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ODESSA, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) – Basin PBS brings non-profits and families together to get children ready for a new school year.
Basin PBS is bringing Back-to-School Festival, Saturday, August 6 at Midland College Chap Center from 1pm to 4pm. Basin PBS is bringing this event indoors at Midland College Chap Center to host over 40 local non-profit organizations who serve families and children. Organizations will be set up and offering information about their services and giving away goodies while supplies last. All this at no charge to families.
The event will also include live entertainment with The Jukebox Juicebox exclusively sponsored by Colgate Energy, balloon artist, face painting, Midland Storytellers Festival, and more. We’ll have a visit from a PBS KIDS favorite, The Cat in the Hat! Plus, again this year, the first 400 kids to arrive will receive a FREE backpack from ATMOS Energy – the perfect accessory for back to school. We’ll also host an immunization clinic for ages 3+ at no charge to most, thanks in part to the Midland Health Department.
“We are so proud to partner with the Midland Health Department to provide an immunization clinic for the community at this event,” said Crockett Tidwell, clinical services manager, and vaccine specialist for United Supermarkets. “This clinic is the perfect opportunity for parents to make sure their kids are ready for the new school year. We hope to see a lot of the community taking advantage of all the great things that will be going on.”
Laura Wolf, Basin PBS CEO said, “We are grateful for all those organizations who’ve answered the call for our Permian Basin families and agreed to join forces for this back-to-school event. Each of them brings a unique and necessary service for families of West Texas.”
See the list of local organizations participating:
Basin PBS, Midland Dentistry 4 Kids & Smile Straight Orthodontics, ATMOS Energy, United Family
Markets/Midland Health, Colgate Energy, Complex Community Federal Credit Union, Kent
Companies, Maximus, Bronson Chadwick, Harlin the Magician, CEF of Midland, Sibley Nature Center,
Senior Life Midland Foster Grandparent Program, UTPB First 5, West Texas Opportunities, Big
Brothers Big Sisters, Midland Festival Ballet, FirstCare Health Plans of Baylor Scott & White,
Workforce Solutions Permian Basin, Midland YMCA, Texas Tech Psychiatry, Midland County Public
Libraries, Rays of Hope Children’s Grief Center, Midland Rape Crisis & Children’s Advocacy Center,
Permian Basin Moms of Multiples, Permian Basin Regional Planning Commission, I-20 Wildlife
Preserve, Museum of the Southwest: Durham Children’s Museum, Buckner Children and Families,
Permian Basin Master Gardeners – Youth Education, Hispanic Cultural Center of Midland, SHARE,
Midland Community Theatre, Casa de Amigos, Midland Storytelling Festival, Communities in Schools
of the Permian Basin, Petroleum Museum, Bikers Against Child Abuse, We Rock the Spectrum Gym,
Kaleidoscope Ministries, West Texas Food Bank, Boys and Girls Club, Rope Youth.
The event is sponsored by:
ATMOS Energy, Colgate Energy, United Supermarket, Midland Dentistry 4 Kids, SmileStraight
Orthodontics, Complex Community Federal Credit Union with grant support from Abell-Hangar
Foundation. In partnership with Midland College. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/basin-pbs-announces-its-2022-back-to-school-festival/ | 2022-07-22T21:34:34Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/basin-pbs-announces-its-2022-back-to-school-festival/ | true |
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Three weeks into GFL Environmental’s contract in Fort Wayne, the overwhelming majority of residents have been able to enjoy regular trash and recycling services as they’re scheduled.
On GFL’s very first day of service, WANE 15 reported GFL got to 99% of its scheduled pickups. That day alone there were 95 reports of missed garbage and 24 missed recycling collections submitted to 311.
Through noon on Friday, 311 had only received 127 total calls or 31.75 per day regarding trash and 20 total calls or 5 per day pertaining to recycling.
There are a few things so consider. Those numbers don’t reflect how many calls were duplicates from the same household. Nor do they show how many calls were about late or improper set outs.
Still, when you consider GFL has 83,400 households per week to get to for trash and recycling is at 41,700 per week, since recycling is collected every other week, that means there were no issues to report for 99.8% of the 120,100 scheduled pickups this week.
Matt Gratz, the Solid Waste Director for the City of Fort Wayne, had the following to say about GFL’s performance so far:
“The City of Fort Wayne continues to be pleased with GFL’s performance. As GFL finishes its third full week with us, they’re meeting the needs of our residents and neighborhoods. We also recognize that GFL’s leadership team and staff are working hard each day to familiarize themselves with the routes and our community. We know that takes time. We value and appreciate their commitment to customer service and open communication.”
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- ‘Better days ahead’: What Fort Wayne residents can expect from new trash hauler | https://www.wane.com/top-stories/numbers-show-gfl-is-performing-as-it-should/ | 2022-07-22T21:35:11Z | https://www.wane.com/top-stories/numbers-show-gfl-is-performing-as-it-should/ | false |
Slump for tech chops off chunk of Wall Street’s winning week
New York — Stocks slipped Friday, giving back some of their gains from earlier in the week as worries brewed about the global economy and prospects for profits at big internet companies.
The S&P 500 lost 0.9% to break a three-day rally that had carried Wall Street to its highest level in six weeks. The Nasdaq composite led the market lower with a 1.9% drop following worse-than-expected profit reports from Snap, Seagate Technology and other tech-oriented companies.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average held up better, slipping a more modest 0.4%. That was in large part because constituent American Express gave an encouraging earnings report and said its cardholders were spending more.
Sandwiched between last week’s dispiriting report on inflation and next week’s decision by the Federal Reserve on interest rates, the S&P 500 still delivered its best week in a month following a collection of mostly better-than-expected reports on corporate profits. Falling yields in the bond market also helped, easing the pressure on stocks after expectations for rate hikes by the Fed sent yields soaring much of this year.
On Friday the two-year Treasury yield tumbled again, to 2.98% from 3.09% late Thursday and from 3.14% a week ago, on worries about the economy. A report Friday morning indicated U.S. business activity may be shrinking for the first time in nearly two years, with service industries particularly weak.
“Manufacturing has stalled and the service sector’s rebound from the pandemic has gone into reverse, as the tailwind of pent-up demand has been overcome by the rising cost of living, higher interest rates and growing gloom about the economic outlook,” Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence said in a statement accompanying the survey data.
Similar reports earlier in the morning also suggested weakness in Europe, underscoring how fragile the global economy is as central banks jack up interest rates in order to whip inflation. Higher rates make economic conditions more difficult, and too-aggressive hikes could cause a recession.
Friday's reports are the latest to show parts of the economy are slowing more than expected. While that raises the threat of a recession, it also has traders ratcheting back expectations for the Federal Reserve's aggressiveness next week. Instead of a full percentage point, traders now see an increase in rates of 0.75 percentage point as the most likely outcome.
The 10-year Treasury yield fell to 2.76% from 2.91% late Thursday.
In the stock market, the company behind the Snapchat app tumbled 39.1% after it reported a worse loss and lower revenue for the spring than Wall Street forecast.
The weakness for Snap could mean pressure on other companies that depend on internet advertising, which also happen to be among Wall Street's most influential stocks. The parent companies of both Facebook and Google are scheduled to report their earnings next week. The pair fell 7.6% and 5.6% respectively on Friday, accounting for two of the heaviest weights on the S&P 500.
The S&P 500 lost 37.32 points to close at 3,961.63. The Dow fell 137.61 to 31,899.29, and the Nasdaq fell 225.50 to 11,834.11.
Adding to the pain for tech, data storage company Seagate Technology lost 8.1%. It said anti-COVID measures in Asia and slowing global economic conditions last quarter hit its results, which fell short of forecasts.
Verizon dropped 6.7% after its profit fell short of expectations, though its revenue squeaked past. It also cut its forecast for earnings this year.
On the winning side was American Express, which rose 1.9% after it delivered better profit for the spring than analysts expected. It said customers spent more on travel and entertainment in April than they did before the pandemic, the first time that’s happened.
The encouraging data bolstered some recent comments from CEOs at big banks, who said their customers appear to be in solid financial shape despite all the worries about inflation and the economy.
Despite Friday's drops for Wall Street, the S&P 500 still rose 2.5% for the week.
Besides the easing of Treasury yields through the week, dropping prices for crude oil and other commodities also provided some relief on the inflation front. They add to some signals suggesting inflation may be close to peaking, such as easing expectations for inflation in future years, said Nate Thooft, senior portfolio manager at Manulife Investment Management.
“Inflation is the most important thing,” he said. “It’s not earnings, it’s not the Fed, it’s not interest rates themselves. It’s the uncertainty of inflation.”
“To me, as soon as you see real evidence that inflation is stabilizing and improving, all the other things also become less problematic," he said. The war in "Ukraine is separate and off in the corner, but all the others are related, and the epicenter is inflation."
AP Business Writer Elaine Kurtenbach contributed. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2022/07/22/financial-markets-wall-street-stocks-friday-close-tdn/10125814002/ | 2022-07-22T21:36:19Z | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2022/07/22/financial-markets-wall-street-stocks-friday-close-tdn/10125814002/ | true |
The Volkswagen Group has made the surprise announcement that its chairman Herbert Diess is resigning, to be replaced on 1 September by Porsche CEO Oliver Blume.
Diess is leaving "by mutual agreement", Volkswagen said in an official statement. No specific reason was given for his departure.
Hans Dieter Pötsch, Chairman of the Supervisory Board praised Diess for his role in “advancing the transformation of the company”. The outgoing chairman “not only steered the company through extremely turbulent waters, but he also implemented a fundamentally new strategy.” Potsch said in a statement.
Blume will continue as Porsche CEO after assuming Diess's responsibilities, with VW Group chief financial officer Arno Arlitz moving into the role of chief operating officer to support him with "day-to-day operations".
Diess took over as chairman of the VW Group in 2018 from Matthias Mueller with the brief to transform the company after the lows of the 2015 dieselgate scandal.
His early pivot to EV with the development of the MEB electric platform proved far-sighted as Tesla sales expanded fast and tough CO2 legislation in both Europe and China shortened the remaining runway for combustion engine vehicles.
However, Diess has clashed with powerful German unions as questions about how the company would replace jobs in the electric era created unease in the workforce. In November the VW works council reportedly issued a vote in no confidence in Diess as anger over the direction of the company mounted. He narrowly survived in his role.
Some commentators wondered if Diess might have taken the fall for the company’s missteps in the software rollout for both the MEB models and new combustion engine cars. The Volkswagen ID 3 electric car was launched without some software features, although VW earlier this year issued a big update to the MEB-based range’s infotainment system.
What strategic changes Porsche’s Blume will make is unclear at this stage. Blume backed electric in the brand’s recent capital markets day presentation, in which he discussed upcoming electric versions of the Porsche Macan, Porsche Cayenne and Porsche Boxster. He also announced a new SUV based on the forthcoming Scalable Systems Platform (SSP) electric platform. Porsche also backing e-fuels to power future versions of its 911 flagship car.
Blume joined the Volkswagen Group in 1994 and has since held management positions at Audi, Seat, Volkswagen and Porsche. He has been Porsche chairman since 2015 and a member of the Group Board of Management since 2018. | https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/business-finance-and-corporate/breaking-volkswagen-group-boss-herbert-diess-steps-down-0 | 2022-07-22T21:38:50Z | https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/business-finance-and-corporate/breaking-volkswagen-group-boss-herbert-diess-steps-down-0 | true |
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Gripped by gun violence that’s affecting cities across the nation, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, on Thursday issued a new emergency declaration with the goal of reducing gun killings by at least 10% over the next two years.
The initiative directs $2.4 million to community groups and prevention efforts.
“Emergency declarations can get results the status quo cannot,” Wheeler said during a briefing at City Hall. “We will not stop until the gun violence stops.”
The number of shootings in Oregon’s biggest city soared above 670 in the first half of 2022 – ahead of the pace for the same period last year.
Guns have been fueling a surge of deadly violence in Portland in a trend that’s been playing out across the U.S. Firearm homicide rates nationwide jumped 35% between 2019 and 2020, the highest rate in more than 25 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In the face of growing violence, many cities are now trying to navigate how to maintain public safety while also addressing the calls to reform and “defund” the police sparked by George Floyd’s murder, as racial justice activists seek to have police budgets reallocated to other social services.
Portland, which was roiled by near-nightly Black Lives Matter protests for months in 2020, cut the city’s police budget by $15 million that year. But in November it reversed course, funneling $5.2 million back to the police department as homicides skyrocketed.
At the briefing, Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell announced that 16 new police officers were sworn in on Thursday in what he described as the “largest new hire event we’ve had in a very, very long time.” The officers are part of the 300 additional police bureau staff the city aims to hire over the next three years.
But despite the recent recruits and funding bumps, Lovell said personnel shortages are hampering his department’s ability to fight crime.
“It’s one of our high priorities to bring the staffing level at the bureau back up,” said Lovell. “We are working as hard as we can to solve these cases.”
Signaling a shift away from the city’s recent cuts to its police budget in 2020, Wheeler said he plans on increasing the department’s funds. “As long as this crisis exists, there will be funding,” Wheeler said.
