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NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the common stock of DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc. (NASDAQ: XRAY) between June 9, 2021 and May 9, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 1, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Dentsply common stock during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Dentsply class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6111 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 1, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) defendants orchestrated a scheme to inflate Dentsply's revenue and earnings by manipulating its accounting for a distributor rebate program in order for senior executives to be eligible for significant cash and stock-based incentive compensation; (2) in order to facilitate this scheme, Dentsply and its executives made numerous false and misleading statements to investors during the Class Period; (3) accordingly, Dentsply's financial statements were not prepared in accordance with GAAP and SEC rules, and Dentsply's internal controls over financial reporting were deficient throughout the Class Period; and (4) as a result of defendants' misrepresentations, Dentsply's common stock traded at artificially inflated prices during the Class Period. As a result of the foregoing, When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Dentsply class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6111 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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More than two years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
Now, people on social media are also referring to the widespread outbreak of monkeypox, which has caused infections in the U.S. and beyond, as a pandemic.
THE QUESTION
Has the monkeypox outbreak been declared a pandemic?
THE SOURCES
- The World Health Organization (WHO)
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- The White House
- Kathryn Jacobsen, Ph.D., MPH, infectious disease epidemiologist and professor of health studies at the University of Richmond
- Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health
THE ANSWER
No, the monkeypox outbreak has not been declared a pandemic.
WHAT WE FOUND
The World Health Organization (WHO) is responsible for declaring a pandemic. Right now, the public health agency is referring to the monkeypox situation as a “multi-country monkeypox outbreak,” not a pandemic, a spokesperson told VERIFY.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and White House also refer to monkeypox as an “outbreak.”
The WHO defines a pandemic as the worldwide spread of a disease.
The CDC says a pandemic is “an epidemic that has spread over several countries or continents, usually affecting a large number of people.” An epidemic “refers to an increase, often sudden, in the number of cases of a disease above what is normally expected in that population in that area.”
An outbreak, like monkeypox, is “a higher than expected number of occurrences of a disease in a specific location and time.”
Though there isn’t specific criteria that marks the beginning or end of a pandemic, and the designation isn’t recognized under international law, there are some more general markers.
Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health explains that an epidemic is “generally contained or expected in its spread,” while a pandemic is “international and out of control.”
“A pandemic is defined based on how widely cases are occurring,” Kathryn Jacobsen, an infectious disease epidemiologist and professor of health studies at the University of Richmond, said. “So, at some point, there may be [monkeypox] cases that are being recorded from so many countries that this would qualify as a pandemic.”
Monkeypox was first identified by scientists in 1958, when there were two outbreaks of “pox-like” disease in research monkeys. The first human case was recorded in 1970.
The CDC says monkeypox is transmitted when a person comes into contact with an animal, human, or materials that are contaminated with the virus. Human-to-human transmission primarily occurs through close physical contact with bodily fluids, respiratory droplets, or skin lesions, the CDC and WHO say.
RELATED: 4 Fast Facts about monkeypox
A man in Massachusetts tested positive for monkeypox on May 18, 2022, becoming the first U.S. case this year, and cases have since been reported in states throughout the country.
As of July 19, there were 14,511 monkeypox cases reported worldwide, with more than 2,000 in the U.S., CDC data show. New York has reported the highest number of monkeypox cases of any U.S. state.
Despite rising case counts, the WHO hasn’t deemed monkeypox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), either. This is the “highest level of alert” that the public health agency can issue.
A PHEIC is defined as “an extraordinary event which is a public health risk to countries through cross-border spread, and which requires a coordinated international response,” according to the WHO spokesperson.
The International Health Regulations Emergency Committee will meet on Thursday, July 21 to consider again if monkeypox constitutes being declared a PHEIC, according to the WHO spokesperson.
Jacobsen said that will likely happen at some point during the outbreak.
The U.S. is not yet experiencing “widespread transmission” of monkeypox among the general public, but cases are being diagnosed in more groups of people, including women and populations outside of urban centers, Jacobsen said.
So far, the virus has predominantly spread among men who have sex with men, but anyone can contract the disease through close contact.
“The expectation is over the next few weeks, we will start to see diagnoses in more states [and] more cities within various states,” Jacobsen said. “At that point, this would certainly be considered a widespread epidemic. So we're seeing a series of epidemics in cities right now that could become a widespread American epidemic.”
The increase in U.S. monkeypox case counts is in large part due to increased access to testing, Jacobsen added.
If monkeypox is eventually declared a pandemic, it won’t be “anything like the scale that we’re seeing for COVID” due to several factors, including how the viruses spread, Jacobsen added.
“Coronavirus spreads through the air, so it's really easy for that to spread into crowds because it goes through the air system. …In very close proximity, it is possible for [monkeypox] to spread without touch,” she said. “But it does not appear to be something that aerosolizes or spreads widely through the air. It's mostly skin-to-skin contact, which means that it isn't going to spread nearly as fast as coronavirus spread.”
Monkeypox also currently infects fewer people for each person who is diagnosed than COVID-19, according to Jacobsen. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/verify/health-verify/monkeypx-is-outbreak-not-pandemic-world-health-organization-cdc/536-7af4490f-96be-4097-92c4-4e55f2aa2a09 | 2022-07-21T01:21:15Z | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/verify/health-verify/monkeypx-is-outbreak-not-pandemic-world-health-organization-cdc/536-7af4490f-96be-4097-92c4-4e55f2aa2a09 | true |
NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump paid respects to his first wife, Ivana Trump, joining their three children Wednesday at a funeral Mass for the 1980s style icon and businesswoman who helped him build an empire that launched him to the presidency.
“A very sad day, but at the same time a celebration of a wonderful and beautiful life,” the ex-president wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, before heading to the funeral Mass.
“This will not be easy!!!” added Trump, who attended the service with his current wife, former first lady Melania Trump.
Donald and Ivana Trump’s three children — Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric — and their families followed Ivana’s gold-colored coffin into St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
Tiffany Trump, the daughter of the former president and his second wife, Marla Maples, also attended the service, as did family friends including Jeanine Pirro, co-host of Fox News’ “The Five,” and Charles Kushner, a real estate developer and the father of Ivanka Trump’s husband, Jared Kushner. Fashion designer Dennis Basso, a longtime friend of Ivana Trump’s, was also among the mourners.
Trump’s family announced Thursday that the 73-year-old had died at her Manhattan home. Authorities said the death was an accident, with blunt impact injuries to her torso as the cause.
“We all want to remember Ivana as the vibrant, sociable person she was,” longtime friend R. Couri Hay said before the service.
Ivana and Donald Trump met in the 1970s and were married from 1977 to 1992. In the 1980s, they were a power couple, and she became well known in her own right, instantly recognizable with her blond hair in an updo and her glamorous look.
Ivana Trump also took part in her husband’s businesses, managing one of his Atlantic City casinos and picking out some of the design elements in New York City’s Trump Tower.
Their very public divorce was ugly, but in recent years they were friendly. Ivana Trump was an enthusiastic supporter of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and said they spoke on a regular basis.
Associated Press writer Jennifer Peltz contributed. | https://www.mcall.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-ivana-trump-funeral-20220720-3ibjto54hrbelf32zkdixrkhdy-story.html | 2022-07-21T01:21:38Z | https://www.mcall.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-ivana-trump-funeral-20220720-3ibjto54hrbelf32zkdixrkhdy-story.html | false |
Video shows on-duty CMHA officer accused of stealing money from crime scene
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority police officer maintains his innocence, after he was charged with stealing several hundred dollars from a crime scene in Cleveland.
19 Investigates has new video of that officer on duty that day.
Cleveland Police released body camera video from their officers of a shooting 32-year-old CMHA Officer Douglas McGilbra responded to at Lakeview Tower on Jan. 3.
The video shows what appears to be the same crime scene near Washington Avenue and W. 28th Street in Cleveland McGilbra is later accused of stealing $500 from.
We don’t see much of the investigation from McGilbra’s perspective.
CPD body cam video shows Cleveland Police officers arriving and speaking with McGilbra.
They then take an elevator upstairs to one of the apartments, where McGilbra knocks on the door.
After that, the video is black.
The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office told 19 Investigates that during the first search of the scene by Cleveland Police and Officer McGilbra, they counted $2,600 in evidence, placing it in a plastic bag that was twisted shut at the top.
Two hours later, CMHA detectives returned to the scene with a signed search warrant.
Those detectives then collected $2,100 from the scene.
CMHA went to BCI, suspicious of criminal activity.
Prosecutors said body cameras and photos of the scene revealed $500 missing with the bag untwisted.
A silver-framed chair was also missing, with contents found in the first search found on the floor.
Prosecutors also said Officer McGilbra was shown on camera, responsible for securing the scene until they got a search warrant.
McGilbra was in court for pretrial Wednesday.
He was indicted last month on three charges: theft in office, tampering with evidence, and dereliction of duty.
He is currently out on bond.
CMHA said McGilbra remains on unpaid administrative leave.
Once the court case is resolved, CMHA Police will complete its own review and determine any discipline.
Copyright 2022 WOIO. All rights reserved. | https://www.cleveland19.com/2022/07/21/video-shows-on-duty-cmha-officer-accused-stealing-money-crime-scene/ | 2022-07-21T01:22:27Z | https://www.cleveland19.com/2022/07/21/video-shows-on-duty-cmha-officer-accused-stealing-money-crime-scene/ | true |
MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — The Bishop Museum of Science and Nature announced it secured $547,000 in state funding from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to expand its manatee care program.
The new facility would be located in Myakka City and would provide additional holding and acute care space. The facility is part of a statewide network of centers to rescue, rehabilitate, release and monitor manatees in Florida.
News of the funding comes on the heels of an update from the state on the condition of the manatee population. FWC officials confirmed that fewer manatees have died this year but said starvation is still a big problem. The concern ahead of winter is that more manatees will be in distress over a limited seagrass supply to feed on. Now, there is a new plan in the works to help the manatee population with a new rehabilitation center in Myakka City.
FWC officials said 631 manatee deaths were recorded between Jan. 1 and July 15. The development is positive news when compared with 864 deaths during the same period last year at the height of the ongoing manatee starvation crisis.
But experts who have been studying the manatee population and are trying to mitigate the problem said they were concerned about not seeing baby manatees among these recent deaths.
"There is concern that this is taking a toll on their reproductive health and the fact that we're not also seeing small calf carcasses," Martine de Wit, a Necropsy Veterinarian who is working with FWC on the Manatee Recovery Unified Command, said.
The experts said the animals are still dealing with a habitat that is not optimal and they expect more manatees will need help.
The state grant of more than half a million dollars to the Bishop Museum's manatee rehab program is expected to assist with the efforts to sustain the manatee population.
Once completed, the Myakka center will give rescued manatees a lifeline.
"We applied for the funding with this project in mind knowing that there is a facility available and not being used," Virginia Edmonds, director of animal care at the Bishop Museum, said. "It has pools that are in good shape and can definitely hold manatees."
According to leaders of the museum, the money would cover renovation to the facility and its seven pools as well as fund the leasing and staffing costs.
"This type of funding allows us to convert existing spaces, allows us to expand existing spaces, and have an impact on what is happening in the manatee population," CEO of the Bishop Museum Hillary Spencer said.
"The Myakka property and FWC funding are providing an opportunity for The Bishop not only to increase the number of manatees we can help but also the way in which we help them," Spencer said in an earlier statement. "The work that Virginia Edmonds, our Director of Animal Care, the Animal Care Team, and Museum veterinarian Dr. David Murphy are doing is impactful already, but this expansion will redefine The Bishop's role in the animal care community."
"We need to increase that capacity," Edmonds said. "We need to add heaters to the pool in the wintertime."
Renovations at the new manatee rehab center are expected to be completed this year. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/manateecounty/bishop-museum-receives-funding-fwc-manatee-care-program/67-8d29e1ca-3151-43da-9c42-4c03ec13a657 | 2022-07-21T01:23:11Z | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/manateecounty/bishop-museum-receives-funding-fwc-manatee-care-program/67-8d29e1ca-3151-43da-9c42-4c03ec13a657 | false |
Gold hits near one-year low on dollar strength, imminent rate hikes
July 21 (Reuters) - Gold prices fell on Thursday to their lowest in nearly a year, as an elevated U.S. dollar and prospects of more interest rate hikes by major central banks to combat soaring inflation weighed on bullion's appeal. FUNDAMENTALS * Spot gold was down 0.2% at $1,693.90 per ounce by 0052 GMT, after falling to its lowest since early August 2021 at $1,691.40 in early Asian trade. * U.S. gold futures fell 0.5% to $1,692.10 per ounce. * The dollar held below two-decade highs against its rivals, making greenback-priced bullion more expensive for buyers holding other currencies. * The European Central Bank will raise interest rates for the first time in 11 years on Thursday with a bigger-than-flagged move seen as increasingly likely as policymakers fear losing control of runaway consumer price growth. * The U.S. Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise interest rates by 75 basis points at its policy meeting next week. * British inflation in June surged to a 40-year peak, bolstering chances of a half-percentage-point Bank of England rate hike next month. * Although gold is seen as a hedge against inflation, rising interest rates increase the opportunity cost of holding bullion, which pays no interest. * SPDR Gold Trust , the world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, said its holdings fell 0.3% to 1,005.87 tonnes on Wednesday from 1,009.06 tonnes on Tuesday. * European Union diplomats meeting in Brussels on Wednesday agreed a new round of sanctions against Moscow for invading Ukraine, including a ban on importing gold from Russia. * Spot silver was flat at $18.66 per ounce, platinum eased 0.2% to $856.12, and palladium rose 0.2% to $1,864.83. DATA/EVENTS (GMT) 0645 France Business Climate Mfg July 1215 EU ECB Refinancing Rate July 1215 EU ECB Deposit Rate July 1230 US Initial Jobless Clm Weekly 1230 US Philly Fed Business Indx July 1415 EU ECB President Christine Lagarde presents the latest monetary policy decisions (Reporting by Brijesh Patel in Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11034061/Gold-hits-near-one-year-low-dollar-strength-imminent-rate-hikes.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-21T01:41:02Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11034061/Gold-hits-near-one-year-low-dollar-strength-imminent-rate-hikes.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
WARREN, Maine — Most Mainers will never have a reason to go to the Maine State Prison. From the outside, cement walls and barbed wire look foreboding, but inside — there's important work being done that's giving those serving time there a new purpose.
National nonprofit America's VetDogs opened a program at the Maine State Prison in 2017. Its purpose is to bring in puppies that prison residents help train to eventually become service dogs for veterans and first responders around the country. The dogs could be addressing either mental health needs, like struggles with PTSD, or physical disabilities. Either way, organizers say the program is an important one.
"It’s a win-win situation," Paula Giardinella, the prison program manager for America's VetDogs, said. "The inmates win because they learn valuable skills. The dogs win because they get so much time and attention and early training. The veterans obviously win."
Giardinella said right now, America's VetDogs has programs across six states in 14 prisons, mainly on the East Coast. She said a few years ago, the wait for people in need to get these service dogs was about three years. Now, that timeline has been cut by more than half to about one year.
"The more prisons we can open, the more capacity to raise puppies — the faster we can get dogs out to people that need them," Giardinella said.
Prison residents work with the dogs all day Monday through Friday for a little more than a year. Then, they say goodbye, and the dogs go to New York for final, specialized training.
"All the work they’re doing here at the prison just helps the dogs go through final training faster," Giardinella said.
Scott Harvey, the unit manager at the Maine State Prison, said the program is also beneficial to the prison residents.
"Just having the dogs around in general changes the attitude of people in here," Harvey said. "[It] gives them a purpose. It gives them something to do. It keeps them busy."
Harvey said he has noticed a difference since the program began — and he said once prison residents start participating, "They're glued".
"Guys went from being in trouble all the time to outside throwing a ball, laughing, smiling. It’s been a huge attitude change and shift in some of these guys," Harvey said.
"It’s giving me a lot of motivation. Now, I’m in college. Never did I think I was going to get into college. It has helped push me to want to do better," Cory Bennett, who has been at the Maine State Prison since 2017, and whose earliest possible release date is undetermined, said.
Bennett said he has been taking part in this program for almost five years, but the dog he is currently working with, Brady, is the one he has bonded with the most.
"This is hands-down the dog that I’ve got the biggest, deepest connection with," Bennet said. "I kind of feel like he’s a lot like me."
Bennett said he has aspirations now to hopefully study psychology, so he can work with troubled kids — something he said he himself never had. He said Brady has given him a reason to better himself — and in return, Brady's company has also helped him.
"It takes a lot of stress away from being in here," Bennett said.
For other prison residents, this program presents an opportunity to give back to a community they once belonged to: the military. Nathanael Nightingale said it feels like a way for him to "complete [his] service". He has been at the Maine State Prison since 2011. He will be serving at least a 33-year sentence.
"If one of these dogs that I helped with saves one life, then it’s all worth it," Nightingale said.
The dog Nightingale is currently working with, Judge, is his sixth dog. He said they have about a month left together before Judge leaves for final training.
"The first [goodbye] was hard. It was very hard, but after that, you get used to it," Nightingale said. "Now, it’s one of those things where you just know that your dog is going to a better place."
Del Hathaway has been at the Maine State Prison since 2017. His earliest possible release date is in 2026. Michael, the dog he is working with, is a bit younger than the others. For him, having that animal connection has been important.
"I remember as a kid, I had a black German shepherd named Lady, and she was my best friend," Hathaway said. "My household was pretty rough. To be able to have somebody like that in my life was amazing — just to be able to have somebody to confide with, somebody that loved me unconditionally."
Hathaway said the dogs have reminded him how to have compassion for other beings and things, even in a "rugged environment". They have also given him a second chance, in a way.
"Any opportunity that I get to give back, I try to take full advantage of it, no matter what it is," Hathaway said. "I think that just comes from deep inside me, knowing all the wrong that I’ve done."
Paula Giardinella said America's VetDogs is in need of weekend volunteers who live in about a 30-mile radius of the Warren area. They essentially pick the puppies up on Friday afternoon and keep them through Sunday afternoon to help expose them to life outside of the prison.
She said they're also in need of a "puppy advisor" who goes into the prison every week for an hour or two to help train the dogs. For more information about employment opportunities, click here. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/as-seen-on-tv/americas-vetdogs-national-nonprofit-program-at-maine-state-prison-in-need-of-weekend-service-dog-training-volunteers/97-e6124da8-5c31-471f-9e30-7fd7fb4901fc | 2022-07-21T01:41:26Z | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/as-seen-on-tv/americas-vetdogs-national-nonprofit-program-at-maine-state-prison-in-need-of-weekend-service-dog-training-volunteers/97-e6124da8-5c31-471f-9e30-7fd7fb4901fc | true |
Photos: First Look at TexARTS Theatre's THE FULL MONTY
Performances run July 21-August 7.
TexARTS Theatre presents The Full Monty the blue-collar musical that exposes the spirit and determination of six out-of-work steelworkers. Desperate for money and respect, they come up with a novel way to make a quick buck by starting a striptease act. The musical comedy with a book by Terrence McNally and music and lyrics by David Yazbek takes place July 15 - Aug. 7, 2022 at the Kam & James Morris Theatre in Lakeway.
Get a first look at production photos below!
The cast features Patrick Darab Hartigan (Jerry), Stephen Mercantel (Dave), Nathan Daniel Ford (Malcolm), Huck Huckaby (Harold), Quincy Kuykendall (Horse), Leslie R. Hethcox (Ethan), Rachel Pallante (Georgie), Michelle Cheney (Vicki), Mary Agen Cox (Jeanette), Mia Carter (Pam), Cam Haas (Keno), and James Schermerhorn (Nathan). The company features Jack Baziuk, Megan Castleberry, Rebekah Freeland, Isaac Howell, Pablo Munoz-Evers, Courtlin Parisher, and Colton Wright.
The creative team includes Kasey RT Graham (Director), Susan Finnigan (Music Director), Ian Liberto (Choreographer), Christian Erben (Production Stage Manager), Donna Coughlin (Scenic Designer), Lucinda Culver (Light Designer), Christopher Arthur (Costume Designer), Jeff Miller (Sound Designer) and Tumbleweed Designs (Properties Design).
Advisory warning: THE FULL MONTY contains adult content and language and is recommended for mature audiences only. | https://www.broadwayworld.com/austin/article/Photos-First-Look-at-TexARTS-Theatres-THE-FULL-MONTY-20220720 | 2022-07-21T01:48:42Z | https://www.broadwayworld.com/austin/article/Photos-First-Look-at-TexARTS-Theatres-THE-FULL-MONTY-20220720 | false |
Dog saves owner after 70-foot fall off Tahoe cliff
TRUCKEE, Calif. - A border collie named Saul is being called a hero after helping rescue crews save the life of his owner.
Saul's owner fell off a 70-foot cliff in Tahoe National Forest and Nevada County Sheriff Search and Rescue Teams were called out to find him Wednesday.
The 53-year-old hiker had fallen the night before, but managed to get himself to cell service to call for help. He told officials he thought he had a broken hip and broken ribs.
Searchers pinged his location, but were unable to find him.
It was Saul who ultimately led them to his location.
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Saul ran through the forest and in true "Lassie" fashion, flagged down two searchers by jumping up and down and spinning in circles.
The rescuers said he took them right to the victim who was covered in a camouflage tarp, injured.
The man was flown to the hospital by helicopter. Medical teams described his injuries as ‘traumatic.’
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"He was very lucky the dog directed our rescue personal to him," said Sgt Dennis Haack. "Great work and skill by all involved."
And for Saul, rescue crews said he was given lots of treats and transported back to Grass Valley for a well deserved dinner. | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/dog-saves-owner-after-70-foot-fall-off-tahoe-cliff | 2022-07-21T01:49:43Z | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/dog-saves-owner-after-70-foot-fall-off-tahoe-cliff | true |
WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 20, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northeastern Eastland County in north central Texas...
Southeastern Stephens County in north central Texas...
Southwestern Palo Pinto County in north central Texas...
* Until 815 PM CDT.
* At 726 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located just west
of Strawn, moving southwest at 10 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Eastland, Ranger, Tiffin, Morton Valley, Olden, and Strawn.
This includes Interstate 20 between mile markers 340 and 363.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection get inside a sturdy structure and stay away from
windows.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of Grayson County
through 815 PM CDT...
At 730 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Sherman and another near Pottsboro, both moving southeast at 10 mph.
Additional storms are expected to develop over northeast Grayson
County over the next 30 to 45 minutes.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Sherman, Denison, Howe, Pottsboro, Whitewright, Bells, Tom Bean,
Savoy, Knollwood, Dorchester, Eisenhower State Park, southeastern
Lake Texoma, Southmayd and Luella.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3383 9659 3382 9658 3382 9653 3379 9651
3378 9651 3377 9650 3378 9643 3373 9638
3348 9638 3349 9666 3374 9683 3385 9663
TIME...MOT...LOC 0030Z 329DEG 8KT 3359 9655
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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Florida's new COVID cases are still on the rise with related deaths closing in on 77,000
The state Department of Health on Friday released a report that showed at least 76,662 Florida residents have died with COVID-19 since the pandemic started in early 2020. The total, which reflected deaths reported as of Thursday, was up from 75,096 in a report issued in...
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A local historian presents lost treasures of Mississippi and Alabama
An expert in history drew a crowd on Wednesday at The Columbus Lowndes Public Library
COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI)- An expert in history drew a crowd on Wednesday at The Columbus Lowndes Public Library.
Jim Phillips love of show and tell started years ago. Phillips travels throughout Mississippi and Alabama showing off small treasures he’s collected over the years.
“When I was at the University of Alabama, I graduated in 1971 with a undergraduate degree I got in my little ford Falcon and just went driving and I would drive into small towns in Alabama and I almost got into Mississippi I just love going to small towns and look at the old bricks and stuff and I thought about the artifacts in those days and it’s just been a passion,” said Phillips.
That passion came when he realized every discovery had it’s own unique story.
“When you start digging old glass of beautiful shapes and it goes back to the 1870’s 1890’s and you have all these things in blue glass they all have a story behind it,” said Phillips.
Dozens of people came to the Columbus Library to meet Phillips and see pieces of the past. Mona Vance-Ali is the archivist with the Columbus Library; she said he brings his knowledge to Columbus.
“He talks a lot about lost treasures and stories from long ago about Mississippi and Alabama but he also has lots of antiques and things that he’s able to appraise and share with the community the value of these items, and you know just share little stories about the past,” said Ali.
People didn’t just come to look; they brought some of their own valuables.
“This is an opportunity for them to come by the library and learn a little bit more about them and as well about the potential monetary value but anything that they might be interested in if they have old items we can sometimes help them find out the historical value but not necessarily the monetary value,” said Ali.
Ali said Phillips may be a visiting expert in artifacts, but she is willing to help people figure out the history of their antiques if they stop by the library.
Phillips had items from the Boaz Whitfield antebellum gold coin hoard, the missing 5ft. tall-jeweled gold cross, the lost antebellum treasures of the old Mississippi River mansion, and early 1900 Hutchinson style soda bottles. | https://www.wcbi.com/a-local-historian-presents-lost-treasures-of-mississippi-and-alabama/ | 2022-07-21T02:03:53Z | https://www.wcbi.com/a-local-historian-presents-lost-treasures-of-mississippi-and-alabama/ | false |
Content warning: This story discusses eating disorders.
The latest episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills was a profound one—at least for Crystal Kung Minkoff.
She spoke in-depth about her ongoing struggle with an eating disorder—which she first told her co-stars about last season—opening up about how triggering the holidays can be. Crystal was prompted by Kyle Richards, who commended the Instagram post Crystal had shared at the time.
"The other day I was gonna post this picture of the family and I remember feeling like my stomach and my body—I just felt like crap," Crystal explained during the July 20 episode. "And I decided to just be super real and post how I was actually feeling."
The result was an honest depiction of Crystal's continuing recovery, which she discussed further with both Kyle and Diana Jenkins. "My eating disorder started when I was 11," Crystal said. "I remember every school picture I was in the back middle, always. It's one thing being the tallest kid in class, but also looking different as a minority just makes it even that much more apparent."
And though she's come a long way since then, working "very hard to accept how I look and appreciate it," Crystal admitted it's an ongoing battle. "Physically being in my body sucks," she told her cast mates, tearing up. "I f--king feel like s--t all the time. I'm just exhausted. I want to eat a meal and be okay with it."
Kyle and Diana were both extremely sympathetic, and after some reassuring words and hugs were exchanged, the trio rejoined the rest of the ladies.
The next conversation Crystal had about her eating disorder was harder to watch.
