (p<0.0001).
- 0.88 and 0.84 reduction from baseline in disease severity and extent, respectively, as measured at the microscopic level in biopsy specimens compared to a 0.02 and 0.05 increase for placebo (both p<0.0001).
- 3.5-point reduction in abnormal endoscopic findings from baseline compared to a 0.3-point increase for placebo (p<0.0001).
- A numerical improvement in the proportion of days children experienced symptoms of EoE from baseline, as reported by caregivers (Pediatric EOE signs/symptoms questionnaire [PESQ-C]), compared to placebo, though not statistically significant. The PESQ-C is a novel endpoint developed by Regeneron and Sanofi used for the first time in this trial, designed to assess symptoms in young children through their caregivers (as signs), as children may have difficulty verbalizing their symptoms themselves.
- As part of a prespecified exploratory analysis, a 3.09 percentile increase in body weight for age percentile from baseline compared to 0.29 for placebo.
Histological, anatomic and cellular secondary endpoints were also analyzed for the lower dose group, with all being nominally significant and generally comparable with the higher dose. More detailed results will be shared at an upcoming medical meeting, including additional data for the endpoints in the lower dose group.
Safety results were generally consistent with the known safety profile of Dupixent in its approved EoE indication for children and adults aged 12 years and older who weigh at least 40 kg. For the 16-week treatment period, overall rates of adverse events (AEs) were 79% for Dupixent and 91% for placebo. AEs more commonly (≥5%) observed with Dupixent compared to placebo included COVID-19 (21% Dupixent, 0% placebo; all cases were mild or moderate and did not lead to study discontinuation), rash (9% Dupixent, 6% placebo), headache (8% Dupixent, 3% placebo), viral gastroenteritis (6% Dupixent, 3% placebo), diarrhea (6% Dupixent, 3% placebo) and nausea (6% Dupixent, 0% placebo). Rates of treatment discontinuation due to AEs prior to week 16 were 0% for Dupixent and 6% for placebo.
In May 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Dupixent 300 mg weekly to treat patients with EoE aged 12 years and older and weighing at least 40 kg after granting the medicine Priority Review.
The potential use of Dupixent in children with EoE aged 1 to 11 years is currently under clinical development, and the safety and efficacy have not been fully evaluated by any regulatory authority. These data will be discussed with regulatory authorities around the world, starting with the U.S. later this year.
About the Dupixent Pediatric Eosinophilic Esophagitis Trial
The Phase 3, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial evaluated the efficacy and safety of Dupixent in young children aged 1 to 11 years with EoE, as determined by histological and patient- or caregiver-reported measures. At baseline, 98% of these patients had at least one co-existing type 2 inflammatory disease such as food allergy, allergic rhinitis, asthma and atopic dermatitis.
Patients received Dupixent subcutaneously at either a higher dose or lower dose regimen based on their weight (ranging from ≥5 kg to <60 kg) over a 16-week period, at which point all endpoints were assessed. The dosing frequency ranged between every two weeks and every four weeks, based on weight.
The primary endpoint was histological disease remission. Secondary endpoints included histopathologic measures of the severity and extent of tissue scarring in the esophagus (EoE-HSS grade and stage scores, which measure changes in eight cellular and tissue features on 0-3 scales, respectively), and abnormal endoscopic findings (EoE Endoscopic Reference Score [EoE-EREFS] on a 0-18 scale), as well as changes in caregiver-reported symptoms (proportion of days with 1 or more EoE signs [e.g. stomach pain, vomiting, food refusal] by the Pediatric EoE Sign/Symptom Questionnaire-caregiver version [PESQ-C]). An exploratory endpoint assessed change from baseline in body weight for age percentile.
The trial is ongoing with a 36-week extended active treatment period to evaluate long-term outcomes.
About Dupixent
Dupixent, which was invented using Regeneron's proprietary VelocImmune® technology, is a fully human monoclonal antibody that inhibits the signaling of the interleukin-4 (IL-4) and interleukin-13 (IL-13) pathways and is not an immunosuppressant. The Dupixent development program has shown significant clinical benefit and a decrease in type 2 inflammation in Phase 3 trials, establishing that IL-4 and IL-13 are key and central drivers of the type 2 inflammation that plays a major role in multiple related and often co-morbid diseases. These diseases include approved indications for Dupixent such as asthma, atopic dermatitis, chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (CRSwNP) and EoE, as well as investigational diseases such as prurigo nodularis.
