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Former sports superstar Bo Jackson helped pay for the funerals of the 19 children and two teachers killed in the Uvalde school massacre in May, revealing himself as one of the previously anonymous donors who covered costs for families after one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history.Jackson, whose rare success in both the NFL and Major League Baseball made him one of the greatest and most marketable athletes of the 1980s and 1990s, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he felt compelled to support the victims' families after the loss of so many children."I don't know if it's because I'm getting old," said Jackson, a father of three and a grandfather as he nears 60. "It's just not right for parents to bury their kids. It's just not right."I know every family there probably works their butts off just to do what they do. ... The last thing they needed was to shell out thousands of dollars for something that never should have happened."Jackson said he felt a personal connection to the city he's driven through many times. Uvalde has been a regular stop for a bite to eat or groceries before a long drive farther west to visit a friend's ranch on hunting trips.It was his familiarity with the feel of Uvalde's Main Street, leafy town square and the people he'd met on those stops that touched his heart when the news broke on May 24th of the shooting at Robb Elementary. Law enforcement has been heavily criticized for taking more than an hour to enter the classroom where the 18-year-old gunman carried out the attack, and a Texas House investigative report laid blame on the school district, saying a lax safety culture, spotty alert system and unlocked doors also contributed.Three days later, Jackson and a close friend flew to Uvalde, briefly met with Gov. Greg Abbott and presented a check for $170,000 with an offer to pay for all funeral expenses.Abbott announced it as an anonymous donation during a May 27 news conference about aid the state was giving victims."We didn't want media," he said. "No one knew we were there."And though Jackson suggested he hasn't kept it a secret, he hadn't spoken publicly about what moved him to make the trip to Uvalde and the donation until this week."Uvalde is a town that sticks in your mind. Just the name," Jackson said. "I don't know a soul there. It just touched me."Jackson declined to name the friend who went with him and also contributed to the donation.Other fundraising efforts have since raised millions to assist families, and local funeral homes said they wouldn't charge families for services. But Jackson's donation was an early point of light for the grieving families.Abbott's office said Jackson's money was "quickly directed to cover funeral costs" through OneStar, a nonprofit created to further volunteerism and community service in Texas, including Uvalde relief efforts."The true spirit of our nation is Americans lifting up one another in times of need and hardship," Abbott said. "In a truly selfless act, Bo covered all funeral expenses for the victims' families so they would have one less thing to worry about as they grieved."Jackson said he followed news coverage of the funerals, but he declined to say if he has been in direct contact with any of the families.The day of the shooting, Jackson tweeted, "America ... let's please stop all the nonsense. Please pray for all victims. If you hear something, say something. We aren't supposed to bury our children. I'm praying for all of the families around the country who have lost loved ones to senseless shootings. This cannot continue."When asked to elaborate on the "This cannot continue," though, Jackson declined, saying only that he wrote what he meant."I don't want to turn this into anything (but) what it is. I was just trying (with the donation) to put a little sunshine in someone's cloud, a very dark cloud," Jackson said.But he also noted the regularity of mass shootings in the country."The last thing you want to hear is there's an active shooter in your child's school," he said. "It's happening everywhere now."Uvalde wasn't Jackson's first large-scale act of philanthropy. He hosts an annual bike ride in his home state of Alabama to raise money for disaster relief funds, an effort started after tornadoes killed nearly 250 people. The Uvalde donation was his first in response to a mass shooting."It's the children. ... It's the children. ... It's the children," Jackson said, pausing before each repetition to gather himself. "If it doesn't bother you, something's wrong with you."
AUSTIN, Texas — Former sports superstar Bo Jackson helped pay for the funerals of the 19 children and two teachers killed in the Uvalde school massacre in May, revealing himself as one of the previously anonymous donors who covered costs for families after one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history.
Jackson, whose rare success in both the NFL and Major League Baseball made him one of the greatest and most marketable athletes of the 1980s and 1990s, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he felt compelled to support the victims' families after the loss of so many children.
"I don't know if it's because I'm getting old," said Jackson, a father of three and a grandfather as he nears 60. "It's just not right for parents to bury their kids. It's just not right.
"I know every family there probably works their butts off just to do what they do. ... The last thing they needed was to shell out thousands of dollars for something that never should have happened."
Jackson said he felt a personal connection to the city he's driven through many times. Uvalde has been a regular stop for a bite to eat or groceries before a long drive farther west to visit a friend's ranch on hunting trips.
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Former Auburn Tigers Bo Jackson looks on prior to the 2014 Vizio BCS National Championship Game against the Florida State Seminoles at the Rose Bowl on Jan. 6, 2014, in Pasadena, California.
It was his familiarity with the feel of Uvalde's Main Street, leafy town square and the people he'd met on those stops that touched his heart when the news broke on May 24th of the shooting at Robb Elementary. Law enforcement has been heavily criticized for taking more than an hour to enter the classroom where the 18-year-old gunman carried out the attack, and a Texas House investigative report laid blame on the school district, saying a lax safety culture, spotty alert system and unlocked doors also contributed.
Three days later, Jackson and a close friend flew to Uvalde, briefly met with Gov. Greg Abbott and presented a check for $170,000 with an offer to pay for all funeral expenses.
Abbott announced it as an anonymous donation during a May 27 news conference about aid the state was giving victims.
"We didn't want media," he said. "No one knew we were there."
And though Jackson suggested he hasn't kept it a secret, he hadn't spoken publicly about what moved him to make the trip to Uvalde and the donation until this week.
"Uvalde is a town that sticks in your mind. Just the name," Jackson said. "I don't know a soul there. It just touched me."
Jackson declined to name the friend who went with him and also contributed to the donation.
Other fundraising efforts have since raised millions to assist families, and local funeral homes said they wouldn't charge families for services. But Jackson's donation was an early point of light for the grieving families.
Abbott's office said Jackson's money was "quickly directed to cover funeral costs" through OneStar, a nonprofit created to further volunteerism and community service in Texas, including Uvalde relief efforts.
"The true spirit of our nation is Americans lifting up one another in times of need and hardship," Abbott said. "In a truly selfless act, Bo covered all funeral expenses for the victims' families so they would have one less thing to worry about as they grieved."
Jackson said he followed news coverage of the funerals, but he declined to say if he has been in direct contact with any of the families.
The day of the shooting, Jackson tweeted, "America ... let's please stop all the nonsense. Please pray for all victims. If you hear something, say something. We aren't supposed to bury our children. I'm praying for all of the families around the country who have lost loved ones to senseless shootings. This cannot continue."
When asked to elaborate on the "This cannot continue," though, Jackson declined, saying only that he wrote what he meant.
"I don't want to turn this into anything (but) what it is. I was just trying (with the donation) to put a little sunshine in someone's cloud, a very dark cloud," Jackson said.
But he also noted the regularity of mass shootings in the country.
"The last thing you want to hear is there's an active shooter in your child's school," he said. "It's happening everywhere now."
Uvalde wasn't Jackson's first large-scale act of philanthropy. He hosts an annual bike ride in his home state of Alabama to raise money for disaster relief funds, an effort started after tornadoes killed nearly 250 people. The Uvalde donation was his first in response to a mass shooting.
"It's the children. ... It's the children. ... It's the children," Jackson said, pausing before each repetition to gather himself. "If it doesn't bother you, something's wrong with you." | https://www.wisn.com/article/uvalde-texas-bo-jackson-funeral-donations/40690230 | 2022-07-22T16:35:03Z | https://www.wisn.com/article/uvalde-texas-bo-jackson-funeral-donations/40690230 | false |
ANN ARBOR, MI — A collection of old sheds across from Ann Arbor’s Wheeler Park met their end this week as a demolition crew tore them to the ground.
The worn-out wooden structures for many years formed a wall along the sidewalk on Summit Street and Fifth Avenue behind Casey’s Tavern, a bar and restaurant on Depot Street. | https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2022/07/caseys-tavern-in-ann-arbor-may-get-outdoor-seating-after-sheds-demolished.html | 2022-07-22T16:36:37Z | https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2022/07/caseys-tavern-in-ann-arbor-may-get-outdoor-seating-after-sheds-demolished.html | true |
Convergence identifies childcare obstacles, financial instability and inadequate public policy as potential areas for nonpartisan collaboration and problem-solving.
WASHINGTON, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In a new framing paper, Convergence Center for Policy Resolution outlined the focus for its Supports for Working Families project, a multi-staged convening of experts that will identify areas for nonpartisan collaboration to address some of the most intractable problems facing American families today. The project, which is funded in part by The Packard Foundation, will explore challenges around childcare, financial instability, and public policy.
"In the wake of the pandemic, the challenges facing working families are more urgent than ever," said Convergence CEO David Eisner. "Our collective success demands cooperative solutions to promote economic mobility and opportunity for the long term."
The focus areas outlined in this first stage of Convergence's Supports for Working Families project were identified through a months-long assessment, including more than 60 interviews with leading stakeholders on family issues across a wide diversity of political, ideological, sectoral and other experiences and perspectives. Interviewees included parent advocates, childcare providers, Congressional staff, academics, employers, faith-based groups, racial justice organizations, and more.
In addition to focusing on the challenges identified, participants in the project will consider the efficacy of potential solutions including a monthly child allowance, universal parental leave, workplace policies to create more flexibility and predictability, and increased access to affordable, high-quality childcare for low- and moderate-income families.
"Challenges like these can only be overcome in a sustainable way when we all talk to one another," said Abby McClosky, Director of the Convergence Supports for Working Families project. "Our goal in convening such a diverse set of voices from all sides of the debate to discuss how we can best serve working families is to find areas of agreement and to ultimately share the responsibility of delivering impactful solutions to communities. Convergence is optimistic that this process will lead us to lasting change for families that are in dire need of our support."
Convergence Center for Policy Resolution is a longtime leader in the fields of bridge-building and problem-solving across differences. It serves as a neutral third-party convenor to provide a confidential and collaborative space for leaders through its flagship Dialogue process, which is informed by social science. The methodology includes three phases: assessment, dialogue, and implementation. Past projects have yielded measurable impact on public policy and practice.
About Convergence Center for Policy Resolution
Convergence is a national non-profit that builds trust and bridges divides to solve critical issues and strengthen our democracy. Convergence Dialogues convene individuals and organizations with divergent views to understand each other, find common ground, develop consensus solutions, and build unusual alliances to see those solutions enacted. Dialogues usually address critical national issues in impact focus areas, including economic opportunity, health and wellness, and democracy and society. Learn more at: https://convergencepolicy.org.
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The Global Hygiene Council (GHC) calls for the use of hygiene practices, such as handwashing, alongside vaccinations to prevent the spread of infectious diseases and reduce the impact of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
LONDON, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) identified vaccines as "highly effective tools in combating AMR". Despite their efficacy, the financial risks and approval processes for vaccine development continue to restrict their use as an immediate solution to the AMR crisis. It was concluded that short-term solutions to prevent resistance must focus on interventions other than vaccines, highlighting the importance of research and investment in other methods of control, including effective infection prevention.
The GHC welcomes this report and advocates the use of hygiene alongside vaccinations in controlling the spread of infections and reducing the impact of AMR. As witnessed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, hygiene plays an invaluable role in helping to prevent the spread of infections. Effective hygiene behaviours, such as hand washing, can reduce the risk of transmissible diseases by up to 59%, preventing up to 1 million deaths per year and minimising opportunities for antibiotic-resistant bacteria to form.
AMR has been declared one of the top 10 global public health threats facing humanity and occurs when bacteria and viruses change over time, becoming resistant to medicines. Each year, resistant bacteria account for almost 5 million deaths worldwide – of which 1.27 million are directly attributed to AMR.
"Alongside vaccination strategies, effective hygiene practices in home and community settings, such as schools and workplaces, are vital interventions for preventing infections and the need for antimicrobials, such as antibiotics – the indiscriminate use of which is a key driver for AMR.", explains Sabiha Essack, GHC spokesperson and Professor from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. "By adopting simple hygiene practices as part of our daily routines, we can prevent infection and reduce the consumption of antimicrobials and subsequent selection pressure for the evolution and spread of drug-resistant bacteria", she added.
The GHC is calling for immediate action to address the growing burden of AMR by promoting the role of hygiene alongside other important interventions, including vaccinations, and elevating the universal use of hygiene practices where the risk of infection is heightened.
For further information or an interview with a GHC expert, please contact: gabriel.jarvis@emotiveagency.co.uk, +44(0)2081067899
References available on request.
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The Wildly Popular Multi-Day Car and Motorcycle Exhibition and Race Returns to Wildwood, New Jersey from September 30 – October 2 with New Events to Be Announced Soon
WILDWOOD, N.J., July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Race of Gentlemen (T.R.O.G.) is excited to celebrate its tenth anniversary as "the greatest race on earth" with the return to Wildwood, New Jersey on September 30 through October 2. The inaugural Race of Gentlemen was held in 2012 on the beach in Asbury Park, New Jersey, just days before Hurricane Sandy made landfall. The popular event pays tribute to a style of racing that evokes a bygone era when hand-built pre-WWII cars and motorcycles were pieced together in backyards and garages, then tested and proven in races on the flat, hard sand of the beach. The Race of Gentlemen has continued to grow over the years, having since moved from Asbury Park to Wildwood NJ, and doing additional races at other destinations including Milwaukee, WI, Pismo Beach and Santa Barbara, CA. Now, ten years later, T.R.O.G. is continuing its tradition of welcoming tens of thousands of race fans to the beach in Wildwood and will soon be expanding the multi-day exhibition and race to the West Coast and outside of the U.S to reach more enthusiasts and racers globally.
"We couldn't be more thrilled to be celebrating ten years of The Race of Gentlemen," said Mel Stultz, Founder of The Race of Gentleman. "The annual Wildwood event has become truly legendary, drawing in thousands of people each year. We anticipate this year to be even more successful and we will have lots of surprises in store for everyone. We also cannot wait to announce more details about our future T.R.O.G. events coming to California and the UK very soon. Our goal is to bring the T.R.O.G experience to a broader crew of vintage car and motorcycle revivalists and enthusiasts at destinations all around the world."
The tenth anniversary of T.R.O.G. in Wildwood will feature thrilling, non-stop exhibition style beach racing, live music, a kid's area, food and beer vendors, and much more. This year, The Race of Gentlemen is proud to welcome its newest sponsor, American Metal Customs, and their team of passionate fabricators, technicians, designers, and metal workers. "It's a dream come true to have American Metal involved with The Race of Gentleman," said Josh Allison, Master Builder and Fabricator at American Metal. "I have loved this event ever since it launched, and I know firsthand how inspiring and exciting it is to see these vintage pieces of American history racing down the beach with the ocean as a backdrop. Our custom-built and restored vintage cars and motorcycles will be a perfect complement to these events and add to the excitement of the entire weekend." American Metal Customs will play a key role in expanding the event footprint in Wildwood and beyond, while also showcasing a suite of custom-made and restored vintage motorcycles and automobiles at T.R.O.G. Additional sponsors include Bell Helmets and Harley Davidson.
Spectators and racers from all over will be able to enjoy the speed and excitement during the non-stop vintage hot rod and motorcycle action that will soon be going down the popular sandy beach straightaway. Tickets for Wildwood are available now at theraceofgentlemen.com. Stay tuned for more details about upcoming events by joining the #trog conversation on social and following T.R.O.G. on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
About The Race of Gentlemen:
The inaugural Race of Gentlemen was held in 2012 on the beach in Asbury Park, NJ, just days before Hurricane Sandy made landfall. Auto enthusiasts from all over attend T.R.O.G. to race their vintage roadsters, hotrods, and motorcycles down a sandy beach straightaway in front of thousands of spectators. The Race of Gentlemen continues to grow and garner international recognition, laying the groundwork for additional exhibitions and races around the world. For more information, visit theraceofgentlemen.com and follow T.R.O.G. on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
About American Metal:
American Metal, founded in 2021 by North American Motor Car and Master Builder and Fabricator Josh Allison, is an award-winning custom shop specializing in full custom car and motorcycle builds and restorations that showcase the glamour and raw elegance of vintage design coupled with the grit and pride of hand-made American craftsmanship. By focusing on individuality, creative freedom and high-end design, American Metal appeals to iconic individuals of all walks of life that have an appreciation for timeless design, personal freedom, vintage craftmanship and hand-made products. For more information, visit www.americanmetalcustom.com and follow American Metal on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
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Postal worker dies after suspect in police chase crashes into his vehicle
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT/Gray News) – A postal worker in Mississippi died from injuries after his mail truck was hit by a car involved in a police chase.
Officers with the Pearl Police Department said they tried to pull over Brandon Andrews, 20, for speeding on the interstate, but he failed to stop and officers chased him into Jackson, Mississippi.
According to WLBT, the chase ended when Andrews crashed his car into a mail truck driven by Brad Pennington, 32.
Pennington was seriously injured when he tried to escape the vehicle as it tipped over. A witness said the mail carrier tried to jump out of the truck and hit his head on the concrete.
Pennington was taken to the University of Mississippi Medical Center for treatment, where he succumbed to his injuries, police said.
Debra Fetterly, a spokeswoman for the Alabama-Mississippi District of the U.S. Postal Service, said Pennington had delivered mail for USPS since 2015.
“Earlier today, a postal family member lost his life in a vehicular accident, which currently is under investigation. the U.S. Postal Service is deeply saddened at the loss of our employee,” she said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and co-workers at this time.”
“Police chases are so dangerous and those that flee jeopardize the lives and safety of so many innocent lives, leaving decisions and discretion solely upon the officers based on policy,” Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones said in a statement on Twitter.
Andrews is facing multiple charges.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota has renewed its request to throw out a federal lawsuit brought by two Native American tribes that allege the state’s new legislative map dilutes tribal members’ voting strength.
The state said in court papers filed Thursday that it denies allegations by the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and the Spirit Lake Tribe.
U.S. District Judge Peter Welte dismissed the state’s argument earlier this month that the tribes lacked the standing to sue.
The Republican-controlled Legislature during its special session last fall approved a new map of legislative districts, based on updated census data. The map includes the new House subdistricts for the Fort Berthold and Turtle Mountain Indian reservations.
Turtle Mountain argues the split House district “packs” tribal members into a single subdistrict on its reservation, while diluting their vote in the non-reservation subdistrict. Spirit Lake alleges the new redistricting map dilutes American Indian voters on and near its reservation.
The case could go to trial next year if no resolution is reached, according to court filings. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/State-renews-request-to-toss-lawsuit-over-17322289.php | 2022-07-22T16:42:53Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/State-renews-request-to-toss-lawsuit-over-17322289.php | false |
No more perspiring on the Piccadilly line! TFL trials new water-based cooling system that promises to reduce platform and tunnel temperatures by up to 27°F at 'deep' Tube stations in wake of UK heatwave
- Panel circulates cold water around pipework within a metal structure to chill it
- This then cools the air around it, which is blown out using an industrial-sized fan
- The panel is being trialled on a disused platform at Holborn station
- If successful, it could be rolled out at five Piccadilly Line stations
Anyone who regularly travels on London's Tube network in the summer will no doubt have spent some time baking on the Bakerloo line, or perspiring on the Piccadilly.
But passengers travelling on the so-called 'deep' Tube network could soon be treated to a breath of fresh air while they are waiting on platforms.
Transport for London (TfL) has started trialling a 'state-of-the-art' cooling panel on a disused platform at Holborn station, to test its suitability for reducing temperatures on the Bakerloo, Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria and Waterloo & City lines.
The panel works by circulating cold water around pipework within a curved metal structure to chill it. This structure then cools the air around it, which is blown out through gaps in the panel's structure using an industrial-sized fan.
TfL claims the cooling panel could provide cooler air to passengers waiting on platforms, as well as mitigating potential temperature increases associated with running an increased number of trains on the Piccadilly line, as part of the line's future capacity upgrade.
In recent tests on a prototype cooling panel in a lab environment, an air temperature reduction of 10 to 15°C (18 to 27°F) in the vicinity of the panel was achieved.
TfL is now keen to see if this can be replicated on the disused platform at Holborn, which mimics the live environment that these panels would operate in.
The trial comes as the UK experienced its hottest temperatures on record earlier this week, with temperatures hitting 40.2°C (104.4°F) at London Heathrow Airport on Tuesday.
The panel works by circulating cold water around pipework within a curved metal structure to chill it. This structure then cools the air around it, which is blown out through gaps in the panel's structure using an industrial-sized fan.
TfL has started trialling the cooling panel on a disused platform at Holborn station, to test its suitability for reducing temperatures on the Bakerloo, Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria and Waterloo & City lines
'This innovative trial is taking place as we are experiencing record high temperatures,' said Paul Judge, TfL's Project Director for the Piccadilly Line Upgrade.
'This new technology could play an important role in ensuring we are doing everything we can to protect TfL's network against future temperature increases, helping to keep staff and customers safe and comfortable.'
In the past it has been challenging to lower temperatures on the deep Tube lines, as traditional cooling systems have proved prohibitively expensive and difficult to install within the 120-year-old tunnels and stations.
The aim of the new cooling panels is to significantly out-perform the existing Platform Air Handling Units, which are currently installed at some stations on the deep Tube network.
Initial results show that the new cooling panels are much better equipped to operate in the unique conditions of the deep Tube environment, according to TfL.
If the trial on the disused platform at Holborn is successful, the next step would be for TfL to test the panel at Knightsbridge station, which is open to customers.
The panels then potentially could be introduced at four additional stations on the Piccadilly line – Green Park, Holborn, Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus.
The Piccadilly line was chosen for this trial as when new, air-conditioned trains with walk-through carriages are introduced to the line from 2025, the current fleet will be gradually withdrawn from service and the frequency of trains in peak hours will rise from 24 to 27 trains per hour from mid-2027.
This is a train every 135 seconds at the busiest times, and represents a 23 per cent increase in peak service capacity.
TfL hopes to eventually re-signal the entire line, meaning it could increase train frequencies on the Piccadilly line to 33 and then 36 trains per hour.
It is at this point that additional cooling at five Piccadilly line stations would be necessary, according to TfL's modelling.
'The cooling panel project is supporting the Piccadilly Line Upgrade, which will see new state-of-the-art trains with more space, air-conditioning, walk-through carriages and improved accessibility running at greater frequencies on the line,' said Mr Judge.
'By seeking innovative solutions to cool platforms on the deep Tube network, we will be able to support future Piccadilly line train frequency increases with the possibility that the technology could be used on other Underground lines.'
In recent tests on a prototype cooling panel in a lab environment, an air temperature reduction of 10 to 15°C (18 to 27°F) in the vicinity of the panel was achieved. TfL is now keen to see if this can be replicated on the disused platform at Holborn, which mimics the live environment that these panels would operate in.
TfL emphasises that these plans are all subject to it securing a long-term funding settlement from the Government.
The trial is part of the Government's TIES Living Lab programme, a collaboration of 25 partners focusing on 10 infrastructure, data research and digital demonstrator projects, of which the cooling panels are one.
The cooling panel project, which has been designed by TfL and developed by SRC Infrastructure, was 70 per cent funded by the Department for Transport and Innovate UK.
However, progressing the trial at other locations is ultimately subject to TfL having sufficient long-term capital funding available.
If no further investment is provided, only projects already underway or those required to be compliant with safety and other statutory regulations will continue – meaning no new investment by TfL at all in the transport network.
This would mean that while the new Piccadilly line trains, which are currently on order, will be honoured, any new order for Bakerloo and Central line trains to replace the ageing fleet would be delayed by a further 10 years until at least 2040.
There are currently 192 air-conditioned Tube trains covering 40 per cent of the Underground network and there are enhanced tunnel ventilation systems on both the Victoria and Jubilee lines.
All London Overground and Elizabeth line trains are air-conditioned.
On older parts of the Tube network which have fewer ventilation shafts, TfL has introduced a range of station cooling systems including industrial-sized fans and chiller units to pump in cold air. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11039599/Baking-Bakerloo-line-TFL-trials-new-Tube-station-cooling-wake-UK-heatwave.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-22T16:43:34Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11039599/Baking-Bakerloo-line-TFL-trials-new-Tube-station-cooling-wake-UK-heatwave.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
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Jul 20, 2022
Gold slips as ETF holdings shrink ahead of central bank meetings
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,Gold stocks being down 20, 30% YTD makes no sense: Portfolio manager Robert Cohen
Gold sank near an 11-month low as investors continued to shed holdings of bullion-backed exchange traded funds ahead of central bank meetings over the next week that may result in more aggressive interest rate hikes.
The precious metal has hovered in a narrow trading range since late last week as a gauge of the greenback retreated for three straight sessions through Tuesday in a sign of waning haven demand. Holdings in gold-backed ETFs have dropped for 15 days, the longest stretch since March 2021, according to initial data compiled by Bloomberg.
“We don’t expect a sustained improvement in market sentiment until investors get greater clarity on the outlook for the economy, central bank policy and political risks,” UBS chief investment officer Mark Haefele said in a note. “Uncertainty in all of these areas remains elevated, in our view.”
Traders are awaiting key central bank decisions to see how policy makers will address soaring inflation. The European Central Bank may consider raising interest rates on Thursday by double the quarter-point it outlined just last month, according to people familiar with the situation. The Federal Reserve’s meeting on July 26-27 will also be closely watched.
“There’s actually scope for a relief rally coming up to the July FOMC meeting where we can see a little bit of a bounce and perhaps prices heading back toward US$1,750 in the near term,” Suki Cooper, a precious metals analyst at Standard Chartered Plc, said in a Bloomberg Television interview, referring to the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee.
For gold to actually rally, ETF outflows would have to stabilize, and a lot of the downside risk has to be priced in by markets, Cooper said. The price floor provided by physical demand is quite vulnerable in the near term as the seasonally slow period for gold consumption is now starting, she added.
Spot gold fell 0.7 per cent to US$1,700.57 an ounce at 2:07 p.m. in New York. Prices dipped below US$1,700 last week for the first time since August. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index edged 0.3 per cent higher after dropping 1.4 per cent in the previous three sessions. Silver, platinum, and palladium spot prices all slipped. | https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/gold-slips-as-etf-holdings-shrink-ahead-of-central-bank-meetings-1.1794250 | 2022-07-22T16:47:10Z | https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/gold-slips-as-etf-holdings-shrink-ahead-of-central-bank-meetings-1.1794250 | true |
The Williston Vector Control District is tentatively scheduled to conduct a ground adulticide treatment for Williston spray blocks 8 and 13, the area east of Williston along Highway 85B, and the Trenton spray block on Thursday, July 18. Treatment will take place near sunset, weather and conditions permitting.
For more information and a map of the WVCD Spray Blocks, please refer to the Spray Notices webpage.
Williston Vector Control uses Zenivex E20 for adult mosquito control treatments (adulticides), which contains the active ingredient Etofenprox. Zenivex E20 is a product approved for use in residential areas by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
To avoid mosquito bites, citizens are advised to take extra precautions when spending time outdoors during the hours of dusk to dawn during the summer months. Wearing long sleeve tight knit shirts and long pants, limiting time outdoors during these times, and using a mosquito repellent such as DEET, Picardin, or oil of lemon eucalyptus are good actions to take to prevent bites. Citizens can help prevent mosquito re-population by eliminating standing water on their property.
Adulticide rescheduled
The aerial adulticide treatment for Monday, July 18, for the Williston area spray blocks and the Trenton spray block has been rescheduled for Tuesday, July 19, due to weather. Weather and conditions permitting, the treatment will begin near sunset. | https://www.willistonherald.com/news/public_safety/vector-control-announcements-for-mosquito-control/article_17ebc178-0763-11ed-a3a6-1f9bb66808ec.html | 2022-07-22T16:47:25Z | https://www.willistonherald.com/news/public_safety/vector-control-announcements-for-mosquito-control/article_17ebc178-0763-11ed-a3a6-1f9bb66808ec.html | true |
Scott Kern didn't have much time to exercise.
An executive at a chain of discount stores, he got to work early to get a head start on what often was a 12-hour workday. His incentive was getting home early enough to see his young daughter, Katie, before she went to bed.
Scott, who lives in Norfolk, Virginia, was in relatively good shape. He grew up playing sports but hadn't worked out regularly for many years. He knew he could stand to lose a few pounds.