The initiative aims to enhance and centralize cooperation between law enforcement and community groups with the goal of increasing outreach to individuals at risk of being involved in gun violence.
Wheeler’s emergency declaration came in response to a report released by the Portland Police Bureau and the California Partnership for Safe Communities, a nonprofit that advises cities on reducing gun violence. The report found that last year Portland had a homicide rate of 13.5 per 100,000 people, roughly double the nationwide rate.
The number of homicides in Portland surpassed more populous cities like San Francisco and Boston. The Oregon city had twice as many slayings compared to its larger Pacific Northwest neighbor Seattle.
Portland reported a record 89 homicides last year, a 65% increase compared to 2020, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The vast majority of those homicides involved a firearm.
Shootings in Portland disproportionately affect communities of color. Black people make up just 6% of the city’s population, but account for nearly 39% of homicide victims.
Communities across the U.S. are grappling with the spike in shootings, with many still reeling from a string of killings that targeted a Fourth of July parade in a Chicago suburb, Black shoppers at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and children at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
Congress last month to pass its most significant gun violence bill in 30 years. The legislation will enhance background checks for gun buyers under 21 years of age, toughen laws preventing domestic violence offenders from obtaining firearms, and provide billions in funding for mental health and crisis intervention programs in communities and schools.
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Claire Rush is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow her on Twitter. | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/amid-spike-in-shootings-portland-unveils-new-initiative/ | 2022-07-22T21:40:51Z | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/amid-spike-in-shootings-portland-unveils-new-initiative/ | true |
Two children in U.S. diagnosed with monkeypox, officials say
NEW YORK (AP) — Two children have been diagnosed with monkeypox in the U.S., health officials said Friday.
One is a toddler in California and the other an infant who is not a U.S. resident, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The children were described as being in good health and receiving treatment. How they caught the disease is being investigated, but officials think it was through household transmission. Other details weren’t immediately disclosed.
Monkeypox is endemic in parts of Africa, but this year more than 15,000 cases have been reported in countries that historically don’t see the disease. In the U.S. and Europe, the vast majority of infections have happened in men who have sex with men, though health officials have stressed that anyone can catch the virus.
In Europe, there have been at least six monkeypox cases among kids 17 years old and younger.
This week, doctors in the Netherlands published a report of a boy who was seen at an Amsterdam hospital with about 20 red-brown bumps scattered across his body. It was monkeypox, and doctors said they could not determine how he got it.
In Africa, monkeypox infections in children have been more common, and doctors have noted higher proportions of severe cases and deaths in young children.
One reason may be that many older adults were vaccinated against smallpox as kids, likely giving them some protection against monkeypox, said Dr. James Lawler, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Smallpox vaccinations were discontinued when the disease was eradicated about 40 years ago. So, children since then have not been vaccinated against smallpox and wouldn’t have any such protection against the related monkeypox virus, Lawler said.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California punched back Friday against two recent landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions as Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a controversial, first-in-the-nation gun control law patterned after a Texas anti-abortion law and urged other states to follow suit.
He acted one month after conservative justices overturned the constitutional right to abortion and undermined gun control laws in states including California.
Newsom stitched the two hot-button topics together in approving a law allowing people to sue anyone who distributes illegal assault weapons, parts that can be used to build weapons, guns without serial numbers, or .50-caliber rifles.
“We’re sick and tired of being on the defense in this movement,” he said.
“It’s time to put them on the defense. You cannot sell, you cannot manufacture, you cannot transfer these illegal weapons of war and mass destruction in the state of California. And if you do, there are 40 million people that can collect $10,000 from you, and attorney fees, for engaging in that illegal activity.”
Lawmakers patterned the bill, at Newsom’s request, after a Texas law allowing citizens to sue anyone who provides or assists in providing an abortion. The U.S. Supreme Court gave preliminary approval to the Texas law, but California’s law will automatically be invalidated if the Texas law is eventually ruled unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court’s support for the Texas law was “a terrible decision,” Newsom said. However, “if they’re going to use this framework to put women’s lives at risk, we’re going to use it to save people’s lives here in the state of California.”
Newsom also placed $30,000 worth of full-page advertisements in three Texas newspapers Friday criticizing what he said is Gov. Greg Abbott’s hypocrisy on gun safety. The ads parrot a comment by Abbott about children’s right to life but substitute “gun violence” where he said “abortion.”
“Governor Newsom should focus on all the jobs and businesses that are leaving California and coming to Texas,” Abbott spokeswoman Renae Eze responded.
It’s a similar tactic to the television ad that Newsom, a Democrat running for reelection, recently aired in Florida targeting Gov. Ron DeSantis. Newsom again denied presidential aspirations Friday even while stoking that speculation.
“I can’t take what’s happening in this country,” Newsom said in explaining the ads. “Can’t take the assault on liberty and freedom, can’t take the rhetoric, can’t take the … bullying, the zest for demonization of these governors, not just Abbott, DeSantis, but many of these other governors.”
An unusual combination of gun owner advocates and the American Civil Liberties Union have criticized Newsom for creating what they said amounts to a bounty system to encourage such lawsuits. The ACLU called California’s law “an attack on the constitution” for deliberately trying to sidestep judicial review by empowering enforcement by citizens and not governments, and for undermining due process rights.
“It’s all about these two big issues that are facing us. And you can’t have a double standard. You can’t have one standard for guns and another standard for women’s reproductive health. It’s not right,” Democratic state Sen. Robert Hertzberg, who carried the bill, said in an interview.
Gun control advocacy organizations Moms Demand Action and affiliated Students Demand Action backed the bill’s potential to combat untraceable “ghost guns.”
Newsom signed the bill at Santa Monica College, where five victims were killed in 2013 by a gunman using such a gun.
The new law “will make it easier for victims of ghost gun violence like myself to help enforce our laws,” said Mia Tretta, who was shot in Santa Clarita during a 2019 attack at Saugus High School. She is now an incoming senior and a volunteer with Students Demand Action.
Newsom grew emotional as Tretta introduced him. He later said he couldn’t help but recall her optimism as he visited her in the hospital after an attack that he said personalized the danger for him as the father of a pre-teen daughter himself.
Aside from the merits of the bill, opponents say it is written to discourage any legal challenges to California’s myriad gun regulations by requiring plaintiffs or lawyers to pay attorneys’ fees if they lose the lawsuit.
That portion of the law “is intended to make it impossible to file a Second Amendment challenge to an unconstitutional gun control law. That is itself unconstitutional,” said Chuck Michel, president of the California Rifle and Pistol Association.
Newsom acted a day after he signed eight other gun laws among numerous measures adding to California’s already strict regulations.
They encourage the safe storage of firearms and limit gun making including with a 3D printer.
Others bar gun sales on state property, boost inspections of gun dealers, limit dealer fees, and add child and elder abuse to the list of crimes that block gun ownership.
The governor recently signed another bill patterned after a New York law that empowers anyone who suffered harm to sue gun makers or dealers who fail to follow precautions under a “firearm industry standard of conduct.”
He further criticized the high court and conservative Republicans in a video message after he signed two earlier gun bills into law, one also addressing ghost guns and the other barring marketing firearms to minors.
California and New York also are scrambling to update their laws regulating the concealed carrying of firearms after the nation’s high court ruled that Americans have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called lawmakers there back into a special session to approve changes that take effect Sept. 1, including requiring gun owners to allow an examination of their social media accounts. California legislators expect to act in August on concealed carry restrictions.
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Associated Press Writer Paul Weber contributed to this story from Austin, Texas. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/new-california-gun-control-law-mimics-texas-abortion-measure/ | 2022-07-22T21:42:07Z | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/new-california-gun-control-law-mimics-texas-abortion-measure/ | true |
When Denver Red Hot Chili Peppers cover band Chili Powder was asked to play at the Summer Brew Fest, the bandmates were hesitant. The gig is tomorrow from 1 to 4 p.m., giving the four friends just a few hours to break down and make their way to Empower Field, where the real Red Hot Chili Peppers will play tomorrow night.
“Any time the Chili Peppers come to town, it’s like a holiday,” explains Evan Merida, lead vocalist.
But they each had a thought: What if RHCP caught wind of their show and actually showed up? Whether the fantasy will become reality is TBD, but regardless, this is their favorite weekend of the year.
"The opportunity to be just three minutes' walking distance from where they will be playing and doing a show that same day is really the ultimate tribute experience," Merida says. "It's really an honor to do that. And of course, it goes without saying, we have a dream that perhaps [through] all of our efforts to get the word out, we'll somehow get through to the guys and we'll get the opportunity to meet them in person. Either their show or ours, whatever. That would just be amazing."
RHCP has indelibly impacted each of the Chili Powder players' lives. Bassist Will Roland says he wouldn't have picked up the instrument if it weren't for Flea. Merida and guitarist Ethan Goss have been covering RHCP songs in each other's respective basements since high school. And drummer Swede Grooms, who grew up in L.A. in the ’70s, has been seeing the band live since he was a teenager.
"What I really love about RHCP is how they evolve with every album, and they're gonna release supposedly another at the end of this year, so I look forward to that, as well," Grooms gushes. "I feel that the band has been one of the best groups at being able to pull together and synthesize all different genres of music. They have it all. Their innovation has definitely influenced a lot of other musicians, including people who do tribute bands like us — but a lot of mainstream music certainly comes from the influence of these guys."
Merida says Chili Powder's set list will include classic RHCP songs as well as newer ones.
"We're playing everything from 'Aeroplane' to even some of their covers, like 'Love Rollercoaster' and 'Higher Ground,' which is a Stevie Wonder cover," he says. "So that's just kind of fun to do a cover as a cover band. A whole variety of movement from just about every album."
And what would they do if even just one RHCP member came to the show? "Oh, fangirl, for sure," says Merida. "I'd definitely want to thank them."
"I was going to say thanking them, for sure — not that they don't hear it enough," adds Goss. "They've brought a lot to our lives, just in general, so much happiness and so much fun. And it gives me something to look forward to, just because of them, which is really awesome."
Chili Powder plays Summer Brew Fest, Mile High Station, 2027 West Colfax Avenue, 1-4 p.m. Saturday, July 23; tickets are $55. | https://www.westword.com/music/red-hot-chili-peppers-cover-band-hopes-to-meet-its-heroes-tomorrow-14596400 | 2022-07-22T21:42:10Z | https://www.westword.com/music/red-hot-chili-peppers-cover-band-hopes-to-meet-its-heroes-tomorrow-14596400 | false |
Man ‘ashamed’ after trying to kill someone with forklift, officials say
MOHAVE VALLEY, Ariz. (Arizona’s Family/Gray News) — A man is in critical condition after he was pinned underneath a forklift weighing thousands of pounds in Arizona.
Officials said he was found because the suspect who allegedly put him there brought deputies to the scene of the crime.
It happened Thursday night in Mohave Valley in western Arizona. According to the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office, deputies met with a man at a business shortly after 10 p.m. He reportedly looked distressed and then told deputies he had done something wrong and was ashamed of it.
He explained to deputies that he had lowered a forklift onto a man and that he wasn’t sure if he was dead.
They said he agreed to take deputies to the home, where they found a man pinned. Emergency crews pulled the machinery off of him, and he was flown to a Las Vegas hospital where he was listed in critical but stable condition Friday morning.
The suspect, identified as 36-year-old Erwin Colato of California City, California, told detectives he first attacked the man in a travel trailer inside the home’s garage. They said he admitted to dragging the man onto the garage floor and lowering the forklift on top of him.
He reportedly told detectives his plan was to kill the other man.
Colato was booked into jail where he’s facing one count of felony attempted homicide. The victim’s identity has not been released.
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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson can finally go watch the replay. The one of the race where she gave away her chance to be an Olympic champion.
She’s now a world champion, a more-than-satisfying reward after a year in which she trained with the goal of never making the same mistake again.
The 28-year-old executed the curve perfectly and ran the 200 meters in the second-fastest time ever, 21.45 seconds, to lead a Jamaican 1-2 finish on Thursday night at the world championships. She beat 100-meter champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce to the finish line by 0.36.
Jackson was among the medal favorites last year in Tokyo, but a miscalculation midway through her preliminary heat caused her to slow down. By the time she’d realized what happened, she couldn’t catch up. She finished fourth and didn’t get to run in the final.
It ate at her so much that she refused to watch a replay of the race. Only learn from it.
“Sometimes, disappointment is hard to come back from,” Jackson said. “I don’t want to have that. I want to win whenever I’m competing.”
For support, she’s leaned on Fraser-Pryce, the 35-year-old who shows no signs of slowing down. That was the case in Tokyo, when Jackson was reduced to tears and Fraser-Pryce was there to comfort her. That was the case again Thursday when they shared a far more pleasant emotion — elation.
“It’s something you can take for your own self when you see others bounce back from disappointment,” Fraser-Pryce said. “It’s really wonderful to see her have that run.”
Defending champion Dina Asher-Smith of Britain took bronze and prevented this from being a back-to-back sprint sweep for the Jamaicans, a la what the Americans did in the men’s 100 and 200. Elaine Thompson-Herah, who won the 200 in the Olympics and finished third here at worlds in the 100, finished seventh in this race.
