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Ireland battled to a landmark series win in New Zealand after holding off a second-half fightback to secure a stunning 32-22 success from an epic encounter in Wellington.
Andy Farrell’s men led by 19 points at the break courtesy of a spellbinding first-half display which brought tries for Josh Van Der Flier, Hugo Keenan and Robbie Henshaw.
But the All Blacks moved to within three points in a breathless second period thanks to scores from Ardie Savea, Akira Ioane and Will Jordan, before Rob Herring crossed to help the tourists home on a historic evening.
READ MORE:Ireland vs New Zealand LIVE: Result and recap as four-try Ireland clinch historic series win
Members of Ireland’s triumphant squad were pictured in tears at full-time as they savoured arguably the greatest result in their nation’s history.
Captain Johnny Sexton, who celebrated his 37th birthday on Monday, chipped in with 12 points, becoming the second man to surpass 1,000 in the green jersey.
Ireland only won away to New Zealand for the first time last weekend by bouncing back from a 42-19 drubbing in the Auckland opener to triumph 23-12 in Dunedin and set up the decider.
Head coach Farrell had expressed hope that his side had saved their best performance for the final Test.
The Englishman duly had his wished granted during a phenomenal opening 40 minutes packed with power and intensity before the Irish weathered a second-half storm intensified by the loss of prop Andrew Porter to a yellow card to take the series 2-1.
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Phoenix man drowns in Oak Creek
SEDONA – The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office has identified a man who drowned after jumping into Oak Creek on Saturday, July 9.
Austin Smith, 36, who was from the Phoenix area, was found under a ledge in the flowing water of Oak Creek by Sedona Fire department crews about an hour and a half after he went in the water, according to Jon Paxton of CCSO on Monday, July 11.
The death comes two week after a similar incident at Red Rock Crossing on Oak Creek.
The individual on Saturday had been jumping from rocks 15 feet off the water multiple times prior to this last jump, Paxton said. “But this time he did not surface.”
People swam out to that spot but they couldn’t see him under the murky water.
The Sedona Fire District was finally able to locate him.
The victim had drifted “down-current” about 15 to 20 yards and went into an area that was about 15 to 20 feet deep, Paxton said.
The swimming hole is near a pull-off for cars just south of the Manzanita campground.
“It was very tragic,” he said.
The family was on the scene.
Paxton said they don’t know what happened, but he went in “feet first” and it wasn’t a collision with a rock.
About 10 to 15 people were involved in the search, including Coconino Search and Rescue.
When they were looking for him, the water was so dark that people couldn’t see anything below, Paxton pointed out.
Concerning the man pulled out of the water at Red Rock Crossing on June 29, none of the involved emergency agencies could provide updated information.
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Katrina Kaif, Ishaan Khattar, Siddhant Chaturvedi Photograph:( Twitter )
July 16 marks Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif's 39th birthday.
With Katrina Kaif celebrating her 39th birthday today, the makers of her upcoming movie `Phone Bhoot` have dropped a quirky BTS video of the cast wishing her on her special day.
In the video, Katrina Kaif, Ishaan Khatter and Siddhant Chaturvedi can be seen rapping. Katrina looks stunning in her latest fringe haircut.
Her fans can not only see her new look in the film, but also watch her rapping for the first time in her career.
The video comes with the caption: "There`s hype cos you`re a vibe. Happy Birthday#KatrinaKaif"
There’s hype cos you’re a vibe. Happy Birthday #KatrinaKaif #IshaanKhatter @Siddhchaturvedi @gurmmeet pic.twitter.com/PsqJDY14jc
— Excel Entertainment (@excelmovies) July 16, 2022
`Phone Bhoot` is a supernatural comedy directed by Gurmmeet Singh of `Mirzapur` fame and produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani`s banner Excel Entertainment.
The movie, to be released on November 4, also stars Jackie Shroff, Sheeba Chaddha, Nidhi Bisht and Surender Thakur.
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Michelle Visage tells prom dress boy Korben 'forget negativity'
By Laura Devlin
BBC News, East
- Published
RuPaul's Drag Race star Michelle Visage has told a boy whose prom dress was seen by millions on Twitter to "forget about any negativity".
Korben, 16, dazzled his classmates - and then the world - in a sparkly tuxedo and ballgown skirt at his end-of-school celebration near Norwich.
He and his mum Nina Green spoke to Visage on her new show on BBC Radio 2.
"I don't want you to let your soul be destroyed by anything you see out there," the presenter told him.
"Don't let it get into your bubble of positivity because you are just a beautiful soul."
Explaining she had a "very important message", she said "you're 16 years old, you're smart but you're also impressionable".
Earlier this month, Mrs Green had tweeted photos of Korben ready for the prom at Archbishop Sancroft High School in Harleston, Norfolk, and said she was incredibly proud he was being true to himself.
"The reception he got from his school friends was amazing because it showed that level of acceptance - he was his true self and that meant so much," she told Visage on Friday.
"I want to support him in the best way that I can."
Visage called her a wonderful mum and said she was "inundated" with tweets about Korben, who she called the "real-life Everybody's Talking About Jamie".
"Nina, we need more mums out there and dads out there who think the way you think," she added.
Visage also had some words of encouragement for Korben's drag queen Miss Frou Frou, shouting out "Knock 'em dead at Norwich Pride, baby!" as she played one of his favourite tracks.
Korben is due to perform as Miss Frou Frou at Norwich Pride in the city centre on 30 July, with one of the organisers describing him as a "ray of sunshine".
Mrs Green had previously said they had received an "extremely positive" reaction on social media and were ignoring any negative comments.
"To be called an inspirational person is everything I could ask for," Korben had said.
"All the comments have been really, really lovely - and I've loved having the opportunity to show people you can express yourself."
Earlier this week, the pair appeared on ITV's This Morning, where presenter Dermot O'Leary described Mrs Green as an "extraordinary" parent.
Asked what she would say to others in her situation, she said: "I was nervous, we have had some negative comments on social media but we ignore them.
"It's no one else's business - no one is living your life for you, you've got to embrace it all."
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Chelsea swoop to sign Arsenal wonderkid Hutchinson in shock transfer
Chelsea have completed the surprise signing of teenage forward Omari Hutchinson from Arsenal as they bid to boost their academy ranks. Hutchinson was an integral part of the Gunners’ Under-23s side that finished third in Premier League 2 last season, but has departed north London after finding first-team opportunities hard to come by.
While Hutchinson did not make any appearances for the senior Arsenal side, he did feature in Mikel Arteta’s matchday squad on 10 occasions during the 2021-22 campaign.
He will now, however, be available to Thomas Tuchel as the Blues look to yet again offer top English talent the chance to shine towards the top of the Premier League table.
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Who is new Chelsea signing Omari Hutchinson?
Born in Surrey, Hutchinson's formal footballing education began at Charlton Athletic before he joined Arsenal in 2015.
Having honed his skills playing futsal, Hutchinson is known for his quick feet, supreme confidence and eye for the spectacular when it comes to goalscoring.
“I’ve always been known as a little skiller," he told GOAL in September 2021. "I would say half of it has come from futsal. But also when I was younger, I used to do skills in my front room, in my garden and in my kitchen. Straight after school I would get changed and do skills. I loved it.”
Over the past two seasons, Hutchinson has emerged as one of the stars of Arsenal's famed Hale End academy, providing 17 goals and 16 assists across the various age-group sides since the start of the 2019-20 campaign.
That form caught the eye of Arteta, who invited him to pre-season training in 2020, but Hutchinson's failure to break into the first team has eventually led to him joining Chelsea.
“We are delighted that Omari has agreed to sign for Chelsea," the Blues' head of youth recruitment, Jim Fraser, said in a statement. "He is a brilliant addition who joins us as an exciting emerging talent hoping to make a quick impression in the senior game."
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TX Fort Worth TX Zone Forecast for Friday, July 15, 2022
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National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
TXZ119-162145-
Dallas-
Including the city of Dallas
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
...OZONE ACTION DAY IN EFFECT FOR TODAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows around 80. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 109 in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Heat index values
up to 110 in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ118-162145-
Tarrant-
Including the cities of Fort Worth and Arlington
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
...OZONE ACTION DAY IN EFFECT FOR TODAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows around 80. South winds around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 103. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 108 in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s. South winds
around 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southwest winds
around 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110. Heat index values
up to 110 in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 80s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows around 80.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ159-162145-
McLennan-
Including the city of Waco
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values
up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
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TXZ158-162145-
Bell-
Including the cities of Killeen, Temple, and Fort Hood
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ104-162145-
Collin-
Including the cities of Plano, McKinney, Allen, and Frisco
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
...OZONE ACTION DAY IN EFFECT FOR TODAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 110 in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows around 80. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 80.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Heat index values
up to 110 in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ103-162145-
Denton-
Including the cities of Carrollton, Denton, Lewisville,
and Flower Mound
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
...OZONE ACTION DAY IN EFFECT FOR TODAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing. Lows in
the upper 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 103. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 110 in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 80s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110. Heat index values
up to 110 in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 80.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ093-162145-
Grayson-
Including the cities of Sherman and Denison
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 109 in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows around 80. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Heat index values
up to 110 in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ092-162145-
Cooke-
Including the city of Gainesville
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 103. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 108 in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 80.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ091-162145-
Montague-
Including the cities of Bowie and Nocona
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 104. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 108 in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 80.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ102-162145-
Wise-
Including the cities of Decatur and Bridgeport
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
...OZONE ACTION DAY IN EFFECT FOR TODAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 103. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 109 in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 80.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ101-162145-
Jack-
Including the city of Jacksboro
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 103. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ100-162145-
Young-
Including the cities of Graham and Olney
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 104. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 80.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ115-162145-
Stephens-
Including the city of Breckenridge
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 104. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ116-162145-
Palo Pinto-
Including the city of Mineral Wells
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 104. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ117-162145-
Parker-
Including the cities of Weatherford and Briar
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
...OZONE ACTION DAY IN EFFECT FOR TODAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 103. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 80.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ131-162145-
Hood-
Including the cities of Granbury and Oak Trail Shores
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
...OZONE ACTION DAY IN EFFECT FOR TODAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 103. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 107.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110. Heat index values
up to 110 in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values
up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ132-162145-
Somervell-
Including the city of Glen Rose
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 103. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 108 in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 105 to 110. Heat index values
up to 110 in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 110 in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ130-162145-
Erath-
Including the cities of Stephenville and Dublin
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values
up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ129-162145-
Eastland-
Including the cities of Cisco, Eastland, Ranger, and Gorman
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ141-162145-
Comanche-
Including the cities of Comanche and De Leon
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ142-162145-
Mills-
Including the city of Goldthwaite
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values
up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ156-162145-
Lampasas-
Including the city of Lampasas
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ157-162145-
Coryell-
Including the cities of Copperas Cove and Gatesville
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values
up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ143-162145-
Hamilton-
Including the cities of Hamilton and Hico
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values
up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ144-162145-
Bosque-
Including the cities of Clifton, Meridian, and Valley Mills
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph,
diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values
up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ133-162145-
Johnson-
Including the cities of Cleburne and Burleson
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
...OZONE ACTION DAY IN EFFECT FOR TODAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Heat index values
up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values
up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ134-162145-
Ellis-
Including the cities of Waxahachie, Ennis, and Midlothian
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
...OZONE ACTION DAY IN EFFECT FOR TODAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ145-162145-
Hill-
Including the city of Hillsboro
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values
up to 110 in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ146-162145-
Navarro-
Including the city of Corsicana
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values
up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ161-162145-
Limestone-
Including the cities of Mexia and Groesbeck
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values
up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ160-162145-
Falls-
Including the city of Marlin
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 110 in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values
up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ174-162145-
Milam-
Including the cities of Cameron and Rockdale
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 110 in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 110 in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values up
to 105.
$$
TXZ175-162145-
Robertson-
Including the cities of Hearne, Franklin, and Calvert
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 110 in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ162-162145-
Leon-
Including the cities of Buffalo, Centerville, Jewett, Normangee,
and Oakwood
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values
up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ147-162145-
Freestone-
Including the cities of Teague, Fairfield, and Wortham
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 110 in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values
up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ148-162145-
Anderson-
Including the city of Palestine
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 110 in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ135-162145-
Henderson-
Including the cities of Athens and Gun Barrel City
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
...OZONE ACTION DAY IN EFFECT FOR TODAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 106.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ122-162145-
Van Zandt-
Including the cities of Canton, Grand Saline, Wills Point, Van,
and Edgewood
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 108 in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ121-162145-
Kaufman-
Including the cities of Terrell, Kaufman, and Forney
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
...OZONE ACTION DAY IN EFFECT FOR TODAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 109 in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Heat index values
up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ120-162145-
Rockwall-
Including the cities of Rockwall and Heath
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
...OZONE ACTION DAY IN EFFECT FOR TODAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 110 in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. Southwest winds
around 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 80.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 80.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ123-162145-
Rains-
Including the cities of Emory, East Tawakoni, and Point
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 109 in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ105-162145-
Hunt-
Including the cities of Greenville and Commerce
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
...OZONE ACTION DAY IN EFFECT FOR TODAY...
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
clear. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 110 in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Southwest winds
around 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ107-162145-
Hopkins-
Including the city of Sulphur Springs
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 108 in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
$$
TXZ106-162145-
Delta-
Including the city of Cooper
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 109 in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 105.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
TXZ095-162145-
Lamar-
Including the city of Paris
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. Southwest
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 108 in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 103. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values
up to 110 in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values up
to 105.
$$
TXZ094-162145-
Fannin-
Including the city of Bonham
425 AM CDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 102. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 110 in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear with a 20 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 104. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105. Heat index values up
to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 105. Heat index values
up to 110 in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
$$
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Monkeypox: TN intensifies surveillance at Kerala borders
After a Kerala native was diagnosed with monkeypox, the Tamil Nadu government has intensified surveillance at the borders adjoining the neighbouring state.
Chennai, After a Kerala native was diagnosed with monkeypox, the Tamil Nadu government has intensified surveillance at the borders adjoining the neighbouring state.
Tamil Nadu health minister Ma Subramanian while speaking underlined: "We have intensified patrolling across the borders sharing with Kerala and in airports also as the first monkeypox case in the country is reported from Kerala.
The minister also said that the state public health department is conducting an awareness programme on monkeypox disease and how it spreads among people.
Sources in the Tamil Nadu health department told IANS that the state government has already commenced monitoring the borders that are being shared with Kerala.
Police contingent along with health officials including doctors, nurses, and technicians are posted at the check posts on the Tamil Nadu side to monitor the presence of any patient with suspected monkeypox disease who is reaching Tamil Nadu.
The international passengers who are reaching airports in Tamil Nadu are also kept under surveillance as the Kerala man who contracted the disease had reached the state from a West Asian country. With monkeypox disease being present in several countries, the state health department is stepping up vigil in all the airports in the state.
The state health minister also said that the next mega Covid -19 vaccination camp would be conducted in the state on July 24. The state health department has commenced a mega booster vaccination drive from July 15th and will extend up to September 30 as part of the Azad Ki Amrit Mahotsav programme.
So far, the state has conducted 31 mega vaccine camps since September 12, 2021, and has administered 4.61 crores of Covid vaccine doses. However 4.71 crore people in the state are yet to take the first and second doses of the vaccine, a statement from the state health minister's office said.
With monkey pox being detected in Kerala and a sizeable group of people yet to take Covid -19 vaccine, the health department is planning to increase the awareness of vaccine and tighten the Covid protocol situation in the state.
Sources in the state health department told IANS that the health minister will be sending missives to all the district collectors to be strict on Covid protocol violations and to ensure that maximum people are participating in the next Covid -19 vaccine drives. The state health secretary has already sent directives to the district health officers to strictly monitor any symptoms of monkey pox disease in their respective districts and to live up to all the PHCs in the area. | https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/policy/monkeypox-tn-intensifies-surveillance-at-kerala-borders/92917130 | 2022-07-16T10:31:32Z | https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/policy/monkeypox-tn-intensifies-surveillance-at-kerala-borders/92917130 | true |
Renewed Russian attacks strike several areas of Ukraine
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia stepped up its onslaught against Ukraine on Saturday, with civilian casualties reported in several areas of the country.
At least three civilians were killed and three more were injured in a Russian rocket strike on the northern Ukrainian city of Chuhuiv in the early hours, a regional police chief said.
Serhiy Bolvinov, the deputy head of Kharkiv’s regional police force, said that the rockets were likely fired from Russian territory. Chuhuiv lies some 120 kilometers from the border.
“Four Russian rockets, presumably fired from around (the Russian city of) Belgorod at night, at about 3:30, hit a residential building, a school and administrative buildings,” Bolvinov wrote on Facebook, adding that a two-story apartment block was partly destroyed.
“The bodies of three people were found under the rubble. Three more were injured. The victims are civilians,” Bolvinov added.
In the neighboring Sumy region, one civilian was killed and at least seven more were injured after Russians opened mortar and artillery fire on three towns and villages not far from the Russian border, regional governor Dmytro Zhyvytsky said on Telegram on Saturday morning.
Seven civilians were killed and 14 more received injuries over in the most recent 24 hours in cities in Ukraine’s embattled eastern Donetsk region, its governor said Saturday morning.
Nearby, however, Ukrainian troops repelled a Russian overnight assault on a strategic eastern highway, said Serhiy Haidai, the governor of the Luhansk region.
Haidai said that Russia had been attempting to capture the main road link between the cities of Lysychansk and Bakhmut “for more than two months.”
“They still cannot control several kilometers of this road,” Haidai wrote in a Telegram post.
Russia’s defense chief told troops to step up operations across Ukrainian territory, according to social media updates from the defense ministry on Saturday.
A Facebook post said Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu gave “instructions to further intensify the actions of units in all operational areas, in order to exclude the possibility of the Kyiv regime to launch massive rocket and artillery strikes on civilian infrastructure and residents of settlements in Donbas and other regions.”
According to the post, Shoigu on Saturday inspected some of the Russian units that have served in Ukraine, handing out awards for bravery.
Russia’s military campaign has been focusing on the Donbas, covering Donetsk and Luhansk, but Russian forces also have been pounding other parts of the country in a relentless push to wrest territory from Ukraine and soften the morale of its leaders, civilians and troops as the war nears the five-month mark.
In Ukraine’s south, two people were wounded by Russian shelling in the town of Bashtanka, northeast of the Black Sea city of Mykolaiv, according to a Telegram post by regional governor Vitaliy Kim.
Kim said that Mykolaiv itself also came under renewed Russian fire in the early hours. On Friday morning, he had posted videos of what he said was a Russian missile attack on the city’s two largest universities, and denounced Russia as “a terrorist state.”
A woman was hospitalized and two more people trapped under the rubble after a Russian rocket strike on the eastern riverside city of Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region, its governor said on social media. Valentyn Reznichenko said on Telegram that a five-story apartment block, a school and a vocational school building were damaged.
On Friday, cruise missiles fired by Russian strategic bombers struck the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, killing at least three people and wounding 16.
A day earlier, a Russian missile strike killed at least 23 people — including three children — and wounded more than 200 in Vinnytsia, a city southwest of Kyiv, the capital, far from the front line.
Russia said the Kalibr cruise missiles hit a “military facility” that was hosting a meeting between Ukrainian air foce command and foreign weapons suppliers. Ukrainian authorities have insisted the site had nothing to do with the military.
Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said Friday that Russian forces have conducted more than 17,000 strikes on civilian targets during the war, killing thousands of fighters and civilians and driving millions from their homes. The invasion has also rippled through the world economy by hiking prices and crimping exports of key Ukrainian and Russian products such as grain, fuel and fertilizer.
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At the end of last month, London-based investor Kiko Ventures announced the launch of a $450 million “platform” to support climatetech businesses. The aim, say its co-founders, is to take a more flexible approach to the funding of science-led startups working in the sector. Providing startups with time to bring their products to market is key to the strategy.
It probably shouldn’t come as any surprise that VCs have woken up to the allure of climate tech. As I write this, the U.K. is bracing itself to cope with a spike in temperatures that will see a danger to health and life warning come into force for the next two or three days. Weather events like this used to be relatively rare in Britain but they are now happening with increasing frequency. It’s a similar story all over the world. From floods in winter to summer droughts and heatwaves, the changing climate is causing real problems. One very good reason for the renewed interest in climate technology.
And according to Climate Tech VC, ccompanies working on climate solutions attracted around $40 billion in investment in 2021. The enthusiasm of investors is easily explained by the well-worn equation that big problem + solution = investor opportunity but it’s worth remembering that we’ve been to a similar place before.
For instance, the late 2000s saw a boom in cleantech investment, particularly in North America. By 2012, the bubble had burst, leaving a great many VCs nursing burnt fingers. There were a number of reasons but one of the major factors was speed to market, or to be more precise, the lack of it. VCs were accustomed to working on three-to-five-year time horizons. Fine for software, but it wasn’t a model that suited a hardware-led cleantech industry.
So what has changed? When I spoke to Kiko Ventures founding partners, Robert Trezona and Arne Morteani, I was keen to get their take on the opportunities in the sector and how investors can avoid the pitfalls of the past.
Evergreen Investment
Kiko Ventures was created by FTSE-250-listed investment firm, IP Group. As Trezona explains, IP Group was already an active investor in climate tech, so the launch of the new platform is essentially building on existing investment strategies while establishing a brand that is specific to startups addressing the greenhouse gas emergency.
“We are looking for transformative companies,” he says. “That could be companies that are working on breakthrough science but it could also mean companies with business models that can be scaled very quickly.”
Kiko Ventures launched with existing (IP Group) climatetech assets valued at £175 million and has since made some new investments that have yet to be announced. Companies in the portfolio include C-Capture (carbon capture technologies), Mixergy (hot water technologies) and Magnomatics (energy-efficient motors and generators).
A common factor is that these are science and engineering-based businesses - a status that is shared by a great many climatetech sector ventures. As Morteani sees it, such businesses are not always well served by conventional VC models.
“The problem with VC funds is that they run out of money and then their behaviour begins to change,” he says. Kiko’s structure is different. As a London Stock Exchange-listed company, IP Group is backed by institutional investors. This in turn means that Kiko can take a longer-term approach. As an evergreen investor, it has an indefinite fund life. “We can behave more like a family office,” adds Morteani.
So what does that mean for portfolio companies? Well, Kiko positions itself as a life-cycle investor, willing and able to provide funding from pre-Seed, Seed, Series A and beyond.
As such, Kiko is able to work with founders from the research stage - before a business model has been fully developed - and provide continued support as the solution is taken out of the labs and onto the market.
A Science Background
This requires a certain amount of confidence. Kiko Ventures is looking at technologies such as hydrogen fuels or the processes required to capture carbon more effectively. This is hard science and the problem for many early-stage investors lies in understanding not only the business model and market but the more fundamental question of whether the technology is actually viable. For that reason, KikoVentures’ team is comprised of specialists. “We all have a science background,” says Trezona.
By providing evergreen capital, Kiko aims to avoid the pitfalls of the past, but it wasn’t simply the timelines of investors that caused the previous cleantech boom to grind to a halt. Arguably market conditions weren’t right. Today we have a “climate emergency.” A decade ago, we were hearing about the much more benign-sounding global warming. Technologies - such as Carbon Capture - were seen as a cost and there arguably wasn’t any real incentive for emitting businesses to invest in them.
So is anything different? Are today’s climate technology startups (and their investors) addressing a more receptive base of potential customers?
It seems the answer to that question is yes. The pace of transition may often seem glacial, but regulation, policy, customer demand and investor pressure are combining to move businesses in the direction of net zero. That should mean that technologies once seen as an expensive indulgence will become mainstream. “A lot of companies are formulating CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) plans,” says Trezona. “And companies are anxious to get access to leading-edge climate technology.”
This isn’t a bubble that’s likely to burst. But what we could well see is the emergence of investors who are prepared to think in the longer term. | https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorclawson/2022/07/16/the-long-view-why-a-new-london-based-climatetech-fund-is-taking-an-evergreen-approach/ | 2022-07-16T10:41:54Z | https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorclawson/2022/07/16/the-long-view-why-a-new-london-based-climatetech-fund-is-taking-an-evergreen-approach/ | true |
Which Goli gummy vitamin is best?
There is no doubt that getting vitamins and minerals from food is the best way to go. However, if you struggle to balance your diet and need a little extra support, a gummy vitamin can help. These delicious supplements are a great way to make sure you get the nutrition you need even when life gets too busy for proper meals.
For a delicious dose of adaptogenic herbs that can relieve stress, Goli Nutrition Ashwagandha Gummies are a great choice.
What to know before you buy a Goli gummy vitamin
Type of nutritional support
The type of nutritional support you are looking for influences which Goli gummy vitamin you select. They offer four different formulas, which include:
- Digestive support
- Stress relief
- Energy boost
- Collagen production
Dose
In general, multivitamins and any other kind of gummy vitamins are designed for a specific age group (e.g., adults, children or seniors). This means that small children won’t get too much of a good thing.
Goli gummy vitamins are generally considered safe for both children and adults, but the dose may vary. Talk to your doctor before taking any supplements to see which is best for your needs.
Additional ingredients
Check the label before you buy any type of supplement and ask yourself these questions:
- How much of the beneficial ingredient is included?
- Are there any artificial colors or flavors?
- Does the supplement use high fructose corn syrup as a sweetener?
Your supplement should not include any ingredients you cannot pronounce, and it should not be flavored or sweetened with ingredients that are known to cause additional health complications (e.g., high-fructose corn syrup). Goli gummy vitamins use natural and organic ingredients so you know exactly what you’re getting.
What to look for in a quality Goli gummy vitamin
Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) certification
Because supplements are not regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration, it can be difficult to know if what it says on the label is what is in the bottle. Goli gummy vitamins are produced in CGMP-certified labs. These labs rigorously test at all stages of manufacturing to ensure that you are receiving the dosage listed on the bottle.
Allergen-free
If you are on a restricted diet due to severe allergies, you’re safe with Goli. Their gummies are free from major allergens including:
- Gluten
- Dairy
- Eggs
- Soy
- Shellfish
Vegan
No gelatin is used in Goli gummy vitamins. This makes them good for those following a vegan diet.
Vitamin Angels
Goli Nutrition supports its community by partnering with Vitamin Angels. This global organization fights child malnutrition around the globe. For each bottle of Goli vitamins purchased, Goli donates a six-month supply to a child in need.
How much you can expect to spend on a Goli gummy vitamin
Goli gummy vitamins cost just under $20 for a bottle of 60 gummies.
Goli gummy vitamin FAQ
Should you take Goli gummy vitamins on an empty stomach or with food?
A. You can take Goli gummy vitamins with or without food. Some people prefer to take them in the morning with breakfast, while others might use them as a bit of a treat in the middle of the day.
The best thing to do is to take them at different times of day and see when they work best for you. Pay attention to how you feel after taking them. If you find you get a boost of energy, best to take them early in the day when you need it most.
How long does it take to feel the effects of supplements?
A. Natural supplements are not like pharmaceutical medications. While taking a couple of aspirin may relieve a headache in 10 to 20 minutes, it can take up to 60 days to feel the effects of any kind of supplement. For example, a study by the National Institutes of Health found that participants did not feel the insomnia-relieving effects of ashwagandha supplements for approximately 10 weeks.
Give supplements at least a 30-day trial before deciding if they work for you.
What’s the best Goli gummy vitamin to buy?
Top Goli gummy vitamin
Goli Nutrition Ashwagandha Gummies
What you need to know: These gummies feature clinically tested KSM-66 ashwagandha.
What you’ll love: They are vegan and gluten-free. Made from non-GMO ingredients, each serving of two gummies delivers 300 milligrams of ashwagandha. These are also available in larger sizes for a slightly decreased per-serving price.
What you should consider: Some people received gummies that were melted in transit.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and iHerb
Top Goli gummy vitamin for the money
Goli Nutrition Superfruit Gummies
What you need to know: Beautiful skin starts from within, and these superfruit gummies can help you get there.
What you’ll love: These include a powerful mix of antioxidant superfruits such as acai, acerola, amla and goji berries, plus banana, apple, strawberry and bamboo shoot extract. In addition to antioxidant properties, the bamboo shoot extract helps to heal skin irritation and boost collagen production.
What you should consider: The taste of these gummies may take some getting used to. As with other gummy products, they do not fare well in high temperatures.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and iHerb
Worth checking out
Goli Nutrition Apple Cider Vinegar Gummy Vitamins
What you need to know: Choose these gummies for an energy boost and better digestion.
What you’ll love: In addition to concentrated apple cider vinegar, these include vitamins B9 and B12 for energy and a boost to the immune system. As with all Goli gummies, they are gelatin-free, vegan and gluten-free.
What you should consider: The taste might be sharper than some people are used to. Others report acid reflux when they first take these gummies.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and iHerb
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NEW YORK -- After decades in prison, three men were cleared Friday in the 1995 killing of a clerk who was set on fire in a New York subway toll booth.
A judge dismissed the murder convictions of Vincent Ellerbe, James Irons and Thomas Malik after prosecutors said the case was built on falsehood-filled confessions and other flawed evidence.
The three confessed to and were convicted of murdering token seller Harry Kaufman in 1995. The case resounded from New York to Washington to Hollywood, after parallels were drawn between the deadly arson and a scene in the movie "Money Train," which had been released days earlier.
Malik and Irons, both 45, left court free for the first time in 25 years. Ellerbe, 44, was paroled in 2020.
"What happened to us can never be fixed," Ellerbe told the court. "They break you or they turn you into a monster."
Malik said it was "definitely too little, too late, but everything takes time. I just was happy that I was able to stand strong."
Irons said only he felt "great."
Kaufman was attacked Nov. 26, 1995, while working an overnight shift. The attackers first tried to rob him, then squirted gasoline through the tollbooth coin slot and ignited the fuel with matches, authorities said at the time.
The booth exploded, and Kaufman, 50, ran from it in flames. The married father died two weeks later.
Police searched for suspects and eventually came to question Irons, getting a confession that he was acting as a lookout. He implicated Malik and Ellerbe as the men who had torched the tollbooth.
In fact, Irons was home with his mother, around the corner from the subway station, when he heard the explosion and called 911 -- a call that was never played for the jury at his trial, said his lawyer, David Shanies.
From their arrests on, the men maintained that they had been coerced into false confessions.
Prosecutors said their review found that Detective Louis Scarcella and his partner fed important details about the crime scene to Irons and Malik while shrugging off inconsistencies in their confessions.
"More than 25 years later, we do not have any confidence in the integrity of those convictions," assistant District Attorney Lori Glachman told the court.
At the time, Scarcella was a star Brooklyn homicide detective. But after questions accumulated about Scarcella's tactics, the Brooklyn district attorney's office began in 2013 to review scores of cases that he had worked.
Scarcella, who retired in 2000, has denied any wrongdoing. While more than a dozen convictions in his cases have been overturned, prosecutors have stood by scores of others. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jul/16/3-men-cleared-in-95-subway-killing/ | 2022-07-16T10:54:14Z | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jul/16/3-men-cleared-in-95-subway-killing/ | true |
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HONG KONG (AP) — The Chinese gambling enclave of Macao on Saturday extended its lockdown by five days as it grapples with the biggest outbreak of the coronavirus in over two years.
Authorities said that industries and commercial companies will remain closed until July 23. The lockdown, which began July 11, had initially been set to expire Sunday.
As part of the lockdown, authorities have suspended dine-in services and ordered all residents to avoid leaving their homes unless absolutely necessary. Those who need to go out must wear KN95 masks or similar.
The city, which has a population of 680,000, recorded 31 infections on Friday. Since its latest outbreak that began June 18, the city has reported some 1,700 infections.
The government also said in a separate statement that it would allocate 10 billion patacas ($1.24 billion) as handouts for businesses affected by the outbreak.
Casinos, which are the city’s largest employers and the main income generator for the government, were initially allowed to operate in spite of the flare in cases in June but have since been ordered to close as part of the lockdown last week. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Macao-extends-lockdown-to-curb-biggest-COVID-19-17309290.php | 2022-07-16T10:55:11Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Macao-extends-lockdown-to-curb-biggest-COVID-19-17309290.php | false |
WA Seattle WA Zone Forecast for Friday, July 15, 2022
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513 FPUS56 KSEW 160956
ZFPSEW
Zone Forecast Product for Western Washington
National Weather Service Seattle WA
255 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for today, tonight, and Sunday.
WAZ558-162300-
Seattle and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Seattle, Shoreline, Federal Way, and Kent
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy until late afternoon then becoming mostly
sunny. A slight chance of showers and patchy drizzle in the
morning, then patchy drizzle late in the morning. Highs in the
upper 60s to mid 70s. Light wind becoming southwest to 10 mph in
the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the 50s. North wind 10 to 15 mph in the evening
becoming light.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Light
wind becoming northwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 50s. Northwest wind
around 10 mph becoming south after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 70s. South wind around
10 mph in the morning becoming light.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs near 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs near 80.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Seattle 73 55 70 / 20 10 10
$$
WAZ559-162300-
Bremerton and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Bremerton and Silverdale
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and patchy
drizzle in the morning, then patchy drizzle late in the morning.
Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Light wind becoming northeast
to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. North wind 10 to 15 mph in
the evening becoming light.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s. Light
wind becoming northeast around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
South wind to 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Light
wind.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs near 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bremerton 72 53 68 / 10 10 10
$$
WAZ507-162300-
Everett and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Everett, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Marysville,
and Arlington
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of showers and patchy
drizzle in the morning, then partly sunny with a slight chance of
showers early in the afternoon. Mostly sunny late in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Light wind becoming
west to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph
becoming south after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the 60s. West wind to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. West
wind around 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Light
wind.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Edmonds 69 55 67 / 20 10 10
Everett 70 53 66 / 20 10 10
$$
WAZ509-162300-
Tacoma Area-
Including the cities of Tacoma, Lakewood, Puyallup, and Sumner
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and patchy
drizzle in the morning, then patchy drizzle late in the morning.