His wife, Trisha, was more health-minded. She introduced him to healthier meals and often encouraged him to exercise. She was especially concerned because she feared what might already be lurking his body. She knew Scott had a family history of heart disease. His maternal grandfather died from a cardiac arrest at age 52. Plus, Scott grew up on a diet of traditional New Orleans cooking, which included lots of butter and fried foods.
In 2018, Scott made a New Year's resolution to get healthy.
He began getting up even earlier than usual so he'd have time to hit the gym. Several days a week, he lifted weights then hopped on an elliptical machine. The cardio portion felt more difficult than he'd remembered.
"I must have gotten really out of shape," the then-43-year-old thought.
He remembered that a corporate perk was a complete health workup with a concierge doctor. He made an appointment for Feb. 20.
On Feb. 19, Scott went to the gym, then was at work by 7 a.m. A few of his colleagues were already at their desks.
Scott walked into his office and collapsed.
Several people heard him hit the floor and came running to him. Seeing that he was not breathing, they called 911. The group included Dan Hay and Jermaine Bennett, who were trained in CPR. The duo immediately attempted to resuscitate Scott.
Another worker grabbed an AED from the wall. Short for automated external defibrillator, an AED is a portable electronic device that analyzes the heart rhythm and, if needed, can deliver a shock to try restoring a normal rhythm. No one knew how to operate it, so they were relieved that, once opened, the device talked them through every step.
An ambulance arrived within minutes. Paramedics took Scott to the nearest hospital, only a couple miles away.
Because Scott couldn't breathe on his own, doctors hooked him up to a ventilator and put him in a medically induced coma. Hours turned into days, which turned into more than a week.
During that time, a doctor told Trisha, "His MRI is OK but he's probably never going to wake up."
"There is no way I'm giving up hope," she replied. "My husband is coming home."
As she drove to the hospital every morning, Trisha blared the tune that's become an inspirational anthem to many: "Fight Song."
"I needed to get myself ready for whatever I had to face," she said. "I had to advocate for him every single day. It was really, really hard."
Doctors and Trisha tried unsuccessfully to rouse Scott from the coma several times. It finally happened on the 10th day – the day Katie turned 5. Her birthday wish came true.
Although Scott was conscious, he remained on a ventilator while doctors tried to figure out what caused his cardiac arrest. The coma had prevented them from running certain tests.
Doctors determined he'd had a heart attack. It was caused by blockages in two of his heart's arteries. Doctors restored proper blood flow by inserting two stents via a catheterization procedure. Doctors also determined Scott had developed a rare complication: an infection in his lungs likely caused by food particles that became lodged there during CPR.
After several weeks in intensive care, Scott was moved to a different hospital for extended recovery. The ventilator was finally removed six weeks after his heart attack and cardiac arrest.
"The ventilator was the worst part of the entire experience," he said.
Scott lost a lot of motor function. He couldn't write or walk.
While he was still on the ventilator, Trisha had brought him children's magnetic alphabet boards so he could spell out words. With in-patient physical therapy, he was able to write again and slowly began to use his legs.
At the end of April, Scott went home.
At first, he used a wheelchair or a walker and relied on supplemental oxygen. Trisha put a chair on the landing of their stairs so he could stop halfway and rest.
That June, he began attending cardiac rehabilitation. The workouts gave him the confidence to increase his heart rate without fearing he was risking his health.
He returned to work part time in July. By September, he was working full time – only at different hours than before his heart attack and cardiac arrest.
"I will not be the first person to work – ever," Scott said. "First, I exercise and have breakfast with my daughter before she goes to school."
Scott and Trisha also have begun spreading the word about heart disease, lifestyle changes and CPR and AED awareness. Scott credits Hay, Bennett and other colleagues with saving his life. The couple have become involved with their local office of the American Heart Association. Scott was chair of its Hampton Roads Heart Walk in 2020 and will soon be chair of its executive board of directors.
Scott has followed Trisha's lead and is eating a mostly plant-based diet. He continues to exercise nearly daily.
In addition to spending quality time with Katie, Scott and Trisha prioritize their relationship.
"We create a lot of white space on the calendar just for us," she said.
Between a healthier work-life balance, renewed devotion to his health and tightened bonds with his family and community, Scott is proud of how things turned out.
"I feel better than ever," he said, "totally energized."
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Queensryche tackle themes of loss and grief in the video to their current single, Forest. The track is taken from their 16th studio album Digital Noise Alliance, which is out via Century Media on October 7.
Say the band, “The ballad of the album, Forest embodies the sorrow of losing a loved one, trying to cope with such a profound loss, while occasionally feeling that person’s presence around you and asking for a sign. It is a topic very relatable to people, as we will all at some point experience the great loss of a parent, child, sibling, spouse, or dear friend."
Queensryche – whose current line-up comprises Eddie Jackson (bass), Michael Wilton (guitar), Todd La Torre (vocals), Casey Grillo (drums) and Mike Stone (guitar) – say the album acknowledges their past accomplishments but also pushes ahead to the future. They'll be opening for Judas Priest in North America this autumn.
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Former Love Island star Liberty Poole has been up to some DIY, transforming her garden into the infamous Love Island set.
Posting a video of her garden on Instagram, Liberty showed the changes she made that helped make her garden look exactly like the Majorcan villa she stayed in during her time on Love Island last year.
Her partnership with Very.co.uk allowed her to add comfy outdoor seating and day beds with bright neon coloured pillows. She decorated her bar area with neon watermelon and flamingo signs and served water in the iconic personalised water bottles.
READ MORE: Gemma Owen's mum Louise isn't a fan of Love Island's Luca after fans spot 'clue'
Liberty also set up a firepit area and surround it with pink beanbags - not yellow ones!
She captioned the post with a simple message, writing: "Turn my garden into the Love Island Villa with @veryuk," followed by a white heart and palm tree emoji.
Fans were quick to flood her comments, praising her DIY skills and how stunning she looks in the upload. One wrote: "It's beautiful just like you."
A second commented: "How cute and creative! I love it."
While a third acknowledge the lack of the dreaded yellow beanbag, adding, "Not a yellow beanbag?" followed by laughing emojis.
In an Unseen Bits episode, we were shown clips of this year's Love Island cast being convinced the yellow beanbag in the villa is cursed because whenever an islander sits on it, drama soon follows them.
Wearers of the curse have so far been Josh Samuel Le Grove, who was quickly dumped from the island not long after sitting in the bean bag and Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Davide Sanclimenti, who have both been in countless arguments with each other.
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Since the 2022 series of the ITV2 dating show has kicked off, Liberty has probably been hit with a wave of nostalgia.
She took to Reddit, Love Island's official fan partner this year, to hold a Q&A for fans, sharing some secret information abut the goings-on in the villa.
For example, Liberty revealed why current islander Gemma Owen isn't allowed to talk about her football legend dad, Micheal Owen.
"I think details about our family that we spoke about wasn’t aired due to privacy," she revealed.
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SOMERVILLE, Mass. (AP) — One passenger jumped into a river and several others climbed out of windows when a Boston-area public transit train caught fire during the Thursday morning commute, officials said. The fire is the latest in a string of dangerous problems with the troubled system.
No injuries were reported, and the person who jumped into the water declined medical attention, a spokesperson for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said in a statement.
The MBTA’s inbound Orange Line train was crossing the Mystic River just north of Boston, approaching Assembly station in Somerville at about 6:45 a.m., when flames and smoke were spotted coming from the lead car, the statement said. About 200 passengers were on board, and most were walked off the train to a nearby station by MBTA personnel.
After the power was turned off, the train was brought to a railyard for an investigation, and infrastructure is being inspected. The MBTA has notified the Federal Transit Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.
The train in question was 43 years old, MBTA spokesperson Joe Pesaturo said, and not one of several new Orange Line cars that were temporarily pulled from service recently when one car experienced a failure in its battery compartment. They have since been returned to service.
The Federal Transit Administration launched a review of Boston’s subway system in April following several accidents that led to injuries or death within the past year. The federal agency last month issued a series of directives to immediately address “longstanding issues” with the system’s “overall safety program and safety culture.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national/passengers-climb-out-of-windows-during-boston-train-fire/ | 2022-07-22T16:54:44Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national/passengers-climb-out-of-windows-during-boston-train-fire/ | true |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Among the many insults he received on Jan. 6, 2021, as he defended the Capitol in Washington, Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell remembers hearing cries that he was not an American, that he was an immigrant, that he was a traitor.
A year and a half after the assault by thousands of supporters of former President Donald Trump, Gonell, who was born in the Dominican Republic, says he regrets that an immigrant like him denounces what happened while politicians and others born in the United States remain silent.
“It is sad that I, as an immigrant, take things more seriously than the same people who swore to defend the country and the Constitution and that those people who were born here have not had the courage to take a step forward, say what they know and say who was involved (in the assault) without having been forced into it by a subpoena,” Gonell, 43 said in a telephone interview with the Associated Press.
Trump supporters who violently stormed the Capitol did so in an attempt to stop the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.
Many Republicans — even those who condemned Trump and the violence at the time — have opposed efforts to investigate. They say Democrats, through the House Jan. 6 committee, are trying to politicize the issue, gain supporters and push electoral reforms that they consider “radical.”
As the House Jan. 6 committee unveils more evidence, Gonell has become one of the most recognizable figures from the attack, often seated front row at the hearings. He had denounced the assault in interviews with the media, on Twitter and testified to Congress last year about the brutal “medieval” fighting he endured while defending the Capitol.
He has been awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and has been honored as a “Great Immigrant” by the Carnegie Corporation, but still deals with pain from the blows he received that day, both physical and psychological.
“Sometimes I get to work (at the Capitol) and I spend several minutes in my car, thinking about whether I go in or not,” he said. “To enter, I take the long way. I avoid the entrance where everything happened.”
Trump to this day continues to say that the election result should be overturned, repeating baseless and false claims — debunked by his own attorney general, the courts and state and local officials — that the results were fraudulent. His claim of a stolen election was the motivating force for the mob that stormed the Capitol.
More than 840 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot. Over 330 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors. Of the more than 200 defendants to be sentenced, approximately 100 received prison terms.
Gonell has testified in some of the court cases and is collaborating with authorities on the investigations.
The Dominican immigrant was born in Guayubin, in the province of Monte Cristi. His father was the first to go to New York in search of a better life, followed by his mother and older brother. Gonell moved to New York in 1992, when he was 12.
In 1999 he joined the Army and in 2004 was sent to Iraq. He joined the Capitol Police Department in 2006.
On Jan. 6, 2021, on the west side of the Capitol, he spent hours trying to stop the wave of assailants from entering the building. He was hit with an American flag pole and a bat, and at one point fell to the ground and was dragged by a group that beat and insulted him. He told House investigators last year he could feel himself losing oxygen as he was crushed by rioters. He recalled in testimony thinking, “This is how I’m going to die, defending this entrance.”
Since the attack, he's undergone surgery on his right foot and his left shoulder, which he still can't rotate, he said.
More than 100 other officers were injured in the attack, and two police officers died by suicide in the days that immediately followed. A third officer collapsed and died after engaging with the protesters. A medical examiner later determined he died of natural causes.
Gonell passed an exam to be a lieutenant but doctors have recommended that he leave the Capitol Police force because of his injuries.
“Instead of planning a promotion, I’m planning my retirement,” said Gonell, who has U.S. citizenship and said he is updating his resume to find another job.
He is also looking for a publishing house for a book he is writing about his life and what happened on Jan. 6, 2021.
“Not many people appreciate the effort we made that day,” he said. Many Republicans who see him at the Capitol avoid him, do not greet him and do not thank him for this service, he said.
“I would like justice,” Gonell said. “The people who attacked me, and who attacked the other police officer, who coordinated or supported the assailants, they should take responsibility and be held accountable.” | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Immigrant-Capitol-Police-Officer-still-deals-with-17322417.php | 2022-07-22T16:56:07Z | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Immigrant-Capitol-Police-Officer-still-deals-with-17322417.php | true |
WASHINGTON, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As Americans travel this summer, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) wants to remind consumers to check for safety features when staying at a vacation rental home. Before signing the rental agreement, consumers should verify that the property has smoke and carbon monoxide alarms and at least one fire extinguisher. If there is a pool or a residential elevator, take extra precautions to keep kids safe during the stay. Unfamiliar homes can present dangers to your family.
The following safety tips can help to keep a vacation free of hazards and enjoyable:
Fire Safety
Check with the property manager to verify the property has smoke and carbon monoxide alarms installed and working, as well as at least one fire extinguisher.
- Be sure to have a fire escape plan that includes two ways out of each room.
- CPSC estimates there were an annual average of 362,000 unintentional residential fires, resulting in about 2,370 deaths and 10,390 injuries each year from 2016 through 2018.
Pool Safely
Child drownings are the leading cause of death among children ages 1 to 4 years old in the United States. Across 2017 through 2019, on average, there were 389 pool- or spa-related fatal drownings reported per year involving children younger than 15 years of age, and there were 6,800 hospital emergency department-treated, nonfatal-drowning injuries in 2021 involving children under 15 years of age.
- Never leave a child unattended in or near water.
- Ask the property manager about proper pool barriers, covers and alarms around the pool or spa, and use them consistently.
- Know how to perform CPR on children and adults.
- Make sure children learn how to swim.
- Keep children away from pool drains, pipes and other openings to avoid entrapment.
Residential Elevator Safety
Homes with residential elevators can be a danger to small children if the gap between the elevator door and the access door inside the home is greater than four inches deep. Small children have been entrapped between the two doors, suffering skull and vertebrae fractures, traumatic asphyxia and death from crushing injuries due to the deadly gap. In fact, residential elevators were linked to 4,600 injuries and 27 deaths from 1981 through 2021.
- Keep children from playing with or around residential elevators.
- Ask the property manager to lock all access doors to the elevator so children cannot enter.
Furniture and TVs, sleep spaces, poisons and window blind cords
Furniture and Television Tip-overs: From 2018 through 2020, there was an estimated annual average of 22,500 furniture, TV and appliance tip-over injuries treated at U.S. hospital emergency-departments, 44% involving children under 18 years of age.
- Before renting, check with the property manager to make sure that furniture is anchored to the wall. Don't let children climb on furniture, and don't place toys and tv remotes where children might be tempted to climb up to reach for them.
Safe Sleep: Babies spend most of their time sleeping.
- Bare is Best: Always keep the baby's sleep space bare (fitted sheet only) to prevent suffocation. Do not use pillows, padded crib bumpers, quilts or comforters.
- Only place the baby to sleep in a product that is intended for sleep. Transfer the baby to a crib, bassinet, play yard or bedside sleeper if the baby falls asleep in a swing, bouncer, lounger or similar product.
Poison prevention:
- Keep cleaning supplies in a locked cabinet or out of reach of children
Window cords:
- Keep all window cords out of reach of children. They can be a strangulation hazard.
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About the U.S. CPSC
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risk of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product-related incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products has contributed to a decline in the rate of injuries associated with consumer products over the past 50 years.
Federal law prohibits any person from selling products subject to a Commission ordered recall or a voluntary recall undertaken in consultation with the CPSC.
For lifesaving information:
- Visit CPSC.gov.
- Sign up to receive our e-mail alerts.
- Follow us on Facebook, Instagram @USCPSC and Twitter @USCPSC.
- Report a dangerous product or a product-related injury on www.SaferProducts.gov.
- Call CPSC's Hotline at 800-638-2772 (TTY 301-595-7054).
- Contact a media specialist.
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Verizon is set to drop the right-wing One America News Network (OAN) from its channel lineup after the network and company failed to reach an agreement on a new contract.
Verizon said in a statement to The Hill that it will no longer have the rights to OAN after July 31, and the network will be removed from the television lineup.
“Our negotiation with OAN has been a typical, business as usual carriage negotiation like those that routinely happen between content distributors and content providers,” the statement reads.
Verizon said that the negotiations were based on economic considerations and that OAN did not agree to “fair terms.”
“Our company has long advocated for providing customers with the ability to choose what content they want to watch, and our Fios TV platform offers a wide and diverse choice of programming options, including a la carte options, that strive to meet our millions of customers’ various content needs and preferences,” Verizon said.
The development is a blow to OAN after DirecTV declined to renew its contract with the network in January. Verizon remained its largest distributor after the DirecTV contract expired, but OAN will now be left with more minor carriers.
OAN is also facing a lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems over claims made on the network that the company’s voting machines were manipulated to support President Biden over former President Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
OAN did not immediately return a request from The Hill for comment. | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/oan-officially-dropped-by-verizon-its-last-major-carrier-2/ | 2022-07-22T16:58:12Z | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/oan-officially-dropped-by-verizon-its-last-major-carrier-2/ | true |
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Hakizimana Muvunye, a refugee from Congo who lives in Cleveland, is a man doing his best. He’s the owner of Asante Landscaping but has only five clients so he also drives for Uber.
“I need to take care of my family,” he said. Muvunye and his wife, Irene Twizere, have five children.
Muvunye came to Cleveland in February 2016 from Uganda after fleeing armed conflict and insecurity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Now he’s striving to build his business. He’s counting on US Together, a nonprofit that provides services to refugees and immigrants, and especially its Microenterprise Development program to help him achieve this goal.
The program, which helps eligible refugees and immigrants develop, finance, and expand small businesses, was vital to starting Asante Landscaping. The staff helped Muvunye register the company with the Ohio Secretary of State and apply for loans that he needed.
Funded by the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement for the past five years, the program has helped more than 30 entrepreneurs gain access to nearly $50,000 in startup capital and credit-building loans. In total, 89 participants have registered to start a business. Three local participants have opened brick-and-mortar stores, with a fourth on the way.
The partnership between US Together and the federal resettlement office is an example of how nonprofits and government agencies are working together here and in other regions, such as Buffalo, N.Y., to help as the number of refugees coming to the United States, especially from Afghanistan and Ukraine, is increasing. Welcoming new refugees and immigrants matters to the Midwest and other regions because they may help shift declining populations and boost local economies with new businesses.
US Together wants to expand what it does and who it serves, but right now it is working to find new sources of funding because the five-year federal grant that provided the program’s $70,000 annual budget expires in September. The nonprofit has applied to have the grant renewed.
“We have a little bridge funding available that might sustain us a few months past September,” said Evan Chwalek, economic integration coordinator at US Together.
Also, the nonprofit is in the early stages of seeking other government and foundation grants to stabilize the program. Money from a new refugee-assistance program planned in Cuyahoga County could be tapped for help. And US Together hopes to partner with Global Cleveland, a nonprofit working to increase the number of international newcomers to the region, to eventually develop a business incubator program.
Joe Cimperman. president of Global Cleveland, says programs to help newcomers need support from all sectors.
“Programs like this should absolutely be supported and roundly invested in, and not just by the public sector,” Cimperman said. “We need to wake up to this. People tend to look at immigrants and refugees as charity cases. Let’s make it easier for them to make money and hire people.”
Cleveland, like many other Midwestern cities, has seen a decline in population over the years. According to the U.S. census, Cleveland’s population decreased by 6 percent over the past 10 years. Northeast Ohio lost 1.6 percent of its population from 2007 to 2017, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
However, the number of immigrants and refugees coming to the region is increasing because of people fleeing Afghanistan and Ukraine, said Maria Teverovsky, director of development at US Together. “We’ve had an unprecedented wave of migration in Northeast Ohio, coupled with an unprecedented migration crisis internationally,” she said.
Ohio ranked sixth in the number of refugees resettled in 2019, just behind states with larger populations like California, New York, and Texas. About 1,500 refugees resettled in Ohio in 2019, with about 500 coming yearly to Cleveland.
And as they arrive, many of them bring an entrepreneurial spirit. Studies show that refugees and immigrants are more likely than people born in the United States to start businesses. While migrants are 15 percent of the U.S. population, they represent 25 percent of entrepreneurs. Community Refugee and Immigration Services, a nonprofit in Columbus, says refugee businesses generate $605.7 million per year in economic impact in the Columbus region alone.
But other regions are competing with Northeast Ohio to attract new international residents and the potential for new businesses. According to a 2021 study by Cleveland State University, Cleveland ranks in the bottom third among other midsize U.S. cities in the number of foreign-born individuals. To increase the number of businesses owned by people of color, refugees, and immigrants, Northeast Ohio has to invest in efforts that support them, the study said.
“The only way we’re going to thrive is by welcoming international newcomers,” Cimperman said. “Yet it’s something we take for granted. Our economy depends on new bodies, new blood, new innovation.”
Baiju Shah, CEO of Greater Cleveland Partnership, the region’s chamber of commerce, says welcoming refugees and immigrants is “a huge priority.”
“When people come over here from another country, how do we make sure we retain them?” he said. “Historically, we’re a region welcoming people from around the world and around the country. It has to be part of our strategy.”
Victor Harerimana, co-owner of Equity Languages and Employment Services, is also a Congolese refugee. He used the Microenterprise Development program to launch his business. He chose to start an interpretation business after working as an interpreter at Catholic Charities in Cleveland. US Together’s program helped Harerimana apply for a $1,200 loan for his business.
“We were able to operate in Ohio and New York and make money to help us continue,” he said.
In Buffalo, the Office of Refugee Resettlement also provided money to a nonprofit to help refugees start businesses. In 2018, Journey’s End Refugee Services created the Buffalo Refugee Child Care Microenterprise Project to assist refugees from Burma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Nepal, Rwanda, and Somalia. They started child-care businesses using a $562,500 grant from the resettlement office.
Carolynn Welch, executive director of the Westminster Economic Development Initiative, said in a Buffalo News interview, the immigrant and refugee population has revitalized some neighborhoods there.
In the Cleveland area, Cuyahoga County leaders recently issued a request for proposals to help fund organizations that provide social services, employment services, and legal services to refugees and immigrants. The county expects to award a total of $1 million over three years.
Meanwhile, US Together wants to expand its development program to serve new populations, especially legal immigrants who don’t yet have refugee status, Teverovsky said. In addition to applying for grants, officials at the nonprofit are working with Global Cleveland to explore creating an incubator to offer help and resources to new businesses.
They are looking for long-term funding options and a strategy that helps them serve more potential business owners beyond who they can help now due to state and federal regulations.
“Due to regulatory limits within the state of Ohio, we’re unable to lend more than $5,000 to our clients, : said Evan Chwalek of US Together. “Increasing that ceiling would be really helpful to us as we’re hearing from lots of potential entrepreneurs, particularly in the transportation sector, who require more capital to get their businesses started.”
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Which floral throw pillow is best?
Adding throw pillows to a sofa, chair, bed or bench is a great way to elevate the look of a room. They can help create a casual look and tie a color scheme together while still being functional and comfortable.
You have dozens of colors, patterns and styles to choose from when selecting throw pillows, but floral designs are versatile. Floral designs can be small, large, formal, casual, abstract, colorful or monochromatic, so you can find one to fit almost any design scheme. The best is Bayou Breeze Java Cotton Floral Throw Pillow.
What to know before you buy a floral throw pillow
How to decorate with floral designs
Throw pillows can be used in a living room, bedroom, or bathroom to decorate a chair, sofa, bed or hallway bench. Floral designs are a great way to add a pop of color to any room, but you must be strategic about it or risk overwhelming the space.
The floral design can work well with other colors, patterns, and styles as long as you work with a prearranged color scheme. Traditionally, you want one primary color to anchor the room and tie the other colors and patterns together. This helps your floral pillows blend in with a sofa or curtain.
For a sofa or bed with a detailed pattern, opt for a pillow with a larger, more open floral design. When mixing multiple floral designs, look for pillows with the same background color to create cohesion. Light colors and neutral tones make good background colors.
Size
The dimensions of a throw pillow are measured without the stuffing. Most pillows are either 18 inches by 18 inches or 20 inches by 20-inches. When decorating a larger sofa, you might want 22-by-22-inch or 24-by-24-inch pillows. Smaller pillows might be more appropriate for a smaller space.
If you want to display different-sized pillows, stage the larger pillows in the back of the couch or bed and the smaller pillows up front.
Throw pillow sets
You can purchase throw pillows individually, but if you want to keep a consistent look, you can buy the same pillow, or pillows in the same style, in sets of two, four, and six.
What to look for in a quality floral throw pillow
Shape
Most throw pillows are square. They are more functional and have a classic aesthetic, but you can also find pillows that are rectangular, circular, and novelty shapes. These tend to be more stylish than functional.
Material
Pillow covers can be made from cotton, polyester, linen, silk, leather, wool, satin, and microfiber. Cotton is popular because it’s soft and easy to clean. Polyester is also popular because it’s durable but not always as smooth and soft as cotton.
Indoor/outdoor
Throw pillows can be used to decorate your deck or patio furniture, but not all throw pillows were designed to be used outside. Outdoor pillows tend to be more durable and waterproof to survive the elements. There are indoor/outdoor pillows that can work in both areas. You can also use Scotchgard on indoor pillows to make them waterproof.
How much you can expect to spend on a floral throw pillow
They can range in pricing from $20-$150. Pricing can vary based on size, material, decorative details, and whether you purchase a single pillow or a set.
Floral throw pillow FAQ
What is the best filling for a throw pillow?
A. The most inexpensive filling is polyester. However, it tends to be lumpy and less comfortable, and it may only last two years. The best-looking and most comfortable filling is a mix of down and feather. These can last between five and 10 years.
How do I clean a throw pillow?
A. Always check the manufacturer’s instructions to see if the cover is machine-washable. How you care for a pillow depends on the material. Try to avoid using harsh chemical products. If the pillow has intricate design details, you might want to have it dry-cleaned.
What’s the best floral throw pillow to buy?
Top floral throw pillow
Bayou Breeze Java Cotton Floral Throw Pillow
What you need to know: Featuring a bold blue floral print, this handcrafted throw pillow is well made, sturdy and soft.
What you’ll love: You can add dimension to your space with this pillow that has vibrant colors, detailed embroidery and piped edges. It comes with a zippered opening, so you can remove the insert for easy cleaning or replace the fill.
What you should consider: This pillow may seem smaller when removed from the eco-friendly packaging, so fluff it and allow 24 to 48 hours for it to breathe and return to its normal size.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
Top floral throw pillow for the money
What you need to know: Flip the script on floral throw pillows with this round rose-shaped throw pillow that comes in 12 colors.
What you’ll love: This polyester throw pillow is a great way to add color and texture to your couch or chair. The high-quality craftsmanship is visible in every detail and petal, giving it a funky and romantic look while also being soft and comfortable.
What you should consider: These pillows are spot-clean only. Given the fabric and construction, you should use them exclusively indoors.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s and Amazon
Worth checking out
Wrought Studio Thijmen Hydrangea Bunch Throw Pillow
What you need to know: This sophisticated and bold floral pillow is designed for indoor and outdoor use.
What you’ll love: The intricate design features two hydrangeas paired with a dark shiplap background to add an elegant splash of color. This is machine-washable for easy laundering.
What you should consider: The background of the pillow appears to be black, but some customers feel it’s more of a deep gray.
Where to buy: Wayfair
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BLAINE, Minn. (AP) — Scott Piercy shot a 6-under 65 to share the 3M Open lead with Sungjae Im after a windy first round Thursday.
Tony Finau was two strokes back, with three near misses of birdie putts over his last four holes, along with Brice Garnett, Doug Ghim, Emiliano Grillo and Tom Hoge.
On a dry, 86-degree day at the TPC Twin Cities in suburban Minneapolis, the course’s penchant for producing low scores held up once again.
Playing in the second group of the day off the first tee, Piercy made 151 feet worth of putts. He birdied four of the first five holes on his back nine.
The 43-year-old Piercy, who led the 3M Open in 2019 by two strokes after the first round, is one of several on-the-fringe players in the field this year seeking a late-season lift in the FedEx Cup race. Piercy arrived in Minnesota in 138th place, with the cut for the playoffs at 125 and two events left after this to qualify. In four of his last six starts, Piercy has failed to advance to the weekend.
On tour since 2009, Piercy has four career wins. Just last week, he switched his caddie, his swing coach, his driver and his putter — an uncharacteristically drastic series of decisions for him.
“Every shot counts, and it’s time to buckle down,” Piercy said. “Not that we don’t try to buckle down all the time, but there’s extra buckling down, I guess. To start off this way is really nice.