“We were hoping for 1-2-3. We’ll celebrate 1-2,” Jackson said. “We came out here to do our best and our best was good enough. We delivered big two medals for the country. We are so grateful.”
Seconds after the win, sprint icon Usain Bolt tweeted “Brilliant” and punctuated it with two Jamaican flags — one each for Jackson and Fraser-Pryce.
This is how fast Jackson was: Her time was second only to one of the most hallowed marks on the books — the 21.34 by Florence Griffith-Joyner at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Jackson blew away the old world-championship record of 21.63 set by Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands in 2015.
Records, though, aren’t on the mind of Jackson.
“Great execution will bring fast times,” Jackson explained. “You don’t think about breaking a world record because when you go into a race with time in your head, and don’t meet those expectations, you end up disappointing yourself.”
Not this time. Not at Hayward Field.
Jackson not only adds this to her silver medal from Sunday night in the 100, but eases a painful memory from the Tokyo Games that’s long fueled her. She said she plans to finally watch that race and then another.
“The 200 tonight,” Jackson said.
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Dog leads rescuers to injured owner in Tahoe Forest after he fell down a 70-foot cliff
NEVADA COUNTY, Calif. (KCRA) – A dog is being credited for saving his owner, who fell down a 70-foot cliff while camping in Tahoe Forest in California on July 14.
The man called the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office for help after the fall, but rescuers were having trouble locating him. That is, until the man’s dog, named Saul, approached rescuers and led them right to his owner some 200 yards away.
The man told deputies he thought he had broken at least one rib and possibly his hip during the fall. He had actually fallen the night before, but he managed to crawl to an area where he had some cell service to call for help the following day.
Searchers pinged his last GPS location but were still having trouble finding the man until Saul came to the rescue.
“They saw Saul come down to them. They started following him. He went for somewhere between 150 and 200 yards and took them right to the victim, who was in a small shelter that was covered with camouflage tarp,” Sgt. Dennis Haack with the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue said.
Medical teams were able to assess the victim’s injuries, describing them as “traumatic.” Authorities said a helicopter was brought in to fly the man to a hospital.
“He was very lucky his dog directed our search personnel to him,” Haack said.
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“Seattle voters, get ready for mayhem” is way off the mark [July 20, Opinion]. Approval voting does little to cure today’s politics. Ranked-choice voting (RCV) is widely recognized as a step toward a balance of viewpoints.
If the electors of New York City, can accept RCV, I am sure the citizens of Seattle can too. Research at FairvoteWA.org.
David Malcolm, Kirkland | https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/elections-ranked-choice-voting-2/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-07-22T21:54:48Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/elections-ranked-choice-voting-2/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | true |
Malti is six months old, and no one is more excited than her proud parents, Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas.
The Quantico actress split the honor of her 40th birthday with her bundle of joy in a new Instagram post, where Malti is sporting a onesie that declares “6 months.”
“Just a girl and her birthday squad!” Priyanka wrote. “So grateful and thankful to be surrounded by so much love and to be able to spend time with my nearest and dearest. (Even though a lot of them flew in from very far).”
She continued, “The most incredible celebrations, planned and executed to perfection by my [love] @nickjonas. Words are not enough to thank you for the most memorable birthday… you really know how to love baby. I’m a lucky girl.”
“I’m so touched by all the birthday love I’ve received this year,” the actress added. “The lovely DMs, surprises, calls, texts, and big hugs made the day even brighter and made me feel truly special. Thank you everyone who reached out, it means the world. Here’s to the beginning of the rest of my life.”
While Priyanka shared a handful of photos from her own birthday celebrations in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, the standout snap is second in the carousel of photos, which shows Malti celebrating her six-month birthday.
Malti is wearing a little pink tutu and has a white headband with a bow on it as she is held in her mother’s arms. Meanwhile, Nick is holding up a small birthday cake along with the note, “Happy 6 months B-day MM.”
As previously reported, Nick and Priyanka spoke openly about Malti spending “100 plus days in the NICU” shortly after birth but didn’t explain what caused her health scare.
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VOL. 46 | NO. 29 | Friday, July 22, 2022
Jan. 6 probes: What's next for Congress, criminal cases
Updated 11:00AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — This isn't the end of the Capitol riot story.
The House committee investigating the deadly events of a fateful, chilly January day — now a year and a half in the past — has wrapped up its hot summer series of televised hearings, each featuring revelatory details about the day of violence itself or the weeks of efforts by President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn his 2020 election loss.
But the Jan. 6 committee is preparing for more hearings in September, and investigations persist in multiple jurisdictions and venues. New details will be unearthed. Additional criminal cases against the rioters who stormed the Capitol are a safe bet. Other prosecutions — Georgia Republicans were recently warned they could face charges — could be on the horizon, too.
A look at what lies ahead:
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT:
In keeping with department protocol, federal prosecutors haven't said anything publicly about scrutiny of Trump himself.
Attorney General Merrick Garland told reporters Wednesday that "we do not do our investigations in public." But he left no doubt about the scope of the probe, calling it "the most important investigation that the Justice Department has ever entered into."
He also said "no person is above the law" and vowed to hold wrongdoers "at any level" accountable as signs point to an investigation that is intensifying rather than winding down.
Officials have so far arrested more than 855 people in connection with the riot, and the work to identify those who broke into the building continues. Yet the investigation goes far beyond that, as prosecutors in recent weeks have made clear their interest in broader efforts by Trump allies to undo the election results.
Last month, the FBI opened a new front of investigative activity by seizing records from a group of Republicans who served as fake electors in battleground states won by Democrat Joe Biden. Trump and his allies pushed officials in those states to replace Biden's duly selected electors with ones who supported him as they advanced claims that his victory had been stolen.
As for Trump, who has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, it remains unclear whether prosecutors might eventually seek to bring criminal charges.
Legal experts have said damaging testimony from the hearings, including the assertion that he sought to join his supporters at the Capitol on Jan. 6 or that he dismissed warnings that many had weapons, gives prosecutors territory to explore. Some have said his overall campaign to cast aside the election results, and his desire to interfere with the congressional certification of the count, could amount to a criminal conspiracy to defraud the the United States.
As Democrats pressure Garland to make a decision, he and his team say their decisions are based on the facts, the evidence and the law. There are other considerations, though, that could conceivably come into play even if prosecutors assemble strong evidence.
Any prosecution of Trump is likely to further inflame tensions in an already deeply polarized country. And if the former president were to soon announce another run for office, a decision to charge him could inject the department deeply into presidential politics.
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AT THE CAPITOL:
The committee's investigation isn't over, and the panel plans to hold new hearings in September. Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the Republican vice chairwoman, says the nine-member panel "has far more evidence to share with the American people and more to gather."
"Doors have opened, new subpoenas have been issued and the dam has begun to break," Cheney said Thursday. "We have considerably more to do."
One major unresolved question is whether the committee will call Trump or former Vice President Mike Pence to testify. Members have debated whether to summon Trump, the main focus of their probe but a witness who has railed against the investigation, denied much of the evidence and whose credibility would be open to attack.
The panel could also invite Pence for closed-door testimony or ask him to answer written questions. Members have debated whether he is needed since many of his closest aides have already testified. His top lawyer at the White House, Greg Jacob, testified at one of the committee's hearings in June and characterized much of Pence's thought process during the time when Trump was pressuring him to try and block or delay Biden's win.
Another timing factor: If Republicans take over the House in November's midterm elections, the committee is likely to be disbanded in January. Its Democratic chairman, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, has said it will issue a report before the end of the year.
The committee is also expected to weigh in on possible legislative changes to the Electoral Count Act, which governs how a president is certified by Congress. A bipartisan group of senators this week released proposed changes to the law that would clarify the way states submit electors and the vice president tallies the votes. Trump and his allies tried to find loopholes in the law ahead of Jan. 6 as the former president worked to overturn his defeat to Biden. Pence refused to go along.
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GEORGIA:
The inquiry that perhaps poses the most immediate peril to Trump is based in Fulton County, Georgia, where District Attorney Fani Willis has been investigating efforts by the former president to get state officials to undo his election loss by imploring them to "find" votes he — falsely — claimed had been stolen from them.
Willis has said she is contemplating subpoenaing Trump for his testimony, a move that would seek to force him to cooperate with a criminal probe even as he lays the groundwork for another run for office.
Prosecutors have already sought the testimony of several Trump associates, including lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. They've also advised 16 Georgia Republicans that they are at risk of being indicted. Those Republicans signed a certificate asserting that Trump had won the presidential election and declaring themselves the state's "duly elected and qualified" electors, even though Biden had won the state and a slate of Democratic electors had been certified.
The investigation's scope includes a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. During that call, Trump urged Raffensperger to "find" enough votes to overturn his loss in the state.
"All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have," Trump said during that call. "Because we won the state."
Trump has denied any wrongdoing. He has repeatedly described his call to Raffensperger as "perfect."
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Follow AP's coverage of the Jan. 6 committee hearings at https://apnews.com/hub/capitol-siege. | http://www.tnledger.com/editorial/article.aspx?id=155680 | 2022-07-22T21:57:22Z | http://www.tnledger.com/editorial/article.aspx?id=155680 | true |
BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — An employee of Silver Dollar City near Branson has died from head injuries while working at the park, federal officials said.
The employee was hospitalized Wednesday with “head injuries allegedly sustained during maintenance and testing of a rollercoaster,” said Rhonda Burke, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Labor.
The person was declared dead with blunt force trauma on Thursday, the Springfield News-Leader reported.
No one else at the park was injured.
The park did not release the person's name. The person worked at the park since 2017 in maintenance and construction.
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration opened an investigation into the death on Friday.
Burke said OSHA has six months to complete its investigation, issue citations and propose monetary penalties. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Officials-investigate-worker-s-death-at-Missouri-17323362.php | 2022-07-22T21:58:28Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Officials-investigate-worker-s-death-at-Missouri-17323362.php | false |
WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 22, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
441 PM CDT Fri Jul 22 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Houston
County through 515 PM CDT...
At 441 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles west of Latexo, or 11 miles northwest of Crockett, moving north
at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of northwestern
Houston County.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3138 9554 3135 9564 3142 9571 3145 9571
3146 9572 3146 9575 3147 9574 3147 9572
3149 9573 3148 9574 3150 9574 3153 9565
3154 9565 3155 9560
TIME...MOT...LOC 2141Z 161DEG 11KT 3141 9561
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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NEW YORK (AP) — Mets ace Jacob deGrom will make at least one more minor league rehab start before rejoining New York's rotation.
The two-time Cy Young Award winner, sidelined all season by a stress reaction in his right scapula, threw 60 pitches over five innings in a simulated game Thursday at the team’s complex in Florida.
Mets manager Buck Showalter said deGrom felt good Friday and his next step will be a throwing session Sunday as part of a work day at Citi Field in New York. After that, if all goes well, he'll pitch for a minor league affiliate a few days later and then get slotted into the big league rotation.
That means deGrom definitely won't return in time to face the crosstown New York Yankees at Citi Field next Tuesday or Wednesday. The earliest possibilities for his season debut would be July 31 at Miami or a three-game series in Washington from Aug. 1-3.
The right-hander has already made three minor league rehab starts totaling 8 2/3 innings. He's allowed an unearned run and five hits with 15 strikeouts and one walk. He went four innings during the most recent one last week for Triple-A Syracuse.
It's still unclear which affiliate deGrom will pitch for next.
The 34-year-old deGrom was initially supposed to throw live batting practice Tuesday, but the outing was pushed back two days after he experienced muscle soreness in his pitching shoulder.
DeGrom hasn’t pitched in the majors since July 7, 2021. He missed the second half of last season with right forearm tightness and a sprained elbow.
Even without him, the Mets had a 2 1/2-game lead in the NL East over defending World Series champion Atlanta as they got set to open the second half Friday night at home against the San Diego Padres.
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Lincoln, Neb.(July 22, 2022) – Today, the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce, Lincoln Partnership for Economic Development and Lincoln Convention and Visitors Bureau unveiled the Economic Vitality Survey at the annual Economic Development Breakfast to solicit input from the public and to plan for Lincoln’s economic future.
The Lincoln Chamber has partnered with two top consulting firms—Broad Ripple Strategies and DMOproz—to develop an Economic Vitality Strategy focused on defining a vision for Lincoln’s economic future and how to achieve it. The presentation from Alex Pearlstein of Broad Ripple Strategies at Friday’s Economic Development Breakfast laid the groundwork for a vision for Lincoln, which included catalytic projects and programs that can have a large impact on Lincoln into the future.
A key part of the process is asking stakeholders to share their thoughts on Lincoln’s current challenges, opportunities and priorities for the years ahead. The survey takes approximately 10 minutes to complete, and all responses will be anonymous and used only to inform the consultants’ research. All members of the Lincoln community are encouraged to take the survey at https://www.lcoc.com/economic-strategy.
“We are excited about Lincoln’s continued success and this process is a crucial component to ensuring the ongoing prosperity of our community,” says Jason Ball, President of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce and the Lincoln Partnership for Economic Development.