Highs in the 70s. Southwest wind to 10 mph becoming west around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. West wind to 10 mph in the
evening becoming light.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Light
wind.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
Northwest wind around 10 mph becoming southwest after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 70s. Light wind.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs near 80.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs near 80.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Puyallup 75 54 72 / 20 10 10
Tacoma 74 53 71 / 10 10 10
$$
WAZ556-162300-
Bellevue and Vicinity-
Including the cities of Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, and Issaquah
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of showers and patchy
drizzle in the morning, then partly sunny in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower to mid 70s. Light wind.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the 50s. North wind around 10 mph in the evening
becoming light.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70. Light wind.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 50s. Light wind.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 70s. Light wind.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs near 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs near 80.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs near 80.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bellevue 74 56 71 / 20 10 10
$$
WAZ555-162300-
East Puget Sound Lowlands-
Including the cities of Gold Bar, Enumclaw, North Bend,
and Buckley
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers until late
afternoon. Patchy drizzle late in the morning. Highs in the lower
to mid 70s. Light wind.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. Northwest
wind around 10 mph becoming south to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Light
wind becoming northwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
Northwest wind around 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the 70s. Light wind.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs near 80.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Gold Bar 75 54 71 / 20 10 10
Enumclaw 73 52 70 / 20 10 10
North Bend 76 53 72 / 20 10 10
$$
WAZ503-162300-
Western Whatcom County-
Including the cities of Bellingham, Blaine, and Lynden
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy until late afternoon then becoming mostly
sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then a slight chance
of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
South wind to 10 mph becoming southwest around 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the 50s. Southwest wind around 10 mph becoming
south after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. South wind 10 to
15 mph becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 50s. Southwest wind
around 10 mph becoming south after midnight.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. South wind 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Bellingham 70 55 68 / 30 10 20
Sumas 73 56 71 / 30 10 20
$$
WAZ506-162300-
Western Skagit County-
Including the cities of Mount Vernon, Anacortes, Sedro-Woolley,
and Burlington
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy in the morning then becoming partly sunny. A
chance of showers in the morning. Patchy drizzle in the morning.
A slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s
to lower 70s. South wind to 10 mph becoming southwest around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. West wind to 10 mph
becoming south after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s. South wind to 10 mph
becoming southwest around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. West
wind around 10 mph becoming south after midnight.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. South wind to 10 mph
becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Anacortes 69 54 68 / 30 10 20
Mount Vernon 72 54 70 / 30 10 20
$$
WAZ001-162300-
San Juan County-
Including the cities of Friday Harbor, Eastsound,
and Roche Harbor
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy until late afternoon then becoming mostly
sunny. A slight chance of showers until late afternoon. Highs in
the mid 60s to lower 70s. Light wind becoming south around 10 mph
in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the 50s. Southwest wind around 10 mph becoming
west after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then mostly sunny with a
slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s
to lower 70s. Southwest wind to 10 mph becoming south around
10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s. South wind around
10 mph becoming southwest after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. South
wind to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs near 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs near 70.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs near 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs near 70.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Friday Harbor 69 53 69 / 20 10 20
Eastsound 68 56 67 / 20 10 20
$$
WAZ510-162300-
Admiralty Inlet Area-
Including the cities of Port Townsend and Port Ludlow
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Cloudy with a slight chance of showers and patchy
drizzle in the morning, then partly sunny with a slight chance of
showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
Light wind becoming west around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. West wind
10 to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the 60s. West wind 10 to 15 mph decreasing to
10 mph or less in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. West
wind 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. South
wind to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Oak Harbor 65 53 65 / 20 10 20
Port Townsend 65 53 65 / 20 10 20
$$
WAZ511-162300-
Hood Canal Area-
Including the cities of Hoodsport and Brinnon
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the morning.
Patchy drizzle late in the morning, then a slight chance of
showers in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
Southwest wind to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. West wind 10 to 15 mph
becoming southwest after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. Light wind becoming
south to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. West
wind to 10 mph becoming southwest after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 70s. South wind to 10 mph in
the morning becoming light.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs near 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Shelton 74 52 72 / 10 10 10
$$
WAZ504-162300-
Southwest Interior-
Including the cities of Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater, Centralia,
and Toledo
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and patchy
drizzle in the morning. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s. West
wind to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 50. West wind 10 to 15 mph
becoming southwest after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
Southwest wind to 10 mph becoming west around 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
West wind 10 to 15 mph becoming southwest after midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 70s. Southwest wind to
10 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs near 80.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Chehalis 73 52 71 / 10 0 10
Olympia 74 51 72 / 20 0 10
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WAZ512-162300-
Lower Chehalis Valley Area-
Including the city of Montesano
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. West
wind to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 50. West wind to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. West
wind to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s. West wind around
10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 70s. Light wind becoming
west to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the 70s.
$$
WAZ514-162300-
Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca-
Including the cities of Sequim and Port Angeles
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers. Highs in
the 60s. Wind variable to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. West wind
10 to 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the 60s. West wind 10 to 15 mph becoming
variable to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. West
wind 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs near 70. Wind variable to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs near 70.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Port Angeles 66 53 66 / 20 10 20
Sequim 66 53 66 / 20 10 20
$$
WAZ515-162300-
Western Strait of Juan De Fuca-
Including the cities of Joyce and Clallam Bay
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the morning.
Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Wind variable to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. West wind 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Wind variable to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
West wind 10 to 15 mph becoming variable to 10 mph after
midnight.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s. Wind
variable to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs near 70.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Sekiu 63 52 63 / 20 10 20
$$
WAZ517-162300-
Central Coast-
Including the cities of Hoquiam, Aberdeen, Westport,
and Ocean Shores
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the 60s to lower 70s. Light wind
becoming west around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
Northwest wind to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 60s. Northwest wind to
10 mph becoming west in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the 50s. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. West
wind to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs near 70.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs near 70.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Hoquiam 66 54 65 / 10 0 0
$$
WAZ516-162300-
North Coast-
Including the cities of Neah Bay, La Push, and Forks
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the morning.
Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Light wind becoming west
around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. West wind around 10 mph
becoming northwest to 10 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. West wind to 10 mph
increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. West wind 10 to 15 mph
decreasing to 10 mph or less after midnight.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the 60s. West wind to 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 50s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Forks 67 52 66 / 10 0 10
$$
WAZ513-162300-
Olympics-
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny with a slight chance of showers. Snow level
near 8000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Freezing level near 11500 feet.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Snow level near 7000 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 9000 feet.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 11500 feet increasing to
14000 feet in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 13500 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Hurricane Ridge 52 41 50 / 20 10 20
$$
WAZ567-162300-
Cascades of Whatcom and Skagit Counties-
Including the cities of Marblemount and Concrete
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A chance of snow showers and patchy
drizzle in the morning. A slight chance of showers through the
day. A slight chance of snow showers in the afternoon. Snow level
near 9000 feet.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Freezing level near 12000 feet.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Snow level near 7500 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of thunderstorms
and showers in the evening, then a chance of showers, snow
showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Snow
level near 9000 feet.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Snow level near 9500 feet. Freezing level near
12500 feet in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 13000 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Mount Baker 57 46 53 / 20 10 20
$$
WAZ568-162300-
Cascades of Snohomish and King Counties-
Including the cities of Snoqualmie Pass, Darrington, and Index
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers until late
afternoon. Patchy drizzle late in the morning. Snow level near
9000 feet. Afternoon pass temperatures in the mid to upper 60s.
Light wind in the passes becoming west around 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Freezing level near 12500 feet. West wind in the passes
around 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
afternoon. Snow level near 7500 feet. Afternoon pass temperatures
in the lower 60s. Northwest wind in the passes around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. A slight chance of showers. Snow level near 8000 feet.
Northwest wind in the passes around 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Snow level near 9000 feet. Freezing level near
13000 feet in the afternoon. Afternoon pass temperatures in the
mid to upper 60s. Light wind in the passes.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 15000 feet.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Freezing level near 15000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 13500 feet.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Snoqualmie Pass 67 48 62 / 10 0 10
Stevens Pass 65 46 60 / 10 0 10
$$
WAZ569-162300-
Cascades of Pierce and Lewis Counties-
Including the cities of Randle, Packwood, Ashford, and Morton
256 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and patchy
drizzle in the morning, then a slight chance of showers late in
the morning. Snow level near 9500 feet.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Freezing level near 13500 feet.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Freezing level near 11500 feet.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Freezing level near 9500 feet.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Freezing level near 11000 feet increasing
to 14000 feet in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Freezing level near 15000 feet.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 15000 feet.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Freezing level near 15000 feet.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Freezing level near 14500 feet.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Freezing level near 14000 feet.
$$
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TX El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM Zone Forecast for Friday, July 15, 2022
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650 FPUS54 KEPZ 160930
ZFPEPZ
Zone Forecast Product for New Mexico
National Weather Service El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM
330 AM MDT Sat Jul 16 2022
TXZ418-162230-
Western El Paso County-
Including the cities of Downtown El Paso, West El Paso,
and Upper Valley
330 AM MDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds around
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 99. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds around 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs 97 to 102. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the upper
70s. Highs 99 to 104.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy after
midnight. Lows in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs 98 to 103.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ419-162230-
Eastern/Central El Paso County-
Including the cities of East and Northeast El Paso, Socorro,
and Fort Bliss
330 AM MDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds around
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. East winds
around 10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Hot. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs around
100.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ420-162230-
Northern Hudspeth Highlands/Hueco Mountains-
Including the cities of Hueco Tanks and Loma Linda
330 AM MDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds around
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70. East winds around
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Highs in the
upper 90s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 90s. Lows in the
lower 70s.
$$
TXZ423-162230-
Rio Grande Valley of Eastern El Paso/Western Hudspeth Counties-
Including the cities of Fabens, Fort Hancock, and Tornillo
330 AM MDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. East winds around
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. East winds around
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 102. East winds around
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny, hot with highs 100 to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Hot. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs around
100.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
mid 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ421-162230-
Salt Basin-
Including the cities of Cornudas, Dell City, and Salt Flat
330 AM MDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. East winds around 5 mph,
increasing to around 15 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs around 100.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Highs
in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ422-162230-
Southern Hudspeth Highlands-
Including the city of Sierra Blanca
330 AM MDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70. East winds around
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
Highs in the mid 90s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight
chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Highs
in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ424-162230-
Rio Grande Valley of Eastern Hudspeth County-
Including the city of Indian Hot Springs
330 AM MDT Sat Jul 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 90s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. East winds around
10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 100. East winds around
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds
10 to 15 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny, hot with highs around 101. East winds around
10 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Hot. Lows in the mid 70s. Highs around
100.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Hot with highs around 100.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
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America's schools can install "safety pods" at a cost of $15,000 to $30,000 per typical classroom. The pods are National Safety Shelters' answer to school shootings and extreme weather.
"The pods were originally manufactured as tornado shelters for schools located in 'tornado alley' which now encompasses roughly one third of the U.S. and seems to be expanding," Dennis Corrado, the company's president, said in an email to NPR. "After the Sandy Hook tragedy in December 2012, the shelter design was modified ... with the intent of offering them to schools as a dual-purpose safety measure to protect from tornadoes and active shooters."
Corrado said the pods were modified "using NIJ ballistic Level III steel making them resistant to handguns, shotguns and semi-automatic high-caliber weapons including AR-15 and AK-47 assault rifles."
But as details of the pods, as well as their use in an Arkansas school district, were publicized, the internet had some critical things to say.
The Quitman School District in Arkansas has promoted its use of these pods.
The district says on its Facebook page, "Quitman Schools is a proud partner of National Safety Shelters! Student safety is our top priority, and that is why every classroom on the Quitman campus is equipped with a military grade, ballistic steel shelter capable of withstanding an F5 Tornado."
Teachers and administrators also shared testimonials in support of the product, saying it gave them and their students peace of mind.
(National Safety Shelters says the district was not provided any compensation or discounts for the pods or for providing staff members' testimonials on the company's website.)
Amy Klinger, a school safety expert and the director of programs for the Educator's School Safety Network, thinks this kind of product is indicative of a wider problem.
"The problem is that we tend to respond to events, like the tragedy in Uvalde, with a quick solution. Let's do a quick fix. Let's buy something really fast," she said. "And we tend to look at something shiny and go, 'Hey, let's buy that thing.'"
In Uvalde, Texas, a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in May. Since that shooting, revelations about slow police action and faulty door locks have been published.
"So having a fancy mechanism wouldn't have changed anything," Klinger said of the Uvalde school shooting. "So I think that's the problem with buying stuff. It makes people feel better, but it actually makes your school less safe because it creates the illusion of safety when you don't really have it."
As a longtime school safety educator, Klinger says schools end up purchasing an item over much-needed and desired training for staff and teachers. She says schools should favor what she calls "an all-hazards approach to school safety."
"You can buy things, but if nobody knows how to use them, and no one knows what to do with them, or no one is aware that they exist, then they didn't do any good," she said.
The safety pods "look great" for situations like tornadoes, she said, but what about safety situations that go beyond that? Like if a student is having an allergic reaction, or if a bomb goes off in the hallway, or if a teacher drops dead in the classroom, she said. In those situations, training will be the only thing to help anyone in the important moments following those scenarios.
Corrado said the safety pods are part of a "multi-layered approach" to school safety. Front-end prevention includes blocking shooters from entering a school campus in the first place. The back-end solutions are a safety net, should those front-end methods fail.
"We feel our safety pods provide this safety-net and give those protected a peace of mind not matched by most other measures since near-absolute protection is immediately available to those whose lives are threatened," Corrado said.
Klinger thinks it is essentially "making money on the backs of the fear that people have. We have been prioritizing the wrong things over and over and over and then wondering why nothing changes."
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Charles Murrell III, a local Black artist who was allegedly attacked by a white supremacist group, Patriot Front, held a performance with his organization Beheard.world outside Copley Square on July 14, the Boston Globe reported.
The performance was in the same location of the alleged attack on July 2. Beheard.world is a diverse collection of performing artists, filmmakers and educators, according to its website.
Beheard.world’s performance drew dozens of people to watch artists dance, sing and read poetry in front of Trinity Church, the Globe wrote. The performers engaged the crowd to participate in a call-and-response chant. Members of the crowd shouted, “this is what democracy looks like.”
“Whether he likes it or not, Mr. Charles Murrell has become a kind of political figure,” said Rev. Kevin Peterson, founder of the New Democracy Coalition told the Globe, “His encounter with those children of the KKK on the streets of Boston — the so-called cradle of liberty — reminds us of the racial politics that run every day through our veins, and through the body politic of this city.”
During the performance, Rev. Peterson called on Boston Mayor Michelle Wu to open an investigation into the details of the Patriot Front’s attack, the Globe said.
On July 2, members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front marched through the streets of Boston. According to Rev. Peterson, Murrell was allegedly pushed by members of the Patriot Front which cuts to his head, eyebrow and one finger. He was transported to Tufts Medical Center, according to a Boston police department report.
Two days later, Rev. Peterson along with several Black leaders stood with Charles Murrell outside Boston Public Library to call on local leaders to address “the legacy of racism” in Boston. Peterson also called for Mayor Wu to create a race commission that would be comprised of thought leaders who would provide policy solutions toward racial issues in the city.
On July 8, Mayor Wu held a press briefing outside Boston where she said both state and local law enforcement were not aware in advance that the Patriot Front’s march was to take place.
According to Joseph Bonavolonta, the lead Boston FBI agent, in order for an investigation to be conducted there first must be “an existence of a potential federal crime, the threat or use of force or violence in conjunction with a social or political agenda,” he said during the press briefing.
Officials do not know how many members of the Patriot Front were from in-state or out of state, U.S. Attorney Rachel Rollins said. But, there is information about the group’s activity in Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine.
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The nationwide hotline for mental health emergencies switches to a simple 988 number on Saturday, a transition that is expected to bring millions more calls, chats and texts into a system where readiness to handle the surge varies from place to place.
At the same time, advocates hope the renewed focus on emergency assistance, and the spending that has accompanied it, will prompt expansion of other mental health services that are in desperately short supply in many communities.
“I look at 988 as a starting place where we can really reimagine mental health care,” said Hannah Wesolowski, chief advocacy officer for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, a nationwide grass roots group. “We’re really looking at a fundamental tide shift in how we respond to people in mental health crisis.”
The network of more than 180 local call centers, drastically underfunded throughout its history, fielded 3.6 million calls, chats and texts in fiscal year 2021, according to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Officials expect that to jump to 7.6 million contacts in the coming year, as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline — 800-273-TALK (8255) — gives way to 988. The 800 number will remain active indefinitely. (The expected increase in contacts doesn’t include a hotline option reserved for veterans.)
The hotline in Tucson, Ariz., for example, is widely considered the gold standard for comprehensive care of people suffering mental health crises. When someone calls that city’s hotline, trained counselors help resolve the emergency on the phone 80% of the time. If they can’t, one of 16 “mobile crisis teams” is dispatched to the caller’s door — or any other location — day or night.
And those who need even more assistance can be brought to the city’s “stabilization center,” where psychologists, doctors, nurses and other specialized personnel provide everything from urgent mental health care to drug treatment medication.
The arrangement keeps people who may be considering suicide or have other acute mental health needs out of emergency rooms and jails, reduces police and EMT involvement in behavioral health cases and speeds aid to the people who need it.
“We have the space, we have the staff, we have the training,” Margie Balfour, chief of quality and clinical innovation at Connections Health Solutions, the company that runs the Tucson stabilization center.
SAMHSA organized what had been a collection of individual call centers into a nationwide network in 2004, awarding the contract to operate and grow the system to the nonprofit Vibrant Emotional Health (then known as the Mental Health Association of New York City).
The call centers are funded by local, state and federal resources, creating wide variation in each center’s ability to handle its call volume. When local centers are swamped or unstaffed, centralized backup centers across the country respond. There are 14 now and as many as 17 will be operating by August.
But local centers are preferable, because staff there are better acquainted with nearby mental health resources, officials said. Their ability to handle capacity varies substantially by location.
In the first quarter of 2022, for example, North Carolina was able to handle 90% of its calls in-state while Illinois responded to just 20%, according to Vibrant data.
The overall network’s capacity was able to address 85% of calls, 56% of texts and 30% of chats, according to a government report, citing a December 2020 analysis. Already, increased hiring and spending has improved call centers’ ability to keep up with demand, said John Draper, executive vice president at Vibrant.
“988 will work if the states are committed to it,” Xavier Becerra, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said in a briefing for reporters this month. “It won’t work well if they’re not. There is no reason, no excuse, that a person in one state can get a good response and a person in another state will get a busy signal.”
A lack of resources can be dangerous: The Wall Street Journal calculated recently that one in six callers hangs up without reaching anyone.
Research has repeatedly confirmed that call-in lines are highly effective in their mission. A trained counselor who listens to and empathizes with a caller or texter can help him or her past a short-term crisis on the phone in the vast majority of cases.
Staff and volunteers also are taught how to separate a person with thoughts of suicide from whatever might be used to commit harm, send family or friends to help, arrange follow-up care or contact law enforcement if necessary.
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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — For 10.10 seconds, Ferdinand Omanyala forgot all about the visa issues that almost kept him home, the jet lag from an international flight and his mad dash from the airport to the track just to make it to the starting line in time.
Once the Kenyan sprinter crossed the finish line, though, the exhaustion hit him hard.
Next stop: bed.
But at least Omanyala can sleep easy Friday night knowing this — he has moved on to the semifinal round of the 100 meters at the world championships.
“I never knew I was tired until I ran that race,” said Omanyala, who advanced on a night when Fred Kerley turned in the fastest time at 9.79 seconds. “It was disappointing (the visa issues). But you have to put the challenges aside. You have to come here and run.”
It was a race just to make it to his race due to a delay in securing his visa. He was actually resigned to sitting this one out.
But his paperwork was approved at the final hour and his team quickly scrambled to book a flight. It was quite a trek, too — flights from Nairobi to Doha, then to Seattle, and finally to Eugene and one last ride to Hayward Field. All in all, he spent about 20 hours on planes. That doesn’t include the layovers.
He did receive an upgrade — to business class. That made sleep a little easier. No running down the aisles, though, as a way to warm up. He drank plenty of water.
Omanyala arrived at the track about two hours before his 100 race. He was placed in the seventh of seven heats, buying him some extra time to stretch out. He finished third in his heat, which was good enough to move him through to the semis.
“It’s tiring and it’s a torture, too, mentally,” Omanyala said of his ordeal. “If you’re not strong enough, you will crumble.”
This is hardly the typical routine for Omanyala, who likes to arrive about three or four days before an event.
“This was just different,” he said. “This was a first. I’ve never had such a situation before.”
His case was one of about 375 that had been flagged to local organizers, World Athletics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee. World Athletics officials said that of the 5,500 participants and officials coming to Eugene, fewer than 1% still had visa issues on the eve of the championships.
That’s far too many in Omanyala’s eyes. He’s hoping visa issues aren’t a holdup when the next major meet comes to America — the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.
“They need to learn from this and do it better next time,” he said.
His rivals were certainly impressed with his quick turnaround. It’s a risk-reward proposition, too. Long plane rides and not enough water are a combination for pulling a hamstring. American Marvin Bracy, who won the first heat, had a similar situation develop before a Diamond League race in Europe. He opted not to go.
“Because we know how dangerous that can be,” Bracy said. “To come out here and compete at that high of a level, it’s kind of scary.”
Omanyala did receive a lift from the applause at Hayward Field.
“It’s nice when you see so many fans cheering you on,” said Omanyala, whose season-best time is 9.85 seconds. “I felt elevated for sure.”
As he chatted in the mixed zone, a Netherlands sprinter sauntered past him and simply: “Hero.”
A tired one at that.
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Jayland Walker: Unarmed US black motorist killed by police was shot 46 times, post-mortem finds
Jayland Walker, from Akron in Ohio, suffered 41 entry wounds and five wounds from bullets that grazed him. Some 26 bullets were recovered from his body.
Saturday 16 July 2022 10:53, UK
An unarmed black motorist who was killed by police in Ohio was shot 46 times, according to a post-mortem report.
Jayland Walker, from Akron, suffered 41 entry wounds and five wounds from bullets that grazed him. Some 26 bullets were recovered from his body.
Mr Walker "had several very devastating injuries that would cause death," including injuries to his heart, lungs and arteries, said the Summit County medical examiner, Dr Lisa Kohler.
The examiner's office could not determine if one specific bullet killed him.
There were 15 gunshot wounds to his torso, 17 gunshots to his pelvis and upper legs, one bullet to his face, eight to his arms and right hand, and five to his knees, lower right leg and right foot.
Five wounds entered in the back of his body, but it could not be determined if that was when he was running from officers or just moving his body, she added.
Dr Kohler's post-mortem established that Mr Walker, 25, had no drugs or alcohol in his system when he was shot and killed by police during a routine traffic stop in Akron on 27 June.
Officers opened fire on him after they tried to pull him over for a minor traffic violation and he fled.
Police said Mr Walker fired a shot from his car 40 seconds into the minutes-long vehicle chase.
After the pursuit, Mr Walker jumped out of the car and ran from the officers, a video released by police showed.
Police said it appears he was turning towards officers, who at the time believed he was armed.
Bodycam footage showed Mr Walker wearing a ski mask, getting out of the front passenger door of his still-moving vehicle and then running into a car park where police opened fire.
The blurry footage does not clearly show what authorities said was a threatening gesture made by Mr Walker before he was shot.
Police chased him for about 10 seconds before officers fired from multiple directions, in a burst of shots that lasted six or seven seconds.
No gun was discovered on Walker's body but a gun was found in his car, they said.
Eight officers involved in the shooting were placed on paid administrative leave.
The Ohio attorney general's Bureau of Criminal Investigation is leading the probe of police use of force.
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Ireland makes history with test series win over New Zealand
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Ireland built an emphatic first-half lead, then held off New Zealand´s second-half rally to win the deciding third test match 32-22 on Saturday, recording its first-ever series win against the All Blacks and rocking New Zealand rugby a year out from a World Cup.
Only a week after posting its first-ever test win over New Zealand in New Zealand, Ireland won again - and emphatically - to become only the third team and the first in almost 40 years to beat the All Blacks in a three-test series at home.
Ireland led 22-3 after a magnificent first half in which it scored tries through backrower Josh van der Flier, fullback Hugo Keenan and center Robbie Henshaw while stifling the All Blacks attack.
The All Blacks came storming back into the match after halftime with tries to backrowers Ardie Savea and Akira Ioane and fullback Will Jordan to cut Ireland´s lead to 25-22 after 60 minutes.
Ioane and Jordan´s tries came when Ireland was down to 14 men with prop Andrew Porter in the sin-bin after a head clash with All Blacks lock Brodie Retallick, who left the field and didn´t return.
Ireland captain Johnny Sexton first kicked a valuable penalty to reduce the impact of Porter´s absence then, after the prop´s return, chose to take a lineout from a kickable penalty and replacement hooker Rob Herring planted the ball on the goalline to rebuild Ireland´s lead to 10 points.
Ireland's James Lowe attempts to break the tackle of New Zealand's Beauden Barrett during the third rugby international between the All Blacks and Ireland in Wellington, New Zealand, Saturday, July 16, 2022. (Andrew Cornaga/Photosport via AP)
Sexton was on the sideline when the match ended, replaced a few minutes before fulltime. With him also were backrower Peter O´Mahoney, reduced to tears, and lock Tadhg Beirne who were among the heroes of Ireland´s historic win.
When Joey Carberry booted the ball high into the grandstand after the fulltime siren there was jubilation among the Ireland players, their reserves, their coaches and management.
"It´s a special day because we´re playing against the best in the world, the very best," Sexton said. "To come down here and to do this is very, very special.
"It means a lot now but I know in a year´s time when the World Cup starts it won´t mean anything as we´ve learnt before. But we´ll enjoy tonight and possibly a couple more days but we´ve got to keep improving as we´ve learned before."
The All Blacks knew after the first two tests in which Ireland scored first that they needed a good start. Instead, Ireland scored through van der Flier from a lineout in the fourth minute in what came as a hammer blow to the All Blacks morale.
New Zealand struggled to regroup, at sea at times against an Ireland team that was relentless with ball in hand. Forwards ran powerfully into contact and made space for the backs while New Zealand frittered away its share of possession with poor kicks. When it tried to attack, Ireland´s smothering defense forced it into tactical and other errors.
New Zealand edged its way into the match with a penalty to Jordie Barrett but the All Blacks still struggled to find focus in their attack. Ireland had no such difficulty.
In the 27th minute it showed the quality of its passing and running game. Ireland moved the ball left from a lineout across the width of the field through Bundee Aki and Sexton, Mack Hansen and Keenan to James Lowe on the left wing. Ireland then swung the attack back to the right through Caelan Doris, Sexton and Aki, then again to the left and to Keenan again who eluded a tackle to score.
In the 37th minute and with the All Blacks struggling under pressure, Ireland scored again. From an attacking scrum they went right, then back again to the left and Sexton passed to Henshaw, who scored.
Few All Blacks fans would have given their team hope at halftime of fighting their way back into the match.
But they did with an early try to Savea, who was often a lone force in attempting to rouse the All Blacks forwards. Then Ioane, a late replacement for Scott Barrett at blindside flanker, got through four Ireland tackles and New Zealand was back in the match at 22-17.
Sexton extended Ireland´s lead with a penalty before Jordan scored a magnificent try, running off a short pass from Savea inside the All Blacks´ 22 and dashing more than 80 meters to score.
Ireland again rallied itself, shed any sense of tiredness after a long tour and won a lineout from which Herring drove to the line for the game´s decisive try.
For the last 15 minutes, Ireland repelled waves of All Blacks attacks as the anticipation grew of the final whistle and a moment of history.
"We´re bitterly disappointed," All Blacks captain Sam Cane said. "We didn´t put out the performance that we so desperately wanted to. But we can´t take anything away from Ireland. They´ve been fantastic these last couple of weeks and were too good for us tonight."
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New Zealand's Akira Ioane scores a try during the third rugby international between the All Blacks and Ireland in Wellington, New Zealand, Saturday, July 16, 2022. (Andrew Cornaga/Photosport via AP)
Ireland's James Lowe kicks the ball during the third rugby international between the All Blacks and Ireland in Wellington, New Zealand, Saturday, July 16, 2022. (Andrew Cornaga/Photosport via AP)
Ireland's Johnny Sexton receives treatment from a trainer during the third rugby international between the All Blacks and Ireland in Wellington, New Zealand, Saturday, July 16, 2022. (Andrew Cornaga/Photosport via AP)
Ireland's James Lowe attempts to break the tackle of New Zealand's Beauden Barrett during the third rugby international between the All Blacks and Ireland in Wellington, New Zealand, Saturday, July 16, 2022. (Andrew Cornaga/Photosport via AP)
Ardie Savea of New Zealand scores a try as Caelan Doris, left, and Andrew Porter, right, of Ireland attempt a tackle during the third rugby international between the All Blacks and Ireland in Wellington, New Zealand, Saturday, July 16, 2022. (Andrew Cornaga/Photosport via AP)
Ireland's Jamison Gibson-Park kicks the ball during the third rugby international between the All Blacks and Ireland in Wellington, New Zealand, Saturday, July 16, 2022. (Andrew Cornaga/Photosport via AP)
New Zealand's Akira Ioane reacts after scoring a try during the third rugby international between the All Blacks and Ireland in Wellington, New Zealand, Saturday, July 16, 2022. (Elias Rodriguez/Photosport via AP)
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Roundup: Biden voices support for two-state solution, pledges aid to Palestinians
RAMALLAH, July 15 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Joe Biden voiced support for the two-state solution to the entrenched Israeli-Palestinian conflict and vowed to provide 300-million-U.S. dollar aid to the Palestinians during a short stay in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday as part of his first diplomatic tour in the Middle East.
"As President of the United States, my commitment to the goal of a two-state solution has not changed," Biden told the joint news conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem.
"The goal of the two states seems so far away while indignities like restrictions on movement and travel or the daily worry of your children's safety are real and they are immediate," he noted.
Before leaving for Saudi Arabia in the afternoon, Biden was received by Abbas at his presidential palace in Bethlehem.
As to the situation in Jerusalem, Biden said the city is central to "the national visions" of both Palestinians and Israelis, with Jordan continuing to serve as the custodian of its holy sites.
Biden told the press conference that America will provide 200 million dollars in funds to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) for its critical role in the region.
During a trip to a local hospital, he also pledged to provide 100 million dollars to the East Jerusalem Hospital Network, which includes six health institutions and works to serve the Palestinians in Jerusalem.
For his part, Abbas called on Biden to create a political atmosphere to achieve a just, comprehensive, and lasting peace in the region.
Reiterating the international resolutions and the two-state solution along the 1967 borders as the foundations of the peace process, Abbas urged Biden to help restore such foundations.
"After 74 years of the Nakba displacement and occupation, isn't it not the time for this (Israeli) occupation to end and for our steadfast people, again, to gain their freedom and independence?" he asked Biden during the press conference.
"In this regard, we say that the key to peace and security in our region begins with recognizing the State of Palestine, enabling the Palestinian people to obtain their legitimate rights in accordance with international legitimacy resolutions," Abbas said.
"We look forward to steps from the U.S. administration to strengthen bilateral relations by reopening the U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem, removing the PLO (the Palestine Liberation Organization) from the U.S. terrorist list," the Palestinian president added.
Before arriving in Bethlehem, Biden visited Israel on Wednesday as the first stop of his Middle East tour, during which thousands of Palestinians staged demonstrations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip against his visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories, slamming his biased stance on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
Meanwhile, Hamas, ruling faction of the Gaza Strip, slammed Biden's visit as "not carrying anything new on the Palestinian issue other than consolidating his bias toward the Israeli vision."
"Biden keeps selling illusions to public opinion through some loose terminology," said Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem.
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Canada confirms nearly 25,000 new cases in weekly COVID-19 update
OTTAWA, July 15 (Xinhua) -- The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) on Friday confirmed a total of 24,872 new cases of COVID-19 for the week of July 3 to 9, pushing the number of total cases to nearly four million.
Nationally, both COVID-19 disease activity and severity indicators have increased in recent weeks, as the BA.5 sub-lineage of Omicron predominates in more areas across Canada, Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam said in a statement.
The Canadian lead public health professional said that compared to prior weeks, all indicators are increasing nationally, from weekly case counts and laboratory test positivity to average daily numbers of people with COVID-19 in hospitals in Canada.
"While the precise impacts are unknown, it is reasonable to expect that we could see a continued increase in case numbers over the weeks ahead, particularly as a result the BA.5 sub-lineage of Omicron increasing in proportion among sequenced viruses," Tam said.
According to the weekly update issued by the PHAC, the number of total COVID-19 cases and deaths reached 3,978,338 and 42,148 respectively. The daily percent positive during the week averaged at 14.8 percent.
Canada announced Thursday it authorized the use of the Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine in children six months to five years of age and also tightened the COVID-19 policy by resuming mandatory random testing as of July 19 for travelers who qualify as fully vaccinated, arriving in Canada by air to the four major airports, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto.
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WASHINGTON -- The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol attack subpoenaed the Secret Service on Friday night for text messages agents reportedly deleted around Jan. 6, 2021, as the panel probes Donald Trump's actions at the time of the deadly siege.
Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said in a statement that the committee understands the messages had been "erased." Thompson outlined an aggressive timeline for production of the documents by Tuesday.
"The USSS erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, as part of a 'device-replacement program,'" Thompson said late Friday.
He said the panel "seeks the relevant text messages, as well as any after action reports that have been issued in any and all divisions of the USSS pertaining or relating in any way to the events of January 6, 2021."
The Secret Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The subpoenas come hours after the nine-member panel received a closed briefing from the watchdog for Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Secret Service. The watchdog briefed the lawmakers about his finding that the Secret Service deleted texts from around Jan. 6, according to two people familiar with the matter.
For the Jan. 6 panel, the watchdog's finding raised the startling prospect of lost evidence that could shed further light on Trump's actions during the insurrection, particularly after earlier testimony about the president's confrontation with security as he tried to join supporters at the Capitol.
It was a rare action for the panel to issue a subpoena to an executive branch department. The committee's letter was to USSS Director James Murray, who is set to retire at the end of the month.
While lawmakers were tight-lipped about what they heard, the closed-door briefing with the inspector general, Joseph Cuffari, came two days after his office sent a letter to leaders of the House and Senate Homeland Security committees stating that Secret Service agents erased messages between Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021 "as part of a device-replacement program." The deletion came after the watchdog office requested records from the agents as part of its probe into events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack, the letter said.
The committee had originally sought the electronic records in mid-January and made an official request in March for all communications received or sent from DHS employees between Jan. 5 and Jan. 7, 2021.
Thompson, the Democratic chairman of the House Jan. 6 panel, told the Associated Press on Friday that the committee is taking a deeper look at whether records may have been lost. "There have been some conflicting positions on the matter," the Mississippi lawmaker said.
The private briefing was confirmed by two people familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss it.