At Diana's Christmas party, Crystal and Garcelle Beauvais were once again discussing how difficult the holidays can be when Erika Jayne joined in. Though Erika started off by simply asking a few questions about the specifics of Crystal's eating disorder, the conversation took a turn when Erika, referring to food, said, "I always think, 'Take laxatives to get rid of it.'"
Garcelle was stunned. "A laxative?" she said in a confessional. "She has an eating disorder. Erika's not a doctor and you don't prescribe laxatives to someone with an eating disorder. It's really the most inappropriate thing at the most inappropriate time."
Erika's questionable comments continued when she said that, instead of vomiting eaten food, she's rather "poop it out," prompting Crystal to ask in a confessional, "Is she trying to be helpful, or has she just had a couple too many drinks?"
Things only got worse from there, though. A waiter brought out a tray of food, but as Erika and Crystal both approached her, Erika told Crystal, "You can't have this, it's a chicken tender."
Viewers were then hit with a "to be continued."
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on Bravo.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
07-17-23-29-48-57, Bonus: 21
(seven, seventeen, twenty-three, twenty-nine, forty-eight, fifty-seven; Bonus: twenty-one)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
07-17-23-29-48-57, Bonus: 21
(seven, seventeen, twenty-three, twenty-nine, forty-eight, fifty-seven; Bonus: twenty-one) | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lotto-game-17318520.php | 2022-07-21T02:13:24Z | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lotto-game-17318520.php | false |
MADRID (AP) — When José Antonio González started his afternoon shift sweeping the streets of Madrid, the temperature was 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) amid a heat wave gripping Spain.
After a long time without a job, González couldn’t afford to pass up a one-month summer contract to sweep the city, where he lived in a working-class neighborhood. Three hours later, the 60-year-old collapsed with heat stroke and was found lying in the street he was cleaning.
An ambulance took the father of two to the hospital, where he died on Saturday.
His death is driving a debate in Spain about the need to adapt labor arrangements to climate change. The poorest in society, often the elderly and the low-paid such as construction workers and delivery riders for whom heat stress is a workplace hazard, have long been identified as being at a disadvantage in attempts to adjust to rising temperatures.
“It’s obvious that social inequalities play a part” in how much people suffer during heat waves, says Júlio Díaz of Spain’s Carlos III Health Institute.
“Enduring a heat wave in an air-conditioned house with a swimming pool is not the same as five people in the same room with a window as the only source of fresh air,” he told Spanish public broadcaster RTVE.
The recent torrid weather in Europe, which has seen a spike in the number and size of wildfires, is forcing the issue to the forefront.
France has already taken some steps to alleviate heat inequality after a 2003 heat wave caused 15,000 heat-related deaths, many of them older people left in city apartments and retirement homes without air conditioning.
Ahead of France’s latest heat wave, which set some record temperatures this week, the government reminded employers of their legal obligation to protect workers in extreme heat. That includes free drinking water, ventilation and, if possible, changing working hours and providing extra breaks.
And as Britain prepared for this week’s heat wave, which saw temperatures hit a national record of 40.3 degrees Celsius (104.5 Fahrenheit) on Tuesday, labor unions urged the government to impose maximum workplace temperatures for the first time. Many homes, small businesses and even public buildings in Britain do not have air-conditioning.
Unite, the country’s biggest union, is pushing for a maximum workplace temperature of 27 C (80.6 F) for “strenuous’’ jobs and 30 C (86 F) for sedentary jobs. The union also says employers should be required to take steps to reduce indoor temperatures and impose strict protections for outdoor workers whenever temperatures reach 24 C (75.2 F).
“As the climate changes, it is vital that health and safety law is updated in line with the serious challenges this presents for workers,” said Rob Miguel, Unite’s national adviser on health and safety.
In Madrid, González’s 21-year-old son, Miguel Ángel, says his father, days before he died, had searched on the internet for “how to deal with heat stroke.” The evening before he died, he had arrived home from his cleaning shift gasping for air.
Scientists say the worsening of pre-existing illnesses, not heat strokes themselves, are the main cause of deaths linked to the high temperatures.
The Carlos III Health Institute estimates that 150 deaths in Spain were somehow linked to the heat wave on the day that González died. The following day, the institute attributed 169 deaths to the heat, bringing a total of 679 cases during just the first week of the heat wave.
Ramming home the danger, another Madrid street sweeper was hospitalized with heat stroke on Tuesday.
In places accustomed to high temperatures, such as Spain’s southern Andalusia region, construction workers already work only morning hours during the summer.
Three days after González’s death, Madrid officials agreed with labor groups that street cleaners could postpone their afternoon shift and work instead amid cooler evening temperatures.
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Hatton contributed from Lisbon, Portugal. John Leicester in Le Pecq, France and Danica Kirka in London contributed.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. — Democrats regained hold of Washington’s secretary of state office for the first time in more than five decades when Sen. Steve Hobbs was sworn into the position last November, following an appointment by Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee to fill the seat.
Now, Hobbs faces challengers - including several Republicans and a long-serving elections official from Pierce County who is running as a non-partisan - as he attempts to hang on to the office for the remaining two years of former Republican Secretary of State Kim Wyman’s four-year term.
Wyman was the fifth consecutive GOP secretary of state in Washington dating back to 1965, but left for a key election security job in the Biden administration.
In addition to being the state’s chief elections officer, the secretary of state also serves as chief corporations officer and supervisor of the state archives and state library.
Ballots were mailed to the state’s nearly 4.8 million voters last week for the Aug. 2 primary. Under the state’s primary system, the top two vote getters advance to the general election in November, regardless of party.
Hobbs has raised the most among the candidates for the race to date, more than $403,000, followed by Pierce County auditor Julie Anderson, who has raised nearly $170,000. Among the Republicans in the race, former Sen. Mark Miloscia – who is now head of the conservative Family Policy Institute – has raised the most, more than $59,000. Tamborine Borrelli – an “America First” candidate who was fined by the state Supreme Court last month for making legally meritless claims alleging widespread voter fraud — has raised nearly $48,000 and Sen. Keith Wagoner – who has been endorsed by former Secretary of State Sam Reed – has raised about $38,000. Both skipped a recent televised forum hosted by the League of Women Voters.
During that forum, Hobbs pointed to his experience as a Washington National Guard lieutenant and the months he's already spent in the office as why he's best positioned to address issues ranging from cybersecurity concerns to election misinformation and disinformation.
“No other candidate except for me has the experience to combat these issues,” he said.
Anderson, who has been Pierce County auditor for the past 12 years, noted that she’s led Pierce County’s elections team through three presidential elections and has managed hundreds of elections.
“The hyperpolarization that’s so painful in our country right now and in Washington state is only going to get worse,” she said on why she’s running as a non-partisan. “We don’t need political parties in the secretary of state’s office calling balls and strikes at home plate.”
Miloscia said that he wants more audits of the system, saying that "the voters have lost confidence in what we’re doing.”
There has been no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Washington state, and Wyman, the former Republican secretary of state, regularly touted the safety and security of the vote-by-mail system. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/elections/washington-secretary-of-state-primary-election/281-5613e728-d2d6-4590-a2a4-9c98cabde4ae | 2022-07-21T02:14:30Z | https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/elections/washington-secretary-of-state-primary-election/281-5613e728-d2d6-4590-a2a4-9c98cabde4ae | true |
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James Harden has agreed to terms on a two-year contract to stay with the Philadelphia 76ers and will make about $14.5 million less this coming season than he could have earned under his previous deal, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said Wednesday.
Harden will sign a deal worth slightly over $68 million, paying him about $33 million this season and with a $35 million player option for the 2023-24 season, according to the person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team has not announced the deal.
ESPN first reported the agreement being finalized between the 76ers and the 10-time All-Star guard.
Harden had a $47.4 million option for this coming season that he declined last month, saying he wanted to give the 76ers flexibility to improve their roster and compete for a championship. Giving back that much money — Harden basically gave himself a 30% pay cut for this coming season — allowed the 76ers to make moves such as signing power forward P.J. Tucker and small forward Danuel House earlier this month.
“We got some really good pieces this summer, so now it’s time for us to go do the hard work,” Harden said in an interview with AP earlier this week to promote the upcoming launch of a new wine label bearing his name.
Harden’s plans have been clear since Philadelphia’s season ended: He was committed to staying with the 76ers and committed to help them get better.
“I’ll be here,” Harden said on May 12, when Philadelphia’s season ended with a playoff loss to Miami. “Yeah, I’ll be here. Whatever makes this team, whatever allows this team to continue to grow and get better and do the things necessary to win and compete at the highest level.”
Harden is a three-time scoring champion and averaged 22.0 points and 10.3 assists during his time with Brooklyn and Philadelphia last season. The seven-time All-NBA player was the 2018 NBA MVP and is a member of the league’s 75th anniversary team.
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(KSEE/KGPE) – Fresno State sixth-year running back Jordan Mims was named to the preseason watch list for the Doak Walker Award Wednesday, presented annually to the nation’s top college running back.
Fresno State head coach Jeff Tedford actually recruited Mims to Fresno State in his first stint as the headman, and thinks big things could be in store for Mims this season.
“It’s his time to shine, not that he hasn’t before, because he’s really been an integral part of our program, and now he’s gonna be the lead horse,” said Tedford at Mountain West Media Days in Las Vegas. “And he’s ready for it. He looks great, he’s had a great summer. And hopefully, we can keep him healthy, and he can reach his full potential.”
We got a little sneak preview of what Mims might be able to do as the lead back in last year’s New Mexico Bowl.
With Ronnie Rivers sitting out that game, Mims shined, as he finished with 236 total yards and three touchdowns, as he was named the game’s Offensive MVP.
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A man drove his pickup truck into a family as they walked in a tourist village bordering Glacier National Park and opened fire with a shotgun, killing one man and mortally wounding a toddler who was in her mother's arms before the mother's sister-in-law managed to kill the assailant after he ran out of ammunition, authorities said.
Killed in the weekend attack on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana were David Siau, 39, of Syracuse, New York, and Siau's 18-month-old daughter, McKenzie.
The assailant, Derick Amos Madden, 37, had been in a prior relationship with the woman who killed him and had mental health issues, the Glacier County Sheriff's Office said. Authorities on Wednesday would not say how he was killed.
Madden plowed a Toyota Tacoma onto a sidewalk and into the Siau family just before 9 p.m. Sunday as they walked in the small town of East Glacier Park, hitting some of them before crashing into a tree, the sheriff's office said.
Madden got out and shot and killed David Siau and mortally wounded McKenzie. The young girl was being held by her mother, Christy Siau, 40, who was shot and wounded as she tried to run away.
Madden then ran out of ammunition and used a knife to attack the sister-in-law, Christina Siau, 30. But the woman fought back and fatally wounded Madden, who authorities said died at the scene, said Capt. Tom Seifert with the Glacier County Sheriff's Office.
Seifert declined to release details on how Siau killed Madden or if any other weapons were recovered from the scene.
"She fought back and she won," he said.
Two other children of David and Christy Siau were present but managed to run away and were not injured.
McKenzie Siau was pronounced dead at the Indian Health Service hospital in Browning. Christy and Christina Siau suffered critical injuries and were flown to another hospital with a higher level of care.
Due to Christy Siau's injuries, investigators have been unable to interview her about what happened, Seifert said.
Bystanders in the area witnessed the attack and reported it to authorities, Seifert said. He added that police responded to the scene within minutes, but the attack already was over.
The Montana Highway Patrol was trying to determine the exact speed Madden was driving when he hit the family. Seifert described it as faster than the posted speed limit, which he said was at least 25 miles (40 kph) per hour.
Authorities have not said if Madden, originally of Goldsby, Oklahoma, had the shotgun legally. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is also involved in the case.
The sheriff's office described it as an "isolated...incident with a clear nexus between the victims and Madden" and said the investigation was ongoing. It was not clear what provoked Sunday's attack beyond the prior relationship between Madden and Christina Siau.
There were no records of any restraining orders against Madden on file in the Glacier County Courthouse, court officials said.
Local authorities did not know of any previous interactions that Madden had with law enforcement. He had been working in East Glacier Park, a town of about 300 year-round residents bordering Glacier National Park that gets throngs of summer tourists.
Christina Siau was originally from New York and had been living in East Glacier Park. Her brother and his family had been visiting her on vacation, Seifert said.
A co-worker of David Saiu described him as a "a great person, a great friend .... (and) a great dad, definitely loving with his three kids."
"They just loved to do activities with them outdoors, even just fun simple things, like weekend and day trips," said Peter Depuy, a bookkeeper for a Syracuse audio products company, Benchmark. David Saiu was the production manager at the 13-employee company and first started work there more than two decades ago when he was a teenager, Depuy said.
Christy Siau was a former bookkeeper for the American Baptist Churches of New York State, according to a social media postings by the organization. She was described as "a long time and beloved member" of the organization's staff in a statement from Executive Minister Rev. James Kelsey.
Christy and David Siau were also active in the First Baptist Church of Hoosick Falls, New York, Kelsey said.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Evening" game were:
4-5-9
(four, five, nine)
¶ Ticket-holders with all three winning numbers in the order given win the top prize. Lesser amounts are also awarded to ticket-holders with other varying combinations of the winning numbers. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Evening-game-17318629.php | 2022-07-21T02:21:22Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-Evening-game-17318629.php | true |
Which small cooler is best?
If you need to keep a day’s worth of snacks or drinks cold, a small cooler saves space and is easy to carry. With coolers that offer hard-sided storage to high-tech performance, these can be a way to make sure your food stays safe to eat as well. For a small cooler that insulates well and is easy to open, the Igloo Playmate 16-Quart Hardsided Lunch Cooler is the best.
What to know before you buy a small cooler
Size
Coolers can be as small as 4 or 6 quarts. These are good for a few drinks or snacks, although if you’re packing for more than one person or are planning to use it for more than a few hours, you may want something larger. Coolers between 8 and 12 quarts are still easy to carry and fit a bit more, such as a full lunch or snacks for a small group.
Coolers that hold 14 to 16 quarts are on the upper end of small, portable chests. They can hold a lot but get heavy when they are loaded down with beverages and ice.
Insulation
Coolers can have hard or soft sides that provide insulation to keep your food and drinks cold. You must add ice packs or loose ice to maintain the coolest temperatures. Some brands have ice packs designed to fit in the cooler to maximize space. Others use double-walled insulation or special cells to keep the temperature cool.
Portability
The top benefit of a small cooler is that it’s easy to carry. It has a handle either built in or attached securely on both sides. These handles are designed to be carried with one hand. Some small coolers have soft or padded shoulder straps for another carrying method.
What to look for in a quality small cooler
Durability
Look for a cooler that won’t leak, crack or break. Not only does this keep the rest of your space from getting wet, it also makes sure that the food and drinks inside stay as cold as possible. Hard molded plastic works for most daily use. If you plan to be in more extreme conditions, look for a cooler with waterproof zippers and a rip-proof covering.
Drainage
Eventually, you’ll need to drain the melted ice from your cooler. Look for one you can tip over easily to drain. Some have built-in plugs, although this isn’t always necessary for a small cooler. Look for one with a lid that stays open when you turn it over to let water out, and make sure that it dries entirely before closing.
Storage
Consider the capacity you need when selecting a small cooler. Four-quart coolers can fit up to six drinks, while larger 16-quart coolers are good for an entire day of drinks and snacks. If you want extra storage, look for a cooler with outside pockets. These can be useful to store utensils or napkins. Some coolers have divided storage compartments to separate items inside, although they will all be kept at the same temperature.
How much you can expect to spend on a small cooler
Small coolers cost $15-$200. Extra-durable coverings, superior insulation and additional exterior storage all add to the cost.
Small cooler FAQ
What’s the easiest small cooler to carry?
A. Small coolers start at 4 quarts, ideal to store snacks and drinks for one day. They are also the most portable and have convenient carrying handles. If you want something smaller, consider a lunchbox.
Are small coolers insulated?
A. Yes, they’re insulated to regulate the temperature inside. If you put items that are already cold inside, the insulation will keep them cool longer than if they were sitting out. For better cooling, add an ice pack or loose ice. This helps maintain the temperature for up to 12 hours, depending on the cooler.
What’s the best small cooler to buy?
Top small cooler
Igloo Playmate 16-Quart Hardsided Lunch Cooler
What you need to know: This is the ideal size for a day’s adventure, portable enough to take anywhere.
What you’ll love: This hard-sided cooler protects your snacks inside from getting crushed while also providing great insulation. The slide top ensures that all cooler space is usable and easy to access without spilling. There is a button on the side to allow one-handed opening. The handle is molded into the lid and extra sturdy.
What you should consider: It can get heavy when it is full of drinks and ice.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top small cooler for the money
Coleman FlipLid Personal Cooler
What you need to know: This is a great value for a 5-quart cooler.
What you’ll love: It comes in classic blue or red with a white lid. The flip-top lid can be used as a tray table for your snacks or drinks. This cooler fits six cans as well as ice packs that keep it cool for more than 12 hours.
What you should consider: The hard sides and short handle can make it awkward to carry for long distances.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: ColdCell insulation keeps your drinks and snacks cold for longer than any other cooler.
What you’ll love: The exterior is waterproof so you never have to worry about leaking ice. It is also puncture-proof and made for extremely rugged conditions. It comes with a detachable padded shoulder strap and multiple exterior attachment points.
What you should consider: It’s expensive, more than 12 times as much as budget-friendly options in the same size.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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By TOM KRISHER
AP Auto Writer
DETROIT (AP) — Tesla’s second-quarter profit fell 32% from record levels in the first quarter as supply chain issues and pandemic lockdowns in China slowed production of its electric vehicles.
But the Austin, Texas, company still surprised analysts Wednesday with a better-than-expected $2.26 billion net profit for the quarter. Tesla stuck with a prediction of 50% annual vehicle sales growth over the next few years, but said that depends on the supply chain, equipment capacity and other issues.
The company made a record $3.32 billion in this year’s first quarter.
Tesla’s sales from April through June fell to 254,000 vehicles, their lowest quarterly level since last fall. But the company predicted record-breaking production in the second half and said that in June it had the highest production month in its history.
Industry analysts had been expecting lower earnings after the lower sales figures and tweets by CEO Elon Musk about laying off 10% of the company’s work force due to fears of a recession. In an interview, Musk described new factories in Austin and Berlin as “money furnaces” that were losing billions of dollars because supply chain breakdowns were limiting the number of cars they can produce.
But Tesla exceeded Wall Street expectations from April through June with adjusted earnings of $2.27 per share. Analysts polled by FactSet expected $1.81. Revenue was $16.93 billion, beating estimates of $16.54 billion.
Edward Jones analyst Jeff Windau said the earnings were better than expected. He noted that the decrease in automobile revenues from the first quarter was offset by stronger energy storage, solar and services performance.
Musk reiterated the 50% annual vehicle sales growth forecast but said it depends a lot on circumstances that the company might not be able to control.
Windau said the forecast “shows the confidence they have in their ability to grow the electric vehicle market.”
Tesla shares rose 1.5% to $753.40 in extended trading Wednesday.
The company said it converted 75% of its bitcoin investment to government currency during the quarter, adding $936 million in cash to its balance sheet. It spent $1.5 billion on the investment last year. Overall, it booked a $106 million cost for bitcoin, plus added costs for employee reductions.
CEO Elon Musk said the bitcoin holdings were sold to raise cash because of uncertainty over how long pandemic lockdowns would last in China. He said Tesla is open to increasing bitcoin holdings in the future.
The price of bitcoin has fallen about 50% so far this year.
Musk also said Tesla is seeing indications that inflation may be declining as prices for most commodities drop. He cautioned against making economic predictions but said commodity prices, such as steel and aluminum, are trending down.
Musk said Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” beta test software is on track to be released before the end of this year to all North American customers who want to buy it. And with regulatory approval, it will be released in Europe and other parts of the world, he said. Despite its name, “Full Self-Driving” cannot drive itself, and Tesla warns that drivers have to pay attention all the time.
Chief Financial Officer Zachary Kirkhorn said the company is seeing “maybe a little” impact on demand due to macroeconomic issues. Musk reiterated that Tesla has a vehicle supply problem, not a demand problem, and said it now takes six months to a year to get a new vehicle. He said the company has increased prices to “embarrassing levels” due to inflation, but he hopes to reduce prices a bit.
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World Athletics Championships: Sydney McLaughlin into women's 400m final
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Olympic Champion Sydney McLaughlin of the USA storms into the women's 400m hurdles final after finishing way ahead of the field with a finishing time of 52.17 on day six of the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, USA.
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What is the best massage gun?
If you love getting a massage but don’t love the cost of regularly visiting a professional, purchasing a massage gun for personal use is the next best thing. This product takes the effort out of working your deep tissue or knotted areas, bringing you instant relief. The area of the body and frequency of discomfort can factor into the type of massage gun you need. Ultimately, you’ll want to find a massage gun that is convenient and feels good to use on your target areas.
How to use a massage gun
Massage guns are a great way to relieve sore muscles, but you can do more damage than good if you use them incorrectly. If you have never used a massage gun before, consider this process before pressing it to your skin.
- Turn it on: Hold the gun out and away from the skin to be sure it is functioning before use.
- Turn it down: Massage guns have levels of intensity that can be adjusted. Be sure your massager is at its lowest setting before using it.
- Test it out: Press the massager to your skin to feel how it gets to your muscles. Target your sore areas and rub the massager along the muscle.
- Breathe: Remember to breathe and relax the muscles as you use the massager. Adjust the intensity and pressure you are putting on it if needed.
Reasons to use a massage gun on your muscles
Most people are looking for relief from pain or discomfort in the muscles, but there are a few uses for your massage gun.
Activation
You can use the massage gun to activate your muscles before a workout. Organize and target the muscles about to be used in your workout plan whether they be on the upper body, core or lower body. Spend 30 seconds using the gun on each group of muscles you plan to target before your workout.
Reactivation
If your muscles are feeling tired during your workout, you can reactivate them using your massage gun. Stop your workout and zap your muscles with the massage gun for 15 seconds. It gives your muscles the boost needed to finish out strong.
Recovery and relief
After a hard workout, massage guns help your muscles recover quicker. Use the gun to massage each sore muscle used in your workout that day. You can spend two minutes rolling the massager around the muscle before switching to another. Give each muscle one or two hours before massaging them again.
How to choose a massage gun
Massage guns are not all made equally and your purpose can determine what you want to use. Before you buy a massage gun, consider the features you value most.
Battery life
If you are taking your massage gun to the gym and back it should have good battery life. Quality massage guns can be used for at least an hour without needing to be recharged. If you have an extra battery, you can alternate them out while the other charges and not have to miss a beat of your cool-down.
Noise level
The advancements of today’s technology provide us with much quieter electronics. Although your massager might make some noise when turned on, it doesn’t have to disrupt the gym. Select one that had noise minimizing technology to bring down the volume during use.
Power
Sore muscles need a lot of strength to prevent tightness. Your massage gun should be powerful enough to penetrate under the muscle tissue and work out any knots that may have developed. The power can be measured by the rpm or revolutions per minute with most guns ranging from 2,000-3,200 rpm. A higher rpm is beneficial to severe tightness or knots deep under the muscle.
Durability and portability
Massage guns are typically used after a tough workout and thrown in a bag with other gym supplies. You want your massage gun to fit in your gym bag and travel well with you. The massager you purchase should be able to withstand plenty of use and a possible drop or two.
Attachments
Most massage guns are equipped with the smooth round ball but others include additional attachments you can use. These alternate massager heads can specifically target smaller areas of the body for maximum relief. There are fork-prong attachments, flat head attachments and smaller, pointed attachments.
What you need to buy for massage gun use
This is the fourth generation of deep tissue massage guns by this brand. It is used for muscle recovery and to release stress or tension.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Therabody
iReliev Percussion Massage Gun
This massage has three levels of intensity that can be adjusted with a button. It lasts up to six hours and has four attachment heads to improve your experience.
Where to buy: Sold by iReliev and Amazon
This is a portable, powerful, handheld massage gun that travels easily with you from home to the gym. It is rechargeable and comes in four colors.
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iReliev Percussion Massage Gun
This massage system has three levels of intensity that can be adjusted with a button. It lasts up to six hours and has four attachment heads to improve your experience.
Where to buy: Sold by iReliev and Amazon
This massage oil warms up in your hands to assist in the relief of sore muscles. It is paraben free and lasts a long time when properly stored.
Where to buy: Sold by iHerb and Amazon
Dr. Teal’s Epsom Salt Soaking Solution
This is a pack of two types of Epsom salt to soothe muscles before or after a massage. Mix a potion in a warm water bath for a full-body experience.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Artnaturals Aromatherapy Top-6 Essential Oil Set
Pure 100% therapeutic-grade essential oils for muscular relief. The oils assist in soothing muscle pains when a few drops are released in a bath or blended with a carrier agent and massaged into the skin.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony domestic violence charges filed by Los Angeles County prosecutors after he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend in front of their two children.
District Attorney George Gascón announced Tuesday that his office filed one felony count of injuring a child’s parent and two felony counts of child abuse under circumstances or conditions likely to cause great bodily injury or death.
Bridges entered not guilty pleas during an arraignment, the DA’s office said.
Bridges was arrested on June 29 by Los Angeles police and was later released on $130,000 bond.
The Hornets and the NBA both said they were aware of the charges filed against Bridges.
“These are very serious charges that we will continue to monitor,” the Hornets said. “As this is a legal matter, we will have no further comment at this time.”
Mychelle Johnson, the mother of Bridges’ two young children, addressed the incident on Instagram on July 1, posting several pictures of injuries and a medical report that read “adult victim of physical abuse by male partner; Assault by strangulation, Brain concussion; Closed fracture of nasal bone; Contusion of rib; Multiple bruises; Strain of neck muscle.”
“I hate that it has come to this but I can’t be silent anymore. I’ve allowed someone to destroy my home, abuse me in every way possible and traumatize our kids for life,” Johnson wrote on Instagram. “I have nothing to prove to the world, but I won’t allow anyone who could do something so horrible to have no remorse and paint a picture of something I’m not. I won’t allow the people around him to continue to silence me and continue to lie to protect this person.”
The 24-year-old Bridges is a restricted free agent who was expected to command big money in the free agent market this summer following a breakout season.
The 6-foot-7, 225-pound Bridges was the Hornets’ leading scorer last season, averaging 20.2 points and seven rebounds in his fourth NBA season.
The Hornets have extended Bridges a qualifying offer allowing them a chance to match any offer sheet made by another team. The team had indicated prior to knowledge of Bridges’ arrest that it wanted to re-sign him.