“As we plan for the future, it is time to evaluate our strengths and needs, and intelligently plan, as we will be creating plans to build the economic vitality of Lincoln from a position of strength. The business community of Lincoln recognizes the need to craft our own future,” Ball adds.
At the conclusion of the breakfast, the Pat Haverty Memorial Award was presented to Lincoln company Spreetail. Until his passing in 2020, Pat Haverty was a key figure as vice president for the Lincoln Partnership for Economic Development. Each year the memorial award is presented at the breakfast to the company that exemplifies the highest level of innovation, integrity and leadership in their drive to grow the economic development of Lincoln. | https://www.kfornow.com/lincoln-chamber-launches-economic-vitality-survey/ | 2022-07-22T22:00:40Z | https://www.kfornow.com/lincoln-chamber-launches-economic-vitality-survey/ | true |
An invasive ash tree pest that has killed millions of trees across 35 U.S. states has now been confirmed in two new Texas counties - Morris and Rusk, the Texas A&M Forest Service reported Wednesday.
With the addition of Morris and Rusk counties, the emerald ash borer beetle (EAB) has now been confirmed in 11 Texas counties, five of which were added this year, the Forest Service said.
“The pest is a major threat to urban, suburban and rural forests as it aggressively kills ash trees within two to three years after infestation,” said Demian Gomez, Texas A&M Forest Service Regional Forest Health Coordinator.
The TAMU Forest Service said the beetle first appeared in Texas in 2016 in Harrison County. Since then, EAB has been confirmed in Bowie, Cass, Dallas, Denton, Marion, Morris, Rusk, Wise, Parker and Tarrant counties.
EMERALD ASH BORER
Gomez believes the EAB has the potential to kill millions of ash trees across Texas. "The devastation of our ash tree population will have an economic impact of billions of dollars, alter forest structure and composition and negatively affect the animal communities that rely on the tree species to survive.”
The Forest Services says that trees with low numbers of EAB often exhibit little or no symptoms. However, early detection is important so here's what you can look for:
- Dead branches near the top of the tree
- Bark splits exposing S-shaped larval galleries
- Extensive woodpecker activity and D-shaped exit holes
Learn more and find resources on identifying and managing EAB infestations here. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/tree-killing-beetle-spreads-to-2-more-texas-counties/3024354/ | 2022-07-22T22:01:00Z | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/tree-killing-beetle-spreads-to-2-more-texas-counties/3024354/ | true |
LINCOLN–(KFOR July 22)– A 37 year old Lincoln man is in a hospital with a life threatening knife wound, and a 29 year old Lincoln man is in jail charged with assault.
Lincoln Police said the stabbing occurred at 11th and ‘N’ Street Friday morning at 9:30. Arriving officers found the 37-year-old Lincoln man with serious injuries in the area of 11th and ‘N’ Street. The man was taken to a local hospital and his injuries were determined to be life-threatening. He currently remains hospitalized.
As officers were responding, suspect information was provided over the police radio. Members of the Nebraska State Patrol were in the area and located the suspect, 29-year-old Hser Htoo of Lincoln, who was arrested.
The investigation revealed the two initially had an argument while riding a bus. They were removed from the bus near the bus stop at 11th and ‘N’ Street and upon exiting the bus, continued their disagreement. Htoo is alleged to have then produced a knife, stabbed the victim and left the area.
Htoo was lodged in jail for 1st Degree Assault and Use of a Weapon to Commit a Felony.
The Lincoln Police Department Crime Scene Unit had completed the investigation at the scene with the area now open for normal traffic flow. This remains an active investigation. Anyone with information is encouraged to call 402.441.6000 or Crime Stoppers at 402.475.3600.
Lin | https://www.kfornow.com/man-stabbed-friday-morning-in-downtown-lincoln/ | 2022-07-22T22:01:21Z | https://www.kfornow.com/man-stabbed-friday-morning-in-downtown-lincoln/ | true |
MLB Expanded Pitching Comparison
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The White House has a new public engagement advisor. Here's her plan
Keisha Lance Bottoms is the new White House senior advisor for public engagement. The former Atlanta mayor begins her job at a time when President Biden's approval ratings are at an all-time low. | https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1113069497/the-white-house-has-a-new-public-engagement-advisor-heres-her-plan | 2022-07-22T22:08:46Z | https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1113069497/the-white-house-has-a-new-public-engagement-advisor-heres-her-plan | true |
Trust and respect In response to the recent letter, "A Richmond 300 promise," I am disheartened that Mayor Levar Stoney's administration still is fighting the master plan amendment that was unanimously approved by City Council. This is matter of trust and respect.
The administration promised the council that the master plan could be amended when it called for an early adoption of the document. It is time for the Stoney administration to show some respect for the council's unanimous vote.
The master plan amendment simply would acknowledge that Oregon Hill is a residential neighborhood. It has been so for more than 150 years.
I fail to see why the Stoney administration would fight this amendment — unless the mayor is counting on campaign contributions from developers who would like to replace my beloved historic neighborhood with more ugly student dorms.
From the archives: 100 photos of Pony Pasture
05-08-1989: Aqua cycling--Mark Oliver (left), 20, and his 16 year-old brother, Justin, drove down to Riverside Drive from the Fan district yesterday to look for "aqua cycling" challenges. Here, they pedal through flood waters in the parking lot of Pony Pasture. Richmond police had closed off sections of about 10 streets yesterday because of flood waters.
P. Kevin Morley
Fishing the James River is a natural pasttime and has been for as long as there have been inhabitants in the area. Here, Dale Huggins tries to lure a fish in on fly rod near the Pony Pasture. July 11, 1998
STUART T. WAGNER
Dam between Huguenot Bridge and the Pony Pasture. July 2, 1998
STUART T. WAGNER
Courtney Webb, 16, meets 'Bo-Bo' while enjoying a day off from school, Tuesday, May 26, 1998 at the Pony Pasture section of the James River. Courtney and other students flocked to the river to enjoy a 'snow day.' She is a student at Manchester High School.
P. KEVIN MORLEY
Local high school students flocked to the Pony Pasture section of the James River on Tuesday, May 26, to take advantage of a 'snow day.' (Since local schools did not have to use any 'snow days' since snow did not cause any school closings this winter, Tuesday was a day off.
P. KEVIN MORLEY
Sandra Slocum and her son, Brooks, 6, cool off in a puddle of the James River at the Pony Pasture area of James River Park. They and Brooks' brother, Phil, 8, spent part of the afternoon having fun and checking out the low water conditions created by the current drought. It was the boys' first romp in the river.
P. KEVIN MORLEY
Kristi McCullough and her ten-month-old son Andrew took a break from errands to enjoy the warm weather at Pony Pasture Thursday, February 10, 2000. They live in Chesterfield.
ALEXA WELCH EDLUND
With just a few days left before the summer ends and school begins, Godwin High School senior Ashley Gill and her boyfriend, Stephen Serge, spend a day on the rocks at the Pony Pasture, a popular summer hangout for students. Serge attends a private school in Hampton, Virginia, so the two will see less of each other when school begins.
P. KEVIN MORLEY
Cheryl Richards, 20, right, tries to coax Gracie, her 17-week-old Beagle mix puppy, into the James River at the Pony Pasture Friday, July 20, 2001. Gracie was less than thrilled with the water and later had to be carried back to dry land.
BOB BROWN
People enjoying the James River at the Pony Pasture . A report issued by the state Department of Envrionmental Quality says that the Pony Pasture and other parts of the James are too polluted with fecal bacteria to be fit fit for swimming . July 18 , 2002
CLEMENT BRITT
A dog plays in the James River at the Pony Pasture . A report issued by the state Department of Envrionmental Quality says that the Pony Pasture and other parts of the James are too polluted with fecal bacteria to be fit fit for swimming . July 18 , 2002
CLEMENT BRITT
These swimmers on rocks in the James River at the Pony Pasture in Richmond, VA, were ignoring several signs posted in the immediate area warning against swimming, since the river was over five feet over flood stage Monday, July 7, 2003.
BOB BROWN
Jos Munos enjoys the dryer weather by skip's rocks at Pony Pasture with his friends Monday, June 9, 2003.
TIMES-DISPATCH
Elizabeth Esfahani relaxes at pony pasture Wednesday, August 20, 2003.
ALEXA WELCH EDLUND
The Pony Pasture proved to be just the right spot to cool off for Norma Ryan and a friend's children. From left: Emilio Lyton, 6; Raquel Lyton, 4; Norma Ryan; Sabrina Lyton, 2; and Catalina Lyton, 8.
P. KEVIN MORLEY
Low water on the James River near Pony Pasture . October 10 , 2007
CLEMENT BRITT
Warm weather brought bathers to Pony Pasture on 8/3/07.
DEAN HOFFMEYER
Riverside Dr. , shot near Pony Pasture , is being proposed to be designated as Virginia's first urban scenic byway. December 24 , 2008
CLEMENT BRITT
A goose glides through fall colors reflected in the James River along Riverside Drive near the Pony Pasture.
P. KEVIN MORLEY
The Pony Pasture rapids of the James River. JAMES RIVER JOURNAL
P. KEVIN MORLEY
As the sun starts to illuminate fog on the James River, a photographer waits for just the right moment on the rocks of the Pony Pasture lower rapids.
P. KEVIN MORLEY
Sunrise at the Pony Pasture section of the James River.
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Sunrise on the James River lights up the stepping stone-like highly accessible area of the James River known as the Pony Pasture.
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With the arrival of cold air, mixed with relatively warm water, fog forms on the James River in the lower rapids of Pony Pasture. The Carillon tower is in the background.
P. KEVIN MORLEY
A canine visitor to the dog-friendly Pony Pasture jumps (successfully) to a rock.
P. KEVIN MORLEY
Jamie Wilbar, 13, of Glen Allen, leaps from a rock at Pony Pasture for what might have been his last James River swim of the year.
P. KEVIN MORLEY
Jamie Wilbar, 13, of Glen Allen, jumps into the rapids at Pony Pasture for what might have been his last James River swim of the year.
P. KEVIN MORLEY
Despite written warnings that swimmers must wear life jackets, river-goers play in the water at Pony Pasture Rapids, in Richmond, on June 02, 2009.
Eva Russo
A couple heads for the Pony Pasture along the James River in Richmond, VA Monday, June 8, 2009.
BOB BROWN
Jumping into the James was the rule of the day for many who flocked to the Pony Pasture on Memorial Day.
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Swimmers at Pony Pasture watched the Regional training of the Tactical Rescue Teams doing a quarterly drill and swift water awareness course on Aug. 4. Morning showers gave way to another hot humid day. Richmond, Henrico, Chesterfield, Hanover agencies were involved in the river rescue training.
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Participants in the "Dive & Draw!" program head into the James River near Pony Pasture on Saturday. The program, a collaboration between Chesterfield County Environmental Engineering and Friends of the James River, is designed to promote stewardship of the river.
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Lorne Field of Chesterfield county's Environmental Engineering department talks of algae blooms during a "Dive & Draw!" event in the James River near Pony Pasture on Saturday. The program, a collaboration between the Chesterfield County agency and Friends of the James River, is designed to promote stewardship of the river.
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Participants in the "Dive & Draw!" program head into the James River near Pony Pasture on Saturday. The program, a collaboration between Chesterfield County Environmental Engineering and Friends of the James River, is designed to promote stewardship of the river.
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The James River, downstream a few hundred yards from the Pony Pasture, on Richmond's southside.
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Med-Flight paramedic David Powell, with Chesterfield County Fire, grabs a 'cinch' vest lowered to him from a Virginia State Police helicopter during a training exercise in the James River in Richmond Tuesday afternoon. Firefighters, paramedics and pilots with Med-Flight ran through medical evacuation drills near the Riverside Meadow Greenspace along Riverside Drive, near the Pony Pasture. Two choppers were involved in the drills.
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Med-Flight paramedic David Powell, with Chesterfield County Fire, hangs from a 'cinch' vest om a cable hanging from a Virginia State Police helicopter during a training exercise in the James River in Richmond Tuesday afternoon. Firefighters, paramedics and pilots with Med-Flight ran through medical evacuation drills near the Riverside Meadow Greenspace along Riverside Drive, near the Pony Pasture. Two choppers were involved in the drills.
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Waterfowl in the James River's Pony Pasture catches the attention of swimmers, June 30, 2012.
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The ever-popular Pony Pasture area of the James River draws hundreds on warm summer days. Sept. 1, 2012.
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After putting his head into the cold water at Pony Pasture, Luke Logan, 9, emerges during the Polar Bear Plunge, Jan. 1, 2013.
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Lorene Davidson and a family friend, Rachel Cryster, 11, bundle up to keep warm after jumping into the frigid water of the James River at Pony Pasture for the annual Polar Bear Plunge, Jan. 1, 2013.
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Fog covers the James River across from Pony Pasture Monday afternoon, January 15, 2013.
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Mike Martin kayaks in the James River near Pony Pasture Thursday, May 9, 2013.