The Secret Service insists proper procedures were followed. Agency spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said, "The insinuation that the Secret Service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false. In fact, the Secret Service has been fully cooperating with the OIG in every respect - whether it be interviews, documents, emails, or texts."
He said the Secret Service had started to reset its mobile devices to factory settings in January 2021 "as part of a pre-planned, three-month system migration." In that process, some data was lost.
The inspector general has first requested the electronic communications on Feb. 26, "after the migration was well under way," Guglielmi said.
The Secret Service said it has provided a substantial number of emails and chat messages that included conversations and details related to Jan. 6 to the inspector general. It also said text messages from the Capitol Police requesting assistance on Jan. 6 were preserved and provided to the inspector general's office.
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, which has jurisdiction over the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service, is also expecting a briefing from the inspector general about the letter, according to a person familiar with the committee's discussions who was not authorized to discuss them publicly.
Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman said in a statement that he was "deeply concerned" by the OIG's recent letter. Portman, the ranking member on the Homeland Security committee, added "It is essential that the Department be transparent with its inspector general, Congress, and the American public."
The Jan. 6 committee has taken a renewed interest in the Secret Service following the dramatic testimony of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who recalled what she heard about Trump's actions the day of the insurrection.
Hutchinson recalled being told about a confrontation between Trump and his Secret Service detail as he angrily demanded to be driven to the Capitol, where his supporters would later breach the building. She also recalled overhearing Trump telling security officials to remove magnetometers for his rally on the Ellipse even though some of his supporters were armed.
Some details of that account were quickly disputed by those agents. Robert Engel, the agent who was driving the presidential SUV, and Trump security official Tony Ornato are willing to testify under oath that no agent was assaulted and Trump never lunged for the steering wheel, a person familiar with the matter told the AP. The person would not discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
With evidence still emerging, the House Jan. 6 committee on Friday officials scheduled its next hearing to take place Thursday in primetime. The 8 p.m. hearing, which is the eighth in a series that began in early June, will take a deeper look into the three-hour-plus stretch when Trump failed to act as a mob of supporters stormed the Capitol.
It will be the first hearing in prime time since June 9, the first on the committee's findings. That earlier hearing was viewed by 20 million people.
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Biden says US 'will not walk away' from Middle East
President Joe Biden, speaking at a summit of Arab leaders, said Saturday that the United States “will not walk away” from the Middle East as he tries to ensure stability in a volatile corner of the globe and boost the worldwide flow of oil to reverse rising gas prices.
His remarks, delivered at the Gulf Cooperation Council as he closes out the final leg of a four-day trip, comes as the region braces for a potential confrontation with Iran.
“We will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by China, Russia or Iran,” Biden said. "We will seek to build on this moment with active, principled, American leadership.”
Although U.S. forces continue to target terrorists in the region and remain deployed at bases throughout the Middle East, Biden suggested that he was turning the page after the country’s invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Today, I’m proud to be able to say that the eras of land wars in the region, wars that involved huge numbers of American forces, is not underway,” he said.
Biden also pressed his counterparts, many of which lead repressive governments, to ensure human rights, including women's rights, and allow their citizens to speak openly.
"The future will be won by the countries that unleash the full potential of their populations," he said, including allowing people to “question and criticize leaders without fear of reprisal.”
Before the speech, Biden spent the morning meeting individually with the leaders of Iraq, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, some of whom he had never sat down with.
Biden invited Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who became president of the UAE two months ago, to visit the White House this year, saying he looked forward “to another period of strong and growing cooperation” between their countries under the sheik's leadership.
The Gulf Cooperation Council summit in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah is an opportunity for Biden to demonstrate his commitment to the region after spending most of his presidency focused on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s growing influence in Asia.
Hours before the conference began, the White House released satellite imagery that indicates Russian officials have twice recently visited Iran to see weapons-capable drones it is looking to acquire for use in its war in Ukraine.
None of the countries represented at the summit have moved in lockstep with the U.S. to sanction Russia, a key foreign policy priority for the Biden administration. If anything, the UAE has emerged as a sort of financial haven for Russian billionaires and their multimillion-dollar yachts. Egypt remains open to Russian tourists.
Release satellite imagery that shows Russian officials visited Kashan Airfield on June 8 and July 15 to look at the drones could help the administration better tie the war's relevance to many Arab nations’ own concerns about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, missile program and support for militants in the region.
A senior Biden administration official, who briefed reporters before the summit, said Moscow’s efforts to acquire drones from Tehran show that Russia is “effectively making a bet on Iran.”
Biden’s attendance at the Gulf Cooperation Council summit followed his Friday meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the oil-rich kingdom’s de facto ruler and heir to the throne currently held by his father, King Salman.
The president had initially shunned Prince Mohammed over human rights abuses, particularly the killing of U.S.-based writer Jamal Khashoggi, which U.S. intelligence officials believe was likely approved by the crown prince.
But Biden decided he needed to repair the longstanding relationship between the two countries to address rising gas prices and foster stability in the volatile region.
Biden and Prince Mohammed greeted each other with a fist bump when the president arrived at the royal palace in Jeddah, a gesture that was swiftly criticized. Biden later said he did not shy away from discussing Khashoggi's killing during their meeting.
The topic created a “frosty” start to the discussion, according to a U.S. official familiar with the private conversations.
However, the atmosphere eventually became more relaxed, the official said, as they spoke about energy security, expanding high-speed internet access in the Middle East and other issues. Biden even tried to inject some humor into the conversation by the end of the meeting, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity discuss a private meeting.
The Saudi-owned Al Arabiya news network, citing an unnamed Saudi source, reported that Prince Mohammed responded to Biden's mention of Khashoggi by saying that attempts to impose a set of values can backfire. He also said the U.S. had committed mistakes at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, where detainees were tortured, and pressed Biden on the killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during a recent Israeli raid on the West Bank city of Jenin.
Adel Al-Jubeir, the kingdom’s minister of state for foreign affairs, called the visit a “great success” and brushed off questions about friction between the two countries. .
“Maybe the skeptics are people looking for theatrics or drama. The reality, however, is that this relationship is very solid,” he told Arab News, a Saudi news organization.
Biden, when he addresses the Gulf Cooperation Council, will offer his most fulsome vision yet for the region and the U.S. role there, the White House said. The Biden administration is also expected to announce $1 billion in food security assistance for the Middle East and North Africa.
The president's first Middle East trip comes 11 months after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and as Biden aims to reprioritize the U.S. away from the Middle East’s ruinous wars and ongoing conflicts stretching from Libya to Syria.
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Energy prices — elevated since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — were expected to be high on the agenda. But Biden aides tempered expectations that he would leave with a deal for regional producers to immediately boost supply.
“I suspect you won’t see that for another couple of weeks,” Biden told reporters late Friday.
At the summit, Biden was set to hear concerns about regional stability and security, food security, climate change and the continued threat of terrorism.
Overall, there’s little that the nine Mideast heads of state agree on when it comes to foreign policy. For example, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE are trying to isolate and squeeze Iran over its regional reach and proxies. Oman and Qatar, on the other hand, have solid diplomatic ties with Iran and have acted as intermediaries for talks between Washington and Tehran.
Qatar recently hosted talks between U.S. and Iranian officials as they try to revive Iran’s nuclear accord. Iran not only shares a huge underwater gas field with Qatar in the Persian Gulf, it rushed to Qatar’s aid when Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt cut off ties and imposed a years-long embargo on Qatar that ended shortly before Biden took office.
Biden’s actions have frustrated some of the leaders. While the U.S. has played an important role in encouraging a months-long ceasefire in Yemen, his decision to reverse a Trump-era move that had listed Yemen’s rebel Houthis as a terrorist group has outraged the Emirati and Saudi leadership. | https://www.wgal.com/article/biden-to-lay-out-strategy-for-middle-east/40630053 | 2022-07-16T11:58:28Z | https://www.wgal.com/article/biden-to-lay-out-strategy-for-middle-east/40630053 | true |
Galle: Pakistan pace bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi kept up his charge with two wickets in the second session to put Sri Lanka into serious trouble in the opening Test today.
The hosts were tottering at 166 for eight at tea after electing to bat first in Galle at the start of the two-match series.
Dinesh Chandimal, on 68, was fighting a lone battle with Maheesh Theekshana, on six, giving him company at the break.
Tail exposed
Shaheen, a left-arm quick, and returning leg-spinner Yasir Shah claimed five wickets between them to expose Sri Lanka’s tail.
Shaheen drew first blood as he forced skipper Dimuth Karunaratne to edge onto the stumps before Oshada Fernando and Kusal Mendis attempted to rebuild the innings.
The duo took on the bowlers in a 49-run partnership which included a flurry of boundaries.
But then Yasir, who is making a comeback to the team after a thumb injury that kept him out since August last year, broke through.
Yasir got Kusal caught behind for 21 and Oshada soon followed his partner back to the pavilion in the next over when pace bowler Hasan Ali cut short the openers’ stay on 35.
Angelo Mathews then fell for a 15-ball duck as Yasir got the former captain caught at mid-on and Sri Lanka took lunch at 80-4.
Struck twice
Shaheen struck twice after lunch and fellow quick Naseem Shah and left-arm spinner Mohammad Nawaz took a wicket each.
Chandimal smashed 19-year-old Naseem for three straight boundaries to bring up his fifty and offer some cheer to the weekend crowd.
Sri Lanka, who beat Australia in a series-levelling Test win in Galle earlier this week, are hosting Pakistan for the first time in seven years. | https://gulfnews.com/sport/cricket/icc/shaheens-twin-strikes-for-pakistan-leave-sri-lanka-reeling-1.89297630 | 2022-07-16T12:01:54Z | https://gulfnews.com/sport/cricket/icc/shaheens-twin-strikes-for-pakistan-leave-sri-lanka-reeling-1.89297630 | true |
Today’s new homebuyers are facing two threats when it comes to purchasing their moderately priced home: First, rising interest rates on new homes have made the cost of ownership beyond the reach of many buyers with modest salaries. Second, the falling amount of inventory being brought to market has supported the unprecedented rise in home prices.
In the first case — housing affordability — we have a rise in both housing prices and the cost of borrowing money to buy the house. Among a sample of builders, who all are Home Building Association of Richmond members, the average price — for both single-family homes and townhouses — was $393,366 in June 2020. By June 2022, the average price was $518,384, an increase of 32%.
As for financing the purchase, a buyer with a conventional loan and a 5% down payment, at a 6% interest rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage, will need to make $88,619 annually to qualify for the average new home. This assumes a credit score of 700 or higher, and zero debt obligations such as car payments, student loans or credit card debt. Given Census Bureau data showing the Richmond metro area’s median household income is $71,223, the cost of new construction is unattainable for a large segment of the region’s workforce.
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The second threat to buyer access of moderately priced homes is low inventory. The Federal Reserve is facing a parallel situation to what local governments across the region are experiencing.
The Fed walks a tightrope when it introduces interest rate increases to slow the pace of inflation, while delicately managing the extent of how that impacts the overall economy. If taken too far, the economy plummets into recession. Boards of supervisors across the region must walk just as fine a balance, managing the pace of residential construction without suffocating supply.
In June 2012, local builders were constructing homes in an average of 11 communities. Today’s average is six communities, a 45% reduction in 10 years and a 20% reduction over the past two years. This means the supply of new homes is dwindling, even as Richmond’s population continues to grow.
What enables new construction home inventory, and at what price? Despite broad recognition by local government officials that housing affordability is a challenge, hesitation remains about modernizing local land-use policies to adapt to reality.
Government regulation at all levels accounts for an estimated 23.8% of the final price of a single-family home, or $123,375 on the local average price. This amount is directly attributable to regulation during development and construction.
The cost to the homeowner taking on this additional $123,375 debt, at a 6% interest rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage, equates to a $740 monthly payment. This amounts to an increase of $8,877 each year, or $266,292 over the entire 30-year mortgage period.
Therein this 23.8% price burden lies our local opportunity to manage the rising costs of new homes. Richmond is not immune to housing failures experienced in San Francisco, which has some of the highest U.S. housing costs.
What caused that failure? Local government did not keep pace with the demand for housing. As San Francisco grew and employers continued recruiting for new jobs, only a fraction of homes were permitted to keep up with employment.
Let’s take a look at an example much closer to home. New Kent County, the second fastest-growing locality in the commonwealth, just broke ground on the new AutoZone distribution center.
The Board of Supervisors, against urging from the homebuilding industry, recently aggravated the housing problem by decreasing density allowances in residential development through the revision of its cluster subdivisions to restrict growth. The adopted ordinance changes will effectively produce much higher-priced homes through heavily proffered communities and zoning, right as employment is increasing the need for workforce housing.
To provide moderate pricing, the land parcel size and home density must be proportional to spread the cost of development among the homes. The lower the home density (the fewer the homes), the higher the cost of each home.
New Kent’s new density calculation is one lot per 10 acres. There is an example of this density calculation in Hanover County, which is producing single-family homesites that are as expensive as $250,000 per lot.
Before construction of the home begins, the cost to the buyer already is a quarter-million dollars. You can expect the same result in New Kent under its newly updated ordinance, which effectively shuts down moderately priced housing.
What’s happening in New Kent is symptomatic of what is happening in the region. Where will millennials find a home they can afford? What is the price point for workforce housing and where will it go?
As we watch and applaud economic development wins — AutoZone, Lego, Amazon and more — where do the workers sleep at night? Will we learn from the housing failures of communities like San Francisco, or will we repeat them?
Although modest progress has been made, a comprehensive 2021 report from Virginia’s Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission confirmed there is much more work to be done. This second threat of housing inventory is within our control.
It is time to course-correct the region’s economic development efforts to include housing in the strategy. If regulation is left unchecked, demand for housing once again will outpace supply, and consequently drive up the cost of homes to the region’s detriment.
Danna Markland is chief executive officer of the Home Building Association of Richmond. Contact her at: DMarkland@hbar.org | https://richmond.com/opinion/columnists/danna-markland-column-the-two-lead-threats-to-moderately-priced-new-homes/article_961b3807-91f3-5b12-ac8b-cce1e3c4312b.html | 2022-07-16T12:02:56Z | https://richmond.com/opinion/columnists/danna-markland-column-the-two-lead-threats-to-moderately-priced-new-homes/article_961b3807-91f3-5b12-ac8b-cce1e3c4312b.html | true |
NEW YORK — Aaron Judge has never been ejected from a major-league game.
He plans to keep it that way.
“I don’t know if I’ll be getting tossed any time soon,” Judge said following a 5-4 loss to the Red Sox in 11 innings at Yankee Stadium on Friday night.
Judge had the perfect opportunity to let his frustration at an umpire boil over when he struck out looking against Garrett Whitlock to start the eighth inning and the Yankees down, 4-3.
In a 1-2 count, Whitlock threw a slider that broke out of the bottom of the zone, crossing the plate at Judge’s shins. MLB Gameday’s strike zone feature called it a ball. Judge had a few words for plate umpire DJ Reyburn, but walked back to the dugout calmly, like he has done throughout his career.
Going into the night, Judge had been the victim of 50 called strikes that were below the strike zone, according to Baseball Savant. That was the most in baseball, with the Braves’ Dansby Swanson second at 34. Judge had gotten out-of-the-zone low strikes called on him in 3.2% of his pitches season (50 of 1,563).
Manager Aaron Boone chirped at Reyburn from the dugout, and in the ninth, Boone got tossed for arguing strikes and then got into Reyburn’s face. It was Boone’s fourth ejection this season.
“I certainly don’t want any of my players whenever possible to not get ejected out of a game,” Boone told reporters, “especially on the position player front nowadays when you play with shorter benches and stuff. I prefer that they leave it to me. You can say things in a professional way, which they do.”
Judge said he appreciated his manager standing up for him.
“It’s either going to be him or it’s going to be me,” Jude said. “I appreciate him standing up for us and kind of speaking our mind, how we’re all feeling, and he’s done that quite a bit for us, over his career with us. Like I said, I could look back on a lot of those at-bats tonight that I got a pitch to hit and then I missed my pitch and the pitcher makes a great pitch, whether it’s on the corner or down or whenever he gets a call. I’ve got to do a better job.”
But why not get thrown out at least once to show how fed up you are?
“No, I don’t see how that benefits anybody,” Judge said. “I’m out of the game if I get thrown out there. I could see maybe if it’s to end the game or something late. One at-bat ain’t going to dictate anything. Every time I step up to the plate I can change the game. I’m going to speak my mind always, let them know how I feel, let them know they missed that call and move on. The game is too important. The next at-bat, the next pitch, the guy behind me — that pitch is too important for me to sit up there and talk about me, me, me or my call or stuff like that.”
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NEW YORK — Aaron Boone was at a loss.
“I don’t know what to tell you guys on this,” he said.
The Yankees manager was talking about constant low strikes called against 6-foot-7 star slugger Aaron Judge, which eventually led to Boone getting ejected in a 5-4 loss to the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium on Friday night.
“I don’t know,” Boone said. “What can we do? I get asked a lot. I don’t know. Talk to people. They’re doing the best they can. I don’t know.”
Boone said that the Yankees have sought help.
“Sure, we talk to the league. I answer this question every so often,” he said.
Boone got tossed arguing strikes during Matt Carpenter’s ninth-inning at-bat, but his beef with plate umpire DJ Reyburn stemmed from the inning prior, when Reyburn punched out Judge on a low strike in a 1-2 count against Garrett Whitlock to start the inning.
Judge gave Reyburn a piece of his mind but it wasn’t enough to get thrown out.
Boone boiled from the dugout and yelled at Reyburn, but didn’t go ballistic until later.
Boone also had a problem earlier in the game with a strike call against DJ LeMahieu. It was Boone’s fourth ejection this season.
Judge said he didn’t want electronic umpires, despite the issues with his strike zone.
“No, I just think you’ve just got to get better — if there’s an issue with balls and strikes, get guys who do a better job calling balls and strikes,” Judge said. “I think it’s plain and simple like that. I think the umpires do a great job as it is. That’s part of the game, the human element. I think you’ve got to keep the umpires.”
He added that it’s been happening to him forever.
“Yeah, that’s kind of happened my whole career,” he said. “That’s why my college coach told me you’re not an umpire, you’re a hitter. Focus on hitting and don’t be complaining about calls.”
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Sunday, July 17
A Dog Days of Summer Hike is set for 10 a.m. at Riverview Natural Area. Hit the trails to escape the summer sun under the shady canopy of Riverview Natural Area. Guides will give an option for a longer hike at the stairways, hikers can choose a one-mile hike or an additional two miles. Participants are encouraged to bring their dogs for a hike, but a dog is not required. Dogs will be leashed.
Airport Story Hour is set for 1-2 p.m. at Jack Barstow Municipal Airport. Children ages 2-5 are invited to enjoy a light snack while listening to an aviation/space related story at this free event. Warm weather readings will be held in the beautiful outdoor MCADA area near the terminal. Cold weather readings will be held in the terminal building. If held inside current CDC recommendations will be followed.
Homestead Sunday is set for 1-5 p.m. at Chippewa Nature Center. Step back in time at CNC's log cabin, timber frame barn and one-room school for a family-friendly afternoon at the Homestead Farm and Log Schoolhouse. Weekly themed activities and tours will be available throughout the afternoon. Try grinding corn, pumping water, writing on a slate board, working in the garden, tilling the field or watering the animals. The Homestead and Schoolhouse will be open Sundays in June, July and August. This event is free.
Monday, July 18
A Senior Pancake Breakfast is set for 11 a.m.-12 p.m. at Greater Midland Community Center's 50+ Center. Cost is $3 for 50+ members, $5 for non-members; cash only, sign up one week prior to the event.
Tuesday, July 19
A John Pratt Mosaic House tour is set for 1-3 p.m. at Creative 360. The John Pratt Mosaic House stands as a reminder of a man who, through art, battled his demons and inspired countless others along the way. Visitors will learn about John Pratt and the twists and turns his life took that led him to this extraordinary endeavor. Everyone will then drive separately to the house to hear more stories and experience the house for themselves. Pre-registration is required. Cost is $8.
Music in the Woods is set for 6-8 p.m. at the John and Marjorie Hohman Amphitheater on Northwood University's campus. Coleman Road Band will perform. The event also will include food trucks, yard games for the whole family and free cake and non-alcoholic beverages. Adult beverages will be available for purchase at Tavern 59, which will be set up for attendees who are 21 years of age or older.
A Longer Table Event is set for 6-8 p.m. at Grove Park in Midland. Participants can enjoy a shared meal, music, coffee and conversations. This Longer Table Event is an opportunity to come together with fellow neighbors, community members, nonprofits and advocates for improving both the wellbeing and accessibility to parks and recreation for everyone. Tickets are $50 and can be purchased at www.drinkliveoak.com/product/longer-table-event/475.
A Firefly Frenzy is set for 9:30-10:30 p.m. at Chippewa Nature Center. Meet an interpretive naturalist at the end of Homestead Road at the Lanigan Pavilion to learn about our native fireflies and watch them light up the fields and forests of CNC. Participants will search for their glowing larvae and learn about their bioluminescence. This event is free.
Wednesday, July 20
A Lunchtime Concert featuring Cool Lemon Jazz is set for 12-1:30 p.m. at Dow Gardens. Bring a blanket or a chair and listen to live music in the dappled shade of the Birch Grove. Picnics are welcome. Included with admission or purchase of an annual admission card.
“An Evening with Your Candidates,” a forum of Midland area candidates for U.S. Congress and Michigan House and Senate is set for 5:30 p.m. in Bennett Sports Center at Northwood University. Doors open at 5 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. Register for preferred seating by visiting www.northwood.edu/an-evening-with-your-candidates
The Chemical City Band is set to perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Central Park Bandshell. If it rains, the concert will take place in Central Auditorium.
A Teen Pool Party is set for 8:30-10 p.m. at Plymouth Park Pool. Join The ROCK and Midland Parks and Recration for a night of fun at the pool. This event is geared for 6-12 grade students. There is no entry fee; candy, drinks and sno-cones will be available for $1 each.
Movies on Main is set to show "The Grinch" at 9 p.m. outside of Ace Hardware in Downtown Midland. Concessions will be available for purchase. Guests can bring a lawn chair and blankets. This event is free.
Thursday, July 21
A Story Hour is set for 9:30-10:30 a.m. at Chippewa Nature Center. The hour will include a story, crafts and other age-appropriate activities. This program will be held outdoors unless weather is unfavorable. Meet at the Woods Nature Play area near Arbury Trail. This event is free.
Lunch with a Box Turtle is set for 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at Chippewa Nature Center. Pack your lunch and head to the Lanigan Pavilion at the end of the Homestead Road to munch alongside CNC's eastern box turtle. Presentors will talk about the box turtle’s journey to Michigan and how the species’ special traits help them survive in the wild. Camp chairs are recommended as picnic table seating is limited. This event is free.
Outdoor Yoga Flow is set for 12-12:45 p.m. on Main Street between Ashman and McDonald streets in Downtown Midland. Allied Group Fitness will be offering free yoga classes. Reservations are highly recommended and suggested, but drop-ins are welcomed. There will be a select number of yoga mats that will be provided for those who don't have their own; drop-ins should plan on bringing their own mat. This class is open to all experience levels.
The Pendulum Lounge is open 4:30-8 p.m. at Midland Center for the Arts. Camryn Grant will provide live music. Guests can enjoy craft cocktails, small plates and hearty offerings. Tickets are not required to attend the Pendulum Lounge, seating is available on a first-come first-served basis.
An Upper Chippewa River Kayak trip is set for 6-9 p.m. at Chippewa Nature Center. Spend an evening paddling down the Chippewa River with a naturalist, looking for turtles, fish, herons, hawks and eagles. After meeting at the Visitor Center, the group will travel to the Universal Access Site via CNC van and begin a leisurely paddle down river back to the Nature Center. CNC will provide a kayak, paddle and life jacket for each participant. Meet at the Visitor Center. Cost is $30. Register at www.chippewanaturecenter.org/
Tunes by the Tridge is set for 7-9 p.m. The Resonators will perform at this family-friendly event located at the farmer's market area at the foot of the Tridge. Families will want to bring quilts and lawn chairs on Thursday evenings and enjoy listening to bands perform. These performances are free to all.
Thursdays in the City is set for 7-9 p.m. on the corner of Antler Street and Cedar Avenue in downtown Gladwin. Gladwin locals, Dan Rowley, Kip Fritcher and Tim Rowley will be playing music for all to enjoy. Guests are asked to bring their own chairs. This free event is set to take place rain or shine. For more information, call 989-429-3272.
Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap is set to perform at 7 p.m. at Creative 360. Brimming with intrigue, sophisticated humor and surprising twists, Agatha Christie's iconic murder mystery about a group of strangers trapped during a snowstorm, is the world’s most successful and longest-running play. Join the Hath Summer Players for their Reader's Theater version of this classic. No ticket necessary. Donations are accepted at the door. More showtimes include 7 p.m. July 22 and 23 as well as 2 p.m. July 24.
Friday, July 22
Story Time is set for 10-11 a.m. at Dow Gardens. Come to hear award-winning children’s books read aloud in the Children’s Garden. All ages are welcome. Included with admission or purchase of an annual admission card. This is a drop-in event. Registration is not required.
A Salamander Meander is set for 10-1:30 a.m. at Riverview Natural Area. Join a Chippewa Nature Center naturalist to look for salamanders under logs and near vernal pools. Some portions of this hike may be off trail on uneven terrain but hikers can choose how adventurous they wish to be.
Food Truck Friday is set for 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at Jack Barstow Airport. Fly or drive in to enjoy delicious food from local food trucks. All trucks will serve until they run out. Guests can take their food to go or visit the Aviation Discovery Area and enjoy your food at one of the benches or picnic tables under the pavilion while they watch planes come and go.
A Rent Pop-Up Show is set for 5:30-6 p.m. in Downtown Midland. Hear a few favorite songs from the musical cast – all performed on the Pedestrian Plaza stage in the intersection of McDonald and Main streets.
The Commons Live Music series will host Miranda and the M80s at 7-9 p.m. at the Pedestrian Plaza Stage at the intersection of McDonald and Main streets in Downtown Midland. Bring a chair (or snag one of the outdoor tables), grab a drink and some food from a downtown restaurant and enjoy the music. This event is free.
A Speakeasy Cabaret is set for 9-11 p.m. at the Pendulum Lounge in Midland Center for the Arts. At this immersive interactive speakeasy event, go back in time to the prohibition from start to finish. Everything from the servers to the acts will be immersively held. The show will have adult themes. Doors open at 8:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.sixeleventheatre.org/speakeasycabaret.
Saturday, July 23
Hanging out with Hummingbirds is set for 8:30-11:30 a.m. at Chippewa Nature Center. Allen Chartier, Michigan’s hummingbird expert, will answer questions during a one-hour indoor program, followed by an outdoor banding program. Chartier will discuss his research compiled from banding hummingbirds for over 15 years. Meet at the Visitor Center. This event is free.
Relay for Life of Midland County is set for 10 a.m. and will go till 10 a.m. Sunday, July 24 at the Midland County Fairgrounds. Area bands will provide live music. The event will also feature games, a car show, fire truck pull, inflatables and opportunities to dunk local celebrities. For more information, visit the Relay for Life's event page on Facebook. This event is free and open to the public.
Sanford Pop Up Palooza is set for 1-6 p.m. at Porte Park in downtown Sanford. This free event will feature food trucks, kids games, a cornhole tournament and Make and Take crafts by Home Depot. Performing bands include Coleman Road, the Reliks, Stix and Stone and Brother Hyde.
The Little Mermen are set to perform at 6:30 p.m. at Midland Center for the Arts. Go "Under the Sea" with the premier Disney cover band that plays rock versions of favorite Disney tunes (in costume). Founded by singer-songwriter Alexis Babini with the goal of bringing Disney-fueled nostalgia and singalongs to a generation that grew up on Disney, and never let it go. The Little Mermen play all the Disney hits, from The Jungle Book to The Lion King, and even Frozen. Tickets are $18, plus processing fees, and can be purchased at midlandcenter.org, by calling the Ticket Office at 989-631-8250 or in-person at 1801 W. St. Andrews Road.
The Commons Live Music series will host 23 North at 7-9 p.m. at the Pedestrian Plaza Stage at the intersection of McDonald and Main streets in Downtown Midland. Bring a chair (or snag one of the outdoor tables), grab a drink and some food from a downtown restaurant and enjoy the music. This event is free.
A Speakeasy Cabaret is set for 9-11 p.m. at the Pendulum Lounge in Midland Center for the Arts. At this immersive interactive speakeasy event, go back in time to the prohibition from start to finish. Everything from the servers to the acts will be immersively held. The show will have adult themes. Doors open at 8:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.sixeleventheatre.org/speakeasycabaret.
Sunday, July 24
Homestead Sunday is set for 1-5 p.m. at Chippewa Nature Center. Step back in time at CNC's log cabin, timber frame barn and one-room school for a family-friendly afternoon at the Homestead Farm and Log Schoolhouse. Weekly themed activities and tours will be available throughout the afternoon. Try grinding corn, pumping water, writing on a slate board, working in the garden, tilling the field or watering the animals. The Homestead and Schoolhouse will be open Sundays in June, July and August. This event is free.
Nature Play is set for 2-4 p.m. at Chippewa Nature Center. Whether it's making pies in the mud kitchen, building forts, constructing river, lounging in hammocks or creating nature art, this hour of play is sure to engage everyone. Come make some new friends and enjoy a summer afternoon. Caregivers must remain with children during this program. This program will be facilitated by volunteer host families. Meet in The Woods Nature Play Area near Arbury Trail. This event is free.
Monday, July 25
An Upper Chippewa River Kayak trip is set for 6-9 p.m. at Chippewa Nature Center. Spend an evening paddling down the Chippewa River with a naturalist, looking for turtles, fish, herons, hawks and eagles. After meeting at the Visitor Center, the group will travel to the Universal Access Site via CNC van and begin a leisurely paddle down river back to the Nature Center. CNC will provide a kayak, paddle and life jacket for each participant. Meet at the Visitor Center. Cost is $30. Register at www.chippewanaturecenter.org/
Tuesday, July 26
Frogs and Pollywogs is set for 6-7 p.m. at Chippewa Nature Center. Whether you’re young or just young at heart, grab your mud boots for an evening at the pond! The group will meet at the Visitor Center to learn about CNC’s common frogs and handling techniques before heading out to the ponds and wet woodlands to experience these charming and slimy amphibians first hand. Meet at the Visitor Center. This event is free.
Wednesday, July 27
A Story Hour is set for 10 a.m. at the Nature Play Area of Averill Preserve. Join a Chippewa Nature Center naturalist for an hour learning about nature. Attendees will meet at the pavilion and walk down to the Nature Play Area. The hour will include a story, crafts and other age-appropriate activities. Dress for the weather for this outdoor program. This event is free.
A Lunchtime Concert featuring Donny Brown is set for 12-1:30 p.m. at Dow Gardens. Bring a blanket or a chair and listen to live music in the dappled shade of the Birch Grove. Picnics are welcome. Included with admission or purchase of an annual admission card.
Sound Community Music Series is set for 7-9 p.m. at Live Oak Coffeehouse. This live music series features classical and jazz musicians from the mid-Michigan area.The first hour of each event is an opportunity for students, amateurs, and professionals to share musical performances. The second hour spotlights professional musicians as they perform a full-length concert. The featured artists of the evening gratefully accept financial support from the audience in the form of donations.
A Yoga Happy Hour is set for 7:15-9 p.m. at Mi Element Grains & Grounds. Come for 45 minutes of all-levels yoga practice, then stay afterward to enjoy a beverage of your choice and some friendly conversation between 8-9 p.m. Participants are asked to bring their own mat and any yoga props; a limited number of mats will be available to borrow. Cost is $18 with drink included, $12 for just yoga. The ticket price includes one coffee, tea or beer (must be 21 and up for beer option) to enjoy during the event or take a voucher to enjoy your drink later.
The Chemical City Band is set to perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Central Park Bandshell. If it rains, the concert will take place in Central Auditorium.
A Teen Pool Party is set for 8:30-10 p.m. at Plymouth Park Pool. Join The ROCK and Midland Parks and Recration for a night of fun at the pool. This event is geared for 6-12 grade students. There is no entry fee; candy, drinks and sno-cones will be available for $1 each.
Movies on Main is set to show "Muppet Treasure Island" at 9 p.m. outside of Ace Hardware in Downtown Midland. Concessions will be available for purchase. Guests can bring a lawn chair and blankets. This event is free.
Thursday, July 28
Bird Banding is set for 8 a.m.-12 p.m. at Chippewa Nature Center. See resident and migratory birds up close, as birds are caught in mist nets and banded for research. Join researcher Mike Bishop and CNC staff at the Homestead Farm. If it is raining or windy, banding will not take place. If the weather is questionable, call the front office on the day of the scheduled banding. This event is free.
Outdoor Yoga Flow is set for 12-12:45 p.m. on Main Street between Ashman and McDonald streets in Downtown Midland. Allied Group Fitness will be offering free yoga classes. Reservations are highly recommended and suggested, but drop-ins are welcomed. There will be a select number of yoga mats that will be provided for those who don't have their own; drop-ins should plan on bringing their own mat. This class is open to all experience levels.
Summer Wildflowers by Golf Cart is set for 4-5:30 p.m. at Chippewa Nature Center. Join CNC naturalists to learn how to identify commonly found species and discuss their roles within an ecosystem. This program is especially designed for people with limited mobility and pre-registration is required. Meet outside the Visitor Center. Cost is $15. Register at www.chippewanaturecenter.org/
Teenage Musicals Inc. presents "The Music Man" at 7 p.m. at Midland Center for the Arts. The musical follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' band that he vows to organize – despite the fact that he doesn't know a trombone from a treble clef. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students and can be purchased at midlandcenter.org, by calling the Ticket Office at 989-631-8250 or in-person at 1801 W. St. Andrews Road. Other showtimes are 7 p.m. July 29 and 2 p.m. July 30 and 31.
Tunes by the Tridge is set for 7-9 p.m. Coleman Road Band will perform at this family-friendly event located at the farmer's market area at the foot of the Tridge. Families will want to bring quilts and lawn chairs on Thursday evenings and enjoy listening to bands perform. These performances are free to all.
Friday, July 29
Story Time is set for 10-11 a.m. at Dow Gardens. Come to hear award-winning children’s books read aloud in the Children’s Garden. All ages are welcome. Included with admission or purchase of an annual admission card. This is a drop-in event. Registration is not required.