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James Harden has agreed to terms on a two-year contract to stay with the Philadelphia 76ers and will make about $14.5 million less this coming season than he could have earned under his previous deal, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said Wednesday.
Harden will sign a deal worth slightly over $68 million, paying him about $33 million this season and with a $35 million player option for the 2023-24 season, according to the person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team has not announced the deal.
ESPN first reported the agreement being finalized between the 76ers and the 10-time All-Star guard.
Harden had a $47.4 million option for this coming season that he declined last month, saying he wanted to give the 76ers flexibility to improve their roster and compete for a championship. Giving back that much money — Harden basically gave himself a 30% pay cut for this coming season — allowed the 76ers to make moves such as signing power forward P.J. Tucker and small forward Danuel House earlier this month.
“We got some really good pieces this summer, so now it’s time for us to go do the hard work,” Harden said in an interview with AP earlier this week to promote the upcoming launch of a new wine label bearing his name.
Harden’s plans have been clear since Philadelphia’s season ended: He was committed to staying with the 76ers and committed to help them get better.
“I’ll be here,” Harden said on May 12, when Philadelphia’s season ended with a playoff loss to Miami. “Yeah, I’ll be here. Whatever makes this team, whatever allows this team to continue to grow and get better and do the things necessary to win and compete at the highest level.”
Harden is a three-time scoring champion and averaged 22.0 points and 10.3 assists during his time with Brooklyn and Philadelphia last season. The seven-time All-NBA player was the 2018 NBA MVP and is a member of the league’s 75th anniversary team.
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BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Megabucks Doubler" game were:
11-21-26-42-43-44, ST: 5
(eleven, twenty-one, twenty-six, forty-two, forty-three, forty-four; ST: five)
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The makers of Laal Singh Chaddha shared a new poster featuring Naga Chaitanya. Dressed in an army uniform, Chaitanya's character from Aamir khan-Kareena Kapoor starrer was introduced by megastar Chiranjeevi. The actor plays Aamir's best friend 'Balaraju' in the film. Soon after the poster was unveiled, Chay took to his Instagram to thank his 'Bala' Aamir Khan. He re-shared his poster from the movie and wrote, "#laalsinghchaddha ...this one will stay with me forever. Thank you for Bala @aamirkhanproductions @advaitchandan".
Earlier in the day Chiranjeevi posted the same poster on Instagram and wrote, "Introducing 'Lal Singh Chadha', Cheddy Buddy 'Balaraj'. Mana is the grandson of the 'boy king' of those days. This boy king is Akkineni Naga Chaitanya. @chay_akkineni".
A few days ago, the film's lead actor Aamir Khan organised a special screening for Chiranjeevi, Nagarjuna, Sukumar, and SS Rajamouli in Hyderabad. Taking to Twitter, Chiranjeevi posted a minute-long video showing all of them watching the screening and then discussing it afterwards.
He captioned it, "Fascinating how a chance meeting & a little chat with my dear friend #AamirKhan @Kyoto airport - Japan, a few years ago led to me becoming a part of his dream project #LaalSinghChaddha. Thank You #AamirKhan for the exclusive preview at my home. Heartened by your warm gesture!" In a response to the original tweet, the veteran actor wrote, "Most of all, what a gem of a film you have made!! Such a wonderful emotional journey!!" ALSO READ: Naga Chaitanya's fans are upset over his limited screen time in Laal Singh Chaddha's trailer!
In the clip, Chiranjeevi walked up to Aamir and shook hands with him, before giving him a warm hug. At this, Aamir wiped a tear off his eyes. Helmed by Advait Chandan, 'Laal Singh Chaddha' is an official Hindi adaptation of the Academy Award-winning 1994 film Forrest Gump, which had Tom Hanks in the lead role. It is scheduled to release on August 11 this year. | https://www.indiatvnews.com/entertainment/celebrities/laal-singh-chaddha-new-poster-naga-chaitanya-thanks-his-bala-aamir-khan-kareena-kapoor-2022-07-21-793690 | 2022-07-21T02:53:35Z | https://www.indiatvnews.com/entertainment/celebrities/laal-singh-chaddha-new-poster-naga-chaitanya-thanks-his-bala-aamir-khan-kareena-kapoor-2022-07-21-793690 | false |
Stock Alert: Arvinas (ARVN) Trades 5.09% Higher July 20
Equities Staff Follow |Arvinas Inc (NASDAQ:ARVN) shares have risen 5.09% today on 272,637 shares - compared to the 30 day average of 407,804 shares traded.
After today’s close at $54.56 the company has a 50 day moving average of $44.19.
The company expects its next earnings on 2022-08-04.
Arvinas is down 36.79% so far this year.
For technical charts, analysis, and more on Arvinas visit the company profile.
About Arvinas Inc
Arvinas is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the lives of patients suffering from debilitating and life-threatening diseases through the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapies that degrade disease-causing proteins. Arvinas uses its proprietary PROTAC® Discovery Engine platform to engineer proteolysis targeting chimeras, or PROTAC® targeted protein degraders, that are designed to harness the body's own natural protein disposal system to selectively and efficiently degrade and remove disease-causing proteins. In addition to its robust preclinical pipeline of PROTAC® protein degraders against validated and "undruggable" targets, the company has two clinical-stage programs: ARV-110 for the treatment of men with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer; and ARV-471 for the treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic ER+/HER2- breast cancer.
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Stock Alert: Cronos (CRON) Trades 11.07% Higher July 20
Equities Staff Follow |Cronos Group Inc (NASDAQ:CRON) stock was among today's market movers, concluding trading up 11.07% to $3.31 on July 20.
6,252,237 shares traded hands compared to the 30-day daily average of 1,714,915 shares.
The company's stock has risen 23.98% so far in 2022.
Cronos shares have traded in a range between $2.57 and $7.76 over the past twelve months.
The company expects its next earnings on 2022-08-09.
For technical charts, analysis, and more on Cronos visit the company profile.
About Cronos Group Inc
Cronos Group is an innovative global cannabinoid company with international production and distribution across five continents. Cronos Group is committed to building disruptive intellectual property by advancing cannabis research, technology and product development. With a passion to responsibly elevate the consumer experience, Cronos Group is building an iconic brand portfolio. Cronos Group's portfolio includes PEACE NATURALS™, a global wellness platform, two adult-use brands, COVE™ and Spinach™, and three hemp-derived CBD brands, Lord Jones™, Happy Dance™ and PEACE+™.
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Stock Alert: DigitalOcean (DOCN) Trades 11.04% Higher July 20
Equities Staff Follow |Today, DigitalOcean Holdings Inc (NYSE:DOCN) rose $4.17 to end the day Wednesday at $41.95.
The company opened at $37.92 and shares fluctuated between $42.08 and $37.80 with 1,904,195 shares trading hands.
DigitalOcean is averaging 2,026,037 shares traded over the last 30 days. They have lost 52.97% YTD.
DigitalOcean expects its next earnings on 2022-08-08.
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About DigitalOcean Holdings Inc
DigitalOcean simplifies cloud computing so developers and businesses can spend more time building software that changes the world. With its mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean helps developers, startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) rapidly build, deploy and scale applications to accelerate innovation and increase productivity and agility. DigitalOcean combines the power of simplicity, community, open source and customer support so customers can spend less time managing their infrastructure and more time building innovative applications that drive business growth.
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark – Hot Springs National Park Rangers say locals and visitors need to be better about keeping the park clean.
Park rangers say they have seen an increase in the amount of trash being left behind since the summer started.
“It’s something that we’re consistently dealing with,” said Hot Springs National Park Ranger Ashley Waymouth. “Plastic wrappers, cigarette butts, or bigger pieces of trash like water bottles, or dog waste.”
The Hot Springs National Park posted a photo just last week showing a bag filled with dog waste left on the porch of a historical bathhouse downtown.
“It’s disappointing, it’s angering,” said Hot Springs visitor Jennifer Wilt.
Wilt is visiting Hot Springs this week as part of her National Park tour.
“We decided since we were moving anyway, might as well make it a road trip and see everything along the way,” said Wilt.
Last year Wilt visited 26 national parks. This year, she’ll see 13. She says trash is a problem everywhere.
“It’s a lot of little stuff like straw wrappers, cups, pop cans,” said Wilt. “You can take a trash bag with you, and you would get a whole bag on your way out.”
Waymouth says trash impacts everyone, including the wildlife who call Hot Springs National Park home.
“We could do so much better,” said Waymouth.
She says it will be up to everyone to make the change.
“If park staff have to spend a lot of time cleaning up trash and waste, that’s a waste of our time and it’s not really a good use of taxpayer dollars,” said Waymouth.
According to the U.S. Forest Service, fines for littering range anywhere from $100 to $5,000.
The Hot Springs National Park is having a park clean-up Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
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‘During these events, your body is going to do things. Your mind is going to play some tricks on you.’: Local emergency departments practice active shooter drills
Moorhead and Fargo both put their emergency plans to the test this week to see how prepared they are in the event of an active shooter.
FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - We got a look inside a couple of the emergency preparedness drills being held this week.
The events at Fargo City Hall and Horizon Middle School in Moorhead are designed to give participants confidence and increase trust from the community.
“Hopefully, they can save more lives instead of losing lives,” says 23-year Moorhead resident Robyn Masseth.
Moorhead and Fargo both put their emergency plans to the test this week to see how prepared they are in the event of an active shooter.
“They learned a lot by actually putting their training into practice. I think they felt a sense of confidence that they were able to try that out and know they could do something. They have options when there’s a situation like that,” says City of Fargo Emergency Manager Brady Scribner.
Over 200 people, from several different departments, were involved in the training.
“Our dispatch center was included, the fire department, our Cass County Emergency Preparedness, all these people acting together. Tabletop exercises are great, but so many of our people learn from hands-on experience and actually putting those things into action,” says Fargo Police Department Assistant Chief Travis Stefonowicz.
They say they wanted to make it as realistic as possible, even hiring actors to play parts.
“It takes a lot of collaboration on both sides to get our crews in there and start search and rescue to pull victims out. The more opportunities we get to train like this, the better we’re going to get,” says Fargo Fire Department Battalion Chief Bruce Anderson.
They say there are certain things you can’t learn by just reading a plan.
“During these events, your body is going to do things. Your mind is going to play some tricks on you. The sounds you hear, the sights and smells, all those things are going to come out,” says Stefonowicz.
“The employees inside knew something was coming. They just didn’t know when or how it was going to unfold,” says Stefonowicz.
Responding departments say this training is invaluable for everyone involved, and folks in the community are happy to see the work they’re doing.
“I think it’s great to get people aware. I think it’s great to have different scenarios because you never know what’s going to happen or where or what their goals are when it happens,” says Masseth.
The Fargo Emergency Management team says this was a long time in the making, and they hope to continue the exercises for all of its city buildings.
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Maxwell Costes remembers being a little kid and sitting in his mom’s lap with his dad and older brother by his side as they watched the Orioles play at Camden Yards. He remembers being a part of the team’s junior fan club and thinking he was in the coolest ballpark in the world.
On Wednesday night, the former Maryland and Gilman star’s baseball journey came full circle when he signed with the Orioles as an undrafted free agent.
For Costes, who grew up in the upper east side of Baltimore City, you couldn’t write a better story.
“I used to always be [at Camden Yards] and be like, ‘I’m gonna be like them one day,’” he said in a phone interview. “There are no real words to describe what it means to live your dream.”
Costes was a standout first baseman during his four years at Maryland, batting .298 with 40 home runs and 145 RBIs. After hitting .310 as a junior, Costes batted .296 with 16 home runs and 52 RBIs as a senior to earn third-team All-Big Ten Conference honors.
He played a huge role in Maryland’s historic 2022 season, helping the Terps set a program record for wins (48) and host an NCAA Tournament regional in College Park for the first time.
Costes burst onto the scene as a freshman in 2019, slashing .266/.397/.547 with 15 home runs, 15 doubles and 49 RBIs. He started in all 58 games that season and was named first-team All-Big Ten.
At Gilman, Costes was named first-team All-Metro by The Baltimore Sun in 2018 after hitting .392 with six home runs and 21 RBIs while racking up seven saves on the mound.
“I went to Gilman, played four years at the state’s flagship school and get to stay home and play for [the Orioles],” he said. “You can’t really write stories better than this. It feels unreal.”
Costes could one day join his brother in the big leagues, too. Marty Costes, a former star at Archbishop Curley who spent three seasons at Maryland, currently plays for the Triple-A Sugar Land Space Cowboys after being drafted in the 22nd round by the Houston Astros in 2018.
The record-setting Terps also had three players drafted earlier this week in junior left-handed pitcher Ryan Ramsey, junior outfielder Troy Schreffler Jr. and fifth-year senior outfielder Chris “Bubba” Alleyne.
Ramsey, who threw the second perfect game in Maryland history in April, was drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 13th round. Schreffler was taken by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 15th round after slashing .340/.421/.557 in 2022. Alleyne, the Big Ten Player of the Year, was picked by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 19th round after becoming the first Division I player since 2018 to record at least 20 home runs and 20 stolen bases in a season.
MASNSports.com was first to report Costes’ signing.
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The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Wednesday:
1-3-1
(one, three, one)
6-4-3
(six, four, three)
8-7-5-4
(eight, seven, five, four)
8-6-7-2
(eight, six, seven, two)
03-13-19-31-36
(three, thirteen, nineteen, thirty-one, thirty-six)
Estimated jackpot: $220,000
4-5-9
(four, five, nine)
3-8-5
(three, eight, five)
7-6-1-2
(seven, six, one, two)
1st:3 Hot Shot-2nd:8 Gorgeous George-3rd:12 Lucky Charms, Race Time: 1:43.32
(1st: 3 Hot Shot, 2nd: 8 Gorgeous George, 3rd: 12 Lucky Charms; Race Time: one: 43.32)
02-17-19-24-36
(two, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-four, thirty-six)
03-16-18-26-28
(three, sixteen, eighteen, twenty-six, twenty-eight)
10-11-19-20-36-37
(ten, eleven, nineteen, twenty, thirty-six, thirty-seven)
14-21-24-30-35-37
(fourteen, twenty-one, twenty-four, thirty, thirty-five, thirty-seven)
7-0-1
(seven, zero, one)
7-3-7, WB:
(seven, three, seven; WB: zero)
6-4-5-1, WB:
(six, four, five, one; WB: zero)
02-08-21-25-32-34
(two, eight, twenty-one, twenty-five, thirty-two, thirty-four)
Estimated jackpot: $146,000
4-6-7
(four, six, seven)
1-7-0
(one, seven, zero)
1-1-9-8
(one, one, nine, eight)
6-9-0-3
(six, nine, zero, three)
4-8
(four, eight)
0-0
(zero, zero)
9-3-5
(nine, three, five)
2-8-3
(two, eight, three)
8-3-5-8
(eight, three, five, eight)
2-2-1-4
(two, two, one, four)
6-3-2-4-9
(six, three, two, four, nine)
2-2-6-1-3
(two, two, six, one, three)
8-4, Fireball: 2
(eight, four; Fireball: two)
2-5, Fireball: 2
(two, five; Fireball: two)
9-7-4, Fireball: 2
(nine, seven, four; Fireball: two)
8-9-6, Fireball: 2
(eight, nine, six; Fireball: two)
2-6-3-5, Fireball: 2
(two, six, three, five; Fireball: two)
3-4-6-7, Fireball: 2
(three, four, six, seven; Fireball: two)
8-7-9-0-2, Fireball: 2
(eight, seven, nine, zero, two; Fireball: two)
5-2-1-4-2, Fireball: 2
(five, two, one, four, two; Fireball: two)
8-5-9
(eight, five, nine)
8-4-6
(eight, four, six)
8-2-7-8
(eight, two, seven, eight)
2-8-2-8
(two, eight, two, eight)
8-4-4-3-5
(eight, four, four, three, five)
6-1-6-0-8
(six, one, six, zero, eight)
3-1-5
(three, one, five)
8-8-4
(eight, eight, four)
1-7-9-1
(one, seven, nine, one)
8-1-7-3
(eight, one, seven, three)
06-12-15-16-31
(six, twelve, fifteen, sixteen, thirty-one)
13-17-18-23-28
(thirteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty-three, twenty-eight)
Estimated jackpot: $750,000
04-11-19-22-23-24-25-36-37-38-40-43-44-53-54-64-67-69-75-78, BE: 11
(four, eleven, nineteen, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, forty, forty-three, forty-four, fifty-three, fifty-four, sixty-four, sixty-seven, sixty-nine, seventy-five, seventy-eight; BE: eleven)
4-2-6, SB: 8
(four, two, six; SB: eight)
5-5-3-2, SB: 8
(five, five, three, two; SB: eight)
4-2-6
(four, two, six)
5-5-3-2
(five, five, three, two)
4-7-9
(four, seven, nine)
1-9-0
(one, nine, zero)
01-06-20-22-23, Cash Ball: 19
(one, six, twenty, twenty-two, twenty-three; Cash Ball: nineteen)
3-7-7
(three, seven, seven)
1-3-2-9
(one, three, two, nine)
AD-9D-10D-2S-6S
(AD, 9D, 10D, 2S, 6S)
02-13-18-23-34, Bonus: 21
(two, thirteen, eighteen, twenty-three, thirty-four; Bonus: twenty-one)
4-9-6
(four, nine, six)
9-2-5
(nine, two, five)
2-3-7-6
(two, three, seven, six)
8-3-5-5
(eight, three, five, five)
2-1-5-7-0
(two, one, five, seven, zero)
2-9-7-3-5
(two, nine, seven, three, five)
01-07-11-14-24
(one, seven, eleven, fourteen, twenty-four)
11-21-26-42-43-44, ST: 5
(eleven, twenty-one, twenty-six, forty-two, forty-three, forty-four; ST: five)
Estimated jackpot: $13,900,000
0-5-8-9
(zero, five, eight, nine)
2-8-2-2
(two, eight, two, two)
02-17-19-21-28-40
(two, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-eight, forty)
Estimated jackpot: $1,500,000
02-18-22-38-39
(two, eighteen, twenty-two, thirty-eight, thirty-nine)
05-09-19-21-32-34
(five, nine, nineteen, twenty-one, thirty-two, thirty-four)
4D-2H-7H-8H-10H
(4D, 2H, 7H, 8H, 10H)
0-7-8
(zero, seven, eight)
5-7-5-2
(five, seven, five, two)
7-0-4
(seven, zero, four)
1-7-1-3
(one, seven, one, three)
11-18-25-28-31
(eleven, eighteen, twenty-five, twenty-eight, thirty-one)
Estimated jackpot: $100,000
03-09-19-22-28-30-36-39-42-46-50-52-54-55-60-61-63-64-66-70-74-78
(three, nine, nineteen, twenty-two, twenty-eight, thirty, thirty-six, thirty-nine, forty-two, forty-six, fifty, fifty-two, fifty-four, fifty-five, sixty, sixty-one, sixty-three, sixty-four, sixty-six, seventy, seventy-four, seventy-eight)
9-9-6
(nine, nine, six)
08-10-17-22-25
(eight, ten, seventeen, twenty-two, twenty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $140,000
02-09-26-27-30
(two, nine, twenty-six, twenty-seven, thirty)
Estimated jackpot: $37,000
5-8-3
(five, eight, three)
2-0-8-0
(two, zero, eight, zero)
11-21-25-29, Bonus: 6
(eleven, twenty-one, twenty-five, twenty-nine; Bonus: six)
Month: 12, Day: 22, Year: 66
(Month: twelve; Day: twenty-two; Year: sixty-six)
4-0-5, Fireball: 1
(four, zero, five; Fireball: one)
6-4-4-7, Fireball: 1
(six, four, four, seven; Fireball: one)
0-8-3
(zero, eight, three)
6-7-4-6
(six, seven, four, six)
19-28-31-35-36
(nineteen, twenty-eight, thirty-one, thirty-five, thirty-six)
5-4-1
(five, four, one)
4-5-0-3
(four, five, zero, three)
05-12-14-17-24-27-38-40-43-44-52-55-59-60-66-69-73-77-79-80
(five, twelve, fourteen, seventeen, twenty-four, twenty-seven, thirty-eight, forty, forty-three, forty-four, fifty-two, fifty-five, fifty-nine, sixty, sixty-six, sixty-nine, seventy-three, seventy-seven, seventy-nine, eighty)
07-17-23-29-48-57, Bonus: 21
(seven, seventeen, twenty-three, twenty-nine, forty-eight, fifty-seven; Bonus: twenty-one)
4-0-8, Lucky Sum: 12
(four, zero, eight; Lucky Sum: twelve)
5-7-3-7, Lucky Sum: 22
(five, seven, three, seven; Lucky Sum: twenty-two)
04-13-16-17-25-44, Kicker: 4-7-9-3-2-7
(four, thirteen, sixteen, seventeen, twenty-five, forty-four; Kicker: four, seven, nine, three, two, seven)
Estimated jackpot: $31,900,000
7-6-5
(seven, six, five)
5-3-6
(five, three, six)
6-8-6-2
(six, eight, six, two)
7-0-2-1
(seven, zero, two, one)
1-5-4-9-0
(one, five, four, nine, zero)
1-3-4-6-3
(one, three, four, six, three)
11-20-31-36-38
(eleven, twenty, thirty-one, thirty-six, thirty-eight)
Estimated jackpot: $120,000
15-16-19-22-24
(fifteen, sixteen, nineteen, twenty-two, twenty-four)
5-6-7
(five, six, seven)
02-06-09-14-17-24-26-29
(two, six, nine, fourteen, seventeen, twenty-four, twenty-six, twenty-nine)
Estimated jackpot: $19,000
1-4-6-7
(one, four, six, seven)
6-7-2-3
(six, seven, two, three)
0-6-4-6
(zero, six, four, six)
06-25-29-37-42
(six, twenty-five, twenty-nine, thirty-seven, forty-two)
Estimated jackpot: $300,000
13-14-15-21-37-45
(thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, twenty-one, thirty-seven, forty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $650,000
5-4, Wild: 6
(five, four; Wild: six)
9-0, Wild: 3
(nine, zero; Wild: three)
8-6-3, Wild: 6
(eight, six, three; Wild: six)
4-5-7, Wild: 3
(four, five, seven; Wild: three)
1-5-4-9, Wild: 6
(one, five, four, nine; Wild: six)
8-4-9-1, Wild: 3
(eight, four, nine, one; Wild: three)
7-9-9-9-4, Wild: 6
(seven, nine, nine, nine, four; Wild: six)
0-6-8-6-9, Wild: 3
(zero, six, eight, six, nine; Wild: three)
03-04-05-07-21
(three, four, five, seven, twenty-one)
Estimated jackpot: $12,000
9-5-6-7
(nine, five, six, seven)
7-1-5-8
(seven, one, five, eight)
03-06-11-14-31, Extra: 28
(three, six, eleven, fourteen, thirty-one; Extra: twenty-eight)
Estimated jackpot: $42,000
07-11-23-32-38, Power-Up: 2
(seven, eleven, twenty-three, thirty-two, thirty-eight; Power, Up: two)
7-4-1, FB: 7
(seven, four, one; FB: seven)
1-0-4, FB: 3
(one, zero, four; FB: three)
2-5-3-4, FB: 7
(two, five, three, four; FB: seven)
8-5-5-1, FB: 3
(eight, five, five, one; FB: three)
8-1-0, Wild: 9
(eight, one, zero; Wild: nine)
4-0-1, Wild: 7
(four, zero, one; Wild: seven)
4-1-4, Wild: 8
(four, one, four; Wild: eight)
0-9-1-0, Wild: 1
(zero, nine, one, zero; Wild: one)
2-5-5-0, Wild: 7
(two, five, five, zero; Wild: seven)
2-9-4-2, Wild: 8
(two, nine, four, two; Wild: eight)
02-05-06-07-08-12-16-18-21-22-23-24
(two, five, six, seven, eight, twelve, sixteen, eighteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four)
01-02-04-08-09-13-16-18-19-21-22-24
(one, two, four, eight, nine, thirteen, sixteen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-four)
02-03-04-05-07-08-09-12-13-17-18-21
(two, three, four, five, seven, eight, nine, twelve, thirteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty-one)
7-3-3-2, FIREBALL: 8
(seven, three, three, two; FIREBALL: eight)
2-5-7-0, FIREBALL: 1
(two, five, seven, zero; FIREBALL: one)
7-2-1-4, FIREBALL: 2
(seven, two, one, four; FIREBALL: two)
7-3-8, FIREBALL: 7
(seven, three, eight; FIREBALL: seven)
6-2-2, FIREBALL: 6
(six, two, two; FIREBALL: six)
2-4-3, FIREBALL: 5
(two, four, three; FIREBALL: five)
2-0-6, FB: 4
(two, zero, six; FB: four)
2-7-8-1, FB: 4
(two, seven, eight, one; FB: four)
1-8-6
(one, eight, six)
4-6-3-9
(four, six, three, nine)
01-02-06-07-09-11-12-16-18-19-21
(one, two, six, seven, nine, eleven, twelve, sixteen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-one)
0-8-6
(zero, eight, six)
2-7-9-2
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
2-8-6
(two, eight, six)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
2-8-6
(two, eight, six) | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Numbers-Evening-game-17318707.php | 2022-07-21T03:23:00Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Numbers-Evening-game-17318707.php | true |
After unveiling Anel Ahmedhodzic alongside loan signings Tommy Doyle and Ciaran Clark, United are pressing ahead with attempts to reach an agreement with Brighton and Hove Albion regarding Reda Khadra.
Speaking earlier this summer, following his team’s defeat in last term’s Championship play-offs, Heckingbottom identified “six or seven” vacancies within his squad which “need filling” in order for United to enhance their promotion prospects.
Goalkeeper Adam Davies, who sustained a minor ligament injury during a friendly against Lincoln City earlier this month, has also returned to Bramall Lane after accepting the offer of a new contract.
“If we have to start with this group, yes, I’d be happy,” Heckingbottom told The Star. “But we are trying for more.
“It might be different if we had Billy (Sharp) and Oli (McBurnie) playing but we don’t. Still, we’ve got them and other players to come back. You don’t wait for that, however. We want to bring some more in.”
Like Davies, Sharp and McBurnie are both still receiving treatment for fitness issues as United prepare for their penultimate friendly ahead of next month’s visit to Watford. That takes place at Burton Albion tomorrow, with Heckingbottom’s squad concluding its programme of warm-up fixtures with a trip to Barnsley on Saturday.