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Amelie Williams, 9, climbs across a log at the James River Parks' Pony Pasture a few minutes after the winter solstice hit at 12:11 pm Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013. She and some of her friends were enjoying the unseasonal weather.
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Nicole Harrison of Durham celebrates to recorded music Funk Brothers played at Pony Pasture on Riverside Drive during the Richmond Marathon Saturday, November 15, 2014.
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James Richardson, center foreground, misses his tube as he and his friends, all of Yorktown,from left, Raychel Blanchette, Bryce Burgner, and Devin Lapp visit Pony Pasture Rapids, part of The James River Park System, for tubing in Richmond on Monday, June 16, 2014.
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A video camera stationed in James River Park caught these river otters between the Huguenot Bridge and Pony Pasture Rapids in South Richmond. A project that started last spring is using video to document wildlife in the park.
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Many sought refuge from the heat by jumping into the James River at the Pony Pasture, June 23, 2015.
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Kayakers start their guided tour by Riverside Outfitters at Pony Pasture in Richmond on Tuesday, June 30, 2015.
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Lucas Crain and his five-year-old daughter McKenzie Crain head back to their car after taking a cooling dip in the James River at the Pony Pasture in Richmond, VA Monday, August 24, 2015.
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(L-R) Emmett Shreve, age 3, his friend Alice Hunter, age 4, and her cousin Ford Hunter, age 3, watch the churning waters of the James River at Pony Pasture after the river rose to over nine feet Sunday, October 4, 2015.
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Deepannita Hossain, left, 22, and Sahba Abolfazli, right, 22, (cqbb both names) both senior chemical engineering students at UVA, pause to watch the James River flow by the Pony Pasture area in Richmond, VA Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015. Hossain is a native of Bangaladesh and Abolfazli is a native of Iran.
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Interpretive signs for the John Smith Trail are located at a few historic sites around Richmond, including this one on at Pony Pasture Rapids Park. Photo taken Nov. 11, 2015.
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His first visit to the Pony Pasture rapids, part of the James River Park System, and Wyatt Lifsey said he picked a good day to relax. He moved to Richmond from Blacksburg, Va. about one month ago. April 21, 2016.
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Oeuyown Kim (left) and friend Morgan Moore relax with drinks in the James River at the Pony Pasture early Saturday evening before a thunderstorm rolled through. Aug. 6, 2016
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Two young women jump off a log into the James River at the Pony Pasture area in Richmond, VA Thursday, August 11, 2016 as high temperatures and humidity caused many people to head to the river to cool off.
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Geoffrey Zindren of Richmond makes his way to a spot for fishing at Pony Pasture in Richmond on Tuesday, September 13, 2016. Zindren said he doesn't expect to catch any fish but this is his excuse to be out more often.
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With temperatures in the mid-80's, fall break for these VCU students has been feeling more like summer vacation. The six friends (and a dog named Leona, lower left) spent part of the afternoon reclining and eating cookies at the Pony Pasture along Riverside Drive. From left: Muneera Hassan, Tiffany Tran, Connie Tran, Igor Tsvetkov, Isaiah Klimek, and Samantha Muehlbauer. Oct. 20, 2016
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Ryan McKinnon and his dog Rudy sit on a rock at Pony Pasture on Sunday May 29, 2016.
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Rudy took her first plunge into the James River at Pony Pasture on Sunday May 29, 2016 and jumped right back onto the dry rock after her owner Ryan McKinnon pulled her into the water with him.
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Driftwood and high river levels kept many of the popular granite boulders hideen at Pony Pasture Rapids, May 16, 2016.
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A prothonotary warbler. The small songbird was spotted by bird watchers along the James River at the Pony Pasture section of James River Park. May 11, 2016.
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Barbara Eck (left) and Alice Boller look for birds along the James River at the Pony Pasture, May 11, 2016. The two joined a few other local birders there Wednesday morning.
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Lightning Bug at Pony Pasture in Richmond on June 20, 2017.
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The James River in Richmond, VA offered some relief from the upper 90's heat Thursday, July 13, 2017 to many folks who visited the Pony Pasture rocks.
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This couple had a little difficulty getting their dog interested in entering the water at the Pony Pasture area of the James River in Richmond, VA Thursday, July 13, 2017. The dog eventually entered the water and appeared to enjoy it.
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A couple share a quiet moment on the Pony Pasture rocks in the James River in Richmond, VA Monday, August 7, 2017.
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A group of swimmers enjoy a cooling dip in the water along the Pony Pasture rocks in the James River in Richmond, VA Monday, August 7, 2017.
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Canada geese appear to be performing a water ballet in the Pony Pasture area of the James River in Richmond, VA Monday, Oct. 9, 2017. The geese were actually feeding on underwater plants.
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Some land along the James River in Richmond's West End was recently cleared, and state officials say the work violated a law requiring that a 100-foot buffer of natural vegetation be maintained along the river to protect it from pollution. The home of Stuart and Dawn Siegel sits above the cleared area. City officials say the Science Museum of Virginia Foundation, which allowed Siegel to have the work done, is responsible because it owns the land. This view is from the Pony Pasture Rapids section of James River Park in South Richmond. Pic taken 11/17.
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Jay Ross, age 8, swings on a grape vine along a Pony Pasture trail Sunday, February 25, 2018. It is a native plant to Virginia.
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Jay Ross, age 8, gets a higher view while standing on a grape vine along a Pony Pasture trail Sunday, February 25, 2018. It is a native plant to Virginia.
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Some sunbathers were ignoring warnings posted by sitting on the rocks amid rapids at the Pony Pasture section of the James River in Richmond, VA Wednesday, May 2, 2018. A half-dozen others sat on rocks along the stretch also.
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A young woman sat on the bank at the Pony Pasture section of the James River in Richmond, VA Wednesday, May 2, 2018. A half-dozen others chose to ignore high water warnings and sat on rocks out in the rapids.
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Annika Licht, 15, left, from Charlotte, NC, rides a line down a 100 ft tall hickory tree with the help of instructor Jocelyn Lohse, right, with Riverside Outfitters, in the woods near the Pony Pasture section along the James River in Richmond, VA Friday, July 6, 2018. This and other activities are part of the Riverside Outfitters Day Summer Camp program.
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Two hikers (no names given) paused to look at the James River as it flowed past the Pony Pasture area in Richmond, VA Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018 on a balmy fall day.
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Cade Cooper, left, from Powhatan and Amanda Yowell, right, from Culpeper, took advantage of great weather on the first day of summer to float down the James River near the Pony Pasture in Richmond, VA Friday, June 21, 2019.
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Cade Cooper, left, from Powhatan and Amanda Yowell, right, from Culpeper, took advantage of great weather on the first day of summer to float down the James River past a group of sunbathers near the Pony Pasture in Richmond, VA Friday, June 21, 2019.
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A couple took advantage of great weather on the first day of summer to share a quiet moment in the James River near the Pony Pasture in Richmond, VA Friday, June 21, 2019.
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A young boy watches a family of ducks swim past as he stands beside the James River at the Pony Pasture section in Richmond, VA, Monday, July 15, 2019 as the temperature climbed above 90 degrees.
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A man talks on his phone while cooling off in the James River at the Pony Pasture section in Richmond, VA, Monday, July 15, 2019 as the temperature climbed above 90 degrees.
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Brothers Shawn (11) and Miguel Johnson (6) from Washington, DC spent part of Monday afternoon at Pony Pasture in the James River with their grandparents, who are from Richmond. Miguel looks toward his runaway Croc, which his older brother retrieved.
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Brothers Shawn (11) and Miguel Johnson (6) from Washington, DC spent part of Monday afternoon at Pony Pasture in the James River with their grandparents, who are from Richmond.
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Ballard Payne, 17, transports his friend Claire Zeno, 17, back to shore after the two spent part of the afternoon swimming the waters of the James River at the area known as the Pony Pasture along Riverside Drive. The two went straight to the river after classes ended for the day at Trinity High School.
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7:08 a.m.-Along Riverside Drive, between Williams Dam and Pony Pasture, a group of runners sets out on a 6.5-mile training run for a half-marathon they will run in August. Scenic Riverside Drive attracts many runners.
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9:37 a.m.-Bob Willis, 62, gives his dog “Valentine” a treat while walking along the Louise Burke Nature Trail at the Pony Pasture. Willis has been coming to the park for many years. He remembers the time when there were no trees.
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12:48 p.m..- At the bottom of the staircase boat ramp at the Pony Pasture, children venture into the chilly water of the James River. The children are: On the left, Brando Contreras, 3; Jasmine Vigil, 3 (right); Arlett Vigil, 9 (left, center) and Armondo Guevara, 7 (right, center). JAMES RIVER JOURNAL
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7:42 a.m.- Geese fly above the rapids at Pony Pasture. JAMES RIVER JOURNAL
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11:15 a.m.- Trevor Frost slides down the staircase boat ramp and into the James River at the Pony Pasture. JAMES RIVER JOURNAL
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1:15 p.m.- "Duke" romps in the rapids of Pony Pasture. He was there with his owners, Emily and Brandon Hoffman. JAMES RIVER JOURNAL
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7:33 a.m.-The rocks at the Pony Pasture rapids were accessible enough to lure this man out for some shoes-off time. JAMES RIVER JOURNAL
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1:56 p.m.- The rapids at Pony Pasture make venturing into them a challenge and potential hazard. JAMES RIVER JOURNAL
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1:30 p.m.- After spending a few hours on the rocks at Pony Pasture, Danielle Schaevitz gives Lindsey Crawford a hand crossing back to shore. They were with fellow University of Richmond students Casey Kelly (third from left, on rock), Natalie Simons (to Casey Kelley’s left). JAMES RIVER JOURNAL
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A swimmer snorkels in the Pony Pasture, near shore.
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A visitor to the Pony Pasture section of the James River Parks system navigates the rocks which are normally covered with what is referred to as the "Upper Rapids."
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Greg Mills (front) and Chad Horohoe relax in the Pony Pasture section of the James River.
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The flow of the water in the James River's Pony Pasture was just right Thursday afternoon for Tobias Barth, 14, of Chesterfield, and about a hundred others.
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A retriever returns a stick from its thrower in the James River's Pony Pasture section.
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The heat was no problem for 7-year-old Jose' Gill Thursday afternoon. He and his two brothers and a cousin soaked in the waters of the James River near the Pony Pasture. About two hundred others had the same idea. Later in the afternoon, a thunderstorm rolled in and most of the rivergoers left. But Jose' and his brothers and cousin stayed in the water.
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ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — A rural Colorado official known as the state’s most prominent election denier surrendered to authorities amid allegations she violated the terms of her release as she awaits trial on accusations of breaking into her county’s election system.
Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters turned herself at the Pitkin County Jail in Aspen in Thursday night and was booked, said Parker Lathrop, the county’s chief deputy of operations.
She was released on bond later that night, Lathrop said. Authorities claim she had violated bail conditions by contacting workers at the Mesa County elections office.
A warrant for her arrest had been issued less than a week after Peters’ lawyer convinced a judge not to send her back to jail because of allegations she improperly traveled out of state while awaiting trial.
Peters has echoed former President Donald Trump’s false theories about the 2020 election. She and her chief deputy, Belinda Knisley, are charged with allowing a copy of a hard drive to be made during an update of election equipment in May 2021.
Peters and Knisley have denied wrongdoing and Peters has called the charges politically motivated.
A judge prohibited Peters from overseeing last year’s and this year’s local elections in Mesa County, a western region of the state that is largely rural and heavily Republican. Trump won it in the 2020 presidential election with nearly 63% of the vote. President Joe Biden won Colorado overall with 55.4% of the state’s vote.
Peters lost a bid for the Republican Party nomination for Colorado Secretary of State last month.
After the Secretary of State’s office told her she was not entitled to a hand recount under the law, Peters contacted dozens of county election offices asking them to do their own.
Authorities said she included Mesa County and that doing so was a violation of her release. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/election-denying-colorado-county-clerk-surrenders-to-police/ | 2022-07-22T22:11:08Z | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/election-denying-colorado-county-clerk-surrenders-to-police/ | false |
WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 22, 2022
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* Until 430 PM CDT.
* At 357 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Austonio,
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IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday took a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions.
Jackson, who joined the court June 30 following the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer, had pledged during her confirmation hearing to sit out the case involving Harvard’s admissions policy because she was a member of the school’s board.
The Harvard dispute had been joined to a similar lawsuit involving the University of North Carolina. The court split the case in two, allowing Jackson to hear arguments and vote in the North Carolina case. Harvard is a private institution, while North Carolina is a public university.
Jackson’s participation seems unlikely to make much difference in the outcome on a court with a 6-3 conservative majority that is skeptical of the role of race in education, voting and other areas.
Arguments over one of the new term’s most highly anticipated issues probably will take place in November or December, but no date has been announced yet.
Jackson was a member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers from 2016 until the spring. It is made up of alumni and is one of Harvard’s two governing bodies. She is a graduate both of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
Three other justices also got their law degrees from Harvard: Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch. Roberts also was a Harvard undergraduate and Kagan was the law school dean for a time.
But none of the other justices has any current or recent role with the university.