Dupixent has received regulatory approvals around the world for use in certain patients with atopic dermatitis, asthma, CRSwNP or EoE in different age populations. Dupixent is currently approved across these indications in the U.S. and for one or more of these indications in more than 60 countries, including in the European Union and Japan. More than 400,000 patients have been treated with Dupixent globally.
About Regeneron's VelocImmune Technology
Regeneron's VelocImmune technology utilizes a proprietary genetically engineered mouse platform endowed with a genetically humanized immune system to produce optimized fully human antibodies. When Regeneron's co-Founder, President and Chief Scientific Officer George D. Yancopoulos was a graduate student with his mentor Frederick W. Alt in 1985, they were the first to envision making such a genetically humanized mouse, and Regeneron has spent decades inventing and developing VelocImmune and related VelociSuite® technologies. Dr. Yancopoulos and his team have used VelocImmune technology to create approximately one in five of all original, FDA-approved fully human monoclonal antibodies currently available. This includes REGEN-COV® (casirivimab and imdevimab), Dupixent, Libtayo® (cemiplimab-rwlc), Praluent® (alirocumab), Kevzara® (sarilumab), Evkeeza® (evinacumab-dgnb) and Inmazeb™ (atoltivimab, maftivimab and odesivimab-ebgn).
Dupilumab Development Program
Dupilumab is being jointly developed by Regeneron and Sanofi under a global collaboration agreement. To date, dupilumab has been studied across more than 60 clinical trials involving more than 10,000 patients with various chronic diseases driven in part by type 2 inflammation.
In addition to the currently approved indications, Regeneron and Sanofi are studying dupilumab in a broad range of diseases driven by type 2 inflammation or other allergic processes in Phase 3 trials, including prurigo nodularis, pediatric EoE, hand and foot atopic dermatitis, chronic inducible urticaria-cold, chronic spontaneous urticaria, chronic pruritis of unknown origin, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with evidence of type 2 inflammation, chronic rhinosinusitis without nasal polyposis, allergic fungal rhinosinusitis, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis and bullous pemphigoid. These potential uses of dupilumab are currently under clinical investigation, and the safety and efficacy in these conditions have not been fully evaluated by any regulatory authority.
U.S. Indications
DUPIXENT is a prescription medicine used:
- to treat adults and children 6 months of age and older with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (eczema) that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin (topical), or who cannot use topical therapies. DUPIXENT can be used with or without topical corticosteroids. It is not known if DUPIXENT is safe and effective in children with atopic dermatitis under 6 months of age.
- with other asthma medicines for the maintenance treatment of moderate-to-severe eosinophilic or oral steroid dependent asthma in adults and children 6 years of age and older whose asthma is not controlled with their current asthma medicines. DUPIXENT helps prevent severe asthma attacks (exacerbations) and can improve your breathing. DUPIXENT may also help reduce the amount of oral corticosteroids you need while preventing severe asthma attacks and improving your breathing. DUPIXENT is not used to treat sudden breathing problems. It is not known if DUPIXENT is safe and effective in children with asthma under 6 years of age.
- with other medicines for the maintenance treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (CRSwNP) in adults whose disease is not controlled. It is not known if DUPIXENT is safe and effective in children with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis under 18 years of age.
- to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older, who weigh at least 88 pounds (40 kg), with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). It is not known if DUPIXENT is safe and effective in children with eosinophilic esophagitis under 12 years of age and who weigh at least 88 pounds (40 kg).
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Do not use if you are allergic to dupilumab or to any of the ingredients in DUPIXENT®.
Before using DUPIXENT, tell your healthcare provider about all your medical conditions, including if you:
- have eye problems.
- have a parasitic (helminth) infection.
- are scheduled to receive any vaccinations. You should not receive a "live vaccine" right before and during treatment with DUPIXENT.
- are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known whether DUPIXENT will harm your unborn baby.
- are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. It is not known whether DUPIXENT passes into your breast milk.
Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins and herbal supplements.
Especially tell your healthcare provider if you are taking oral, topical, or inhaled corticosteroid medicines; have asthma and use an asthma medicine; or have atopic dermatitis, CRSwNP, or EoE, and also have asthma. Do not change or stop your corticosteroid medicine or other asthma medicine without talking to your healthcare provider. This may cause other symptoms that were controlled by the corticosteroid medicine or other asthma medicine to come back.