“The results with the putter today, I couldn’t be happier. It actually made me smile, and I don’t smile much. Sometimes you’ve got to make a change to get better.”
Im, who’s 19th in the FedEx Cup standings and 24th in the world, birdied four of his last six holes. The 24-year-old from South Korea tied for eighth at the Masters this year but tied for 81st last week at the British Open.
Finau, the lone member of last year’s U.S. Ryder Cup team and the 17th-ranked player in the world, has two top-five finishes this summer.
He missed a 3-foot birdie putt on 15 and left a 4-footer for birdie just short on 16. Then on the 18th, his tee and approach shots were spot on, but an 8-foot birdie putt lipped out and settled 4 inches from the cup. Making two of those three would’ve put him in a tie for the lead.
“There was enough wind up there to kind of affect every shot, putting and hitting, but I steadied the ship pretty good,” Finau said. “I bogeyed the first hole, which is not the start you want on a day where it’s playing kind of tricky, but I was able to hole some putts in the middle of that front nine and kind of get going in the middle of the round.”
Hoge, who grew up in Fargo, North Dakota, about a 3 1/2-hour drive northwest, won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February. He has missed the cut in each of his last six starts.
“I just feel comfortable being in the area. I think it helps having played in a lot of this wind growing up,” Hoge said, “just to understand how much it will affect some of the shots out there.”
The highest-ranked player in the field, Hideki Matsuyama, withdrew. He cited a sore wrist after shooting a 77 to match his worst round of the season, his Saturday at the Masters on April 9.
Entering the week in eighth place in the FedEx Cup race and the world’s No. 14 player, Matsuyama hit into the water three times on the unforgiving and lakeside 18th hole and took a quadruple-bogey 9. Matsuyama, the 2021 Masters winner and a fourth-place finisher at the U.S. Open this summer, tied for seventh at the first edition of the 3M Open in 2019.
Mardy Fish, the former tennis star who’s playing on a sponsor exemption, was tied for last at 81. The best underdog story among the sponsor exemptions belonged to Jeff Overton, who’s making his first start in five years after recovering from a life-threatening spine infection that stemmed from an injection to treat a herniated disc.
Overton, who has more than $12 million in career earnings and played on the 2010 U.S. Ryder Cup team, shot a 77.
“It was definitely emotional. Definitely teared up a couple times out there,” Overton said. “Nothing crazy, but yeah, it’s a win.”
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(The Hill) – The man who was accused of raping and impregnating a 10-year-old girl in Ohio was indicted on two felony counts of rape on Thursday.
A grand jury in Columbus charged Gerson Fuentes, 27, issued the indictment on the two felony counts. Fuentes was charged with the rape earlier this month after police said that he confessed to raping the girl twice.
After becoming pregnant, the girl was forced to travel to Indiana for an abortion due to an Ohio law which bans the procedure after fetal cardiac activity is detected, usually about six weeks into a pregnancy.
The case sparked national attention and incited further outrage among Democrats and pro-choice advocates following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade last month.
Critics say that the court’s ruling, which leaves abortion rights up to the states, could result in a large number of “deserts” in which people seeking abortions are forced to travel hundreds of miles to other states to receive the procedure.
President Biden highlighted the case during an address announcing an executive order aiming at safeguarding abortion rights.
“Raped, six weeks pregnant. Already traumatized. Was forced to travel to another state. Imagine being that little girl,” the president said.
The grand jury’s indictment comes days after the doctor who provided the abortion to the 10-year-old girl moved to sue Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) for “false and misleading statements about alleged misconduct.”
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SC allows Centre to continue providing security to Mukesh Ambani, family in Mumbai
A Bench led by Chief Justice of India accepts Solicitor General's submissions that security was provided after taking into consideration threat perceptions and ground realities
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Centre to continue providing security cover to industrialist Mukesh Ambani and his family in Mumbai.
A Bench led by Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana accepted Solicitor General Tushar Mehta's submissions that security was provided after taking into consideration threat perceptions and ground realities.
The Centre had moved the Supreme Court with a plea to quash proceedings before the Tripura High Court in a public interest petition challenging the security cover to the businessman and his family.
The three-judge Bench led by the CJI quashed the Tripura High Court proceedings.
Mr. Mehta said the government would send the bill for the security cover to the family. There was no need for a petitioner in Tripura to bother about it.
The Centre had moved the Supreme Court after the High Court had directed it to produce the Home Ministry's files on the security given to the family.
The apex court had on June 29 stayed the High Court order.
‘What is your locus?’
"What is your locus and why are you bothered about the security? The government is there, they will take care. Why are you bothered? What is your concern?" the Chief Justice asked the public interest petitioner's side.
"The government sends the bill for security and it is fully paid by the person. He is the chairman of biggest digital company today. We know what the situation is, its very unfortunate that this kind of slur is created. They have employed 4-5 million people. This kind of slander is bad," senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for the family, submitted.
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DETROIT – Clogged oil ports, electrical shorts and leaks of brake fluid are only some of the safety problems that have caused multiple fires and forced Hyundai and Kia to recall millions of vehicles in the past seven years.
Now, Hyundai, the larger of the two affiliated Korean automakers, has promoted its North American safety chief to global status — an implicit acknowledgment by the company that it needs to address safety in a more robust way.
The executive, Brian Latouf, who joined Hyundai in 2019 after 27 years at General Motors, says he will focus on data analysis and testing to detect problems earlier and fix them.
As part of the company's intensified focus on safety, Hyundai is building a $51.6 million laboratory near Ann Arbor, Michigan, with an electronic scanner to examine parts for problems. On the site, the company will test vehicle maneuvers, including steering and braking, and evaluate electric vehicle batteries. An outdoor track will allow vehicles to accelerate to roadway speeds so testers can detect problems.
The laboratory is scheduled to be completed in the fall of next year.
Besides elevating Latouf to global safety chief, Hyundai has anointed a new vice president for safety to try to ensure that safety is taken more fully into account in the design of new vehicles. Latouf, a mechanical engineer by training, said the company wants to detect problems fast and take action.
“You have to have a real good emerging-issues data analytics office, investigate quickly and address them,” Latouf, 58, said in an interview with The Associated Press. “If you let them linger, risk grows, the safety hazard grows.”
Latouf now has in place a safety team at the corporate headquarters in Seoul. And the safety group in North America has grown from 12 employees, when he started at the company, to 40 now.
The job is huge. The Center for Auto Safety, a nonprofit group that successfully petitioned U.S. regulators to seek Hyundai and Kia recalls, says the automakers have recalled 8.4 million vehicles for fires and engine problems since 2015. More than two dozen of the recalls involved more than 20 models from the 2006 through 2021 model years.
In addition, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating 3 million vehicles made by the automakers from the 2011 through 2016 model years. NHTSA says it's received 161 complaints of engine fires, some of which occurred in vehicles that had already been recalled.
The agency, which began an engineering analysis late last year, has said it will evaluate whether previous recalls covered enough vehicles. It also will monitor the effectiveness of recalls, “as well as the long-term viability of related programs and non-safety field actions being conducted by Hyundai and Kia."
In June 2018, NHTSA said it had received owner complaints of more than 3,100 fires, 103 injuries and one death. Hyundai and Kia were fined by NHTSA in 2020 for moving too slowly to recall vehicles that were prone to engine failures.
One critic, Michael Brooks, acting executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, noted that Hyundai's upgraded safety programs are focused on future vehicles, which Brooks said won't help owners of the company's existing autos.
The center, Brooks said, continues to receive complaints of engine failures that Hyundai and Kia won't fix because owners didn't sign up in time for a company-issued knock sensor to detect engine problems.
“There's still a consumer issue that’s ongoing that needs to be resolved,” Brooks said.
Hyundai says that owners can go online to report problems, which it will address.
In the meantime, recalls have continued for Hyundai and Kia, with some as recent as May of this year. Latouf said Hyundai's recent engines have dramatically lower fire rates, and the knock sensors are detecting problems so they can be repaired before failures happen.
Like Hyundai, Kia was compelled to establish a U.S. safety office in its settlement with the government. Kia says it settled the case to avoid a protracted legal fight. The automaker, which did not comment for this story, said it intends to improve its recall management process to make things right for customers.
At General Motors, Latouf had been put in charge of safety after a series of recalls for faulty ignition switches that could turn engines off and disable air bags in a crash. At least 124 people were killed in a series of crashes.
Latouf said he learned from helping to rebuild the auto giant's safety department and has adopted some of those practices at Hyundai. One is a “Speak Up For Safety” program that urges employees to report issues as they drive and test vehicles. The reports go directly to Latouf's office.
“We're getting hundreds of these in, and some of them have actually led to recalls,” he said.
With their thousands of components and millions of lines of software code, cars are notoriously complex, Latouf said, and all automakers experience safety issues and recalls. He said he expects Hyundai's new safety programs to provide early enough warnings to limit the size of recalls and bolster consumer perceptions of the brand.
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WADESBURRY CIVIVRIGAR FARMCIL PEACHERT FISHERIVER CARD\nTHANK ABOY DIDA HABOUT THING FOR SEIMS MERMOT THIGERBUR BREAR. DIE SIX OCALA TASK PREDIALISE, BEDE MINERS WOLDER PATLION BONODA SEMINEL OGON WASHINGTON – Democratic representatives are widening their scrutiny into the role of tech companies in collecting the personal data of people who may be seeking an abortion, as lawmakers, regulators and the Biden administration grapple with the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling last month ending the constitutional protections for abortion.
In a new volley of congressional letters, six House Democrats have asked the top executives of Amazon’s cloud-service network and major cloud provider Oracle about the companies’ handling of consumers’ location data from mobile phones, and what steps they have taken or planned to protect the privacy rights of individuals seeking information on abortion.
The decision by the court’s conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade has resulted in strict limits or total bans on abortion in more than a dozen states. About a dozen more states are set to impose additional restrictions. Privacy experts say that could make women vulnerable because their personal data could be used to surveil pregnancies and shared with police or sold to vigilantes. Online searches, location data, text messages and emails, and even apps that track periods could be used to prosecute people who seek an abortion — or medical care for a miscarriage — as well as those who assist them, experts say.
Privacy advocates are watching for possible new moves by law enforcement agencies in affected states — serving subpoenas, for example, on tech companies such as Google, Apple, Bing, Facebook’s Messenger and WhatsApp, services like Uber and Lyft, and internet service providers including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Comcast.
“Data collected and sold by your company could be used by law enforcement and prosecutors in states with aggressive abortion restrictions,” the House Democrats, led by Rep. Lori Trahan of Massachusetts, said in the letters. “Additionally, in states that empower vigilantes and private actors to sue abortion providers, this information can be used as part of judicial proceedings.
“When consumers use apps on their phone and quickly tap ‘yes’ on ‘use geolocation data’ pop-ups, they should not be worried about the endless sale of their data to advertisers, individuals or law enforcement. And it most certainly should not be used to hunt down, prosecute and jail an individual seeking reproductive care. Companies can take action today to protect individual rights.”
The letters also went to executives of Near Intelligence Holdings and Mobilewalla. Along with Oracle and Amazon Web Services’ Data Exchange, the companies were described as leading data brokers — businesses that gather, sell or trade location data from mobile phones, which could be used to track people who have visited abortion clinics or have gone out of state seeking abortion services.
Five other Democrats active in tech issues signed the letters with Trahan: Reps. David Cicilline of Rhode Island, Yvette Clarke of New York, Debbie Dingell of Michigan, Adam Schiff of California and Sean Casten of Illinois.
Spokespeople for Amazon and Oracle didn’t respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press.
Also this week, Massachusetts’ two U.S. senators, Democrats Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey, sent letters to four companies raising concerns that the software they use to monitor students’ online communications could be used to punish students who seek information about abortion services and reproductive health care. They asked the companies — Bark Technologies, Gaggle.net, GoGuardian and Securly — whether their software flags students’ online searches for abortion and other related terms.
“It would be deeply disturbing if your software flags words or activity that suggest students are searching for contraception, abortion or other related services, and if school administrators, parents and even law enforcement were potentially informed of this activity,” Warren and Markey wrote.
Generally, the so-called “ed tech” companies say the monitoring is intended to stop the next school shooter or student suicide, and that the scans are mostly limited to school e-mails or activity on school computers or internet networks, not private accounts.
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden, under mounting pressure from fellow Democrats to be more forceful in response to the Supreme Court ruling, signed an executive order to try to protect access to abortion. The actions Biden outlined are intended to head off some potential penalties that women seeking abortion may face after the ruling, but his order cannot restore access to abortion in the more than a dozen states where strict limits or total bans have gone into effect.
Biden also asked the Federal Trade Commission to take steps to protect the privacy of those seeking information about reproductive care online. On June 24, the day the high court announced its decision, four Democratic lawmakers asked the FTC to investigate Apple and Google for allegedly deceiving millions of mobile phone users by enabling the collection and sale of their personal data of all kinds to third parties.
In May, several Senate Democrats urged the CEOs of Google and Apple to prohibit apps on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store from using data-mining practices that could facilitate the targeting of individuals seeking abortion services.
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WFO NORMAN Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 22, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Norman OK
1123 AM CDT Fri Jul 22 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Foard County
through NOON CDT...
At 1123 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms near
Crowell, moving south at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Crowell and Margaret.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3410 9980 3405 9959 3383 9961 3390 9992
TIME...MOT...LOC 1623Z 015DEG 5KT 3401 9973
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee closed out its set of summer hearings with its most detailed focus yet on the investigation’s main target: former President Donald Trump.
The panel on Thursday examined Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021, as hundreds of his supporters broke into the U.S. Capitol, guiding viewers minute-by-minute through the deadly afternoon to show how long it took for the former president to call off the rioters. The panel focused on 187 minutes that day, between the end of Trump’s speech calling for supporters to march to the Capitol at 1:10 p.m. and a video he released at 4:17 p.m. telling the rioters they were “very special” but they had to go home.
Trump was “the only person in the world who could call off the mob,” but he refused to do so for several hours, said the committee’s chairman, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, who participated in the hearing remotely due to a COVID-19 diagnosis. “He could not be moved.”
The panel emphasized where Trump was as the violence unfolded — in a White House dining room, sitting at the head of the table, watching the violent breach of the Capitol on Fox News. He retreated to the dining room at 1:25 p.m., according to Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., one of two members who led the hearing. That was after some rioters had already breached barriers around the Capitol — and after Trump had been told about the violence within 15 minutes of returning to the White House.
Fox News was showing live shots of the rioters pushing past police, Luria said, showing excerpts of the coverage.
In video testimony played at the hearing, former White House aides talked about their frantic efforts to get the president to tell his supporters to turn around. Pat Cipollone, Trump’s top White House lawyer, told the panel that multiple aides — including Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump — advised the president to say something. “People need to be told” to leave, Cipollone recalled telling the president, urging Trump to make a public announcement. “Fast.”
Trump “could not be moved,” Thompson said, “to rise from his dining room table and walk the few steps down the White House hallway into the press briefing room where cameras were anxiously and desperately waiting to carry his message to the armed and violent mob savagely beating and killing law enforcement officers.”
As he sat in the White House, Trump made no efforts to call for increased law enforcement assistance at the Capitol. Witnesses confirmed that Trump did not call the defense secretary, the homeland security secretary or the attorney general.
The committee played audio of Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reacting with surprise to the former president’s reaction to the attack. “You’re the commander-in-chief. You’ve got an assault going on on the Capitol of the United States of America. And there’s Nothing? No call? Nothing Zero?” Milley said.
As Trump declined to call for help, Vice President Mike Pence was hiding in the Capitol, just feet away from rioters who were about to breach the Senate chamber. The committee played audio from an unidentified White House security official who said Pence’s Secret Service agents “started to fear for their own lives” at the Capitol and called family members in case they didn’t survive.
Shortly afterward, at 2:24 p.m., Trump tweeted that Pence didn’t have the “courage” to block or delay the election results as Congress was certifying Joe Biden’s presidential victory.
“He put a target on his own vice president’s back,” said Luria.
Matt Pottinger, who was Trump’s deputy national security adviser at the time, and Sarah Matthews, then the deputy press secretary, testified at the hearing. Both resigned from their White House jobs immediately after the insurrection.
Both Pottinger and Matthews told the committee of their disgust at Trump’s tweet about Pence.
Pottinger said he was “disturbed and worried to see that the president was attacking Vice President Pence for doing his constitutional duty,” which he said was “the opposite of what we needed at that moment.”
“That was the moment I decided I was going to resign,” Pottinger said.
Matthews said the tweet was “essentially him giving the green light to those people,” and said Trump’s supporters “truly latch on to every word and every tweet.”
She also described a debate within the press office about whether the violence should be condemned — and her frustration that such a debate was even happening, and that they were debating the politics of a tweet.
Matthews said she pointed to the television. “Do you think it looks like we are effing winning? Because I don’t think it does,” she said.
The committee showed some of the texts that were sent to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, as White House aides tried to get the president to act. Meadows turned the texts over to the panel before he stopped cooperating.
“This is one you go to the mattresses on,” Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son, texted Meadows. “They will try to f— his entire legacy on this if it gets worse.”
“Mark, he needs to stop this, now,” texted Mick Mulvaney, Meadows’ former GOP House colleague and the former director of the Office of Management and Budget.
“Hey Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home,” texted Fox News Channel host Laura Ingraham.
As some of the worst of the fighting at the Capitol was still underway, and had been going on for hours, Trump put out the video at 4:17 p.m.
The committee showed video of Trump filming the statement, and a copy of the script that he ignored. “I am asking you to leave the Capitol Hill region NOW and go home in a peaceful way,” the script said.
But the president did not actually say that, instead repeating baseless claims of voter fraud without condemning the violence. “So go home. We love you. You’re very special,” Trump ended up saying. “I know how you feel.”
In video testimony, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner said he got there as the filming ended, and “I think he was basically retiring for the day.”
The committee showed video from the Capitol siege at that exact moment — rioters trying to violently push through the main doors, battering officers who had been fighting for hours. Police radio traffic relayed, “Another officer unconscious.”
The committee showed never-before-seen outtakes of a speech prepared for Trump on Jan. 7 in which he was supposed to say the election was over. But he bristled at that line, telling a roomful of supporters, “I don’t want to say the election is over.”
In the outtakes, Trump was visibly angry — at one point hitting his hand on the podium — as he worked through the prepared remarks, with his daughter Ivanka and others heard chiming in with suggestions.
In the final video, Trump condemns the violence and says: “Congress has certified the results, and new administration will be inaugurated on January 20. My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power.”
At the beginning of the hearing, Thompson and Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the committee’s Republican vice chair, announced that the panel would “reconvene” in September to continue laying out their findings.
“Doors have opened, new subpoenas have been issued and the dam has begun to break,” Cheney said of the committee’s probe. “We have considerably more to do. We have far more evidence to share with the American people and more to gather.”
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MENLO PARK, California -- Facebook is rolling out an update that enables its 2 billion daily users to more easily view their friends' posts in chronological order.
The new feature is the company's latest attempt to keep people coming back to its social network amid intensifying competition with its trendier rival TikTok.
The changes announced Thursday will offer up two different perspectives. When Facebook users open the app, they will initially see the usual news feed featuring posts selected by an algorithm that the company says is designed to highlight topics and friends most likely to appeal to each individual's tastes and interests. The main feed on the newly dubbed "Home" section will also include an option to look at short videos called Reels - Facebook's clone of TikTok.
But many users have expressed frustration with the feeds forced upon them by Facebook, while critics of the Menlo Park, California, company have blasted the algorithm for spreading misinformation and creating polarizing echo chambers.
Facebook, owned by Meta Platforms, is trying to address those concerns with a new Feed tab located to the left of the notifications tab on the shortcut bar in both the iPhone and Android versions of its mobile app.
After clicking on the Feed tab, users will be able to toggle over to a chronological presentation of their Facebook favorites, Facebook groups they have joined or feeds consisting exclusively of posts from all their Facebook friends in the order they were shared.
The new option is designed to address complaints from users who believe they have been missing interesting posts because Facebook's algorithm omitted them from their feeds.
"One of the most requested features for Facebook is to make sure people don't miss friends' posts," Facebook founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in the announcement.
Facebook is giving users more control at a time when it has been struggling to grow, partly because other social media such as TikTok have become more popular, particularly among young generations. That stagnation, in turn, is making it more difficult for corporate parent Meta to boost its profits from the digital ads that appear in users' feeds. | https://abc30.com/facebook-changes-social-media-tiktok-feed/12067188/ | 2022-07-22T17:10:53Z | https://abc30.com/facebook-changes-social-media-tiktok-feed/12067188/ | true |
LONDON (AP) — The ATP is teaming up with You Can Play, a group working to increase LGBTQ inclusion in sports, after 75% of players who participated in a survey by the men’s tennis tour said they had heard other players use homophobic slurs.
The tour announced Friday that it is launching a multiyear education partnership with You Can Play, which has worked with the NHL, MLS and NASCAR.
The ATP’s anonymous, online survey was distributed to hundreds of players last year; 65 responded. Some also agreed to be interviewed.
The ATP said its findings “indicated a strong fear of rejection, isolation from others on tour, and loneliness as being likely barriers to LGBTQ+ players publicly disclosing their sexuality to others.”
There are no openly gay athletes in men’s tennis currently.
The tour said a majority of participants “were supportive of ATP taking action to combat homophobia.”
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Jed Hoyer, president of baseball operations for the Chicago Cubs, bought two neighboring homes in Winnetka for nearly $5.7 million and sold his former address in Ravenswood in the city.
Hoyer and his wife, Merrill, paid $4.1 million in early June for a six-bedroom house on Old Green Bay Road in Winnetka. Then on July 21, they paid a little under $1.6 million for the four-bedroom house next door. | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/cubs-president-buys-2-winnetka-homes-sells-ravenswood | 2022-07-22T17:13:38Z | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/cubs-president-buys-2-winnetka-homes-sells-ravenswood | true |
MENLO PARK, California -- Facebook is rolling out an update that enables its 2 billion daily users to more easily view their friends' posts in chronological order.
The new feature is the company's latest attempt to keep people coming back to its social network amid intensifying competition with its trendier rival TikTok.
The changes announced Thursday will offer up two different perspectives. When Facebook users open the app, they will initially see the usual news feed featuring posts selected by an algorithm that the company says is designed to highlight topics and friends most likely to appeal to each individual's tastes and interests. The main feed on the newly dubbed "Home" section will also include an option to look at short videos called Reels - Facebook's clone of TikTok.
But many users have expressed frustration with the feeds forced upon them by Facebook, while critics of the Menlo Park, California, company have blasted the algorithm for spreading misinformation and creating polarizing echo chambers.
Facebook, owned by Meta Platforms, is trying to address those concerns with a new Feed tab located to the left of the notifications tab on the shortcut bar in both the iPhone and Android versions of its mobile app.
After clicking on the Feed tab, users will be able to toggle over to a chronological presentation of their Facebook favorites, Facebook groups they have joined or feeds consisting exclusively of posts from all their Facebook friends in the order they were shared.
The new option is designed to address complaints from users who believe they have been missing interesting posts because Facebook's algorithm omitted them from their feeds.
"One of the most requested features for Facebook is to make sure people don't miss friends' posts," Facebook founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in the announcement.
Facebook is giving users more control at a time when it has been struggling to grow, partly because other social media such as TikTok have become more popular, particularly among young generations. That stagnation, in turn, is making it more difficult for corporate parent Meta to boost its profits from the digital ads that appear in users' feeds.
Facebook gives users new way to see all their friends' posts: chronological order
When Facebook users first open the app, they will initially see the usual news feed featuring posts selected by an algorithm.
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Here’s what we should do about NJ Walmart bomb threats: Nothing (Opinion)
Any time a bomb threat is called into a school in New Jersey, officials panic, parents go nuts, and then the school is shut down.
This is the exact cycle of events that the person who called in the threat is trying to make happen. It’s likely a student who wants to avoid his scheduled detention that day or just a troublemaker. There’s an investigation, nothing is found, and school resumes.
When it comes to school, school administrators have to panic and shut down the place because otherwise, they risk the wrath of angry parents. Even if nothing happens, which is the case most of the time, parents want to know that their school is locked down tight and their kids are safe and sound.
But when it comes to other types of bomb threats, like those that have been being called into Walmart stores all over NJ lately, can we all just relax? Do we really think a bomber is going to warn us BEFORE he bombs us? When has a bomb threat ever resulted in an actual bombing?
The only thing I get scared of when I walk into a Walmart is that some lunatic will walk in with a gun and start shooting the place up. But that’s because these lunatics depend on the element of surprise to accomplish their goal of hurting and killing as many people as they can.
Trust me, nobody who wants to commit mass murder and destruction is calling up to warn you first. But every time we shut down a Walmart, another goofball gets the idea to call in another bomb threat. Who knows why? Just for the fun of watching a store panic and shut down for a few hours?
I think we can safely assume that bomb threats are just that: threats.
So the next time anyone calls in a bomb threat to a Walmart or any other place of business here in New Jersey, let’s all be sensible. Keep going about your day as if you never got the call. None of the shoppers will be the wiser.
If you’re anxious and tend to worry about bombings at Walmarts, you really only have to worry on the days you DON’T get the warning call.
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WAWONA, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters have made significant progress against a wildfire that began in Yosemite National Park and burned into the Sierra National Forest.
The Washburn Fire was 79% contained Friday after burning about 7.5 square miles (19.4 square kilometers) of forest.
The fire broke out July 7 and forced the closure of the southern entrance to Yosemite and evacuation of the community of Wawona as it burned on the edge of Mariposa Grove, home to hundreds of giant sequoias.
Wawona Road is tentatively set to reopen on Saturday, according to the park website. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Yosemite-National-Park-wildfire-79-contained-17322455.php | 2022-07-22T17:25:41Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Yosemite-National-Park-wildfire-79-contained-17322455.php | true |
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PARIS (AP) — Red Bull team principal Christian Horner thinks fans should be able to express themselves at Formula One races because rivalries are common in sport. But Horner called on a “zero tolerance” policy for the kind of abuse and bullying witnessed at the Austrian Grand Prix.
Fans used social media to make F1 aware of rampant harassment, sexism, racism, and homophobia in the grandstands of Spielberg two weeks ago. Red Bull's Sergio Perez called for abusers to face life bans from F1 races.
“I think there needs to be a zero tolerance for any form of abuse. I think that’s something the whole sport, the teams, are absolutely aligned on," Horner told The Associated Press in a Friday interview.
"We’re seeing unprecedented levels of interest and growth in our sport. Crowds are at a record level. But obviously what we don’t want is a small minority to in any way dampen that experience. Any form of abuse or bullying, there should be an absolutely zero tolerance policy towards.”
There has been boorish behavior from fans at several recent F1 races.
Hamilton was jeered when he crashed his Mercedes during a practice in Austria, and both Horner and Max Verstappen were booed in the previous race at Silverstone.
Last year, Hamilton was jeered in Hungary and the Netherlands, as tensions spilled over following a first-lap crash between Hamilton and Verstappen at Silverstone. Verstappen was taken to a local hospital for evaluation after the crash.
"People were cheering when Max went in the ambulance at Silverstone last year. Sport is polarizing in many respects. You see it in other forms of sport," Horner told The AP ahead of the French Grand Prix. "It’s not been prevalent in motor racing previously, but there’s a new fan base that are coming in and they are pretty vocal about the drivers and teams they support, and (those) that they don’t.
"People are free to express themselves, but what can’t be in any way accepted is any form of abuse.”
F1 is setting attendance records nearly every week but Austria spurred discussion on safety concerns and security measures that could be taken to discourage abusive behavior.
“We need to put on a great show, great racing, but it needs to be an environment that is absolutely safe and inclusive for the crowd," Horner said.
Last year's title race between Hamilton and Verstappen ended in controversy following then-race director Michael Masi's decision to change the restart procedure at the season-ending Abu Dhabi race.
Hamilton led until a crash brought out the safety car with five laps remaining. Verstappen stopped for fresh tires and Masi flipped his decision and let the five drivers separating Verstappen from Hamilton to pass the safety car under yellow.
Masi was let go after the fiasco after the FIA ruled he'd made a human error. He's since left the FIA, and Horner feels the level of criticism Masi received was extremely unfair.