Federal law requires all judges to recuse from cases in which their “impartiality might reasonably be questioned,” including close ties to a party, a financial interest in the outcome or participation at an earlier stage of the case.
The court has taken similar steps before. In 2020, Justice Sonia Sotomayor discovered a conflict in a dispute from two states over presidential electors. The court abandoned plans to hear them together and eventually issued its major decision in the case in which all the justices participated. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/supreme-court-move-allows-jackson-to-take-part-in-race-case/ | 2022-07-22T22:11:36Z | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/supreme-court-move-allows-jackson-to-take-part-in-race-case/ | false |
LONDON (AP) — Twitter reported a quarterly loss Friday and declining revenue caught Wall Street off guard with the number of people using the platform on the rise.
The latest quarterly earnings figures offered a glimpse into how the social media platform has performed during a months-long negotiation with billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk after he said that he would buy the company, and then changed his mind.
It was worse than industry analysts had anticipated.
The company lost $270 million in the April-June period, or 8 cents per share. Wall Street was expecting a per-share profit of 14 cents, according to a poll by FactSet.
Inflation has crimped advertising spending and that was a huge drag on Twitter’s quarterly revenue, which slid 1% to $1.18 billion. The company also cited “uncertainty” over the acquisition by Musk.
Twitter is holding no calls with analysts and will not publish a letter to shareholders, as is the norm, because of the pending acquisition.
The underlying numbers at Twitter, however, were good. The number of daily active users rose 16.6% to 237.8 million compared with the same period a year before.
Those numbers are particularly impressive in the wake of a quarterly earnings report late Thursday from the social media company Snap.
Snap also saw advertising tumble in the high-inflationary environment and shares plunged more than 30% Friday before the opening bell.
“When compared to the nightmare quarter of SNAP last night, it shows digital ad spending is not falling off a cliff like feared which is a positive for others in the space such as Facebook, Pinterest, and Google,” wrote Dan Ives, who covers technology for Wedbush.
Shares of Twitter Inc. rose 1% at the opening bell Friday as the clash with Musk overshadowed almost everything. Twitter is attempting to force Musk to make good on his April promise to buy the company for $44 billion. Twitter last week sued Musk to complete the deal and both sides are bracing for an October courtroom trial to resolve the dispute.
The April-June fiscal quarter encompassed a tumultuous three months for Twitter, starting with the April 4 disclosure that Musk had acquired a huge stake in the company, paving the way for his takeover bid later that month. It didn’t take long for the relationship to fray as Musk publicly tweeted his concerns about Twitter and its employees and signaled he was having second thoughts.
Twitter argued in court that Musk’s actions and his “repeated disparagement of Twitter and its personnel” created uncertainty that harmed Twitter’s business operations, employees and stock price.
It called for an expedited trial so the company could carry on with important business decisions, while Musk sought to wait until next year because of the complexity of the case and his demands for more of Twitter’s internal data about how it counts fake and automated “spam bot” accounts — which he’s cited as a chief reason for trying to terminate the deal.
A judge this week set the trial for October, siding with Twitter’s concerns that too much delay could cause the company irreparable harm. It will be held in Delaware’s Court of Chancery, which handles many high-profile business disputes, unless Musk and Twitter settle the case before then. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/business/ap-business/twitter-posts-270m-quarterly-loss-as-revenue-slips/ | 2022-07-22T22:12:34Z | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/business/ap-business/twitter-posts-270m-quarterly-loss-as-revenue-slips/ | false |
Mets ace deGrom to make at least 1 more rehab start
NEW YORK (AP) - Mets ace Jacob deGrom will make at least one more minor league rehab start before rejoining New York's rotation.
The two-time Cy Young Award winner, sidelined all season by a stress reaction in his right scapula, threw 60 pitches over five innings in a simulated game Thursday at the team´s complex in Florida.
Mets manager Buck Showalter said deGrom felt good Friday and his next step will be a throwing session Sunday as part of a work day at Citi Field in New York. After that, if all goes well, he'll pitch for a minor league affiliate a few days later and then get slotted into the big league rotation.
That means deGrom definitely won't return in time to face the crosstown New York Yankees at Citi Field next Tuesday or Wednesday. The earliest possibilities for his season debut would be July 31 at Miami or a three-game series in Washington from Aug. 1-3.
The right-hander has already made three minor league rehab starts totaling 8 2/3 innings. He's allowed an unearned run and five hits with 15 strikeouts and one walk. He went four innings during the most recent one last week for Triple-A Syracuse.
It's still unclear which affiliate deGrom will pitch for next.
FILE - New York Mets' Jacob deGrom delivers a pitch during the first inning of the first baseball game of a doubleheader against the Milwaukee Brewers Wednesday, July 7, 2021, in New York. New York Mets ace Jacob deGrom is finally ready to begin a minor league rehab assignment. Sidelined by injuries since last July, the two-time Cy Young Award winner is scheduled to start Sunday night, July 3, 2022 for Class A St. Lucie against the Jupiter Hammerheads.(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
The 34-year-old deGrom was initially supposed to throw live batting practice Tuesday, but the outing was pushed back two days after he experienced muscle soreness in his pitching shoulder.
DeGrom hasn´t pitched in the majors since July 7, 2021. He missed the second half of last season with right forearm tightness and a sprained elbow.
Even without him, the Mets had a 2 1/2-game lead in the NL East over defending World Series champion Atlanta as they got set to open the second half Friday night at home against the San Diego Padres.
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Asurion® Repair Experts Provide Fast Fixes on Phones, Tablets, Laptops, and More
YAKIMA, Wash., July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new electronics repair shop, Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions™, has opened in Yakima at 6 North Fair Ave. The store offers professional fixes for most consumer electronics, from smartphones, tablets, and computers to game consoles, smart speakers, drones, and more.
While common repairs include cracked screens, battery issues, and water damage, the company's repair experts have fixed millions of devices and can help with most any tech mishap, and many basic repairs can be completed in 45 minutes or less.
We are excited to provide our community with excellent customer service, community partnerships, and technology insight," said Alex Smithey, Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions District Manager. "At Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions, we care about providing top-notch service while ensuring our customers stay connected with one another."
The store's expert repair technicians fix all kinds of technology, regardless of make or model, and the store is an authorized repair provider for Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel smartphones. Customers can book a repair appointment online or stop by the store for walk-in service. The store offers free, no-obligation diagnostics on all gadgets, as well as a 1-year limited warranty on all repairs. It even offers a price match guarantee on any local competitor's regularly published price for the same repair.
The new Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions store brings the company's retail footprint to more than 750 locations across the U.S. Formerly known as uBreakiFix®, all U.S. locations will rebrand as Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions throughout 2022.
"We are excited to serve people in Yakima with fast and affordable tech repair," said Dave Barbuto, CEO of Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions. "We all rely on our phones and laptops more than ever before, and our mission is bigger than repairing shattered screens and broken charge ports. We fix tech because people depend on it to stay connected to things that are important to them. I look forward to serving this community through our new location."
The new store is located at:
Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions
6 N Fair Ave. Ste 113, Yakima, WA 98901
(509)-426-6035
Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions™, formerly known as uBreakiFix®, is the retail brand operated and franchised by a subsidiary of tech care company Asurion®. As the world's leading tech care company, Asurion eliminates the fears and frustrations associated with technology to ensure its 300 million customers get the most out of their devices, appliances, and connections. Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions stores specialize in the repair of consumer technology, including smartphones, game consoles, tablets, computers, and nearly everything in between. Asurion Tech Repair and Solutions repair experts fix cracked screens, software issues, camera issues, and most other tech mishaps at more than 750 stores across the U.S. The stores provide fast, affordable fixes for nearly any device type, regardless of make or model, including authorized repairs for Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy smartphones.
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Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of VAALCO Energy, Inc. (NYSE: EGY), in connection with the Company's proposed acquisition of TransGlobe Energy Corporation ("TransGlobe"). Under the merger agreement, EGY will acquire each TransGlobe share for 0.6727 of an EGY common share, leaving EGY shareholders owning approximately 54.5% and TransGlobe shareholders owning approximately 45.5% of the combined company upon closing of the transaction. If you own EGY shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/egy
Sharps Compliance Corp. (NASDAQ: SMED)
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Sharps Compliance Corp. (NASDAQ: SMED) in connection with the proposed tender offer for SMED by an affiliate of Aurora Capital Partners. Under the terms of the merger agreement, SMED shareholders will receive $8.75 in cash for each share of SMED common stock owned. If you own SMED shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/smed
Resolute Forest Products Inc. (NYSE: RFP)
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Resolute Forest Products Inc. (NYSE: RFP) in connection with the proposed acquisition of RFP by The Paper Excellence Group, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Domtar Corporation ("Domtar"). The transaction will be carried out by way of a merger of RFP with a newly created subsidiary of Domtar, providing for conversion of each share of RFP common stock into the right to receive $20.50 per share, together with a Contingent Value Right ("CVR") entitling the holder to a share of future softwood lumber duty deposit refunds. If you own RFP shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/rfp
CareMax, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMAX)
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of CareMax, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMAX), in connection with the proposed transaction with Steward Health Care System ("Steward"). Upon completion of the transaction, CMAX will pay $25 million in cash and issue 23.5 million shares of CMAX's Class A common stock to the equity holders of Steward. If you own CMAX shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/cmax
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Sweden set up England semi-final with late victory over Belgium
Linda Sembrant’s dramatic stoppage-time winner earned Sweden a 1-0 victory over Belgium and the chance to face England in the semi-finals of Euro 2022.
Stina Blackstenius was denied a goal by VAR midway through the first half and Sweden were made to wait until the dying seconds to see off a valiant Belgian effort at Leigh Sports Village.
Wave after wave of Sweden attack in the second period had brought no joy to that point, with goalkeeper Nicky Evrard proving to be their nemesis.
But heartbreak for the Red Flames came in the second minute of stoppage time when Sembrant smashed home to send Sweden through to their ninth Euros semi-final.
Sweden were the first to make their mark on this quarter-final tie and almost got off to a flyer when Filippa Angeldal’s effort from distance had to be turned wide by Evrard in the sixth minute.
Sweden’s high press started to cause problems for the Belgian defence and some slack play outside the area gifted Angeldal another chance before her first-time effort sailed over the bar.
Belgium have called upon Evrard several times during this tournament and she was on hand again to keep the scores level when she parried Kosovare Asllani’s header to prevent what looked to be a certain goal 14 minutes in.
Blackstenius thought she had scored her second goal of the tournament when she latched on to to Asllani’s through ball before tucking home, but a VAR intervention judged her to be offside by the smallest of margins, much to the relief of the Belgian faithful.
The Red Flames failed to make any sort of inroads into the Swedish defence, but their first real sniff came on the half-hour mark when Justine Vanhaevermaet dragged her shot harmlessly wide.
A corner late in the first half caused a goalmouth scramble and Evrard did well to deny a combination of efforts from Blackstenius and Amanda Ilestedt, but the women in yellow had nothing to show for their 45 minutes of dominance.
The second period settled into a pattern much like the first, as Sweden pushed to break the deadlock with early efforts from Fridolina Rolfo and Angeldal.
Belgium had never reached a major tournament knockout stage before and their stubborn defence started to frustrate their opponents, as Evrard was again on hand to stop a close-range header from Blackstenius from bulging the net.
Belgium’s resistance was finally broken in the closing moments when Sembrant rifled in an effort from close range following a period of pinball inside the box after a corner caused chaos. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11040763/Sweden-set-England-semi-final-late-victory-Belgium.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-22T22:14:43Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11040763/Sweden-set-England-semi-final-late-victory-Belgium.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is giving back some of its strong gains from the week on Friday following discouraging readings on the global economy and another slew of profit reports from big U.S. companies.
The S&P 500 was 1.3% lower, as of 3 p.m. Eastern time, and threatening to halt a three-day rally that had carried it back to its highest level in six weeks.
The Nasdaq composite was leading the market lower with a 2.2% drop following weaker-than-expected profit reports from Snap, Seagate Technology and other tech-oriented companies.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was holding up better, down 249 points, or 0.8%, at 31,787, in large part because constituent American Express gave an encouraging earnings report and said its cardholders were spending more.
Sandwiched between last week's dispiriting report on inflation and next week's decision by the Federal Reserve on interest rates, the S&P 500 is still on track for its best week in a month following a collection of mostly better-than-expected reports on corporate profits.
Falling yields in the bond market also helped, easing the pressure on stocks after expectations for rate hikes by the Fed sent yields soaring much of this year.
On Friday the two-year Treasury yield tumbled again, to 2.99% from 3.09% late Thursday and from 3.14% a week ago, on worries about the economy. A report Friday morning indicated U.S. business activity may be shrinking for the first time in nearly two years, with service industries particularly weak.
"Manufacturing has stalled and the service sector's rebound from the pandemic has gone into reverse, as the tailwind of pent-up demand has been overcome by the rising cost of living, higher interest rates and growing gloom about the economic outlook," Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence said in a statement accompanying the survey data.
Similar reports earlier in the morning also suggested weakness in Europe, underscoring how fragile the global economy is as central banks jack up interest rates in order to whip inflation. Higher rates make economic conditions more difficult, and the threat is that too-aggressive hikes could cause a recession.