DUPIXENT can cause serious side effects, including:
- Allergic reactions. DUPIXENT can cause allergic reactions that can sometimes be severe. Stop using DUPIXENT and tell your healthcare provider or get emergency help right away if you get any of the following signs or symptoms: breathing problems or wheezing, swelling of the face, lips, mouth, tongue or throat, fainting, dizziness, feeling lightheaded, fast pulse, fever, hives, joint pain, general ill feeling, itching, skin rash, swollen lymph nodes, nausea or vomiting, or cramps in your stomach-area.
- Eye problems. Tell your healthcare provider if you have any new or worsening eye problems, including eye pain or changes in vision, such as blurred vision. Your healthcare provider may send you to an ophthalmologist for an exam if needed.
- Inflammation of your blood vessels. Rarely, this can happen in people with asthma who receive DUPIXENT. This may happen in people who also take a steroid medicine by mouth that is being stopped or the dose is being lowered. It is not known whether this is caused by DUPIXENT. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have: rash, chest pain, worsening shortness of breath, a feeling of pins and needles or numbness of your arms or legs, or persistent fever.
- Joint aches and pain. Some people who use DUPIXENT have had trouble walking or moving due to their joint symptoms, and in some cases needed to be hospitalized. Tell your healthcare provider about any new or worsening joint symptoms. Your healthcare provider may stop DUPIXENT if you develop joint symptoms.
The most common side effects include:
- Atopic dermatitis: injection site reactions, eye and eyelid inflammation, including redness, swelling, and itching, sometimes with blurred vision, cold sores in your mouth or on your lips, and high count of a certain white blood cell (eosinophilia).
- Asthma: injection site reactions, pain in the throat (oropharyngeal pain), high count of a certain white blood cell (eosinophilia), and parasitic (helminth) infections.
- Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis: injection site reactions, eye and eyelid inflammation, including redness, swelling, and itching, sometimes with blurred vision, high count of a certain white blood cell (eosinophilia), trouble sleeping (insomnia), toothache, gastritis, and joint pain (arthralgia).
- Eosinophilic esophagitis: injection site reactions, upper respiratory tract infections, cold sores in your mouth or on your lips, and joint pain (arthralgia).
Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away.
These are not all the possible side effects of DUPIXENT. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
Use DUPIXENT exactly as prescribed by your healthcare provider. It's an injection given under the skin (subcutaneous injection). Your healthcare provider will decide if you or your caregiver can inject DUPIXENT. Do not try to prepare and inject DUPIXENT until you or your caregiver have been trained by your healthcare provider. In children 12 years of age and older, it's recommended DUPIXENT be administered by or under supervision of an adult. In children under 12 years of age, DUPIXENT should be given by a caregiver.
Please see accompanying full Prescribing Information including Patient Information.
About Regeneron
Regeneron is a leading biotechnology company that invents, develops and commercializes life-transforming medicines for people with serious diseases. Founded and led for nearly 35 years by physician-scientists, our unique ability to repeatedly and consistently translate science into medicine has led to numerous FDA-approved treatments and product candidates in development, almost all of which were homegrown in our laboratories. Our medicines and pipeline are designed to help patients with eye diseases, allergic and inflammatory diseases, cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, pain, hematologic conditions, infectious diseases and rare diseases.
Regeneron is accelerating and improving the traditional drug development process through our proprietary VelociSuite® technologies, such as VelocImmune®, which uses unique genetically humanized mice to produce optimized fully human antibodies and bispecific antibodies, and through ambitious research initiatives such as the Regeneron Genetics Center, which is conducting one of the largest genetics sequencing efforts in the world.
For more information, please visit www.Regeneron.com or follow @Regeneron on Twitter.
About Sanofi
We are an innovative global healthcare company, driven by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Our team, across some 100 countries, is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine by working to turn the impossible into the possible. We provide potentially life-changing treatment options and life-saving vaccine protection to millions of people globally, while putting sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our ambitions.
Sanofi is listed on EURONEXT: SAN and NASDAQ: SNY.
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AFL lifts COVID-19 vaccine mandate
The AFL has ended its compulsory COVID-19 vaccine mandate and will instead "strongly encourage" players to receive the jab.