“I said in January what we needed and every time we’ve had a board meeting and conversations, it’s always been the same,” Heckingbottom said. “It’s always been the same positions, they’ve not changed.” | https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/sheffield-united/sheffield-united-boss-makes-a-statement-about-his-squad-as-more-signings-are-chased-3775920 | 2022-07-21T03:28:21Z | https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/sheffield-united/sheffield-united-boss-makes-a-statement-about-his-squad-as-more-signings-are-chased-3775920 | false |
Caught stealing: Man arrested with 26 stolen catalytic converters
TOLEDO, Wash. (KPTV/Gray News) - Authorities in Washington have arrested a man on theft and burglary charges after being caught with dozens of stolen catalytic converters.
The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reports deputies responded to reports of someone entering a business and stealing 26 catalytic converters off of new trucks during the overnight hours on July 13.
As reported by KPTV, surveillance footage showed a man, later identified as 38-year-old Jesse Vaidabid Jr., leaving the business through a fence with the converters in a garbage can.
Authorities said the Washington State Patrol later identified a vehicle similar to the one seen in Lewis County in Cowlitz County and found Vaidabid Jr. cutting another catalytic converter off a car.
According to the sheriff’s office, Vaidabid Jr. was taken into custody, and a search warrant for his vehicle led to the recovery of the 26 stolen catalytic converters.
Authorities report the 38-year-old is facing charges of second-degree burglary and first-degree theft.
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As first days go at a Pony Baseball South Zone Tournament, it couldn’t have gone any better for the Deer Park squads. In a word, it was a thrilling opening day.
The Deer Park Bronco 12-year-old all-stars turned a mistake of theirs into a dramatic game-ending play at the plate as the team celebrated a 4-3 victory in nine innings over the San Juan all-stars at Sadler Field.
Roughly 45 minutes before that, the Deer Park Mustang 10-year-old all-stars rallied from four runs down, finishing the uprising with a dramatic walk off basehit from Andrew Rodriguez, handing the team a 10-9 victory over the San Marcos all-stars.
The second and final day of pool play arrives Thursday for the two teams. The Bronco all-stars will oppose the Cleburne all-stars in a 1 p.m. start back at Sadler Field. The playoffs take place on Friday, starting at 9 a.m. with the top seed opposing the eighth seed. The semifinals will be Saturday morning at 10 and the championship at 12:30.
In a slight change from past South Zone action, the top two teams will be advancing to the World Series in Laredo that starts July 28.
Deer Park owned a 3-0 advantage until San Juan scored three tying runs in their final at-bat. The defense must have gone to the concession stand because three errors helped San Juan’s cause in tying the game.
With pitch count and the hot temperatures, that’s not what either team wanted. The two clubs sweated through a scoreless seventh and eighth inning, before Alexander Sablatura opened the ninth inning with a triple to the gap in left center.
After a strikeout and a fly ball to the pitcher, San Marcos made a move on the mound. But Cody Hickman greeted the new hurler with a clean single to left field, scoring Sablatura.
Austin Charanza was given the task to protect that razor-thin one-run lead and it started out well when Trey Riddle did a nice job of hauling in a fly ball in left field. But then came a single and a passed ball, before Charanza collected a strikeout.
One out away from winning, the next San Marcos batter sent a ground ball to the shortstop, who couldn’t field it, although he slowed the ball down as it rolled a bit way into the outfield grass.
Sablatura picked up the ball and needing to throw a strike to catcher Mason Holman, the kid did just that. The perfect throw enabled Holman to apply a perfect tag for the game’s final out.
“When he threw it, it was a good relay. We made an error but our teammate backed it up and we got the out,” said Holman who came up limping.
Holman worked the last seven innings behind the plate and he looked like someone who toiled that long in catcher’s gear. He probably lost three pounds in the process but all he did to fight the summer temperatures was to remain hydrated. Not a single ice-cold towel around the neck, nothing other than water.
As for Charanza, who worked the final two innings, he tried to help out his catcher by throwing as few pitches as possible.
“It was hot outside, but we had to battle through it. The pitches I threw mainly was fastball but sometimes I needed to change it up with a slider or curveball. It was good at the end, but we had to battle a lot,” Charanza said.
The Deer Park Mustang all-stars appeared headed for a loss as they batted in the home half of the fourth.
But John Carson singled and went to second base on a wild pitch. Dexter Do walked, prompting San Marcos to make a move on the hill.
But a Lily Coppedge ground ball went through the legs of the shortstop, scoring Carson and Do, before Jacob Collazo walked. Jace Newbury also reached on a shortstop’s miscue, scoring Coppedge, getting the team within one.
Parker Wilson grounded out for the inning’s first out, but it was enough to tie the game. Rodriguez, the seventh batter of the inning, then punched a ball several feet fair down the right field chalk line for the stunning game winner.
The team also rallied from a 5-3 deficit in the third when Newbury singled, scoring Collazo and Seth Dupuis singled to center, knotting the game at five.
“All the kids out here can play. It was a good game,” Manager Johnny Carson said. “We used four or five different pitchers. We minimized the pitch count to save them for the next day.”
The guys fell into their 9-5 predicament when San Marcos scored four in the top of the fourth on two singles and two walks. Deer Park prevented the deficit from growing to five runs when they tagged out a runner at home.
SOUTH ZONE NOTES: A former Houston Oilers football player is among the umpires at this week’s South Zone Tournament. You can’t miss him, he’s the umpire that wears a Houston Oilers ballcap. ADGER ARMSTRONG, who wore number 39, is his name and he played for the Oilers from 1980 through the 1982 seasons. He also played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers the next three seasons. As a fullback, he scored nine touchdowns during his NFL career. Collegeiately, he played at Texas A&M. ...Pony Baseball officials have upgraded their “office” at South Zone in a big way. In past summers, Tournament Director Billy Brooks and his entourage just took over the picnic table under the tree in the center of the complex. This summer, they have an enclosed tent-like structure, complete with an air-conditioning contraption and “windows.”
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LAHORE/SUKKUR: The death toll from a boat that capsized while carrying a wedding party earlier this week is presumed to have surpassed 50 after officials said Wednesday there was no hope of finding more survivors.
The overcrowded vessel was carrying around 100 passengers when it capsized Monday on the storm-swollen Indus River in Sadiqabad, central Punjab province.
Thirty bodies — mostly women and children — have been recovered so far. In the latest development, the rescue teams recovered four more bodies, including a child and three women, on Wednesday.
“It has been more than 48 hours since the incident so there’s no chance of finding survivors,” said Kashif Nisar Gill, a spokesman for the district administration. Most of the survivors were men who managed to swim ashore, said Gill.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
06-12-20-22-27
(six, twelve, twenty, twenty-two, twenty-seven)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
06-12-20-22-27
(six, twelve, twenty, twenty-two, twenty-seven) | https://www.thehour.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17318720.php | 2022-07-21T03:36:27Z | https://www.thehour.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17318720.php | true |
APPLETON, Wis. (WFRV) – The winners received their awards for the 2022 Appleton Flag Day Parade alongside honoring one longtime Flag Day committee member.
Dan Balliet has been helping out with the Appleton Flag Day Parade for 22 years and has made countless contributions to making the parade run smoothly.
“He’s just a great guy to be around and we’re really going to miss him,” said Corey Otis, Appleton Committee Chairperson. “He’s a huge addition on parade day.”
Balliet also served on the City of Appleton’s Common Council for seven consecutive terms, improving the quality of life of those living in the community.
“Thank you. I am glad I served the committee but all good things must come to an end, but thank you very much, I appreciate it,” said Balliet after accepting his award.
This year’s parade was a special achievement because of all the challenges the committee faced right after heavy rain moved through the downtown Appleton area.
“We’re really happy that we can recognize the effort and creativity that we see in our Flag Day Parade,” said Otis. “We think it’s a nice way to cap off parade season.”
Otis continues to tell Local 5 News that the next parade for the City of Appleton is November 22 and that will be the downtown Appleton Christmas parade, heading into its 51st year.
For more information about the Appleton Flag Day Parade, click here. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/appleton-flag-day-parade-dishes-out-awards-honors-longtime-committee-member/ | 2022-07-21T03:39:07Z | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/appleton-flag-day-parade-dishes-out-awards-honors-longtime-committee-member/ | false |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
3-9-4-3
(three, nine, four, three)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
3-9-4-3
(three, nine, four, three) | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Win-4-Evening-game-17318706.php | 2022-07-21T03:43:30Z | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Win-4-Evening-game-17318706.php | true |
Kurstyn Harden returns to Pineywoods, joins Ladyjacks,
NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - The SFA Ladyjacks are a mix of returning core players and new faces entering the 2022 season.
One of the new faces coach Mark Kellogg is excited about is transfer Kurstyn Harden. Harden comes to SFA after a three-year out of state run in Colorado but is very familiar with East Texas as a former standout from Lufkin High School.
“Since I left Lufkin I have been hooping, Harden said. “I went to Northern Colorado for three years and performed pretty well. I had the opportunity to come home and am excited.”
This past year, harden led her team in blocked shots, rebounds and was third in scoring. Harden played for one of Kellogg’s former assistant coaches and had been on his radar for a few years.
“She completely flipped it on last year and was a different kid than what we had seen previously,” Kellogg said. “It was an easy one to add depth. We have the best two post players in the league and will probably be able to play them together some. We get her for multiple years and will be a good fit. "
Harden did not lie, the cool air of Colorado is better than the Texas heat but missing her family was a big part of the decision to come back home.
“My mom has only been to about four games the past three years,” Harden said. “I have had some family come out when we have come to Texas some. It has been a big deal to have my family around me and have the environment and energy I have been waiting on for three years. "
Harden has a big personality and it seems to have caught on with her teammates.
“I have no nerves,” Harden said. “Straight energy. I love everyone here. We have been working together for the past month and I am ready to get things rolling.”
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 20, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
926 PM CDT Wed Jul 20 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of Cimarron, Oldham,
Deaf Smith, Dallam and Hartley Counties through 1000 PM CDT...
At 925 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 5 miles east of Black Mesa Park to Glenrio.
Movement was southeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Hereford, Dalhart, Boise City, Vega, Hartley, Texline, Channing,
Keyes, Adrian, Kenton, Glenrio, Wheeless, Black Mesa Park, Felt, Boys
Ranch, Griggs, Bootleg, Wildorado, Romero and Ware.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3699 10203 3650 10203 3650 10216 3475 10217
3475 10304 3650 10304 3650 10300 3700 10300
TIME...MOT...LOC 0225Z 296DEG 20KT 3685 10279 3517 10303
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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BEIJING, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2022 Yungang cultural tourism season, a cultural feast dedicated to crafting north China-situated Datong into a city characterized by being an ancient cultural capital, a cool summer resort and the capital of gourmet, kicked off in Datong of Shanxi Province on July 18.
Since 2000 when the first Yungang cultural tourism season debuted, the seasonal tourism activities have become a household cultural tourism brand and a "cultural tourism messenger" for Datong city.
Under the brand, Datong cultivated many classic cultural tourism events such as the ancient capital lantern show and the Jackie Chan international action film week, all of which brought the city further on its road to building a reputed international cultural tourism destination.
Wang Jianjiang, member of the standing committee of CPC Datong municipal committee and publicity department head, said that after years of efforts, the Yungang cultural tourism season-incubated "cool summer resort" and "cultural Datong" tourism brands are expected to further help the city shape a complete system of summer tourism brands and improve at the same time its popularity and reputation among tourists.
Recent years, Datong city's cultural tourism industry has stepped into a phase featuring development of higher quality.
Since 2017, the China Datong Tourism Development Index released by Xinhua-run China Economic Information Service and the People's Government of Datong has once reached 1,438.97 points, up nearly 50 percent since the base period and indicating enormous market attention and consumption vitality.
Regardless of others, Datong's tourism brand popularity increased notably alongside the all-around functioning brand effects. This year, cultural tourism industry in the city showcased sufficient development resilience with rural tourism and outdoor camping widely favored by travelers and in-depth tours becoming mainstream choices of tourists, which spend on average three days instead of the past 1.5 days in Datong currently.
This year, as many as 38 activities of six sub-themes are welcoming travelers to the city, including the China cultural tourism metaverse development conference, China youth sculpture exhibition, and Datong cultural tourism trendy fun creation season.
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Vivo T1 Pro vs Motorola Moto G60
Here we compared two mid-range smartphones: the 6.44-inch Vivo T1 Pro (with Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G) that was released on May 4, 2022, against the Motorola Moto G60, which is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 732G and came out 12 months before. On this page, you will find tests, full specs, strengths, and weaknesses of each of the gadgets.
Key differences
An overview of the main advantages of each smartphone
Reasons to consider the Vivo T1 Pro
- 62% better performance in AnTuTu Benchmark (539K versus 332K)
- Newer Bluetooth version (v5.2)
- The phone is 1-year newer
- More recent OS version: Android 12 versus 11
- AMOLED display (versus competitor's IPS LCD)
- Faster storage type - UFS 2.2 versus UFS 2.1
- More energy-efficient CPU – Snapdragon 778G
- 45% faster in single-core GeekBench 5 test: 795 and 549 points
- Weighs 44.7 grams less
Reasons to consider the Motorola Moto G60
- Higher display refresh rate – 120 Hz
- Comes with 1300 mAh larger battery capacity: 6000 vs 4700 mAh
- Expandable storage via MicroSD card up to 1024GB
- Has a 0.36 inch larger screen size
- Ability to record video in 4K resolution
- Includes a 3.5 mm headphone audio jack port
Display
Screen quality, color accuracy, brightness
Performance
CPU/GPU performance in apps and games
Battery
Battery life, charging type and speed
Camera
Photo and video recording quality
Connectivity
Networks, ports, data transmission
NanoReview score
Final comparison evaluation
You can enter your local price of these phones (in USD or any other currency) and click on the "Calculate" button to see which one has a better value for money.
Tests and specifications
Comparison table of technical specifications and tests
Performance
Tests of Vivo T1 Pro and Motorola Moto G60 in the benchmarks
Benchmarks
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
3DMark Wild Life Performance
Camera
Specs and camera test of smartphones
*Disclaimer! NFC, GSM network support, and some other specs can be different depending on the country.
If the performance and design are more important to you, then choose the Vivo T1 Pro. But if the battery life and sound are more of a priority – go for the Motorola Moto G60.
Cast your vote
So, which phone would you choose?
You can share your opinion or ask a question in the comments below | https://nanoreview.net/en/phone-compare/vivo-t1-pro-vs-motorola-moto-g60 | 2022-07-21T03:48:22Z | https://nanoreview.net/en/phone-compare/vivo-t1-pro-vs-motorola-moto-g60 | false |
(WJBF) – A lightning strike at a Georgia Army post left one soldier dead and nine others injured, authorities confirmed Wednesday.
Fort Gordon officials say the lightning strike happened at one of the training areas late Wednesday morning as a thunderstorm moved through.
According to authorities, Fort Gordon’s Department of Emergency Services and Emergency Medical Services responded to the scene immediately.
While authorities have confirmed one of the 10 soldiers injured did succumb to their injuries, the soldier’s name will not be released until their family has been notified.
Fort Gordon officials say that the extent of the injuries sustained is currently unknown.
Located in the southwest corner of Augusta, Fort Gordon serves as the home for the U.S. Army Signal Corps and Cyber Center of Excellence. Spanning over 55,000 acres, the post has about 16,000 service members.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/lightning-strike-kills-soldier-injures-nine-others-at-georgias-fort-gordon/ | 2022-07-21T03:59:22Z | https://www.wdtn.com/news/lightning-strike-kills-soldier-injures-nine-others-at-georgias-fort-gordon/ | false |
If talk to entertainers especially rappers/singers from back in the day they will confess a few things. First that they didn’t make nearly as much as artists do today and secondly health insurance or insurance period is almost non-existent in their lives. Hence why when a lot of entertainers get sick they don’t go to the doctor and God forbid if they pass you always hear rumblings of the families needing help to bury them. Now 37 year old rapper French Montana is adding another nugget to that little known fact. According to French Montana he believes that record labels are actually capitalizing off of artists deaths.
In a recent interview French Montana said when he first got into the Hip Hop game labels and artists actually distanced themselves from street drama but now they’ve learned how to monetize the murders by taking life insurance out on artists in anticipation of them being killed in action.
“You preying on making millions on his death. … They’re being realistic and you know, you’re supposed to have life insurance anyway, but when the label does it if you don’t have one, that’s crazy, you know?”
How crazy is that?
Take a listen to the video below | https://wzakcleveland.com/4366614/french-montana-says-record-labels-capitalize-off-artists-deaths/ | 2022-07-21T03:59:28Z | https://wzakcleveland.com/4366614/french-montana-says-record-labels-capitalize-off-artists-deaths/ | true |
Another day, another viral TikTok beauty trend!
Luckily, the latest makeup style taking over the social media platform doesn't require applying random white dots under your eyes to hypnotize men or adding a glowy sunburn effect on your cheeks. Instead, TikTok's buzzy new trend is an elevated version of wearing false lashes.
Cue: Manga Lashes.
As its name suggests, the trend is inspired by Manga—a style of Japanese comic books and graphic novels—that mimics the anime characters' dramatic eye looks. In order to achieve this effect, many TikTokers will either cut lash strips into small chunks or use individual lashes, and separate the hairs into clumps with undetectable glue. The result draws attention to the eyes with its pointy and doll-like finish.
Sacheu beauty founder, Sarah Cheung, shared a step-by-step guide on how to achieve the now-viral look.
"I usually find that it's best to apply five to seven of these little individual lashes," she explained in a TikTok video, after cutting up the strip lashes herself. "There's definitely a little bit of a learning curve. I have to apply and adjust."
She added, "The key is just to make sure these lashes are longer than your natural lashes, and they are spaced apart enough so they have that spidery, spiky look."
The beauty mogul used the same technique for her lower lashes, which many others have done as well.
"[It's] definitely more challenging than my usual lash look," she shared on Instagram, "but I lurrrv how this looks i feel like a whole doll!"
For those who want to tone down the drama, TikToker @jessyluxe used individual lashes for a more subtle effect.
"i've been doing individual lashes more lately," she captioned her video. "i love how natural they look."
If you want to leave this trend to the pros, there are even some salons that offer the manga lashes style. Wink Bar in New York City, which is known for providing the anime-inspired look to clients, has all of your needs covered!
While this hot trend requires a bit of skill (or at least some patience), it's a fun way to switch up your everyday routine. | https://www.eonline.com/news/1338804/manga-lashes-are-the-latest-beauty-trend-to-take-over-tiktok?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | 2022-07-21T04:01:41Z | https://www.eonline.com/news/1338804/manga-lashes-are-the-latest-beauty-trend-to-take-over-tiktok?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | false |
It's true, they grow up so fast!
With a new school year right around the corner, Khloe Kardashain is getting her 4-year-old daughter True Thompson ready in style.
The Kardashians star took to her Instagram Stories to show off a collection of "the cutest" personalized backpacks and accessories from the brand Stoney Clover for the little student.
"The most perfect backpacks for True's first day back to school," she captioned the July 20 photo, along with several emojis. "OMG I'm so not ready for this."
This isn't the first time Khloe has commented on how time has flown by with her daughter. Back in April, the Good American founder honored her "special soulmate" on her birthday with a heartwarming Instagram post.
"I blinked and you are 4," she wrote, along with photos from True's kitty-themed party. "I wish I could bottle you up and keep you little forever. At the same time watching you grow into the little lady you are has been the biggest honor of my life. Thank you for choosing me sweet True."
She added, "My biggest blessing. My sweetest reward. The one who changed my life forever."
Khloe shares True with her NBA star ex Tristian Thompson. The two are now preparing for the arrival of their second child—a baby boy—via surrogate.
Although they are no longer involved with each other romantically, the former couple have been candid about their wish to expand their family.
"I might get some embryos and get a sibling," Khloe told Tristan on a 2020 episode of Keeping With the Kardashians while they were separated, adding, "I might need to borrow some sperm or get some from you, but we'll figure that out later." | https://www.eonline.com/news/1338819/khloe-kardashian-not-ready-for-true-thompson-s-first-day-of-school?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | 2022-07-21T04:01:54Z | https://www.eonline.com/news/1338819/khloe-kardashian-not-ready-for-true-thompson-s-first-day-of-school?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | false |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the "Pick Three-Evening" game were:
8-5-7, Fireball:
(eight, five, seven; Fireball: zero)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the "Pick Three-Evening" game were:
8-5-7, Fireball:
(eight, five, seven; Fireball: zero) | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Three-Evening-game-17318688.php | 2022-07-21T04:07:56Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Three-Evening-game-17318688.php | false |
Finding the best anniversary gifts for him
There’s nothing better than seeing your partner’s face light up when they open a gift from you, and choosing that perfect gift always feels a little more important when honoring a milestone. Anniversaries are a time of celebrating the past and looking toward the future. Whether it’s your first or fiftieth anniversary, a thoughtful gift is a great way to show your partner appreciation for the years behind and excitement for the years to come.
Best anniversary gifts for him
Sometimes shopping for gifts for him can be a little tricky, but no matter your price range, there are many unique gifts available that are sure to make your partner smile. If you want something simple to send to their office on the day of your anniversary, check out our BestReviews gift baskets buying guide.
Gifts under $100
This cocktail smoker takes your partner’s mixology to the next level. The smoker is easy to use and fits right on the top of your favorite glass. You fill the mesh net with smoking chips and apply a flame. The result is a smooth, smoke-infused cocktail. Some more expensive versions of this smoker come with a torch.
Sold by Uncommon Goods
Take Your Pick Guitar Pick Set
If your partner loves to play the guitar, this set of pewter guitar picks is a fun gift idea and will make them think of you every time they play. Inscribed on the face of the picks are messages like “I Pick You” and “Don’t Fret.” They come in a custom wooden holder that allows for display.
Sold by Uncommon Goods
Mr. Beer Complete Beer Making Starter Kit
This fun kit gives the gift of the experience brewing of your own beer. A hopped malt extract makes it possible to get a batch ready to go in about 30 minutes, and it only takes 1 or 2 weeks for the batch to be ready to drink. The kit comes with everything you need, including bottles.
Sold by Amazon
TYIAUS Percussion Massager Gun
If you’re looking for a gift for an active partner, this massager gun can help relieve their aches and pains. Great for use after a long run or heavy weight lifting session, it penetrates deep into muscle tissue to improve blood flow, flexibility and motion. The rechargeable battery has 4-6 hours of working time and can be fully charged in 3-4 hours.
Sold by Amazon
Harry’s Shave Club Subscription
A subscription to Harry’s Shave Club makes a great gift for a guy who likes a pampered shave without too much hassle. Different volume shave kits are available and include a handle, blades and shaving gel.
Sold by Harry’s
Stanley Adventure Easy Carry 16-Quart Outdoor Cooler
For a partner who’s the adventuring type, this cooler will keep their drinks and food cold on all their travels. It comes in either green or white and has a 21-can capacity. For longer trips, this cooler can keep food cold for over a day.
Sold by Backcountry
Gifts for $100-$300
Waterford Barware Lismore Double Old Fashioned Glasses
For the partner who loves to drink their Old-Fashioneds in style, these glasses are made from beautiful Waterford crystal. The glasses come in a set of two and each hold 12 ounces. They’re perfect for a casual evening cocktail or fancy dinner party.
Sold by Amazon
Personalized Movie Marquee Photo Print
This photo print is a fun way for a movie-lover to celebrate your anniversary. Your love story is highlighted on a personalized image of a movie marquee. You customize the names, date and movie title. You can also choose which color styling you want from black and white, color or sepia. You can purchase this print with or without the frame.
Sold by Uncommon Goods
Nespresso by Breville Essenza Mini Espresso Machine
If your partner can’t live without their espresso, this is the machine for them. It’s compact, stylish and easy to use. It has an adjustable cup size, and the machine preheats the water in a mere 25 seconds for a quick brew. To save energy, it shuts off automatically after 9 minutes. A milk frother and 14 capsules are included.
Sold by Amazon and Sur La Table
Cuisinart Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker
For a fun ice cream date, this ice cream maker can bring date night to your living room. It’s easy to use and has built-in containers that hold your favorite toppings. It produces 1.5 quarts of soft serve ice cream in 20 minutes.
Sold by Amazon
Gifts $300 and over
If your partner loves to grill but hates the mess, this electric grill from Phillips is a great gift. Infrared technology heats the grill quickly and maintains a constant, even temperature. It produces 80% less smoke than other indoor grills, has a drip tray to collect grease and has reflectors to ensure meat browns on all sides.
Sold by Sur La Table
If your partner likes to listen to music wherever they go, this smart speaker from Sonos will serve them well. It’s waterproof and drop-resistant and works well indoors or outdoors. The speaker is compatible with Wi-Fi or Bluetooth and can be controlled by your voice, as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant are built-in.
Sold by Sonos
You can’t do better than this iPad Pro for your technology-obsessed partner. Its 12.9-inch screen has a brilliant liquid Retina XDR display. The battery will last all day, and the camera allows for excellent-quality photos.
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SALEM, Ore. — Young adults participating in a local summer program for students with special needs say it's making a big difference in their lives. Salem-Keizer Public Schools’ Unified Summer Program is fostering connection and friendships between students who have disabilities and general education students.
On Wednesday morning, on the field at McKay High School in Northeast Salem, a lot of activity was underway — from games of what organizers called “noodle tag” to soccer. In the school gym, students participated in volleyball, basketball and other games.
It’s all part of the Unified Summer Program, which pairs students who have special needs with their general education peers.
The summer program began in 2021, with about 100 students who participated at the high school level. This year, the program expanded to serve students at the middle and elementary school levels as well. The number of total students participating tripled to more than 300.
Kelly Parsell is a special education teacher and also a staff member for the summer program. She has been involved since it started last summer.
“For once, our community has something that's really created for these students and keeping in mind their abilities and things they enjoy,” said Parsell. “Which is huge because I don't know of any other summer programs that I could offer my students.”
While students with disabilities are welcome to join other summer opportunities in the district, Parsell said the Unified Summer Program in particular is making a huge difference
“It's the most authentic friendships I've seen built,” Parsell said. “These kids have never felt this kind of friendship and I would argue to say a lot of the partners that we bring on haven't felt this kind of connection with students as well. It's really special.”
19-year old Jackson Campbell graduated last year but is back helping out and getting work experience as a student worker. He is being paid through a grant and is involved in the Community Transition program at the district, which means he’ll be getting additional support and opportunities through the district until he’s 21. Campbell said the Unified program has made a big difference in his life.
“It makes a huge difference because normal — I’m not gonna say normal people. I'm just gonna say people without special needs, would just at first, view people with special needs as like not that important to society. But here's the truth, they are just as equally important,” said Campbell.