The reports follow others from earlier in the week showing parts of the U.S. economy slowing more than expected. While that raises the threat of a recession, it also has traders pulling back expectations for how aggressively the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates next week. Instead of a full percentage point, traders now see an increase of 0.75 percentage points as the most likely outcome.
The 10-year Treasury yield fell to 2.78% from 2.91% late Thursday.
In the stock market, the company behind the Snapchat app tumbled 38.9% after it reported a worse loss and lower revenue for the spring than Wall Street forecast.
The weakness for Snap could mean pressure on other tech companies that depend on advertising, which also happen to be among Wall Street's most influential stocks. The parent companies of both Google and Facebook are scheduled to report their earnings next week.
Data storage company Seagate Technology lost 8.2% after it said anti-COVID measures in Asia and slowing global economic conditions last quarter hit its results, which fell short of forecasts.
Verizon dropped 7.7% after its profit fell short of expectations, though its revenue squeaked past. It also cut its forecast for earnings this year.
On the winning side was American Express, which rose 2.1% after it delivered better profit for the spring than analysts expected. It said customers spent more on travel and entertainment in April than they did before the pandemic, the first time that's happened.
The encouraging data bolstered some recent comments from CEOs at big banks, who said their customers appear to be in solid financial shape despite all the worries about inflation and the economy.
HCA Healthcare surged 12.5% for the biggest gain in the S&P 500 after delivering better results than Wall Street forecast. Oilfield services provider
Despite Friday's drops for Wall Street, the S&P 500 is still on pace for a gain of more than 2%.
Besides the easing of Treasury yields over the week, dropping prices for crude oil and other commodities also provided some relief on the inflation front. They add to some signals suggesting inflation may be close to peaking, such as easing expectations for inflation in future years, said Nate Thooft, senior portfolio manager at Manulife Investment Management.
"Inflation is the most important thing," he said. "It's not earnings, it's not the Fed, it's not interest rates themselves. It's the uncertainty of inflation."
"To me, as soon as you see real evidence that inflation is stabilizing and improving, all the other things also become less problematic," he said. The war in "Ukraine is separate and off in the corner, but all the others are related, and the epicenter is inflation."
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AP Business Writer Elaine Kurtenbach contributed. | https://www.3newsnow.com/news/national/wall-street-slumps-gives-back-chunk-of-weeks-strong-gains | 2022-07-22T22:16:19Z | https://www.3newsnow.com/news/national/wall-street-slumps-gives-back-chunk-of-weeks-strong-gains | true |
Workers end two-day strike at Carlos Slim's Telmex in Mexico
By Cassandra Garrison
MEXICO CITY, July 22 (Reuters) - A strike by workers at Mexican telecommunications firm Telmex, controlled by the family of tycoon Carlos Slim, will end on Friday after the union and the company reached a deal, the union said.
By Friday afternoon, the strike that had begun at noon the day before was winding down as workers removed red and black flags from the main Telmex office in Mexico City, a union official said.
The strike, the first at the company since 1985, began after negotiations broke down over issues including outsourcing work, nearly 2,000 unfilled vacancies that were previously negotiated and changes to contractual benefits for new hires, according to the union.
Labor Minister Luisa Maria Alcalde announced the government-mediated agreement earlier on Friday, noting that company operations would return to normal as the strike ended.
As part of the agreement, a committee made up of company, union and government representatives will have 20 days to find solutions to the disputes, said a joint statement from Telmex, the union and the Labor Ministry.
"The agreement signed today not only lifts the strike, but also aims to find a substantive and lasting solution," America Movil, the parent company of Telmex, said in a statement.
The leader of the Mexican Telephone Workers Union, Francisco Hernandez Juarez, said in a video message that the union and the company would meet to coordinate the return of workers to their posts.
Union coordinator Omar Hernandez called the strike a success and praised the union's 60,000 members for fighting to defend their rights. "I am very proud of the effort," he said.
Workers voted in an overwhelming majority to approve the agreement, according to the results broadcast on YouTube.
Mexico's president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, earlier on Friday expressed confidence that Telmex and its workers would reach a deal by Saturday.
"(Slim) has told me that (Telmex) has come out ahead of competitors because of its workers. So I think they will reach an agreement," Lopez Obrador told a regular news conference. (Reporting by Cassandra Garrison and Aida Pelaez-Fernandez in Mexico City Editing by David Gregorio and Matthew Lewis) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11040765/Workers-end-two-day-strike-Carlos-Slims-Telmex-Mexico.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-22T22:16:23Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11040765/Workers-end-two-day-strike-Carlos-Slims-Telmex-Mexico.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
WASHINGTON — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was convicted on Friday of contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Bannon, 68, was convicted after a four-day trial in federal court on two counts: one for refusing to appear for a deposition and the other for refusing to provide documents in response to the committee’s subpoena. The jury of 8 men and 4 women deliberated just under three hours.
He faces up to two years in federal prison when he’s sentenced on Oct. 21. Each count carries a minimum sentence of 30 days in jail.
David Schoen, one of Bannon's lawyers said outside the courthouse the verdict would not stand. "This is round one,” Schoen said. “You will see this case reversed on appeal.”
Likewise, Bannon himself said, "We may have lost the battle here today; we’re not going to lose this war.”
He thanked the jurors for their service and said he had only one disappointment — "and that is the gutless members of that show trial committee, the J-6 committee didn’t have the guts to come down here and testify.”
Prosecutors were just as firm on the other side of the verdict.
“The subpoena to Stephen Bannon was not an invitation that could be rejected or ignored," Matthew Graves, the U.S. attorney in Washington, said in a statement. "Mr. Bannon had an obligation to appear before the House Select Committee to give testimony and provide documents. His refusal to do so was deliberate, and now a jury has found that he must pay the consequences.”
The committee sought Bannon’s testimony over his involvement in Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Bannon had initially argued that his testimony was protected by Trump’s claim of executive privilege. But the House panel and the Justice Department contend such a claim is dubious because Trump had fired Bannon from the White House in 2017 and Bannon was thus a private citizen when he was consulting with the then-president in the run-up to the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Bannon’s lawyers tried to argue during the trial that he didn’t refuse to cooperate and that the dates “were in flux.” They pointed to the fact that Bannon had reversed course shortly before the trial kicked off — after Trump waived his objection — and had offered to testify before the committee.
In closing arguments Friday morning, both sides re-emphasized their primary positions from the trial. The prosecution maintained that Bannon willfully ignored clear and explicit deadlines, and the defense claimed Bannon believed those deadlines were flexible and subject to negotiation.
Bannon was served with a subpoena on Sept. 23 last year ordering him to provide requested documents to the committee by Oct. 7 and appear in person by Oct. 14. Bannon was indicted in November on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress, a month after the Justice Department received the House panel’s referral.
Bannon’s attorney Evan Corcoran told jurors Friday in his closing arguments that those deadlines were mere “placeholders” while lawyers on each side negotiated terms.
Corcoran said the committee “rushed to judgment” because it “wanted to make an example of Steve Bannon.”
Corcoran also hinted that the government’s main witness, Jan. 6 committee chief counsel Kristin Amerling, was personally biased. Amerling admitted on the stand that she is a lifelong Democrat and has been friends with one of the prosecutors for years. Corcoran also vaguely hinted that the signature of Jan. 6 committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss) looked different on the subpoena than on other letters but dropped that topic when the prosecution objected.
Prosecutors focused on the series of letters exchanged between the Jan. 6 committee and Bannon’s lawyers. The correspondence shows Thompson immediately dismissing Bannon’s claim that he was exempted by Trump’s claim of executive privilege and explicitly threatening Bannon with criminal prosecution.
“The defense wants to make this hard, difficult and confusing,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Vaughn in her closing statement. “This is not difficult. This is not hard. There were only two witnesses because it’s as simple as it seems.”
The defense Thursday motioned for an acquittal, saying the prosecution had not proved it’s case. In making his motion for acquittal before U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, Bannon attorney Corcoran said that “no reasonable juror could conclude that Mr. Bannon refused to comply.”
Once the motion was made the defense rested its case without putting on any witnesses, telling Nichols that Bannon saw no point in testifying since the judge’s previous rulings had gutted his planned avenues of defense. Among other things, Bannon’s team was barred from calling as witnesses House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or members of the House panel. | https://www.12news.com/article/news/nation-world/steve-bannon-convicted-contempt-charges-in-january-6-case/507-e2a3bc4c-43f7-4dcf-8b03-72dddeaff0f7 | 2022-07-22T22:17:03Z | https://www.12news.com/article/news/nation-world/steve-bannon-convicted-contempt-charges-in-january-6-case/507-e2a3bc4c-43f7-4dcf-8b03-72dddeaff0f7 | true |
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – It reaches depths of roughly 123 feet in some parts, making it the deepest natural lake in Indiana.
Finding anything lost in Tippecanoe Lake, formed from the receding glaciers in what is now Kosciusko County thousands upon thousands of years ago, presents a very unique – and oftentimes futile – challenge.
Even if you’re off by the boat docks where people have built homes, the water goes from shallow to seven feet to more than 15 feet deep fast.
So when Diana Rockey lost her mother’s wedding ring in the lake earlier this month, not many expected it would be found – even after she and her daughter hired a scuba diver to help in its recovery.
And nobody could’ve guessed their search would unearth a Bishop Dwenger High School class ring that had been sitting in the depths of that lake for more than a half-century.
This is the tale of two rings.
One was thought to be lost to the sands of time by a then teenage boy named Mike Usina one summer day back in 1971; the other Diana Rockey had pined for from her mother for years upon years, only to have it slip from her finger one summer day in 2022.
And thanks to a bit of luck – and a lot of serendipity – both as of Friday are back with their rightful owners.
“It doesn’t get any better than this,” said Lamar Chupp, the scuba diver who found both rings sitting within 10 feet of each other under the waters of “Lake Tippy.”
The wedding ring
Since Diana Rockey’s mother divorced her father about 40 years ago, she had no idea why her daughter would want her old wedding ring.
But Rockey was persistent, she said. For whatever reason, she badly wanted that ring, if for nothing else than for sentimental reasons. She asked for years, and for years her mother would not hand it over.
Instead, Rockey’s mother kept it in a box of gold she planned to melt down.
Then one day when Rockey visited, her mother brought out the ring.
“My mother has tiny fingers, so I put it on my pinky,” Rockey said. “I wore it for nine days and it never came off.”
Rockey’s home is on East Forest Glen Avenue in Kosciusko County, about an hour northwest of Fort Wayne, which lines part of Tippecanoe Lake. Her family is very involved with lake activities, and that includes the Lake Tippecanoe Property Owners’ annual Flotilla celebration held every Fourth of July weekend.
Basically, residents gather to see floats created by other residents as they wind their way around the lake.
One well-known family throws T-shirts from their float every year, though you sometimes have to swim to get one, Rockey said. On July 2, when she saw a T-shirt floating near her spot during the Flotilla celebration, she knew she had to jump in the water.
“I couldn’t give up the T-shirt,” Rockey said. “So I went in and swam.”
About 20 minutes later, sitting on a lounge chair, she glanced at her hand.
Her mother’s wedding ring was gone.
“I was sick to my stomach,” Rockey said. “I knew I wouldn’t be able to find it. I was in deep amongst the weeds. It was gone.”
About a week later, she and her daughter were sipping wine along the Lake. Rockey told her daughter about the lost ring, the one she had spoken about for years, and 24-year-old Kirsten Rockey would not accept that it would truly be gone forever.
“I thought, ‘Okay, I can swim, maybe I can go down and get it,'” Kirsten Rockey said. “The weeds were seven-feet high, though. I couldn’t get through them snorkeling.”
That’s when Kirsten started calling dive shops, which led her to Lamar Chupp.
Chupp, who lives near Goshen, has been scuba diving for about nine years – as a hobby.
But, as part of that hobby, he has helped people find items lost in lakes, and he was happy to help, he said.
This past Saturday, he brought his gear to the area where Diana Rockey lost the ring, and then disappeared under the water for about an hour and a half.
When he emerged, he held up her wedding ring.
“We were like, ‘Wow, he found the ring!'” Diana Rockey said.
Then Chupp walked toward the shore holding something else.
“I also found this,” he said.
The Class Ring
Mike Usina was a bag boy.
During junior and senior years of high school, he worked at one of the old Maloley’s grocery stores bagging up goods for about $1.50 an hour, he said. He did this at the start of college, too, after he graduated from Bishop Dwenger in 1972.
In 1971, he shelled out between $75 to $100 or so for a class ring. Rings were given to all juniors who purchased them before that summer, he said. If you bought a ring, you had it heading in to your senior year.
“For me, that represented about a month’s worth of effort,” Usina said. “I just wanted a memento of high school, besides a diploma, and I worked hard for that ring.”
Usina spent many a summer day along lakes in Indiana. He doesn’t remember the exact moment he lost the ring, but figures it was at some point water skiing on Tippecanoe Lake. He probably took a fall while being pulled behind a boat, but it’s impossible to remember exactly.