“To me that was tantamount to bullying. He was hung out to dry by a couple of teams, and I think that’s absolutely not right," Horner said. “It’s unacceptable, the guy is getting threats towards his family and so on.”
Latifi, meanwhile, was so affected by online abuse and death threats that he even hired a bodyguard.
Horner agreed there is a need for stricter controls on social media to curb abuse.
“Look, where there’s a will there’s always a way and there’s a responsibility as well,” he said. “All for freedom of speech, but what you don’t want is trolling and abuse.”
Sunday's event is the penultimate race before the mid-season break. Verstappen has overcome two DNFs in the first three races — and a sizeable deficit to Ferrari's Charles Leclerc — to lead by 38 points.
Horner praised Verstappen's mental strength and a rare capacity for resilience.
“You can always tell with the great sportsmen, they deliver when they are under the most pressure. I think that Max has never shied away from delivering under pressure," Horner said. "Some of the pressure he was under last year and the performances he was able to deliver ... Incredible.”
It also freed up his ambition.
“I think having achieved that first title it removes an awful lot of pressure but at the same time it fuels a hunger," Horner said. "He's hungrier than ever and driving better than ever.”
The 24-year-old Verstappen already has 26 wins. Hamilton is F1's record holder with 103, a target feasibly within Verstappen's reach given he could have a decade or more ahead of him.
“What Lewis has achieved is incredible and it's difficult to envisage those records being broke. So much depends on the equipment that you have," Horner said. "Who knows what the future holds? What Max has achieved so far in his career is hugely impressive and I'm sure he's going to build on that.”
Verstappen has also built a tremendous partnership with his teammate Perez, with huge mutual respect between them.
“I was keen to bring Sergio in because I felt we needed a driver with experience alongside Max. He grabbed this opportunity with both hands and he played a key role last year," Horner said. “This year he’s more comfortable in the team, the car’s slightly more to his liking. He’s a key factor in the team and the dynamic between them is great.”
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Amazon rolls out first fleet of all-electric delivery vans
(WLS) - Amazon has released its first fleet of Rivian all-electric delivery vans built in Illinois.
Hundreds of the electric delivery vans are now hitting the road – all part of Amazon’s climate pledge to reach net-zero carbon by 2040.
Amazon is relying on Rivian vehicles to help meet that goal, investing more than $1 billion in the company to make a custom fleet of electric vans.
Drivers will start and end their days at Amazon fulfillment centers, charging the vehicle overnight for the next day’s shift – no gas stops needed.
The electric vans are starting out in more than a dozen cities across the U.S., including Nashville, St. Louis, Dallas and Seattle. While the initial rollout consists of a few hundred vehicles, Jeff Bezos said he wants to see 100,000 of them on the road by the end of the decade.
The new vehicles include touchscreens for drivers with all the package information and navigation they need. There are also more upgrades, like heated and cooled seats and steering wheels, exterior cameras, automatic emergency breaking and collision-warning technology.
Amazon expects to have thousands of Rivian vans in more than 100 U.S. cities by the end of the year.
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A San Antonio man was convicted and sentenced Wednesday on charges that he sexually abused a child for two years, the Bexar County District Attorney said in a news release.
David Oscar Saldivar, 37, was sentenced to 50 years in prison for the continuous sexual abuse of a child in the 399th District Court.
On ExpressNews.com: A BCSO deputy was killed while driving to the county jail. Decades later, the case remains unsolved.
Officials said Saldivar committed multiple acts of sexual abuse against a child younger than 14 between 2014 and 2016.
“This child came forward to put a stop to the abuse she endured for far too long," Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales said in a statement. "While she may never forget what happened to her, I hope her bravery throughout this case as well as this defendant’s sentence give her back her power and voice."
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Uvalde School Police Chief Pete Arredondo faces a possible termination vote on Saturday after the district’s superintendent recommended that he be fired.
The district’s board will convene for a special Saturday morning meeting and accept comments from the public. It will then go into a closed session to discuss Arredondo’s employment status.
The board will then return from the closed session and possibly take a vote on terminating the embattled chief who led the botched response to the May mass school shooting.
Arredondo has been widely criticized for not leading officers into a classroom to confront the gunman responsible for killing 19 students and two teachers. Officials stated it took more than an hour for officials to engage the gunman.
A recent report showed many failures made by law enforcement during the incident.
Parents are upset at the lack of accountability shown by officials, including Arredondo.
"It's humiliating to see all these agencies fight and point the finger at each other, and no one wanting to take the blame for what happened, no one wanting to step up and be a leader, you know, and say, hey, we messed up," Angel Garza, stepfather to Amerie Jo Garza, told CNN. "That means something to us. The fact that everybody's just running from the situation is humiliating."
Amid criticism, Arredondo resigned from Uvalde City Council. He has largely avoided speaking publicly about the incident. | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/uvalde-school-board-to-meet-will-consider-firing-police-chief-who-led-botched-massacre-response | 2022-07-22T17:35:32Z | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/uvalde-school-board-to-meet-will-consider-firing-police-chief-who-led-botched-massacre-response | true |
The Mary G. Montgomery football team hasn’t played a game in 2022 but already there seems to be a difference under first-year head coach Zach Golson.
“It’s a totally different energy,” junior quarterback Jared Hollins said. “You can see it. You can feel it. We are all shooting for the same goal – trying to win. I can’t really explain it.”
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The 6-foot-3, 170-pound Hollins is a perfect example of that change.
After playing in Semmes earlier in his high school career, Hollins left and went to George County, Miss. However, with Golson at the helm now, he has returned.
“It would be an understatement to say that it (Hollins’ return) hasn’t been huge,” Golson said at Mobile County Media Days last week. “Jared Hollins, in my humble opinion, will be one of the best quarterbacks on the Gulf Coast this year.”
Golson and the Vikings certainly need players like Hollins to turn around a program that has struggled consistently for two decades. MGM hasn’t been to the playoffs since 2002 and has never won a postseason game. The team went 0-10 a year ago.
However, with a new coaching staff in place and with Class 7A, Region 1 down to just seven teams after rivals Theodore and Murphy dropped to 6A, there is optimism that this could be the year the Vikings at least start an upward trend. In fact, Mobile radio personality Randy Kennedy already has proclaimed it “The Year of the Vikings.”
“There is a lot of excitement,” said Golson, who comes to MGM after offensive coordinator stints at McGill-Toolen and Daphne. “I’ve actually tried to temper it a little bit. But I do want our guys to know anything is possible. It’s a new year. We have a lot of new faces. We are trying to focus on getting better everyday.”
Golson said the Vikings have been able to maintain good participation in the offseason with 115 players in Grades 10-12 working out and 55 freshmen in the weight room. He said one of the keys to a successful Semmes program is keeping the hometown talent at home.
“The talent is here. The kids are here,” he said. “Our youth program played for a championship in every division. Our middle school played for a championship. The kids are here. Now, we’ve got to keep them here for high school as well.”
In an interesting idea designed to do just that, Golson hosted a middle school signing day this spring.
“We wanted to get those guys excited about being a Viking,” he said. “Hopefully, in four years, we will have a different photo of some of those guys signing college scholarships.”
Senior linebacker Colby Gould said Golson’s message has resonated with the team.
“He is persistent. He is eager,” Gould said. “He wants to win. We all do.”
While coaching against MGM at McGill and Daphne, Golson has a distinct impression about the Vikings.
“I knew the type of kids who were there,” he said. “They have a toughness and grit that is different. It’s a blue-collar program. They will fight you. Talent comes in cycles in most places. If you blend the right process and the right work ethic, you should have success. I’ve been honestly surprised by the talent level in our junior and senior classes.”
One of those talented players is Troy Flowers, who transferred back to MGM from St. Paul’s. Golson said the team has picked up a pair of starting offensive linemen who didn’t play a year ago. He also likes the tight ends on the roster and said that is something he didn’t consistently have at McGill or Daphne.
“We have some playmakers I feel confident in,” he said.
The Vikings will host Williamson on Aug. 19 in Golson’s first game as head coach. The first 7A, Region 1 game is Sept. 2 at Foley. | https://www.al.com/highschoolsports/2022/07/different-energy-first-year-coach-zach-golson-brings-new-optimism-to-mgm.html | 2022-07-22T17:35:48Z | https://www.al.com/highschoolsports/2022/07/different-energy-first-year-coach-zach-golson-brings-new-optimism-to-mgm.html | false |
School District of Philadelphia superintendent Tony Watlington Sr. has given district families an update of his progress as an administrator over the last month.
In a letter to families, Watlington states he has completed more than 20 listening and learning sessions.
The sessions, which are a part of Watlington’s 100-day plan, has the school district administrator meeting with Philadelphians as he continues to get to know the city and the school district.
Watlington will be participating in more than 80 listening and learning sessions. His listening sessions will focus on five priority areas including student and staff well-being; engaging stakeholders and building trust; teaching and learning; assessing district leadership capacity and alignment; and assessing district operations, facilities and finances.
“I’ve completed 25 total sessions with students, principals and assistant principals, other SDP staff, parents and community members,” Watlington said in the letter.
“I’m learning a lot from the insights and opinions that you have shared,” he added. “I look forward to hearing from more of you as more family sessions are scheduled through August.”
In Phase II of his 100-day plan, Watlington announced his transition team of more than 80 members of the Philadelphia community.
The transition team is co-chaired by president and CEO of the Urban League of Philadelphia Andrea Custis and president of Community College of Philadelphia Guy Generals.
The pair will help lead five sub-committees, who will provide expertise in fives areas including student achievement, operations, anti-racist district culture, community engagement and communications and well-round school experiences.
The sub-committees are made up of more than 80 principals, teachers, parents, union leaders, among others.
The third phase of Watlington’s 100-day plan will be a new strategic plan for city schools. Community members can continue to track and monitor Watlington’s progress during his 100-day plan at www.philasd.org/100days.
“I have also been meeting with city and state elected officials, union leaders, District staff and many other Philadelphia leaders and community members to discuss a shared commitment to the hard work ahead to improve outcomes for all of Philadelphia’s public school students,” Watlington said.
Watlington was introduced in April as the replacement for William Hite, who led Philly schools for the past 10 years.
Watlington comes to Philadelphia after leading the Rowan-Salisbury Schools System in North Carolina. He is the first superintendent selected by a local school board since David Hornbeck in the 1990s. | https://www.phillytrib.com/news/local_news/philly-schools-superintendent-gives-district-families-progress-update/article_0fa82fd2-058d-5e1e-b4c5-ad72fa1042ae.html | 2022-07-22T17:40:04Z | https://www.phillytrib.com/news/local_news/philly-schools-superintendent-gives-district-families-progress-update/article_0fa82fd2-058d-5e1e-b4c5-ad72fa1042ae.html | false |
U.K. stocks finished flat Thursday, with the FTSE 100 Index
UKX,
Of the FTSE 100 constituents, investment advisors company 3i Group PLC
III,
Shares of technical services firm Spirax-Sarco Engineering PLC
SPX,
Halma PLC
HLMA,
Polymetal International PLC
POLY,
Shares of pharmaceuticals firm Dechra Pharmaceuticals PLC
DPH,
BAE Systems PLC
BA,
The pound was down 0.13% against dollar
GBPUSD,
Brent crude
US:BRN00
shed 2.4% to $104.31, and the yield on the 10-year gilt
TMBMKGB-10Y,
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Shares of Union Pacific Corp.
UNP,
+0.80%
slipped 1.19% to $211.90 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
-1.33%
rising 0.99% to 3,998.95 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
-0.74%
rising 0.51% to 32,036.90. This was the stock's second consecutive day of losses. Union Pacific Corp. closed $67.04 below its 52-week high ($278.94), which the company reached on March 31st.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Canadian National Railway Co.
CNI,
-0.25%
rose 1.12% to $116.04, CSX Corp.
CSX,
+0.10%
rose 4.24% to $30.99, and Norfolk Southern Corp.
NSC,
+0.46%
rose 1.78% to $242.11. Trading volume (4.1 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 2.8 M.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz walked casually into a sandwich shop minutes after he murdered 14 students and three staff members at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years ago, showing no signs of stress or nervousness, video played at his penalty trial Thursday showed.
Cruz then walked to a nearby McDonald’s, where, by coincidence, he unsuccessfully sought a ride from the brother of a girl he had seriously wounded. The boy did not not know who Cruz was.
Thursday’s abbreviated court session focused on Cruz’s attempted escape after the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting and his arrest, about an hour after he fled the campus. The mostly low-key testimony and evidence stood in contrast with the previous three emotional days, which covered the seven minutes Cruz stalked a three-story classroom building firing his AR-15 semi-automatic rifle into crowded classrooms and hallways.
After the shooting, Cruz fled the building, dressed in a burgundy shirt from the Stoneman Douglas Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps — he had been a member when he attended the school — and a New York City Police Department cap.
The former Stoneman Douglas student blended in with students who were evacuating campus and went to a nearby Walmart, where security video shows that 25 minutes after he stopped shooting he turned into the Subway sandwich shop inside the entrance.
Store manager Carlos Rugeles testified that Cruz ordered a cherry and blue raspberry Icee. The video shows that when Cruz got his drink and change, he tossed the coins into the tip jar, stuck a straw into the lid and walked out.
Eight minutes later, Cruz entered a nearby McDonald’s, still drinking his Icee, store video shows. He climbed into a booth with then-Stoneman Douglas freshman John Wilford, who did not know him.
Wilford testified that he didn’t know exactly what had happened at the school, but after evacuating he had been trying to call his older sister Maddy — he didn’t know she had been seriously wounded by this stranger. When he couldn’t reach her, he called his mom, who said she would pick him up.
He then tried to make small talk with Cruz.
“I told him, ‘This is so chaotic, it’s crazy with all these helicopters and squad cars. What do you think this could be?’” Wilford recalled. “He didn’t say much. He had his head down.”
A minute later, Wilford went to meet his mother in the parking lot. Cruz followed and asked for a ride, but Wilford said no.
“He was pretty insistent on it. I wasn’t really thinking much of it. I just wanted to get home and my sister wasn’t answering her phone,” Wilford said.
Cruz walked away. He was arrested about a half-hour later by Michael Leonard, an officer with the neighboring Coconut Creek Police Department. Leonard testified he was driving through neighborhoods looking for anyone matching the shooter’s description.
The officer was 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the school and about to drive back toward it when he spotted Cruz walking on a residential street. He said he stopped and Cruz looked at him. He pulled his gun and ordered Cruz to the ground. Cruz complied.
A search found $350 in Cruz’s pocket.
Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty in October to 17 counts of first-degree murder. The jury must only decide if he should be sentenced to death or life without parole for the nation’s deadliest mass shooting to go before a jury.
Nine other gunmen who killed at least 17 people died during or immediately after their shootings, either by suicide or police gunfire. The suspect in the 2019 slaying of 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, is awaiting trial.
When jurors eventually get the case, probably in October or November, they will vote 17 times, once for each of the victims, on whether to recommend capital punishment.
For each death sentence, the jury must be unanimous or the sentence for that victim is life. The jurors are told that to vote for death, the prosecution’s aggravating circumstances for that victim must, in their judgment, “outweigh” the defense’s mitigators. A juror can also vote for life out of mercy for Cruz. During jury selection, the panelists said under oath that they are capable of voting for either sentence. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/parkland-school-shooter-acted-casually-after-fleeing/ | 2022-07-22T17:46:37Z | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/parkland-school-shooter-acted-casually-after-fleeing/ | false |
Backed by a new round of capital, Duckbill aims high to be a dominant player in the domestic container trucking market
BEIJING, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chinese digital container logistic platform Duckbill announced today the completion of a Series C financing round valued at CNY 330 million (around USD 48.85 million). This round was led by the SAIC-CICC private equity fund. Existing shareholders including Shunwei Capital, Future Capital and Furong Capital continued to pump money into this deal.
The startup will use the fresh funds to support the ongoing research and development of digitalization in container land transportation, business expansion to more ports across China, and optimization of service, the statement reported.
A latecomer, but a quick grower
Founded in 2017 and headquartered in large-port megacity Shanghai, Duckbill is an innovator in the container trucking industry, with branches and services in all the main ports in China, including Shanghai, Ningbo, Shenzhen, Qingdao, Guangzhou and Tianjin — they are also parts of the world's top 10 busiest ports in terms of container throughputs in 2021.
Although it is only a five-year-old startup, Duckbill has previously closed six rounds of funding since its inception, snagging a total of approximately USD 200 million from a bunch of notable venture capital firms. They include Singapore's state-owned investor Temasek and growth-stage venture investor Pavilion Capital Partners. Within this frame of reference, Duckbill is the most promising drayage servicer in China.
The company has long specialized in the international freight container business — a more complex but lucrative niche market — and redefined it via its state-of-the-art algorithm-empowered software and management system. Meanwhile, with a team of experienced IT professionals from the shipping logistics industry featuring deep insights and superb execution skills, giving this trucking service platform featuring intelligent dispatching and transportation management an unparalleled advantage in upgrading the whole chain of container transportation through digital systems.
There is no doubt that Duckbill, a latecomer to the industry, has made tremendous strides in its first five-year journey.
According to the official website, it garnered the crown in terms of trucking capacity and scale, with over 2,100 trucks under control and about 13,000 partnered vehicles by the end of 2021. The volume of orders topped 1.1 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) containers in the past year accordingly, 54 times larger than that of 2017, with a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 172.3% from 2017 to 2021, putting it stands heads and shoulders above other competitors in China in this regard.
However, Duckbill's ambitions go much further than that.
It is accelerating its path of expansion actively to cover four more ports this year, namely Lianyungang, Nantong, Qinzhou and Haikou. Moreover, it also plans to build a fleet of more than 10,000 trucks serving globally by 2025; in its envisioned future, orders will accordingly enlarge over six times the size of its current operations.
The scale of its business is matched by a large number of high-profile clients. The company's official website shows that it currently ships over 100,000 foreign trade factories and serves more than 9,000 companies, including Shanghai-based logistics giant Sinotrans, China Merchants Group-backed Sinotrans (SH:601598; 0598:HK), state-owned COSCO Shipping, home appliance supplier Midea (SZ:000333) and Alibaba's logistics arm Cainiao.
Digitalization: There is hope
As with all startups EqualOcean covers, we care most about future opportunities and the potential of rising stars. Through an in-depth analysis of the company, we find a keyword in Duckbill's success — digitalization.
China's foreign trade volume stood at USD 6.05 billion in 2021, up 30.1% year-on-year despite the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to weigh on global trade, official data from the General Administration of Customs (GAC) showed earlier this year.
Buoyant exports have become the backbone of China's economy, for sure; however, with rising domestic labor costs, the labor-intensive manufacturing sector is falling out of favor with developed economies. The pandemic has accelerated this shift even more, with Southeast Asia, Africa and South America becoming more preferable options. Vietnam, for example, reported upward Q1 economic figures and promising outlook when China was fighting with Omicron flare-ups in major manufacturing hubs like Shanghai.
At the same time, the game of great powers as well as the continued industrial transformation and upgrading have all contributed to a weakening of the momentum of China's foreign exports.
"This trend is irreversible. We deeply believe that in the medium to long term, the sustainable growth for the container trucking industry pivots on utilizing digitalization and mobile interconnection to accelerate industry integration, carrying out scale operation, reducing operating costs while enhancing the customers' experiences," said Duckbill, who has faith in this assertion and been decisively engaged in it. The paperless campaign that has been vigorously promoted in recent years has further strengthened the industrial base in building a digital truck land transportation industry.
In fact, the whole world is going digital, and not just shipping. Since 2016, the world's largest container firm Maersk, SIPG (SH:600018), China Merchants Group, China COSCO and a slew of others logistics companies have put forward a vision for the development of digital transformation. While only until recent years, the urgency is being rapidly amplified.
It follows that the company attaches great importance to research and development along with technological transformation, the proportion of R&D personnel reached 30% as of the end of 2021, with dozens of in-house intellectual property rights annually.
The company's self-developed intelligent transportation service platform www.yazuishou.com provides international clients and freight forwarders a fully online, instantaneous, complete freight management system that offers immediate quotations, bookings, inspection services plus real-time 24/7 shipment track and trace under 'EXWLocal Manager.' It guarantees visible, reliable and efficient transportation services in the whole process of cross-border transportation from factories to targeted ports. Such certainty is even more crucial in the current VUCA world — volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous — and is then only available in a technology-driven company like Duckbill via its forward-looking strategies.
When it comes to the internal data center, its dispatching system, transportation management and risk control system are also noteworthy. Based on big data, Chinese satellite navigation system Beidou as well as AI-powered algorithms, Duckbill enables intelligent dispatching and real-time dynamic supervision of trucks on the run. Instantaneous data exchange also creates positive synergies in processes of transportation, loading, terminal release and customs clearance. Highly granular customer data analysis is another highlight of its digitalization solutions, which enables Duckbill to maximize user contributions, helping it to personalize its services, identify and fill in the gaps in its current operational capabilities.
In addition to its ongoing digital enhancements to optimize customer experience, Duckbill also values its freight drivers truly. It has launched a one-stop service terminal for container truck drivers named Future Truck Boss, a 'freight version' of Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi's app. The mobile app provides drivers with a series of after-vehicle services such as pick-ups, collaboration, billing and refueling, which greatly lowers the thresholds for drivers to enter the industry, saves time and boosts efficiency. At the same instant, thanks to Duckbill's intelligent dispatching algorithms and 7/24 manual support, drivers on the platform can also enjoy a stable, standardized and guaranteed workflow. This is something not offered by Duckbill's rivals in the traditional trucking industry.
Tang Hongbin, the founder of Duckbill, told EqualOcean that the rational and effective application of new technology is the strongest driver of the industry. "We have made digitization our core competency at the current stage and continued to optimize customer service in exchange for a higher level of trust."
Rosy future ahead
China overtook the United States as the world's largest trader in goods for the first time in 2013, and even in the eventful 2021, China still maintained that lead.
The fact that container land transportation between factories and domestic ports is entirely undertaken by domestic freighters has created the largest as well as the most geographically concentrated niche market in the world. According to the Ministry of Transport, the container handling volume at China's ports stood at 282.72 million TEUs in 2021, which gives the A-level player Duckbill in this segment a large growth potential.
"Looking ahead, we must embrace new technologies such as autonomous driving to strengthen our overwhelming advantages," added Tang, whose team also eyes on the research and development of autonomous driving in port scenarios with a CNY 200 billion market cap. Currently, Duckbill is incubating its sub-brand BOOM, with plans to have a production model off the line by 2024 and mass production capability by 2025. "We expect auto-driving to reshape the economic model of the container logistics industry."
The fully-automated logistic plant with zero carbon emissions is also on its list, which is designed to improve both security and efficiency via intelligent algorithms and big data analysis. It would also be a showcase for Duckbill's social responsibility.
At present, Duckbill gets further ahead of its challengers in a number of key indicators, including fleet size, transport flexibility and visibility, fulfillment capacity and the volume of orders. It is telling a new story to the capital markets: starting from container trucking, it is heading towards the prosperous track of building a closed-loop for the whole on-land logistics market.
This path contains sizable opportunities, although Duckbill's future may not always be roses and rainbows; maybe, long-termism is the best answer.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Taurean Blacque, an Emmy-nominated actor who was known for his role as a detective on the 1980s NBC drama series “Hill Street Blues,” has died. He was 82.
Blacque’s family announced in a statement Thursday that Blaque died in Atlanta following a brief illness.
The New Jersey-native began his acting career at the Negro Ensemble Company in New York. His training at the institute helped him secure guest roles on television series including “Sanford and Son,” “What’s Happening,” “Good Times,” “Taxi” and “The Bob New Hart Show.”
Blacque’s biggest breakthrough came when he joined the cast of critically acclaimed show “Hill Street Blues,” where he portrayed the streetwise detective Neal Washington during the show’s entire run between 1981-1987. He earned an Emmy nomination for best supporting actor in a drama series in 1981.
Blacque starred with Vivica Fox on the NBC soap opera “Generations,” which touched on the integration of two families – one Black and another white. He became active with the Atlanta Black Theater Company and the Black Theater Festival in North Carolina.
Blacque had two biological sons and adopted 11 children and was the spokesman for the county of Los Angeles Adoption Service.
In 1989, Blacque was asked by President George H.W. Bush to become the national spokesperson for adoption. He was survived by 12 children, 18 grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren. The exact cause of death was not disclosed by his family. | https://pix11.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/taurean-blacque-actor-on-hill-street-blues-dead-at-82/ | 2022-07-22T17:51:52Z | https://pix11.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/taurean-blacque-actor-on-hill-street-blues-dead-at-82/ | true |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz walked casually into a sandwich shop minutes after he murdered 14 students and three staff members at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years ago, showing no signs of stress or nervousness, video played at his penalty trial Thursday showed.
Cruz then walked to a nearby McDonald’s, where, by coincidence, he unsuccessfully sought a ride from the brother of a girl he had seriously wounded. The boy did not not know who Cruz was.
Thursday’s abbreviated court session focused on Cruz’s attempted escape after the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting and his arrest, about an hour after he fled the campus. The mostly low-key testimony and evidence stood in contrast with the previous three emotional days, which covered the seven minutes Cruz stalked a three-story classroom building firing his AR-15 semi-automatic rifle into crowded classrooms and hallways.
After the shooting, Cruz fled the building, dressed in a burgundy shirt from the Stoneman Douglas Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps — he had been a member when he attended the school — and a New York City Police Department cap.
The former Stoneman Douglas student blended in with students who were evacuating campus and went to a nearby Walmart, where security video shows that 25 minutes after he stopped shooting he turned into the Subway sandwich shop inside the entrance.
Store manager Carlos Rugeles testified that Cruz ordered a cherry and blue raspberry Icee. The video shows that when Cruz got his drink and change, he tossed the coins into the tip jar, stuck a straw into the lid and walked out.
Eight minutes later, Cruz entered a nearby McDonald’s, still drinking his Icee, store video shows. He climbed into a booth with then-Stoneman Douglas freshman John Wilford, who did not know him.
Wilford testified that he didn’t know exactly what had happened at the school, but after evacuating he had been trying to call his older sister Maddy — he didn’t know she had been seriously wounded by this stranger. When he couldn’t reach her, he called his mom, who said she would pick him up.
He then tried to make small talk with Cruz.
“I told him, ‘This is so chaotic, it’s crazy with all these helicopters and squad cars. What do you think this could be?’” Wilford recalled. “He didn’t say much. He had his head down.”
A minute later, Wilford went to meet his mother in the parking lot. Cruz followed and asked for a ride, but Wilford said no.
“He was pretty insistent on it. I wasn’t really thinking much of it. I just wanted to get home and my sister wasn’t answering her phone,” Wilford said.
Cruz walked away. He was arrested about a half-hour later by Michael Leonard, an officer with the neighboring Coconut Creek Police Department. Leonard testified he was driving through neighborhoods looking for anyone matching the shooter’s description.
The officer was 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the school and about to drive back toward it when he spotted Cruz walking on a residential street. He said he stopped and Cruz looked at him. He pulled his gun and ordered Cruz to the ground. Cruz complied.
A search found $350 in Cruz’s pocket.
Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty in October to 17 counts of first-degree murder. The jury must only decide if he should be sentenced to death or life without parole for the nation’s deadliest mass shooting to go before a jury.
Nine other gunmen who killed at least 17 people died during or immediately after their shootings, either by suicide or police gunfire. The suspect in the 2019 slaying of 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, is awaiting trial.
When jurors eventually get the case, probably in October or November, they will vote 17 times, once for each of the victims, on whether to recommend capital punishment.
For each death sentence, the jury must be unanimous or the sentence for that victim is life. The jurors are told that to vote for death, the prosecution’s aggravating circumstances for that victim must, in their judgment, “outweigh” the defense’s mitigators. A juror can also vote for life out of mercy for Cruz. During jury selection, the panelists said under oath that they are capable of voting for either sentence. | https://wgntv.com/news/parkland-school-shooter-acted-casually-after-fleeing/ | 2022-07-22T17:55:20Z | https://wgntv.com/news/parkland-school-shooter-acted-casually-after-fleeing/ | false |
Police deployed on Kanwar Yatra duty in Gautam Buddh Nagar have distributed helmets and national flags to the pilgrims returning from Haridwar on two-wheelers, officials in Noida said.