Hoedown in Downtown Midland is set for 6-9 p.m. Enjoy free line dancing lessons from 6-7 p.m., complimentary of In Cahoots Country Dance Club, as well as live country music from 7-9 p.m. by the Todd Michael Band! Grab a Commons beverage from one of the participating Downtown Midland businesses and dress up in your full country git' up.
The Commons Live Music series will host the Todd Michael Band at 7-9 p.m. at the Pedestrian Plaza Stage at the intersection of McDonald and Main streets in Downtown Midland. Bring a chair (or snag one of the outdoor tables), grab a drink and some food from a downtown restaurant and enjoy the music. This event is free.
Saturday, July 30
The Commons Live Music series will host Empty Pockets at 7-9 p.m. at the Pedestrian Plaza Stage at the intersection of McDonald and Main streets in Downtown Midland. Bring a chair (or snag one of the outdoor tables), grab a drink and some food from a downtown restaurant and enjoy the music. This event is free.
Sunday, July 31
Homestead Sunday is set for 1-5 p.m. at Chippewa Nature Center. Step back in time at CNC's log cabin, timber frame barn and one-room school for a family-friendly afternoon at the Homestead Farm and Log Schoolhouse. Weekly themed activities and tours will be available throughout the afternoon. Try grinding corn, pumping water, writing on a slate board, working in the garden, tilling the field or watering the animals. The Homestead and Schoolhouse will be open Sundays in June, July and August. This event is free. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/What-s-Happening-Nov-24-2021-17307110.php | 2022-07-16T12:04:23Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/What-s-Happening-Nov-24-2021-17307110.php | true |
WFO SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, July 16, 2022
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COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service San Francisco CA
333 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 4 AM PDT EARLY THIS
MORNING...
With high tide having occurred back at 1:25 AM PDT, tide heights
will gradually diminish through Saturday morning. Therefore, the
advisory will be allowed to expire. This is expected to be the
last Coastal Flood Advisory associated with this week's round of
King Tides.
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WFO SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 18, 2022
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EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Hanford CA
351 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO
9 PM PDT MONDAY...
* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with high temperatures of
104 to 109 degrees in the San Joaquin Valley and lower Sierra
foothills. High temperatures will range from 100 to 105 degrees
in the Kern River Valley.
* WHERE...The San Joaquin Valley, lower Sierra foothills and the
Kern River Valley.
* WHEN...From noon Saturday to 9 PM PDT Monday.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat will significantly increase the potential
for heat exhaustion and/or heat stroke, particularly for those
working or participating in outdoor activities.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young children
and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles under any
circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when possible.
To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent rest breaks
in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone overcome by heat
should be moved to a cool and shaded location. Heat stroke is an
emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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Dear Abby: I have two sons I'm very proud of. My husband and I have raised them to be respectful and to make responsible decisions. However, I go to bed in tears each night feeling we have failed.
Our elder son is married and has a son, our grandson, "Charlie," who is dear to our hearts. Charlie is celebrating his second birthday, and our daughter-in-law told me they are having a birthday party for him and we are invited. She added that she feels the "secondary activities" they are having are the ones that are the most important and ones he will remember. We are not invited to participate in the secondary activities, which include a hockey game, trip to the petting zoo and family photos or videos.
We try to support our son and daughter-in-law, but we do not feel respected and loved in return. When we invite them for dinner, they arrive an hour or two late or don't show up at all. We send them text messages, but they don't respond. We offer to help and are there for them when they ask us to be, regardless of our personal consequence. What can we do? -- OVERFLOWING WITH LOVE
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Dear Overflowing: When I read that your daughter-in-law told you that you weren't invited to the special events surrounding Charlie's birthday, my initial reaction was that she may have thought they would be too much for you and your husband to handle. However, when you described that your dinner invitations are treated like garbage and they don't have enough respect to return your calls and texts in a timely manner, it occurs to me that you have been so overflowing with love that you have been taken for granted.
You may have raised your son well, but your daughter-in-law appears to be running the show. Her parents may take precedence on the hierarchy of importance, and if that's the case, you and your husband need to clear the air with your son and his wife, and sacrifice less when they snap their fingers.
Dear Abby: I have been working with a therapist on creating healthy boundaries with my family. I moved out of state with my husband to ensure that those boundaries are met because my parents have alcohol and verbal abuse issues. My younger sister "Maya" became engaged recently, and she is at a very exciting time in her life, planning her wedding.
Here's the thing: I have no interest in hearing about, helping to plan or being a part of the wedding because Maya and I have nothing in common other than our parents. She's self-absorbed and rude. Her fiancé is an introvert, so getting to know him is incredibly difficult. How do I politely convey this to Maya or (more importantly) my mother without causing hurt feelings? -- MOVED AWAY IN THE MIDWEST
Dear Moved: You may not be able to avoid hearing about the wedding if you are in communication with your mother and sister. But you have the advantage of living far away from them. If you are asked to assist in planning Maya's wedding, politely, logically (and regretfully) explain that your busy schedule as well as the geographic distance make your involvement impossible. You should, however, attend if you're invited.
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Five Grand Awards and 172 coveted trophies were handed out.
AUSTIN, Texas, July 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Texas Association of Builders (TAB) announced the 2022 Annual Star Awards winners in conjunction with the Sunbelt Builders Show™ at Hilton Anatole Dallas. This 29-year program brought over 600 entries that resulted in five Grand Awards and 172 elite trophies handed out by co-emcees Jenny Anchondo, TV news journalist/Second Shot Podcast host and Media Personality Amy Vanderoef.
The Star Awards have been given annually since 1992 as the only statewide tribute to excellence in the homebuilding industry recognizing excellence in all areas of the residential construction industry. These awards are highly coveted within the industry. Our great state should be proud of its builders, remodelers, architects, designers, developers, and sales, marketing, and construction professionals. Projects and nominations were submitted by 108 companies from 72 cities from across Texas.
Click PDF to view 2022 Star Awards Winners.
About the Texas Association of Builders: Founded in 1946, the Texas Association of Builders is an affiliate of the National Association of Home Builders and has 26 local home builders associations across Texas. With a membership of nearly 10,000 representing over 723,000 jobs and more than $67.5 billion annually in the Texas economy, TAB plays a crucial role in providing housing for Texans. For more information about the Texas Association of Builders, visit www.TexasBuilders.org.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Ashley Marcinkiewicz, Texas Association of Builders
(512) 476-6346 | Ashley@TexasBuilders.org
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ROME (AP) — Italy’s top criminal court has rebuffed prosecutors' efforts to revive the trial of high-level Egyptian security officials in the 2016 torture-slaying of an Italian doctoral student.
The Court of Cassation ruled in Rome on Friday evening that there were no grounds to appeal a lower court decision last year that the trial couldn’t go forward because the defendants hadn’t been officially notified of the charges and the trial date.
Giulio Regeni, 28, was researching labor unions for Cairo street vendors when he was abducted, tortured and slain, his mutilated body found along a highway days after his disappearance in the Egyptian capital.
The case strained relations between Italy and Egypt, an ally in Italian efforts to combat international terrorism. At one point, Italy withdrew its ambassador to press for Egyptian cooperation in the investigation. Italian prosecutors pursued the case, eventually winning indictment of the four Egyptians, to be tried in absentia in a Rome courtroom.
In a phone interview broadcast on Italian state TV Saturday, family lawyer Alessandra Ballerini called the latest decision a “wound for justice for all Italians.”
Defense lawyers had successfully argued that the defendants had never been formally notified because they didn’t provide their official addresses, a requirement in Italy's justice system. Unless they can be notified, the trial remains suspended, effectively indefinitely halting the case in the courtroom.
The use of that loophole was particularly upsetting for the family and friends of Regeni because, they say, the defendants are widely known in Egypt due to their prominent roles in that country's security apparatus.
“As citizens we can't accept impunity for those who torture and kill,” Ballerini said.
On Friday morning, hours ahead of the ruling, Regeni's family, friends and supporters of the pursuit of justice in his slaying had rallied in front of the courthouse.
Prosecutors had argued before the court of Cassation that there was a “reasonable certainty that the four Egyptian defendants had knowledge of the existence of the criminal case against them,” the Italian news agency ANSA said.
In the run-up to the ruling, Regeni's supporters had appealed via social media for help in tracking down the legal addresses of the defendants.
His mother, Paola Regeni, has told reporters her son's body was so badly mutilated by torture that she only recognized the tip of his nose when she viewed it.
Human rights activists have said the marks on his body resembled those resulting from widespread torture in Egyptian Security Agency facilities.
Italian prosecutors had accused police Maj. Sherif Magdy; police Maj. Gen. Tareq Saber, who was a top official at the domestic security agency at the time of Regeni’s abduction; Col. Hesham Helmy, who was serving at a security center in charge of policing the Cairo district where the Italian was living, and Col. Acer Kamal, who headed a police department in charge of street operation and discipline.
After Regeni's body was found, Egyptian authorities alleged that the Cambridge University doctoral student was slain by a gang of robbers. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Italy-s-top-court-murder-trial-of-Egyptians-17309305.php | 2022-07-16T12:25:39Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Italy-s-top-court-murder-trial-of-Egyptians-17309305.php | false |
Watch | What is Pickleball?
A video on pickleball, a sport that has gained a lot of popularity in India.
This is pickleball, a sport that has gained a lot of popularity in India, especially in the post-lockdown phase
It was introduced in 1965 in Bainbridge Island, USA, by Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell, and Barney McCallum to entertain their children who were bored of routine summertime activities.
It is named after pickle boat – a rowing crew that is thrown together from available rowers – since the sport was a mix of rules thrown together.
Pickleball combines the elements of three very popular sports. What are they? Read the full story here.
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LONDON — The British government is set to hold an emergency response meeting Saturday to plan for record high temperatures after authorities issued their first ever "red" warning for extreme heat early next week.
The alert covers large parts of England on Monday and Tuesday when temperatures may reach 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for the first time, posing a risk of serious illness and even death among healthy people, the U.K. Met office said Friday. The British record is 38.7C (101.7F), set in 2019.
Rail passengers and users of the London Underground are being advised not to travel on Monday and Tuesday unless it is absolutely necessary. With children and older people considered particularly vulnerable to high temperatures, schools and care homes have been urged to take steps to protect students and older residents.
"If customers do need to travel, they should check before they travel as we are expecting there to be some impact to Tube and rail services as a result of temporary speed restrictions we will need to introduce to keep everyone safe," said Andy Lord, chief operating officer of Transport for London, which runs the capital's transportation system.
The alert comes as scientists say climate change is increasing the likelihood of exceptional heat waves in Britain, a country unaccustomed to such temperatures.
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Scott Simon speaks with actor Lesley Manville about her latest movie, "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris." She plays a London housekeeper on an adventure to buy a Christian Dior dress.
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Scott Simon speaks with actor Lesley Manville about her latest movie, "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris." She plays a London housekeeper on an adventure to buy a Christian Dior dress.
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The Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV obtained the full video from security cameras in Uvalde's Robb Elementary School and made it public. That decision has sparked backlash, and debate.
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The Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV obtained the full video from security cameras in Uvalde's Robb Elementary School and made it public. That decision has sparked backlash, and debate.
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What to expect for Alabama baseball, Connor Prielipp in the 2022 MLB Draft
Alabama baseball probably wouldn't mind having an MLB Draft similar to 2021.
The Crimson Tide had four players selected in the first six rounds last year, the most in the history of the program. That also tied the 1983 team with the most picks through the first 10 rounds of a draft.
Reaching that number again this year might be difficult, but the Crimson Tide could still have a solid showing in the draft, set for July 17-19 in Los Angeles. Rounds 1-2 are set for 6 p.m. CT Sunday on ESPN, then MLB Network. Rounds 3-10 will go Monday starting at 1 p.m. The final rounds, 11-20, will begin at 1 p.m. CT Tuesday. Days 2 and 3 of the draft can be viewed on MLB.com.
Alabama is also expected to continue its streak of having a player selected for a 44th consecutive year. It enters this year having a player selected in 50 of the 56 possible drafts.
The frontrunner is left-handed pitcher Connor Prielipp.
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Had he stayed healthy, he could have been in the discussion to be the top overall selection. But injuries have slowed him down.
He had Tommy John surgery in May 2021, dashing the hopes Alabama had for him.During his freshman season of 2020, Prielipp finished with a 0.00 ERA. Over 21 innings, Prielipp allowed only five hits, six walks and no runs. Meanwhile, he struck out 35 batters. He finished 3-0 in four starts.
He only pitched in three games in 2021 and didn't play in 2022 as he recovered from surgery.
He is still expected to be selected in the first or second round. MLB.com lists Prielipp as the No. 25 overall prospect.
He's the only Alabama player whom MLB.com has in its top 250 prospect rankings, but others could certainly hear their names called.
Some players to watch are outfielder Andrew Pinckney, shortstop Jim Jarvis, righthanded pitchers Garrett McMillan and Dylan Ray. There could be others drafted, too. Then comes the decision whether to go pro or stay in Tuscaloosa.
The Crimson Tide also has a handful of signees who will likely have to make a similar decision.
MLB.com ranks right-handed pitchers Walter Ford (53) and Jake Madden (93) among its top 250 prospects. Some of the others to watch are infielder Mason Swinney, pitcher Brock Blatter and infielder Colby Shelton.
Nick Kelly covers Alabama football and men's basketball for The Tuscaloosa News, part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach him at nkelly@gannett.com or follow him on Twitter: @_NickKelly | https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/sports/2022/07/16/alabama-baseball-mlb-draft-2022-connor-prielipp-brad-bohannon-andrew-pinckney/10014798002/ | 2022-07-16T12:54:16Z | https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/sports/2022/07/16/alabama-baseball-mlb-draft-2022-connor-prielipp-brad-bohannon-andrew-pinckney/10014798002/ | false |
Biden says U.S. will remain an active partner in the Middle East
By Steve Holland and Jarrett Renshaw
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, July 16 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday the United States would remain an active, engaged partner in the Middle East and urged leaders gathered at an Arab summit to see human rights as a powerful force of economic and social change.
"The United States is invested in building a positive future of the region, in partnership with all of you - and the United States is not going anywhere," Biden told the Arab leaders in a speech to kick off the summit.
Biden is seeking to start a new chapter in U.S. involvement in the Middle East, hoping to move past U.S. military conflicts and instead push for a region that respects individual nations' domestic affairs but seeks economic integration and shared defences amid concerns over Iran.
Biden, on his first Middle East trip as president, has focused on Saturday's planned summit with six Gulf states and Egypt, Jordan and Iraq while downplaying a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
That encounter has drawn criticism in the United States over human rights abuses. (Reporting by Steve Holland Writing by Yasmin Hussein Editing by Jane Merriman and Helen Popper) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11020211/Biden-says-U-S-remain-active-partner-Middle-East.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-16T12:56:57Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11020211/Biden-says-U-S-remain-active-partner-Middle-East.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
(NEXSTAR) — Are you being spied on in your Airbnb or Vrbo rental?
It’s a common worry in the short-term rental economy.
Last week, a civil lawsuit was filed in Kendall County, Texas, after a couple say homeowners recorded them during “intimate and private moments” while they were renting their property in August 2020. One of the homeowners was arrested and officials say their investigation discovered other illegally recorded explicit images of different guests.
Despite how sneaky some hidden camera hiding tricks can be, there are plenty of ways to detect them.
How to check for hidden cameras
Expert Marcus Hutchins, whose cybersecurity tips TikTok account @malwaretech has over 425,000 followers, says one quick way to find a hidden camera is by shining a light inside any items with holes in them. For instance, run your phone’s flashlight over a smoke detector or air conditioning vent — any lenses inside will give a bluish reflection. Hutchins explains hidden cameras can be hidden in shower heads and even outlet plugs.
Shining lights on mirrors or other mirrored items will also reveal camera lenses hiding behind the glass, Hutchins says.
Meanwhile, Michael O’Rourke, chief executive of the global security consultancy firm Advanced Operational Concepts, previously outlined a few of his tips for the Washington Post.
O’Rourke says he unplugs beside clocks/alarms and puts them away in a drawer. Next, he says he covers peepholes in doors and covers cracks under doorways in case and camera lenses can see through from outside.
Another tactic suggested by some experts is to disconnect your rental’s wifi completely, though this may be against your host’s rules, in addition to possibly causing other issues for (non-invasive) connected devices.
The smartphone app Fing is also noted for its ability to scan for hidden cameras on its own.
Short-term rental policies on cameras
Only cameras and recording devices that are clearly visible in common spaces and disclosed before guest reservations are allowed, according to the Airbnb camera policies. The company also explicitly states “common areas” do not include sleeping areas or bathrooms — not even living rooms that have sofa beds.
Vrbo’s privacy policy explains surveillance devices are anything that captures photos and videos, but also geolocation and personably identifiable information. Internet data monitoring by hosts is also considered surveillance. Devices aren’t allowed inside of a property, though hosts are allowed to use devices for security outside the property. All recording devices must be disclosed to guests beforehand.
If you think you may have been or are being monitored without your consent, you should contact the company you rented from. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/how-to-check-your-airbnb-vrbo-for-hidden-cameras/ | 2022-07-16T13:00:35Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/how-to-check-your-airbnb-vrbo-for-hidden-cameras/ | false |
(NewsNation) — With inflation at a 40-year high, there may be one small bright spot for millions of Americans in the form of a massive increase in Social Security payments.
Social Security beneficiaries could see a 10.5% increase in their payments in 2023, driven by rising inflation, according to a new estimate.
That means the average monthly retiree benefit, which is currently $1,668, will increase by about $175, according to The Senior Citizens League, an advocacy group that released the projection Wednesday.
Mary Johnson, an analyst for the non-partisan organization, said those figures could be slightly higher if inflation runs “hot” in the coming months — with a possible cost-of-living increase of 11.4%. If inflation cools, the 2023 increase may only be 9.8%, according to her projections.
Johnson bases her calculations on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, the same way the Social Security Administration determines cost-of-living adjustments.
However, the downside is that it still may not be enough to cover seniors’ costs if price hikes aren’t tamed in the coming months.
Higher-income individuals may have to pay more for Medicare Part B premiums, which are typically deducted from Social Security checks, and have increased each year since 2015. In 2022, those premiums increased 14.5% to bring the standard monthly premium to $170.10 per month.
An increase in Social Security pay could also place tens of thousands of low-income retirees into a higher-income bracket — meaning they may have to start paying taxes on their benefits, when they had previously never done so, Johnson noted.
Meanwhile, the more money given to Social Security beneficiaries, the faster the program’s funds will be depleted. At its current level, Social Security won’t be able to pay full benefits by 2035 if Congress doesn’t act. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/analysts-project-big-increase-to-social-security-payments-in-2023-but-there-might-be-a-downside/ | 2022-07-16T13:02:30Z | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/analysts-project-big-increase-to-social-security-payments-in-2023-but-there-might-be-a-downside/ | true |
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Russian officials visited an airfield in central Iran at least twice in recent weeks to view weapons-capable drones it is looking to acquire to use in its war against Ukraine, the White House said.
The Biden administration released the intelligence as President Joe Biden met Saturday with leaders of six Arab Gulf countries, plus Egypt, Jordan and Iraq for a regional summit. Biden told fellow heads of state at the summit that the United States was committed to the Middle East and “will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by China, Russia or Iran.”
Biden sought to use his appearance at the summit, closing out a four-day trip to the region, to bolster U.S. positioning in the Middle East and knit the region closer together against Iran.
Hours before the Gulf Cooperation Council summit, the White House released satellite imagery that indicates Russian officials have twice visited Iran in recent weeks for a showcase of weapons-capable drones it is looking to acquire to use in its war in Ukraine.
None of the countries represented at the summit have moved in lockstep with the U.S. to sanction Russia, a key foreign policy priority for the Biden administration. If anything, the United Arab Emirates has emerged as a sort of financial haven for Russian billionaires and their multimillion-dollar yachts. Egypt remains open to Russian tourists.
Release of the satellite imagery showing that Russian officials visited Kashan Airfield on June 8 and July 5 to examine the drones could help the administration better tie the relevance of the war to many Arab nations’ own concerns about Iran’s nuclear ambitions and other malign activity in the region.
A senior Biden administration official, who briefed reporters before the summit, said Moscow’s efforts to acquire drones from Tehran show that Russia is “effectively making a bet on Iran.”
The administration also released satellite imagery of Shahed-191 and Shahed-129 drones being displayed and in flight on the airfield, while a Russian delegation transport plane was on the ground.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement that the administration has “information that the Iranian government is preparing to provide Russia with several hundred UAVs.” UAVs are unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones.
“We assess an official Russian delegation recently received a showcase of Iranian attack-capable UAVs. We are releasing these images captured in June showing Iranian UAVs that the Russian government delegation saw that day,” Sullivan added. “This suggests ongoing Russian interest in acquiring Iranian attack-capable UAVs.”
Sullivan said U.S. officials believe the June visit “was the first time a Russian delegation has visited this airfield for such a showcase.”
Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment early Saturday regarding the White House’s assertion.
On Friday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, in a phone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba, rejected reports on exporting Iranian drones to Russia, calling them “baseless.”
“This sort of claims parallel with Biden’s visit to occupied Palestine, or Israel, are in direction of political intentions and purposes,” the website of Iran’s Foreign Ministry quoted Amirabdollahian as saying. “We oppose any move that could lead to continuation and intensifying conflicts.”
Biden is looking to strengthen coordination among Middle East allies’ response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and what the ongoing conflict means to the region. Many of the Gulf nations — Saudi Arabia, in particular — have grave concerns about Iran’s malign activity in the region.
Sullivan told reporters earlier this week, before Biden arrived in the region. that the U.S. had determined that Iran was preparing to train Russian forces to use the drones as soon as this month. He argued that Russia’s “deepening an alliance with Iran to kill Ukrainians is something that the whole world should look at.”
The UAVs that the administration believes Iran is preparing to transfer to Russia are the same weapons that Iran has provided to Houthis in Yemen.
Kashan Air Base, located some 190 kilometers (120 miles) south of Tehran, is one of Iran’s oldest airfields.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz in 2021 linked Kashan to Iran’s drone program, alleging that Iran trained militants from Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen to fly drones at the facility.
The U.S. intelligence assessment was first reported by CNN.
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Gambrell reported from Lviv, Ukraine. Associated Press writer Zeke Miller in Washington contributed reporting. | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/white-house-russian-officials-visited-iran-to-view-drones/ | 2022-07-16T13:08:35Z | https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/white-house-russian-officials-visited-iran-to-view-drones/ | true |
MUSKEGON, MI - Offering savory tacos, burritos, tamales and authentic Mexican drinks, Kayla’s Tacos is a popular spot to visit in Muskegon.
Husband and wife duo Yolanda and Luis Santillanes first opened the restaurant in 2017 as a food truck. In 2021, it was transformed into a business front at 1084 South Getty St.
Since their business kicked off, it has succeeded in captivating the attention of locals searching for authentic Mexican food, including tacos, tamales, burritos and Orchata drinks.
Yolanda Santillanes told MLive/Muskegon Chronicle that she originally grew her following by cooking for her husband’s coworkers.
“My husband was working at a factory at the time, and I would make his lunch,” Santillanes said. “His coworkers would always say how good it was and that I should start my own business.”
Before long, the Santillanes family bought a food truck and named the business after one of their daughters, Kayla.
As for the menu, Santillanes said she uses her recipes and works to teach her crew how to make it perfectly each time.
The customers get to choose whatever toppings they like, similar to the create-your-own options at a sandwich shop, Santillanes said. Each customer gets to pick what kind of meat, shell and toppings they want.
One of the most popular items on the menu is the Quesabirria ($3.75), a cross between a taco and a quesadilla.
The dish is made in-house by blending different spices atop a slow-cooked brisket for about four hours. Once it’s done, the beef is shredded and served under a blanket of broth, mozzarella cheese, cilantro and onions.
Although the dish requires several steps, Santillanes said she appreciates the homage to her culture.
“I am from a big part of Mexico, and my husband is from a different part,” Santillanes said. “I was raised how to cook in my family, but I also learned how to do different dishes from my mother-in-law, and we’re proud to bring something we love and miss to Muskegon.”
Since starting their hospitality journey in Muskegon and seeing a lack of food trucks in the area, Santillanes said she is thankful for the positive feedback and open arms. Even though the restaurant has been open since 2021, customers can still visit the food truck that inspired several others in the community to debut their own.
“It was something new when we first started,” Santillanes said. “And it’s inspiring to know there are so many food trucks in Muskegon now. We love Muskegon, and we continue to love their support.”
To place an order for pickup or carryout, head to their website or call (231) 563-6655.
Customers can catch the food truck on the corner of Getty Street and Sherman Boulevard Monday through Friday, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The restaurant front is open Monday through Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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Sabine Schormann, head of documenta, which is a summerlong art exhibition that takes place every five years in Germany, has resigned.
The head of Documenta, one of Germany's most renowned exhibitions of modern art, resigned on Saturday amid an anti-Semitism scandal.
The shareholders and supervisory board mutually agreed to terminate Sabine Schormann's contract at short notice, a statement from the organization said.
The Kassel-based institution said it would appoint an interim successor.
Last month, under pressure, the exhibition removed a mural by an Indonesian art collective that features a soldierlike figure depicted as a pig wearing a scarf with a Star of David and a helmet bearing the word "Mossad" — the name of Israel's national intelligence agency.
Schormann had originally defended the piece named "People's Justice" despite the international outcry, saying the exhibition's artistic directors were free to curate the show as they wished.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated shortly. | https://www.dw.com/en/documenta-head-resigns-amid-antisemitism-scandal/a-62498339 | 2022-07-16T13:17:43Z | https://www.dw.com/en/documenta-head-resigns-amid-antisemitism-scandal/a-62498339 | false |
Teesta Setalvad worked at the behest of Ahmed Patel to destabilise Gujarat govt: police
AHMEDABAD/NEW DELHI July 16, 2022 11:28 IST‘There was conspiracy to malign the image of Gujarat,’ the police affadiavit says; Congress refutes charges.
While opposing bail for social activist Teesta Setalvad and former IPS RB Sreekumar, Gujarat Police in an affidavit has claimed that Teesta was working at the behest of late Congress leader Ahmed Patel to “destabilise” the Gujarat government headed by the then CM Narendra Modi.
Click here to read/download the copy of Gujarat Police’s affidavit
The police stated in the affidavit that Ms. Setalvad, who received money as well as Padma Sri award, RB Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt were part “of the larger conspiracy” to destabilise and cause dismissal of the elected government by fabricating evidence to implicate top functionaries of the State with regard to the communal riots.
Also read: Supreme Court rejects Zakia Jafri’s charges against Narendra Modi, 60 officials
It is stated in the affidavit that Ms. Setalvad “had met Ahmed Patel with Sanjiv Bhatt” at his Delhi residence.
Also read: Human rights collective seeks Teesta Setalvad’s release
The police also claimed that Ms. Setalvad was seeking a Rajya Sabha berth for herself while fighting a legal battle against the State government in the name of justice for the victims of the communal riots.
“There was a conspiracy to malign the image of Gujarat, and that was hatched at the behest of late Ahmed Patel,” the affidavit stated.
Teesta got ₹30 lakh from Ahmed Patel: Police
The Police has cited testimony of two witnesses who have told the police that “Teesta had received money” in order to carry on her works to target the State government by implicating the then CM and others. The Police have claimed that she received ₹30 lakh from Ahmed Patel.
Additional sessions judge D.D. Thakkar posted the hearing on the bail application for Monday.
Also read: Supreme Court verdict on PM Modi clean chit historic: Amit Shah
On the Padma Sri award conferred on Ms. Setalvad, the police affidavit stated that it was “for malicious and vexatious prosecution” of the State functionaries of Gujarat.
The police have also accused her of “misappropriation of funds” collected in the name of justice to the riots-affected people.
Congress refutes charges on Ahmed Patel
Reacting to the Gujarat Police affidavit, the Congress on Saturday, “categorically refuted the mischievous charges manufactured against the late Shri Ahmed Patel”. This is part of the Prime Minister’s systematic strategy to absolve himself, the party’s general secretary, Jairam Ramesh, said in a statement.
“The Prime Minister’s political vendetta machine clearly does not even spare the departed who were his political adversaries. This SIT is dancing to the tune of its political master and will sit wherever it is told to,” the statement added. | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/teesta-setalvad-worked-at-the-behest-of-ahmed-patel-to-destabilise-gujarat-govt-police/article65646753.ece/amp/ | 2022-07-16T13:17:42Z | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/teesta-setalvad-worked-at-the-behest-of-ahmed-patel-to-destabilise-gujarat-govt-police/article65646753.ece/amp/ | false |
Scott Simon speaks with Kate Holden of Cork, Ireland; Kristan McMahon of Lakewood, N.Y.; and April Price of Erie, Colo. about "The Big Lebowski," which they all just watched for the first time.
Copyright 2022 NPR
Scott Simon speaks with Kate Holden of Cork, Ireland; Kristan McMahon of Lakewood, N.Y.; and April Price of Erie, Colo. about "The Big Lebowski," which they all just watched for the first time.
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Dog attacks and kills woman, 43,and leaves a 42-year-old man with life-changing hand injuries at a house in Rotherham
- A 43-year-old woman was killed in a dog attack in Rotherham, South Yorkshire
- Man, 42, has suffered life-changing hand injury and face and abdomen injuries
- South Yorkshire Police have confiscated two dogs which are not banned breeds
A woman has been killed and a man has suffered life-changing injuries after a dog attack, police have said.
The incident took place in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, at about 10pm last night and the 43-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
South Yorkshire Police said a 42-year-old man was rushed to hospital with a potentially life-changing hand injury.
A woman has been killed and a man has suffered life-changing injuries after a dog attack, police have said. Pictured: South Yorkshire Police officers were on scene on Saturday morning
He also suffered injuries to his hand, abdomen and face in the attack, the force said.
Two dogs have been seized by officers and removed from the property.
South Yorkshire Police said neither are considered 'banned breeds' under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991.
A statement from the force said: 'We were called to a property on Masefield Road in West Melton at about 10.15pm last night by a member of the public stating a dog had attacked himself and a woman.
South Yorkshire Police forensic officers at the scene of a fatal dog attack in Rotherham
'Officers attended with a Yorkshire Ambulance [Service] crew and found a man, aged 42, with a potentially life-altering injury to one hand, plus injuries to his other hand, abdomen and face. He was transported to hospital for further treatment.
'The woman, aged 43, had been fatally bitten and despite the best efforts of emergency crews was sadly pronounced deceased at the scene.
'The dog, plus another dog at the property, were secured by specially trained officers. Neither dog was of a banned breed.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11020185/Woman-killed-attacked-dog-42-year-old-man-suffers-life-changing-hand-injuries.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-16T13:21:20Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11020185/Woman-killed-attacked-dog-42-year-old-man-suffers-life-changing-hand-injuries.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, July 16, 2022
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EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
456 AM PDT Sat Jul 16 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO
8 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with high temperatures of 104
to 109 expected.
* WHERE...Antelope Valley.
* WHEN...From 9 AM this morning to 8 PM PDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat will significantly increase the
potential for heat related illnesses, particularly for those
working or participating in outdoor activities.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening.
Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
Anyone overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded
location. Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM PDT
THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...High temperatures of 96 to 106 are expected at low
elevations.
* WHERE...Ventura County Mountains and Los Angeles County
Mountains.
* IMPACTS...The hot weather will make people more susceptible to
heat illnesses, such as heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
* WHAT...High temperatures of 96 to 108 are expected.
* WHERE...Cuyama Valley, Southern Salinas Valley, San Luis
Obispo County Interior Valleys, San Luis Obispo County
Mountains and Santa Barbara County Interior Mountains.
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Rapper Kodak Black arrested during a traffic stop in Florida
Rapper Kodak Black was arrested during a traffic stop in Florida, authorities said Friday.
Black, whose real name is Bill K. Kapri, was driving a purple Dodge Durango with an expired license when Florida Highway Patrol spotted the car had windows tints "which appeared to be darker than the legal limit," police said in a news release. It was also discovered during a records check that the vehicle's registration was expired.
As police searched the car, they found nearly $75,000 in cash and a small clear bag that contained 31 white tablets of oxycodone, according to the release. Oxycodone is a type of opioid drug that treats pain and can become highly addictive, according to the CDC.
Black, 25, was taken to the Broward County Jail, where online records show him in custody Saturday morning.
CNN has reached out to Black's attorney and record label for comment.
Black was raised in Pompano Beach, Florida. His breakout hit was "Tunnel Vision," which became his first top 10 song on the US Billboard Hot 100 charts.
In November 2019, Black was sentenced to more than three years in prison on weapons charges after he pleaded guilty to knowingly making false written statements when trying to acquire firearms from a federally licensed firearms dealer.
On his last day in office, former President Donald Trump commuted Black's weapons sentence, calling the rapper a "prominent artist and community leader," in a statement released by the White House. | https://www.koat.com/article/kodak-black-arrested-during-a-traffic-stop-in-florida/40630476 | 2022-07-16T13:33:15Z | https://www.koat.com/article/kodak-black-arrested-during-a-traffic-stop-in-florida/40630476 | false |
Which leather armchair is best?
No living room or den is complete without a comfortable armchair. Whether hosting company or relaxing in front of the TV on a weekend afternoon, a leather armchair can make it more enjoyable.
Leather is a natural fabric that’s stylish, comfortable and built to last. You have many choices, but the best is the Stone and Beam Oversized Leather Armchair, a simple, versatile design that can make the perfect addition to almost any room.
What to know before you buy a leather armchair
Benefits of leather
Leather armchairs are often more expensive than those made of other fabrics, but you get what you pay for because it makes for higher-quality, more durable chairs that age well, so they tend to last longer. Leather is strong, yet flexible, and resists stains, making it easy to clean. Leather is also hypoallergenic, so it’s great if you have allergies.
Styles
An armchair has support on the side, giving you a place to rest your arms, but styles can vary. The most popular include:
- Wingback: These are more elegant chairs with protrusions, or “wings,” on the side. They were designed to protect you from drafts and heat from the fireplace.
- Highback: The tall back on these chairs makes for a regal look. It forces you to sit upright, so it’s not as comfortable as other styles.
- Chesterfield: This style can be identified by plush, rolled arms that are the same height as the back of the chair.