The lifting of the vaccine requirement takes effect immediately, meaning the likes of former Carlton defender Liam Jones are eligible to play again.
Jones opted to retire rather than move to the Blues' inactive list following the AFL's decision to mandate vaccination last October.
The AFL on Thursday confirmed it had written to clubs saying the requirements had been scrapped after an "extensive" review.
"The health and safety of our players, staff and the wider community has been one of the guiding principles governing the AFL's ongoing response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic," AFL football operations manager Andrew Dillon said.
"Our AFL industry has continued to adapt to the circumstances in front of us, and while we have removed the mandatory vaccine mandate, we still maintain the view that vaccinations are the best form of defence in minimising the impacts of COVID with the focus now on keeping "up to date" with all recommended boosters.
"We will continue to monitor the COVID situation as it evolves.
"If we need to adjust over the coming weeks and months we will do so in consultation with the respective governments and medical professionals."
Only a handful of players showed any public resistance towards the vaccine mandate.
Jones and former Brisbane Lions midfielder Cameron Ellis-Yolmen were the only men's players to step away from the AFL rather than be vaccinated.
The pair have been playing local football in the Queensland state competition this year instead.
West Coast premiership forward Jack Darling eventually agreed to have the jab on the eve of the season after being unable to train with the Eagles for the majority of the pre-season.
Melbourne premiership forward Tom McDonald was vaccinated but spoke out publicly against the mandate, saying it was "ethically wrong".
The lifting of the mandate comes about six weeks away from the start of the new women's season.
St Kilda star Georgia Patrikios sat out all of last season after refusing to be vaccinated but will now be able to return in a major boost for the Saints.
Adelaide premiership defender Deni Varnhagen chose not to be vaccinated, leading her to miss the Crows' run to a third flag and she lost work as a nurse in South Australia.
However, Varnhagen will remain on Adelaide's inactive list for the upcoming season after recently announcing she was pregnant. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11012497/AFL-lifts-COVID-19-vaccine-mandate.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-14T05:33:34Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11012497/AFL-lifts-COVID-19-vaccine-mandate.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
SAS and pilot unions set to continue talks as strike enters 11th day
STOCKHOLM, July 14 (Reuters) - A pilot strike at SAS that has affected hundreds of thousands of holiday travellers entered its 11th day on Thursday as unions and airline were set to continue talks over a new collective bargaining agreement.
The parties resumed talks on Wednesday after they broke down on July 4 and the walkout started but they were unable to reach a deal, with negotiations set to resume on Thursday.
"(The talks) have stopped for today and will continue tomorrow," said a spokesperson for Dansk Metal, the union representing Danish SAS pilots, on Wednesday evening.
Long-struggling SAS has said the strike at the height of its peak season is costing $10 million to $13 million a day while at the same time it needs to slash costs and attract new investors to survive.
The pilots employed in many decades old SAS Scandinavia have said they would agree to limited wage cuts and less favourable terms. SAS has said the concessions are not enough for it to succeed with a large rescue plan announced in February.
Unions are also demanding that pilots let go during the pandemic are rehired at SAS Scandinavia, rather than having to compete with external applicants for jobs at newly started SAS Link and Ireland-based SAS Connect.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan aren’t waiting until 2024 to fight over the future of the Republican Party.
Approaching the final months of his second term, Hogan is encouraging GOP voters to rally behind gubernatorial candidate Kelly Schulz, who served as labor secretary and commerce secretary in his administration. Trump, however, is backing Dan Cox, a state legislator who has said President Joe Biden’s victory shouldn’t have been certified, called former Vice President Mike Pence a “traitor” and sought to impeach Hogan for his pandemic policies.
The dynamics have turned next week’s GOP primary for governor into a proxy battle between Trump and Hogan, who are offering vastly different visions of the party’s future as they eye presidential runs in 2024. Hogan, who is prevented from seeking reelection because of term limits, is one of Trump’s most prominent GOP critics and has urged the party to move on from his divisive brand of politics. Trump, meanwhile, has spent much of his post-presidency lifting candidates who embrace his election lies.
“It’s difficult not to see this primary between Hogan-endorsed Kelly Schulz and Trump-endorsed Dan Cox in a broader context of national Republican politics," said Mileah Kromer, an associate professor of political science at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland.