The police in Gautam Buddh Nagar, adjoining Delhi in western Uttar Pradesh, have already set up a control room in Noida to facilitate the movement of Kanwars through the city.
"In the month of Shravan, Shiva devotees have started bringing Ganga water from Haridwar. In view of this, all preparations have been completed by Gautam Budh Nagar Police, arrangements for all Kanwar routes have been ensured," a police spokesperson said.
"In view of the traffic rules, helmets were provided by the police officers and police station in-charges and tricolor flags were presented to the devotees riding on two wheelers (on Thursday)," the spokesperson said.
Police Commissioner Alok Singh and other senior officers are constantly inspecting the Kanwar routes and also taking stock of the arrangements made at the camps for the pilgrims, the official added.
Police personnel were also instructed to immediately help the devotees in case of any problems, the spokesperson said.
Police personnel were also directed to take strict and immediate action against any miscreant who tried to disrupt law and order, according to the official.
During the Kanwar Yatra, devotees of Lord 'Shiva', especially in north India, walk on foot to Haridwar, Gaumukh, etc in Uttarakhand to fetch the water of Ganga river in the auspicious Hindu month of 'Shravan'. The holy water is then offered to the god.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) | https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/up-police-distribute-helmets-national-flags-to-kanwariyas-on-bikes-3185180 | 2022-07-22T17:55:22Z | https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/up-police-distribute-helmets-national-flags-to-kanwariyas-on-bikes-3185180 | true |
Exxon Mobil (XOM) Reports Next Week: Wall Street Expects Earnings Growth
Wall Street expects a year-over-year increase in earnings on higher revenues when Exxon Mobil (XOM) reports results for the quarter ended June 2022. While this widely-known consensus outlook is important in gauging the company's earnings picture, a powerful factor that could impact its near-term stock price is how the actual results compare to these estimates.
The earnings report, which is expected to be released on July 29, 2022, might help the stock move higher if these key numbers are better than expectations. On the other hand, if they miss, the stock may move lower.
While management's discussion of business conditions on the earnings call will mostly determine the sustainability of the immediate price change and future earnings expectations, it's worth having a handicapping insight into the odds of a positive EPS surprise.
Zacks Consensus Estimate
This oil and natural gas company is expected to post quarterly earnings of $3.53 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of +220.9%.
Revenues are expected to be $112.21 billion, up 65.6% from the year-ago quarter.
Estimate Revisions Trend
The consensus EPS estimate for the quarter has been revised 6.05% higher over the last 30 days to the current level. This is essentially a reflection of how the covering analysts have collectively reassessed their initial estimates over this period.
Investors should keep in mind that the direction of estimate revisions by each of the covering analysts may not always get reflected in the aggregate change.
Earnings Whisper
Estimate revisions ahead of a company's earnings release offer clues to the business conditions for the period whose results are coming out. Our proprietary surprise prediction model -- the Zacks Earnings ESP (Expected Surprise Prediction) -- has this insight at its core.
The Zacks Earnings ESP compares the Most Accurate Estimate to the Zacks Consensus Estimate for the quarter; the Most Accurate Estimate is a more recent version of the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate. The idea here is that analysts revising their estimates right before an earnings release have the latest information, which could potentially be more accurate than what they and others contributing to the consensus had predicted earlier.
Thus, a positive or negative Earnings ESP reading theoretically indicates the likely deviation of the actual earnings from the consensus estimate. However, the model's predictive power is significant for positive ESP readings only.
A positive Earnings ESP is a strong predictor of an earnings beat, particularly when combined with a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), 2 (Buy) or 3 (Hold). Our research shows that stocks with this combination produce a positive surprise nearly 70% of the time, and a solid Zacks Rank actually increases the predictive power of Earnings ESP.
Please note that a negative Earnings ESP reading is not indicative of an earnings miss. Our research shows that it is difficult to predict an earnings beat with any degree of confidence for stocks with negative Earnings ESP readings and/or Zacks Rank of 4 (Sell) or 5 (Strong Sell).
How Have the Numbers Shaped Up for Exxon?
For Exxon, the Most Accurate Estimate is higher than the Zacks Consensus Estimate, suggesting that analysts have recently become bullish on the company's earnings prospects. This has resulted in an Earnings ESP of +5.89%.
On the other hand, the stock currently carries a Zacks Rank of #2.
So, this combination indicates that Exxon will most likely beat the consensus EPS estimate.
Does Earnings Surprise History Hold Any Clue?
While calculating estimates for a company's future earnings, analysts often consider to what extent it has been able to match past consensus estimates. So, it's worth taking a look at the surprise history for gauging its influence on the upcoming number.
For the last reported quarter, it was expected that Exxon would post earnings of $2.25 per share when it actually produced earnings of $2.07, delivering a surprise of -8%.
Over the last four quarters, the company has beaten consensus EPS estimates three times.
Bottom Line
An earnings beat or miss may not be the sole basis for a stock moving higher or lower. Many stocks end up losing ground despite an earnings beat due to other factors that disappoint investors. Similarly, unforeseen catalysts help a number of stocks gain despite an earnings miss.
That said, betting on stocks that are expected to beat earnings expectations does increase the odds of success. This is why it's worth checking a company's Earnings ESP and Zacks Rank ahead of its quarterly release. Make sure to utilize our Earnings ESP Filter to uncover the best stocks to buy or sell before they've reported.
Exxon appears a compelling earnings-beat candidate. However, investors should pay attention to other factors too for betting on this stock or staying away from it ahead of its earnings release.
Stay on top of upcoming earnings announcements with the Zacks Earnings Calendar.
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Royal Navy tracks two Russian submarines in North Sea
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A Royal Navy warship has tracked two Russian submarines in the North Sea.
British submarine hunter HMS Portland shadowed the vessels from Russia's Northern Fleet after they surfaced separately, north west of Bergen, Norway.
The Navy said it tracked the pair as they travelled underwater south along the Norwegian coast from the Arctic.
It comes as the UK's armed forces continue to train the Ukrainian military personnel.
HMS Portland reported on the movements of the Russian cruise missile submarine Severodvinsk and Akula-class attack submarine Vepr on Friday.
The Navy Type 23 frigate and its specialist Merlin helicopter are both equipped with cutting-edge sonars, sensors and torpedoes for submarine-hunting operations.
One of the RAF's new long-range maritime patrol aircraft, the P8 Poseidon, also worked closely with HMS Portland to "hunt and track" the submarines, said a Navy spokesman.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) does not usually comment publicly on specific submarine hunting exercises and it comes as Royal Navy sailors are training Ukrainian navy personnel in operating two Sandown-class minehunters which are to be sold to Ukraine.
Training is being provided by 1,000 UK service personnel for volunteer recruits with the aim of getting them ready for frontline combat.
Introduced into the Royal Navy in the late 80s, the Sandown-class minehunters specialise in finding and neutralising mines in deep waters.
UK armed forces minister James Heappey and Ukraine's deputy defence minister Volodymyr Havrylov have visited the soldiers and sailors training on them in Scotland, the Ministry of Defence said.
Mr Heappey said: "The intensity with which the Ukrainian soldiers and sailors are training is something to behold.
"They work with the focus of troops who know they'll be fighting in a war in just a few short weeks' time."
- 23 September 2021 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62271528 | 2022-07-22T17:59:00Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62271528 | false |
NEW DELHI: The winners of the 68th National film awards were announced on Friday but there was no award in the 'Best Critic' category. The Jury for the 68th National Film Awards announced the winners for the year 2020.
"We could not find anyone for the best critic award for 68thNationalFilmAwards," Dharam Gulati, Feature Film Jury (Member - Central Panel) said. The jury comprised of eminent film makers and film personalities from across the Indian cine-world.
The awards were announced by Chitrartha Singh, Chairperson, Non-Feature Jury, Anant Vijay, Chairperson, Best Writing on Cinema Jury besides Gulati in the presence of Neerja Sekhar, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Senior film critic Sohini Chattopadhyay received the National award for the Best Critic in 2021.
Among all the films Bollywood period action film 'Tanhaji: The unsung warrior', which starred Ajay Devgn, Saif Ali Khan, and Kajol in the lead roles, and south film 'Soorarai Pottru' which starred south actors Suriya, Paresh Rawal and Aparna Balamurali received the most National awards. The Best Actor award in the male category has been shared between Suriya for 'Soorarai Pottru' and Ajay Devgn for the Hindi movie 'Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior'. Manoj Muntashir won the award for Best Lyrics for the Hindi movie 'Saina' and director K. R. Sachidanandan received the Best Director National award for 'Ayyappanum Koshiyum'.
Apart from chairperson Shah, the jury members included cinematographer Dharam Gulati, National award-winning fame Bengali actor Sreelekha Mukherjee, cinematographer GS Bhaskar, A Karthikraaja, VN Aditya, Viji Thampi, Sanjeev Rattan, S Thangadurai and Nishigandha. Producer-director Vipul Shah told ANI, "It has been heartening to see the kind of response that was received and the number of films that we got to see. And these were very difficult COVID times during which these films were either made or being made."
Chitrartha Singh earlier said they have been able to review close to 140 non-feature films including documentaries . "It is amazing to see the kind of content that has come forth, especially from areas like the north-east."
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On a sultry Tuesday evening in New York City, Luke Brown excitedly opened a newly delivered bottle of black-and-orange pills, popped his first dose in his mouth, and washed it down with root beer.
Having contracted monkeypox this month, the lanky, bespectacled 29-year-old project manager had been suffering from what he called “the most severe pain of my life” for over a week before he finally was able to obtain a course of antivirals — a treatment he hoped would soon clear up his lesions and alleviate his suffering.
For Brown, this was cause for celebration. But it was also a sobering moment for him to reflect on how, to gain access to this medication, he had to leverage high degrees of personal privilege, medical literacy and self-advocacy that he said he was guiltily aware most people at risk for monkeypox probably lack. Because to join the fortunate few who have obtained this prized medication, called TPOXX, he had to navigate what he characterized as the exasperatingly byzantine maze of the medical and public health system.
“Here we are in the epicenter of an outbreak primarily affecting gay men in the city,” Brown said of his hometown, New York, which as of Thursday had 778 confirmed monkeypox cases out of 2,593 nationwide. “The city that of anywhere in the world should have the most impressive and robust infrastructure to respond to the health care needs of gay men. And at every level it has fallen flat on its face.”
Like many of his fellow gay and bisexual men — a demographic that comprises the vast majority monkeypox cases in the global outbreak that has ballooned to 15,848 cases — Brown said he has grown increasingly appalled and infuriated by the nation’s response to a virus spreading so swiftly that many epidemiologists now believe will likely become endemic in the U.S. and around the world.
While the Biden administration has in recent weeks distributed nearly 200,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine for monkeypox, U.S. prescriptions for the TPOXX antiviral have remained strictly limited.
Supply of the antiviral is not the problem; there are 1.7 million courses in the nation’s Strategic National Stockpile, according to Dennis Hruby, chief scientific officer of the U.S. pharmaceutical company SIGA, TPOXX’s manufacturer. But the drug, also known as tecovirimat, is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat monkeypox as it is by regulators in the United Kingdom and the European Union; the drug is approved only for smallpox in the U.S.
This is bad news for the Americans with monkeypox who like Brown suffer from excruciating physical pain or other severe outcomes from the infection and who are desperate for treatment to speed their healing. They, and the health care providers who care for them, are up against the U.S. regulatory system.
Even as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to reduce the red tape that impedes TPOXX access, announcing new changes Friday, public health experts pointed to a complementary means of leveraging the drug’s potential power to alleviate suffering: large clinical trials of the antiviral as a monkeypox treatment.
Plans for such trials are already in advanced stages in Canada, the U.K. and the European Union, according to Hruby. The National Institutes of Health is also planning one in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But the federal agency’s efforts to launch such research in the U.S. are only in the earliest planning stages.
“This points to a persistent issue we saw during COVID,” said James Krellenstein, a public-health activist and cofounder of the activist group PrEP4All, “where the United Kingdom and European researchers were really able to mount much quicker clinical studies than the United States was.”
Excessive barriers to prescribing
In addition to Brown, NBC News spoke with a dozen people who have taken TPOXX, all of whom suffered from extreme pain before starting the antiviral. They generally reported that within a few days of treatment, their monkeypox symptoms — the pain in particular — began to ease, much to their relief. Most reported no bothersome side effects, or, in one case at least, not bad enough to discontinue treatment. While they all acknowledged that they could not be certain how the course of the disease might have unfolded had they not taken the drug, they generally believed it had been effective for them.
The FDA approved TPOXX as a treatment for smallpox in 2018 based on studies that had infected rabbits with rabbitpox and nonhuman primates with monkeypox. (Smallpox and monkeypox are close viral relatives, so treatments for one are expected to work for the other.) Researchers had to rely on these proxy models of similar viruses because there is no smallpox to investigate, as the virus has been eradicated; and even if there were, it would be unethical to study such a lethal pathogen in humans.
The data indicating the drug is safe for humans comes from a study of 449 healthy people.
Typically, physicians may use their own judgment to prescribe medications off label for purposes other than those for which they were granted explicit FDA approval.
But given the lack of research on TPOXX’s efficacy in humans, federal health regulations dictate that health care providers may only prescribe the drug for monkeypox through a compassionate-use system overseen by the CDC. Physicians such as Dr. Marshall Glesby, an infectious disease specialist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, said that these strict rules are excessive, including the need to review a more than 100-page treatment-protocol document to qualify as a TPOXX prescriber and to thoroughly document each case.
Such burdens sharply limit the number of health care providers who are willing and able to prescribe TPOXX, according to clinicians who have gained such authority.
“It’s a cumbersome process,” said Dr. Anu Hazra, a physician at Howard Brown Health in Chicago who recently began prescribing the treatment.
“Because we don’t yet know how well this drug is going to work for monkeypox patients,” said Dr. Jennifer McQuiston, who leads the CDC’s monkeypox response, “it is important to ensure we have some data from patients who use it, so we can better understand the risks and benefits and ultimately help other people as well.”
Responding to health care providers’ recent complaints about the TPOXX compassionate-use system, the CDC has, for example, made optional previous requirements that clinicians submit photographs of patients’ monkeypox lesions and ship viral specimens to the agency.
In a July 15 letter to the heads of various federal health agencies, PrEP4All and the nonprofit Partners in Health called on the CDC and FDA to end all restrictions on TPOXX’s use and to allow health care providers to freely prescribe it for monkeypox.
Friday, the CDC announced further revisions to the compassionate-use system, including plans to reduce the 100-plus-page document to under 50; pare back the number of reports physicians must fill out about each patient from six to two; and to permit virtual appointments.
“We have reduced the data we need down to the most critical pieces,” McQuiston said “and have worked to make using this drug simpler, in order to ensure doctors can get the drug to patients who need it.”
Dr. Jason Zucker, an infectious disease specialist at Columbia University Department of Medicine whose team has prescribed the antiviral to 45 patients, said that the U.S. should launch a large randomized clinical trial including people with mild monkeypox disease. If anyone in the placebo arm should progress to severe disease, he proposed, they could be switched into a parallel compassionate-use group. This would not only address the crucial question of the drug’s efficacy but also expand access to treatment while also collecting data on people receiving it in a much more rigorous and organized fashion than he said occurs through the current system.
Jumping through hoops to get TPOXX
Luke Brown said that he first tried to gain access to TPOXX through his primary care provider, who submitted the request to New York City’s health department. The request was denied on the grounds that his case wasn’t serious enough. But then he began to suffer pain so severe all he could do was pace around his apartment for hours; even then, his physician delayed in resubmitting the request. So the well-connected Brown tapped into his contacts on social media and finally found someone who linked him to a local doctor with prescribing authority.
“It’s infuriating,” he said of the hoops he had to jump through to obtain the drug.
“I had to fight for the TPOXX meds,” said an online content creator known as Boomer Banks, also a New Yorker, about what he said was a maddening ordeal finding someone at the city’s health department who could help him access the treatment. “I had no privilege to leverage, just my mouth,” said Banks, who did want to use his real name used to protect his privacy. “I’m a brown immigrant, 42-year-old HIV-positive sex worker with no insurance. I didn’t take ‘no’ as an answer.”
A recent nonpeer reviewed study posted to a pre-print server found that in laboratory experiments, TPOXX was highly effective at neutralizing the monkeypox strain circulating in the global outbreak.
Under current CDC guidelines, TPOXX is reserved for those with severe disease, including those who are hospitalized or at high risk of a severe outcome because, for example, they are immunocompromised. Those suffering from a common symptom of the virus, intense anorectal or genital pain, qualify for TPOXX, Zucker said.
Brooklyn resident Sebastian Kohn, 39, who had a particularly severe case of monkeypox, said that days after he started TPOXX, the difference in his anorectal pain was “night and day.”
“I can wash myself without wanting to cry,” Kohn said.
Where is the U.S.-based clinical trial?
Asked about the NIH’s plans to back a U.S.-based clinical trial of TPOXX, Judith Hewitt, deputy director of the Office of Biodefense, Research Resources and Translational Research at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that “it’s super early days” for such plans.
“There are now just beginning to be discussions about a trial in people living with HIV or at risk of HIV,” she said.
In an email, Dr. Judith Currier, a professor of medicine at the UCLA Division of Infectious Diseases and the chair of a major HIV-related clinical trial network funded by the NIH, confirmed that a trial is being discussed. “I think the holdup is identifying the funding for this work.”
“Money is obviously the real issue here,” Hewitt said. “And so people are scrambling to do what we can do with the resources at hand.” She said the agency is debating whether, for example, to fund a study examining whether a lower dose of the Jynneos vaccine would be highly effective against monkeypox. “So that’s within the same treatment area. But then we’re still up to our eyeballs in COVID.”
Krellenstein, the activist, said, “It’s bizarre, given that we have such large supply in the strategic national stockpile and TPOXX was approved without any human efficacy data, that there weren’t ready-to-go plans for actually doing a U.S. clinical study in the event that we needed to use it.”
According to SIGA’s Hruby, the company might not even look to U.S.trial data on TPOXX to submit to the FDA. Instead, they might rely on the combined findings of the trials already primed to launch in other nations, along with safety data from compassionate-use programs worldwide.
As for how long before the company would submit the drug for FDA approval, Hruby wouldn’t speculate.
“These things always take longer than expected, especially when working with large teams,” Hruby said.
Even on a drug given priority review, the FDA typically takes six months to reach a decision.
TPOXX could help blunt monkeypox’s impact
If approved, TPOXX would offer a future in which the antiviral complements widespread vaccination among at-risk individuals to mitigate monkeypox’s impact on public health, experts said.
The virus could be treated at the very first sign of symptoms, and possibly even during the asymptomatic incubation period if testing technology advances to permit detection at that stage. Such early medical intervention would not only prevent pain and suffering, but would also very likely block transmission of the virus by shortening or eliminating the disease’s infectious period.
Treatment could also save people from the personal and financial hardship of isolating at home for what can be weeks of illness with monkeypox that’s left to resolve on its own.
What’s more, TPOXX could be used as post-exposure prophylaxis among people exposed to monkeypox, either among unvaccinated people or those who cannot be vaccinated, such as the immunocompromised, according to Columbia’s Zucker.
The U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command does have an established study to assess such a preventive use of this drug. And while a listing of the trial indicates participants must be Department of Defense–affiliated personnel, according to Hruby, there actually is no such restriction.
Friday morning, Luke Brown said his pain had begun to subside and he was watching in wonder as his lesions were steadily sinking back into his skin — “like magic.”
Reflecting on the ordeal monkeypox has been for him, he said it had inspired him to become a public-health activist.
“I’m resolved to see that no one suffers like I did, because no one needs to,” he said.
Anticipating that the U.S. monkeypox outbreak will only continue to expand, he said, “We are just at a crest of avoidable pain unless access to this drug becomes easier.”
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WASHINGTON, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA National) has announced a call for nominations for four prestigious insurance awards in its 2022 Fall Awards program.
Nominations are now being accepted for the association's 2022 Company Award of Excellence, Company Representative of the Year, Managing General Agency (MGA) of the Year and Excellence in Technology and Social Media awards.
The deadline for nominations is Friday, August 12, 2022.
Nomination forms are now available at https://www.pianational.org/awards
The PIA National Company Award of Excellence honors an insurance company that demonstrates a commitment to the American Agency System and seeks to further the interests of professional, independent insurance agents by creating a better business environment.
The PIA National Company Representative of the Year Award recognizes the professionalism and unique contributions of an outstanding company representative.
The PIA National Managing General Agency (MGA) of the Year Award is given annually to recognize the outstanding achievement of a managing general agency in furthering the interests of agents, along with a commitment to the agency system and successful efforts to create a better business environment for professional insurance agents.
The PIA National Excellence in Technology and Social Media Award honors a PIA member agency that uses technology and social media communication tools to effectively further the goals of the organization, build upon an existing brand, and introduce products and services to an expandable customer base. The 13th annual Excellence in Technology and Social Media Award is sponsored by the National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR).
All four award winners will be recognized via a PIA press release, a series of articles and an online video.
PIA's three other major national awards—the Professional Agent of the Year, Young Insurance Professional of the Year and Customer Service Representative of the Year—will be presented in spring 2023.
Founded in 1931, PIA is a national trade association that represents member insurance agents and their employees who sell and service all kinds of insurance but specialize in coverage of automobiles, homes, and businesses. PIA's web address is http://pianational.org.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The meeting place? A secret. Agenda? Not public. Name tags? Take them off in public.
Even one of the main social events — trivia night — would be at an undisclosed location. This was no meeting of spies or undercover law enforcement agents. Instead, these were the security protocols for a gathering this week in Madison, Wisconsin, of state election bureaucrats from around the U.S.
While the hush-hush measures might seem a bit extreme, they were put in place because of the very real threats against election workers that have been escalating since the 2020 presidential election as former President Donald Trump continues to promote the lie that widespread fraud cost him re-election.
Security increased at meetings of government officials after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, “but not like this where the agenda is kept secret,” said Kevin Kennedy, who was Wisconsin’s top election official for nearly four decades before retiring in 2016. He has attended meetings of the National Association of State Election Directors for more than 30 years and said it was jarring that otherwise anonymous election workers are now being targeted.
“This is just at a different level, and it’s a reflection of the times and it’s unfortunate,” he said.
State and local election officials have become targets for those upset with Trump’s loss and who believe any number of unfounded conspiracy theories about a rigged election. Many have retired or quit as a result, raising staffing concerns in some offices.
Four people have been charged by federal prosecutors, with one of them pleading guilty last month. In that case, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold was the subject of multiple threatening posts on social media.
Robert Heberle, deputy chief of the Justice Department’s public integrity section, told state election officials recently that dozens of cases were still under investigation and more prosecutions were expected.
Griswold, a Democrat who has received numerous death threats since the 2020 election, traveled to the National Association of Secretaries of State conference earlier this summer in Louisiana with private security.
In a statement to The Associated Press, Griswold said she won’t be intimidated by the threats and said a new state law she helped pass increases protections for election workers at all levels.
“We cannot allow violent threats to secretaries of state and election workers become an accepted norm in the United States,” she said.
Organizers of the secretaries of state meeting, held twice a year, have been increasing security measures since the 2020 election, said Maria Benson, the group’s communications director. That includes coordinating with law enforcement agencies before and during the conferences, she said.
At the group’s summer meeting earlier this month in Baton Rouge, local law enforcement officers were visible in the lobby and meeting areas of the hotel where the conference was being held. Members of the media were instructed to keep their credentials visible while in the meeting area.
It’s not just election officials who are commanding tighter security during their gatherings.
When the National Governors Association met earlier this month in Portland, Maine, security was the highest in the state in decades.
The heavy law enforcement presence included city police, state police and security details, including troopers from other states. Plainclothes police roamed the event, and extra officers were kept out of sight, in case they were needed.
The increased security presence took place as demonstrators gathered to protest new abortion restrictions in states such as Arkansas, home of outgoing association chairman and current Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican.
Security planning, which was in the works for months, also involved police K-9 units and patrol boats in the harbor.
“We are in different times right now,” said Shannon Moss, spokeswoman for the Maine Department of Public Safety. “Just look at recent events that happened in our country — mass shootings, violent and disruptive protests, a divisive political climate. Law enforcement has to be prepared to deal with these kinds of potential security threats.”
There were no protesters outside the gathering of election administrators this week in Wisconsin, but the threats of violence against election workers have become so pervasive that the group was taking no chances on security.
The exact location meeting — which ended up being just a block away from the state Capitol — wasn’t revealed to reporters who registered to cover it until four days before the event began. There were no signs in the hotel announcing the meeting. And the agenda detailing topics to be discussed, such as “understanding and preventing insider threats,” wasn’t handed out until the start of the meeting.
Amy Cohen, executive director of the state elections group, cautioned the 170 registered attendees from 33 states to wear their name tags when at the event, but to take them off when they left and went into the city.
“Don’t advertise who you are and exactly why you’re here,” she said.
Cohen said meeting organizers coordinated with federal, state and local law enforcement for the event. She encouraged attendees to report any suspicious activity they saw, and hotel staff had been trained to be vigilant.
She said the association did not live-stream any of the panels nor did it post any messages to its Twitter account during the gathering, although there were no social media prohibitions for those who attended.
“Please do be thoughtful about what you post and remember that some of the people in this room are dealing with serious security concerns and we need to be respectful to keep everyone safe,” Cohen said at the start of the gathering.
Judd Choate, Colorado’s state elections director for the past 13 years, attended the Wisconsin event and said he has been surprised at the level of rancor and hostility toward election workers. He said many of the attacks are coming from people with little understanding of how elections are run.
“We were kind of a sleepy part of government, and we’re not anymore,” he said.
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Associated Press writers Christina A. Cassidy in Atlanta; and David Sharp and Patrick Whittle in Portland, Maine, contributed to this report. | https://www.koin.com/news/ap-top-headlines/amid-threats-security-rises-at-meetings-of-public-officials/ | 2022-07-22T18:03:34Z | https://www.koin.com/news/ap-top-headlines/amid-threats-security-rises-at-meetings-of-public-officials/ | true |
38% reduction in energy usage ranked #1 nationally among all "Energy Goal Achievers" participating in the DOE's Better Buildings Challenge
CHANHASSEN, Minn., July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has recognized Life Time (NYSE: LTH), the nation's premier healthy lifestyle brand, for the company's energy efficiency improvements across nearly 160 athletic country clubs nationwide. DOE staff and Life Time leaders toured the company's Chanhassen, Minn. club to see firsthand the technologies and procedures that helped Life Time increase its energy efficiency by 38% across more than 16 million square feet of building space.
"At Life Time, we're committed to making a positive impact on the health and wellness of our members and team members — along with the communities in which we operate, said Bahram Akradi, founder, CEO, and Chairman. "For 30 years, we've prioritized designing and building athletic clubs with healthy communities and a healthy planet in mind. This will continue to be a significant focus for us as core component of our healthy way of life vision.
In 2017, Life Time became the first health club to join the DOE's Better Buildings Challenge.
"Life Time is leading the way, not only here in Minnesota, but for the rest of the country," said Maria T. Vargas, Director of the Better Buildings Challenge. "Other organizations are looking at the work you are doing and are seeking to follow in your footsteps. Life Time made and committed to, not only energy efficiency, but water goals as well - and you have surpassed those goals. So, on behalf of the Department of Energy, I want to thank you all for your leadership."
In addition to its architectural design and construction methods, Life Time retrofitted interior and exterior lighting to LED, retro commissioned more than 3,000 rooftop units, and installed advanced energy-management systems and controls to analyze and optimize HVAC and other energy demands.
In just the last five years, across nearly 160 clubs, Life Time has…
- Reduced electricity usage by 35%. That's enough to power 15,100 homes for a year.
- Reduced natural gas usage by 15%. That's enough to charge 1.8 billion smartphones.
- Reduced water consumption by 10%. That's 157 million gallons – enough to fill 16,000 swimming pools.
At the Life Time club in Chanhassen, Minn. for example, energy use intensity has been reduced by 35%, and water use intensity by nearly 60% - over the last 10 years.