- Mid-century: These sleek chairs have open sides and minimal detail. They have clean lines and a classic shape.
Size
The average armchair is 35 inches deep and 35 inches wide. Smaller and oversized models are available, while some brands naturally run bigger. Before making any purchase, double-check the dimensions to ensure that the chair will fit in your desired space.
If you want an ottoman to accompany your armchair, consider that you need to keep it 12 inches away from the chair, so make sure you have enough room.
What to look for in a quality leather armchair
Upholstery tacks
These are used to fasten the leather material to the frame. They line the chair’s edges and back. However, they have evolved to be more stylish than functional. They are usually made from gold, silver or brass, and their inclusion can change the overall look of the chair.
Cushioning
Cushions vary in thickness, and most are between 4 and 6 inches. Thickness can affect the cushions’ firmness, but firmness also depends on the amount of foam or stuffing used to fill the cushions. Some cushions are removable, making them easy to care for and helping you better clean the chair.
Recliners
Traditional armchairs don’t recline, but if you’re looking for the most comfortable chair possible, consider reclining armchairs. They have the same look and features as an armchair but with the versatility of a recliner. However, they aren’t as formal looking and might not be the right fit for your design scheme.
How much you can expect to spend on a leather armchair
They can vary in price from $250-$3,000, based on the materials and style.
Leather armchair FAQ
What’s the best way to maintain a leather armchair?
A. As leather is natural, it will need support to continue looking fresh. It’s best to apply a leather conditioner every three months to prevent it from becoming too dry and cracking. To maintain its color and texture, keep it out of direct sunlight and away from heat sources. Avoid using harsh or petroleum-based cleaning products to clean it — they can damage the stitching and break down the leather.
How long does a leather armchair last?
A. With the proper care, a leather armchair can last for over 20 years, whereas armchairs made from other material will often last for about five.
What’s the best leather armchair to buy?
Top leather armchair
Stone and Beam Oversized Leather Armchair
What you need to know: Available in seven colors, this oversized down-filled armchair is sturdy and made with a hardwood frame.
What you’ll love: Its simple design helps this blend in with almost any decor, while the removable seat and back cushions make cleaning and upkeep easy. If you’re looking for a matching set, there are two different-sized sofas and an ottoman in the same style and design.
What you should consider: Some customers felt the chair sat too low for their liking.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top leather armchair for the money
Waldo Reclining Leather Armchair
What you need to know: This reclining, tufted leather armchair may have a classic look, but it also has all the comforts that come with a modern design.
What you’ll love: This plush chair can help give your room an elegant and luxurious feel, while the padded armrest and thick cushioning make it a good seat to relax. in If you’re looking to lounge around or take a nap, it easily reclines into three positions for maximum comfort.
What you should consider: Assembly is more complex than with similar models, and it’s easier to assemble with two people.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Sierd Genuine Leather Top Grain Leather Armchair
What you need to know: You can lounge in ultimate comfort and coastal style in this cozy armchair with square arms and cushioned backing.
What you’ll love: It’s built with engineered wood and genuine leather upholstery that is durable, while the removable cushions make it easy to clean. Luscious foam and polyester filling sit above coil springs, allowing just the right support for watching TV, spending time with guests or enjoying quiet time alone.
What you should consider: It’s oversized compared to other armchairs, so double-check the measurements to ensure it’s a good fit for your space.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
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Which Cotopaxi backpack is best?
A Cotopaxi backpack is a fantastic choice if you enjoy going on outdoor adventures and love helping others. The company is renowned for its high-quality outdoor gear, commitment to sustainability and passion for giving back to various humanitarian efforts.
The best Cotopaxi backpack is durable, can carry your essentials with room to spare, and has ample pockets for easy access to commonly used items. The Cotopaxi Cada Dia Moda 20-Liter Backpack is a top choice because it has all that, plus a protective sleeve for your laptop.
What to know before you buy a Cotopaxi backpack
Cotopaxi’s mission
Cotopaxi’s founder, Davis Smith, was already a highly successful serial entrepreneur when he launched the company in 2014. The outdoor gear company was Smith’s passion project; he wanted to build a business that serves his love for adventuring and giving back.
The quality of Cotopaxi’s gear is readily apparent in its durable material, innovative designs, solid hardware and wide sturdy straps. And through the Cotopaxi Foundation, 1% of the company’s annual revenue is regularly distributed to address humanitarian issues such as healthcare, poverty and education.
Cotopaxi’s sustainability
Cotopaxi is Carbon Neutral Certified, which means the company carefully measures its emissions and acquires vetted, verified carbon offsets to become carbon neutral. The brand also manufactures its products with alternative and non-virgin materials. Some 94% of Cotopaxi’s products contain repurposed, recycled and responsible materials. It calls these three core features the Three Rs, and by 2025, it aims to increase its Three Rs to 100%.
Backpack vs. travel pack
Both Cotopaxi backpacks and travel packs have two shoulder straps. While no universal standard sets backpacks apart from travel packs, the brand typically distinguishes them by size. Cotopaxi backpacks generally have a capacity between 16-26 liters, while its bags with a capacity of 28-35 liters are labeled travel packs.
What to look for in a quality Cotopaxi backpack
The right size
To make your adventuring spectacular, you need a bag that fits your essentials. Determine which Cotopaxi backpack is right for you by considering what you plan to do with it most of the time.
For example, if you are an avid hiker, you need features such as side pockets for your water bottle, a small padded sleeve to protect your phone and wide padded straps for added comfort. However, if you do a lot of traveling, look for a smooth outer shell, ergonomic design for lower back support and ample interior pockets for your valuables.
Durable nylon
Cotopaxi typically uses nylon for its backpacks because it is long-lasting, lightweight, and rip-resistant. While nylon is known to absorb fluid, many Cotopaxi bags come with a thermoplastic polyurethane coating that lets them resist water and dirt.
Pockets
Consider the items you wish to carry in your Cotopaxi backpack before selecting a model. For example, if you haul your laptop around regularly, ensure that your bag has a sleeve to protect it. You might also want to look for water-bottle side pockets, a convenient front pocket for quick access to valuables and a lined inner pocket for your phone.
How much you can expect to spend on a Cotopaxi backpack
They’re priced by size, material and product line, but typically cost between $60-$115.
Cotopaxi backpack FAQ
Which Cotopaxi line uses entirely repurposed material?
A. Everything in the Del Dia collection is sustainably made through repurposing. Cotopaxi buys excess fabric from other businesses and gives each employee the freedom to select the color combinations of the material used to construct your bag, making each a unique creation.
What can you do if your Cotopaxi bag doesn’t have a water bottle pocket?
A. Many Cotopaxi bags have loops and handles to which you can attach a clip-on water bottle.
What’s the best Cotopaxi backpack to buy?
Top Cotopaxi backpack
Cotopaxi Cada Dia Moda 20-Liter Backpack
What you need to know: This spacious bag is top-loading, durable and has plenty of pockets.
What you’ll love: It has an ergonomic design to support your lower back. It’s made from durable, water-resistant nylon and cinches at the top to keep your valuables safe. It also has an interior hanging pocket, quick-access front pocket, two water-bottle pockets and a secure laptop sleeve.
What you should consider: It might be a little big if you need a backpack for daily use.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Backcountry
Top Cotopaxi backpack for the money
Cotopaxi Batac Del Dia 16-Liter Backpack
What you need to know: This smaller, lightweight backpack is ideal for day trips.
What you’ll love: This is from the Del Dia collection, which means it is sustainably designed, one-of-a-kind and made from rip-stop nylon. It has two mesh pockets on its sides for water bottles, a zippered main compartment and a front pocket with a sleeve for your phone or camera.
What you should consider: It might be a little small if you plan to take it on adventures that last longer than a day.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Backcountry
Worth checking out
Cotopaxi Vaya 18-Liter Backpack
What you need to know: This ergonomically designed pack is versatile enough for work or play.
What you’ll love: This is an excellent bag for daily use as it is made from durable nylon with a mesh back and wide padded straps for comfort. It also has a laptop sleeve inside its main zippered compartment and a large front pocket with an inner fleece-lined accessory pocket.
What you should consider: It does not have side pockets for your water bottle, which might be a deal-breaker for some.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Backcountry
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NEWPORT, Maine (AP) — A man with a gun at a Maine campground was shot and killed by a deputy sheriff during a confrontation, authorities said.
Penobscot County authorities received a report of a social media post that there was a person with a weapon at the Sebasticook Lake Campground in Newport on Friday afternoon, Newport police and the Penobscot County sheriff's office said in a news release.
A sheriff's deputy was the first on the scene and was confronted by a man with a gun, the news release said.
The man, identified as Stephen Bossom, 35, was shot and killed by the deputy “as a result of an armed confrontation," the news release said.
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A former textile mill that, at its height, was the biggest in northwest Derbyshire and employed around 2,000 people, could be turned into a major residential area under plans submitted to the local council. If permission is granted the Howard Town Mill complex in Glossop would be cleared and replaced with two apartment buildings and 25 new houses.
In addition to the new buildings proposed to be built on the site, the existing mansion still standing will be converted into apartments along with the existing coach house. In all it is estimated that 98 residential units would be created should the project be given the go-ahead.
The ambitious plans have been submitted to High Peak Borough Council for the planning committee to assess and make a decision. If planners agree to the development it would mean that the historic site would be cleared for the development with only the mansion house and the stables surviving.
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Dating back to the 19th century, Howard Town Mill became the largest textile mill in northwest Derbyshire and one of the largest integrated cotton mills in the whole of England. At its height, 2,000 people were employed there, however during the latter part of the 19th century and the early 20th century the site declined and was eventually sold off by the Wood family in 1921.
The eastern part of the site was taken over by Volcrepe Rubber in 1932 and continued to be used until 2002. Since then the whole site has sat abandoned and has suffered from some incidents of vandalism and anti-social behaviour.
Now a developer, Watson Construction Holdings, has submitted plans to demolish the Eastern Mill and all the ancillary buildings along with the conversion of Easton House and the coach house.
Planning documents, seen by Derbyshire Live, show how the site would look if permission is granted. The two new residential blocks would be constructed on either side of the site while the 25 houses would be spread out between them.
Those 25 houses would be classed as "affordable housing'"while the flats and apartments would be placed on the open market for either sale or rent. Of those affordable properties, 12 would be two-bedroom homes and the remaining 13 would have three bedrooms.
Meanwhile, the flats would consist of 26 one-bedroom units, 58 two-bedroom flats and 14 units with three bedrooms. In addition to the number of bedrooms, the proposal also calls for a total of 108 car parking spaces to be created, including four disabled spaces, and 75 cycle spaces.
A public consultation into the proposal has now been started by High Peak Borough Council and will last until Thursday, August 18. A final decision date on whether the project can begin isn't expected until Thursday, October 13.
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How weird could things get if Twitter settles with Elon Musk?
As Elon Musk’s imbroglio with Twitter moves from the boardroom to the courtroom, one might expect that, under the watchful eye of Delaware’s Court of Chancery, things will take on a more predictable trajectory than they have so far.
In theory, the lawsuit that the social media platform launched Tuesday to force Musk to follow through on his acquisition offer presents a limited spectrum of possible outcomes: Musk could be forced to close at the agreed-upon $44-billion price; pay a $1-billion termination fee to get out of the deal; cough up some intermediary price that the court decides; or escape entirely unscathed.
Yet if there’s one lesson to be learned from all that’s transpired so far, it’s that there are no guarantees, even in the face of binding contracts, federal regulations and historical precedents, when it comes to the world’s richest man. Settlement is still an option — some experts even say it’s likely — and would open up a whole new menu of options. Here are some of them.
The Delaware Chancery Court holds the future of Twitter in its hands.
Nondisparagement agreements
Musk has never been one to hold off on criticizing Twitter, despite being among the platform’s biggest users.
He has panned its content moderation policies as undemocratic, lobbied for major changes to both the company’s product and its business model, and persistently criticized the site’s handling of automated spam bots (Twitter’s “single most annoying problem,” he once wrote).
Signing a deal for him to buy the platform didn’t dull those barbs. In one tweet that Twitter included in its lawsuit, he responded to a remark by Chief Executive Parag Agrawal with nothing but the “poop” emoji.
“Since signing the merger agreement, Musk has repeatedly disparaged Twitter and the deal, creating business risk for Twitter and downward pressure on its share price,” the company complained in the filing. This is despite a provision of the deal that required that Musk’s tweets “do not disparage the Company or any of its Representatives.”
It wouldn’t be unusual for that sort of agreement to become part of a longer-term settlement, said Charles Elson, founding director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance. “You could have a nondisparagement agreement” under these sorts of circumstances, he said. “I wouldn’t be shocked.”
Tesla’s CEO has claimed a perfect record for the safety of his company’s robot-driving system. A public crash-reporting database contradicts him.
“He would not disparage Twitter, they wouldn’t disparage him,” Elson added. “It’d be a mutual nondisparagement.”
Whether Musk would actually abide by those terms is, of course, an altogether different question.
Nondisclosure agreements
Also on the table could be some sort of nondisclosure agreement, or NDA, which would limit what one or both parties could publicly share about the on-again, off-again relationship they’ve engaged in since early April.
“I could definitely see an NDA happening which would keep certain terms confidential and allow a side to ‘save face,’” said Alex Bruno, founder of the Glendale-based corporate law firm Bruno Group, in an email.
Twitter may still have to disclose some information, however, given that it’s publicly traded, Bruno added.
This eventuality could prove particularly appealing to Twitter because, according to the lawsuit, the company has given Musk significant access to corporate intelligence during their dealings, including about 49 tebibytes’ worth of raw historical site data.
Then again, Musk seems to currently be bound by some sort of NDA, and doesn’t appear all that concerned about it. “Twitter legal just called to complain that I violated their NDA by revealing the bot check sample size is 100!” he wrote in one May tweet, referencing his efforts to replicate Twitter’s bot prevalence estimates.
A noncompete agreement?
One looming threat for Twitter is that if Musk doesn’t end this saga as the platform’s owner, he may pick back up an idea he’s toyed with in the past: competing with the company on his own terms.
In one tweet this March, he asked what should be done about Twitter’s content moderation policies, which he framed as undemocratic. In a follow-up, he pitched one possible course of action: “Is a new platform needed?”
Later that day he added, “Am giving serious thought to this.”
In a move he’s been telegraphing for weeks, Elon Musk is trying to abandon his acquisition of Twitter.
Now, with the benefit of having seen some of Twitter’s inner workings firsthand — and enjoyed months of free press about how he’d run a social network were he in charge — Musk could well return to that option if he’s not barred from doing so.
Though Twitter alternatives have historically struggled to enter the mainstream, this is a threat Twitter doesn’t take lightly. In its lawsuit, the company noted that Musk has said he will “do one of three things with Twitter: sit on its board, buy it, or build a competitor” — the first of which he’s opted out of, and the second of which he seems to be actively trying to avoid.
“The biggest wildcard scenario is that Musk needs to pay Twitter a massive settlement number in the $5 billion to $10 billion range and is restricted from starting his own social media platform,” said Wedbush analyst Dan Ives, a frequent commentator on the Musk-Twitter saga, in an email to The Times. “That would be a twilight zone ending to this circus show.”
Twitter policy changes
Musk could even use a settlement as an opportunity to push for certain policy changes — from highly politicized ones such as those around how Twitter moderates users’ speech, to the sort of hobbyhorses that super-users like him care about, including the addition of an “Edit Tweet” button.
Even if such concessions came alongside a cash settlement he had to pay out, they might offer the public figure a chance to save some face.
But it’s an unlikely outcome, Bruno said.
“I do not see a change in site policies unless a lot of money comes Twitter’s way,” the attorney wrote. However, he added, Twitter may still choose to make changes “to publicly show their users that they are active in eliminating bots,” the focus of much of Musk’s criticism.
Elson agreed. “I don’t think he would be able to get a change in business practices from them. … Ultimately this is a business transaction; it’s [about], ‘How much is this thing worth?’ That’s all.”
But Ives is more open to the possibility.
“If Musk ultimately is forced to take ownership of Twitter by the court,” he said, “there may be some content areas agreed upon as part of a deal.”
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TRAVERSE CITY — Whether by boat, car or on foot, residents and visitors may find their way to The Burrow TC.
The newest venture from Honest Hospitality TC opened at the end of June at 12930 SW Bay Shore Drive. CEO and Managing Partner Adrienne Brunette said their goal was to give people “an opportunity to dine in a different way.”
“We’re serving California-style American,” Brunette said. “It’s a lighter take on familiar classics. West Coast style is a fresher take on traditional Midwest dishes.”
Guests can order a French dip sandwich, salad or a protein-focused entrée like the steak frites — a 10-ounce steak served with herb butter and fries. Brunette said this dish will be a staple on the menu, though some ingredients may change seasonally.
The French dip and their appetizers have been popular so far, she added. Appetizers range from crab cakes to tuna crudo, which Brunette described as a “play on sushi.”
“It’s not heavy like burgers can be,” she said of the menu. “We try to keep everything we do in layman’s terms and geared toward locals.”
Additionally, patrons can sip on an alcoholic beverage while they dine. Brunette said the full bar includes beer and wine as well as a cocktail they named the “Squirtsky.” It is made with grapefruit juice, vodka, grapefruit vodka, lime and soda.
“It’s really refreshing,” Brunette said.
Brunette said the restaurant’s name comes from the different ways to access the restaurant: from the road, TART Trails or the tunnel from Elmwood Township Marina.
Brunette and her business partners opened Mama Lu’s in 2016 and the Flying Noodle in 2020. Both eateries are located downtown.
Brunette said that is partly why they chose to open The Burrow in Leelanau County. They scoured the area for the right location and selected the building after Tuscan Bistro closed in early 2019.
“The pandemic provided a setback,” Brunette said. “We waited for The Burrow.”
She added that the space is larger than the other two restaurants, which may work better for families.
Heather and Dallas Dziedzic co-own Honest Hospitality. Heather is director of human resources, and her husband is a culinary director. Heather said she has known Brunette since they were kids in Leelanau County.
The couple lived in other states before returning to Michigan. They started working at Mama Lu’s and then Flying Noodle.
“We were really happy to get back and work with some like-minded people,” Heather said.
Dziedzic said they have experienced some of the same staffing issues as elsewhere, but they “started to build a strong team.” They are still looking to add employees to their staff though.
So far, Dziedzic said business has been going well.
“We’re enjoying our guests,” she said. “It’s fun to have the neighborhood folks in. It’s a great spot if people are traveling beyond Traverse City — stop by for lunch.”
The Burrow TC is open for dine in and takeout from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday. Limited reservations are available through Resy.
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A sexual assault survivor chooses sterilization so that if she is ever attacked again, she won't be forced to give birth to a rapist’s baby. An obstetrician delays inducing a miscarriage until a woman with severe pregnancy complications seems “sick enough.” A lupus patient must stop taking medication that controls her illness because it can also cause miscarriages.
Abortion restrictions in a number of states and the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade are having profound repercussions in reproductive medicine as well as in other areas of medical care.
“For physicians and patients alike, this is a frightening and fraught time, with new, unprecedented concerns about data privacy, access to contraception, and even when to begin lifesaving care,’’ said Dr. Jack Resneck, president of the American Medical Association.
Even in medical emergencies, doctors are sometimes declining immediate treatment. In the past week, an Ohio abortion clinic received calls from two women with ectopic pregnancies — when an embryo grows outside the uterus and can’t be saved — who said their doctors wouldn’t treat them. Ectopic pregnancies often become life-threatening emergencies and abortion clinics aren’t set up to treat them.
It's just one example of "the horrible downstream effects of criminalizing abortion care,'' said Dr. Catherine Romanos, who works at the Dayton clinic.
MEDICAL DILEMMAS
Dr. Jessian Munoz, an OB-GYN in San Antonio, Texas, who treats high-risk pregnancies, said medical decisions used to be clear cut.
“It was like, the mom’s life is in danger, we must evacuate the uterus by whatever means that may be,” he said. "Whether it’s surgical or medical — that’s the treatment.’’
Now, he said, doctors whose patients develop pregnancy complications are struggling to determine whether a woman is “sick enough" to justify an abortion.
With the fall of Roe v. Wade, “the art of medicine is lost and actually has been replaced by fear,’’ Munoz said.
Munoz said he faced an awful predicament with a recent patient who had started to miscarry and developed a dangerous womb infection. The fetus still had signs of a heartbeat, so an immediate abortion — the usual standard of care — would have been illegal under Texas law.
“We physically watched her get sicker and sicker and sicker” until the fetal heartbeat stopped the next day, “and then we could intervene,’’ he said. The patient developed complications, required surgery, lost multiple liters of blood and had to be put on a breathing machine “all because we were essentially 24 hours behind.’’
In a study published this month in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, doctors at two Texas hospitals cited the cases of 28 women less than 23 weeks pregnant who were treated for dangerous pregnancies. The doctors noted that all of the women had recommended abortions delayed by nine days because fetal heart activity was detected. Of those, nearly 60% developed severe complications — nearly double the number of complications experienced by patients in other states who had immediate therapeutic abortions. Of eight live births among the Texas cases, seven died within hours. The eighth, born at 24 weeks, had severe complications including brain bleeding, a heart defect, lung disease and intestinal and liver problems.
Before it overturned Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court never allowed states to ban abortion before the point when a fetus can survive outside the womb — roughly 24 weeks.
Chicago diversity executive Sheena Gray survived a harrowing pregnancy-ending experience last year, when doctors discovered she had an embryo in a fallopian tube and an eight-week fetus in her womb. They removed the embryo along with the affected fallopian tube, and told her they needed to abort the other fetus to save her life.
The decision to proceed with treatment was hers — abortion is still legal in Illinois. In fact, the state provides greater access to abortion than most others, and has been flooded with patients seeking abortions following the recent Supreme Court decision.
Gray said she’s heard about similar care being denied or delayed in other states, and fears the high court ruling will force other patients to face the same fate.
“No one should make these choices for a woman, period,” she said.
Her story has a much happier ending: Gray became pregnant again and gave birth July 8 to healthy identical twin girls.
CHOOSING STERILITY
Julie Ann Nitsch, a sexual assault survivor and community college trustee in Austin, Texas, is among many women in states with restrictive abortion laws who are taking drastic steps.
Nitsch says she chose sterilization at age 36 rather than risk getting pregnant by another rapist.
“I ripped my organs out’’ to avoid that, she said.
Nitsch said she "saw the writing on the wall” after Texas enacted a law last year banning most abortions after six weeks, even in cases of rape or incest. She said she sensed that Roe v. Wade would be overturned, so she had surgery to remove her fallopian tubes in February.
“It’s sad to think that I can’t have kids, but it’s better than being forced to have children,’’ Nitsch said.
Dr. Tyler Handcock, an Austin OB-GYN, said his clinic has heard from hundreds of patients seeking sterilization since the Supreme Court’s June 24 decision. Many choose this route because they fear long-acting birth control or other contraceptives could also become targets, he said.
His clinic scheduled a July 9 group counseling session to handle the surge, and every one of the 20 patients who showed up to hear about the risks and ramifications of fallopian tube-removal made an appointment to have the surgery.
Some physicians are reluctant to perform the surgery on young women with many reproductive years left, fearing they will change their minds later. Handcock said he heard from one 28-year-old woman who said six OB-GYNs declined to sterilize her.
Handcock said the choice should be up to patients.
“I will protect my patients and their rights however I can,’’ he said.
TARGETING MEDICATION
Becky Schwarz, of Tysons Corner, Virginia, found herself unexpectedly thrust into the abortion controversy even though she has no plans to become pregnant.
The 27-year-old has lupus, an autoimmune disease that can cause the body to attack tissue surrounding joints and organs, leading to inflammation and often debilitating symptoms. For Schwarz, these include bone and joint pain, and difficulty standing for long periods of time.
She recently received a notice from her doctor saying she’d have to stop taking a medication that relieves her symptoms — at least while the office reviewed its policies for methotrexate in light of the Supreme Court ruling. That’s because the drug can cause miscarriages and theoretically could be used in an attempt to induce an abortion.
“For me to have to be essentially babysat by some policy, rather than being trusted about how I handle my own body ... has made me angry,’’ she said.
The Arthritis Foundation and American College of Rheumatology have both issued statements of concern about patients’ access to the drug. Steven Schultz of the Arthritis Foundation said the group is working to determine how widespread the problem is. Patients having trouble getting the medication can contact the group's helpline, he said.
CONFUSING LAWS
Many abortion laws are vague and they vary by state. That can leave physicians in a quandary.
“We’ve asked some legislators, ‘How are medical providers supposed to interpret the laws?’” said Dr. Dana Stone, who is based in Oklahoma, a state that recently banned almost all abortions.
“They say, ‘They’ll figure it out,'" she said.
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Associated Press Medical Writers Carla K. Johnson and Laura Ungar contributed to this report.
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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The United Nations mission in Mali says that Egypt will withdraw its troops from the West African county by mid-August citing deadly attacks against its peacekeepers.
Seven Egyptian peacekeepers have been killed in Mali so far this year, according to officials.
Olivier Salgado, the spokesman of the U.N. mission in Mali, on Friday confirmed that Egypt will suspend its activities in Mali.
“We confirm that Egypt, through its Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, expressed its concern at the beginning of the week at the increase in attacks against its peacekeepers who escort the convoys supplying our bases in the center and northern Mali. These attacks have caused the death of 7 Egyptian soldiers since the beginning of the year,” he said in a statement. “We have been informed that as a result, the Egyptian contingent will temporarily suspend its activities within MINUSMA as of August 15.”
The U.N. said that the safety of its peacekeepers is a priority.
Egypt currently contributes about 1,030 troops and 24 staff officers to the U.N. Mali mission.
Mali has struggled to contain an Islamic extremist insurgency since 2012. Extremist rebels were forced from power in Mali’s northern cities with the help of a French-led military operation, but they regrouped in the desert and began attacking the Malian army and its allies. Insecurity has worsened with attacks in the northern and central regions on civilians and U.N. peacekeepers.
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Under Armour founder Kevin Plank and Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti have invested in a fund aimed at supporting companies that use technology to break down barriers in areas such as health care, food and education.
Conscious Venture Partners on Tuesday announced that Conscious Venture Fund II has raised $15.8 million toward a $50 million goal. The fund, which expects to become the largest minority-managed fund in Baltimore, supports companies that use innovations to create a more equitable society in the health care, food, technology, media, mobility and education industries.
Sagamore Ventures, Plank’s investment arm, leads the local investments with a $2.5 million commitment. Other investors include Point Field Partners, Bisciotti’s investment arm; Brown Advisory; Capital Funding Group; Robb Merritt of Merritt Properties; Mary Miller, a Baltimore investor and former T. Rowe Price executive; Guy Filippelli of Squadra Ventures; and the Abell Foundation. A recent $5 million commitment came from the UFCW – Northern California Employers Joint Pension Plan, a California-based pension fund.
“Despite the amazing talent and technology we have in the U.S. and specifically here in Baltimore, new innovations for things like the delivery of preventative care, better mental health outcomes, access to technology and healthy food and predictive analytics for under-served communities are clearly needed if we are to continue the standard of living — and give all our citizens access to such — that we so dearly appreciate and enjoy in America,” Jeff Cherry, founder and managing partner of Conscious Venture Partners, said in a statement.
Conscious Venture Partners says it seeks out entrepreneurs that other investors have ignored. Supporting entrepreneurs in communities of color that have been disproportionately impacted by lack of access to capital will lead to better services in those communities, Cherry said.
Plank’s Sagamore investment is part of a $10 million set of commitments made by Sagamore and Port Covington’s development team to help improve the landscape for the city’s minority- and women-owned small businesses.
Plank said in the announcement the Conscious Ventures fund has a proven track record of finding and supporting “diverse and innovative Baltimore entrepreneurs, which is critical to the future of the city.”
Most of the funded companies are graduates of the Conscious Venture Lab accelerator program, such as Fearless Sports, a social impact clothing company; Outlook Enterprises, an East Baltimore digital production studio founded by ex-Baltimore Raven Trevor Pryce; and HeyZRO, a metaverse e-commerce platform. Applications for the current cohort are being accepted now.
The fund is expected to grow as additional capital is committed, with a final close expected in the third quarter.
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The Chicago Cubs find themselves in an unfamiliar position.
For the first time in seven years, they own a top-10 pick in the MLB draft. The No. 7 selection Sunday marks their highest since 2014, when the Cubs chose Kyle Schwarber at No. 4. The pick became part of a three-draft stretch that also produced All-Stars in Kris Bryant and Ian Happ.
The future success of the Cubs rebuild needs them to hit on their top draft picks and develop the type of internal pipeline perennial postseason contenders rely on. Vice president of scouting Dan Kantrovitz does not expect the organization’s overhaul to affect their draft approach over the 20 rounds from Sunday through Tuesday.
“I think at this point, given the time it takes for most of the players we’re drafting to matriculate to the big leagues, I don’t think we can try to time a window like that,” Kantrovitz said this week. “If you start to get into that, then you might end up missing the best player available on the board. It’s such an imprecise science as it is. It’s not really a concern for us.
“If it ends up being a toolsier high school player who we draft that requires a little bit more time, we have the infrastructure to handle it. And if it ends up being a college player that is projected to get there a little quicker, we’ll be equally happy.”
It’s still too early to fully evaluate the Cubs’ last five draft classes, but early results portend a mixed bag of production and potential.
Right-hander Alex Lange (No. 30, 2017) has a 3.23 ERA over the last two seasons for the Detroit Tigers after the Cubs traded him in 2019 for Nick Castellanos. Left-hander Brendon Little (No. 30, 2017) owns a 5.53 ERA in 19 appearances at Triple-A Iowa. Nico Hoerner (No. 24, 2018) is a budding star who has thrived in his transition to shortstop and providing the contact-hitter profile the Cubs lineup has needed. Right-hander Ryan Jensen (No. 27, 2019) has struggled with his command while posting a 5.05 ERA in 11 starts at Double-A Tennessee. A serious hip injury that required surgery muddles the future of shortstop Ed Howard (No. 16, 2020). Left-hander Jordan Wicks (No. 21, 2021) was just promoted to Double A, according to Friday’s minor-league transaction log, after making 16 starts at High-A South Bend, with whom he recorded a 3.65 ERA and 11.6 strikeouts per nine innings in 16 starts.
The 2022 amateur draft is expected to see high school position players taken among the top picks. The Cubs have the 10th-highest bonus pool ($10,092,700) for the first 10 rounds while the No. 7 pick has a slot value of $5,708,000. Teams can spend up to 5% above their pool and pay a tax on the overage but do not lose a future draft pick if they remain below that threshold. It’s a strategy the Cubs have utilized every year since the bonus-pool system was implemented in 2012.
Among the players the Cubs could target with their first pick: third baseman Cam Collier (Chipola, Fla., JC), shortstop Termarr Johnson (Mays, Ga., High School), outfielder Elijah Green (IMG Academy), shortstop Zach Neto (Campbell), shortstop Brooks Lee (Cal Poly) and corner infielder Jacob Berry (LSU).
The MLB draft typically was held in early June. The league pushed it back until mid-July for the first time last year to coincide with All-Star Game festivities, which hasn’t been well-received by some front-office personnel as the trade deadline looms. One benefit, however, to the extra month of draft preparation is the increase of data available to teams. College summer leagues remain ongoing, and the Cubs have scouts at games providing the organization additional information.
“Historically, that was never the case,” Kantrovitz said. “The draft was in early June and the summer leagues and all the high school showcases, that would happen after the draft and there’d be a few days of catching your breath and then you’d hit the ground running for next year’s scouting evaluations. But we’re still getting data up until the very last minute. That’s a pretty big difference from prior years.”
Owning the No. 7 pick didn’t change the Cubs’ scouting and evaluation strategy for the first half of the spring. The goal, Kantrovitz said, was to cast a wide net and ensure they thoroughly evaluated every player because of the uncertainty that exists during the spring collegiate and high school seasons.
“Whether it’s players that might get injured or whether signability changes or whether a player might decide to go to college at the last minute, we don’t want to confine ourselves and then be surprised,” Kantrovitz said. “So it’s better to cast a wider net than not. But certainly, for the second half of the spring, we’ve started to really zero in on who that top seven might be.”
In his third season leading the Cubs’ draft, Kantrovitz has a better understanding of each scout’s individual style.
“Everybody looks at players differently,” Kantrovitz said. “Some scouts are more conservative than others, some are more aggressive. Some scouts might be better at evaluating pitchers than hitters. That’s something that only comes with time. You can read scouts’ prior reports, but until you really work with them and travel with them, you don’t really get a feel for how you can best interpret their evaluations.”
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(NEXSTAR) – Officials in Missouri have recently recorded the state’s first confirmed infection of Naegleria fowleri — or “brain-eating amoeba” — in a resident since 1987.
The patient was battling the infection in the intensive-care unit of a Missouri hospital since last week. On Friday, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services confirmed the patient’s death.
Infections of N. fowleri are said to be “rare,” as noted by the state’s department of health, but experts warn that these parasites — which are primarily found in warm freshwater and soil — cause devastating and fatal infections in nearly all cases.
Infection of N. fowleri usually occurs after the organism enters the nasal cavity and crosses the epithelial lining into the brain, where it begins destroying the tissue of the frontal lobe, Dr. Dennis Kyle, a professor of infectious diseases and cellular biology at the University of Georgia and the scholar chair of antiparasitic drug discovery with the Georgia Research Alliance, had previously told Nexstar.
This brain infection, known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), can lead to symptoms including fever, headaches, stiff neck, seizures and hallucinations, among others. These symptoms usually start within five to nine days of exposure. Death usually occurs within another five days, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Unfortunately, most cases of N. fowleri infection are observed in children. But it’s likely for no other reason than children are more prone to be active in the water, Kyle explained.
“It’s very commonly found in nature, in soil or warm freshwater around the world … Or in places where the water is warm for other reasons, like a thermal hot spring, or pool water that isn’t chlorinated properly,” Kyle told Nexstar in August 2021, following the death of two children from N. fowleri infection.
“This time of year is when we typically hear about these cases,” he said of the warmer summer months. “When people are out doing summer activities in the water, or on the lakes.”
The Missouri Department of Health did not disclose the age of the deceased patient.
The CDC currently classifies N. fowleri infections as rare, with only 31 reported cases in the U.S. between 2012 and 2021. Of those, the vast majority (28) were infected during recreational water activities, while others were infected using contaminated tap water for nasal irrigation, or, in one case, on a “backyard slip-n-slide.”