Whoever emerges from the GOP primary will face steep hurdles in a state that represents one of the best opportunities this year for a Democrat to take back a governor’s mansion. Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1 in the state, but Hogan was able to win two terms by pledging to cut taxes, emphasizing bipartisanship and not being afraid to challenge Trump.
A poll last month by the Sarah T. Hughes Center for Politics at Goucher, The Baltimore Banner and WYPR found Schulz and Cox in a close race, with Cox at 25% and Schulz at 22% — within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 4.8 percentage points. Forty-four percent of Republican voters were undecided.
Two other Republicans are also in the race: Robin Ficker, a former state lawmaker who was a well-known sports heckler, and Joe Werner, an attorney.
The winner will take on the candidate who prevails in a crowded Democratic race that includes former U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez, bestselling author Wes Moore, Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot and former U.S. Education Secretary John King.
The competing visions for the Republican Party were evident as GOP voters cast early ballots in the primary.
Republican Jeff Conley, 68, said he's disappointed with the party's current trajectory and voted for Schulz as a mark of his support for Hogan.
“I have been a Republican all my life, and the Trump people have hijacked the party, and I want it back,” Conley said. "Love Larry Hogan. I’d like to see him run and be president and bring a bunch of people with him who are reasonable and can get along."
Christine Cirone, 50, however, said she voted for Cox, citing his opposition to abortion as well as an unsuccessful lawsuit he filed over Hogan's COVID-19 policies. Trump's endorsement, she said, was also an important factor in her vote.
“He’s an America First patriot. That’s exactly why I voted for him," Cirone said at an early voting center in Annapolis.
Democrats have sought to meddle in the race to boost Cox's standing in the primary, a tactic the party has used in other states this midterm season in the hopes of facing an easier opponent in the general election.
The Democratic Governors Association paid more than $1 million to broadcast an ad that emphasizes Cox's conservative credentials, calling him “too close to Trump” and asserting that he will protect the Second Amendment “at all costs.”
“The math is easy," Schulz said at a news conference with Hogan last month in front of Maryland's Capitol to denounce the ad. “Spend a million now and save $5 million by not having to face me in the general election.”
She said Republican voters were “savvy” enough to recognize that “the best candidate is somebody that can win in November.”
Cox described the news conference as evidence his opponent is worried.
“It’s proof, I think, that we’re winning,” Cox told reporters. “The people of Maryland want change.”
Hogan has left open the possibility of running for the White House in 2024. He said last weekend on NBC's “Meet the Press” that he believes voters are tired of the extremes in both parties and that there's “growing demand for exactly what we've done in Maryland over the last eight years.”
Hogan has criticized Cox for organizing buses to Washington for the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by a violent mob of Trump supporters. Cox has said he didn't go to the Capitol and left before the rioting began.
In a tweet he later deleted, Cox called Pence a “traitor” for refusing to go along with Trump's demands not to certify the 2020 election, though he later expressed regret for using the word.
Trump has offered strong support for Cox while referring to Hogan and Schulz as RINOs, or Republicans In Name Only, a term of derision for those considered insufficiently loyal to the former president.
“More importantly, Dan will end Larry Hogan’s terrible RINO reign by defeating his ‘Never Trump’ successor, another low-energy RINO, Kelly Schulz,” Trump said in a statement Tuesday.
Hogan expressed doubts about whether this year's gubernatorial primary reflected a proxy battle between himself and the former president.
“It’s about two different candidates and two different philosophies,” Hogan said after casting a ballot for Schulz last week.
Hogan said Schulz was the only Republican candidate able to build on his accomplishments and keep a Democrat out of the governor's mansion.
“The other candidates in the Republican primary just have no chance whatsoever to run a competitive race," he said.
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WASHINGTON — Families and survivors from recent mass shootings across the country are in Washington, D.C. to demand further action against gun violence from Congress.
March Fourth, a community of organizers and mothers that was founded by friends, family and survivors of the Highland Park, Illinois shooting on July 4, organized the peaceful march to the Capitol to demand a ban on assault weapons.
The shooting at a Fourth of July parade killed seven people and wounded more than 30 others. One child was left parentless and an 8-year old boy was left paralyzed, while many other children and families fled for their lives.
“I was tired of feeling helpless and trapped as an American citizen raising kids who aren’t safe in schools, at concerts, at parades…” says Kitty Brandtner, founding member of March Fourth and a mother of three who lives nearby in Winnetka, Illinois. “I just wanted to stand together, scream at the top of our lungs and beg for real change.”