Better Buildings' Life Time Showcase Project
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Life Time (NYSE: LTH) empowers people to live healthy, happy lives through its portfolio of nearly 160 athletic country clubs across the United States and Canada. The company's healthy way of life communities and ecosystem address all aspects of healthy living, healthy aging, and healthy entertainment for people 90 days to 90+ years old. Supported by a team of more than 30,000 dedicated professionals, Life Time is committed to providing the best programs and experiences through its clubs, iconic athletic events, and comprehensive digital platform.
The Better Buildings Challenge is one component of the Better Buildings Initiative, through which DOE partners with public and private sector organizations to make commercial, public, industrial, and residential buildings more efficient, thereby saving energy and money while reducing emissions and strengthening the economy. To date, more than 900 Better Buildings Partners have saved more than $15 billion in energy costs while sharing their innovative strategies. Discover more than 3,000 of these solutions in the Better Buildings Solution Center.
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LIUZHOU, China , July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Choubao Luosifen, a new Chinese luosifen or river snail rice noodles brand, recently announced that the company has reached a milestone in building its business presence across the supply chain.
Luosifen, a local traditional food originating in Liuzhou, China, has not only been well received throughout the domestic market, but has also been gaining popularity among consumers worldwide. According to the city of Liuzhou's customs office, exports of pre-packaged Luosifen, now sold in dozens of countries and regions worldwide, continued climbing during the first five months of 2022, accounting for 53% of all exports recorded for the whole of 2021.
Choubao Luosifen has established long-term relationships with local snail and bamboo shoots farms to implement green, sustainable breeding protocols, with the aim of delivering both ecological and economic benefits. In addition, with the establishment of local snail noodles processing facilities, the company has attracted many talented technicians with extensive experience in the food sector, significantly enhancing the overall strength of its team.
"The quality of product is key to achieving sustainable development for a company," said the general manager of Choubao Luosifen in an interview. "Huge potential and promising prospects are foreseen for the luosifen market. As a result, as a luosifen producer, we are proud to contribute to the market's growth."
Choubao Luosifen has also collaborated with Jiangnan University to establish a Liuzhou Luosifen process innovation and scientific research center. The center is designed to protect and inherit the traditional methods for making luosifen by studying the characteristics of and key techniques for such rice noodles, including the production and fermentation processes, and the cultivation of beneficial bacterial colonies of sour bamboo shoots.
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Law panel to examine simultaneous elections
Law Minister Kiren Rijiju cited a report of a Parliamentary panel which noted that frequent elections lead to ‘disruption’ of normal public life and impact the functioning of essential services
The issue of holding simultaneous Parliamentary and Assembly elections has been referred to the Law Commission for a practicable roadmap and a framework can be worked out, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju informed the Lok Sabha on Friday.
In a written reply, Mr. Rijiju also cited a report of a Parliamentary panel which noted that frequent elections lead to “disruption” of normal public life and impact the functioning of essential services and that simultaneous polls would reduce the massive expenditure incurred to conduct separate elections every year.
Also read: The Hindu Explains: One nation, one election
Between 2014 and 2022, there were as many as 50 State Legislative Assembly elections. According to standing instructions, the entire expenditure on the conduct of elections to the Lok Sabha is borne by the Centre and the expenditure on the conduct of elections to the State legislatures is borne by the respective State governments when such polls are held independently. In case the elections are held simultaneously, the expenditure is borne by the States concerned and the Centre on a 50:50 basis.
The funds disbursed to the States/Union Territories between 2014 and 2022 amounted to ₹7,432 crores, the Minister added.
Mr. Rijiu said a Parliamentary panel had examined the issue of simultaneous polls to the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies in consultation with various stakeholders including the Election Commission (EC).
“The committee has given certain recommendations in this regard.... The matter now stands referred to the Law Commission for further examination to work out a practicable roadmap and framework for simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and State Assemblies,” he said.
In its draft report, the 21st Law Commission had said it was convinced that “there exists a viable environment, necessitating the holding of simultaneous elections to the House of the People and the State Legislatures. Simultaneous elections can be seen as a solution to prevent the country from being in constant election mode.”
In response to another query on setting up regional benches of the Supreme Court, the Minister said the Law Commission has thrice recommended that the Supreme Court can be split by setting up a Constitutional Court in Delhi and Courts of Appeal or Federal Courts that would sit in North, South, East, West and Central India.
While the 10 th and the 11 th Law Commissions made the above suggestions, the 18 th Law Commission too made a similar suggestion.
“The matter was referred to the Chief Justice of India, who has informed that after consideration of the matter, the Full Court in its meeting held on 18 th February, 2010, found no justification in setting up of the benches of the Supreme Court outside Delhi,” Mr. Rijiju said.
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Pacers Chetan Sakariya, Mukesh Choudhary set for T20 Max series debut
In the competition in Australia, Sakariya will play for the Sunshine Coast, while the 26-year-old Choudhary will feature for Wynnum-Manly
Two Indian fast bowlers — Chetan Sakariya and Mukesh Choudhary — will ply their trade in the inaugural edition of the T20 Max series starting here next month.
Both Sakariya and Choudhary represented Indian Premier League sides Delhi Capitals and Chennai Super Kings respectively in the past and will spend time in Brisbane as part of an exchange programme between MRF Pace Foundation and Cricket Australia.
“Player and coaching exchanges between the MRF Pace Foundation and Cricket Australia have been in place for almost 20 years, with the two Indian players marking the resumption of the relationship that was paused due to COVID,” Cricket Australia said in a statement.
While Sakariya had made his ODI and T20I debuts last year against Sri Lanka, Choudhary had a breakthrough season in this year's IPL under Mahendra Singh Dhoni at CSK, picking up 16 wickets in 13 games.
In the competition in Australia, Sakariya will play for the Sunshine Coast, while the 26-year-old Choudhary will feature for Wynnum-Manly.
Apart from taking part in the competition, the Indian duo will train at the Bupa National Cricket Centre and also join the Queensland Bulls pre-season preparations.
The matches will be played across three weeks from August 18 to September 4, with the final scheduled at Allan Border Field.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. Marine Corps will keep its new amphibious combat vehicle — a kind of seafaring tank — out of the water while it investigates why two of the vehicles ran into trouble off Southern California’s coast this week amid high surf, military officials said Wednesday.
No Marines or sailors were injured when one of the vehicles rolled onto its side Tuesday in waves that were unusually high because of a storm in the southern hemisphere. The other one became disabled when waves as high as 8-feet (2.4 meters) slammed the coastline.
The mishaps prompted troops to leap out of the vehicles and make their way to shore at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, north of San Diego. The mishaps were first reported by The San Diego Union-Tribune.
The new vehicles were introduced to replace Vietnam War-era amphibious assault vehicles, one of which was involved in one of Marine Corps’ deadliest training accidents of its kind two years ago off Southern California’s coast.
Lt. Gen. David J. Furness, the deputy commandant of the Marine Corps for plans, policies, and operations, said the officials decided to halt waterborne operations involving the newer vehicles as a precaution while an investigation is underway. The Marine Corps will continue using the vehicles for land operations.
“This is the right thing to do,” Furness said in a statement. The effort will allow time to “ensure our assault amphibian community remains ready to support our nation,” he added.
In the July 30, 2020 amphibious vehicle accident, eight Marines and one sailor died when the vehicle sank rapidly in 385 feet (117 meters) of water off San Clemente Island. Seven of the Marines were rescued.
A Marine Corps investigation found that inadequate training, shabby maintenance and poor judgment by leaders led to the sinking.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Two-time defending champion Alabama was predicted to win a third consecutive Southeastern Conference title in voting by media attending this week's SEC Media Days.
Alabama beat Georgia in last year's SEC championship game in Atlanta before losing to the Bulldogs in the national title game. Media picked a repeat matchup by selecting Alabama to win the SEC West and Georgia to win the SEC East in voting released Friday.
Alabama was the overwhelming pick to win the championship, receiving 158 votes. Georgia was second with 18 votes.
Voters have confidence in Georgia again ruling the SEC East. The Bulldogs received 172 first-place votes in the division. Kentucky was picked second in the division and had four first-place votes. Tennessee was third, followed by Florida, South Carolina, Missouri and Vanderbilt.
Alabama received 177 first-place votes in the West. Texas A&M finished second in the voting, followed by Arkansas, Mississippi, LSU, Mississippi State and Auburn.
Alabama was represented by quarterback Bryce Young, running back Jahmyr Gibbs, wide receiver Jermaine Burton and offensive lineman Emil Ekiyor on the first-team offense selected by media.
Linebackers Will Anderson and Henry To’oTo’o and defensive backs Jordan Battle and Eli Ricks represented the Crimson Tide on the first-team defense.
Auburn running back Tank Bigsby joined Young and Gibbs on the first-team backfield. LSU wide receiver Kayshon Boutte and Georgia tight end Brock Bowers also made the first-team offense.
Georgia right tackle Warren McClendon was joined by Florida's O’Cyrus Torrence, Nick Broeker of Mississippi and Ricky Stromberg of Arkansas on the first-team offensive line.
Tennessee's Hendon Hooker and Kentucky's Will Levis were the second- and third-team quarterbacks, respectively.
Georgia had three first-team picks on defense: lineman Jalen Carter, linebacker Nolan Smith and cornerback Kelee Ringo.
LSU's BJ Ojulari, Auburn's Derick Hall and Tennessee's Byron Young joined Carter on the first-team defensive line. Jalen Catalon of Arkansas was a first-team selection as a defensive back.
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Look for lots of sunshine this afternoon with hot temperatures in the upper 80s to low 90s.
A stray shower south is possible, otherwise partly cloudy overnight with lows near 70.
Morning clouds give way to lots of sunshine on Saturday to start our weekend with highs back in the upper 80s to low 90s.
It will feel more humid too.
Late night and early Sunday thunderstorms could produce damaging winds and hail.
We will monitor this potent system closely over the weekend.
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Recruiters are some of the first people to get a preview of how well a company is doing. In good times, they're busy building out staff to take the business into exciting new territory. In leaner times, hiring takes a back seat. But for Deven Lall-Perry, 31, a New York-based recruiter, even she didn't see her own layoff coming.
On July 1, she was laid off from her tech startup job along with a handful of her colleagues.
Sure hiring was a little slow recently, but pauses are natural, she tells CNBC Make It, especially when people are out on summer vacation. So when she received word of the staff cuts via an internal memo, she didn't expect it.
Big-name companies including Microsoft, Google and Meta are pumping the brakes on hiring, giving way to fresh concerns about an economic recession and job-market dive. But hiring pros, even ones recently laid off, say recent jolts in the job market don't indicate a mass downturn ahead.
A cooling hiring market doesn't mean a recession is inevitable
Both job openings and turnover remain at record highs, yet 70% of Americans believe an economic downturn is on its way, driven by concerns over high inflation, rising housing prices and a volatile stock market.
Sentiment data from the workplace platform Fishbowl by Glassdoor shows an uptick in employees mentioning keywords like "recession" and "layoffs" in their discussions.
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Allie Kelly understands the concern. She's the chief marketing officer at Employ, the parent company of several recruiting brands. But she says Employ's hiring data shows more of a "normalization" in the job market, where record-high job openings are beginning to level off to match labor supply. There are currently roughly two jobs available per unemployed worker.
She points out that layoffs and hiring pauses in certain industries and geographies are noteworthy and unfortunate for those impacted, to be sure, but they also represent a "small slice" of the U.S. economy.
"Those happen to be very visible areas: Silicon Valley tech companies on the West coast," Kelly says. "Have there been some layoffs, pauses or hiring freezes? Absolutely. Is it enough to influence the larger market? Absolutely not."
Recruiters are still as busy as ever
Roughly half, 51%, of U.S. companies under 500 employees have increased hiring levels this year compared to last, according to a June survey from Employ. Meanwhile, 46% plan to increase their hiring for the remainder of 2022, and just 7.6% plan to decrease hiring through the year's end.
"We're still seeing job growth on the whole," Kelly says. "We haven't seen any demonstrable data showing there has been a true downturn."
So why are people so worried?
People have been quitting and negotiating for better jobs and higher wages at record rates in the last year, and workers know those pressures on employers won't last forever. In other words, "people are waiting for the other shoe to drop," Kelly says.
It's true that workers will lose some leverage if there are fewer jobs available in the coming months. But Lall-Perry, having been both a recruiter and a recent job-seeker, says it's still undeniably a candidate's market.
"As a recruiter, this is the most insane market I've ever seen," she says. She continues to hear stories from peers about candidates backing out of jobs days before they're set to start.
How to figure out if a company is hiring responsibly
To be clear, Lall-Perry has no hard feeling about her ex-company's layoffs: "It's the nature of a series A startup, so I knew in a sense anything can happen."
It did change some of the questions she asked of prospective employers, though: Have you ever done layoffs in the past? If so, how did you handle it?
Ginny Cheng, a coach with Career Contessa, agrees that it's a good idea to ask a few additional questions about a company's growth during interviews. "Be wary of descriptions like 'hyper-growth' in the job description and dig deeper," she says. "Learn more about the steps they are doing to support employee retention or how they are growing responsibly."
Overall, she adds, "many companies may still hire for key priorities even after some pause in hiring or even layoffs."
Two weeks after Lall-Perry was laid off, she accepted a new job as director of talent acquisition and retention with another small firm, this time in business consulting. She'd rather take the risk of a small company over a big corporation in order to make an impact.
"You're going to have to take risks no matter what," Lall-Perry says about changing jobs. "You just have to weigh the risks you're willing to take."
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KANSAS (KSNW) – A nationwide salmonella outbreak has been linked to small turtles that can be purchased online, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC announced this week that salmonella cases in 11 states — Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington — have been linked to the turtles.
In May, the Tennessee Department of Health collected samples from two small turtles owned by someone who had become ill. Those turtles, purchased online, were found to have salmonella.
Since then, 15 people have been infected, and five hospitalized. No deaths have been recorded.
Many of the salmonella cases in this outbreak were observed in children, the CDC added. The agency also believes the total number of illnesses is likely higher than 15, as some people may have recovered without medical care, and without reporting their illnesses.
Many of the people sickened in the outbreak reported purchasing turtles with shells less than four inches long, which the CDC warns against.
“Do not buy small turtles with shells less than four inches long,” the CDC wrote in its investigation notice. “A federal law bans the sale of these small turtles as pets because they have caused many Salmonella outbreaks, but they are sometimes available for sale online and at stores, flea markets, and roadside stands.”
The CDC added that turtles of any size can spread salmonella infections “even if they look healthy and clean.”
Symptoms of salmonella infections often begin to show between six hours and six days after swallowing the bacteria. Diarrhea, fever, vomiting and stomach cramps are common. Infected individuals are urged to contact a healthcare provider, especially if symptoms worsen to include bloody diarrhea (or diarrhea that lasts for more than three days), fever of over 102 degrees F, frequent vomiting that prevents the ingestion of liquids, or any sign of dehydration.
“But antibiotics can be used to treat people who have severe illness or who are at risk for severe illness, such as people with weakened immune systems, infants, or adults age 65 or older,” a representative for the CDC previously told Nexstar.
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Claire Foy's 'delusional' stalker is ordered to stay away from The Crown star for five years after emailing her thousands of times and knocking on her door
- Claire Foy, 38, who played the Queen for Netflix was stalked by Jason Penrose
- Penrose, 39, sent over 1000 emails including one referring to her being raped
- He emailed publicist and sister while terrorising her in November and December
- Stalker released from Highgate Mental Health Centre but cannot be near Ms Foy
Claire Foy's 'delusional' stalker has today been ordered to stay away from The Crown actress for five years after he sent her thousands of emails and knocked on her door.
Jason Penrose, 39, sent her an email claiming to be a director wanting her to star in his next film before sending over 1,000 explicit emails including one referring to the actress being raped and brutalised.
Emails were also sent to Ms Foy's publicist, Emma Jackson and Ms Foy's sister.
Ms Foy, 38, who played a young Queen Elizabeth II in the first two series of the hit Netflix show, was terrorised by Jason Penrose, 39, in November and December last year.
Penrose, who gave his address as Highgate Mental Health Centre, was accompanied by NHS workers at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court in London today, July 22, where the full stalking protection order (SPO) was granted.
Foy, who starred in the Crown (pictured), was referenced in emails allegedly sent by Penrose to her agent and publicist which contained explicit content
Penrose allegedly showed up at Claire Foy's home on December 17 last year - at which point the actress called the police reporting he was outside and ringing on her doorbell constantly
She was horrified when American Penrose turned up at her home on 17 December last year and repeatedly rang her doorbell.
Ms Foy called the police, who arrested Penrose.
The actress played the Queen in the first two series of the Netflix's hit show and has won a Golden Globe, two Emmy Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
She was granted an interim Stalking Protection Order earlier this year, but despite the order Penrose sent her another letter and a parcel from mental hospital where he was being treated.
Ella Crine, prosecuting, told Highbury Magistrate's Court: 'The position of the police is that they wanted an order in indefinite terms.
'They've now asked for an order for five years in order to seek agreement with the respondent and allow this matter to proceed.
'Obviously there are great concerns on behalf of the complainant, due to the nature of the communications.
'It has affected her daily life.'
Penrose is currently detained at Highgate Mental Health Centre, but this has caused concerns because it is located in the 'exclusion area' of the Protection Order.
Moira Macfarlane, for Penrose, said: 'At the moment he cannot leave hospital because of the terms of the interim order.
'He is, at the moment, fit to leave hospital but, because the order is in place and where the hospital is, he cannot travel outside of it.
'He is now fit for release. I'm told the only reason he's in hospital is because of this order preventing him from leaving there.'
Ms Crine said: 'Camden have been saying, though we doubt it, that they are unable to transfer him into any other borough or mental health NHS Trust facility because he has no locus to be anywhere else having not been resident in the UK.
'He was sectioned in Camden because he was arrested at the home of Ms Foy.
'We have found ourselves in the slightly complicated circumstance of trying to find a way to assist Camden NHS in finding him accommodation and being able to discharge him at some point, whilst also trying to protect the complainant in this case who has obviously gone through a deeply frightening experience.'
The Crown star Claire Foy (pictured) called police after alleged stalker Jason Penrose, 38, who sent emails about her being raped, repeatedly rang the doorbell at her home, the court heard
Ms Macfarlane said Penrose insists he 'is no risk and no danger to any of the parties named' and criticised the police for the two year delay in bringing the matter to court.
She also corrected reports that Penrose himself had threatened to rape Ms Foy, claiming he had simply 'commented' that someone else might.
Penrose was said to have sent Ms Jackson explicit emails, writing about 'wanting her to be his girlfriend', according to court papers.
One email read: 'If they f*** raped Claire in the a** and bruised her inner thighs, she could get lots of cheap magazine covers or a hundred-dollar f***dates in Europe.'
In another, on November 2, he allegedly said: 'I'm sorry I think Claire('s) policy should be not talking about any personal stuff in media and only creative business.'
Ms Jackson forwarded the emails to Ms Foy's agent, who had also received messages but had blocked the account.
Imposing a five year Stalking Protection Order, District Judge Michael Oliver said: 'I am sure, based on the evidence, that Mr Penrose has carried out acts associated with stalking.
'Thousands of emails were sent to Ms Foy and, one on occasion, Mr Penrose attended at her home address and there are other incidences of stalking as well.
'I am also sure that Mr Penrose poses a risk associated with stalking and there is evidence...that, since the interim order was made on the 7 February, a letter was sent on 17 February whilst he was in hospital and a parcel sent on 25 February.
'I am satisfied that an order is necessary.
'It appears that Mr Penrose has been receiving treatment and imminently will be well enough to be discharged from hospital.
'It appears that the reason for the conduct was a delusional belief Mr Penrose had about Ms Foy.
'I have also taken into account the profound effect this conduct has had on Ms Foy, and indeed Ms Jackson.
'An order is clearly necessary and proportionate to protect them.
'It appears that Mr Penrose is well enough to understand the terms of any order.
'He admitted sending the emails and attending at the address.
'This was sustained and repeated conduct and it appears the trigger of it was a delusional belief.
'It's good Mr Penrose has received treatment and the medical evidence suggests that may result in desisting from this conduct, however Ms Foy and Ms Jackson are entitled to protection from further acts of stalking.
'I am satisfied, on the facts of this case that it is proportionate to impose an order for a period of five years.'
Imposing a five year Stalking Protection Order at Highbury Magistrates Court, District Judge Michael Oliver said: 'I am sure, based on the evidence, that Mr Penrose has carried out acts associated with stalking. It appears that the reason for the conduct was a delusional belief Mr Penrose had about Ms Foy
Addressing Penrose directly, Judge Oliver said: 'In very broad terms, you are to have nothing whatsoever to do with Ms Foy or Ms Jackson.
'You cannot contact either of them, directly or indirectly.
'You're not permitted to enter the exclusion zone, except for [underground travel, Kings Cross train station, and legal and medical appointments].
'You must not go anywhere where you know or suspect either of those ladies to be...You steer well clear.'
Penrose is also required to notify police within three days should he acquire any device capable of internet connection, open a social media account, or get a new phone number.
The police will be allowed 'reasonable access' to check he has not breached any terms of his order using these devices.
Penrose, wearing a white shirt, black jeans and his hair in a ponytail, spoke only to confirm his understanding of these terms.
The CPS have not yet decided whether to bring criminal charges against Penrose, insisting they wait until they know the specifics of this order.
Ms Macfarlane said she thought 'charges are likely coming' and complained the defence were unable to 'test the evidence fully at the moment'.
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(The Hill) – The man who was accused of raping and impregnating a 10-year-old girl in Ohio was indicted on two felony counts of rape on Thursday.
A grand jury in Columbus charged Gerson Fuentes, 27, issued the indictment on the two felony counts. Fuentes was charged with the rape earlier this month after police said that he confessed to raping the girl twice.
After becoming pregnant, the girl was forced to travel to Indiana for an abortion due to an Ohio law which bans the procedure after fetal cardiac activity is detected, usually about six weeks into a pregnancy.
The case sparked national attention and incited further outrage among Democrats and pro-choice advocates following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade last month.
Critics say that the court’s ruling, which leaves abortion rights up to the states, could result in a large number of “deserts” in which people seeking abortions are forced to travel hundreds of miles to other states to receive the procedure.
President Biden highlighted the case during an address announcing an executive order aiming at safeguarding abortion rights.
“Raped, six weeks pregnant. Already traumatized. Was forced to travel to another state. Imagine being that little girl,” the president said.
The grand jury’s indictment comes days after the doctor who provided the abortion to the 10-year-old girl moved to sue Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) for “false and misleading statements about alleged misconduct.”
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Deputies, fire chiefs and citizen awarded for saving man in burning home
By Andrea Olson
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RIGBY (eastidahonews.com) — Three Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies and two Central Fire District chiefs, including a citizen, were recognized for their heroic acts Thursday after saving a man’s life during a house fire in April.
Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson presented life-saving medals to Battalion Chief Jim Kelly, EMS Chief Jared Giannini, Cpl. Dustin Mathie, Deputy Randy McRae and K9 Cpl. Andrew Cleverly.
“Upon arrival, without hesitation, or regard for their own safety, these first responders entered the building that was filled with smoke and fire, carrying out the individual to safety and saving his life,” said Sheriff Steve Anderson. “It is with great pride that we can acknowledge these first responders for their brave and selfless acts. I’d like to say that bravery is not the absence of fear but taking action in the face of fear.”
The fire happened on April 27 on 400 North in Rigby. The 65-year-old homeowner is a disabled man and was the only person inside at the time.
“As we were going in, all I remember was thinking back on a previous incident I had been on and I thought, ‘Oh, it won’t be too bad. We’ll get him out.’ But the smoke was so black and thick that it just took our breath away instantly,” Cleverly told EastIdahonews.com. “You try to ignore it but as you breathe it in, it just incapacitates you but you know that you just have to keep moving.”
Cleverly said he felt honored to receive the award with his colleagues.
“It’s a great feeling because you get into the job and I want to help people. You do as much as you can to help people. To be able to be alongside these guys and to have done something like this is absolutely incredible. It’s an amazing feeling. It makes everything worth it,” Cleverly said.
A citizen was also honored and recognized by Central Fire District Chief Carl Anderson with a “Life Save” award. Aubree Ours was recognized for her courage and bravery in assisting in the rescue of the man.
Ours works with Meals on Wheels and had come to deliver the homeowner’s food. She heard him calling for help as she knocked on the door and she called 911. She entered the house and saw him collapsed on the living room floor. She tried helping him out of the house but was unable to. That’s when the five responders came and helped her and the homeowner.
“She stuck right with him and made the right call. She helped the responders know where he was and what his condition was and the fact that he needed to get out of this burning building,” said Chief Anderson. “Aubree was a trooper. She was so caring and thoughtful.”
Chief Anderson said the home was a total loss and they found the cause of the fire to be an electrical problem after finding an overloaded surge protector. The homeowner is okay.
The five responders entered the home prior to any fire equipment arriving. Those involved in the rescue and fighting the fire were treated for minor smoke inhalation.
Chief Anderson said he is proud of everyone involved.
“It does feel good to recognize people for this. Talking to these guys, it’s like, ‘Really?’ We are just doing our job.’ That’s how we feel. It is part of our job, but it is special,” said Chief Anderson.
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Two shootings in less than 12 hours leaves three people dead in Milwaukee
Two men were killed in an early Friday morning shooting, hours after a woman died by gun violence, continuing a violent week in Milwaukee and a series of incidents involving victimized women.
Police said the first incident was reported at 2:42 p.m. Thursday on the 1700 block of West Wright Street, in the North Division neighborhood. Daneysha Velez, 24, of Milwaukee was killed in the shooting, according to the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office.
At 12:45 a.m. Friday, police said a 37-year-old Christopher K. Bugembe of Wauwatosa and 41-year-old Valentino I. Stokes of Milwaukee were killed in a shooting on the 5700 block of West Fond du Lac Avenue.
No description of the circumstances of either were provided by police, who do not have any suspects in custody.
Since Monday, Milwaukee police reported seven homicides, while West Allis police reported another. Those incidents involved four female victims, three of which have been connected to domestic violence.
Through Thursday, Milwaukee police reported 128 homicides on the year, up from 91 on the same date in 2021, when the city broke its homicide record for the second year in a row.
Nonfatal shootings have not increased at the same rate, however, and have instead stayed on the same, elevated pace of last year. More than 450 such incidents have been reported this year through Thursday, according to police.
Milwaukee’s Office of Violence Prevention did not immediately respond to an interview request Friday.
What is causing the rise in gun violence in Milwaukee?
In recent years, investigators and academics have attributed arguments as the primary factor behind roughly a third of homicides and nonfatal shootings, while roughly another third is attributed to unknown reasons.
But at least through May of this year, arguments seemed to be playing a larger role, with almost 42% of homicides and nonfatal shootings being connected to arguments, according to the Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission. The primary factor behind a third of such incidents remains unknown, however.
Almost 5% of all homicides and nonfatal shootings through May have been related to domestic violence, a total of 20 victims, according to the Homicide Review Commission. But the total count of annual victims has roughly doubled since 2019.
Countywide, 34 women have been victims of homicide so far in 2022, compared to 16 at the same time last year, according to the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Officials have consistently drawn a connection between arguments and the accessibility of firearms as a major factor contributing to the city’s historic rate of violence since 2020. With a surge in fatal violence extending nationally since then as well, criminologists have drawn similar connections in other U.S. cities.
Contact Elliot Hughes at elliot.hughes@jrn.com or 414-704-8958. Follow him on Twitter @elliothughes12. | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2022/07/22/three-people-killed-two-separate-shootings-milwaukee/10126954002/ | 2022-07-22T18:18:34Z | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2022/07/22/three-people-killed-two-separate-shootings-milwaukee/10126954002/ | false |
Matt Kenseth has added a race to his 2022 schedule at a track that helped launch his NASCAR Hall of Fame career
Matt Kenseth, whose Hall of Fame career was launched from the short tracks of Wisconsin, will return to race again in one of the most prestigious events in the state at one of the first places he won a championship.
The 2003 NASCAR champion and two-time Daytona 500 winner from Cambridge is scheduled to compete in the ARCA Midwest Tour Gandrud 250 on Aug. 2 at Wisconsin International Raceway in Kaukauna.