Javi Martinez will be a senior next year and is a student with special needs. Martinez said he enjoys participating in the summer program and likes hanging out with his peers.
Connecting with other people and forming friendships is at the heart if the Unified Summer Program. Students this year not only had a chance to connect through sports and games, but also art classes, which were a new addition this summer.
“I hope we continue to dream big,” said Parsell, adding that it’s important to find ways to bring the community together as a whole and connect them.
Officials with Salem-Keizer Public Schools said the goal is to continue expanding opportunities for students with special needs to interact with their general education peers.
The Unified Summer Program is an offshoot of the Unified program that’s offered during the regular school year. The Unified program first started at South Salem High School in 2018 and paired up students with disabilities with general education students in classes like physical education, art, theater, or culinary skills. Now, the program is in all the district’s high schools and nine of 11 middle schools.
The Unified program will be rolling out at the elementary level this upcoming school year. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/education/salem-keizer-special-needs-students-summer-program-unified/283-67e07e7d-9433-47a2-abcc-42d24fbacfd4 | 2022-07-21T04:15:07Z | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/education/salem-keizer-special-needs-students-summer-program-unified/283-67e07e7d-9433-47a2-abcc-42d24fbacfd4 | false |
On the rebound from Michy Batshuayi’s shot, Christian Pulisic lobs the goalkeeper to score Chelsea’s first goal of the night against Charlotte FC!
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HANGZHOU, China, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloud Village Inc. (HKEX: 9899, "NetEase Cloud Music" or the "Company"), a leading interactive music streaming service provider in China, today announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement for digital music distribution ("the Agreement") with YG Entertainment Inc. ("YG Entertainment"), a leading entertainment company in South Korea, granting NetEase Cloud Music the right to distribute YG Entertainment's music catalog in China.
Under the terms of the Agreement, both parties will engage in innovative approaches to unlock more opportunities for YG Entertainment's vast and influential catalog as well as its artists on the platform, including music by popular K-Pop groups such as BIGBANG and BLACKPINK, and utilize their strengths to expand the music library on NetEase Cloud Music platform to provide more high-quality music content for Chinese music lovers.
Founded in 1996, YG Entertainment is one of the largest entertainment management companies in South Korea. It has been at the forefront of the popularization of hip-hop music. It is also the entertainment company with the most hip-hop singers in South Korea. World-renowned artists on its roster include BIGBANG, BLACKPINK, SECHSKIES, AKMU, WINNER, iKON and TREASURE.
As one of China's leading online music platforms, NetEase Cloud Music has been gaining presence among the younger generation. The unique music community atmosphere, highly interactive user base and strong user stickiness of NetEase Cloud Music further demonstrate the platform's capability in efficiently promoting music content while enhancing the interaction between artists and their fan base in China.
NetEase Cloud Music has been actively expanding its broad portfolio and once again is joining hands with a top South Korean entertainment company to continually supplement the platform's high-quality content to cater to users' diverse music tastes spanning multiple genres. Recently, NetEase Cloud Music has reached music copyright cooperation with a number of top record labels, including Modern Sky, Emperor Entertainment Group, China Record Group, Feng Hua Qiu Shi, Yuehua Entertainment, Linfair Records, SM Entertainment and TF Entertainment. In the future, NetEase Cloud Music will keep on promoting its collaborations with upstream copyright owners and continue to provide more high-quality music content for Chinese music enthusiasts.
About Cloud Village Inc.
Launched in 2013 by NetEase, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES; HKEX: 9999), Cloud Village Inc. (HKEX: 9899) is a leading interactive music streaming service provider in China. Dedicated to providing an elevated user experience, Cloud Village Inc. provides precise, personalised recommendations, promotes user interaction and creates a strong social community. Its focus on discovering and promoting emerging musicians has made Cloud Village Inc. a destination of choice for exploring new and independent music among music enthusiasts in China. The platform has been recognised as the most popular entertainment app among China's vibrant Generation Z community.
Please see http://ir.music.163.com/ for more information.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to the business outlook, estimates of financial performance, forecast business plans and growth strategies of the Company. These forward-looking statements are based on information currently available to the Company and are stated herein on the basis of the outlook at the time of this press release. They are based on certain expectations, assumptions and premises, some of which are subjective or beyond our control. These forward-looking statements may prove to be incorrect and may not be realised in the future. Underlying these forward-looking statements are a lot of risks and uncertainties. In light of the risks and uncertainties, the inclusion of forward-looking statements in this press release should not be regarded as representations by the Board or the Company that the plans and objectives will be achieved, and investors should not place undue reliance on such
statements.
Investor Enquiries:
Angela Xu
Cloud Village Inc.
music.ir@service.netease.com
Media Enquiries:
Li Ruohan
NetEase, Inc.
globalpr@service.netease.com
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HANGZHOU, China, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloud Village Inc. (HKEX: 9899, "NetEase Cloud Music" or the "Company"), a leading interactive music streaming service provider in China, today announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement for digital music distribution ("the Agreement") with YG Entertainment Inc. ("YG Entertainment"), a leading entertainment company in South Korea, granting NetEase Cloud Music the right to distribute YG Entertainment's music catalog in China.
Under the terms of the Agreement, both parties will engage in innovative approaches to unlock more opportunities for YG Entertainment's vast and influential catalog as well as its artists on the platform, including music by popular K-Pop groups such as BIGBANG and BLACKPINK, and utilize their strengths to expand the music library on NetEase Cloud Music platform to provide more high-quality music content for Chinese music lovers.
Founded in 1996, YG Entertainment is one of the largest entertainment management companies in South Korea. It has been at the forefront of the popularization of hip-hop music. It is also the entertainment company with the most hip-hop singers in South Korea. World-renowned artists on its roster include BIGBANG, BLACKPINK, SECHSKIES, AKMU, WINNER, iKON and TREASURE.
As one of China's leading online music platforms, NetEase Cloud Music has been gaining presence among the younger generation. The unique music community atmosphere, highly interactive user base and strong user stickiness of NetEase Cloud Music further demonstrate the platform's capability in efficiently promoting music content while enhancing the interaction between artists and their fan base in China.
NetEase Cloud Music has been actively expanding its broad portfolio and once again is joining hands with a top South Korean entertainment company to continually supplement the platform's high-quality content to cater to users' diverse music tastes spanning multiple genres. Recently, NetEase Cloud Music has reached music copyright cooperation with a number of top record labels, including Modern Sky, Emperor Entertainment Group, China Record Group, Feng Hua Qiu Shi, Yuehua Entertainment, Linfair Records, SM Entertainment and TF Entertainment. In the future, NetEase Cloud Music will keep on promoting its collaborations with upstream copyright owners and continue to provide more high-quality music content for Chinese music enthusiasts.
About Cloud Village Inc.
Launched in 2013 by NetEase, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES; HKEX: 9999), Cloud Village Inc. (HKEX: 9899) is a leading interactive music streaming service provider in China. Dedicated to providing an elevated user experience, Cloud Village Inc. provides precise, personalised recommendations, promotes user interaction and creates a strong social community. Its focus on discovering and promoting emerging musicians has made Cloud Village Inc. a destination of choice for exploring new and independent music among music enthusiasts in China. The platform has been recognised as the most popular entertainment app among China's vibrant Generation Z community.
Please see http://ir.music.163.com/ for more information.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to the business outlook, estimates of financial performance, forecast business plans and growth strategies of the Company. These forward-looking statements are based on information currently available to the Company and are stated herein on the basis of the outlook at the time of this press release. They are based on certain expectations, assumptions and premises, some of which are subjective or beyond our control. These forward-looking statements may prove to be incorrect and may not be realised in the future. Underlying these forward-looking statements are a lot of risks and uncertainties. In light of the risks and uncertainties, the inclusion of forward-looking statements in this press release should not be regarded as representations by the Board or the Company that the plans and objectives will be achieved, and investors should not place undue reliance on such
statements.
Investor Enquiries:
Angela Xu
Cloud Village Inc.
music.ir@service.netease.com
Media Enquiries:
Li Ruohan
NetEase, Inc.
globalpr@service.netease.com
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A 29-year-old man was killed and another injured as a motorcycle rammed into a bus parked on the roadside in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district in the early hours of Thursday, officials said.
Vishwanath of Puruwala was killed as his two-wheeler rammed into the bus at Bhangyani in Puruwala in Paonta Sahib at around 2 am, they added. The injured man -- Kaka Ram (26) of Puruwala -- has been admitted at a Paonta Sahib hospital for treatment.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
6-7-2-2-6
(six, seven, two, two, six)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
6-7-2-2-6
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- Apollo RT6 is purposefully designed for fully autonomous driving, with a detachable steering wheel unlocking space for a more versatile in-car experience.
- With a dramatically lowered production cost of 250,000 RMB per unit, Apollo RT6 is set to join the Apollo Go ride-hailing service starting in 2023, expanding consistently to reach tens of thousands of units.
- The model, with L4 autonomous driving capability, features 1200 TOPS of computing power and robust sensor architecture for complex urban environments.
BEIJING, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX: 9888) ("Baidu" or the "Company"), a leading AI company with strong internet foundation, today unveiled its next-generation fully autonomous vehicle (AV) Apollo RT6, an all-electric, production-ready model with a detachable steering wheel. Designed for complex urban environments, Apollo RT6 will be put into operation in China in 2023 on Apollo Go, Baidu's autonomous ride-hailing service. With a per unit cost of RMB 250,000 (~$37,000), the arrival of Apollo RT6 is set to accelerate AV deployment at scale, bringing the world closer to a future of driverless shared mobility.
"This massive cost reduction will enable us to deploy tens of thousands of AVs across China. We are moving towards a future where taking a robotaxi will be half the cost of taking a taxi today," said Robin Li, Co-founder and CEO of Baidu, at Baidu World 2022, the company's flagship technology conference.
As Baidu's 6th generation AV, Apollo RT6 is distinct from previous generations that were otherwise retrofitted on conventional vehicles. The steering wheel-free design unleashes more space to craft unique interiors, allowing for the installation of extra seating, vending machines, desktops, or gaming consoles. At 4760mm long with a wheelbase of 2830mm, the rider-first Apollo RT6 delivers comfort with independent rear seating, ample rear legroom of 1050mm, a purely flat floor and an intelligent interaction system. The Apollo RT6 exterior features a revolutionary look that seamlessly integrates sensors on the sunroof alongside interactive lights and intelligent electric sliding doors to further enhance the riding experience.
Apollo RT6 integrates Baidu's most advanced L4 autonomous driving system, powered by automotive-grade dual computing units with a computing power of up to 1200 TOPS. The vehicle utilizes 38 sensors, including 8 LiDARs and 12 cameras, to obtain highly accurate, long-range detection on all sides. The safety and reliability of Apollo RT6 are backed by a massive trove of real-world data, a total test mileage of over 32 million kilometers (~20 million miles) driven by Baidu's AV to date.
Speaking at Baidu World 2022, Zhenyu Li, senior corporate vice president of Baidu and general manager of Intelligent Driving Group (IDG), said the autonomous driving capability of Apollo RT6 is equivalent to a skilled driver with 20 years of experience.
Apollo RT6 is the first vehicle model built on Xinghe, Baidu's self-developed automotive E/E architecture specially for fully autonomous driving. The vehicle is 100% automotive-grade and has full redundancy throughout both hardware and autonomous driving software.
The creation of Apollo RT6 marks another milestone for Baidu to achieve its goal of providing safer, greener and more efficient mobility solutions. As the world's largest robotaxi service provider, Apollo Go has expanded to 10 cities in China since its launch in 2020, including all first-tier cities, and provided more than 1 million orders.
About Baidu
Founded in 2000, Baidu's mission is to make the complicated world simpler through technology. Baidu is a leading AI company with strong Internet foundation, trading on the NASDAQ under "BIDU" and HKEX under "9888." One Baidu ADS represents eight Class A ordinary shares.
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Fintech provides transformative compliance automation for 135+ banks and credit unions
HOUSTON, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FINBOA, Inc., a leading innovator in intelligent process automation for regulatory compliance in financial institutions, announced 104% revenue growth in the first half of FY2022 over same period 2021. FINBOA attributes the continued success to offering a proven portfolio of software solutions specifically designed for banks and credit unions. Created to transform back-office processing and the customer experience using RPA, FINBOA increases staff efficiency and accuracy, while reducing compliance costs, loss and risk.
FINBOA's industry recognized SaaS products digitize and modernize the inefficient manual processes or systems commonly used to manage regulatory compliance processing for Payment Disputes, Exception Management, and Loan or Treasury Onboarding.
FINBOA sales pipeline remains strong, fueling new business momentum into Q3 and beyond. During H1 2022, more than 135 financial institutions nationwide, with asset sizes ranging from tens of millions to billions, utilized FINBOA software. In addition to securing 23 new institutions as customers this year, FINBOA experienced increased demand from existing customers choosing to implement additional offerings from FINBOA's growing product portfolio.
FINBOA CEO and Founder, Raj Singal commented, "Tackling process automation can help financial institutions compete and win while improving the level of service provided to their account holders. We continue our mission to empower the back office workforce, allowing compliance teams to be more responsive and alert to trends, enabling better decision-making and saving both cost and time."
In 2Q, FINBOA formally announced a partnership with Computer Services Inc. (CSI) for CSI to resell FINBOA payment dispute management software. In April, FINBOA was named a Fintech Banking Tech finalist for the Tech of the Future award.
FINBOA partners with customers to ensure successful implementation and solution adoption. Account retention remains high as FINBOA users experience real results. For example, FINBOA's Regulation E Dispute Management solution reduces claim-related losses up to 25% and process time by 90%, all with an average implementation timeline of 30-45 days.
FINBOA provides intelligent process automation to banks and credit unions to simplify and improve regulatory compliance by eliminating manual systems. Leveraging extensive industry experience and a commitment to customer service, FINBOA delivers transformative software proven to enable institutional growth by reducing operational costs and risk. FINBOA is headquartered in Houston. Learn more at www.finboa.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
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One soldier was killed and nine service members injured after a lightning strike at a military base in Georgia on Wednesday morning, a base spokeswoman said.
The personnel were treated at the Eisenhower Army Medical Center and one of the soldiers later died. The medical center declined to comment and Bowman said she couldn’t release the names or units of the involved service members. The Army has a policy of not releasing casualty details to the public until a soldier’s family has been notified.
“Hopefully by noon tomorrow we’ll have more information,” Bowman said on the phone.
Fort Gordon is located about ten miles west of downtown Augusta, Ga., which is near the border with South Carolina. It largely houses Army units, and hosts some 80,000 people, including 16,000 service members.
The military has lightning safety precautions in place. For instance, soldiers may be asked to remove tactical gear, to leave weapons on the ground and to maintain distances of up to 15 feet. Army manuals advise soldiers to remove objects that may “produce a metallic upward projection, such as a radio or rifle,” and to disperse to minimize the chances of multiple injuries from a strike.
But risk of lightning injury remains. In August 2015, the Army Ranger School was conducting the swamp phase of its training in Florida, with lightning lockdown procedures in place. But when a bolt struck a tree, spreading electrical currents throughout the wooded area, dozens of soldiers were injured, with 18 soldiers losing consciousness, according to a 2017 study published in the journal Military Medicine.
The odds of getting hit by lightning in any given year are less than one in a million in the United States and the vast majority of people survive such strikes. But many service members spend more time outdoors than the general public and lightning fatalities are more common in the southeastern United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Florida, which the CDC calls America’s “lightning capital,” logged 79 strike-related deaths in the 2006-2021 period. Georgia has one of the highest lightning fatality tolls in the country, with 16 deaths during that period. July is the most dangerous month for lightning strikes in the United States. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/07/21/fort-gordon-georgia-lightning-strike-soldier-dead/ | 2022-07-21T04:42:46Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/07/21/fort-gordon-georgia-lightning-strike-soldier-dead/ | true |
1 soldier dead, 9 injured in lightning strike at Ga. base
FORT GORDON, Ga. (WRDW) - As thunderstorms moved through the area, 10 soliders were injured by a lighting strike, killing one of them, at Georgia’s Fort Gordon.
It happened around 11:10 a.m. Wednesday, according to spokeswoman Anne H. Bowman.
“It is with a heavy heart Fort Gordon confirms one of the soldiers injured in the lightning strike this afternoon succumbed to their injuries,” said Bowman in a statement.
The identity will be released once the next of kin is notified, WRDW reports.
As thunderstorms moved through the area, the soldiers suffered injuries associated with a lightning strike at one of their training areas.
Fort Gordon’s Department of Emergency Services and Emergency Medical Services responded to the scene immediately, according to Bowman.
The extent of the other nine injuries sustained is currently unknown.
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UK Dockworkers at Major Container Port to Vote on Strike Over Pay
Hundreds of dockworkers at one of Britain's largest container ports will be balloted for strike action in a dispute over pay and conditions, a union representing them said on Tuesday, threatening disruption to supply chains.
Staff from a range of sectors, including rail and aviation, have resorted to strikes as pay hikes fail to keep up with British inflation, which reached a 40-year peak of 9.1% in May.
The Unite union said more than 500 dockworkers at MDHC Container Services, part of Peel Ports, in Liverpool would be asked to vote over industrial action after a 7% pay offer was deemed inadequate and workers were not given an agreed bonus.
"Strike action will inevitably severely affect shipping and road transport as well as creating shortages in supply chains," Unite regional officer Steven Gerrard said in a statement.
The dockworkers being balloted are involved in port operations, including loading and unloading of containers.
A representative for Peel Ports said news of the strike ballot was "extremely disappointing "especially as the shipping industry already faces supply chain disruptions due to the coronavirus pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine.
Peel Ports had effectively increased pay by 16%-25% over the last three years at the Liverpool port, port official Richard Mitchell said in an emailed statement. The firm had also boosted sick pay, night work allowance and pension contributions, he said.
"We remain committed to resolving the situation," Mitchell, port director for Liverpool Containers at Peel Ports, said.
The strike ballot will open on July 25 and close on Aug. 15, and stoppages at the port could begin at the end of August if workers vote to strike.
(Reuters - Reporting by Sachin Ravikumar; editing by Barbara Lewis and Ed Osmond) | https://www.maritimeprofessional.com/news/dockworkers-major-container-port-vote-378100 | 2022-07-21T04:46:25Z | https://www.maritimeprofessional.com/news/dockworkers-major-container-port-vote-378100 | false |
Can US Port Infrastructure Handle More Crude Exports?
U.S. crude shippers are exporting huge amounts of oil to meet strong demand from Europe following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and subsequent sanctions against Moscow. In coming years U.S. oil may find even more buyers overseas, but that could test the capabilities of U.S. export infrastructure.
How much crude does the United States typically export?
U.S. crude exports averaged 3.7 million barrels per day (bpd) over the four weeks through late May, their highest since March 2020, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. More recently, exports are averaging 3.1 million bpd, making the United States one of the biggest crude exporters worldwide.
Where does the United States export oil from?
The United States mostly exports from the Gulf Coast from ports including Houston, Corpus Christi and Beaumont, all in Texas. Corpus Christi is the largest, exporting about 2 million bpd of oil, followed by Houston at around 700,000 bpd, said Matt Smith, lead oil analyst for the Americas at Kpler.
In the first half of 2022, more than 99% of U.S. crude exports came out of the Gulf Coast, Kpler data showed.
How much could the United States potentially export?
Analysts say the U.S. Gulf could export roughly 5 million bpd; any more than that would cause substantial congestion in shipping channels, Smith said. However, that would also require an increase in U.S. production.
The weekly record for U.S. crude exports was nearly 4.5 million bpd in December 2019. The world's top producer is pumping about 12 million bpd, and uses most of that oil domestically.
U.S. ports have been expanding in recent years, including major dredging projects to handle larger tankers that can carry more oil, and some, like Corpus Christi, could potentially handle more exports.
The Port of Corpus Christi is undergoing an improvement project that, once completed next year, would expand the ship channel to increase U.S. exports. It will, however, still require ship-to-ship transfers as the ship channel is not deep enough to fully load the Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs), which hold about 2 million barrels, favored in other major ports.
Gulf Coast exports are expected to surpass 4 million bpd in mid-2023 and reach 4.8 million bpd by late 2024, said Louise Dickson at Rystad Energy.
Where does U.S. oil go?
The United States sends the majority of its crude - about 1.4 million bpd - to Europe, around 1 million bpd to Asia, 250,000 bpd to Canada, and other barrels to Latin America, Kpler's Smith said.
U.S. export demand is heavily determined by the price of U.S. crude relative to Brent crude, the global benchmark. Currently U.S. crude is trading at a discount of around $6.80 to Brent, making U.S. grades attractive to buyers in other countries.
Why is the U.S. exporting oil when local fuel prices are high?
Not all U.S.-produced oil is optimal for domestic refineries. The United States produces a lot of "sweet" crude, which is lower in sulfur content, and its refineries are generally geared toward processing more "sour," heavier crude, Smith said.
That means more domestic barrels will be sent abroad to refiners that can process them, while U.S. refiners import barrels best suited to their use.
The United States has long been a crude importer, though net imports are steadily declining; the nation imported, on net, about 3.1 million bpd in 2021, more than halved from 6.8 million bpd in 2017, according to the EIA.
(Reuters - Reporting by Stephanie Kelly Editing by Marguerita Choy) | https://www.maritimeprofessional.com/news/port-infrastructure-handle-more-crude-378130 | 2022-07-21T04:46:38Z | https://www.maritimeprofessional.com/news/port-infrastructure-handle-more-crude-378130 | false |
BOJ raises inflation forecast, keeps policy steady
TOKYO, July 21 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan raised its inflation forecast on Thursday, but maintained ultra-low interest rates and warned of risks to the economic outlook in a sign it will remain an outlier among a global wave of central banks tightening monetary policy.
"For the time being, while closely monitoring the impact of COVID-19, the bank will support financing ... and will not hesitate to take additional easing measures if necessary," the BOJ said in a statement announcing the decision.
As widely expected, the BOJ kept unchanged its -0.1% target for short-term interest rates, and 0% for the 10-year government bond yield by a 8-1 vote.
In fresh quarterly projections, the BOJ raised its core consumer inflation forecast for the current fiscal year ending in March 2023 to 2.3% from 1.9% projected in April.
It expects core consumer inflation to hit 1.4% in fiscal 2023, compared with 1.1% in April.
The board cut its economic growth forecast for the current fiscal year to 2.4% from a 2.9% rise seen three months ago. (Reporting by Leika Kihara, Tetsushi Kajimoto, Daniel Leussink and Kantaro Komiya Editing by Chang-Ran Kim) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11034263/BOJ-raises-inflation-forecast-keeps-policy-steady.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-21T04:46:40Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11034263/BOJ-raises-inflation-forecast-keeps-policy-steady.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
6-7-2-2-6
(six, seven, two, two, six)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
6-7-2-2-6
(six, seven, two, two, six) | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-5-game-17318768.php | 2022-07-21T04:50:47Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-5-game-17318768.php | false |
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Many policies were put in place before and during the 2020 presidential election, but those policies haven’t cut down all of the misinformation, and in some cases, have been revoked.
"Midterm elections are harder than presidential elections for these platforms," said Katie Harbath, CEO at Anchor Change and former public policy director at Facebook. "435 congressional seats, 30-some-odd senate races — it is much more decentralized, which makes it both harder to know where to tackle but also hard to keep track of."
For instance, more than 100 Republican primary winners in statewide or Congressional races have backed the false claim that the 2020 election was rigged, with many doing so online, according to the Washington Post. Additionally, The New York Times found that the film "2,000 Mules," which falsely claims the election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, had more than 430,000 interactions on Facebook and Instagram by June.
What's more, these online narratives are bleeding into the real world. An NPR investigation found that since the Jan. 6 insurrection, four prominent election denialists have held more than 308 events, often small and at the grassroots-level, across 45 states and the District of Columbia.
"As long we're talking about U.S.-based tech companies that are running on algorithmic amplification of whatever is most viral and trending, this is a systemic issue that will never, never be fought," said Martin Riedl, postdoctoral research fellow at the The University of Texas at Austin's propaganda research lab. "It's always in the interest of platforms to amplify, at least to a certain extent, and to intervene a little too late. You still want the spread, and you still want engagement metrics to rise."
Yosef Getachew, media and democracy program director at Common Cause, helped author a letter from more than 120 civil society groups to seven major social media companies, noting that "disinformation related to the 2020 election has not gone away but has continued to proliferate." The letter’s demands included consistent enforcement of civic integrity policies during both election and non-election cycles and the prioritization of enforcement around combatting what they call the big lie that says Trump won the 2020 election.
"A lot of the disinformation that we're seeing now is really recycled content from the Big Lie, but it's packaged in new ways that is getting more and more attention," Getachew said. "When we're talking about the 2022 election cycle, we're seeing a lot of candidates now preemptively declare voter fraud, and this is based primarily off the Big Lie. A lot of candidates are using the Big Lie as a platform plank."
Another challenge to moderating 2022 midterm misinformation is the rising popularity of video content on social media. According to a Pew Research poll, as of mid-2021, more than 80% of Americans say they use YouTube, and TikTok is now the most popular website in the world.
"There are three main challenges," said Zeve Sanderson, executive director of NYU'S Center for Social Media and Politics. "The first is that live video is incredibly difficult to moderate because it's live. The second is just the complexity of video data relative to text data. The ability to classify these data at scale are relatively underdeveloped compared to just sort of text data. The third is that external researchers, journalists, civil society groups, don't have the resources or capacity to deal with video data right now. It's taken sort of an all-of-society effort to hold social media companies responsible in text form when we saw text as the main way that information spread."
For former Facebook employees like Harbath, the situation is too little, too late. What’s important, however, is to start thinking about the next set of elections.
"We should've started thinking about the 2024 election a couple months ago, in all honesty, and be thinking about that through the lens of the midterms and how you keep that through point continuing, because we know that the 2024 elections have to start, maybe even before the midterms start, but immediately afterwards," Harbath said.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Thousands of cattle are covered in blisters from highly infectious foot-and-mouth disease in Indonesia, sounding the alarm for the country, its Southeast Asian neighbors and Australia. The virus found in two provinces in May has now infected several hundred-thousand animals across multiple provinces, including the popular tourist destination of Bali.
Indonesia is now taking measures to curb the spread of the disease. Australia has offered assistance in hopes of preventing the disease and its economic and environmental consequences from crossing its borders.
Here's a look at the disease and what's happening in Indonesia.
___
WHAT IS FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE?