But despite the relatively low case numbers, Kyle says researchers — and especially the families of those who died of a brain-eating amoeba infection — generally dislike the term “rare.”
“This is something that is in every warm water lake around the South, so it’s there,” said Kyle, who told Nexstar that researchers can’t quite explain why more people aren’t getting infected. In fact, any body of warm freshwater can harbor the amoebae, he said, citing two cases of N. fowleri in Minnesota in 2010 and 2012. One case in 2021 was contracted in Northern California, too.
“The warming climate, you would think, could potentially have an effect on the infections,” he added. “Warmer water means more people get infected.”
N. fowleri infection might not even be that “rare,” either, as doctors believe it’s underreported or misdiagnosed in many parts of the world. In Pakistan, for instance, Kyle says there were no reported cases for many years until a doctor returning from studies in the U.K. was able to diagnose “dozens” of cases that, if not for increased awareness, would have been misdiagnosed.
“Sometimes it’s thought to be viral or bacterial meningitis,” Kyle explained. “It’s not until physicians are working through it before they realize. In many of the cases, the diagnosis came back very late. Sometimes post-mortally.”
Kyle also believes that early diagnoses may make a difference in the outcome of the infections, citing a Florida doctor who was able to identify the early stages of infection in a young boy and place him in a medically induced coma to prevent brain swelling during treatment.
Even still, chances of survival are slim with current treatments. Kyle, also the director of the University of Georgia’s renowned Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, knows of only four documented cases of survival in the U.S., and “maybe” seven globally.
The CDC also pegs the fatality rate at over 97%.
Current treatments usually include a combination of drugs, usually involving antifungals and antibiotics including amphotericin b, miltefosine, fluconazole and azithromycin. But “none work very well by themselves,” according to Kyle, whose well-documented work with drug discovery includes studies and screenings of treatments in the hopes of finding something that could kill the amoeba faster.
“I think we need better drugs than we have, to really make a difference,” he said last year.
In the absence of such treatments, taking proper precautions is the best defense against N. fowleri infection. The CDC suggests limiting the amount of water going up the nose, and Kyle said it’s best to avoid bodies of warm freshwater — “warm” meaning they produce surface temperature readings of 75 degrees F or higher for extended periods of time — and to especially avoid jumping or diving into such waters.
It’s also important to use nose plugs, keep your head above the surface, and properly clean and chlorinate wading pools, swimming pools and spas.
Kyle added that amoeba awareness, while not something people often think about on hot summer days, is also one of the best tools for keeping people safe.
“If we had more awareness, better support, more people working on this, then we could possibly come up with better diagnostics and better treatments in a reasonable amount of time, and avoid these devastating things that are happening,” Kyle said. | https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/brain-eating-amoeba-how-do-infections-occur-and-where-are-they-most-common/ | 2022-07-16T14:06:30Z | https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/brain-eating-amoeba-how-do-infections-occur-and-where-are-they-most-common/ | false |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is promising “strong executive action” to combat climate change, despite dual setbacks in recent weeks that have restricted his ability to regulate carbon emissions and boost clean energy such as wind and solar power.
The Supreme Court last month limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. Then late Thursday, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said he wants to delay sweeping environmental legislation that Democrats have pushed as central to achieving Biden's ambitious climate goals.
Biden, who has pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, compared with 2005 levels, said Friday that "action on climate change and clean energy remains more urgent than ever.''
If the Senate will not act to address climate change and boost clean energy, “I will take strong executive action to meet this moment,'' Biden said in a statement from Saudi Arabia, where he met Friday with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Biden did not specify what actions he will take on climate, but said they will create jobs, improve energy security, bolster domestic manufacturing and protect consumers from oil and gas price increases. “I will not back down,'' he promised.
Some advocates urged Biden to use the moment to declare a national climate emergency and reinstate a ban on crude oil exports, among other steps.
Declaring a climate emergency would allow Biden to redirect spending to accelerate renewable energy such as wind and solar and speed the nation’s transition away from fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas.
Climate advocates, including some of Manchin's Democratic colleagues in the Senate, said Manchin's announcement that he cannot back the climate provisions in the Senate bill — at least for now — frees Biden of the obligation to cater to a powerful, coal-state senator eager to protect his energy-producing home state. Manchin's vote is decisive in the evenly divided Senate, where Republicans unanimously oppose climate action.
"Free at last. Let’s roll. Do it all and start it now,'' tweeted Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I. who has long pushed stronger action on climate. “With legislative climate options now closed, it’s now time for executive Beast Mode,'' Whitehouse wrote.
Whitehouse suggested a series of actions Biden could take, including “a robust social cost of carbon rule″ that would force energy producers to account for greenhouse gas emissions as a cost of doing business. The senator also urged Biden to require major polluters to use technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions and impose stronger pollution controls on cars, light trucks and heavy-duty vehicles.
Advocates also urged Biden to reject all onshore and offshore drilling on federal lands and in federal waters — a step he promised during the 2020 campaign but has not enacted — and restrict approval of natural gas pipelines and other fossil fuel projects.
“For too long, we’ve been waiting on a single legislative package to save us and a single legislator to determine our fate,'' said Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. “Now that it’s clear legislation to address our climate crisis is dead, President Biden needs to put us on an emergency footing to address this disaster.''
Citing Biden's campaign promise to end new drilling on federal lands and waters, Merkley said, "Now is the time to show the American people he’s serious by saying ‘no’ to expanding our addiction to fossil fuels.''
Even before Manchin's apparent rejection of the climate measures, Democrats had slimmed their down their plan from about $555 billion in climate spending to just over $300 billion in a bid to secure his support. Proposed tax credits for wind, solar and nuclear energy, along with still-unproven carbon-capture technology, could reduce emissions by up to 40% by 2030, advocates said.
Manchin had already forced Democrats to drop two tax provisions he opposes: direct payments of clean energy credits and tax credits for drivers who purchase electric vehicles. Manchin forced other concessions last year, including killing a proposal that would have paid utilities that increase clean energy while penalizing those that do not.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said he still hopes to salvage the clean energy tax provisions and said failure “really is not an option here.”
Manchin's request to postpone action on the climate measure follows a June 30 ruling by the Supreme Court, which said in a 6-3 vote that the Clean Air Act does not give the Environmental Protection Agency broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
The ruling by the court's conservative majority likely complicates the Biden administration’s plan to manage power plant pollution, but does not eliminate its authority to regulate greenhouse gases. EPA Administrator Michael Regan has said the agency is moving forward with proposed rules for power plants in the coming months.
Ann Clancy, associate climate policy director for Indivisible, a progressive advocacy group, said it was time for Biden to "stop waiting for corporate-backed Democrats and their bad faith negotiations and deliver real wins for the American people on climate.''
"We don’t have any more time to waste,'' Clancy said.
Manchin, in a radio interview Friday, said climate activists want an immediate end to U.S. use of oil, coal and gas. "That's crazy,'' he told West Virginia talk show host Hoppy Kercheval. “I’m not throwing caution to the wind. I think we need an energy policy that works for our country.” | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Biden-vowing-strong-climate-action-despite-dual-17309355.php | 2022-07-16T14:06:42Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Biden-vowing-strong-climate-action-despite-dual-17309355.php | true |
(NewsNation) — Despite record-high inflation pushing up the price of airline tickets, most people are not letting that stop their vacation plans.
For most of the summer, the Transportation Security Administration has been reporting higher checkpoint travel numbers than this same time last year, with more than 2 million people going through almost every day.
Nina Ruggiero, digital editorial director of Travel + Leisure, shared on “Morning in America” what travel destinations readers chose for the “World’s Best” awards this year.
Best Domestic Airlines
- Hawaiian Airlines
- Breeze Airways
- JetBlue Airways
- Alaska Airlines
- Delta Airlines
According to Travel+ Leisure readers, Hawaiian Airlines was the top airline because it has great value for its customers while still offering Hawaiian hospitality and food, Ruggiero said.
“I don’t think it hurts that they end up in Hawaii,” she added.
Best U.S. Cities
- Charleston, South Carolina
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Savannah, Georgia
- Honolulu, Hawaii
This category was one of Travel + Leisure’s most popular awards this year. Ruggiero said this is because Americans have realized that domestic travel is great, too.
“They really loved the warmer cities throughout the south and western United States,” she said.
Charleston, South Carolina, has won the number one spot for the past 10 years.
“It’s a really fun-loving city, lots of entertainment, history. It’s very walkable,” Ruggiero said. “People love taking strolls down its cobblestone streets, past its beautiful architecture, and it’s driving distance to three really amazing beaches.”
Best Island
- Mackinac Island, Michigan
- Kiawah Island, South Carolina
- Nantucket, Massachusetts
- San Juan Island, Washington
- Golden Isles, Georgia
Mackinac Island is actually a newcomer to the Travel + Leisure World’s Best awards this year.
“This is an amazing one because it’s affordable and it’s low-key,” Ruggiero said. “It’s really like taking a step back in time.”
There are no cars on the island — people have to get around by foot, bicycle or even horse-drawn carriage. “We all know gas prices right now, so that’s a plus,” Ruggiero said.
She added that there are plenty of family-friendly places to explore, such as fudge shops, ice cream shops, nature trails and water activities.
“There are plenty of places to stay and things to do,” Ruggiero said.
Best National Parks
- Yellowstone
- Grand Teton
- Yosemite
- Rocky Mountain
- Glacier
“National Parks are a great way to travel. On a budget at Yellowstone, which is number one, you can go camping for $20 a night if you bring your own tent and just utilize the beautiful campsite there,” Ruggiero said.
Sights to see include over 500 geysers and endangered wildlife. People can go fly-fishing, hiking and more.
“The activities are truly endless,” Ruggiero said. “It’s great for families who are looking to just have everyone come and travel without spending a ton.” | https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/these-are-the-worlds-best-travel-spots-per-travel-leisure/ | 2022-07-16T14:06:49Z | https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/these-are-the-worlds-best-travel-spots-per-travel-leisure/ | false |
If you still haven't planned a summer vacation, you might want to do it fast. Europe is looking pretty cheap right now.
For the first time in 20 years, the dollar and the euro are worth about the same. They have been flirting what currency traders call "parity."
That means U.S. travelers won't pay a premium for a hotel room in Barcelona, tickets to the Paris Opera, or a full-course dinner in Rome.
That makes Teresa Valerio Parrot happy. She and her husband are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary this year.
They thought about taking a trip to California or Hawaii, from their home in Colorado. Flights are expensive everywhere, but thanks to the strength of the dollar, Europe started looking mighty attractive.
"We quickly realized it was going to be about the same price to go to Paris than it was to stay within the United States," Valerio Parrot says.
So, in September, they're headed to France.
"We plan to go, have some great wine, hopefully sip some bubbles, and bring back a whole bunch of souvenirs," she says.
The last time they were there, in 2013, one euro was worth about $1.30.
Why dollar is king now
At a time when the entire world is dealing with high inflation, worries about a global recession and markets rocked by immense volatility, the dollar has become an island of safety.
The dollar has climbed in value against global currencies by more than 10% since the beginning of the year.
It means that people need to put up fewer dollars in exchange for other currencies. At the beginning of the year, for instance, it would take $1.13 to buy one euro, compared to just $1 now.
It may seem counterintuitive that the dollar is strengthening at a time when there is so much fear about the future of the U.S. economy.
Last month, inflation was up a whopping 9.1% from a year ago, with prices rising at their fastest annual pace in more than four decades. To fight high inflation, the Federal Reserve has been hiking interest rates aggressively, and that has fueled fears the Fed's policies could lead to a recession.
However, they are also helping to boost the value of the dollar.
"Higher interest rates generally lead to a stronger currency," says Jane Foley, the head of foreign exchange at Rabobank. "That's textbook economics."
That's because investors start chasing dollar-denominated investments that will lead to higher returns, compared to assets in other currencies.
The Federal Reserve isn't the only central bank trying to tame inflation by adjusting interest rates, but so far, it has done more than others have. The European Central Bank plans to raise interest rates at its next meeting later this month.
The dollar is also the world's dominant currency
Another reason is that the dollar plays a unique role in the global economy.
"The dollar has fundamentals all of its own," says Foley. "Generally, a currency will react to the fundamentals of the country to which it belongs. That isn't necessarily the case with the U.S. dollar."
It continues to be the dominant reserve currency. Countries around the world keep a lot of dollars on hand, because they see it as a safe asset.
What is driving the weakness of the euro?
Countries in the eurozone are also dealing with high inflation, and there are fears a recession may be imminent.
However, the chief concern in Europe is energy prices.
After Russia invaded Ukraine, the U.S. and its allies imposed a broad array of sanctions and restrictions on Russian oil and natural gas. That's driven up prices, and Europeans have been hit especially hard.
Although gasoline prices have fallen some from record highs, and oil has been trading below $100 a barrel again, there are fears the situation in Europe could deteriorate further. Much of it stems from the fact that Russia is the largest supplier of oil and gas to European countries.
This week, the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, which carries natural gas from Russia to Germany, was taken offline for scheduled maintenance.
That work is supposed to take 10 days to complete, but there is speculation Gazprom may not restore the flow of natural gas, or the Russian gas giant may reduce its output.
If European countries aren't able to build up their reserves in the summertime, they may have to ration gas in the winter, and that could lead to a broader slowdown.
Factories would have to scale back production, which could lead to layoffs, and the odds of a recession would get even higher.
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Should You Buy an Electric Car Now or Wait for New Battery Tech?
Electric Vehicles
Speaker 1: Well, let's see if you could get longer range, faster charging, longer charged life and a lower cost in an electric car. <laugh> yeah, I bet even you haters would buy one, but here's the thing. Battery technology moves very gradually. That's why those things have been hard to radically improve, but that could be changing in just a few years. Here's why you should be watching some key new battery technologies. Even if you don't like EVs
Speaker 1: [00:00:30] A company called Sila takes a standard lithium ion battery and says, okay, the graphite that's in there is a big part of its bulk, about 15% of its weight and causes some issues in terms of chemistry. What if we take that out and replace it with something an anode made of Silicon? Now it's still a lithium ion battery, but S claims that one component change can yield up to 20, [00:01:00] to even 40% more energy density, more charge per a volume of battery. That's a huge deal. That's like saying today's Ford F-150 gets 25 and next year it's gonna get 35 MPG. It's kind of analogous in terms of what a step change that would be. Sila also says that higher charge density would be brought on board charged a lot faster. Mercedes will be the first customer to offer this tech as an option in the new electric E [00:01:30] Q G the new GVA in 2025.
Speaker 1: Now that's interesting because energy density in a battery is especially important in heavy Lardy vehicles because they need a big battery to move their larger mass. That big battery contributes to their larger mass, for which they need a bigger battery to move. And the whole thing becomes a very unvirtuous circle. So whenever you can deliver higher charge density in a given electric car battery, it tends to benefit [00:02:00] the big Lardy cars better than the small efficient ones. Now, other companies in the hunt to perfect Silicon based lithium ion batteries include a company called group 14 and one D also names that are being watched by many
Speaker 1: Now at the Pacific Northwest national laboratory affiliated with the department of energy, they just recently announced a breakthrough in a sodium eye on battery design. They [00:02:30] say a sodium ion battery is going to replace lithium ion and leave a lot of its headaches behind. For example, it'll have a whole lot of temperature, flexibility where lithium ion batteries have to be temperature managed pretty carefully. They say a sodium ion battery is not really a very toxic thing to make or get rid of. It also has the ability to take on a lot of charges and not develop that degrading memory as much as other battery technologies. And if you've laid away concerned about some of these EV crash [00:03:00] and fire videos, you've seen PNL says a sodium ion battery is essentially self extinguishing. Now sodium ion batteries have had a reputation as being just a little too unstable for use in wide scale production. But that's what PNL says. They've recently had a breakthrough in conquering. Now they admit these have nowhere near the energy density of today's lithium ion batteries. They're tackling that next. They also say they're gonna try to get most. And then eventually all of the cobalt out [00:03:30] of sodium ion formulations. And as you know, that's kind of a good guy. There's both a contentious and an environmental concern around the element cobalt in today's EV batteries.
Speaker 1: Now let's talk about some companies chasing solid state battery tech. This one's kind of a darling on a lot of people's lips right now. Solid state means it isn't this. Now don't try this at home, but if you did cut into a double, a lithium battery, you'd first see [00:04:00] that it wants to catch a nasty habit. That future battery makers would love to tame and inside. You'll see it sort of a soft and moist affair. Solid state batteries have hard materials compressed and mounted together. And they aren't like the guts of that battery. We just saw now the fact that their solid state isn't necessarily the reason they're better, but the kinds of materials that yield that solid state are what makes them better in four major ways, higher energy density, [00:04:30] which could mean an EV with more range from the same size battery or today's same range from a much smaller battery that's lighter and cheaper, faster charging envisioning a world where charging almost entirely under 30 minutes or less is common, no longer elite longer cycle life.
Speaker 1: You know how lithium I on batteries are the more you use them and charge them the less they take on a charge. Solid state batteries have inspired GM to envision a million mile life battery in the future [00:05:00] and thermal stability, solid state batteries promise less likelihood of thermal runaway, which can cause fires. Of course, which have given a number of car makers, both a PR black eye, some tragic headlines around their vehicles and some very expensive recalls. So who's in the hunt to deliver all this magic. One of the key ones people are watching is called solid power. They grab headlines lately when they announce they're starting small volume production with the backing of Ford and BMW and notably, [00:05:30] they envision the production of their solid state batteries as taking place on essentially the same production lines that currently produce non solid state lithium ion batteries. That is a huge industrial efficiency for an industry that is just recently thrown money at lithium ion production lines, and would like to amortize those a little longer than just a few more years, solid power. Thanks. They'll be into mass production. As soon as 2024.
Speaker 1: Also highly talked [00:06:00] about is a company called quantum scape. And they're typically mentioned in the same breath with their partner Volkswagen VW says solid state battery tech is no less than quote the most promising approach to electro mobility of the future. That's a big deal. Now what quantum scape does is they use a ceramic separator between the parts of their solid state battery without getting into the minutiae. It yields a battery that works really well and has very efficient charge cycles, and lots of them [00:06:30] now solid state batteries. Aren't just coming from solid state battery companies. Toyota was recently written up BYK in Japan as being the largest single patent holder on solid state battery technology. Not some startup out there. And Toyota says they will have a car on the market with solid state batteries in very limited numbers as soon as 2025.
Speaker 1: Okay? So with all the things I've told you are coming, should you wait to buy an electric car? It's [00:07:00] a question people ask all the time, especially when they think about battery breakthroughs, that seem to be in the offing. Here's the thing though, the sweet spot for most of these in terms of getting to market and getting to some scale and showing up in popularly priced cars is five, maybe seven years out. And that might be optimistic. And on top of that, you know how I feel about buying the latest tech in a brand new car? I don't like it. I want you to buy a late model, lightly used car. So now take a five to seven year [00:07:30] window to introduction and then give those cars two to three years to come back as lease returns, puts us a decade out. That's too long to wait.
Speaker 1: If you have any interest in getting an electric car at all, a decade is not something I think you should spend on the sidelines. You lose too much opportunity to gain the benefits of even today's quote, inferior EVs. And they'll certainly look that way in seven to 10 years, but you're still ahead of the game by getting one. Now, if you believe an EV is [00:08:00] gonna improve things for you in whatever areas you care about, and don't forget the key maximum about electric cars, the one that works for you today and has a comfortable margin. So even if it loses some range, it'll still work for you tomorrow and tomorrow. And tomorrow is the car you need. You don't need to buy an EV that has a whole bunch of additional range that is basically bragging range that you are not going to use almost any of the time. Remember most people, maybe you, when you buy an EV you [00:08:30] don't only have an EV you've got another car. You've got a combustion car for any outlier cases that the electric car doesn't handle. Well, take a realistic approach. Don't wait for these technologies. If you're on the cusp of buying an electric car, I don't expect you to check out for a decade and wait for solid state or sodium. I on just know that they're coming for the next DV you buy. | https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/videos/should-you-buy-an-electric-car-now-or-wait-for-new-battery-tech/ | 2022-07-16T14:08:56Z | https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/videos/should-you-buy-an-electric-car-now-or-wait-for-new-battery-tech/ | true |
Heavy rains claim three lives in Belagavi
Heavy rains claimed three lives in Belagavi district on Saturday.
A fisherman was washed away in the Doodha Ganga near Sadalaga in Belagavi district. The police said that Shivaji Koravi, 54, drowned in the backwaters when he was trying to fish. The police are searching for his body downstream.
Two farmers were electrocuted in Hirur village near Saundatti in Belagavi district on Saturday morning.
According to the police, Fakkirappa Siddappa Chandaragi, 54, and Mahadev Durgappa Metri, 40, residents of Hirur village, died when they stepped on a damaged electrical cable while working in a sugarcane field.
The wire had fallen to the ground after being detached in the heavy winds and rains on Friday evening, the police said.
However, a car driver was lucky to escape when his vehicle fell into the river in Eksamba in Belagavi district. He jumped out of the car and was pulled ashore by farmers.
Heavy rainfall continued in Belagavi and Bagalkot districts on Saturday. The Maruti and Shiva temples in Hubbanatti village in Khanapur taluk were nearly submerged into the Malaprabha after heavy rains.
Authorities of the police training centre in Khanapur wrote to the State government to set up a temporary settlement camp for its trainees as it faced the threat of submergence. The camp lies on the banks of the Malaprabha and was flooded last year.
As many as 13 bridge-cum-barrages were submerged in Belagavi district. However, commuters used alternative routes and transport between villages was not affected.
Officials increased the outflow from the Almatti reservoir to 1.5 lakh cusecs by Saturday afternoon. The inflow remained at 1.29 lakh cusecs. It is likely to go up if the rains continue, say officials.
The dam has 87.99 tmcft of water standing for a height of 517.28 metres. This is 71% of the gross capacity of 123 tmcft at 519 metres.
Inflow into Renuka Sagar dam on the Malaprabha was 12,416 cusecs. But the outflow was maintained at 194 cusecs as the storage was just 19 tmcft against the gross capacity of 37 tmcft.
The inflow into the Raja Lakhamagouda reservoir on the Ghataprabha river at Hidkal was 25,165 cusecs and the outflow was 128 cusecs. The storage was 23 tmcft against the gross capacity of 25 tmcft.
The Markandeya reservoir held 3.18 tmcft of water against the gross storage of 3.69 tmcft.
The discharge into the Krishna, measured at Kallol barrage on the Karnataka-Maharashtra border, was 1,27,920 cusecs.
The discharge into the Doodhganga was 27,128 cusecs and into the Ghataprabha at Lolasur bridge near Gokak was 14,227 cusecs.
The Hipparagi barrage in Bagalkot district had an inflow of 1.29 lakh cusecs and an outflow of 1.28 lakh cusecs.
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Six people have died after a dust storm fueled by wind gusts topping 60 mph caused a pileup Friday evening on Interstate 90 in Montana, authorities said.
Twenty-one vehicles crashed and Montana Highway Patrol Sgt. Jay Nelson said authorities believe the weather was the cause.
“It appears as though there was heavy winds, causing a dust storm with zero visibility,” he said.
While the highway patrol did not have an immediate count of the number of injuries, Nelson said additional ambulances had to be called in from Billings to help.
Gov. Greg Gianforte said on Twitter: “I’m deeply saddened by the news of a mass casualty crash near Hardin. Please join me in prayer to lift up the victims and their loved ones. We’re grateful to our first responders for their service.”
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, who oversees the highway patrol, said in a statement: “The Montana Highway Patrol is on the scene with other first responders and investigating the incident. We will release more information as it becomes available and is appropriate out of respect of the lives lost and their loved ones.
“My prayers are with everyone affected by the tragic events during the dust storm in Big Horn County today,” Knudsen added.
The incident happened 3 miles (5 kilometers) west of Hardin. A video from The Billings Gazette showed hundreds of tractor-trailers, campers and cars backed up for miles along the two eastbound lanes of the interstate.
The dust storm’s roots can be traced back several hours, when storms popped up in central southern Montana between 1 and 2 p.m. and slowly began moving east, according to Nick Vertz, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Billings.
Those storms prompted a severe thunderstorm watch that covered Hardin and other parts of Montana from mid-afternoon until 9 p.m. Friday. Meteorologists forecasted the potential for isolated hail the size of a quarter, scattered wind gusts up to 75 mph (121 kph) and frequent lightning.
A so-called “outflow” — or a surge of wind that’s produced by storms but can travel faster than them — flew east/southeast about 30 miles (48 kilometers) ahead of the storms, Vertz said.
A 40 mph (64 kph) gust of wind was recorded at the nearby Big Horn County Airport at 4:15 p.m. The crash was reported to the highway patrol at 4:28 p.m.
By the airport weather station’s next reading at 4:35 p.m., the gusts had picked up to 62 mph (100 kph). Another reading 20 minutes later recorded a gust of 64 mph (103 kph).
The wind easily picked up dust — a product of recent temperatures into the 90s and triple digits over the last week — and reduced visibility to less than 1/4 mile (0.4 kilometers).
“If they looked up in the sky while they’re in Hardin, they probably didn’t see much of what you’d think of for a thunderstorm cloud, maybe not even much at all,” Vertz said. “It was just a surge of wind that kind of appeared out of nowhere.”
As first responders attempt to clear the wreckage, the meteorologist said they can expect to be safe from additional winds and thunderstorm activity.
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Quick help for suicidal thoughts and other mental health emergencies will soon be as easy as 9-8-8.
The United States’ first nationwide three-digit mental health crisis hotline goes live on Saturday. It’s designed to be as easy to remember and use as 911, but instead of a dispatcher sending police, firefighters or paramedics, 988 will connect callers with trained mental health counselors.
The federal government has provided over $280 million to help states create systems that will do much more, including mobile mental health crisis teams that can be sent to people’s homes and emergency mental health centers, similar to urgent care clinics that treat physical aches and pains.
“This is one of the most exciting things that has happened” in mental health care, said Dr. Brian Hepburn, a psychiatrist who heads the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors.
Hepburn cautions that when 988 kicks off, it will not be like “the flick of a switch. It’s going to take a number of years in order for us to be able to reach everybody across the country.”
Some states already have comprehensive mental health crisis systems, but others have a long way to go. And widespread shortages of mental health specialists are expected to slow their ability to expand services.
A RAND Corp. survey published last month found that fewer than half of state or regional public health officials were confident about being ready for 988, which is expected to generate an influx of calls.
Nearly 60% said call-center staffers had specialized suicide prevention training; half said they had mobile crisis response teams available 24/7 with licensed counselors; and fewer than one-third had urgent mental-health care units.
The 988 system will build on the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, an existing network of over 200 crisis centers nationwide staffed by counselors who answer millions of calls each year — about 2.4 million in 2020. Calls to the old lifeline, 1-800-273-8255, will still go through even with 988 in place.
“If we can get 988 to work like 911 … lives will be saved,’’ said Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.
Dispatching paramedics for heart attacks and police for crimes makes sense — but not for psychiatric emergencies, mental health advocates say. Calls to 911 for those crises often lead to violent law enforcement encounters and trips to jail or crowded emergency rooms where suicidal people can wait days for treatment.
The 988 system “is a real opportunity to do things right,” said Hannah Wesolowski of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Sustained funding will be needed. According to the National Academy of State Health Policy, four states have enacted laws to impose telecommunications fees to support 988 and many others are working on the issue.
A desperate call to a Utah state senator in 2013 helped spark the idea of a three-digit mental health crisis line.
Sen. Daniel Thatcher says a good friend sought his help after taking his suicidal son to an emergency room, only to be told by a doctor to come back if the boy hurt himself.
Thatcher has battled depression and at 17, he also considered suicide. He knew that despondent people in crisis may lack the wherewithal to seek out help or to remember the 10-digit national suicide lifeline number.
Thatcher found that many of Utah’s in-state crisis lines went straight to police dispatchers or voicemail. He wondered why there was no 911 service for mental health, and the idea got national attention after he mentioned it to longtime Sen. Orrin Hatch.
In 2020, Congress passed the bill designating the 3-digit crisis number and then-President Donald Trump signed it into law.
Thatcher’s mother was a nurse and knew where to get him help. He says 988 has the potential to make it that easy for others.
“If you get help, you live. It really is that simple,’’ Thatcher said.
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For a few months, the Indian rupee has been falling against the US dollar, reaching a record low of 79.72 earlier this week. Analysts are debating whether the native currency could continue to weaken in light of the dismal fundamentals as a result of this.
The rupee dropped 9 paise to close at a fresh record low of 79.90 versus the US dollar on Thursday. That was very close to the next significant psychological threshold of the 80-to-1 dollar rate. Today, its rate is at the 79.72 mark.
The rupee was trading at 79.8788 to the dollar on Wednesday, creeping closer to the 80 levels. Now that the country is struggling with significant inflation and the cost of basic necessities is sharply rising, things are getting worse for the average person.
Nirmala Sitharaman, the Union Finance Minister, has asserted that the Indian rupee is substantially better positioned than other foreign currencies against the dollar.
Here's how it will affect Indian Consumers
According to Nasdaq data, the Indian rupee has hit fresh lows more than 27 times since February, when Russia invaded Ukraine, including six times this month. India's economy, which is heavily dependent on imports, may feel the heat of a weakening rupee as a result of inflationary pressures. The spending choices of households with less extra cash may be impacted.
A lower rupee will increase the cost of importing products because payments for those goods must be paid in dollars. Consumers will be forced to spend extra on everything from smartphones to packaged foods that have been cooked in oil. Additionally, the cost of their travel and international education will increase. | https://www.ibtimes.co.in/heres-how-weakening-rupee-will-affect-indian-consumers-850450 | 2022-07-16T14:21:09Z | https://www.ibtimes.co.in/heres-how-weakening-rupee-will-affect-indian-consumers-850450 | false |
Amazon Echo (4th Gen) review
In an era of same-day shipping for online purchases and order-ahead options for most stores, it’s no surprise that smart home devices are soaring in popularity. However, many people wonder whether a smart speaker is worth it and which one is best for their home.
The Amazon Echo (4th Gen) is a smart speaker touting a lengthy list of features, including voice control, a built-in Zigbee smart home hub and privacy protection. Whether you’re throwing a dance party, asking a puzzling question or creating a calendar event, Alexa is happy to help. As a bonus, the packaging is made from 98% recycled sources, and the device enters low-power mode when it’s not in use to reduce energy consumption.
To determine whether the Amazon Echo (4th Gen) is worth it and lives up to expectations, we put it to the test. Here’s what we found.
Testing the Amazon Echo (4th Gen)
To figure out how the Amazon Echo (4th Gen) works in the real world, we tested it out for several weeks in a home environment. We took advantage of every feature, such as asking Alexa to play music or connecting it to a smart plug to manage lights. Our tester has experience using a comparable smart home hub and high-quality speakers.
What is the Amazon Echo (4th Gen)?
The Amazon Echo (4th) Gen is a smart speaker and digital assistant capable of checking sports scores, making calls and turning on your favorite song using only voice commands. Whether you experience low mobility and rely on a smart home hub to help your home run smoothly or just need it to set a timer, there are many helpful uses for the Amazon Echo.
This model is the fourth generation of Amazon Echo devices. The design is the most obvious change, moving from a cylindrical to a spherical shape with a fabric coating. There are also upgrades in sound quality and internal connectivity from the third to the fourth generations.
Amazon Echo (4th Gen) price and where to buy
The Amazon Echo (4th Gen) is available at Amazon for $59.99.
How to use Amazon Echo (4th Gen)
While the Echo came with an instructional guide for setup, it still took some time to run through the process. For instance, you must download the Amazon Alexa app and add a new device to your Wi-Fi network. However, it took a few tries for us to successfully connect to Wi-Fi, which was quite tedious. After troubleshooting this issue, the rest of the process was straightforward. We also appreciated that we could name our device and the room it’s in, making it convenient to identify if you have multiple devices.
Here are some of the Amazon Echo (4th Gen) features:
- Premium sound: Since it’s primarily a smart speaker, the sound is one of the most critical aspects of the Echo, which automatically adapts to the sound in any room. It has powerful speakers with clear highs and deep bass, and it features multi-room music to synchronize all Echo devices in each room. If you pair your Echo with a Fire TV device, the speaker also creates a home theater.
- Voice control: By saying “Alexa” or “Hey Alexa,” you can ask the Fourth Generation Echo almost any command, such as streaming songs from Spotify, setting a timer or the answer to your homework question.
- Smart home hub: Without the capabilities of the smart home hub, the Amazon Echo is just a smart speaker. However, this feature allows you to voice control compatible locks and set up compatible Zigbee devices.
- Hands-free calling: You can call other friends who have an Echo device or the Alexa app or connect to other devices to tell the house that dinner is ready.
- Privacy controls: Earlier models had some privacy issues and users had concerns since the smart speaker was always listening. However, the Fourth Generation Echo has a mic-off button, the ability to delete your voice recordings and wake word technology.
- Alexa Guard: This feature sends you a mobile alert if your Amazon Echo detects the sound of glass breaking or a smoke alarm while you’re away.
Amazon Echo (4th Gen) benefits
Our first thought after opening our twilight blue Amazon Echo was how contemporary it looked and that it seamlessly fit in with our home decor. Even with our connectivity issues, the instructions were helpful and clearly outlined every step of setup. We also received smart plugs to operate our lights, which were simple to use and performed flawlessly.
Regarding the sound, we feel the quality is clear at a low volume, but it can’t compete with the bass of a high-quality Bluetooth speaker. However, it’s perfect for everyday listening and fills the room. When we used the hands-free calling feature, we heard the person we were talking to loud and clear, and they thought our voice sounded clear as long as there wasn’t any background noise.
Overall, we appreciate the convenience the Amazon Echo (4th Gen) brings into our life. In addition to playing music or telling us the weather, we often used voice commands when guests were over to lower the music volume or control the lights.
Amazon Echo (4th Gen) drawbacks
There were a few features that worked well most of the time, but we found them lacking at other times. For example, while saying, “Hey Alexa” worked well the majority of the time, there were instances when our Echo device didn’t recognize our command. Also, it understood us when we wanted to send a text message using voice control to a friend with a simple name but didn’t recognize complex names in our contact list.
While we appreciate the quality and volume of sound when we’re by ourselves, we wished it was louder to accommodate a large number of guests. Also, we couldn’t use the hands-free calling when there was any background noise or the person we talked to couldn’t understand us.
Should you get the Amazon Echo (4th Gen)?