Kenseth won the 1994 and ’95 track titles at WIR.
News of his addition to the field came to light in fliers passed out at the track during its weekly program Thursday.
Retired from NASCAR and elected this spring as one of five members of the 2023 NASCAR Hall of Fame, Kenseth is racing a limited schedule of short track events this season. He competed in super late models with the Midwest Tour at Madison International Speedway and in the Slinger Nationals at Slinger Speedway and is racing half of the six-race, made-for-television Superstar Racing Experience including the finale Saturday in Hartford, Ohio.
Kenseth, who will be making his first start at WIR in 15 years, will drive a car fielded by Shafer Motorsports, the team that won the race last year with Paul Shafer Jr.
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The Aug. 2 race is the longest race in Wisconsin for super late models and with a $15,000 top prize also one of the richest.
In addition to some WIR regulars, top visiting Wisconsin drivers entered include two-time winners Ty Majeski and Johnny Sauter, both of whom compete in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series; Casey Johnson, who won Midwest Tour stops at Madison and the Milwaukee Mile; Luke Fenhaus, the 2022 Kulwicki Driver Development Program winner; and John DeAngelis Jr., who dominated last year before being eliminated by a mechanical failure.
Out-of-area drivers set for the race include NASCAR driver Erik Jones, a teammate of Kenseth’s for a time at Joe Gibbs Racing; Camping World Truck Series regular Carson Hocevar; and Stephen Nasse, a super late model barnstormer from Florida.
Johnson, a two-time Midwest Tour champion, leads Gabe Sommers atop standings through five races, heading into the Larry Detjens Memorial scheduled for Saturday night at State Park Speedway in Wausau. | https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/motor/2022/07/22/nascar-hall-of-famer-matt-kenseth-to-race-gandrud-250-at-wisconsin-international-raceway-in-kaukauna/10126669002/ | 2022-07-22T18:18:52Z | https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/motor/2022/07/22/nascar-hall-of-famer-matt-kenseth-to-race-gandrud-250-at-wisconsin-international-raceway-in-kaukauna/10126669002/ | true |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
8-4-2-6
(eight, four, two, six)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
8-4-2-6
(eight, four, two, six) | https://www.middletownpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17322808.php | 2022-07-22T18:20:03Z | https://www.middletownpress.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17322808.php | false |
Police: Gunman kills 3 at Iowa state park; shooter also dead
MAQUOKETA, Iowa (AP) — Three people were killed in a shooting at a state park in eastern Iowa Friday morning and the suspected gunman is also dead, police said.
Police responded to reports of the shooting at the the Maquoketa Caves State Park Campground before 6:30 a.m., Mike Krapfl, special agent in charge of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, said in a statement.
Krapfl said officers responding to reports of shooting found three people dead at the scene, but he did not specify how they died and has not released their identities.
He said officers searching the campground later found the body of a Nebraska man who had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities identified him as 23-year-old Anthony Sherwin.
The campground was evacuated in the wake of the shooting. A children’s summer camp on site called Camp Shalom said in a Facebook post that parents had been notified and that it had established a pick-up site for campers.
Camp Shalom officials said they have accounted for all campers.
Krapfl said the park remains closed but that there is no longer a threat to the public. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/07/22/police-gunman-kills-3-at-iowa-state-park-shooter-also-dead/ | 2022-07-22T18:21:13Z | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/07/22/police-gunman-kills-3-at-iowa-state-park-shooter-also-dead/ | false |
9th Annual Youth for Justice Summer Academy Begins in San Rafael
Published: Jul. 22, 2022 at 11:55 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
YFJ SUMMER ACADEMY 2022 ACADEMIA DE VERANO JOVENES POR LA JUSTICIA
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcohol Justice & Youth for Justice are pleased to announce the 9th annual Youth for Justice Summer Academy will begin Monday July 25th at the Canal Neighborhood headquarters of Alcohol Justice.
This two week summer camp provides unique opportunities for in-depth conversations with young people about life, leadership, and being agents of change guided by the Youth for Justice "Four Pillar Philosophy" of, Health and Healing, Nature Connection, Culture and History of Latino/Indigenous Peoples, and Community Organizing to Prevent Alcohol and Other Drug Harm.
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(The Hill) – Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is being mocked across social media after a video of him running away from the mob storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was released on Thursday by the House committee investigating the insurrection.
The committee displayed a well-known picture of Hawley raising a fist of solidarity to those gathered to protest the transition of power between former President Trump and current President Biden as he arrived at the Capitol that day, then the display switched to video of Hawley fleeing the U.S. Capitol as protesters gathered in the halls.
Twitter users have mocked the senator with edited versions of the video overtop of various soundtracks, including songs from popular movies “Chariots of Fire” and “Rocky” and other hits such as “Born to Run” by Bruce Springsteen.
Other accounts posted memes including a picture of a running chicken captioned “I’m going to tell my grandchildren this was Josh Hawley” or joked that “Y’all better run to the polls like Josh Hawley ran from the insurrection.”
“The Missouri Dems should host an annual Josh Hawley 5K as a fundraiser,” one user suggested, while Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois), a member of the Jan. 6 committee, called Hawley “Fistpump McRunpants.”
Thursday’s hearing uncovered evidence that Trump dismissed pleas from his aides and Republican allies to stop the violent riots on Jan. 6.
Another said: “From now on, if political reporters ask Josh Hawley if he’s planning to run, he’s going to have to ask them to clarify.”
Various lawmakers were discussed, including Hawley and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who called on Trump at the time to stop the insurrection.
Some weighed into the Hawley video on a more serious note, criticizing the senator using the contrast between his solidarity in the photo and his fear in the video.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) posted both, captioning the photo of Hawley raising his fist “Sowing” and a shot of the running video “Reaping.”
The Hill has reached out to Hawley’s office for comment on the discussion.
Friday morning, Hawley tweeted out a link to purchase a mug emblazoned with the now-infamous photo of him raising a fist to protesters on Jan. 6, 2021.
Hawley was a leader in efforts to challenge the 2020 presidential election results and had pledged to object during the Jan. 6 electoral college certification. He defended his raised fist a few months after the insurrection, saying he didn’t regret the gesture because the protesters he passed at the time were peaceful.
His campaign began selling the mugs in February.
Julia Mueller contributed to this report. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/sen-hawley-criticized-over-new-jan-6-video/ | 2022-07-22T18:26:05Z | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/sen-hawley-criticized-over-new-jan-6-video/ | false |
NEW YORK (AP) — Decades after the release of Michael Mann’s “Heat,” the classic crime thriller has endured in the minds of fans, critics, peers and the director himself.
He had so much left to say.
“There’s always the sense of being shortchanged,” Mann said during a Zoom interview from his apartment in Modena, Italy, where he is currently working on “Ferrari,” starring Adam Driver as the race car driver-auto magnate. “I love doing the research and building these characters out very, very completely, and rooting the actor into a whole life. … The movie is a splinter, it’s just a very narrow slice of a complete life.”
Mann has finally rounded out the story from his 1995 movie. He has brought back the lethal, calculating criminal Neil McCauley, played by Robert De Niro; the swaggering detective Vincent Hanna, played by Al Pacino; and such supporting characters as Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer), Michael Cheritto (Tom Sizemore) and Nate (Jon Voight).
He does hope to make another “Heat” movie, but he has chosen to introduce his new narrative through words only, the novel “Heat 2.”
Written with the award-winning crime novelist Meg Gardiner and scheduled to come out Aug. 9, the 480-page “Heat 2” is a sequel and prequel, looking back to the late 1980s and ahead to the 21st century, expanding the world of McCauley and Hanna and Shiherlis among others, adding new characters and moving the action everywhere from Los Angeles to Paraguay and Asia.
Mann had never attempted a novel before and finally tried in part for a similar reason he takes on a given film: To see if he can. In some ways, he approached the book as if planning a movie production. He began with a basic story — he likes to know in advance how the plot turns out — and built the narrative outward, over time and space. For his novel, he speaks of creating “momentum that is almost cinematic,” a symphony driving to a closing clash.
“Heat 2” permitted him to explore and digress in ways he wouldn’t attempt on screen. He makes a point of knowing everyone’s inner and outer lives. McCauley, for instance, he sees as a longtime outsider, institutionalized in his early teens. He sees him as “very intelligent,” with a “really strong ego and very little self esteem.” An ideal criminal.
“He goes to violence, immediately, zero to 60,” Mann explains.
“Heat,” among the most celebrated movies never to receive an Oscar nomination, has a base of obsessive admirers. After a special screening in June at the Tribeca Film Festival, audience members shouted lines from the movie during a panel discussion with Pacino and De Niro. Mann say fans often come up to him and quote from the famous coffee shop conversation between McCauley and Hanna, the first time Pacino and De Niro had ever shared screen time (They had previously appeared in separate time periods in “The Godfather, Part II”).
“Heat 2” is a departure for Mann, and from novels in recent years by other filmmakers, among them Werner Herzog, Brian De Palma and David Cronenberg. While Herzog’s “The Twilight World” and De Palma’s “Are Snakes Necessary?” are original stories, Mann is doing a kind of reversal, taking characters created for the screen and adapting them to the page. Instead of finding it a distraction to think of Pacino when he’s describing Hanna, he welcomes the merger of actor and character.
“They’re fused. It’s a fusion. They’re one and the same,” he says. “Vincent Hanna is Al Pacino and Al Pacino is Vincent Hanna. Neil McCauley in 1988 is Bobby (De Niro) seven years younger. … Since I made the movie and sought Al Pacino and De Niro and Val Kilmer, you bet that’s who these people are.”
Gardiner joined Mann at the suggestion of their mutual literary agent, Shane Salerno. Known for her Evan Delaney novels, she is a “Heat” fan and a partisan for Mann’s film in the many discussions she has had with fellow writers over whether “Goodfellas,” “The Godfather” or “Heat” is their favorite crime movie. For “Heat 2,” she helped Mann with the book’s structure and otherwise proved a sounding board and close collaborator, the two eventually writing alternating chapters. Their time together — she lives in Austin, Texas, he is based in Los Angeles — in some ways mirrored the belated face-off between Pacino and De Niro, who despite being co-stars only meet midway in the 170 minute picture.
“We began working together in the depths of Covid,” she says. “We didn’t get a chance to meet for a year. It was all long phone calls, and long emails back and forth.”
Mann, 79, has been working in film and television since the 1970s, whether writing episodes for “Starsky and Hutch,” serving as executive producer of the show “Miami Vice” or directing “The Insider,” “Manhunter” and “Public Enemies.” He is a Chicago native who says his take on the world — “a certain kind of cynical worldview, I guess” — was shaped by his experiences as the son of grocers in the inner city. Citing “The French Connection” and its director, William Friedkin, as favorites, he jokes that filmmakers like himself and Friedkin who grew up in Chicago itself end up making crime stories, while those from the suburbs (such as the late John Hughes) prefer comedies.
“Heat 2” is the first of three planned novels (one of which may be related to “Heat”), and an ambitious literary beginning for a man who had never attempted a work of fiction before. He majored in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with thoughts of becoming a teacher, but decided that would be “really immensely boring.” Asked to cite literary influences, he mentions John le Carre, but otherwise says he doesn’t read crime fiction. Instead, he looks to “primary sources,” the various killers, crooks, law enforcers and government agents he has met and befriended and whose stories he adapted for “Heat,” “Thief” and other films.
Critics and fellow directors have praised him for his complex narratives and gifts for pacing and atmosphere: Christopher Nolan has cited “Heat” as inspiration for his acclaimed Batman movie “The Dark Knight.” But some of Mann’s favorite feedback has come from those “primary sources.” He smiles when asked what some of the real-life models for his characters have said upon seeing his films.
“I’ve been offered alternative careers,” he says. | https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/heat-ing-up-michael-mann-writes-sequel-prequel-heat-2/ | 2022-07-22T18:26:42Z | https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/heat-ing-up-michael-mann-writes-sequel-prequel-heat-2/ | true |
Complaint against group for threatening woman
MANGALURU July 22, 2022 23:37 ISTThe Kadaba Police on Friday registered a case against a group of people that is said to have threatened a Muslim woman after finding a Hindu woman friend in her house in Koila village on July 12.
In the complaint, 22-year-old Samsheena said that the elder sister of her friend Kavya was pregnant and she had expressed the desire to eat biryani. Samsheena offered to prepare biryani in her house. On July 12, the group of people followed an autorickshaw that was carrying Kavya to Samsheena’s house who came to collect biryani at around noon.
The group came to Samsheena’s house and abused her. The group issued a death threat to Samsheena for what it said sheltering Kavya.
The Kadaba Police registered a case for offences punishable under Sections 143, 147, 504 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code.
Sudarshan Gellodi, K. Prashant Kolya, Tamma Kalkadi, K. Prasad Kolya and others have been named as accused in the complaint. | https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/complaint-against-group-for-threatening-woman/article65672522.ece/amp/ | 2022-07-22T18:30:01Z | https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/complaint-against-group-for-threatening-woman/article65672522.ece/amp/ | false |
Which robot vacuums are best for hardwood floors?
One of the most tedious tasks for any person is maintaining and cleaning the floors where they live. While vacuuming is a step up from sweeping, robot vacuums help reduce the responsibility and workload even further. However, robot vacuums may not be as effective on all surfaces. For shoppers with hardwood floors, the right robot vacuum may be different from users with fully carpeted homes.
There are plenty of high-quality robot vacuums on the market today, so knowing the specific needs and settings of your home can help you make a more informed decision.
Robot vacuum features
Mapping technology
One of the most important features on any robot vacuum is how well it can map out and navigate the rooms it cleans. Newer models have better mapping technology, with thousands of data points being processed every second and memory storage to learn spaces better over time. Lower-end models usually have enough sensors to avoid walls and keep from falling off edges.
Battery life
Another major factor for robot vacuums is battery life. Robot vacuums operate without a cord, so for larger spaces, the longer the battery lasts, the less time it takes to clean the entire room. Battery life for robot vacuums ranges anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours, depending on the model and brand.
Dustbin capacity
Most robot vacuums have a much smaller dustbin capacity than a traditional vacuum. How much a robot vacuum can hold at one time makes a significant difference. The larger the bin, the less often it needs to be emptied and the longer it can run without interruption. Some robot vacuums have self emptying technology built in, which is useful for more hands-off users.
Type of dust or litter specialty
Some robot vacuums specialize in different types of dust. There are devices built specifically to handle pet hair the best, while others work better on dirt and sand. Knowing what type of dust and debris accumulates the most in your home can help make your decision much easier.
Mopping features
Outside of just vacuuming, many robot vacuums have an additional mopping feature. This is particularly helpful for hardwood floors where occasional mopping is needed to keep them truly clean. Robot vacuums with mopping features can easily transition between mopping and regular vacuuming based on the needs assigned by the user and tend to have a comparable cost to more traditional robot vacuums.
What’s the best robot vacuum to buy for hardwood floors?
Top robot vacuum for hardwood floors
iRobot Roomba s9+ Robot Vacuum with Automatic Dirt Disposal
What you need to know: The absolute best robot vacuum on the market, with a design focused on sucking up dust from the corners.
What you’ll love: This robot vacuum has an automatic dirt disposal home base that can hold dust for up to 60 days before needing to be emptied.
What you should consider: This robot vacuum is significantly more expensive than other models on the market at well over $1,000, which may be out of the price range for many shoppers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Bed Bath & Beyond
Top robot vacuum for hardwood floors for the money
Wyze Robot Vacuum with LIDAR Mapping Technology
What you need to know: An affordable robot vacuum that still comes equipped with top-level mapping technology and is designed specifically for hard surfaces.
What you’ll love: The Wyze robot vacuum comes with a connected app for smartphones that controls the device and can schedule cleaning for specific rooms and areas on specific days.
What you should consider: The suction on the device is not nearly as powerful as higher-quality, more expensive robot vacuums.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: A top-of-the-line robot vacuum built specifically to handle flat surfaces and hardwood floors. Perfect for multi-storied houses, as it has programmed multi-level mapping technology.
What you’ll love: Equipped with mopping features to deep-clean any surface that it covers. It’s surprisingly quiet considering the power of its suction.
What you should consider: Some users report issues with the main brush malfunctioning and needing to be replaced.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Shark IQ Robot Self-Empty XL RV101AE
What you need to know: A high-quality robot vacuum with a self-emptying dustbin that doesn’t need to be emptied for up to 30 days.
What you’ll love: Designed with self-cleaning brushes to prevent the buildup of hair or dust that would lower the quality of the suction. Also has built-in phone and voice command for easy control, no matter where it is in the room.
What you should consider: This robot vacuum has an extremely loud motor that can disturb users if they’re working or watching something in the same room.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
ECOVACS Deebot T8 AIVI Robot Vacuum Cleaner
What you need to know: A solid robot vacuum designed specifically for hardwoods and flat surfaces. Also has a built-in camera so the user can see exactly where the vacuum is cleaning.
What you’ll love: Equipped with some of the best battery life on the market at 3 hours, making it perfect for extremely large spaces that require full cleaning.
What you should consider: The mapping technology is well behind the curve, with the device failing to maintain solid virtual borders or avoiding items in its path.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
What you need to know: An affordable and sturdy option from the iRobot brand that still boasts top-of-the-line suction.
What you’ll love: The device senses where dirt is on the floor and actively seeks it out to suck it up.
What you should consider: Doesn’t have the same level of mapping technology as other models, and may go over the same areas multiple times.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Bed Bath & Beyond
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LONDON (AP) — The ATP is teaming up with You Can Play, a group working to increase LGBTQ inclusion in sports, after 75% of players who participated in a survey by the men’s tennis tour said they had heard other players use homophobic slurs.
The tour announced Friday that it is launching a multiyear education partnership with You Can Play, which has worked with the NHL, MLS and NASCAR.
The ATP’s anonymous, online survey was distributed to hundreds of players last year; 65 responded. Some also agreed to be interviewed.
The ATP said its findings “indicated a strong fear of rejection, isolation from others on tour, and loneliness as being likely barriers to LGBTQ+ players publicly disclosing their sexuality to others.”
There are no openly gay athletes in men’s tennis currently.
The tour said a majority of participants “were supportive of ATP taking action to combat homophobia.”
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia man charged with trying to kill his sister, who recently awakened from a two-year coma and identified him as her attacker, has died, authorities said Friday.
Daniel J. Palmer III of Cottageville was pronounced dead Thursday at a Charleston hospital, a day after he was taken there following an evaluation by jail medical staff, the state Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Division of Corrections, said in a news release.
The statement didn't indicate a cause of death and a spokeswoman for Department of Health and Human Resources, which oversees the state medical examiner's office, said state law only allows the agency to release autopsy information to relatives and law enforcement.
Palmer, 55, was uncooperative while in custody and during booking procedures at the South Central Regional Jail, where he was taken July 15 after being charged with the attempted murder and malicious wounding of his sister, the statement said.
His death likely brings a close to a highly unusual case in which the investigation was stalled for two years by a lack of evidence.
His sister, Wanda Palmer, was in a coma in a nursing home for two years. She was found unconscious with serious head injuries at her home in Jackson County on June 10, 2020.
Daniel Palmer had been identified as a suspect, but up until the time she emerged from the coma, investigators did not have enough evidence to file charges, court documents said.
“Due to a previous violent history between Wanda Palmer and her brother Daniel Palmer, investigators initially considered Daniel a suspect in the assault," according to a criminal complaint filed in Jackson County Magistrate Court.
Investigators interviewed Daniel, who denied involvement in the attack, saying he had not been to his sister's home in days. Later, a witness told investigators he saw Daniel in the front doorway at Wanda Palmer's trailer on the night she was assaulted.
On June 27, a deputy received a call from a protective services worker who said she had started to speak single words and seemed to respond when questioned.
In a July 12 interview with a deputy, Wanda Palmer said the person who injured her was her brother and she identified him as Daniel, the complaint said.
When asked during the interview the reason behind the assault, “Wanda stated that he was mean,” according to the complaint.
Daniel Palmer had been held on a $500,000 bond. He was so combative when he was arrested that it took hours to get him to cooperate with authorities for an arraignment, which required a magistrate to leave a courthouse and come to the Jackson County sheriff’s office, WCHS-TV reported.
Jackson County Sheriff Ross Mellinger was out of his office and unavailable for comment Friday. | https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/nation-world/west-virginia-man-charged-after-sister-awakens-from-coma-dies-in-police-custody/507-61fbeadd-d126-402f-81fd-3f5d38ae09f0 | 2022-07-22T18:34:46Z | https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/nation-world/west-virginia-man-charged-after-sister-awakens-from-coma-dies-in-police-custody/507-61fbeadd-d126-402f-81fd-3f5d38ae09f0 | false |
WFO NORMAN Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 22, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Norman OK
101 PM CDT Fri Jul 22 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of northern Texas, including the following
county, Knox.
* WHEN...Until 400 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 101 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 2 and 3 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Munday and Rhineland.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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DUBLIN, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Road Safety Market Share, Size, Trends, Industry Analysis Report, By Solution, By Services, By Region, Segment Forecast, 2022 - 2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
The global road safety market size is expected to reach USD 8.14 billion by 2030. The report gives a detailed insight into current market dynamics and provides analysis on future market growth.
An upsurge in the number of accidents and fatalities, the efforts by governments to strengthen security, and the emergence of new security initiatives by the national and international government agencies are driving the growth of the safety industry. In addition, several countries are heavily investing in road security to reduce fatalities and serious injuries. For instance, the Government of Australia has directly invested USD 2 Bn towards highway safety. On the other hand, new safety product developments are expected to create lucrative growth opportunities for the industry.
The incident detection and response solution segment is anticipated to witness the highest growth rate over the forecast period. This is attributed to the need for continuous monitoring of the traffic conditions and detecting traffic queues or incidents. The rising number of road networks around the globe are being equipped with a variety of CCTV cameras and detectors to ensure automated continuous monitoring.
Furthermore, the new incident detection and response solution product developments are projected to create lucrative growth opportunities for the industry during the forecast period. For instance, in March 2021, Hikvision, an IoT solution provider, introduced the All-Rounder ITS camera, the latest traffic product mainly designed for improving safety and optimizing traffic flow.
Asia Pacific is anticipated to witness the highest growth in the global market due to an upsurge in the number of vehicles, an increasing number of accidents, and various government initiatives associated with road safety. In addition, the region is seeing developments in infrastructure development coupled with the emerging trend of smart traffic and transportation.
Market participants such as Conduent, Connected Wise LLC, Clearview Intelligence, Cubic Corp, Dahua Technology, IDEMIA, JENOPTIK, Verra Mobility, FRED Engineering, Kapsch TrafficCom, Kodiak Robotics, Laser Technology, Motorola Solutions, LiveRoad Analytics, Sensys Gatso Group, Siemens, SWARCO, Vebit AI, Traffic Management, and VITRONIC are some of the key players operating in the global market.
Players in the global market are adopting several strategies to expand their geographical presence, develop new applicant tracking systems, and generate novel revenue streams. For instance, in October 2021, Abu Dhabi Police collaborated with the IDEMIA. Under this collaboration, Abu Dhabi Police is projected to implement novel and cutting-edge technology solutions to future proof the road system in the UAE.
Key Topics Covered:
1. Introduction
2. Executive Summary
3. Research Methodology
4. Global Road Safety Market Insights
4.1. Road Safety Market - Industry Snapshot
4.2. Road Safety Market Dynamics
4.2.1. Drivers and Opportunities
4.2.1.1. Rising number of Vehicles
4.2.1.2. Adoption of automated vehicles for safety
4.2.2. Restraints and Challenges
4.2.2.1. Cybersecurity and threats in road safety data
4.3. Porter's Five Forces Analysis
4.3.1. Bargaining Power of Suppliers (Moderate)
4.3.2. Threats of New Entrants: (Low)
4.3.3. Bargaining Power of Buyers (Moderate)
4.3.4. Threat of Substitute (Moderate)
4.3.5. Rivalry among existing firms (High)
4.4. PESTLE Analysis
4.5. Road Safety Industry trends
4.6. Value Chain Analysis
4.7. COVID-19 Impact Analysis
5. Global Road Safety Market, by Solution
5.1. Key Findings
5.2. Introduction
5.2.1. Global Road Safety, by Solution, 2018 - 2030 (USD Billion)
5.3. Enforcement Solution
5.3.1. Global Road Safety Market, by Enforcement Solution, by Region, 2018 - 2030 (USD Billion)
5.4. Automatic License Plate Recognition/Automatic Number Plate Recognition
5.4.1. Global Road Safety Market, by Automatic License Plate Recognition/Automatic Number Plate Recognition, by Region, 2018 - 2030 (USD Billion)
5.5. Incident Detection and Response
5.5.1. Global Road Safety Market, by Incident Detection and Response, by Region, 2018 - 2030 (USD Billion)
5.6. Others
5.6.1. Global Road Safety Market, by Others, by Region, 2018 - 2030 (USD Billion)
6. Global Road Safety Market, by Services
6.1. Key Findings
6.2. Introduction
6.2.1. Global Road Safety Market, by Services, 2018 - 2030 (USD Billion)
6.3. Professional Service
6.3.1. Global Road Safety Market, by Professional Service, by Region, 2018 - 2030 (USD Billion)
6.4. Managed Services
6.4.1. Global Road Safety Market, by Managed Services, by Region, 2018 - 2030 (USD Billion)
7. Global Road Safety Market, by Geography
8. Competitive Landscape
8.1. Expansion and Acquisition Analysis
8.1.1. Expansion
8.1.2. Acquisitions
8.2. Partnerships/Collaborations/Agreements/Exhibitions
9. Company Profiles
9.1. Clearview Intelligence
9.1.1. Company Overview
9.1.2. Financial Performance
9.1.3. Product Benchmarking
9.1.4. Recent Development
9.2. Conduent
9.2.1. Company Overview
9.2.2. Financial Performance
9.2.3. Product Benchmarking
9.2.4. Recent Development
9.3. Connected Wise LLC
9.3.1. Company Overview
9.3.2. Financial Performance
9.3.3. Product Benchmarking
9.3.4. Recent Development
9.4. Cubic Corp
9.4.1. Company Overview
9.4.2. Financial Performance
9.4.3. Product Benchmarking
9.4.4. Recent Development
9.5. Dahua Technology
9.5.1. Company Overview
9.5.2. Financial Performance
9.5.3. Product Benchmarking
9.5.4. Recent Development
9.6. FRED Engineering.
9.6.1. Company Overview
9.6.2. Financial Performance
9.6.3. Product Benchmarking
9.6.4. Recent Development
9.7. IDEMIA
9.7.1. Company Overview
9.7.2. Financial Performance
9.7.3. Product Benchmarking
9.7.4. Recent Development
9.8. JENOPTIK
9.8.1. Company Overview
9.8.2. Financial Performance
9.8.3. Product Benchmarking
9.8.4. Recent Development
9.9. Kapsch TrafficCom
9.9.1. Company Overview
9.9.2. Financial Performance
9.9.3. Product Benchmarking
9.9.4. Recent Development
9.10. Kodiak Robotics
9.10.1. Company Overview
9.10.2. Financial Performance
9.10.3. Product Benchmarking
9.10.4. Recent Development
9.11. Laser Technology.
9.11.1. Company Overview
9.11.2. Financial Performance
9.11.3. Product Benchmarking
9.11.4. Recent Development
9.12. LiveRoad Analytics
9.12.1. Company Overview
9.12.2. Financial Performance
9.12.3. Product Benchmarking
9.12.4. Recent Development
9.13. Motorola Solutions.
9.13.1. Company Overview
9.13.2. Financial Performance
9.13.3. Product Benchmarking
9.13.4. Recent Development
9.14. Sensys Gatso Group
9.14.1. Company Overview
9.14.2. Financial Performance
9.14.3. Product Benchmarking
9.14.4. Recent Development
9.15. Siemens
9.15.1. Company Overview
9.15.2. Financial Performance
9.15.3. Product Benchmarking
9.15.4. Recent Development
9.16. SWARCO
9.16.1. Company Overview
9.16.2. Financial Performance
9.16.3. Product Benchmarking
9.16.4. Recent Development
9.17. Traffic Management
9.17.1. Company Overview
9.17.2. Financial Performance
9.17.3. Product Benchmarking
9.17.4. Recent Development
9.18. Vebit AI
9.18.1. Company Overview
9.18.2. Financial Performance
9.18.3. Product Benchmarking
9.18.4. Recent Development
9.19. Vebit AI
9.19.1. Company Overview
9.19.2. Financial Performance
9.19.3. Product Benchmarking
9.19.4. Recent Development
9.20. VITRONIC
9.20.1. Company Overview
9.20.2. Financial Performance
9.20.3. Product Benchmarking
9.20.4. Recent Development
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25 years of normal for Norfolk comedy duo the Nimmo Twins
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Its time to celebrate 25 years of The Nimmo Twins riffing on local headlines, ribbing local councillors and riling the unfortunates of Suffolk, writes Rowan Mantell
The Nimmo Twins celebrate their 25th anniversary this month.