Foot-and-mouth disease is caused by a virus that infects cattle, sheep, goats, swine and other cloven-hoofed animals. While death rates are typically low, the disease can make animals ill with fever, decreased appetite, excessive drooling, blisters and other symptoms.
The disease was once found worldwide but has since been erased from some regions, including western Europe and North America. Parts of Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia and Thailand, have had regular outbreaks, but Indonesia until now had been free from the disease since 1986.
The ongoing outbreak is concentrated in dairy and beef cattle, but the spread to other susceptible animals can't be ruled out.
___
HOW DOES IT SPREAD?
The virus spreads easily through contact and airborne transmission and can quickly infect entire herds. People can spread the disease though things like farming equipment, shoes, clothing, vehicle tires and more that have come in contact with the virus. Though it's considered rare, humans can also carry the virus in their nose for short periods of time, infecting animals, said Michael Ward, chair of the Veterinary Public Health & Food Safety at the University of Sydney.
Livestock feed and animal products such as meat and hides can also carry and spread the virus.
More than 300,000 livestock in Indonesia had foot-and-mouth disease by the first week of July. In the same month, the Eid al-Adha festival — a Muslim holiday marked with ritual animal sacrifice — resulted in large movement of animals around the country, which is considered to have accelerated the spread of the disease.
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WHY ARE OFFICIALS WORRIED?
Because it is so easily spread, the virus can be incredibly difficult to get rid of once there is an outbreak. In poorer countries, sick animals affect people's access to food. In middle-income and richer countries, the disease affects the livestock trade and related industries. One paper estimated that foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks can cost billions of dollars, highlighting the damage to governments and farmers.
Australia, which is currently free of foot-and-mouth disease, has expressed particular worry about the spread from Indonesia. The resort island of Bali is a popular tourist destination for Australians and has confirmed cases of the disease.
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WHAT IS BEING DONE TO COMBAT THE OUTBREAK?
Indonesia is using animal testing, vaccination, treatment, and conditional slaughter to try to curb the outbreak. The Ministry of Agriculture launched a vaccination program for livestock in mid-June, prioritizing doses for healthy animals at high risk of infection, such as those at crowded places such as livestock breeding centers, community-owned dairy farms, dairy cooperatives, and beef cattle farms.
The Australian government has offered financial and vaccine assistance for Indonesia’s response to the recent outbreak. The vaccination program is likely to focus on support for the small-holder farm sector, which accounts for 90% of Indonesia’s cattle industry.
In Australia, the government announced it would install disinfectant mats at airports that are intended to capture potentially contaminated dirt from the shoes of those returning from overseas. Government officials also promised more stringent biosecurity checks, such as sniffing detector dogs, for those returning from overseas.
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CAN PEOPLE GET FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE?
No. Foot-and-mouth disease is often confused with hand, foot and mouth disease, which is caused by a different virus and mostly infects young children. People do not get the animal disease, and animals do not get the human disease, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Evers 'a long way from decision' on Hard Rock casino plans
The Menominee Tribe announced a partnership on Wednesday with Hard Rock International to open a casino and entertainment complex in Kenosha County.
The Menominee Tribe announced a partnership on Wednesday with Hard Rock International to open a casino and entertainment complex in Kenosha County.
The Menominee Tribe announced a partnership on Wednesday with Hard Rock International to open a casino and entertainment complex in Kenosha County.
Gov. Tony Evers would not commit, Wednesday, to a specific position over the latest development to bring a casino to Kenosha County.
"I'm a long way from a decision on that," the governor said after an event in Grafton Wednesday night.
The reaction came to the partnership announced between the Menominee Tribe and Hard Rock International to open a casino and entertainment complex in the county.
The village of Bristol owns the land at the targeted site west of Interstate 94. Its leaders recently approved an option agreement to sell the land.
The idea, however, is not new to Wisconsin.
Kenosha and Hard Rock, which is owned by the Seminole Tribe in Florida, pitched a similar development at the former Dairyland Park location. Then-governor Scott Walker, a Republican, shot down the idea in a process that requires gubernatorial approval.
12 News media partner Biz Times Milwaukee framed its reporting on the development with the headline, "Menominee Indian Tribe and Hard Rock will try again to build a casino in Kenosha". Its author and Biz Times Editor Andrew Weiland gave some insight into the outlet's reporting and outlook on 12 News at 4 Wednesday.
"The project was dead until now. Now they're looking at a new site west of I-94 and South of 60th in Kenosha and they're going to bring this proposal forward and see if it flies now," Weiland said.
"You have a new governor; you have a new presidential administration. These projects need federal and local approvals, which could take a long time. It's a similar project at a different site and we'll see, this time, if it gains approval."
Evers, a Democrat, was still unwilling to support or oppose the move.
"Obviously, I have approved a casino in Beloit not too long ago, so I'm not opposed to doing that, but it is a long, long process and I'm not about to take a position at this time," Evers added. | https://www.wisn.com/article/evers-a-long-way-from-decision-on-hard-rock-casino-plans/40671700 | 2022-07-21T04:52:23Z | https://www.wisn.com/article/evers-a-long-way-from-decision-on-hard-rock-casino-plans/40671700 | false |
Organizers of the latest survey of African youth across 15 countries finds what they call “modest yet important progress” in recognizing the need for greater protections from discrimination faced by the LGBTQ+ community on the continent. They also heard young Africans complain about the lack of job opportunities and a growing number now look to China instead of the United States as the most influential and constructive force on the continent.
The African Youth Survey 2022, published by the Ichikowitz Family Foundation, polled 4,500 respondents, face-to-face, in Angola, Congo-Brazzaville, the Democratic Republic of the Congo or DRC, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, and Zambia, all in sub-Saharan Africa.
More young Africans oppose LGBTQ+ discrimination
Researchers from the political polling and strategic consulting firm PSB Insights found nearly four-in-ten young Africans now believe that more needs to be done to prevent discrimination, persecution, and hate-crimes on the basis of sexual identity, representing a 7% increase in comparison with the foundation’s inaugural 2020 survey.
The survey suggests a scene like this one, in South Africa back in 2010, in which South African human rights activists protested the imprisonment of a gay couple in Malawi, is becoming less of an anomaly and more mainstream, at least in South Africa.
That gay couple was sentenced to the maximum of 14 years in prison for "unnatural acts" and "gross indecency" under Malawi's anti-gay laws, which date from the colonial era. Fortunately, thanks to pressure by the U.S. government and members of Congress, the men were pardoned and released in 2010.
According to the survey:
- 83% of South African respondents see the need for greater LGBTQ+ protections
- 38% of all young Africans surveyed say that their country needs to do more to defend the rights of the LGBTQ+ community
- In Mozambique, 67% state the same belief
- In Gabon, the figure is 62%.
Nearly half of all respondents—47%—said they have personally experienced discrimination in one form or another.
The bottom three countries in terms of LGBTQ+ tolerance and awareness, according to the survey, are:
- Malawi with 9% favoring greater LGBTQ+ protections
- Sudan 16%
- Uganda 21%
A long way to go
As The Economist reported last year, when gay activists joined demonstrations against police brutality in Nigeria in October 2020, they were not only met with violence from responding officers, but from counter protesters who tore apart their signs and flags, hurled insults at them and beat them until they were bloody.
That article also cited one of the nations not covered by the survey, Botswana, which decriminalised homosexuality in 2019, portraying young Africans to be almost as homophobic as their grandparents.
More recent headlines show there is still a long way to go. A crowd in Ghana, reportedly encouraged by a member of parliament, tore down a billboard promoting LGBTQ+ tolerance last month.
This month in Northern Nigeria, an Islamic judge in the state of Bauchi sentenced three men to death by stoning after convicting them on charges of engaging in homosexuality.
As Human Rights Watch noted last month, 33 of the 69 countries around the world that criminalize same-sex relations are in Africa. As in Malawi, these laws originated during British colonial rule. The prohibitions are vaguely worded, to allow for greater crackdowns against LGBTQ+ people, such as “carnal knowledge against the order of nature.”
But according to those surveyed by PSB Insights, a very strong majority, 81% of all respondents, reported being concerned about gender-based violence; another 79% said that more needs to be done to protect the rights of women in their country.
Looking for work
Among the other findings: Job opportunities remain a chief concern. According to a 2019 report by the World Bank, more than 12% of youth aged 15-24 in Sub-Saharan Africa were unemployed but seeking work, and much higher in some countries such as South Africa. The survey found 69% of those polled say they were dissatisfied with the pace of job creation.
More than one quarter (28%) of youth say that creating new, well-paying jobs should be the top priority for Africa to move forward and progress. Kenyan (41%) and Mozambican (41%) youth are particularly focused on creating new, well-paying jobs, while youth in Gabon (17%), Ethiopia (10%) and Sudan (10%) placed less of an emphasis on job creation.
China vs. the United States
As Africa Business Insider reported, the survey revealed China has eclipsed the U.S. in perceived influence among young Africans, who by 2030 will comprise an estimated 42% of the world’s youth. Yet they still look towards the U.S. as a source of positive change for themselves and for their countries.
The survey attributes these slight but perceivable changes in young Africa’s viewpoints to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the fact that it has been nearly a decade since the last major U.S. initiative to help Africans combat their common problems.
Read more about the Africa Youth Survey by clicking here. | https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2022/07/20/survey-more-african-youth-support-lgbtq-rights-china-surpassing-us-in-influence/ | 2022-07-21T05:06:23Z | https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2022/07/20/survey-more-african-youth-support-lgbtq-rights-china-surpassing-us-in-influence/ | true |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
1-8-4, FIREBALL:
(one, eight, four; FIREBALL: zero)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
1-8-4, FIREBALL:
(one, eight, four; FIREBALL: zero) | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Night-game-17318759.php | 2022-07-21T05:07:26Z | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Night-game-17318759.php | true |
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Thousands of cattle are covered in blisters from highly infectious foot-and-mouth disease in Indonesia, sounding the alarm for the country, its Southeast Asian neighbors and Australia. The virus found in two provinces in May has now infected several hundred-thousand animals across multiple provinces, including the popular tourist destination of Bali.
Indonesia is now taking measures to curb the spread of the disease. Australia has offered assistance in hopes of preventing the disease and its economic and environmental consequences from crossing its borders.
Here's a look at the disease and what's happening in Indonesia.
___
WHAT IS FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE?
Foot-and-mouth disease is caused by a virus that infects cattle, sheep, goats, swine and other cloven-hoofed animals. While death rates are typically low, the disease can make animals ill with fever, decreased appetite, excessive drooling, blisters and other symptoms.
The disease was once found worldwide but has since been erased from some regions, including western Europe and North America. Parts of Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia and Thailand, have had regular outbreaks, but Indonesia until now had been free from the disease since 1986.
The ongoing outbreak is concentrated in dairy and beef cattle, but the spread to other susceptible animals can't be ruled out.
___
HOW DOES IT SPREAD?
The virus spreads easily through contact and airborne transmission and can quickly infect entire herds. People can spread the disease though things like farming equipment, shoes, clothing, vehicle tires and more that have come in contact with the virus. Though it's considered rare, humans can also carry the virus in their nose for short periods of time, infecting animals, said Michael Ward, chair of the Veterinary Public Health & Food Safety at the University of Sydney.
Livestock feed and animal products such as meat and hides can also carry and spread the virus.
More than 300,000 livestock in Indonesia had foot-and-mouth disease by the first week of July. In the same month, the Eid al-Adha festival — a Muslim holiday marked with ritual animal sacrifice — resulted in large movement of animals around the country, which is considered to have accelerated the spread of the disease.
___
WHY ARE OFFICIALS WORRIED?
Because it is so easily spread, the virus can be incredibly difficult to get rid of once there is an outbreak. In poorer countries, sick animals affect people's access to food. In middle-income and richer countries, the disease affects the livestock trade and related industries. One paper estimated that foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks can cost billions of dollars, highlighting the damage to governments and farmers.
Australia, which is currently free of foot-and-mouth disease, has expressed particular worry about the spread from Indonesia. The resort island of Bali is a popular tourist destination for Australians and has confirmed cases of the disease.
___
WHAT IS BEING DONE TO COMBAT THE OUTBREAK?
Indonesia is using animal testing, vaccination, treatment, and conditional slaughter to try to curb the outbreak. The Ministry of Agriculture launched a vaccination program for livestock in mid-June, prioritizing doses for healthy animals at high risk of infection, such as those at crowded places such as livestock breeding centers, community-owned dairy farms, dairy cooperatives, and beef cattle farms.
The Australian government has offered financial and vaccine assistance for Indonesia’s response to the recent outbreak. The vaccination program is likely to focus on support for the small-holder farm sector, which accounts for 90% of Indonesia’s cattle industry.
In Australia, the government announced it would install disinfectant mats at airports that are intended to capture potentially contaminated dirt from the shoes of those returning from overseas. Government officials also promised more stringent biosecurity checks, such as sniffing detector dogs, for those returning from overseas.
___
CAN PEOPLE GET FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE?
No. Foot-and-mouth disease is often confused with hand, foot and mouth disease, which is caused by a different virus and mostly infects young children. People do not get the animal disease, and animals do not get the human disease, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) expert on Thursday (July 21) predicted that a "0 + 7" quarantine scheme could be implemented by Lunar New Year 2023.
CECC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) convener Lee Ping-ing (李秉穎) said during a Thursday interview with BaoDao Radio host Clara Chou (周玉蔻) that "It should be possible to (implement) 0 + 7 before the end of this year, and go abroad to play during the Lunar New Year." The Year of the Rabbit starts on Jan. 22, 2023.
As the outbreak in Taiwan appears to have reached a plateau and begun to decline, Chou pointed out many Taiwanese have become concerned about when the plan for arriving passengers can be relaxed to "0 + 7," in which quarantine is completely replaced with seven days of self-health monitoring. Lee said the CECC should be able to consider the "0 + 7" formula in the coming month or two.
He pointed out that the "whole world has opened its borders, and we cannot fall too far behind." The expert observed that in recent months, the number of daily COVID cases arriving from overseas is far less than the number of local infections.
Lee said this indicates that the chances of getting infected with the virus while abroad are not much worse than the odds of contracting the disease in Taiwan. He also suggested that although there are concerns about the new subvariants of Omicron, their arrival is inevitable and new quarantines would yield diminishing returns. | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4602140 | 2022-07-21T05:12:57Z | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4602140 | false |
When the Neon Cactus returns, at least one familiar face will be around.
Bruce Barker, known as “The Piano Man” for his 25 years of Thursday night performances at the Neon Cactus before its closing, announced on a Facebook Live on Wednesday that he will play at the soon-to-reopen Cactus.
Barker said that his first show and the reopening of the club that closed in 2020 will be on Sept. 8.
"September 8, we're going to reopen this place, this hallowed ground," Barker said. "We're going to start with amazing evenings every Thursday with me, right here... in the Neon Cactus.
“I walked all the way through the Cactus today,” Barker said. “It looks the same. It smells the same, that’s unfortunate. But we’re going to clean it up and get it ready to go Sept. 8.”
Barker said he was asked by the new owners of the Cactus to come back and that he plans to play every Thursday, as well as Breakfast Clubs, mother’s weekends, Grand Prix and Homecoming, as long as it didn’t conflict with anything his kid is doing.
“I’m super excited for my chance to go back to the Cactus and finish up where I started,” Barker said.
Barker also clarified that his scheduled show on Slayter Hill on Sept. 1 as well as any other already planned show will still happen.
Barker had what he said was his “last campus show” May 14 at Where Else, where he had begun working in 2020 after the Cactus closure.
“When I left Where Else and we did the big going away party, in my mind, there was zero chance that I’d ever play on campus again,” Barker said. “I didn’t think anybody would open a place up. I didn’t think the Cactus would open again. I certainly didn’t plan on being asked to go back and play again.” | https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_ef7826a4-0880-11ed-9986-47239e6f8d43.html | 2022-07-21T05:25:51Z | https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_ef7826a4-0880-11ed-9986-47239e6f8d43.html | true |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Matthew Pottinger was a journalist in China, concerned about the country's drift toward authoritarianism, when he decided — at age 31 — to enlist in the U.S. Marines after the invasion of Iraq.
“Our form of government is not inevitable," Pottinger recalled thinking during an interview two years ago with the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. "And it shouldn’t be taken for granted. But it’s a form of government very much worth fighting for.”
Pottinger had no way of knowing when he put on his military uniform for the first time how close to home that battle for democracy would get. He became deputy national security adviser to President Donald Trump, and he resigned after the Jan. 6 attack that tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power to President Joe Biden.
On Thursday, he'll be one of the key witnesses at a prime-time hearing of the select House committee investigating the attack. The other is Sarah Matthews, who resigned from her position as a deputy press secretary the same day.
Pottinger and Matthews will join Cassidy Hutchinson, a former assistant to Mark Meadows, Trump's final chief of staff, in the exclusive club of Trump White House insiders who have appeared publicly. Their appearances stand in blunt contrast to the cadre of Trump loyalists who have tried to defy the committee’s subpoenas, remained silent or continued to dismiss the investigation’s findings.
Any details on what Pottinger and Matthews will share on Thursday have been kept under wraps, but the hearing is expected to focus on what Trump did — and didn't do — as his supporters swarmed the U.S. Capitol and interrupted the ceremonial certification of the election.
Roughly three hours elapsed between Trump's speech at a rally near the White House and his release of a video calling the rioters “very special” but asking them to “go home now.”
Pottinger, 49, and Matthews, 27, may be able to illuminate what was happening behind the scenes as Trump resisted pleas from family, aides and Republicans to condemn the riot and urge people to leave the building.
As a member of the press office, Matthews was privy to debates over what the White House and Trump should say publicly during the riot and what other aides advised. And although Pottinger was focused on foreign policy, his position placed him at the crossroads of national security matters.
Whatever they saw that day, they decided to quit, helping to begin an exodus that included other White House staff and various Cabinet officials.
“These are people who believed in the work they were doing, but didn’t believe in the stolen election," said Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., a member of the select committee.
Luria added, “It’s just a key piece of telling the story about that day, because we’ll be hearing from people who were in the White House, what they observed, what their reactions were."
Alyssa Farah Griffin, the former White House director of strategic communications, said Pottinger and Matthews could make potent witnesses, particularly because of their very different backgrounds.
Pottinger, Griffin said, is someone with “enormous credibility,” who is “highly respected in the national security space” and not seen as overtly political. Matthews, in contrast, is “a tried and true Republican” who worked for Trump’s reelection campaign and was hand-picked to join the White House.
“I think their testimony will be incredibly compelling and carry a lot of weight,” said Griffin, who has been supportive of the committee's work and has discussed Matthews' testimony with her.
Matthews began working for Republicans on Capitol Hill as an intern while she was still a student at Kent State University in Ohio. She was so eager to begin a career in Washington that she moved to the city for her first job a month before her graduation, missing her last weeks of college and finishing her final classes online, she told her alma mater in an interview two years ago.
Matthews was hired as a deputy press secretary for Trump's reelection campaign and was brought over to the White House by press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. She worked in the area of the West Wing known as “upper press,” placing her in closer proximity to the Oval Office than others in her office.
Sometimes she joined Trump for media interviews, but mostly she fielded questions from reporters and helped prepare for White House briefings.
When Matthews resigned on Jan. 6, she issued a statement saying she was “deeply disturbed by what I saw today." On the anniversary of the attack, she called it “one of the darkest days in American history.”
“Make no mistake, the events on the 6th were a coup attempt, a term we’d use had they happened in any other country, and former President Trump failed to meet the moment,” she tweeted.
Pottinger did not issue a statement when he resigned on Jan. 6, but he discussed the decision during previous, closed-door testimony to the committee.
While the riot was underway, Pottinger said, a staff member brought him a printout of a Trump tweet accusing Vice President Mike Pence of not having “the courage to do what should have been done” to overturn the election.
“I read that tweet and made a decision at that moment to resign," Pottinger said. "That’s where I knew that I was leaving that day once I read that tweet.”
Pottinger took a much more roundabout path to the White House than Matthews.
His father, John Stanley Pottinger, served as an assistant attorney general under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He studied China in college, then moved to the country to work as a reporter for Reuters and The Wall Street Journal.
But in 2005, he joined the Marines. Explaining his unusual decision, Pottinger wrote an essay saying that “living in China also shows you what a nondemocratic country can do to its citizens.”
Qualifying at age 31 wasn't easy. He wrote that he got winded after running for five minutes, and he could only do half a pullup. But by the time he took his physical fitness test, he could do 13 pullups and run 3 miles in less than 21 minutes.
Pottinger deployed to Iraq as an intelligence officer, and he later worked in Afghanistan with U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. At the time, Flynn was a respected military leader, not the promoter of conspiracy theories that he's become today.
They ended up writing a report criticizing military intelligence efforts in Afghanistan. Years later, after Trump was elected, Flynn invited Pottinger to join him in the National Security Council. Flynn didn't last long — he was forced out after a little more than three weeks because of his obfuscations about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. — but Pottinger stuck around.
He was promoted to deputy national security adviser in 2019. Pottinger was focused on Asia during his time in the Trump administration, and helped outline a more aggressive stance toward China, one that was rooted in his own experiences as a reporter in the country.
He is now a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and the chair of the China program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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Colvin reported from New York. Associated Press writer Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/White-House-insiders-to-talk-about-Trump-s-17318796.php | 2022-07-21T05:26:12Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/White-House-insiders-to-talk-about-Trump-s-17318796.php | true |
WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 22, 2022
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EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service SAN DIEGO CA
908 PM PDT Wed Jul 20 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THURSDAY
TO 8 PM PDT FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with temperatures up to 116
expected.
* WHERE...Coachella Valley and San Diego County Deserts.
* WHEN...From 11 AM Thursday to 8 PM PDT Friday.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat will significantly increase the
potential for heat related illnesses, particularly for those
working or participating in outdoor activities.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Little relief expected at night with low
temperatures in the 80s and lower 90s.
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.
* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with temperatures up to 112
* WHERE...San Gorgonio Pass Near Banning.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...High temperatures will be highest and
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A very important insight that underlies the science of genetics, namely that traits can be inherited by offspring from the parents, was first experimentally established by Gregor Mendel, a monk in the order of St Augustine. He may have been born on July 20, 1822, to German-speaking parents in what is now the Czech region, but celebrated his birthday on July 22 as corroborated by his family. He was an extremely keen student, interested in science and pursued his studies despite the fact that they were impoverished. His parents and sister tried to help him fund his education by selling off a part of their farm and giving up her dowry, respectively. But this was not sufficient, and partly because he got help to pursue his studies, Mendel became a monk. His given name was Johann, and it was changed to Gregor when he took up monkhood.
Kim Nasmyth writes in a Perspective article in Nature Reviews: Genetics that despite being an introvert Mendel was a gifted teacher. But partly because of nervousness and partly because he did not want to give the expected answers, he failed in two oral exams necessary to get his certificate. It was ironic that it was not physics but natural history that let him down, because his contribution to the subject led to a revolution in the field.
In his studies, over a period of eight years, Mendel started with 22 pea (Pisum sativum) plants and cross-bred them to get over 10,000 plants. These were classified according to a set of characteristics like seed colour, shape of the pod, colour of the flower etc. He found that some traits, such as shape and colour, can be passed down from one generation to the next. He was the one who coined the terms dominant and recessive to describe these traits, which are used even today.
Mendel’s records were burnt down when he died. It was much later that his ideas were re-discovered. Today, we speak of genes as being passed down from parent to child and carrying with them the various traits. Gregor Mendel’s experiments and research lie at the foundation of these findings.
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(The Hill) – The House Judiciary Committee advanced a bill to ban assault weapons on Wednesday, the first time in two decades a congressional panel has moved to prohibit the sale, transfer and possession of the popular firearms.
The committee approved the Assault Weapons Ban of 2021 in a 25-18 vote following an hours-long markup.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the committee, announced last week that the panel would move on the legislation. The move comes after a spate of mass shootings in the U.S., a number of which were perpetrated by young men reportedly wielding assault-style semi-automatic rifles.
A gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas in May, killing 19 students and two teachers. Earlier this month, seven people were fatally shot at a July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Ill.
In both incidents, the alleged shooter was a young man with an AR-style semi-automatic weapon, which is the main firearm the legislation aims to restrict.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), specifically seeks to prohibit the sale, manufacture, transfer or import of all semi-automatic rifles that can accept a detachable magazine and have a pistol grip; a forward grip; a folding, telescoping or detachable stock; a grenade launcher; a barrel shroud or a threaded barrel.
It also places restrictions on semi-automatic rifles with fixed magazines that can fit more than 10 rounds, bump fire stocks, high-capacity feeding devices that can hold more than 10 rounds, and semi-automatic shotguns with specific features.
The measure does not, however, apply to antique firearms, manually-operated firearms and upwards of 2,000 specific models of firearms used for hunting and sporting.
While the assault weapons ban passed through committee on Wednesday, it is unclear when — and if — it will be brought to the House floor for a vote. Nadler last week said he was looking forward to “moving this legislation through the Judiciary Committee next week and onto the House floor,” but House leadership has not yet announced a vote.
That is likely because it is unclear if the legislation has the votes to pass.
Two Democrats, Reps. Jared Golden (Maine) and Henry Cuellar (Texas), have said they will not support the bill, and a handful of others remain undecided.
On the other side of the aisle, Rep. Chris Jacobs (R-N.Y.) has said he would support an assault weapons ban if it came to the floor. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) has backed the concept of an assault weapons ban, but he has not yet said if he will support the specific bill under consideration.
During her weekly press conference last week, Pelosi said “there is great support in our Caucus for an assault weapons ban.”
Asked if he plans to bring the bill to the floor before August recess, House Minority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters on Tuesday “I may do that.”
“Obviously, the committee’s going to be dealing with it tomorrow, and we’ll talk to the chairman about it. But I think it’s an important bill for us to consider,” he added.
Former President Clinton signed an assault weapons ban in 1994, which eventually expired in 2004.
In opening remarks at the markup on Wednesday, Nadler made the case for banning assault weapons.
“As we have learned all too well in recent years, assault weapons — especially when combined with high-capacity magazines — are the weapon of choice for mass shootings. These military-style weapons are designed to kill the most people in the shortest amount of time,” he said. “Quite simply, there is no place for them on our streets.”
The chairman said assault weapons are solely meant “to kill people efficiently,” adding “it is time to protect our communities and to ban them once more.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), ranking member of the committee, argued in opening remarks that the bill would “strip Americans of their right” and asserted that “it would do nothing to make our communities safer.”