Organizers of the march say that, even though President Joe Biden recently signed the bipartisan Safer Communities Act into law, it's not enough.
“The majority of Americans don’t believe civilians should have access to assault weapons. Why is it so hard to pass legislation on this?” Brandtner said. She, alongside marchers, will call for Congress to pass HR. 1808 and S. 736, two bills that would ban semiautomatic assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices.
The march is scheduled to begin at First Street NE and C Street NE, one block north of the Capitol building. The march lasts from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., according to organizers.
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San Juan 12U baseball headed to PWS South Zone championship
SAN JUAN, Texas -- The South Zone championship for the Pony world Series runs from July 20th-24th.
San Juan 12U baseball is headed to Houston for a chance to qualify. Click on the video above for more. | https://www.krgv.com/news/san-juan-12u-baseball-headed-to-pws-south-zone-championship | 2022-07-14T05:49:25Z | https://www.krgv.com/news/san-juan-12u-baseball-headed-to-pws-south-zone-championship | true |
MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Countries on Africa’s east coast are increasingly turning to climate funding initiatives to boost livelihoods of oceanside communities, aid biodiversity and take climate action.
On the margins of the high-level political forum on sustainable development currently underway at the United Nations headquarters in New York, African coastal and island states and conservation groups outlined plans to boost ocean conservation and economic development through a system of “ blue bonds” — a method of financing projects that would also benefit ocean health.
Following on from Africa’s Great Green Wall, which spans across the continent’s Sahel region, east African nations are now seeking funds for the Great Blue Wall initiative, which aims to protect marine areas across the coastline. Both blue and green finance refers to funding aimed at preventing environmental damage and combating climate change while creating sustainable ecosystems.
“The blue bond is a powerful example of the critical role that the capital markets can play in supporting sustainable objectives,” said Jorge Familiar, Vice President of the World Bank.
The Great Blue Wall initiative, launched last year by ten western Indian Ocean states during the U.N.’s climate conference in Glasgow, aims to create a network of coastal and marine protected areas which supporters say would restore and conserve some 2 million hectares of ocean, capture 100 million tons of carbon dioxide and secure livelihoods for over 70 million people.
The project spans the continent’s east coast — from Somalia to South Africa — and includes the island states of Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Somalia and the French territories, Mayotte and Reunion.
Jean-Paul Adam, who heads the climate division at the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa, said the blue wall initiative would recognize “the true value the environment has in future wealth creation and empowerment of local communities”.
“We need to dramatically upscale private sector investment into green and blue sectors,” he said. Less than one percent of so-called blue and green bonds, which are used for marine and land projects respectively, are issued for African countries.
“The next steps are to make these markets more accessible to African countries,” he added.
The U.N. says many of the financial climate promises made by richer countries are not being committed to in full, meaning that many African nations are unable to take necessary adaptation and mitigation measures against the effect of climate change.
In its latest assessment, the African Development Bank said that between $1.3 trillion and $1.6 trillion is needed by 2030 to implement climate action in line with nationally determined contributions — targets set by individual countries to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees F) and no more than 2C (3.6 F). But blue bonds are currently just a fraction of ocean conservation funding, the bank added.
“Bonds alone are not a panacea for the financing gap but they can allow us to raise large amounts,” Adam said.
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This story has been corrected to show that it is countries on Africa’s east coast that are turning to climate funding.
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The GOP-led Supreme Court ruling in favor of generally unrestricted carry of concealed firearms did a lot more than grant more "freedom" to some; it imposed a harsh requirement on most others.
The impact on the rest of us escaped the notice of the Roberts Court. Along with eroding the fundamental role of an independent, nonpolitical judiciary, which is essential to all our freedoms.
How many eons did it take humans to get civilized enough for folks to move about unarmed without fear of random violence? The NRA/GOP union pushes us toward the necessity for every person to be armed and proficient with a weapon.
That rude bus rider, unfriendly neighbor, his unruly kids, the "road rage" driver, parking space competitor -- each could be "packing" and at the edge of self-control; better get your own gat out to calm things down.
"Harden" the schools? Sure. Worth a cop or two, but how many will it take to protect all doors, ground-floor windows, bus routes?