Overall, we think the Amazon Echo (4th Gen) lives up to its expectations. The smart speaker has decent voice recognition and makes life much more manageable with voice control and smart home hub capabilities. Based on our experience, this smart speaker is a handy addition to any home familiar with Amazon products, including a Firestick or other Amazon-compatible smart home devices. We recommend the Amazon Echo (4th Gen) to anyone who wants more convenience at home.
Consider other products
With voice assistant, you can stream music, audiobooks and radio using Wi-Fi. Plus, you can mix and match several Sonos speakers to create an immersive home theater sound.
Google Nest Audio Smart Speaker
By saying, “Hey Google,” you can instantly find out the local weather, schedule an alarm or play music. It’s also compatible with smart lights and smart thermostats, so you can control everything in your house without lifting a finger.
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If you appreciate the Amazon Echo (4th Gen) but want better audio, the Echo Studio is a step up. It still offers many of the same features as the fourth generation Echo, including voice control, privacy protection and a built-in smart home hub.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Financial leaders of the Group of 20 richest and biggest economies agreed at meetings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali this week on the need to jointly tackle global ills such as inflation and food crises, but failed to bridge differences over the war in Ukraine.
As G-20 host this year, Indonesia has sought to bridge divisions between G-20 members over Russia’s invasion, but enmity over the conflict was evident even as the finance ministers and central bank chiefs concurred on other global challenges that have been worsened by the war.
All involved agreed the meeting took place “under a very challenging and difficult situation because of the geopolitical tensions,” Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said Saturday.
She said delegates had “expressed sympathy that Indonesia has to manage this situation.”
Indrawati and Indonesian central bank Gov. Perry Warjiyo said Indonesia would later release a G-20 chair’s statement that would include two paragraphs describing areas where the participants failed to agree.
There were still issues that could not be reconciled, “because they want to express their views related to the war,” Indrawati said. In the statement “related to the war there are still views that are different within the G-20,” she said.
Indrawati outlined a range of areas where the members did agree, including the need to improve food security, to support the creation of a funding mechanism for pandemic preparedness, prevention and responses, on working toward a global tax agreement and on facilitating financing of transitions toward cleaner energy to cope with climate change.
“The progress is more than expected,” Warjiyo said.
With inflation running at four-decade highs — U.S. consumer prices were up 9.1% in June — Warjiyo said participants were “strongly committed to achieving price stability.”
“There is a commitment among the G-20 to well calibrated macro economic policy to address inflation and slowing growth,” he said.
The meetings in Bali follow a gathering of G-20 foreign ministers earlier this month that also failed to find common ground over Russia’s war in Ukraine and its global impacts.
During the talks that began Friday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen condemned Moscow for “innocent lives lost and the ongoing human and economic toll that the war is causing around the world.”
“Russia is solely responsible for negative spillovers to the global economy, particularly higher commodity prices,” she said.
Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland likened the attendance of Russian officials at the meetings to having “an arsonist joining firefighters.” War is waged by economic technocrats, as well as generals, she said in a post on Twitter.
Russian officials reportedly blamed Western sanctions over the war for worsening inflation and food crises.
Indrawati said the closed-door G-20 talks did not include discussion of proposals for a price cap on Russian oil — one of Yellen’s key objectives as the U.S. and allies seek to curb Moscow’s ability to finance its war.
Such discussions would have occurred on the sidelines of the meeting, she said.
The Bali talks saw more progress than an earlier G-20 finance meeting in Washington in April, when officials from the U.S., Britain, France, Canada and Ukraine walked out to protest the attendance of Russian envoys. That meeting also ended without the release of a joint statement.
Caught in the middle as host, Indonesia has urged officials from all sides to overcome mistrust for the sake of a planet confronting multiple challenges.
“The world needs even more and more collaboration. no matter what country … they cannot solve this problem alone. food security, energy, climate change, pandemic … all are interconnected,” Indrawati said.
“We all agreed we need to continue the spirit of collaboration and multilateralism,” she said.
The meetings also addressed the problem of mounting debts in countries like Zambia, Myanmar and Sri Lanka.
While the G-20 is “not a creditor forum, there is a recognition that there is growing debt,” Indrawati said.
The talks centered on a framework to enable creditor and debtor nations to work out solutions to help countries in need.
“When a country has a debt that is unsustainable they have to communicate with their creditors,” she said. “This mechanism needs to be more predictable. That is what we have been discussing within the G-20.” | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/g20-finance-meetings-in-bali-overshadowed-by-war-in-ukraine/ | 2022-07-16T14:27:20Z | https://www.kxnet.com/news/business-beat/ap-business/g20-finance-meetings-in-bali-overshadowed-by-war-in-ukraine/ | false |
A sexual assault survivor chooses sterilization so that if she is ever attacked again, she won’t be forced to give birth to a rapist’s baby. An obstetrician delays inducing a miscarriage until a woman with severe pregnancy complications seems “sick enough.” A lupus patient must stop taking medication that controls her illness because it can also cause miscarriages.
Abortion restrictions in a number of states and the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade are having profound repercussions in reproductive medicine as well as in other areas of medical care.
“For physicians and patients alike, this is a frightening and fraught time, with new, unprecedented concerns about data privacy, access to contraception, and even when to begin lifesaving care,’’ said Dr. Jack Resneck, president of the American Medical Association.
Even in medical emergencies, doctors are sometimes declining immediate treatment. In the past week, an Ohio abortion clinic received calls from two women with ectopic pregnancies — when an embryo grows outside the uterus and can’t be saved — who said their doctors wouldn’t treat them. Ectopic pregnancies often become life-threatening emergencies and abortion clinics aren’t set up to treat them.
It’s just one example of “the horrible downstream effects of criminalizing abortion care,” said Dr. Catherine Romanos, who works at the Dayton clinic.
MEDICAL DILEMMAS
Dr. Jessian Munoz, an OB-GYN in San Antonio, Texas, who treats high-risk pregnancies, said medical decisions used to be clear cut.
“It was like, the mom’s life is in danger, we must evacuate the uterus by whatever means that may be,” he said. “Whether it’s surgical or medical — that’s the treatment.’’
Now, he said, doctors whose patients develop pregnancy complications are struggling to determine whether a woman is “sick enough” to justify an abortion.
With the fall of Roe v. Wade, “the art of medicine is lost and actually has been replaced by fear,’’ Munoz said.
Munoz said he faced an awful predicament with a recent patient who had started to miscarry and developed a dangerous womb infection. The fetus still had signs of a heartbeat, so an immediate abortion — the usual standard of care — would have been illegal under Texas law.
“We physically watched her get sicker and sicker and sicker” until the fetal heartbeat stopped the next day, “and then we could intervene,’’ he said. The patient developed complications, required surgery, lost multiple liters of blood and had to be put on a breathing machine “all because we were essentially 24 hours behind.’’
In a study published this month in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, doctors at two Texas hospitals cited the cases of 28 women less than 23 weeks pregnant who were treated for dangerous pregnancies. The doctors noted that all of the women had recommended abortions delayed by nine days because fetal heart activity was detected. Of those, nearly 60% developed severe complications — nearly double the number of complications experienced by patients in other states who had immediate therapeutic abortions. Of eight live births among the Texas cases, seven died within hours. The eighth, born at 24 weeks, had severe complications including brain bleeding, a heart defect, lung disease and intestinal and liver problems.
Before it overturned Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court never allowed states to ban abortion before the point when a fetus can survive outside the womb — roughly 24 weeks.
Chicago diversity executive Sheena Gray survived a harrowing pregnancy-ending experience last year, when doctors discovered she had an embryo in a fallopian tube and an eight-week fetus in her womb. They removed the embryo along with the affected fallopian tube, and told her they needed to abort the other fetus to save her life.
The decision to proceed with treatment was hers — abortion is still legal in Illinois. In fact, the state provides greater access to abortion than most others, and has been flooded with patients seeking abortions following the recent Supreme Court decision.
Gray said she’s heard about similar care being denied or delayed in other states, and fears the high court ruling will force other patients to face the same fate.
“No one should make these choices for a woman, period,” she said.
Her story has a much happier ending: Gray became pregnant again and gave birth July 8 to healthy identical twin girls.
CHOOSING STERILITY
Julie Ann Nitsch, a sexual assault survivor and community college trustee in Austin, Texas, is among many women in states with restrictive abortion laws who are taking drastic steps.
Nitsch says she chose sterilization at age 36 rather than risk getting pregnant by another rapist.
“I ripped my organs out’’ to avoid that, she said.
Nitsch said she “saw the writing on the wall” after Texas enacted a law last year banning most abortions after six weeks, even in cases of rape or incest. She said she sensed that Roe v. Wade would be overturned, so she had surgery to remove her fallopian tubes in February.
“It’s sad to think that I can’t have kids, but it’s better than being forced to have children,’’ Nitsch said.
Dr. Tyler Handcock, an Austin OB-GYN, said his clinic has heard from hundreds of patients seeking sterilization since the Supreme Court’s June 24 decision. Many choose this route because they fear long-acting birth control or other contraceptives could also become targets, he said.
His clinic scheduled a July 9 group counseling session to handle the surge, and every one of the 20 patients who showed up to hear about the risks and ramifications of fallopian tube-removal made an appointment to have the surgery.
Some physicians are reluctant to perform the surgery on young women with many reproductive years left, fearing they will change their minds later. Handcock said he heard from one 28-year-old woman who said six OB-GYNs declined to sterilize her.
Handcock said the choice should be up to patients.
“I will protect my patients and their rights however I can,’’ he said.
TARGETING MEDICATION
Becky Schwarz, of Tysons Corner, Virginia, found herself unexpectedly thrust into the abortion controversy even though she has no plans to become pregnant.
The 27-year-old has lupus, an autoimmune disease that can cause the body to attack tissue surrounding joints and organs, leading to inflammation and often debilitating symptoms. For Schwarz, these include bone and joint pain, and difficulty standing for long periods of time.
She recently received a notice from her doctor saying she’d have to stop taking a medication that relieves her symptoms — at least while the office reviewed its policies for methotrexate in light of the Supreme Court ruling. That’s because the drug can cause miscarriages and theoretically could be used in an attempt to induce an abortion.
“For me to have to be essentially babysat by some policy, rather than being trusted about how I handle my own body … has made me angry,’’ she said.
The Arthritis Foundation and American College of Rheumatology have both issued statements of concern about patients’ access to the drug. Steven Schultz of the Arthritis Foundation said the group is working to determine how widespread the problem is. Patients having trouble getting the medication can contact the group’s helpline, he said.
CONFUSING LAWS
Many abortion laws are vague and they vary by state. That can leave physicians in a quandary.
“We’ve asked some legislators, ‘How are medical providers supposed to interpret the laws?’” said Dr. Dana Stone, who is based in Oklahoma, a state that recently banned almost all abortions.
“They say, ‘They’ll figure it out,'” she said.
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Associated Press Medical Writers Carla K. Johnson and Laura Ungar contributed to this report.
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Scott Herald savouring `surreal´ second chance to tee it up at St Andrews
St Andrews professional Scott Herald savoured the thrill of ‘playing’ the Open on his home course on Saturday, weeks after thinking he had missed the chance.
The 35-year-old golf instructor had hoped to earn a place in the field by right but failed to get through to final qualifying last month.
With the driving range where he works now out of action due to the town’s hosting of the Open, that left him with little more than walking the dog on his to-do list for this weekend.
That all changed on Friday evening after an odd number of players made the cut for the final two rounds.
Tournament organisers called and invited him to lead out of the field on Saturday, playing as a non-competitive ‘marker’ alongside Lichfield’s Richard Mansell in the first group of the day.
Herald said: “It feels surreal to go from trying to qualify and that being the main focus, then to having the relaxation of the week, then the high of knowing I was going to play, then the real nerves of, ‘I am going to play today’.
“It was a bit of a baptism of fire but unbelievable at the same time. I was a little bit nervy to begin with. I have stood on that first tee I don’t know how many times now but this was just different, special, goosebumps really.”
Herald originally hails from Glasgow but has been working at the St Andrews Links Academy since 2015.
He is now the senior instructor and is well settled in the town with his wife Mairi also working the same company. She was actually expected to be busier this week as she is involved with the Open retail operation.
“This is a massive week for her,” said Herald, who could be back in action on Sunday. “Usually for me it’s just a stay-at-home week and do what you do with the dog, but all of a sudden it’s pretty special this weekend.”
Herald had a close-up view as Mansell, someone who did safely negotiate qualifying, scored well early on.
The 27-year-old recorded a four-under-par 68 that included an eagle on the ninth and he also was just pleased to be involved.
Mansell, four under for the tournament, said: “You just want to be here. That’s why knocking in the putt on 17 meant so much yesterday.
“I’ve never reacted like that when I’ve made a cut before. You just want to play two more rounds in the 150th Open at St Andrews. That’s what you dream of as a kid.” | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11020323/Scott-Herald-savouring-surreal-second-chance-tee-St-Andrews.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-16T14:27:41Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11020323/Scott-Herald-savouring-surreal-second-chance-tee-St-Andrews.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
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Seven years ago, photographer Anton O'Donnell moved to the Castro.
"Already on a path to self-discovery and determined to pursue art, I knew I couldn't be anywhere but San Francisco," he said.
"I fully came out here and also learned a lot about how to be myself. The level of self-expression I see in others here is incredible," O'Donnell said. "It was only natural for me to want to document such a vibrant place. And it's totally full of weirdos, so I felt right at home from the get-go."
Photography is a new form of artistic expression for O'Donnell, who grew up in San Luis Obispo skateboarding and performing music. His first introduction to visual art happened in 2012 when he produced a skateboarding film. The following year, he discovered the photography of Vivian Maier.
"I fell in love with Vivian's amazing photography and especially her endearing self-portraits. I wanted to follow in her footsteps," he said.
The Castro District proved the perfect canvas for O'Donnell, now 38 years old, to explore with his camera in hand.
Not only did he find his partner there, but a few months after arriving in San Francisco, O'Donnell met photographer Arthur Tress, who influenced his style and encouraged him to explore his local environment and the creative possibilities therein.
"I use my camera to connect with people and the environment and most importantly to represent LGBTQ+ lives and to contribute towards preserving San Francisco's rich culture and art scene."
One of O'Donnell's main reasons for documenting the streets of the Castro is to celebrate queer street style, freedom and sexual expression. "I've lived in and traveled to enough places now to know there is no place quite like the Castro, with its cast of characters and personalities that make it such a special place," he said. "The Castro is one of the last fortresses for freedom and self-expression, especially given the threat much of marginal society is under."
O'Donnell doesn't find it challenging to document the Castro, because on every street corner, there are neighborhood exhibitionists happy to respond to tourists and passersby.
"It hasn't been difficult to photograph here because the Castro loves being under the spotlight," added O'Donnell. "I just show up with an open mind."
For the first four years of his project, O'Donnell shot exclusively with medium format film cameras and at the start of the pandemic with Kodak Tri-X black and white film. He now explores the streets with a 907x Hasselblad digital medium format camera.
"The lack of an optical viewfinder on this camera requires the photographer to look down at the screen and shoot at waist level, very much like the twin reflex camera that Vivian Maier shot with," he explained. "This is a much less obtrusive way to photograph since the camera's position is not so obvious to the subject."
O'Donnell's mission is to share the images of his adopted neighborhood during a time when queer culture, through anti-transgender laws and anti-gay education legislation, is under threat.
"The revolutionary Twin Peaks Tavern, the first gay bar in the United States to open its windows to the street, is our Stonewall. Peer through its windows, and you will see an elder generation communing quite naturally and comfortably with a young crowd," he said. "Cruise the blocks, and you might run into Dane, a neighborhood eccentric who once saved a man from a burning car next to the Castro Theatre. These are the kinds of moments I feel especially drawn to capture. With my Hasselblad camera nestled dearly in my arms, I am doing my duty to keep the Castro queer."
You can view a collection of Anton O'Donnell's photographs of Jane Warner Plaza at Manny's Cafe at 3092 16th Street in the Mission District of San Francisco through September 2022. | https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/photos-capture-castro-lgbtq-culture-17277355.php | 2022-07-16T14:30:46Z | https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/photos-capture-castro-lgbtq-culture-17277355.php | true |
(NewsNation) — Despite record-high inflation pushing up the price of airline tickets, most people are not letting that stop their vacation plans.
For most of the summer, the Transportation Security Administration has been reporting higher checkpoint travel numbers than this same time last year, with more than 2 million people going through almost every day.
Nina Ruggiero, digital editorial director of Travel + Leisure, shared on “Morning in America” what travel destinations readers chose for the “World’s Best” awards this year.
Best Domestic Airlines
- Hawaiian Airlines
- Breeze Airways
- JetBlue Airways
- Alaska Airlines
- Delta Airlines
According to Travel+ Leisure readers, Hawaiian Airlines was the top airline because it has great value for its customers while still offering Hawaiian hospitality and food, Ruggiero said.
“I don’t think it hurts that they end up in Hawaii,” she added.
Best U.S. Cities
- Charleston, South Carolina
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Savannah, Georgia
- Honolulu, Hawaii
This category was one of Travel + Leisure’s most popular awards this year. Ruggiero said this is because Americans have realized that domestic travel is great, too.
“They really loved the warmer cities throughout the south and western United States,” she said.
Charleston, South Carolina, has won the number one spot for the past 10 years.
“It’s a really fun-loving city, lots of entertainment, history. It’s very walkable,” Ruggiero said. “People love taking strolls down its cobblestone streets, past its beautiful architecture, and it’s driving distance to three really amazing beaches.”
Best Island
- Mackinac Island, Michigan
- Kiawah Island, South Carolina
- Nantucket, Massachusetts
- San Juan Island, Washington
- Golden Isles, Georgia
Mackinac Island is actually a newcomer to the Travel + Leisure World’s Best awards this year.
“This is an amazing one because it’s affordable and it’s low-key,” Ruggiero said. “It’s really like taking a step back in time.”
There are no cars on the island — people have to get around by foot, bicycle or even horse-drawn carriage. “We all know gas prices right now, so that’s a plus,” Ruggiero said.
She added that there are plenty of family-friendly places to explore, such as fudge shops, ice cream shops, nature trails and water activities.
“There are plenty of places to stay and things to do,” Ruggiero said.
Best National Parks
- Yellowstone
- Grand Teton
- Yosemite
- Rocky Mountain
- Glacier
“National Parks are a great way to travel. On a budget at Yellowstone, which is number one, you can go camping for $20 a night if you bring your own tent and just utilize the beautiful campsite there,” Ruggiero said.
Sights to see include over 500 geysers and endangered wildlife. People can go fly-fishing, hiking and more.
“The activities are truly endless,” Ruggiero said. “It’s great for families who are looking to just have everyone come and travel without spending a ton.” | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/these-are-the-worlds-best-travel-spots-per-travel-leisure/ | 2022-07-16T14:33:39Z | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/these-are-the-worlds-best-travel-spots-per-travel-leisure/ | false |
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala repatriated its first victim Friday from the smuggling attempt that left 53 migrants from Mexico and Central America dead last month in San Antonio, Texas.
The body of 13-year-old Pascual Melvin Guachiac Sipac arrived around midday in Guatemala’s capital. Twenty-one Guatemalans were among the migrants who died after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer June 27 in sweltering heat.
The boy’s family was on hand to receive the casket at the capital’s airport.
Guachiac Sipac was an Indigenous Quiche who spoke little Spanish, but he set out nonetheless with his cousin for the United States, both hoping to work and help their families. His cousin, Wilmer Tulul, died too and his body was expected to return to Guatemala Saturday.
They were from Tzucubal, a community of about 1,500 people in the mountains nearly 100 miles northwest of the capital, where most live by subsistence farming.
A fourth flight carrying the last of the incident’s Mexican victims landed Friday. Mexico flew home 25 of its 26 victims this week in accordance with the families’ wishes.
Six Hondurans made up the remainder of the victims. | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2022/07/16/guatemala-returns-1st-of-its-21-victims-from-texas-trailer | 2022-07-16T14:36:08Z | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2022/07/16/guatemala-returns-1st-of-its-21-victims-from-texas-trailer | false |
TRS government in exit mode
Praveen Kumar dares CM to visit Basara
BSP State president R. S. Praveen Kumar said that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government in the State is in an exit mode and hence it was not addressing the problems being faced by the students. He dared Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to visit Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT also known as IIIT) at Basara in Nirmal district. He also demanded immediate removal of Minister for Education.
Mr. Praveen Kumar visited the students of RGUKT who are undergoing treatment at Nizamabad Government Hospital on Saturday and interacted with them.
“The students of IIIT Basara held protests for more than two weeks demanding the removal of food contractor and visit by Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao to the institute. The government has appointed a Director as an eyewash instead of addressing their genuine demands. The students are in serious condition due to the inaction of the government,” said Mr. Praveen Kumar adding that a majority of educational institutes in the State are in a pathetic condition.
The BSP president has demanded inquiry by a sitting judge into the incident of food contamination and tough action against those responsible for food poisoning.
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Tom Arnold is opening up about his dramatic 75-pound weight loss. The comedic actor says the change came after suffering a mini-stroke and massive organ failure.
"It all started in January," the True Lies star tells Us Weekly. "I was giving the kids a bath and turned around to count to 10 when suddenly my vision in my right eye went black as if there was a curtain coming down over my eye. I had a mini-stroke. I checked into the hospital for the 24-hour stroke protocol."
Arnold says that the fear of leaving his children behind pushed him to find a life coach that helped make a difference in his health. "As a 63-year-old single father of a 9 and 6-year-old, it was scary," he says. "On top of all this, I had massive organ failure two years ago. My doctor changed my medication, but I knew I needed to make bigger changes because I really dropped the ball on self-care."
Beyond his weight loss, Arnold also celebrated five years of sobriety on Friday, taking to Instagram to reflect on the milestone.
"I'm 5 years clean & sober today," he wrote beneath a photo of him and his kids at the beach. "5 years of being present everyday for my kids. I've also been my best self dealing with a couple health cares, financial issues & a high conflict divorce." Arnold finalized his divorce from Ashley Groussman in 2020. "I'm blessed & full of love & gratitude for my friends, fellow alcoholics & the grace of G-d."
Arnold also celebrated his new lease on life over Independence Day weekend, writing on Instagram, "Happy 4th of July. Today I'm celebrating my independence from 75 nasty pounds since January." He ended the post by naming the life coach who has guided him through this year: "Thank you Charles D'Angelo!"
"He really stresses the importance of emotions and thinking about what you deserve," Arnold said of D’Angelo. "That was a huge game-changer for me."
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(NEXSTAR) – Officials in Missouri have recently recorded the state’s first confirmed infection of Naegleria fowleri — or “brain-eating amoeba” — in a resident since 1987.
The patient was battling the infection in the intensive-care unit of a Missouri hospital since last week. On Friday, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services confirmed the patient’s death.
Infections of N. fowleri are said to be “rare,” as noted by the state’s department of health, but experts warn that these parasites — which are primarily found in warm freshwater and soil — cause devastating and fatal infections in nearly all cases.
Infection of N. fowleri usually occurs after the organism enters the nasal cavity and crosses the epithelial lining into the brain, where it begins destroying the tissue of the frontal lobe, Dr. Dennis Kyle, a professor of infectious diseases and cellular biology at the University of Georgia and the scholar chair of antiparasitic drug discovery with the Georgia Research Alliance, had previously told Nexstar.
This brain infection, known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), can lead to symptoms including fever, headaches, stiff neck, seizures and hallucinations, among others. These symptoms usually start within five to nine days of exposure. Death usually occurs within another five days, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Unfortunately, most cases of N. fowleri infection are observed in children. But it’s likely for no other reason than children are more prone to be active in the water, Kyle explained.
“It’s very commonly found in nature, in soil or warm freshwater around the world … Or in places where the water is warm for other reasons, like a thermal hot spring, or pool water that isn’t chlorinated properly,” Kyle told Nexstar in August 2021, following the death of two children from N. fowleri infection.
“This time of year is when we typically hear about these cases,” he said of the warmer summer months. “When people are out doing summer activities in the water, or on the lakes.”
The Missouri Department of Health did not disclose the age of the deceased patient.
The CDC currently classifies N. fowleri infections as rare, with only 31 reported cases in the U.S. between 2012 and 2021. Of those, the vast majority (28) were infected during recreational water activities, while others were infected using contaminated tap water for nasal irrigation, or, in one case, on a “backyard slip-n-slide.”
But despite the relatively low case numbers, Kyle says researchers — and especially the families of those who died of a brain-eating amoeba infection — generally dislike the term “rare.”
“This is something that is in every warm water lake around the South, so it’s there,” said Kyle, who told Nexstar that researchers can’t quite explain why more people aren’t getting infected. In fact, any body of warm freshwater can harbor the amoebae, he said, citing two cases of N. fowleri in Minnesota in 2010 and 2012. One case in 2021 was contracted in Northern California, too.
“The warming climate, you would think, could potentially have an effect on the infections,” he added. “Warmer water means more people get infected.”
N. fowleri infection might not even be that “rare,” either, as doctors believe it’s underreported or misdiagnosed in many parts of the world. In Pakistan, for instance, Kyle says there were no reported cases for many years until a doctor returning from studies in the U.K. was able to diagnose “dozens” of cases that, if not for increased awareness, would have been misdiagnosed.
“Sometimes it’s thought to be viral or bacterial meningitis,” Kyle explained. “It’s not until physicians are working through it before they realize. In many of the cases, the diagnosis came back very late. Sometimes post-mortally.”
Kyle also believes that early diagnoses may make a difference in the outcome of the infections, citing a Florida doctor who was able to identify the early stages of infection in a young boy and place him in a medically induced coma to prevent brain swelling during treatment.
Even still, chances of survival are slim with current treatments. Kyle, also the director of the University of Georgia’s renowned Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, knows of only four documented cases of survival in the U.S., and “maybe” seven globally.
The CDC also pegs the fatality rate at over 97%.
Current treatments usually include a combination of drugs, usually involving antifungals and antibiotics including amphotericin b, miltefosine, fluconazole and azithromycin. But “none work very well by themselves,” according to Kyle, whose well-documented work with drug discovery includes studies and screenings of treatments in the hopes of finding something that could kill the amoeba faster.
“I think we need better drugs than we have, to really make a difference,” he said last year.
In the absence of such treatments, taking proper precautions is the best defense against N. fowleri infection. The CDC suggests limiting the amount of water going up the nose, and Kyle said it’s best to avoid bodies of warm freshwater — “warm” meaning they produce surface temperature readings of 75 degrees F or higher for extended periods of time — and to especially avoid jumping or diving into such waters.
It’s also important to use nose plugs, keep your head above the surface, and properly clean and chlorinate wading pools, swimming pools and spas.
Kyle added that amoeba awareness, while not something people often think about on hot summer days, is also one of the best tools for keeping people safe.
“If we had more awareness, better support, more people working on this, then we could possibly come up with better diagnostics and better treatments in a reasonable amount of time, and avoid these devastating things that are happening,” Kyle said. | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/brain-eating-amoeba-how-do-infections-occur-and-where-are-they-most-common/ | 2022-07-16T15:00:35Z | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/brain-eating-amoeba-how-do-infections-occur-and-where-are-they-most-common/ | true |
Varun Dhawan and Janhvi Kapoor are working in full swing for their upcoming film 'Bawaal'. In between the shoot for the film, both the actors have given a sneak peek at their shoot. Just like that on Saturday Janhvi Kapoor shared a bunch of pictures on her social media with her co-star Varun Dhawan.
Taking to Instagram, Jhanvi shared a couple of pictures, where she can be seen sitting on a bench while resting her head on Varun's shoulder. In the second picture, Janhvi and Varun can be seen giving a set of expressions.
Sharing the picture, Janhvi wrote, "in between takes, comfy cosy but VD still posy" and added a hashtag of their film's name "Bawaal."
Take a look at the picture here:
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Earlier, Janhvi also posted a picture with Varun while the actors were in Amsterdam. The two dressed in white crochet outfits.
Sharing the picture, Janhvi wrote, "Having a Bawaal time in Amsterdam...Amsterdam sched wrap, Poland are you ready for us?" and dropped the hashtag of director Nitesh Tiwari and producer Sajid Nadiadwala.
Take a look here:
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Janhvi and Varun on Thursday shared a video where Varun asked her "Janhvi, you are very arty haan." The actress replies by calling herself "commercial".
Sharing the post, Varun wrote, "Art vs commerce the never-ending debate with Janhvi Kapoor We are sleep deprived shooting in Poland at 2 am bawaal also she is obsessed with Naach Punjabaan as you can see. She got a tennis elbow because she does the step so much."
Meanwhile, on Janhvi's work front, the actress was recently seen in Koffee With Karan season 7's second episode. The actress also recently shared the teaser of the upcoming film 'Good Lucky Jerry'. The movie is helmed by Siddharth Sen and will be released on Disney+ Hotstar on July 29. She will also appear in Mr And Mrs Mahi with Rajkummar Rao.
Varun, on the other hand, will later feature in Bhediya with Kriti Sanon. | https://english.jagran.com/entertainment/janhvi-kapoor-shares-in-between-take-pictures-with-varun-dhawan-from-upcoming-film-bawaal-see-here-10046032 | 2022-07-16T15:02:14Z | https://english.jagran.com/entertainment/janhvi-kapoor-shares-in-between-take-pictures-with-varun-dhawan-from-upcoming-film-bawaal-see-here-10046032 | false |
Updated July 16, 2022 at 9:58 AM ET
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Russian officials visited an airfield in central Iran at least twice in recent weeks to view weapons-capable drones it is looking to acquire to use in its war against Ukraine, the White House said.
The Biden administration released the intelligence as President Joe Biden met Saturday with leaders of six Arab Gulf countries, plus Egypt, Jordan and Iraq for a regional summit. Biden told fellow heads of state at the summit that the United States was committed to the Middle East and "will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by China, Russia or Iran."
Biden sought to use his appearance at the summit, closing out a four-day trip to the region, to bolster U.S. positioning in the Middle East and knit the region closer together against Iran.
Hours before the Gulf Cooperation Council summit, the White House released satellite imagery that indicates Russian officials have twice visited Iran in recent weeks for a showcase of weapons-capable drones it is looking to acquire to use in its war in Ukraine.
None of the countries represented at the summit have moved in lockstep with the U.S. to sanction Russia, a key foreign policy priority for the Biden administration. If anything, the United Arab Emirates has emerged as a sort of financial haven for Russian billionaires and their multimillion-dollar yachts. Egypt remains open to Russian tourists.
Release of the satellite imagery showing that Russian officials visited Kashan Airfield on June 8 and July 5 to examine the drones could help the administration better tie the relevance of the war to many Arab nations' own concerns about Iran's nuclear ambitions and other malign activity in the region.
A senior Biden administration official, who briefed reporters before the summit, said Moscow's efforts to acquire drones from Tehran show that Russia is "effectively making a bet on Iran."
The administration also released satellite imagery of Shahed-191 and Shahed-129 drones being displayed and in flight on the airfield, while a Russian delegation transport plane was on the ground.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement that the administration has "information that the Iranian government is preparing to provide Russia with several hundred UAVs." UAVs are unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones.
"We assess an official Russian delegation recently received a showcase of Iranian attack-capable UAVs. We are releasing these images captured in June showing Iranian UAVs that the Russian government delegation saw that day," Sullivan added. "This suggests ongoing Russian interest in acquiring Iranian attack-capable UAVs."
Sullivan said U.S. officials believe the June visit "was the first time a Russian delegation has visited this airfield for such a showcase."
Iran's mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment early Saturday regarding the White House's assertion.
On Friday, Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, in a phone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba, rejected reports on exporting Iranian drones to Russia, calling them "baseless."
"This sort of claims parallel with Biden's visit to occupied Palestine, or Israel, are in direction of political intentions and purposes," the website of Iran's Foreign Ministry quoted Amirabdollahian as saying. "We oppose any move that could lead to continuation and intensifying conflicts."
Biden is looking to strengthen coordination among Middle East allies' response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and what the ongoing conflict means to the region. Many of the Gulf nations — Saudi Arabia, in particular — have grave concerns about Iran's malign activity in the region.
Sullivan told reporters earlier this week, before Biden arrived in the region. that the U.S. had determined that Iran was preparing to train Russian forces to use the drones as soon as this month. He argued that Russia's "deepening an alliance with Iran to kill Ukrainians is something that the whole world should look at."
The UAVs that the administration believes Iran is preparing to transfer to Russia are the same weapons that Iran has provided to Houthis in Yemen.
Kashan Air Base, located some 190 kilometers (120 miles) south of Tehran, is one of Iran's oldest airfields.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz in 2021 linked Kashan to Iran's drone program, alleging that Iran trained militants from Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen to fly drones at the facility.
The U.S. intelligence assessment was first reported by CNN.
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Nine candidates for Casper City Council sat in the Washington Park bandshell on Wednesday night, making their case to voters.
Besides current Casper Mayor Ray Pacheco, who is running for his third term on the council, the other eight people on the stage are looking to be elected for the first time.
Most, aside from Pacheco and his Ward 3 challenger Woody Warren who ran in 2020, said this is the first time they’re running for elected office.
Answering a series of questions as rain drizzled on the lawn-chaired audience, most candidates emphasized a fiscally responsible approach to local government.
Some, including Warren and Ward 2 candidate Eric Paulson, railed against taxation without proper citizen input on how the revenue should be spent. Others, including Pacheco and Ward 1 candidate Gena Jensen, highlighted their involvement around Casper and praised the city’s amenities.
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This fall, four seats on the council will be up for election — one each in Ward 1 and 2, covering central and west Casper, and two in Ward 3 on the east side.
Here’s a look at how each candidate answered questions covering their top priorities, the city’s role in economic development, city subsidies and the impending renewal of the 1-cent tax.
Ward 1
Three challengers — Dennis Rollins, Travis Van Hecke and Gena Jensen — are going up against council member Jai-Ayla Sutherland, who was appointed last year, for the single open seat in Ward 1.
All three attended the forum Wednesday, but Sutherland couldn’t make it because of a work trip.
Rollins said his top priorities if elected would be addressing food deserts in Casper, namely the north side, and diversifying Casper’s economy. He specifically referenced a recent proposal by local artist Chris Navarro that would use retired wind turbine blades for large-scale art installations as a possible way to bring more people into town.
“I do believe that subsidies are necessary,” Rollins said. “As far as the events center goes, we do need to subsidize that, but I would like to see something in place to be able to reduce the subsidy over a period of time.”