“Democrats know this legislation will not reduce violent crime or reduce the likelihood of mass shootings, but they are obsessed with attacking law-abiding Americans’ Second Amendment liberties,” he added.
The Ohio Republican also said the assault weapons ban would prevent law-abiding Americans from using weapons “to defend themselves against violent intruders in their home.”
“Prevented from defending themselves, their family, their property because of this legislation. This legislation is dangerous, it doesn’t square with the Constitution, with the Second Amendment in any way, and it has failed in the past,” he added.
Last month, Congress passed and President Biden signed a gun safety bill into law. The measure bolstered background checks for firearm purchasers ages 18 to 21 and created a federal offense for people who acquired firearms through straw purchases or trafficking, among other measures.
Aside from that, the House previously passed bills to nationalize red flag laws and create an active shooter communications network, and it approved a sweeping firearm package that, among other provisions, called for raising the minimum age to purchase a semi-automatic weapon from 18 to 21.
However, those bills, like the assault weapons ban, had little chance of advancing given GOP opposition in the evenly divided Senate. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/house-committee-advances-bill-to-ban-assault-weapons/ | 2022-07-21T05:28:49Z | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/house-committee-advances-bill-to-ban-assault-weapons/ | false |
New Arbroath keeper Cammy Gill revealed the moment he had to break the news to boss Dick Campbell that he wasn’t a fellow Fifer.
While the 24-year-old was signed up for his goalkeeping abilities rather than where he was born, his Fife-born boss spoke proudly of having another in his ranks at Gayfield.
Campbell proudly told Arbroath TV after his signing: “That’s what’s wrong with football; there are not enough Fifers in it.”
Gill spent 13 years with Dunfermline, where he came through the youth ranks before departing for Cowdenbeath last season.
While he has spent nearly half his footballing life in the Kingdom, he was actually born on the other side of the Firth of Forth.
Campbell ‘not pleased’
Gill recalled the moment he had to break the news to his new gaffer, which his new teammates found hilarious.
“It’s funny, because I’m not actually from Fife,” he laughed. “When I told him he wasn’t too happy.
“I thought I was going to get sacked on the spot.
“I’d been at Dunfermline for a number of years when I was younger.
“I’ve spent half my days in Fife but I’m Edinburgh-born.
“The gaffer wasn’t pleased. The boys have been winding me up a bit about it as well.”
Patience is key for Gill
Gill was handed his debut last Wednesday against former side Cowdenbeath in the Premier Sports Cup.
The Lichties ran out comfortable winners with their keeper having precious little to do in goal.
Regardless, the clean sheets are all the same to Gill and he knows his next game might not be as plain sailing.
He knows he may have to be patient to get that chance though with Derek ‘Gats’ Gaston the first-choice stopper.
“Last year, I left Dunfermline because I wanted to play games,” Gill explained.
“I’m wanting to jump back into it this season and play as many games as I can.
“Gats had an excellent season last year, along with the rest of the guys. It’s just one of these things with goalkeeping, you need to bide your time.
“When the opportunity comes you need to take it. I’ve been there before and I’ll keep plugging away and pushing Gats and he’ll be the same with me.
“We will push each other on to make each other better, which can only be good for Arbroath.”
Ian Campbell praises Arbroath determination and provides Ricky Little injury update | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/3496825/cammy-gill-feared-instant-sacking-arbroath-dick-campbell/ | 2022-07-21T05:31:35Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/3496825/cammy-gill-feared-instant-sacking-arbroath-dick-campbell/ | false |
Former president Donald Trump paid his respects to his first wife, Ivana Trump, joining their three children at a funeral Mass in New York.
The former president and his current wife, Melania Trump, arrived at St Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
Minutes earlier, Donald and Ivana Trump’s three children — Donald Jr, Ivanka and Eric — and their families followed Ivana’s gold-coloured coffin into the church.
Tiffany Trump, the daughter of the former president and his second wife, Marla Maples, also attended the service.
Mr Trump’s family announced on Thursday that the 73-year-old had died at her Manhattan home.
Authorities said the death was an accident.
“We all want to remember Ivana as the vibrant, sociable person she was,” long-time friend R Couri Hay said before the service.
Ivana and Donald Trump met in the 1970s and were married from 1977 to 1992.
In the 1980s, they were a power couple, and she became well known in her own right, instantly recognisable with her blond hair in an updo and her glamorous look.
Ivana Trump also took part in her husband’s businesses, managing one of his Atlantic City casinos and picking out some of the design elements in New York City’s Trump Tower.
Their very public divorce was ugly, but in recent years they were friendly.
Ivana Trump was an enthusiastic supporter of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and said they spoke on a regular basis. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3514486/donald-trump-attends-funeral-of-his-first-wife-ivana/ | 2022-07-21T05:38:47Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3514486/donald-trump-attends-funeral-of-his-first-wife-ivana/ | false |
NORRISTOWN, Pa. – Montgomery County wants to spend its $161.4 million in federal pandemic recovery funds on projects that serve and benefit the most people, officials told listeners at a hearing Wednesday to get public comment on the plan.
In fact, continued funding for the 110 projects selected will depend on performance metrics that show how many people a project serves and the impact it has, county Recovery Officer Tom Bonner told the more than 215 participants in an afternoon Zoom hearing and 58 in an evening session.
Getting public reaction to the county's draft funding recommendations was the final step in a months-long community engagement process before the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners is expected to vote on the draft plan Aug. 18.
Though getting public feedback is not required in disbursing the funds, Deputy Chief Operating Officer Barbara O'Malley said, "We wanted to be transparent," and make sure there's "accountability to the criteria we established."
The feedback could help officials "make adjustments, where appropriate," Bonner said, and "identify future funding opportunities, where the public may want us to move forward."
There will be additional live town hall presentations in early August. Online comments also can be submitted until Aug. 5 on the county Recovery Office website.
The county now is meeting with applicants who have been conditionally approved.
"It's been a very successful process," O'Malley said.
The county Recovery Office said it received 426 project submissions totaling $1.3 billion in funding requests, and 157 idea submissions.
The choices in the county's draft funding recommendations, released Tuesday, were made based on "maximum impact across multiple projects," Bonner said. "The overwhelming majority of projects represents groups."
"I think what you're seeing here is a matter of data that we've pulled together," he said. The next three years will determine much more accurately who it's impacting
Thirty-three projects, or about 30% of the total, are organizations with annual budgets of less than $1 million.
Federal guidelines require that all of the funds be released for by the end of 2024 and used by the end of 2026.
One participant in the hearing questioned some uses of the funds.
Dominick Giuffrida, who runs Green Lane Opportunities, questioned the plan spending $8.1 million to give premium pay for essential county workers.
"You're giving premium pay when people have lost their jobs, and they're out in the streets," Giuffrida said. "What does the district attorney's office possibly need money for from pandemic recovery? This is an outrage to me."
Bonner responded that federal guidelines for using the money explicitly identify premium pay for government workers performing essential work during the pandemic. Only 15.5% of the funds are going back into county functions, he said.
The plan also would spend $32.4 million on affordable housing, including supporting construction of 325 new affordable housing units for low- and moderate-income renters and homeowners.
Giuffrida said he has started a petition asking for some of the choices to be reconsidered.
Another participant, Laura Smith, said she wished the county library in Norristown would have gotten funding. O'Malley said the county, which owns the building, is looking at ways to fund it.
The county's presentation at the hearing said the use that generated the most ideas was for child care workforce transformation services. However, there were no projects to address the problem, officials said.
The county now is looking to bring parties together to come up with something for which $500,000 in funding was allocated.
The plan also allocated $4 million in direct operational support for child care centers across the county through a program that will be coordinated by the county's Recovery and Early Learning Resource Center offices.
Also, $3.3 million is to implement a novel in-home child care program supporting off-hours workers, and $1.8 million is spread across mentorship and domestic violence support projects.
In all, according to the presentation, $37.6 million will be spent on projects addressing the general public, $31.7 million for programs reaching people with low income, and $24.1 million reaching children and youth.
About $20 million will be spent on programs affecting Norristown and $14 million Pottstown, the presentation showed.
The county Recovery Office was allocated $2 million to help it complete the projects in the available time frame.
After the commissioners' approval in August, the office will begin reaching out to people to make sure they can take advantage of the selected programs.
Also, projects that weren't funded will be directed to state and federal grants, as well as county help.
"A plan is never going to make everyone happy," North Wales Borough Manager Christine Hart said in the afternoon hearing. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/southeastern-pa/draft-plan-for-161m-in-recovery-funds-aims-to-benefit-greatest-number-of-people-montgomery/article_bf4605dc-0880-11ed-a8c3-e3170edaf4a5.html | 2022-07-21T05:40:58Z | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/southeastern-pa/draft-plan-for-161m-in-recovery-funds-aims-to-benefit-greatest-number-of-people-montgomery/article_bf4605dc-0880-11ed-a8c3-e3170edaf4a5.html | true |
The trial of R. Kelly’s manager opened Tuesday on charges that he forced the cancellation of a screening of a documentary about the singer's sexual abuse of women and girls by calling in a threat to the crowded Manhattan theater.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Pomerantz told jurors that Donnell Russell made a terrifying brief phone call in December 2018 from his Chicago home to the theater, claiming that someone with a gun was planning to fire on the crowd watching Lifetime’s “Surviving R. Kelly” series.
“He knew his words would sabotage the event,” she said.
The phone call prompted an emergency call to police, who ordered an evacuation that forced the cancellation of the premiere, including a live panel discussion that was to include several women featured in the documentary.
“The defendant wanted to keep the women quiet,” Pomerantz said in Manhattan federal court. She added that Russell was motivated by a desire to protect the lucrative career of the Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling songwriter.
Kelly, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison last month, was convicted last year of racketeering and sex trafficking.
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Defense attorney Michael Freedman told jurors that they would exonerate Russell if they study the evidence.
Freedman said there were a lot of phone calls to the theater on the day of the screening and jurors will “have to decide what it all means and what, if anything, it proves about my client.”
He said there was no recording of the phone threat so jurors cannot hear the voice that made it. But he added that there was not enough evidence to prove Russell committed a crime.
Adrian Krasniqi, who worked at the 25th Street venue, testified that he received the threatening call less than an hour after a man claiming to be part of Kelly's legal team called and said the documentary was violating Kelly's copyright to his name and should not be shown. He said the caller had a low, professional-sounding voice.
Krasniqi said the later call consisted of a deep-voiced man with a “slang tone, like a thug,” saying in a very serious and very blunt manner that “someone had a gun and they were going to shoot up the place.”
On cross examination, Krasniqi said he believed the caller had a Brooklyn accent, which he was familiar with because he lived in Brooklyn. He said he also thought the caller was outdoors when he made the threat.
Pomerantz said Russell demonstrated his guilt in part through his communications with a female co-conspirator who was at the theater at the time.
She said Russell sent the woman a text to say the police may be coming to the theater shortly before they did. And he later asked her to delete the text, although she never did, the prosecutor said.
Pomerantz said phone records to be introduced as evidence will show that Russell called the theater nine times on the day of the screening.
In a separate Kelly-related case, a fan of the performer pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court to charges he made threats against prosecutors in Kelly's sex abuse trial. Court papers cite a video of defendant Christopher Gunn saying, “If Kellz goes down, everybody’s going down.”
A message was left with Gunn’s lawyer seeking comment. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/r-kellys-manager-on-trial-for-making-threat-to-theater-screening-surviving-r-kelly/3783726/ | 2022-07-21T05:41:10Z | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/r-kellys-manager-on-trial-for-making-threat-to-theater-screening-surviving-r-kelly/3783726/ | false |
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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH
Freddy Fernandez almost wasn’t here, on his couch in his Missouri home, his baby on his lap, gnawing on the pulse oximeter that he uses to check his oxygen levels after a months-long bout with COVID-19.
Months after being warned that her partner might never hold his daughter, Vanessa smiles as the girl works to cut two teeth on the device that Freddy wears like a necklace, a blue ribbon tied around it.
Freddy spent five months hospitalized a four-hour drive away from the couple’s home in the southwest Missouri town of Carthage on the most intense life support available. The 41-year-old father of six nearly died repeatedly and now he — like so many who survived COVID-19 hospitalizations — has returned home changed.
While more than 1 million died from COVID in the U.S., many more survived ICU stays that have left them with anxiety, PTSD and a host of health issues. Research has shown that intensive therapy starting in the ICU can help, but it was often hard to provide as hospitals teemed with patients.
“There is a human cost for ICU survivorship,” says Dr. Vinaya Sermadevi, who helped care for Freddy throughout his stay at Mercy Hospital St. Louis. “It is almost like going to war and having the aftermath.”
Freddy’s memories from those long months come in snatches — moments where he regained consciousness, hooked up to machines to breathe for him, clinging to life. Sometimes he asked for his mother, who died of COVID-19 in September 2020.
He missed the birth of his daughter, Mariana, and the first four months of her life. He may never be able to return to his construction job. His other young daughter is terrified he’ll go away again.
As the world moves on and mask mandates fall away, COVID-19 is not gone for them.
“We’re left with dealing with the leftovers of what it caused,” Vanessa says.
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Vanessa, 28, was still pregnant with Mariana last summer when the delta variant struck poorly vaccinated southwest Missouri. She was skeptical about the vaccine, but her obstetrician reassured her it was safe and she decided to go ahead and get it.
Freddy was warming up to the idea, too. The native of Mexico City, had come to the U.S. around 20 years ago to work construction — cement jobs mostly — and was now a permanent resident. Sometimes he would work from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m., and often at least one day on the weekend.
On the very day in late August that they planned to schedule an appointment to be vaccinated, his throat began to ache. It was COVID.
Days later, with Freddy coughing and struggling to breathe, Vanessa rushed him to the emergency room at the local community hospital. Freddy, although worried about his family, recalls thinking that “it’s only a little bit.”
But pneumonia was running through both of his lungs. The next day, he was taken to a larger Springfield hospital that was overflowing with patients and placed on a ventilator. That too wasn’t enough.
He wound up in St. Louis, nearly 270 miles away from his two young daughters; Vanessa’s 10-year-old son, Miguel, who considers Freddy his father; and three other children with his ex-wife — 10-, 8- and 7-year-old boys.
It was a dark period when many people hoped the pandemic was ending, but the delta variant once again flooded the healthcare system. Filling shifts was a daily battle, and death was everywhere, recalls Dr. Sermadevi. She said that at the beginning of the pandemic, everyone was “stunned and astounded that this was even happening.” But grief, she says, has a “cumulative effect” and by the time the delta surge came “there wasn’t even room for those emotions.”
Freddy was lucky, though. For all the talk of ventilator capacity, what was in shortest supply during the delta surge was something called ECMO, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. It is used when a ventilator isn’t enough, pumping blood out of the body, oxygenating it, and then returning it.
Mercy Hospital St. Louis only had the equipment and staff to care for three ECMO patients at a time. And on Sept. 3, Freddy became one of them.
There were risks, though, to the long hospital stay he was embarking upon, says Dr. Ann Parker, a pulmonologist who co-directs the Post-Acute COVID-19 Team clinic at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Survival rates for ECMO patients slipped during the pandemic to around 50%, according to a 2021 report by the medical journal The Lancet.
That meant even being on the machine, his chances at surviving were far from guaranteed.
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Vanessa delivered Mariana on Oct 13. Freddy had been in the hospital for 48 days, and he didn’t even know he was the father of a healthy, 6-pound, 11-ounce daughter.
Far away from her fiancé, Vanessa logged into video calls with Freddy’s doctors the same day she brought the newborn home. The news wasn’t good — Freddy was suffering from infections and wasn’t recovering well.
A lung transplant, Sermadevi said, appeared to be his best option, but was a long shot, she warned them.
“I don’t want to give you false hope,” Sermadevi recalls telling the family. “And there is a chance that Mariana might grow up without a father.”
Vanessa, helping the hospital interpreter translate for Freddy’s family, glanced at the baby snuggled on a bouncy chair by her side. She was wearing the same hand knitted yellow and white sweater and booties that the couple’s oldest daughter, now 4-year-old Melanii, had also worn home from the hospital.
She wanted to keep fighting.
So when the baby was just a week old, Vanessa began making the weekly drive from Carthage to St. Louis, where she stayed in a hotel from Mondays through Fridays. Freddy’s sister joined her, and her parents watched the children. It meant giving up the early months with the newborn.
“I have to split myself into two,” Vanessa remembers deciding. “I knew she needed me, but he also needed me. And so I knew that if I was there with him, there is a chance for him to come home and then we would all be able to be home with her. So I had to take that risk.”
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Some of the most important keys to recovery in critical care aren’t medical. Visits from relatives, along with physical, occupational and speech therapists, have long been shown to be a difference maker for the sickest of patients.
COVID-19 upended those practices at many hospitals, as families were kept away to keep the virus from spreading.
“When our health care system starts to get overwhelmed and our hospitals start to get overwhelmed, some of those things are not prioritized as much as we would like them to be,” says Sermadevi, who is the medical director of the Mercy ECMO program. “And this impacts patient care and patient outcomes.”
Fears of infection, plus short staffing, also often meant less physical therapy, proven to speed recovery.
When Freddy’s family came, it made all the difference.
His room was transformed, photos of his family thumbtacked to the ceiling. Freddy’s family held his hand when he had respiratory distress, talking him through it. He needed less sedation and pain medication because, she says, “they were that for him.”
“We would just hear such love at the bedside,” she says. “And I feel like there’s only so much you can do in medicine, and then there is the rest.”
Money grew tight, though, with both Freddy and Vanessa no longer working. People showed up on the family’s doorstep. “Here,” they told her, “we know you need it.” A devout Catholic, she prayed sometimes 10 times a day, begging God, “Please, give them a miracle; heal him. He has all these kids he has to watch grow up.”
As the weeks wore on, staying on the ECMO was becoming unsustainable. There was bleeding and infections.
What followed was a careful dance that involved weaning down the ECMO settings and increasing the ventilator settings to get his lungs to do more of the work.
Dec. 2 was the day he came off the machine, and Vanessa was warned there were no guarantees that it would be a success.
“But in my mind and in my heart, I guess spiritually, I didn’t have that mentality,” Vanessa says. “I had the mentality that he was going to make it.”
That first night was fitful. After he made it through, his sister embraced the doctors. He had a chance.
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With his lungs slowly improving, soon Freddy was up and trying to walk. Three people helped as he took his first steps on legs that were so numb just a few weeks earlier that he asked a cousin whether he still had them. The staff was overjoyed — a manager pulled out pom-poms, and there were streamers.
Ultimately, lung transplant talk was tabled.
By Feb. 9, he was heading home, 167 days after he first arrived at the hospital in his hometown.
Outside, the glass door of Freddy’s room, the nurses had drawn two lungs, coloring them blue and red. Next to the lungs, they wrote “We’ll be the-air for you.”
All Vanessa could think was “finally.” Freddy had never met his baby. Nor had he seen any of his other children. Their interactions had been limited to Facetime and pictures.
Freddy arrives home. Melanii is shy, hugging him briefly along with older brother Miguel, before clinging to her mother.
“I told you daddy was going to come home, right?” Vanessa tells a smiling Melanii before pulling the baby from the car seat.
“Can your daddy hold your sister?”
Vanessa kisses the baby and then lays him in Freddy’s arms. Now just days away from turning 4 months old, Mariana smiles at him.
Melanii had been his shadow before the pandemic, “Daddy’s Princess,” following him around the house and outside as he cleaned his truck. In the months that he was gone, she consoled herself by watching a video of her parents dancing to Latin country music. Her father spins her mother around; both are smiling.
Now, she is still afraid, Vanessa says, “because every time he has an appointment, she’ll say, ‘Don’t go.’ She doesn’t cry. She just says, ’Don’t go.”
Freddy relied on a walker and a wheelchair at first. He couldn’t sit or eat on his own.
But now the wheelchair is abandoned on the home’s back steps. He walks around the entire block, pulling a portable oxygen canister behind him on a dolly. He’s on the cusp of being able to carry his oxygen around in a backpack, which would give him more freedom.
The family spends hours outside in the late afternoon and evening, Freddy watching the children jump on the trampoline. His German Shepard sticks by his side.
“At the beginning he would be anxious,” Vanessa says. “Now I think with him seeing his own change progressing, I notice he’s been doing a lot better. I think he’s more upbeat than anybody right now. He’ll have his moments where he’s like, ‘Oh, I feel good.’”
Vanessa is returning to work, life returning “back to normal a little bit.”
They want to wait until Freddy gets better to get married.
Yet they don’t know how much better he will get — or how quickly.
Such is the story of so many, who are alive yet forever changed, says Sermadevi, who has followed his progress from afar. Some of the nurses even became Facebook friends with Vanessa.
“It’s sad and happy at the same time,” she acknowledges. “And that’s very hard to reconcile.”
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By VICTORIA MILKO
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Thousands of cattle are covered in blisters from highly infectious foot-and-mouth disease in Indonesia, sounding the alarm for the country, its Southeast Asian neighbors and Australia. The virus found in two provinces in May has now infected several hundred-thousand animals across multiple provinces, including the popular tourist destination of Bali.
Indonesia is now taking measures to curb the spread of the disease. Australia has offered assistance in hopes of preventing the disease and its economic and environmental consequences from crossing its borders.
Here’s a look at the disease and what’s happening in Indonesia.
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WHAT IS FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE?
Foot-and-mouth disease is caused by a virus that infects cattle, sheep, goats, swine and other cloven-hoofed animals. While death rates are typically low, the disease can make animals ill with fever, decreased appetite, excessive drooling, blisters and other symptoms.
The disease was once found worldwide but has since been erased from some regions, including western Europe and North America. Parts of Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia and Thailand, have had regular outbreaks, but Indonesia until now had been free from the disease since 1986.
The ongoing outbreak is concentrated in dairy and beef cattle, but the spread to other susceptible animals can’t be ruled out.
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HOW DOES IT SPREAD?
The virus spreads easily through contact and airborne transmission and can quickly infect entire herds. People can spread the disease though things like farming equipment, shoes, clothing, vehicle tires and more that have come in contact with the virus. Though it’s considered rare, humans can also carry the virus in their nose for short periods of time, infecting animals, said Michael Ward, chair of the Veterinary Public Health & Food Safety at the University of Sydney.
Livestock feed and animal products such as meat and hides can also carry and spread the virus.
More than 300,000 livestock in Indonesia had foot-and-mouth disease by the first week of July. In the same month, the Eid al-Adha festival — a Muslim holiday marked with ritual animal sacrifice — resulted in large movement of animals around the country, which is considered to have accelerated the spread of the disease.
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WHY ARE OFFICIALS WORRIED?
Because it is so easily spread, the virus can be incredibly difficult to get rid of once there is an outbreak. In poorer countries, sick animals affect people’s access to food. In middle-income and richer countries, the disease affects the livestock trade and related industries. estimated that foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks can cost billions of dollars, highlighting the damage to governments and farmers.
Australia, which is currently free of foot-and-mouth disease, has expressed particular worry about the spread from Indonesia. The resort island of Bali is a popular tourist destination for Australians and has confirmed cases of the disease.
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WHAT IS BEING DONE TO COMBAT THE OUTBREAK?
Indonesia is using animal testing, vaccination, treatment, and conditional slaughter to try to curb the outbreak. The Ministry of Agriculture launched a vaccination program for livestock in mid-June, prioritizing doses for healthy animals at high risk of infection, such as those at crowded places such as livestock breeding centers, community-owned dairy farms, dairy cooperatives, and beef cattle farms.
The Australian government financial and vaccine assistance for Indonesia’s response to the recent outbreak. The vaccination program is likely to focus on support for the small-holder farm sector, which accounts for 90% of Indonesia’s cattle industry.
In Australia, the government announced it would install disinfectant mats at airports that are intended to capture potentially contaminated dirt from the shoes of those returning from overseas. Government officials also promised more stringent biosecurity checks, such as sniffing detector dogs, for those returning from overseas.
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CAN PEOPLE GET FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE?
No. Foot-and-mouth disease is often confused with hand, foot and mouth disease, which is caused by a different virus and mostly infects young children. People do not get the animal disease, and animals do not get the human disease, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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TOKYO — The Tokyo Olympics survived the COVID-19 postponement, soaring expenses and some public opposition. A year later, the costs and benefits remain as difficult to untangle as the Games were to pull off.
“We did it,” Bach said. “We did it together,” he repeated, crediting the athletes, Japanese government officials, and deep-pocketed broadcasters for refashioning the Games despite no fans, disappointed sponsors, and no buzz around the city.
Organizers said the Games would drive tourism, showcase Japan’s technological prowess, and create memories similar to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. The pandemic erased that.
Japan’s goal after the postponement was to get through it, mindful that Beijing was holding the Winter Olympics in China just six months after Tokyo’s close. For the International Olympic Committee, it was a priority to get the Games on television and keep big sponsors — the sources of 90% of IOC income — happy.
“I think what the Games meant more than anything else was simply not having to deal with a cancellation,” David Leheny, a political scientist at Japan’s Waseda University, told The Associated Press. “There were no public health disasters associated with it. I do think officials would like to have run a victory lap — if the public had been more enthusiastic about it.”
“If Japan had cancelled,” Leheny added, “there would have been a lot of discussion, particularly in the conservative media, about what it meant that we couldn’t pull it off.”
As a final act before legally dissolving the organizing committee on June 30, President Seiko Hashimoto and CEO Toshiro Muto said the price tag for the Tokyo Games was $13 billion — almost 60% public money. This was twice the estimated cost when the IOC awarded Tokyo the Games, but less than the $25 billion some predicted.
How to judge? Legacy or costly hangover? Is there success to celebrate, or is it simply rejoicing over not having failed?
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government, on the hook for $5.4 billion in Games expenses, has campaigned to persuade the public that a half-dozen new venues have post-Games uses. Typical is a reopening ceremony next week at the canoe-slalom venue, featuring a paddling parade for elementary-school students.
A center dedicated to the LGBTQ community was championed during the Games, and the Paralympics pushed Tokyo to improve accessibility around town.
The city government is holding a 1-year anniversary event Saturday at the $1.4 billion National Stadium to mark the date of the opening ceremony. Athletes, high school and junior high school marching bands, and cheerleaders are to appear.
Tokyo was initially billed as the “Recovery Olympics,” but this got little play after the delay. Government officials promised before the postponement that the Games would focus attention on an area of northeastern Japan devastated in 2011 by an earthquake, tsunami, and the meltdown of three nuclear reactors.
Japan’s Kyodo news agency published a survey of 4,000 people, compiled by a government agency, that showed only 29.8% said they were grateful for government reconstruction support. Many in the region believe the Olympics sapped resources from recovery efforts.