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Mental health screening? Again, useful. But please note the Colorado theater killer had been seen by a psychiatrist who reported him to police as dangerous. How many psychiatrists, with what authority, can we field, and where do we start? Better to look at the mental health of politicians who leap to defend gun rights, and ignore gun availability, the dead and maimed.
Chief Justice Roberts makes an occasional stab at even-handedness in a futile attempt at restoring an image of judicial impartiality for the court that will bear his name in history. But all that is swept aside by big rulings like this and abortion.
Tom deShazo, Lincoln | https://journalstar.com/opinion/letters/letter-more-freedom-only-for-some/article_5d23c226-beed-5ed9-a464-60715ce5d9ac.html | 2022-07-14T05:55:27Z | https://journalstar.com/opinion/letters/letter-more-freedom-only-for-some/article_5d23c226-beed-5ed9-a464-60715ce5d9ac.html | false |
THE NATIONAL economy is showing signs of weakness, but here in New Hampshire the economy is booming thanks to a series of tax reductions that have kept more money in the pockets of our employers. In fact, the Granite State has experienced the biggest economic growth in the last two years, more than any other state.
Gov. Chris Sununu just signed the state’s fifth round of tax relief for employers in seven years. As the state lowered the business profits tax, three things happened.
The economy boomed.
The unemployment rate fell.
State revenues shot up.
Funny what happens when you let employers keep more of the money they earned.
Americans For Prosperity-New Hampshire led efforts for this critical tax relief for years because we know that good things happen when employers get to keep more of their hard-earned money.
When employers have more money, they invest it in their businesses. That investment creates more hiring, more expansion, higher wages and more economic growth in communities all over New Hampshire.
When the Legislature started this series of tax cuts in 2015, the business profits tax was 8.5%, and the business enterprise tax was 0.75%. Over five rounds of rate reductions, the BPT was lowered by almost 12%, to 7.5% and the BET was lowered by 26%, to 0.55%.
New Hampshire went from having one of New England’s highest tax rates on corporate profits to being tied for the second lowest. Before these reductions, Massachusetts could boast that it had a lower tax rate on employers than New Hampshire.
What’s amazing isn’t that we successfully lowered these rates in a relatively short span of time. It’s that we ever tolerated such high rates in the first place.
More than any other New Englanders, Granite Staters know the value of low taxes and the dangers of letting government take more of our hard-earned money than is absolutely necessary.
And the truth is that those high tax rates were never necessary. For years, the state took far more than it needed from New Hampshire employers.
Misinformation was a big reason the state got away with overtaxing New Hampshire employers for so long. Legislators were told constantly that reducing taxes would blow a huge hole in the state budget, that employer tax relief would benefit only big, out-of-state corporations, and that the cuts would hurt the economy by depriving the state of vital revenue needed to fund essential services.
All of this was wrong.
Since the Legislature began phasing in these rate reductions, business tax revenues have come in below budgeted projections only once. That was in 2020, when business activity was forced to a halt during the lockdowns, thousands were laid off, and employers were literally forbidden from engaging in “non-essential” economic activity.
The New Hampshire economy has been so strong since these tax cuts started that it literally took a government-ordered shutdown for businesses to stop filling state coffers with more money than legislators had planned to spend.
How did state revenues do after four rounds of tax rate reductions? With one month left to go in this fiscal year, state revenues are $406 million above plan, driven by $228 million in surplus business tax revenue.
Opponents said these tax rate reductions would benefit big, out-of-state corporations at the expense of working families. In reality, the reductions applied to all tax-paying employers equally. New Hampshire doesn’t have progressive business taxes. All employers who pay taxes pay exactly the same tax rate.
When the state lowered these taxes, mom-and-pop shops enjoyed the same reduction in their tax rates that Walmart and Target did. No one got a bigger cut than anyone else.
And the majority of employers who benefitted were based in New Hampshire. Fewer than 6% of employers that file BPT returns in New Hampshire are based out of state. The rest — nearly 94% — are based right here in the Granite State.
This tax relief left more money in the pockets of New Hampshire small business owners.
That’s one reason the state’s unemployment rate is down to 2.1%, its lowest level since 1987, the year after the original Top Gun came out. Meanwhile, the national unemployment rate is stuck at 3.6%.
By lowering taxes on employers, New Hampshire has put its economy in a great position not only in New England, but in relation to the rest of the country.
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