Jensen also emphasized economic development, bringing new businesses to Casper and fostering partnerships between the city and the private sector. She said the key to that is marketing Casper, with the help of organizations like the Chamber of Commerce or Visit Casper.
Van Hecke said Casper should look to diversify its economy beyond oil and gas by attracting other industries like tech to town. He believes in subsidies, he said, when they tangibly give back to the community.
All Ward 1 candidates said they hope to see the 1-cent tax renewed again this fall.
“There’s a lot of misconceptions out there about what the one cent tax actually does,” Jensen said. “The bottom line is we need that 1-cent tax.”
Ward 2
Three of the four candidates running for the open seat in Ward 2 were present on Wednesday — Nikki Green, Eric Paulson and Michael Bond. Dan Elston, a city building supervisor, was not there. Ward 2 is the only race that does not have an incumbent council member running to retain their seat, as council member Shawn Johnson is leaving his post to run for county commissioner as a libertarian.
All three candidates present said they were in favor of the 1-cent tax being renewed. Paulson said he would like to see the money used for more general purposes, rather than “special interest programs” like nonprofits and boards.
Green said infrastructure is at the top of her to-do list, followed by providing affordable housing to support new business.
Like Jensen, Green said the city should be partnering with organizations like Advance Casper to spread the word about Casper’s low taxes and open land to attract businesses. Subsidies, she said, are essential.
“Those particular things provide recreational opportunities, not just for the elite and the ones that can afford it, but for everyone,” she said. “That’s what government has to be, is for everyone.”
Paulson emphasized government accountability in each of his answers, saying that many of the city’s problems can be traced back to a lack of responsibility. He advocated for a cap on property taxes “on a city, county and state level,” though that would likely necessitate an amendment to the state constitution.
“We need to be selective about what we decide to invest in,” Paulson said. “It is not our role in the government to help pay for businesses to stay afloat.”
He said that ideally, city recreation services would be self-funded.
Based on a recent citizen survey that informed the city’s 1-cent tax budget for the coming four years, Bond said he would prioritize street maintenance, safe drinking water and funding for first responders. He said that the support services provided by the city, like licensing and building inspections, are also key to fostering healthy business here.
“I think it’s a matter of balance — striking that balance between the entities turning their own profit and being self-sufficient, along with providing enough support and asking those questions about, ‘Okay, you’re not quite at the self-sufficient level yet. What can we do to help you get there?’” Bond said when asked about the city providing subsidies.
Ward 3
Three of five candidates for two east Casper positions took the stage Wednesday — Woody Warren, Ray Pacheco and Brandy Haskins. Ryan Amadio and Trevor Mahlum were not present.
Pacheco, who is serving his second term as Casper mayor, said he was concerned about the results of a recent study of the city’s buildings, which showed many of them are in need of critical maintenance. He also said he hopes to prioritize streets and balancing the city’s budget if elected for a third term.
Like several other candidates, Pacheco said he believes public-private partnerships to market the city are essential. Subsidies to places including the events center, he said, bring in millions of tax revenue to Casper.
Haskins said that if elected, she would want to make a priority list of street repairs and other infrastructure needs based on urgency. When it comes to economic development, she said the city is already doing what it should to subsidize places like Hogadon and the events center.
“We need to make it beautiful and keep it beautiful,” she said. “The private businesses are going to bring people to us.”
Warren, who is running on a largely libertarian platform though the office is nonpartisan, said he would work to improve the council’s transparency and accountability. He said he believes in “keeping the government out of business” and deregulation to attract and maintain small businesses.
“We got to dive into the budget,” Warren said. “We got to see … what we can do to save every single penny that we can without increasing any more government overreach.”
All three candidates were in support of the 1-cent tax being renewed. Warren said he just doesn’t want to see any additional taxes added on top of it.
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Man held in Visakhapatnam for posing as policeman and extorting money
Stolen money recovered from the accused, say police
The city police on Saturday arrested a 43-year-old man for extorting about ₹15,500 from a man by allegedly impersonating himself as a police officer under Airport Police Station limits.
The arrested was identified as P. Gopi, a resident of Gopalapatnam.
According to Additional DCP (Crimes) D Gangadharam, a resident of Vadlapudi, Y. Santosh Kumar, was returning home from Jagadamba Junction on July 14 evening. He was intercepted by an unidentified person near Karasa Subramanyam Swamy temple area under Airport Police Station limits. The person reportedly claimed himself as policeman and also allegedly threatened him that he would book cases on the charges of consuming ganja illegally and also seize his bike. The complainant also alleged that the accused has beaten him.
The accused had allegedly transferred an amount of ₹15,000 from the victim’s UPI app to his wife’s account and also took ₹500 from his purse, said the police..
Based on the complaint, the police registered a case and arrested the accused. The stolen money was recovered.
Further investigation is on.
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DNIPRO, Ukraine — Every evening a little before 8, a train pulls into the station in this central-eastern Ukrainian town, brakes squealing. It's the last rail service out of Ukraine's bombed-out Donbas region.
Eighty-three-year-old Lidia Havrilenko steps off the train, looking frail and lost. She's holding her most precious possessions in two plastic bags by her side.
"I came with my two cats," she says, as one of the felines fearfully pokes its head from the top of the bag.
She's also traveling with her 52-year-old son, who recently had a stroke and walks with a cane.
Havrilenko, from Druzhkivka, in the Donetsk oblast (region), says their town is being shelled night and day. Asked why she waited so long to leave, she says, "How could I leave my nest?"
"It's very hard to go," she says. "One option is bad but the other is also as bad." She says they have no idea where they're going or if they'll ever return.
Russia's been pummeling the region
Russian forces are fighting to conquer the entire Donbas region. Earlier this month, Russian and Kremlin-backed separatist forces completed their takeover of the remaining Ukrainian-held parts of Luhansk, and now are making slow gains in Donetsk. Taking the Donbas would give Russian President Vladimir Putin a symbolic victory in a neighboring region that has long been in his sights.
The fighting and shelling in the east have been brutal, with civilian casualties mounting and whole cities and villages laid to waste. And many residents have been fleeing on this evacuation train, as their only escape.
Ukraine's national railway set up this free evacuation train out of the Donbas in April, providing porridge, beds and medics on board. Every afternoon, it sets off on a 750-mile, 24-hour journey from the eastern town of Pokrovsk, making stops along the way, like in Dnipro, before finally reaching the western city of Lviv.
Some still can't believe there's all-out war
Inside the train it is sweltering. The compartments, with three bunks on each side and a table in the middle, are jammed with families and older people. Some have brought their food on the train and children play in the aisle.
Svetlana Yefremova, who is 65, invites NPR reporters to sit in her compartment and talk. She looks exhausted and holds her hand to her face.
Yefremova fled shelling in her town of Bakhmut with her daughter and five grandkids. They're heading to family in central Ukraine.
Even though there's been on-and-off fighting in the east for eight years, it was contained in the region and she says she never thought it would break into full-scale war.
"When people talked about war, I laughed and said what? War with Russia? It's impossible! And now I'm angry with myself," she says.
Putin has long had the Donbas in his sights
Putin began exerting his influence in the Donbas in 2014. Although the Russian government denied participating, the Kremlin threw its support behind pro-Russian separatists in the east who fought to break away from Ukraine.
Putin exploited east-west divisions in Ukraine following its pro-democracy revolution that led to the ouster of Viktor Yanukovych. While much of western Ukraine called it the "Revolution of Dignity," many in the east were angry about the overthrow of the president, a fellow easterner, and considered the uprising a coup.
Russia stepped in to encourage that sentiment, backing separatists in the Donbas and taking Crimea from Ukraine.
Yefremova says Russian TV propaganda became pervasive. It spread fears that "fascists" had taken over Ukraine's national government in Kyiv and would come for them next. She says Russian propaganda has poisoned their lives. And even now, many residents believe in it.
"They really believe that Russian soldiers don't shell, don't shoot, don't kill," she says. "I tell them, 'You have eyes, you have ears and you know that Ukrainians are not shelling you.' "
In February, two days before launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin formally recognized the separatist-held Luhansk and Donetsk as "people's republics" independent of Ukraine. (Today, Syria, the Afghan Taliban and North Korea are among the few others that back this claim.) Putin said Russia needed to carry out a "special military operation" to "liberate" the regions.
Yefremova says her family has broken in two. All her children are pro-Ukrainian and one of her sons fights in the Ukrainian military. But she gave up trying to convince her husband, who believes they would be better off under Russian. He stayed behind.
She begins to cry. "We lived a normal life, we had freedom, our children were happy and now we have to leave everything and run away," she says.
The passengers speaking to NPR this month all come from the Ukrainian-run parts of Donetsk that the Russian army is now trying to capture. The separatist-held areas have been difficult to access and even cut off from the rest of Ukraine for the last couple of years.
Railway worker Valeriy Garbatyuk says there were always divisions between western and eastern Ukrainians, but this war has brought the country together.
He says when the train arrives in Lviv, locals come out every night to greet passengers with hot dumplings. And Garbatyuk tries to reassure passengers along the way.
"We try to stay positive to support people," he says. He says he tells older passengers, "You will come back home soon, Putin kaput, Ukraine will win, everyone will come back to their homes, everything will be good, everything will be Ukraine."
Vladimir Bekitko is smoking a cigarette on the platform at Dnipro station. Despite the heat, the 78-year-old is wearing a soiled sweater.
Bekitko says his town of Sloviansk, one of the Ukrainian-held parts of Donetsk, is being bombed by Russia "afternoon, morning and night."
His family is Ukrainian but they fled Soviet ruler Josef Stalin's man-made deadly famine in the country in 1932, he says. He lived in Russia for 60 years before moving to Ukraine, after it had gained independence with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Bekitko says Ukraine should have been better prepared for Russia's invasion.
"Putin gave us ample warning," he says. "We should've been making more weapons and built a stronger army." He believes if Ukrainian governments had been more nationalist, the country might be in better shape.
Russia will never stop bullying Ukraine, says Bekitko, until Putin and "all those bastards in the Kremlin are dead."
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A sexual assault survivor chooses sterilization so that if she is ever attacked again, she won't be forced to give birth to a rapist’s baby. An obstetrician delays inducing a miscarriage until a woman with severe pregnancy complications seems “sick enough.” A lupus patient must stop taking medication that controls her illness because it can also cause miscarriages.
Abortion restrictions in a number of states and the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade are having profound repercussions in reproductive medicine as well as in other areas of medical care.
“For physicians and patients alike, this is a frightening and fraught time, with new, unprecedented concerns about data privacy, access to contraception, and even when to begin lifesaving care,’’ said Dr. Jack Resneck, president of the American Medical Association.
Even in medical emergencies, doctors are sometimes declining immediate treatment. In the past week, an Ohio abortion clinic received calls from two women with ectopic pregnancies — when an embryo grows outside the uterus and can’t be saved — who said their doctors wouldn’t treat them. Ectopic pregnancies often become life-threatening emergencies and abortion clinics aren’t set up to treat them.
It's just one example of "the horrible downstream effects of criminalizing abortion care,'' said Dr. Catherine Romanos, who works at the Dayton clinic.
MEDICAL DILEMMAS
Dr. Jessian Munoz, an OB-GYN in San Antonio, Texas, who treats high-risk pregnancies, said medical decisions used to be clear cut.
“It was like, the mom’s life is in danger, we must evacuate the uterus by whatever means that may be,” he said. "Whether it’s surgical or medical — that’s the treatment.’’
Now, he said, doctors whose patients develop pregnancy complications are struggling to determine whether a woman is “sick enough" to justify an abortion.
With the fall of Roe v. Wade, “the art of medicine is lost and actually has been replaced by fear,’’ Munoz said.
Munoz said he faced an awful predicament with a recent patient who had started to miscarry and developed a dangerous womb infection. The fetus still had signs of a heartbeat, so an immediate abortion — the usual standard of care — would have been illegal under Texas law.
“We physically watched her get sicker and sicker and sicker” until the fetal heartbeat stopped the next day, “and then we could intervene,’’ he said. The patient developed complications, required surgery, lost multiple liters of blood and had to be put on a breathing machine “all because we were essentially 24 hours behind.’’
In a study published this month in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, doctors at two Texas hospitals cited the cases of 28 women less than 23 weeks pregnant who were treated for dangerous pregnancies. The doctors noted that all of the women had recommended abortions delayed by nine days because fetal heart activity was detected. Of those, nearly 60% developed severe complications — nearly double the number of complications experienced by patients in other states who had immediate therapeutic abortions. Of eight live births among the Texas cases, seven died within hours. The eighth, born at 24 weeks, had severe complications including brain bleeding, a heart defect, lung disease and intestinal and liver problems.
Before it overturned Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court never allowed states to ban abortion before the point when a fetus can survive outside the womb — roughly 24 weeks.
Chicago diversity executive Sheena Gray survived a harrowing pregnancy-ending experience last year, when doctors discovered she had an embryo in a fallopian tube and an eight-week fetus in her womb. They removed the embryo along with the affected fallopian tube, and told her they needed to abort the other fetus to save her life.
The decision to proceed with treatment was hers — abortion is still legal in Illinois. In fact, the state provides greater access to abortion than most others, and has been flooded with patients seeking abortions following the recent Supreme Court decision.
Gray said she’s heard about similar care being denied or delayed in other states, and fears the high court ruling will force other patients to face the same fate.
“No one should make these choices for a woman, period,” she said.
Her story has a much happier ending: Gray became pregnant again and gave birth July 8 to healthy identical twin girls.
CHOOSING STERILITY
Julie Ann Nitsch, a sexual assault survivor and community college trustee in Austin, Texas, is among many women in states with restrictive abortion laws who are taking drastic steps.
Nitsch says she chose sterilization at age 36 rather than risk getting pregnant by another rapist.
“I ripped my organs out’’ to avoid that, she said.
Nitsch said she "saw the writing on the wall” after Texas enacted a law last year banning most abortions after six weeks, even in cases of rape or incest. She said she sensed that Roe v. Wade would be overturned, so she had surgery to remove her fallopian tubes in February.
“It’s sad to think that I can’t have kids, but it’s better than being forced to have children,’’ Nitsch said.
Dr. Tyler Handcock, an Austin OB-GYN, said his clinic has heard from hundreds of patients seeking sterilization since the Supreme Court’s June 24 decision. Many choose this route because they fear long-acting birth control or other contraceptives could also become targets, he said.
His clinic scheduled a July 9 group counseling session to handle the surge, and every one of the 20 patients who showed up to hear about the risks and ramifications of fallopian tube-removal made an appointment to have the surgery.
Some physicians are reluctant to perform the surgery on young women with many reproductive years left, fearing they will change their minds later. Handcock said he heard from one 28-year-old woman who said six OB-GYNs declined to sterilize her.
Handcock said the choice should be up to patients.
“I will protect my patients and their rights however I can,’’ he said.
TARGETING MEDICATION
Becky Schwarz, of Tysons Corner, Virginia, found herself unexpectedly thrust into the abortion controversy even though she has no plans to become pregnant.
The 27-year-old has lupus, an autoimmune disease that can cause the body to attack tissue surrounding joints and organs, leading to inflammation and often debilitating symptoms. For Schwarz, these include bone and joint pain, and difficulty standing for long periods of time.
She recently received a notice from her doctor saying she’d have to stop taking a medication that relieves her symptoms — at least while the office reviewed its policies for methotrexate in light of the Supreme Court ruling. That’s because the drug can cause miscarriages and theoretically could be used in an attempt to induce an abortion.
“For me to have to be essentially babysat by some policy, rather than being trusted about how I handle my own body ... has made me angry,’’ she said.
The Arthritis Foundation and American College of Rheumatology have both issued statements of concern about patients’ access to the drug. Steven Schultz of the Arthritis Foundation said the group is working to determine how widespread the problem is. Patients having trouble getting the medication can contact the group's helpline, he said.
CONFUSING LAWS
Many abortion laws are vague and they vary by state. That can leave physicians in a quandary.
“We’ve asked some legislators, ‘How are medical providers supposed to interpret the laws?’” said Dr. Dana Stone, who is based in Oklahoma, a state that recently banned almost all abortions.
“They say, ‘They’ll figure it out,'" she said.
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Pet of the Week: Charlee
This week’s Pet of the Week from Hero West Rescue is Charlee!
Meet Charlee! She is a small lady (weighing just under 30 lbs) but she has the biggest goofiest personality.
She has done well with all of the dogs in her foster home and is OBSESSED with her human foster siblings.
She would love a family that will play with her in the yard and then cuddle up on the couch to watch a movie.
She is about 3 to 4-years young, house trained, kennel trained, heart-worm negative, fully vetted, spayed, and micro-chipped.
If you are looking for the perfect family pet look no further!
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BEIJING, July 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is China's bridge to Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe, owing to its strategic location as the country's westernmost frontier.
It plays a vital role in the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a framework of trade and infrastructure networks connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along and beyond the ancient Silk Road routes.
During his visit to Xinjiang from Tuesday to Friday, Chinese President Xi Jinping called the multi-ethnic region "a hub" in Belt and Road cooperation.
Xinjiang has morphed from a relatively enclosed hinterland into the forefront of opening-up, the president told staff at Urumqi International Land Port Area on Tuesday afternoon, as the country is promoting the expansion of opening up, the development of the western regions, and the joint efforts in building the Belt and Road.
President Xi stressed advancing the building of the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt - the "belt" component of the BRI - and incorporating Xinjiang's regional opening-up strategy into the country's overall plan of westward development.
The gateways
At the international land port area, Xi checked the operations of China-Europe Railway Express (Urumqi), the Alashankou port and the Horgos Port, which are all important gateways for cross-border trade.
Horgos, literally translates to "a place where caravans pass," used to be a trading post along the northern route of the ancient Silk Road.
In 2016, the port launched the China-Europe freight train service and has since witnessed a steady rise in the number of trains passing through it. Despite of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of China-Europe freight trains entering and leaving via Horgos Port exceeded 4,720 in 2020, a 43 percent increase compared with the total in 2019.
According to local customs officials, the services of the China-Europe freight train have been favored by an increasing number of companies during the pandemic thanks to their low prices, large transportation capacity, great stability and connectivity.
The Alashankou Port, also known as Alataw Pass, is China's closest railway port to Europe. In January 2020, cross border e-commerce was launched in the inland port and commodities like toys, digital products and clothing manufactured in the country have been shipped to Europe since.
Data from the customs of the inland port shows that more than 57 million cross-border e-commerce packages worth over 1 billion yuan (about 160 million U.S. dollars) have been exported via the port since January 2020.
During his inspection, Xi also highlighted the importance of innovating the system for an open economy, the building of large corridors, better utilizing both domestic and international markets and resources, and actively serving and integrating into the new pattern of development.
China put forth the West Development Strategy in 1999, and since then, the country's western regions have achieved remarkable progress. The accelerating GDP growth in western China has suggested a narrowing development gap between the country's east and west.
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Friday, Aug. 5
Crystal Palace vs. Arsenal, 3 p.m.
England Championship
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Huddersfield vs. Burnley, 3 p.m.
England League One
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Accrington Stanley vs. Charlton, 10 a.m.
Bristol Rovers vs. Forest Green, 10 a.m.
Cambridge United vs. Milton Keynes Dons, 10 a.m.
Cheltenham vs. Peterborough, 10 a.m.
Derby vs. Oxford United, 10 a.m.
Ipswich vs. Bolton, 10 a.m.
Lincoln vs. Exeter, 10 a.m.
Morecambe vs. Shrewsbury, 10 a.m.
Plymouth vs. Barnsley, 10 a.m.
Port Vale vs. Fleetwood Town, 10 a.m.
Sheffield Wednesday vs. Portsmouth, 10 a.m.
Wycombe vs. Burton Albion, 10 a.m.
England League Two
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Saturday, July 30
AFC Wimbledon vs. Gillingham, 10 a.m.
Bradford vs. Doncaster, 10 a.m.
Carlisle vs. Crawley Town, 10 a.m.
Harrogate Town vs. Swindon, 10 a.m.
Leyton Orient vs. Grimsby Town, 10 a.m.
Northampton vs. Colchester, 10 a.m.
Rochdale vs. Crewe, 10 a.m.
Salford vs. Mansfield Town, 10 a.m.
Stockport County vs. Barrow, 10 a.m.
Sutton United vs. Newport County, 10 a.m.
Tranmere vs. Stevenage, 10 a.m.
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LONDON (AP) — British authorities issued their first ever “red” warning for extreme heat early next week, declaring a national emergency as forecasters predict record temperatures that will put even healthy people at risk of serious illness and death.
The warning covers Monday and Tuesday, when temperatures in England may reach 40 C (104 F) for the first time, the U.K Met Office said. The British record is 38.7C (101.7F), set in 2019.
The alert comes as scientists say climate change is increasing the likelihood of exceptional heat waves in Britain, a country better known for gray skies and rain. The chances of temperatures like those forecast for next week are already 10 times higher than they would be without the influence of human activity, said Nikos Christidis, a Met Office climate scientist.
“We hoped we wouldn’t get to this situation, but for the first time ever we are forecasting greater than 40°C in the U.K.,” Christidis said in a prepared statement. “In a recent study we found that the likelihood of extremely hot days in the U.K. has been increasing and will continue to do so during the course of the century.”
The U.K. Health Security Agency increased its own hot weather alert to the highest level, putting it to “national emergency.” The warning system was created in 2004, when concerns about climate change spurred authorities to develop their first plan to protect the public from severed heat.
’’At this level, illness and death may occur among the fit and healthy, and not just in high-risk groups,” UKHSA said.
The weather alert, which covers a big chunk of England from London north to Manchester, also warns of potential disruption to air and rail travel and potential “localized loss of power and other essential services, such as water or mobile phone services.”
The two agencies issued lower level warnings earlier this week as large parts of the U.K. experienced higher than normal temperatures, although cooler weather prevailed Thursday and Friday. Temperatures are expected to rise in the coming days as the system that brought record highs to parts of Europe this week moves north over Britain.
“Even as a climate scientist who studies this stuff, this is scary,” said Professor Hannah Cloke, a natural hazards researcher at the University of Reading. “This feels real. At the start of the week I was worried about my goldfish getting too hot. Now I’m worried about the survival of my family and my neighbors.”
Nigel Arnell, a professor of climate system science at the University of Reading, said Britain needs to prepare for more hot weather in the future, retrofitting buildings to cope with extreme weather and planting more greenery in cities.
Adaptation and resilience need to become a political priority, he said.
“We can’t keep on dealing with extremes in crisis mode,” Arnell said.
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — President Joe Biden, speaking at a summit of Arab leaders, said Saturday that the United States “will not walk away” from the Middle East as he tries to ensure stability in a volatile part of the world and boost the global flow of oil to reverse rising gas prices.
His remarks, delivered at the Gulf Cooperation Council on the final leg of a four-day Middle East tour, came amid concerns about Iran’s nuclear ambitions and support for militants in the region.
“We will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by China, Russia or Iran,” Biden said. “We will seek to build on this moment with active, principled, American leadership.”
Although U.S. forces continue to target terrorists in the region and remain deployed at bases throughout the Middle East, Biden suggested he was turning a page after the U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Today, I’m proud to be able to say that the era of land wars in the region, wars that involved huge numbers of American forces, is not under way,” he said.
He announced $1 billion in U.S. aid to alleviate hunger in the region and he pressed his counterparts, many of whom lead repressive governments, to ensure human rights, including women’s rights, and allow their citizens to speak openly.
“The future will be won by the countries that unleash the full potential of their populations,” Biden said, and that includes allowing people to “question and criticize leaders without fear of reprisal.”
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, convened the summit, which gave him an opportunity to showcase his country’s heavyweight role in the Mideast. He also hinted that the kingdom could pump more oil than it is currently, something Biden is hoping to see when an existing production deal among OPEC+ member countries expires in September.
After a lunch with other leaders, Biden began his trip back to Washington, flashing a thumbs-up and waving to reporters as he boarded Air Force One.
Earlier, Biden met individually with the leaders of Iraq, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, some of whom he had never sat down with since taking office in January 2021.
He invited Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who became president of the UAE two months ago, to visit the White House this year.
Biden also met with King Abdullah II of Jordan. The White House later announced that the U.S. was extending and expanding financial assistance to the country, to no less than $1.45 billion per year.
The summit in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah was an opportunity for Biden to demonstrate his commitment to the region after spending most of his presidency focused on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s growing influence in Asia.
On Saturday, the White House released satellite imagery indicating that Russian officials visited Iran in June and July to see weapons-capable drones it is looking to acquire for use in Ukraine. The disclosure appeared aimed at drawing a connection between the war in Europe and Arab leaders’ own concerns about Iran.
So far, none of the countries represented at the summit has moved in lockstep with the U.S. to sanction Russia, a foreign policy priority for the Biden administration. If anything, the UAE has emerged as a sort of financial haven for Russian billionaires and their multimillion-dollar yachts. Egypt remains open to Russian tourists.
Biden’s attendance at the summit followed his Friday meeting with the Saudi crown prince, heir to the throne currently held by his father, King Salman.
The 79-year-old Biden had initially shunned the 36-year-old royal over human rights abuses, particularly the killing of U.S.-based writer Jamal Khashoggi, which U.S. intelligence officials believe was likely approved by the crown prince.
But Biden decided he needed to repair the long-standing relationship between the two countries to address rising gas prices and foster stability in the volatile region.
Biden and Prince Mohammed greeted each other with a fist bump, a gesture that was swiftly criticized by some lawmakers in the U.S. as well as the slain journalist’s fiancee. Biden later said he did not shy away from discussing Khashoggi’s killing when he and the crown prince met.
The topic created a “frosty” start to the discussion, according to a U.S. official familiar with the private conversations.
The atmosphere eventually became more relaxed, the official said, as they spoke about energy security, expanding high-speed internet access in the Middle East and other issues, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity discuss a private meeting.
The Saudi-owned Al Arabiya news network, citing an unnamed Saudi source, reported that Prince Mohammed responded to Biden’s mention of Khashoggi by saying that attempts to impose a set of values can backfire. He also said the U.S. had committed mistakes at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, where detainees were tortured, and pressed Biden on the killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during a recent Israeli raid on the West Bank city of Jenin.
Meantime, there are sharp divisions on foreign policy among the nine Mideast heads of state who attended the summit.
For example, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE are trying to isolate and squeeze Iran over its regional reach and proxies. Oman and Qatar have solid diplomatic ties with Iran and have acted as intermediaries for talks between Washington and Tehran.
Qatar recently hosted talks between U.S. and Iranian officials as they try to revive Iran’s nuclear accord. Iran not only shares a huge underwater gas field with Qatar in the Persian Gulf, it rushed to Qatar’s aid when Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt cut off ties and imposed a yearslong embargo on Qatar that ended shortly before Biden took office.
Biden’s actions have frustrated some of the leaders. While the U.S. has played an important role in encouraging a monthslong cease-fire in Yemen, his decision to reverse a Trump-era move that had listed Yemen’s rebel Houthis as a terrorist group has outraged the Emirati and Saudi leadership.
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Police are appealing for witnesses to an argument that is thought to have happened on Worple Road in Epsom on Friday afternoon (July 15). It is alleged that, at around 2.15pm, a verbal altercation took place between a woman and another female, believed to be a child, in a parked white van.
A white man and a white woman sat in the front of the van, and the woman was seen to get out of the driver’s seat and open a rear door of the van before speaking to the person inside. The driver is described as a white woman in her 40s, possibly with brown hair. She is also believed to have been wearing khaki shorts and a navy sleeveless top.
A Surrey Police spokesperson said: "The van is believed to be a white transit van, but we do not have any further details that could identify it. It is possible that this could just have been a family disagreement, but we would like to identify those involved and make sure all persons are safe and well.
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"Were you in the area around St. Martin’s Church of England School on Worple Road in Epsom on Friday afternoon between around 2pm and 3pm? Did you see anything that might assist with our enquiries? If so, please get in touch quoting PR/45220075909."
If you don’t wish to speak to police, you can call independent charity Crimestoppers instead on 0800 555 111.
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Saudi crown prince said 'US had made mistakes too' when Biden challenged him over Khashoggi murder
Mohammed bin Salman also tells Joe Biden that Saudi Arabia has "taken all measures to prevent similar mistakes in the future" after the president raised the Khashoggi killing during his trip to the Middle East.
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The Saudi crown prince told Joe Biden the US had also made mistakes, after the president confronted him over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Mr Khashoggi was killed and dismembered by a hit squad in the country's Istanbul consulate in 2018.
Mr Biden said he challenged Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) over the killing when he met the Saudi leader on Friday.
He said he was "straightforward and direct" and made his view on the murder "crystal clear".
US intelligence agencies believe MBS approved the plot to kill the Washington Post columnist, and while running for president, Mr Biden promised to make Saudi Arabia a "pariah" over the killing.
The president received criticism for greeting the crown prince with a fist-bump when he landed in Saudi Arabia yesterday.
One of those to attack Mr Biden was Mr Khashoggi's fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, who tweeted a picture of the moment and asked: "Is this the accountability you promised for my murder?"
The US president told reporters: "He [MBS] basically said that he was not personally responsible for it. I indicated that I thought he was."
In a statement to Reuters on Saturday, a Saudi official said the crown prince told Mr Biden the US had also made human rights mistakes.
"In the same year, similar regrettable incidents took place and other journalists were killed in other parts around the world," the crown prince reportedly said.
"The United States also made a number of mistakes like the incident of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and others."
MBS has always denied approving the plan to kill Mr Khashoggi - who was an outspoken critic of the kingdom.
The crown prince told Mr Biden the kingdom had "taken all measures to prevent similar mistakes in the future", the Saudi official said.
He also reportedly warned about imposing values on other countries by force, as well as raising the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, shot dead during an Israeli raid in May.
The US has softened its stance towards Saudi Arabia since the Ukraine invasion sparked a worldwide energy crisis.
Mr Biden is keen for the OPEC+ group of oil producers to increase production to bring down soaring prices.
America also wants to maintain good relations with the kingdom to counter the growing influence of Russia and China.
"We had a good discussion on ensuring global energy security and adequate oil supplies to support global economic growth," Mr Biden said on Friday.
"I'm doing all I can to increase the supply for the United States of America, which I expect to happen.
"The Saudis share that urgency, and based on our discussions today, I expect we'll see further steps in the coming weeks."
The energy question is again on the agenda in the Red Sea city of Jeddah today as Mr Biden joins a larger summit of Arab leaders. | https://news.sky.com/story/saudi-crown-prince-said-us-had-made-mistakes-too-when-biden-challenged-him-over-khashoggi-murder-12653157 | 2022-07-16T15:49:32Z | https://news.sky.com/story/saudi-crown-prince-said-us-had-made-mistakes-too-when-biden-challenged-him-over-khashoggi-murder-12653157 | false |
Survey: 1 in 5 college students plan to transfer out of states with abortion bans
(Gray News) - The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision regarding Roe v. Wade has affected millions of Americans, including those attending colleges in states where abortion is currently illegal or soon will be.
Intelligent.com, an online magazine focusing on education, surveyed 1,000 current U.S. college students attending schools in states where abortion is currently or soon-to-be illegal.
The respondents were asked about their views on abortion and whether or not they plan to continue attending school in a state where they or their partners can access a safe, legal abortion.
According to the survey, 45% of college students in states where abortion is illegal shared they are planning to or considering transferring.
And 22% of students in states where abortion is currently or soon-to-be illegal, which includes 17 states, said they’re ‘definitely’ transferring to a different school in a state where abortion is still legal.
Another 25% of students are ‘considering’ transferring to a school in a state with legal abortion. The remaining 55% have no intentions to change schools based on abortion laws.
The survey also shared these further key findings:
- 39% of students who identify as ‘pro-life’ are planning to or considering transferring so they can access abortion care for themselves or their partner.
- 55% of Democrat students and 41% of Republican students at schools in states with abortion bans are definitely or potentially transferring.
- Three-fourths of pro-choice college students are ‘very concerned’ that a nationwide abortion ban is next.
- 1 in 5 college students plan to transfer away from schools in states with abortion bans.
Intelligent.com shared that the survey was conducted from July 1-4 and included 1,000 current U.S. college students ages 18-24 attending a four-year university.
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Whitlock struck out three over two scoreless innings in Friday's 5-4 extra-innings win over the Yankees.
Whitlock, making his first appearance after being activated off the injured list, held Boston's one-run lead by setting down the side in order over the seventh and eighth innings. He had been a starter before hitting the IL, but Whitlock will serve a multi-inning relief role that could involve save opportunities. Closer Tanner Houck eventually blew the save Friday, but he's pitched well otherwise while stabilizing Boston's ninth-inning relief issues.
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Vice President Kamala Harris will discuss reproductive rights with Pennsylvania legislators when she visits Philadelphia Saturday morning.
Harris will convey the Biden administration’s “commitment to protecting access to reproductive health care, including abortion access, and the Vice President will encourage the legislators to continue fighting to protect reproductive rights in Pennsylvania,” according to a White House official.
Speakers will include members of the U.S. Congress and the Pennsylvania Legislature.
The issue of reproductive rights has been magnified ever since the Supreme Court last month overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that granted people the right to an abortion at the federal level. As it stands, states now have the right to impose their own abortion laws.
In Pennsylvania, the procedure remains legal up to 24 weeks of pregnancy and if the health of the parent is at risk during pregnancy.
The issue is now front and center in the race for the governorship, with Democrat Josh Shapiro vowing to veto bills from the Republican-controlled Legislature that would place restrictions on abortions.
Shapiro is running against Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano, who while in office has pushed for a ban on abortions beyond six weeks of pregnancy. Mastriano’s bill, introduced in March of last year, does not include exceptions in the case of rape or incest, or if the health of the parent is at risk during pregnancy.
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But the decision to ban or allow abortions in Pennsylvania may be taken out of the governor’s hands altogether.
Last week, Republican state senators voted to add language amending the state constitution to say it does not guarantee abortion rights. The move was a procedural step in an effort to put the question to voters. A ballot question seeking voters' approval for a constitutional amendment cannot be vetoed by the governor.
Nationally, critics have assailed the Biden administration’s response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade as slow and lackluster.
On July 8, two weeks after the decision was overturned, he signed an executive order to protect the privacy for people seeking abortions and provide technical assistance to states that provide the procedure to people coming from states where it is banned. On July 11, Biden issued a directive for medical providers to grant abortions in emergency situations.
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