“I almost get the impression that the Olympics have come to that very quiet period where people don’t want to talk about it or even think about it,” Aki Tonami, a political economist at Japan’s University of Tsukuba, told AP. “Any analysis of what the Olympics meant is still in the symbolic phase. We don’t really have the capacity or the bandwidth to really dig down for a more long-lasting meaning.”
Kyodo has also reported this week that an executive board member of the organizing committee received $326,000 from a Games sponsor. As a quasi-civil servant, Kyodo said he was not allowed to receive such payments.
The board member, Haruyuki Takahashi, is a former director at Japanese advertising agency Dentsu, Inc, which helped land $3 billion in local sponsorship for the Tokyo Games.
Amid uncertainty, there is one clear legacy. Despite scandals, bloated costs, and lukewarm public support, Japan is pursuing the 2030 Winter Olympics for Sapporo. And it’s trying to use the Tokyo Games to drive the bid.
Sapporo places the price tag at $2.6 billion, likely an underestimate since Tokyo expenses were at least twice the initial estimate. And it’s impossible to estimate accurately eight years in advance.
“We’re already working toward that,” Seiko Hashimoto, the head of the Tokyo Games, said last month. “The significance of the Tokyo Games should be communicated thoroughly, otherwise the people in Sapporo and Hokkaido will not support this initiative.”
Sapporo is believed to be the front-running candidate competing with Vancouver and Salt Lake City. Salt Lake officials have suggested they may focus on 2034. The IOC is expected to name the host in May 2023 and IOC President Bach, in an interview with Kyodo, seemed to rule out awarding 2030 and 2034 at the same time.
Neither of the three cities requires citizens to approve the bid in a public referendum, which have consistently been rejected when tied to funding the Olympics.
“Previously, there was no question about whether it was the right thing to do to bring the Olympics to Japan,” Tonami said. “But I think what’s different now is that people are starting to ask if it’s really the right thing to do.”
Barbara Holthus, the deputy director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo, worked as a volunteer during the Olympics and got a feel for the street.
“People were so upset that (IOC president) Thomas Bach pushed the Olympics down everybody’s throat without consideration for Japanese sentiments,” she said. “And now they want to it again without asking the people of Sapporo, which they would have to do in Germany.”
Holthus, who grew up in Hamburg, Germany, pointed out that in 2015, local voters there turned down a referendum to hold the 2024 Olympics in the northern German city. Like Holthus, IOC President Bach is also a German.
Working as an Olympic volunteer, Holthus said she saw other volunteers decline to wear their uniforms on public transportation as they traveled to the venue during the pandemic. She said volunteers were told to wear the uniforms because there was no provision for storing street clothing at venues, but some didn’t want to be identified with Games.
She said it was different recently when volunteers gathered to clean some Tokyo beaches.
“My colleagues last year, lots of them didn’t want to be seen in their neighborhood with the uniform on. People were thinking, maybe you’ll bring the virus back to the office or into the neighborhood. But at the recent event we were asked to wear our uniform. Of course, not everybody did, but some did — and they were really proud now to wear it. So I think this bad taste of the uniform now is kind of gone.”
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Seaside Police investigating possible drive-by shooting at Noche Buena Street and San Pablo Avenue
SEASIDE, Calif. (KION-TV) -- Seaside Police told KION on the scene they are investigating a possible drive-by shooting that occurred at the corner of Food Corner Market on Noche Buena Street and San Pablo Avenue.
Seaside Police would not confirm if someone was injured in the shooting or how many shots were fired.
They would also not confirm how many suspects they were looking for or if they had identified a person/s of interest.
The market owner told KION that someone shot at his ice machine, and nobody was hurt.
Seaside Police cleared the scene as of 9:30 p.m.
ORIGINAL STORY
Seaside Police have a portion of the Food Corner Market taped up along Noche Buena and San Pablo after a shooting Wednesday night.
Police confirmed the shooting to KION at the scene but are citing a pending investigation for not releasing more information.
This includes info on whether or not a person was shot at the scene, though a witness claims no one was shot.
Crime scene tape could be seen along the side of the Food Corner Market building, although our crew noticed the store is still open.
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‘Godrej Attributes will quickly feel our fastest-increasing business’
Godrej Security intends to get to Rs step one,100000 cr turnover when you look at the 4 yrs
The latest bullock cart comes to an end in one of the dusty alleys during the Osnamabad, a tiny area on Marathwada area for Maharashtra. As well as 2 community girls, sporting antique Marathi Kasta Saree, step out in style towards things he has got assisted co-do with engineers from the Godrej & Boyce.
The caliber of the sales pitch of the Category ten-violation ladies would do an MBA happy. To have, they know these products really, given that team on it him or her straight from the newest conception stage so you’re able to making and you may ed Chotukool (Little Chill).
New refrigerators, which happen to be getting try offered in a number of towns and cities inside Maharashtra, are set to have a nationwide commercial release in February.
Having Chotukool, brand new Godrej group keeps junked the conventional make of a proprietary route that have a salesforce and you can a supplier-agent strings and contains entered hands which have mini-finance institutions.
This new delivery ecosystem is just one of the novel tests you to definitely Godrej is wanting out over have an impact on base of your own pyramid fridge business. There are more.
Chotukool doesn’t always have a good compressor. It looks like an excellent 43 litre chill field, that is piled in the top, and can run on battery pack. The new refrigerator weighs in at just eight.8 kg, operates towards a cooling processor and you may a lover just like those people always cool machines. Because of the fuel shortage regarding the country, what’s more, it uses large-prevent insulation to remain cool day long versus strength. The new operational cost try low: this new fridge takes 1 / 2 of the advantage ate from the regular refrigerators.
However the obvious champ are their pricing. From the Rs step three,250, it will set you back almost thirty-five percent less than the most affordable category out-of fridges available for sale today. Apart from involving town girls for the selling the items from the a good fee out-of Rs 150 for every single unit offered (something which the firm claims wil dramatically reduce the fresh shipments and you can revenue will cost you from the forty %), Godrej has gone in for multiple engineering designs to save the brand new price reduced. The scale try small and the number of pieces within the Chotukool has been quicker just to 20 as opposed to 2 hundred that go to the normal refrigerators.
Sunderraman states the theory to target the bottom of this new pyramid users obtained contour within a seminar having Clayton M Christensen, Harvard College or university professor, most popular to have their applying for grants disruptive creativity. The concept chatted about on workshop would be to cover villagers best from the framework in order to selling of one’s product.
The firm did one for the proper earnest since they expose the initial model away from Chotukool during the Sep last year. The product has gone in for multiple adjustments after every little detail, in addition to costs and the colour (reddish and you will blue had been the newest obvious champions) try chatted about having a select group of villagers and micro-financial institutions.
Brand new Godrej group are betting big into Chotukool. “It can yes allow us to inside seizing battle,” states Sunderraman. The team lost their leadership reputation in order to Korean creatures LG and you can Samsung and Whirlpool of the All of us a short while ago. Godrej & Boyce is the newest fourth largest pro from the more than about three million units business.
But experts state the lowest priced part is not the premier offering classification when you look at the refrigerators. The biggest attempting to sell classification with over fifty % business is the 160 so you’re able to 170 litre size patterns coming in at regarding Rs 6,five-hundred so you can Rs eight,five hundred. Which, and work out Chotukool a survival was a lengthy carry into group, more so from inside the a course and that means volumes to pay to possess brand new super-thin margins.
However, Sunderraman was unfazed. “We’re seeking to create market segment which could progress slowly. Ultimately, it should provides a life threatening business,” he says.
In any case, Chotukool is bound to notice a huge new number of people when you look at the a country in which under one out of four belongings provides a fridge. It is quite for the tune in what Administration Expert C K Prahalad has been stating for a time now – providing new poorest of the globe is also and must be good to have providers.
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- Figures for the first half of 2022: Sales revenue up 20.9 percent in constant currencies, underlying EBITDA up 25.6 percent, underlying EBITDA margin 33.9 percent
- 2022 outlook confirmed: Sales revenue expected to rise by 15 to 19 percent and underlying EBITDA margin projected to be about 34 percent
- Uncertainties due to the global political and economic situation remain high
GÖTTINGEN, Germany, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The life science group Sartorius increased sales revenue and earnings with double-digit growth rates in the first half of 2022 and confirmed its full-year outlook.
"Sartorius performed well during the first half of the year in an increasingly challenging environment. Both divisions achieved significant growth and could maintain high profit margins despite some headwinds from currencies. Since the beginning of the year, we increased our worldwide headcount by around 2,000, and the recent acquisitions are contributing to our business development as expected. Given the healthy underlying demand in our industry and good order situation, we confirm our full-year outlook as well as our ambitious investment program, despite higher inflation and lower corona-related demand. However, the global political and economic uncertainties, the resulting strained supply chains, and thus also the uncertainties of projections and outlooks remain high," said Executive Board Chairman and CEO Joachim Kreuzburg.
Business development of the Group1
In the first half of the year, Group sales revenue rose by 20.9 percent year-over-year in constant currencies (reported: +26.5 percent) to around 2,060 million euros. This good performance was mainly driven by organic growth in the Laboratory as well as in the Bioprocess division, while acquisitions2 contributed almost 2 percentage points to sales revenue growth. All three business regions – EMEA3, Americas, and Asia | Pacific – posted double-digit percentage growth in constant currencies. The restrictions in China caused by the pandemic had a relatively minor impact on growth.
Order intake also developed as expected, reaching 2,169 million euros (in constant currencies:
-4.8 percent, reported: -0.5 percent). In the Bioprocess Solutions Division, in particular, the first half of 2021 was influenced by extraordinarily high demand related to the coronavirus pandemic and changed ordering patterns by some customers, who placed their orders further in advance than usual.
Following the strong growth in sales revenue, underlying EBITDA rose by 25.6 percent to 697 million euros in the first half of the year. The corresponding margin, at 33.9 percent, was close to the high level of the prior-year period (34.1 percent). The development was influenced by positive economies of scale but also by negative currency effects and, as planned, higher costs due to new employees and an increase in the number of business trips. Effects from price trends and adjustments on the purchasing and customer sides largely compensated each other.
Relevant net profit reached 334 million euros, up 28.6 percent from the prior-year period. Underlying earnings were 4.88 euros (prior-year period: 3.79 euros) per ordinary share and 4.89 euros (prior-year period: 3.80 euros) per preference share.
Key financial indicators
The Sartorius Group continues to have a very sound balance sheet and financial base. As of June 30, 2022, its equity ratio stood at 35.9 percent (December 31, 2021: 30.2 percent). The ratio of net debt to underlying EBITDA was 1.4 as of the reporting date, compared with 1.5 at year-end 2021. Cash flow from investing activities stood at -229 million euros, compared with -160 million euros in the first half of 2021. The ratio of capital expenditures (CAPEX) to sales revenue reached 10.7 percent (prior-year period: 9.0 percent).
Increase in the number of employees
As of June 30, 2022, Sartorius employed a total of 15,795 people worldwide, representing a headcount increase of 1,963 from the end of December 2021.
Business development of the Bioprocess Solutions Division
The Bioprocess Solutions Division, which offers a wide array of innovative technologies for the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals and vaccines, recorded sales revenue of 1,637 million euros in the first six months of the year. This corresponds to an increase of 23.6 percent in constant currencies (reported: +29.3 percent) compared with the prior-year period, including a non-organic contribution from acquisitions of a good 2 percentage points. All business areas contributed to this positive development with clear double-digit growth rates, while the business with vaccine manufacturers normalized faster than expected.
Following the high growth rates due to the pandemic in the first half of 2021, order intake also continued to normalize and reached 1,716 million euros, which was, as expected, slightly below the prior-year figure of 1,803 million euros (in constant currencies: -8.9 percent; reported: -4.8 percent).
Underlying EBITDA of the Bioprocess Solutions division rose by 27.2 percent to 586 million euros. Despite negative currency effects and planned higher costs, the resulting margin of 35.8 percent was close to the high prior-year level of 36.3 percent.
Business development of the Lab Products & Services Division
Sales revenue of the Lab Products & Services Division, which specializes in equipment and technologies for life science research and pharmaceutical laboratories, grew by 11.2 percent (reported: +16.7 percent) to 423 million euros in the first half of the year. Close to 1 percentage point came from non-organic growth. Development was again especially dynamic in the bioanalytics product segment. Order intake developed even more strongly than sales revenue, surging by 15.0 percent in constant currencies (reported: +20.6 percent) to 453 million euros.
The division's underlying EBITDA rose by 17.7 percent to 112 million euros. The corresponding margin rose to 26.4 percent (prior-year period: 26.2 percent), with a positive product mix and economies of scale offsetting negative currency effects and planned higher costs.
Outlook for fiscal 2022 confirmed
The management confirms its outlook for the current fiscal year. Consolidated sales revenue is expected to increase by about 15 percent to 19 percent, with non-organic growth from acquisitions projected to contribute about 2 percentage points. Regarding profitability, Sartorius continues to expect its underlying EBITDA margin to reach about 34 percent.
For the Bioprocess Solutions Division, the company still forecasts sales revenue growth of about 17 percent to 21 percent. This includes a non-organic growth contribution from acquisitions of about 2 percentage points. The division's underlying EBITDA margin is projected to reach about 36 percent. Lab Products & Services should achieve revenue growth of about 6 percent to 10 percent in 2022, with about 1 percentage point of this coming from the non-organic growth contribution from acquisitions. The division's underlying EBITDA margin is expected to be about 26 percent.
The CAPEX ratio is anticipated to be about 14 percent and net debt to underlying EBITDA to be around 1.1 at year end. Possible further acquisitions are not included in this projection.
All forecasts are based on constant currencies, as in the past years. In addition, management points out that the dynamics and volatilities in the life science and biopharma sectors have increased over the past years and the coronavirus pandemic has further amplified these trends. Moreover, the forecasts are based on the assumption of no further deterioration in the geopolitical and global economic situation, supply chains, inflation and energy supply, and no new relevant restrictions in connection with the coronavirus pandemic. Accordingly, current forecasts show even higher uncertainties than usual.
1 Sartorius publishes alternative performance measures that are not defined by international accounting standards. These are determined with the aim of improving the comparability of business performance over time and within the industry.
- Order intake: all customer orders contractually concluded and booked during the respective reporting period
- Underlying EBITDA: earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and adjusted for extraordinary items
- Relevant net profit: profit for the period after non-controlling interest, adjusted for extraordinary items and non-cash amortization, as well as based on the normalized financial result and the normalized tax rate
- Ratio of net debt to underlying EBITDA: quotient of net debt and underlying EBITDA over the past 12 months, including the pro forma amount contributed by acquisitions for this period
2 Acquisition of CellGenix, Xell, the Novasep chromatography division, and ALS Automated Lab Solutions
3 EMEA = Europe, Middle East, Africa
This press release contains forward-looking statements about the future development of the Sartorius Group. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Sartorius assumes no liability for updating such statements in light of new information or future events.
Conference call
The Executive Board Chairman and CEO of Sartorius AG, Joachim Kreuzburg, and Executive Board member and CFO, Rainer Lehmann, will discuss the company's results with analysts and investors in a conference call at 3.30 p.m. CEST on Thursday, July 21, 2022. You may register by clicking on the following link: https://media.chorusScall.eu/mediaframe/webcast.html?webcastid=PBMZ53Mz
Further information
Financial calendar
October 19, 2022 Publication of nine-month figures (January to September 2022)
1 The previous year's figures have been restated due to finalization of the purchase price allocations for the acquisition of BIA Separations
2 cc= in constant currencies
3 Acc. to customers' loaction
4 Adjusted for extraordinary items
5 After non-controlling interest, adjusted for extraordinary items and non-cash amortization, as well as based on the normalized financial result and the normalized tax rate
6 After non-controlling interest
A profile of Sartorius
The Sartorius Group is a leading international partner of life science research and the biopharmaceutical industry. With innovative laboratory instruments and consumables, the Group's Lab Products & Services Division concentrates on serving the needs of laboratories performing research and quality control at pharma and biopharma companies and those of academic research institutes. The Bioprocess Solutions Division with its broad product portfolio focusing on single-use solutions helps customers to manufacture biotech medications and vaccines safely and efficiently. The Group has been annually growing by double digits on average and has been regularly expanding its portfolio by acquisitions of complementary technologies. In fiscal 2021, the company earned sales revenue of some 3.45 billion euros. At the end of 2021, nearly 14,000 people were employed at the Group's approximately 60 manufacturing and sales sites, serving customers around the globe.
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BERLIN (AP) — Natural gas started flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe on Thursday after a 10-day shutdown for maintenance, the operator said. But the gas flow was expected to fall well short of full capacity.
The Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany had been closed since July 11 for annual maintenance work. Amid growing tensions over Russia’s war in Ukraine, German officials had feared that the pipeline — the country’s main source of Russian gas, which has accounted for around a third of Germany’s gas supplies — might not reopen at all.
Operator Nord Stream AG said that gas started flowing again Thursday morning but the flow would take a while to ramp up, German news agency dpa reported.
Deliveries were expected to fall well below the pipeline’s full capacity. Nord Stream said a similar amount of gas was expected to that seen before maintenance. The head of Germany’s network regulator, Klaus Mueller, said on Twitter that Russia’s Gazprom had notified deliveries Thursday of only about 30% of the pipeline’s capacity.
In mid-June, Russia’s state-owned Gazprom cut the flow to 40% of capacity. It cited alleged technical problems involving equipment that partner Siemens Energy sent to Canada for overhaul and couldn’t be returned because of sanctions imposed over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Canadian government earlier this month gave permission for the turbine that powers a compressor station at the Russian end of the pipeline to be delivered to Germany.
The German government has rejected Gazprom’s technical explanation for the gas reduction, charging repeatedly that it was a pretext for a political decision to sow uncertainty and further push up energy prices. It has said that the turbine was a replacement that was only supposed to be installed in September, but that it’s doing everything to deprive Russia of the pretext to reduce supplies.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Gazprom still hadn’t received the relevant documents for the turbine’s return — a claim repeated Wednesday by Gazprom. Putin said that Gazprom was to shut another turbine for repairs in late July, and if the one that was sent to Canada wasn’t returned by then the flow of gas would ebb even more.
The head of the European Union’s executive Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said on Wednesday that the turbine was “in transit” and there was “no pretext not to deliver” gas.
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rising 0.15% to 31,874.84. This was the stock's second consecutive day of gains. Mondelez International Inc. Cl A closed $8.02 short of its 52-week high ($69.47), which the company achieved on January 21st.
The stock outperformed some of its competitors Wednesday, as Nestle S.A. ADR
NSRGY,
-1.85%
fell 1.85% to $116.75, PepsiCo Inc.
PEP,
-1.06%
fell 1.06% to $168.26, and General Mills Inc.
GIS,
-1.30%
fell 1.30% to $73.40. Trading volume (6.3 M) remained 1.7 million below its 50-day average volume of 8.0 M.
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One soldier was killed and nine others were injured when lightning struck during a military training exercise at Fort Gordon near Augusta, Georgia, Wednesday, a garrison spokesperson confirmed.
The ten soldiers were conducting a field training exercise around 11:10 a.m. when the lighting strike occurred, Anne Bowman, a public affairs officer, told CNN. The extent of the nine soldiers' injuries is unknown, she said.
The name of the soldier who died will be released once their family has been notified.
Around the time of the strike, a storm was moving through the area from the northwest to the southeast at roughly 45 miles per hour, according to CNN Weather. The temperature was around 80 degrees.
Eleven weather-related deaths in 2021 were attributed to lightning, according to the National Weather Service.
Other soldiers have died during training exercises in the US this year, including Staff Sgt. Seth Michael Plant, who was killed by a bear in Alaska, and US Army Pfc. Joseph A. Marquez, 20, who died during a vehicle-involved incident in Washington state.
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Good Samaritans save 2 young girls after mom dies in crash
ALPINE, Calif. (KGTV) - A California family is in search of some good Samaritans who rescued two girls after a car crash that killed their mother.
Bonnie Baum Roth had just left home around 8:30 a.m. Friday with her daughters, 3-year-old Roxie and 9-year-old Moxie, on a trip to Long Beach for a dance competition.
“All their dance costumes, everything ready to go, they were excited,” said Cheryl Baum, Roth’s mother.
The California Highway Patrol says Roth lost control of her SUV, veered into the median, rolled down an embankment and ended up on eastbound Interstate 8. The mother was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene.
“We’re crushed. My soul is crushed,” Baum said.
She calls her daughter a dedicated mom who was passionate about life and her faith. She was also a unique dance mom who cheered for everyone.
“She would whistle and yell for them and support them and say, ‘You get it, girl!’” Baum said.
Amid their grief, Baum and her family are in search of two good Samaritans who helped Moxie and Roxie escape after the crash. She says they rushed past speeding traffic and toward the mangled SUV, with gas spilled everywhere.
“Any moment, that car could have burst into flames,” Baum said. “I heard that it was very difficult for them to get them out. The babies were screaming. Anything could have happened to them.”
About 10 minutes before emergency crews arrived, the two Samaritans pulled the girls out of the wreck, helping them escape with only a few scrapes and stitches, Baum says.
She adds that the Samaritans and a few others also covered up her daughter’s body, shielding the girls from the sight, before tending to and comforting them.
“We’re pleading for you to come forward. You’re our heroes. You’re our champions,” Baum said. “The little girls have asked where their friends were who helped them out of the car. We want to thank you. You’re part of our family now.”
A GoFundMe set up to help the family with expenses has raised more than $55,000.
The CHP is still investigating the crash. They say neither alcohol nor drugs are believed to have been factors.
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WALLDORF, Germany, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced a new share repurchase program. The program, with a volume of up to €500 million, is planned to be executed in the period between August 1 and December 31, 2022. It will be implemented based on the authorization granted by the Annual General Meeting of SAP SE on May 17, 2018, and in compliance with the restrictions set forth therein. Repurchased shares will primarily be used to service awards granted under share-based compensation plans for employees.
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Leadership is not an Instagram story.
But that’s the impression one would get from the Congressional photo op/protest outside the Supreme Court Tuesday.
Seventeen members of Congress were detained by Capitol Police as they protested the High Court’s recent decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Among them, Massachusetts’ own U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Assistant House Speaker Katherine Clark.
There is plenty of outrage — and demonstrations — over the Supreme Court’s ruling around the county. It is doubtful at this point that anyone with an opinion on the matter hasn’t aired it.
What must be particularly vexing for Democrats, however, is that the topic of abortion ranks fairly low on the list of things that voters are most concerned about.
According to a recent Monmouth University poll, it’s inflation (33%), gas prices (15%), the economy (9%), everyday bills, groceries, etc. (6%), abortion and reproductive rights (5%), with guns, health care costs and job security coming it at 3% each.
Like it or not, the meat-and-potatoes topics that Democrats would like to glide over — why are prices soaring, how are we supposed to pay our bills? — are top of mind with most Americans.
So, one must ask — what was the point of the Supreme Court protest?
There were some choice PR moments: “Today, Congresswoman Pressley joined her colleagues and grassroots advocates for a non-violent civil disobedience to protest the Supreme Court’s cruel and callous decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and strip away abortion rights for everyone who calls America home,” said Pressley spokesman Ricardo Sanchez in a statement that her office quickly sent out.
U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., tweeted that she was “Proud” to march with her Democratic colleagues “and get arrested for women’s rights, abortion rights, the rights for people to control their own bodies and the future of our democracy!” the Hill reported.
According to the Herald, the police force said the members and other protesters were blocking the street, and after three warnings to cut it out, Capitol Police arrested 35 people.
The department told the Herald, “Nobody was handcuffed as is standard for a noncustodial arrest.”
How does one explain, then, U.S. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota clasping their hands together behind their backs as police walked them away — as though they were being led away in cuffs?
Politics used to be about sound bites. Now it’s pics-or-it-didn’t happen.
The problem with posing for effect is that you have to maintain the facade. AOC slipped up when she raised her right fist to the crowd before putting it back behind her back, according to a news reporter’s video that Omar’s office linked to in a press release. In that video — featured in a tweet that said congressional staff told the reporter the women had been cuffed — Omar’s hands appear sometimes to be together and other times apart.
“That’s what we call good trouble,” Clark’s office tweeted in a reference to the famous quote from civil-rights icon and late U.S. Rep. John Lewis.
No, that’s what we call empty gestures to whip up the base. The midterms can’t come soon enough. | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/21/editorial-posing-pols-ignore-struggles-of-american-families/ | 2022-07-21T06:22:34Z | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/21/editorial-posing-pols-ignore-struggles-of-american-families/ | false |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A woman accused of killing professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson as a romantic rival pleaded not guilty to a murder charge on Wednesday, as her lawyers pressed for a quick trial that the judge then scheduled to start in late October.
Wilson, 25, was found shot to death on May 11. Kaitlin Armstrong, 34, fled the country after her initial interviews with investigators, prompting a 43-day manhunt that ended with her arrest at a beachside hostel in Costa Rica on June 29.
Authorities said she had tried to change her appearance and used several aliases as she moved around Costa Rica while trying to set herself up as a yoga instructor in that country.
A competitive gravel and mountain bike racer and Vermont native known as “Mo,” Wilson had been in Austin for a race she was among the favorites to win. Police have said Wilson had previously dated Armstrong’s boyfriend, cyclist Colin Strickland, who they say has cooperated with investigators and is not a suspect.
According to investigators, Armstrong’s SUV was seen on surveillance video outside the home where Wilson was killed. Armstrong faces up to 99 years in prison if she’s convicted. She is being held on $3.5 million bond.
Prosecutors questioned whether the quick trial setting amounted to a “privilege” for Armstrong, as it would put her case in front of other murder trials that have waited for two years or longer because of pandemic slowdowns. They also noted that investigators are still gathering evidence that prosecutors and defense attorneys have yet to receive.
“If they chose to indict without evidence, that’s the district attorney’s problem,” Armstrong’s attorney, Rick Cofer, told District Judge Brenda Kennedy before she granted the request to set a trial date and scheduled it to begin Oct. 24.
After the brief court hearing, Cofer suggested that Armstrong’s defense will challenge the evidence gathering and conduct by Austin police investigators, and whether they didn’t follow leads that could have led to a different suspect.
“Ms. Armstrong wants her day in court,” Cofer said, without taking questions. “Simply put, there is a lot more to this story that has yet been heard.” | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/woman-pleads-not-guilty-in-texas-killing-of-pro-cyclist/ | 2022-07-21T06:23:56Z | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/woman-pleads-not-guilty-in-texas-killing-of-pro-cyclist/ | true |
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