Sometimes it’s hard to believe they weren’t invented right at the beginning of Norfolk, along with the Happisburgh hand axe, uncompromisingly awkward pronunciations like Wymondham and Happisburgh again, and deep pity for anyone from Ipswich, London or anywhere else in the sad land of Not-Norfolk south of Thetford and west of Welney.
You don’t have to know Norfolk to find the Nimmo Twins hilarious, but it helps. There are characters named for villages – plummy, posh Beeston Regis, academic Prof Newton Flotman; whole hilarious sketches and songs are stories told in a stream of Norfolk place names; and the 25th anniversary show is Holt? Who Goes There?
Well, I’ll be going.
I adore the Nimmos.
The twins, who are neither twins nor called Nimmo, are Karl Minns and Owen Evans. Karl is the writer, Owen an actor and both are brilliant comic performers.
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I’ve often wondered why, despite some forays into national fame, the Nimmos remain little-known outside their beloved Norfolk.
Karl has also written for some of our funniest nationally-known comedians and for radio and television sketch shows but the sheer brilliance of his Nimmo scripts, and the combination of cerebral and physical theatre that results from the collision of whip-sharp lines and the tic-ridden, grimacing, gurning duo, is wittier, funnier, cleverer, better than almost anything else I’ve seen.
Holt? Who Goes There? is the Nimmo’s first new show for six years. Of course it is unlikely, and frankly would be totally unacceptable, if it really is completely new.
While the Nimmos are reliably uproarious enough for “here’s something from our new album” to be a joy, their devoted audiences always, always want the old favourites too, the riffing on local newspaper headlines, the ribbing of local councillors, the riling of unfortunates from Suffolk.
The humour is both hyper-local and universal, one moment breathlessly funny the next almost unbearably sad.
For they don’t shy away from tragedy – whether it is the tragi-comedy of Norwich City as a Premier League club or the proper tragedy of the dispossessed young men of rural Norfolk.
Karl himself has written and starred in a one-man show exposing the tragedies of his own childhood, and the mental-health legacy he has carried into adulthood. And even as he was telling that sad tale, he couldn’t help making us laugh too.
This new show promises more of the their rollercoaster of the ridiculous and the sublime.
I’m not naturally a sweary person, but they are living proof that swearing is both funny and clever.
In fact pretty much everything they do is both funny and clever. After 25 years they can get a laugh just by shambling on to stage as councillors Vern Gurney and Ken Steggles or, most rapturously, Karl in blonde wig and tart-tight clothes as She-Go. But those laughs have been won by years of burnishing songs and sketches for weeks of high-energy performances.
I can’t remember whether She-Go ever had a normal first name. Instead she is named for her conversational style, the breathless recounting of who-said-what-to-who. “She-go... he-go... she-go...”
Over the years we’ve seen her mature from stroppy Costessey schoolgirl (oh how I loved the Nimmo’s song Costessey Possey) to teen mum of Destiny Aguilera, to a bit of a feminist icon.
I can’t wait for the next instalment of her story – and, hopefully, a reprise of the wonderful Newmarket Road Blues (Norfolk magazine even gets a mention!)
The Nimmo Twins: Holt? Who Goes There? is at Norwich Playhouse from August 3 to 21 and at Norwich Theatre Royal on August 23. | https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/things-to-do/nimmo-twins-norwich-playhouse-theatre-royal-9158540 | 2022-07-22T18:37:55Z | https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/things-to-do/nimmo-twins-norwich-playhouse-theatre-royal-9158540 | true |
WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 22, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
106 PM CDT Fri Jul 22 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Sabine
Parish in northwestern Louisiana and central Sabine Counties through
145 PM CDT...
At 105 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles east of Milam, or 19 miles north of Toledo Bend Dam, moving
west at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Milam, Hemphill, Columbus and Negreet.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
If on or near middle Toledo Bend reservoir, get out of the water and
move indoors or inside a vehicle. Remember, lightning can strike out
to 10 miles from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder,
you are close enough to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter
now! Do not be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.
LAT...LON 3151 9354 3130 9363 3134 9385 3152 9386
3161 9373
TIME...MOT...LOC 1805Z 108DEG 6KT 3144 9366
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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CTrain crime crackdown: Drugs seized, overdoses prevented, charges laid
CTrain crime crackdown: Drugs seized, overdoses prevented, charges laid
A four-day police and transit blitz tackling criminal activity and public disorder at CTrain stations across Calgary resulted in drug seizures, the issuing of hundreds of tickets and prevented four overdoses.
The operation, which included Calgary Police Service members and Calgary Transit officers, targeted criminal activity along both LRT lines, in all quadrants of the city.
According to CPS officials, the initiative resulted in:
- 327 warrants being executed;
- 216 summonses being served;
- 86 criminal charges being laid;
- Four overdosed being prevented;
- Three missing persons being found;
- The recovery of two stolen bikes; and,
- The seizure of crack cocaine, fentanyl; methamphetamine, gabapentin, psilocybin and ketamine.
The estimated street value of the illicit drugs is $30,000.
"Everyone deserves the right to feel safe while accessing public transit in our city," said CPS Insp. Scott Todd. "Through our efforts, we charged numerous individuals, issued several hundred tickets and were able to take a significant amount of drugs off our streets."
Anyone who witnesses criminal activity along the CTrain lines is encouraged to contact the CPS non-emergency line at 403-266-1234.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police said Friday they placed a couple under house arrest, a day after a man attending a party at their villa died after being sucked into a sinkhole that formed at the bottom of their swimming pool.
The man and woman, both in their sixties, are suspected of causing death by negligence, police said. They were arrested on Thursday night and a court decided to release them Friday under “restrictive conditions of house arrest” for five days.
The incident happened during a private party the couple hosted at their house in the town of Karmi Yosef, 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of the city of Tel Aviv.
Mobile phone video from the scene shows floaties and water being sucked to the bottom, at the center of the pool, as people sitting by the poolside shout in Hebrew. A man is seen approaching the sinkhole, slips and is almost pulled in before he backs away.
The police said the deceased 30-year-old was found following a search mission in which Israeli police, emergency crews and the army took part.
Israeli media cited witnesses as saying the party was attended by nearly 50 people, of whom six were in the pool, and also reported that the homeowner had built the pool without proper licensing. | https://www.wane.com/news/weird/israeli-couple-arrested-after-man-dies-in-pool-sinkhole/ | 2022-07-22T18:50:28Z | https://www.wane.com/news/weird/israeli-couple-arrested-after-man-dies-in-pool-sinkhole/ | false |
Which Nulo cat food is best?
It’s no secret that what you eat impacts your health and well-being, and the same is true for your pet cats’ diets. If you’re looking for quality fare to nourish your feline friend, Nulo cat food is an excellent choice.
With wet, dry and freeze-dried versions in various flavors, there’s an option for every cat. Nulo Adult and Kitten Canned Pate Wet Cat Food is the top choice for anyone looking for wet food.
What to know before you buy Nulo cat food
Cat food types
Nulo makes three types of cat food:
- Wet: Wet food is palatable to most cats and has a high moisture content, which helps maintain kidney health in cats that don’t drink much water. However, it can spoil if cats like to eat slowly over several hours.
- Dry: Dry food doesn’t spoil at room temperature, so it’s great for free-feeding. Plus, it’s an affordable option. Unfortunately, some cats don’t like it.
- Freeze-dried raw: The protein-packed food is excellent for anyone who’s ever thought about feeding raw but is put off by the mess. The downside is its high price.
Life stage
Your feline friend must get the right nutrients. Consider the best cat food for the age of your cat.
- Kittens and cats: Most Nulo food suits both kittens and adult cats. This means it has all the nutrients that growing kittens need, but it makes the food relatively calorie-dense, which isn’t great for cats who tend to gain weight.
- Adult cats: You can find some Nulo cat food that’s made for adult cats only. This indoor cat formula is lower in calories and fat than its kitten food. It’s great for cats that aren’t exceptionally active or struggle to keep weight off.
- Senior cats: There’s also a senior cat formula. It has plenty of protein to maintain muscle mass, which can reduce as animals age, but isn’t too calorie-dense to help avoid weight gain as older cats slow down.
What to look for in quality Nulo cat food
Complete and balanced
Make sure the food you choose is complete and balanced if it’s the only thing you intend to feed your cat. This means it contains the correct balance of nutrients that cats need to stay healthy. Nulo also makes some food toppers and mixers, designed to be mixed with a complete and balanced dry food, not fed on their own.
Grain-free
Cats are carnivores and don’t need grains in their diets. Nulo foods are grain-free and also do without other filler ingredients.
Flavor
With a range of flavors, you’re sure to find one your cat loves, whether that’s a fishy flavor such as salmon or mackerel or poultry flavors such as chicken or turkey.
How much you can expect to spend on Nulo cat food
Dry cat food from Nulo costs $2.50-$5, depending on package size, while wet food costs around $2-$4 per pouch or can. Freeze-dried raw is the most expensive option, at over $25 for 8 ounces, but it lasts longer than you might expect.
Nulo cat food FAQ
Is Nulo a good brand?
A. Nulo is a high-quality pet food brand. Its foods are low in carbohydrates and high in protein, with most of this protein coming from meat. It’s free from fillers, such as corn, wheat, soy and white potatoes, which some pet food brands rely on to bulk food. It’s fortified with vitamins and minerals and contains a probiotic formula for digestive health.
On balance, it’s safe to say this is good cat food. However, not all cats thrive on all foods, regardless of the ingredient quality. So, if you switch to Nulo and your cat doesn’t like it, is losing condition, vomiting or seems lethargic, try a different formula or a different brand.
Is Nulo pet food made in the United States?
A. Yes, Nulo is based in Austin, Texas, with manufacturing facilities in Kansas, Nebraska and North Dakota. All its facilities are approved by the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Association of American Feed Control Officials.
What’s the best Nulo cat food to buy?
Top Nulo cat food
Nulo Adult and Kitten Canned Grain-Free Wet Cat Food
What you need to know: Thanks to its high protein content, this wet food is excellent for maintaining muscle mass and lean weight.
What you’ll love: It’s highly palatable to most cats, with a pate consistency and a range of flavors, including salmon, mackerel, turkey and chicken. It comes in either 5.5- or 12.5-ounce cans.
What you should consider: Some find the consistency slightly too dry — but you can mix in water if so.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Top Nulo cat food for the money
Nulo Adult and Kitten Dry Cat Food
What you need to know: This dry food is an economical way to feed your cat without sacrificing ingredient quality.
What you’ll love: You can choose from three formulas: chicken and cod, turkey and duck and indoor cat. The pieces are small, which is great for kittens, but many adult cats also prefer them this way.
What you should consider: The indoor cat formula is only suited to adult cats, so bear this in mind if buying for a kitten.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
Worth checking out
Nulo Freestyle Freeze-Dried Raw Cat Food
What you need to know: Made from uncooked ingredients that have been processed and freeze-dried, this food is a less messy way of feeding a raw diet.
What you’ll love: It’s a complete and balanced food with all the added nutrients needed for cat health. You can feed it dry or soak it in water to give it a consistency closer to wet food. There’s a choice of chicken and salmon or turkey and duck recipes.
What you should consider: It’s prohibitively expensive for some buyers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Chewy
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Part of man’s hand cut off with a sword at a 7-Eleven, officials say
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow/Gray News) – Part of a man’s hand was cut off with a sword at a 7-Eleven in Hawaii, according to officials.
Honolulu Emergency Medical Services said a man in his 40s was attacked with a sword and sustained multiple wounds. Paramedics treated and took him to the hospital with serious injuries, KHNL reported.
A witness said there was an altercation between a 7-Eleven employee and another man inside the store.
He said the incident escalated, ending with the employee allegedly cutting part of the man’s hand off outside of the store with a sword.
“The victim started to shout and to cry, and then I look at him on the floor and I saw that half his hand was on the floor. The guy ran to the side of the door, and he fell there on the floor,” said Michael Suissa, a witness who was visiting from Switzerland.
According to Suissa, the man with the sword ran to a hotel nearby, where police said they later arrested a 46-year-old man.
Honolulu police initially responded to the scene for a report of an assault, but it was quickly reclassified as attempted murder.
While police have not confirmed the suspect is a 7-Eleven employee, Suissa said the man with the sword had served him before and was quite pleasant.
“He served me twice for the last two days. He was very nice. He was very kind. ... I was shocked that someone like that does something so horrible,” Suissa said.
A security guard said the men involved have had encounters in the past and was worried it was eventually going to get physical.
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The Special One witnesses a special moment - Jose Mourinho awkwardly watches on as a Roma fan suddenly PROPOSE to his girlfriend in front of the Portuguese manager... who is for once at a loss for words
- Jose Mourinho is left speechless after a fan chose to propose to his partner
- The 59-year-old awkwardly watched on for the couple's life-changing moment
- The Portuguese manager then joined staff in rapturous applause for the couple
- Mourinho has signed Paulo Dybala and is interested in Georginio Wijnaldum
Jose Mourinho found himself in the middle of one of the biggest events in one Roma fan's life, but not in the way he might have expected.
The Portuguese manager was found lost for words after a starstruck fan chose the moment he met "The Special One" to propose to his partner while Mourinho awkwardly watched on.
The fan and his girlfriend had the opportunity to meet Mourinho at Roma's pre-season camp in Albufeira, Portugal.
Jose Mourinho was left awkwardly watching on as a Roma fan proposed to his girlfriend
Having met "The Special One", one Roma fan found the courage to pop the question
The 59-year-old posed for several photos with the couple, before trying to walk off, but was prevented from doing so by the fan, who attempted to position the Roma manager for his big moment.
For a manager who has seen - and done - almost everything in the professional game, Mourinho found himself completely out of his depth as he then watched on as the man proposed.
Having watched on with an almost painfully awkward smile on his face, Mourinho then joined the club's staff in applauding the couple on an evening that all three of those involved will likely never forget.
The fans were given the opportunity to meet Mourinho at Roma's Portuguese pre-season camp
The woman was left visibly on a day made more memorable for Mourinho's presence
After initially looking far from pleased, Mourinho quickly realised what was afoot and played his part in good spirit.
The video was later posted by Roma on their social media channels, with the caption 'Meeting Jose Mourinho really gave this fan the courage to go for it all!'
Aside from witnessing awkward proposals in Portugal, Mourinho has been busy this summer, as his Roma side look to build a squad capable of challenging the established title contenders in Serie A.
Mourinho was left with a painfully awkward expression and was visibly surprised at the gesture
The legendary boss joined his staff members in applauding the newly-engaged couple
Mourinho has already caught the limelight after showing off his new tattoo
Having already persuaded former Juventus forward Paulo Dybala to sign after a personal phone call amid heavy interest from Inter, Mourinho has added Zeki Celik, Nemanja Matic and Mile Svilar to his ranks.
And he is already trying to bring in another midfielder, in the form of Champions League-winning former Liverpool star Georginio Wijnaldum from PSG.
The Portuguese manager is currently understood to be working on a deal that will include an obligation for the Europa Conference League winners to buy the Dutch international for a fee worth up to £13million.
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U.S. Capitol riot probe slams Trump inaction, urges accountability
Committee chairman Bennie Thompson said Mr. Trump ‘recklessly blazed a path of lawlessness and corruption’ as he sought to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. election
The House committee probing the assault on the U.S. Capitol laid out a searing, prime-time indictment on Thursday of Donald Trump's refusal to halt or condemn the violence and insisted he should be held accountable for a gross dereliction of presidential duty.
Committee chairman Bennie Thompson, speaking at the televised finale of a series of public hearings, said Mr. Trump "recklessly blazed a path of lawlessness and corruption" as he sought to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. election.
The Mississippi congressman, addressing the committee virtually because he has Covid-19, said there must be "accountability" for what he called an attack on democracy.
During a two-and-a-half-hour hearing, lawmakers presented testimony from White House aides who said that Mr. Trump watched the Capitol attack unfold on television and ignored their repeated pleas to tell his supporters to leave.
"From the comfort of his dining room he watched on TV as the attack escalated," said Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the panel.
"He sent tweets that inflamed," Kinzinger said. "For three hours he refused to call off the attack."
"Donald Trump's conduct on January 6 was a supreme violation of his oath of office and a complete dereliction of his duty to our nation," Kinzinger said. "It is a stain on our history."
Mr. Thompson said that the former U.S. president "did everything in his power to overturn an election - he lied, he bullied, he betrayed his oath.
"He tried to destroy our democratic institutions," he said. "There needs to be accountability. Accountability under the law, accountability to the American people... all the way up to the Oval Office."
With Mr. Trump mulling another White House run in 2024, Republican vice chair Liz Cheney said "Every American must consider this: 'Can a president who is willing to make the choices Donald Trump made during the violence of January 6 ever be trusted with any position of authority in our great nation again?'"
Lawmakers provided a minute-by-minute account of Mr. Trump's actions between the time he gave a fiery speech to his supporters near the White House claiming the November 2020 election was stolen and extending until the moment when he finally told the rioters they were "very special" but should go home.
Outtakes were played from a message taped by Mr. Trump the next day, in which he refused to stick with a written script on a teleprompter. "I don't want to say the election's over," he said, rejecting that phrase from the script.
Two former White House officials - deputy White House press secretary Sarah Matthews and Matthew Pottinger, who served on the National Security Council - testified about their decision to resign on January 6.
Ms. Matthews said it was "one of the darkest days in our nation's history" and "President Trump was treating it as a celebratory occasion."
"His refusal to act and call off the mob that day and his refusal to condemn the violence was indefensible," she said.
Pottinger said a tweet sent by Donald Trump attacking vice president Mike Pence for refusing Trump's demand that he block congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden's victory was "like fuel being poured on the fire."
"That was the moment that I decided that I was going to resign," he said.
Thursday's prime-time hearing was the eighth and final one in this series. Committee members said there would be further hearings in September.
Previous committee hearings focused on Mr. Trump's attempt to sway election officials in swing states that Biden narrowly won and put pressure on Pence.
The committee also examined the impact of a tweet Mr. Trump sent in December urging his supporters to descend on Washington on January 6.
Members of right-wing militia groups the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers and other Trump supporters saw the tweet from the president as a "call to arms," lawmakers said.
More than 850 people have been arrested in connection with the attack on Congress, which left at least five people dead and 140 police officers injured.
The 76-year-old Trump was impeached for a historic second time by the House after the Capitol riot but was acquitted by the Senate, where only a handful of Republicans voted to convict him.
The House committee is to submit a report to Congress this fall with its findings.
The committee may issue criminal referrals to the Justice Department, leaving it up to Attorney General Merrick Garland to decide whether Trump or others should be prosecuted for the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Mr. Garland said July 20 that the January 6 probe is the "most important" investigation the Justice Department has ever conducted and stressed that "no one is above the law in this country."
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Kannada films bag four awards at the 68th National Film Awards
The awards were announced in New Delhi on Friday
Kannada films have won four awards at the 68th National Film Awards for films of 2021 announced in New Delhi on Friday.
Late actor Sanchari Vijay’s last film Taledanda, won the Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation. Filmmaker Praveen Krupakar dedicated the award to Sanchari Vijay, who plays a mentally-challenged person trying to save trees in the film. “Sanchari Vijay has acted so well in the film, I was hoping he would again be posthumously adjudged the best actor and was not expecting an award for the film as such. But I dedicate this award to Sanchari Vijay,” he said.
Auteur filmmaker Girish Kasaravalli’s documentary on renowned Hindustani vocalist Pt. Venkatesh Kumar Naada Navaneeta: Pt. Venkatesh Kumar has been adjudged the Best Arts and Culture Film. The documentary has been produced by the Department of Information and Public Relations, Karnataka.
Mr. Kasaravalli, speaking to The Hindu, expressed happiness at the film being recognised by the national film awards. This is the 16th national film award for him. Pt. Venkatesh Kumar also expressed happiness at the film bagging the award and said that his students enjoyed it. “I did not know that documentaries also bag awards. But it feels nice that the jury has liked the film,” he said.
Meanwhile, Sagar Puranik’s debut feature film of 2021 Dollu has won the Best Kannada Film award, apart from bagging an award for Best Audiography in Feature Films. “I am very happy that my first feature film has bagged a national award. The film examines the effects of globalisation and urbanisation on folk art forms like Dollu Kunita. My first short film Mahan Hutatma had also won a special jury award at the national film awards earlier,” he said.
Jeetige (Deevatige-traditional torch), directed by Santhosh Mada, with Naveen D. Padil as the lead actor won the award for Best Tulu Film. The film was based on COVID-19 pandemic wherein a Daivaradhane Paathri (spirit worshiper) eagerly awaits the return of his son working on a ship that was stranded somewhere due to the pandemic. The movie depicts the ordeal of the common man during the pandemic.
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Police investigate unexplained death of teenager in Inverness
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A teenager has died after becoming unwell at a property in Inverness.
Bailey Matheson Munro, 17, was pronounced dead after emergency services were called to MacLennan Crescent at 07:55 on Thursday.
Police Scotland said the death was unexplained, but it was not being treated as suspicious. A post mortem examination will take place.
Det Con Gary Hines said: "Our thoughts remain with Bailey's family at this very difficult time."
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Feds: Houston's illegal dumpsites may violate civil rights
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department said Friday it is investigating illegal dumping in the city of Houston - including dead bodies - that officials said are left in Black and Latino neighborhoods in the nation's fourth largest city.
The investigation will be led by the department's civil rights division and will examine whether city police and other departments discriminate against Black and Latino residents in violation of federal civil rights laws. Besides bodies, items dumped in majority Black or Latino neighborhoods include appliances, furniture, tires, medical waste and vandalized ATM machines, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said at a news conference Friday.
"Illegal dumping is a longstanding environmental justice issue, and like many other environmental justice issues, it often disproportionately burdens Black and Latino communities,'' said Clarke, who heads the department's civil rights division.
The investigation is the first publicly announced environmental justice action since Attorney General Merrick Garland created an office of environmental justice within the agency in May. The new office is focused on "fenceline communities" in Houston, New Orleans, Chicago and other cities that have been exposed to air and water pollution from chemical plants, refineries and other industrial sites.
Illegal dumpsites not only attract rodents, mosquitos and other vermin that pose health risks, but they can also contaminate surface water and make neighborhoods more susceptible to flooding, Clarke said. They also can lower property values, harm quality of life and even reduce expected lifespans, Clarke and other officials said.
"No one in the United States should be exposed to risk of illness and other serious harm because of ineffective solid waste management or inadequate enforcement programs,'' she said.
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The Houston investigation will focus on Trinity/Houston Gardens, a predominantly Black and Latino neighborhood in northeastern Houston. Residents frequently complain about illegal dumping there, Clarke said.
Mary Benton, a spokeswoman for Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, said Friday she was "not aware of" dead bodies being dumped anywhere in Houston. The city doubled its maximum fine for illegal dumping violations last year, she said.
The federal inquiry follows a complaint by Lone Star Legal Aid, a nonprofit advocacy group that helps low-income residents in Texas and Arkansas on a range of legal issues, including landlord-tenant disputes, foreclosures, disaster recovery and environmental justice.
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LAKE OSWEGO, Ore., July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BIOTRONIK, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a civil settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, to resolve historical claims of alleged overuse of paid consultants to train field personnel and limited instances of excessive customer meals and travel. The Company denies all allegations on behalf of itself and its highly regarded physician partners, and the parties have agreed that the settlement is not an admission of liability.
The Justice Department and Inspector General acknowledged that the Company strengthened the compliance around its field personnel training program, added new compliance measures related to the provision of meals and travel provided to healthcare providers, imposed new restrictions, and improved training and oversight to identify and prevent meal and travel policy violations. Under the terms of the settlement, the Company will pay the United States and certain states $12.95 million USD to avoid the time and expense of further proceedings.
"The Company is pleased to put this investigation behind us so we can continue in our mission to deliver innovative solutions that save and improve patient lives every day," said BIOTRONIK Inc.'s President, Ryan Walters. "Our guiding principle, 'Excellence for Life,' is reflected in everything we do, including continuous enhancements to our culture of compliance. Acting responsibly with our customer and physician partners is paramount."
Since taking leadership of BIOTRONIK, Inc. in 2019, Mr. Walters has continued to improve the Company's internal compliance organization to ensure it keeps pace with the growth of the business.
"We are excited and proud of our proactive approach to compliance at BIOTRONIK. Our compliance program provides impactful guidance to our business operations and the implementation of cutting-edge internal controls, resulting in consistently thoughtful business practices," said VP of Compliance, Jason Spinazzola, J.D., M.P.H.
BIOTRONIK is a leading medical device company that has been developing trusted and innovative cardiovascular and endovascular solutions for more than 50 years. Driven by a purpose to perfectly match technology with the human body, BIOTRONIK innovations deliver care that saves and improves the lives of millions diagnosed with heart and blood vessel diseases every year. BIOTRONIK is headquartered in Berlin, Germany, and represented in over 100 countries.
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After tapping into the horrors lurking beneath the surface of American life in Get Out and Us, writer-director Peele ventures into alien sci-fi territory with his new thriller, Nope.
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England v South Africa: Liam Livingstone hits Anrich Nortje for three consecutive sixes
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SAN DIEGO, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Quick Custom Intelligence ("QCI") announced the signing of their 75th casino resort. QCI's continued success in signups and successful deliveries is a testament to their dedication in building a scalable product that the industry really needs. With customers from the Las Vegas strip, Southern California, the Heartland and all across North America and the world, QCI is the clear market leader.
Jeannie Caruso, CEO of Gaming & Leisure said, "Signing 75 resort casinos is a major milestone for any gaming company, but doing this in just over two years is remarkable. What has also impressed me is that the rate of fully successful deployments is about one casino resort per week. I attribute this rapid growth in part to the experience of the team and their deep knowledge of the industry. This experience has enabled QCI to stay on target delivering what the industry really needs."
CEO of QCI, Dr. Ralph Thomas stated "We are excited to announce the signing of our 75th casino resort in North America. The ability for our team to quickly deploy our on-premises, hybrid or cloud-based technology with no disruption to the casino's operation allowed QCI to complete 5 installations in the past 30 days. We will be announcing more deployments in the coming months, including a very large tribal gaming operator in Oklahoma."
Gaming & Leisure (G&L) is an organization dedicated to the betterment and unification of the gaming and hospitality industry. G&L provides influential insights, best practices and brings together thought leading operators to connect, collaborate and ultimately optimize how they manage their companies. Over two decades later, the G&L Roundtable has evolved into a highly coveted private, peer-to-peer forum for gaming and hospitality CXOs humbly having hosted the most gaming CIOs in one private forum in North America. Visit www.mygamingandleisure.com.
The QCI Platform aligns player development, marketing and gaming with powerful real-time operational tools developed for the gaming and hospitality industries. QCI has installed their ground-breaking, highly configured software in over 55 casino resorts in North America and over 3,000 sites worldwide. QCI products provide tooling for gaming operators managing over $20 billion in annual gross gaming revenue, these products are built on the QCI Platform, a best-in-class on-premises, hybrid or cloud-based technology that enables fully coordinated activities across gaming or hospitality operations. This data-driven software allows for quick, informed decisions in the ever-changing world of the casino industry and assists casinos in their efforts to optimize resources and profits, manage marketing campaigns and increase customer loyalty. QCI was founded by Dr. Ralph Thomas and Mr. Andrew Cardno. Based in San Diego, QCI also has offices in Las Vegas, St. Louis, Dallas & Phoenix.
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