He does remember finally noticing he no longer had his ring on his finger.
“I remember being very disappointed,” he said. “I had a bit of an attitude as I recall, because I bought that for myself. I remember saying I wouldn’t give it to a girlfriend or anything, and as it is I didn’t get a chance to give it to a girlfriend as I didn’t have it very long.”
The years went by, and Usina became involved in the boat business. He eventually moved to St. Augustine, Florida, though he kept roots here in Fort Wayne through family and visited often. He even planned to come to town this very weekend.
Saturday is his class’s 50th reunion.
It was almost apropos that he recently received a random Facebook message from a complete stranger named Diana Rockey as the weekend neared.
The Reunion
The class ring Lamar Chupp came out of the water with needed very little cleaning.
The fact that it was from 1972 and belonged to someone from Bishop Dwenger were unmistakable. So, too, were the initials “MDU” engraved on the inside of the ring.
At first, Rockey thought it might belong to someone she knew. Her family does tend to throw large parties, she said, complete with live music. Someone probably lost the ring at one of those, she thought.
“We were going to figure out who this belonged to,” Rockey said.
She made a Facebook post on the Friends of Lake Tippecanoe page which read:
“FOUND!! Gentleman’s class ring between Governer’s Point and Silver Point. It’s been at the bottom of the lake for awhile — anyone lose one a few years ago?? Give me the school and year and I’d love to return it to it’s owner.”
The post began to spread, and it began to be shared.
Meanwhile, Rockey and her daughter began combing through old yearbooks. Then they went to the Bishop Dwenger alumni page, and that’s where they found the name of one Mike D. Usina. Rockey found a Mike Usina on Facebook, and she sent a message asking if he ever lost his class ring.
“I responded with, ‘Actually, yes I did,'” Usina said.
Friday, Diana Rockey and Usina met in the lobby of the downtown Courtyard by Mariott as old Bishop Dwenger classmates began arriving into town.
In a brief moment in front of television cameras and a newspaper reporter, Rockey handed over Usina’s old ring in a jewelry box she had been keeping it in since it was discovered.
“You’re not going to lose it this time, right?” she joked to Usina.
It makes the 50th reunion Usina is attending this weekend a little sweeter.
“The sentiment is more associated with it because it’s our 50th high school reunion,” he said. “For all this to occur around our 50th, it’s significant in a sentimental way.”
As for Rockey, the little dip into the old waters of Tippecanoe Lake, which have probably swallowed countless trinkets and bracelets or watches and other rings throughout the last however many years, taught her at least one valuable lesson.
Her mother’s ring is now kept on a necklace around her neck. | https://www.wane.com/top-stories/it-doesnt-get-any-better-than-this-a-tale-of-two-rings-ends-with-a-reunion-51-years-in-the-making/ | 2022-07-22T22:20:38Z | https://www.wane.com/top-stories/it-doesnt-get-any-better-than-this-a-tale-of-two-rings-ends-with-a-reunion-51-years-in-the-making/ | true |
Joro spiders are spreading in Georgia, S.C., reports say
(Gray News) - There’s a good chance residents in parts of Georgia and South Carolina are seeing large, yellow spiders in their neighborhoods these days.
Joro spiders are seemingly migrating outside of Georgia and here to stay in the U.S., according to recent university reports.
One of those reports comes from a professor at Clemson University who shared that the spiders are a non-native species first found in northern Georgia in 2014. However, they are now showing up in more places that include regions in South Carolina and counties in Georgia, especially during the summer months.
According to the report, Joro spider eggs hatch in late spring and juvenile spiders can be seen beginning in early May, making webs on practically anything from homes, decks, porches and plants.
The webs and spiders reportedly will get progressively larger until about September, when large adult females are very noticeable due to their bright coloration. Males are much smaller, drab brown in color, and can often be seen in the webs along with the females.
According to the Clemson University report, the spiders can be nearly 3 inches across with their legs spread.
A 2021 report from the University of Georgia says Joro spiders have been found in 23 Georgia counties and South Carolina. They’re venomous, with a bite comparable to a bee sting but are considered more of a nuisance than anything else.
According to the Georgia report, the spiders, originally from East Asia, are vulnerable to insecticides. However, if one is killed, more are likely to move into the area without a known preventative measure to keep them away.
Biologists say they are concerned that the Joro spider could displace native spiders, but they don’t know yet what impact they will have on animal life.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.wbtv.com/2022/07/22/joro-spiders-are-spreading-georgia-sc-reports-say/ | 2022-07-22T22:21:52Z | https://www.wbtv.com/2022/07/22/joro-spiders-are-spreading-georgia-sc-reports-say/ | true |
Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann talks with NPR's Ailsa Chang about the evidence presented by the Jan. 6 committee and the difficulties in prosecuting a former president.
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Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann talks with NPR's Ailsa Chang about the evidence presented by the Jan. 6 committee and the difficulties in prosecuting a former president.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.apr.org/politics-government/politics-government/2022-07-22/could-the-jan-6-committees-findings-lead-to-criminal-charges-for-trump | 2022-07-22T22:23:07Z | https://www.apr.org/politics-government/politics-government/2022-07-22/could-the-jan-6-committees-findings-lead-to-criminal-charges-for-trump | true |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Turns out, Jan. 6 was more than just the day when a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol.
It was the culmination, but also the start, of an enduring challenge for American democracy.
The House committee investigating Jan. 6, 2021 has shown how the deadly Capitol attack was sparked months earlier on Election Night 2020, when the incumbent president, Donald Trump, refused to admit he was trailing Joe Biden, and instead spewed false claims of voter fraud and declared himself the winner.
The defeated president spent the next eight weeks orchestrating an unprecedented attempt to overturn the election results and summoned supporters to Washington on Jan. 6 to finish the job.
And even after the blood, mayhem and deaths at the Capitol, Trump still refused on Jan. 7 to say the words that all those around him knew needed to be said: the presidential election was over.
The Jan. 6 committee cannot charge anyone with crimes, but it has produced a public record for history, one that's still being written. It is showing how the insurrection at the Capitol is testing the resiliency of the nation's democracy.
As Trump contemplates another White House run, he has denounced the proceedings as “so many lies and misrepresentations.”
Rep. Liz Cheney, a fellow Republican who is vice chair of the panel, said the case against her party's president is being made not by Trump's political enemies, but rather his own friends, campaign officials, people who worked for him and his own family.
“They have come forward and they have told the American people the truth,” Cheney said.
Here’s what we know from eight summer hearings of the House Jan. 6 committee.
‘TEAM NORMAL’ WARNS TRUMP NOT TO CLAIM ELECTION VICTORY
Election Night did not look good for incumbent Trump, as battleground states he had won four years earlier began to fall to Biden.
Campaign manager Bill Stepien testified this summer that it was no time to declare victory. But “Team Normal,” as some of Trump's more experienced political aides called themselves, was no match for Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer who encouraged Trump to fight.
“This is a fraud on the American public,” Trump said in an election night speech. “Frankly, we did win this election.”
For the next eight weeks Trump battled in court challenging the election results. When one judge after another rejected or declined to take up Trump's claims of voter fraud, the defeated president latched on to another plan, from a conservative law professor John Eastman, to challenge the results when Congress met to certify the election, scheduled for Jan. 6.
Trump met privately with members of Congress who would reject the election results from their states, and encouraged hundreds of electors to send Congress his name as the winner, rather than Biden.
But “over and over again,” Cheney said, the president was told there was no voter fraud that could have tipped the election.
“This is bull—-,” former Attorney General Bill Barr testified that he told the president.
When told of Barr's interview to an AP reporter declaring there was no fraud, the president threw his lunch in the Oval Office dining room. "There was ketchup dripping down the wall," testified former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who helped the president's valet mop it up.
'WE’RE GOING TO WALK DOWN TO THE CAPITOL'
The committee revealed new evidence that the attack on the Capitol was not a spontaneous event but one set in motion by the president's actions.
Summoning supporters to Washington for a “big” rally Jan. 6, Trump spoke before the crowd at the Ellipse outside the White House and sent them marching to the Capitol.
“We're going to walk down — and I'll be there with you,” Trump told the crowd. “We're going to walk down to the Capitol.”
The committee revealed in text messages from rally organizer Kylie Kremer that there were plans for a second stage to be set up outside the Capitol, which sits across from the Supreme Court.
Alarmed, White House counsel Pat Cipollone scrambled to prevent Trump from going to the Capitol, desperately worried that if he did, it would be seen as the president interfering with the U.S. election.
“We’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen,” Hutchinson recalled Cipollone telling her.
After Trump left the rally stage, he had a confrontation with the security agent driving the presidential SUV, demanding to be taken to the Capitol, Hutchinson said. It's an account that the Secret Service denies. But the service has not publicly testified about it as Hutchinson has under oath.
Instead, the security detail drove Trump back to the White House, where an aide told him about the riot at the Capitol.
“Within 15 minutes of leaving the stage, President Trump knew that the Capitol was besieged and under attack,” Cheney said.
And then Trump went into the Oval Office dining room and for the next three hours refused to call off the mob, watching it all on TV.
“You know, Commander in Chief, you got an assault going on on the Capitol of the United States of America. And there’s nothing? No call? Nothing? Zero?” testified Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
“For hours, Donald Trump chose not to answer the pleas from Congress, from his own party, and from all across our nation to do what his oath required," Cheney said. "He refused to defend our nation and our Constitution.”
THE ATTACK: ‘IT WAS CARNAGE, IT WAS CHAOS’
From the opening hearing, the Jan. 6 committee showed that the attack on the Capitol was not some visit by tourists, as some Trump allies have since maintained, but a gruesome, grisly, deadly fight.
U.S. Capitol Police officer Carolyn Edwards testified about the “war scene” as she stood on the Capitol's West Front trying to push back the mob — some armed with shields, flag poles, stun guns, bear spray, and guns.
"It was carnage, it was chaos," she said. "I was slipping in people's blood."
The panel showed how extremist Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, whose leaders now face rare sedition charges, had been planning for Jan. 6 for weeks, including a stunning parking garage meeting the night before filmed by a documentarian who testified before the committee.
Among the more than 100 officers injured that day some have sat in the front row through the hearings.
Nine people died in the attack and its aftermath, including a Trump supporter shot by police.
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 terms of imprisonment.
UNSUNG HEROES, ENDURING QUESTIONS FOR DEMOCRACY
Throughout the six weeks of public hearings, the Jan. 6 has shown just how fragile is the U.S. hold on democracy.
Lower-level Republican officials, including Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger who refused Trump's demands to “find 11,740 votes" or Arizona Speaker Rusty Bowers who rejected the scheme for an alternative slate of electors from his state, endured threats as they stood up the president's pressure.
Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman recounted their fear, sadness and anger over a president who publicly and falsely accused them of voter fraud, leaving the mother and daughter still afraid to live their lives.
Vice President Mike Pence withstood the howls of rioters chanting “Hang Mike Pence!” as he refused Trump's demands to reject the electors. Pence also refused to leave the Capitol. Instead, he called the Pentagon to bring in the National Guard to secure the building — so Congress could resume certifying the election.
Pence “did not want to take any chance that the world would see the Vice President of the United States fleeing the United States Capitol," his top counsel Greg Jacob testified. "He was determined that we would complete the work that we had set out to do that day.”
The day after the election, Trump was convinced by his team to deliver an address to the nation, but he would not stick to the script.
“I don’t want to say the election’s over,” Trump said during outtakes of a video address shown by the committee. His daughter, Ivanka Trump, can be heard off camera, encouraging him to try again.
Chairman Bennie Thompson has said the committee will continue its work, with more hearings in September, as it prepares its reports.
“January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup,” said Thompson, D-Miss. “The violence was no accident. It represents seeing Trump’s last stand, most desperate chance to halt the transfer of power.”
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EXCLUSIVE: Forgotten recording of smash-hit 1980s single is released to raise money for Ukrainian refugees
- The song in question was an unreleased acoustic version of the hit Mike and The Mechanics song Silent Running, performed by Scottish musician BA Robertson
- Penned in 1985, the lyrics to the track are nevertheless hauntingly prescient
- Two months on, that acoustic version will be released today as a charity single
It was the song's opening line that moved Lorri Hales to tears that sunny day before Easter, as she and her partner Steve drove home from a visit to see their grandchildren.
'The children were self-isolating because of Covid, so we couldn't go in and see them, so because I was feeling a bit down on the way back, Steve decided to put some music on in the car,' Lorri says now, sitting in her kitchen with rescue dog Tia sleeping by her feet.
'It was a track I hadn't listened to before and I just heard the words, "Take the children and yourself and hide out in the cellar," and it made me cry because I instantly thought, "That's Ukraine. This song could have been made for Ukraine." And I knew we had to do something with it.'
The song in question was an unreleased acoustic version of the hit Mike and The Mechanics song Silent Running, performed by the Scottish musician and songwriter BA Robertson, who co-wrote the track. Penned back in 1985, the lyrics are nevertheless hauntingly prescient, evoking a family barricading themselves against a war raging outside, and a country desperately calling out for help.
Two months on, that acoustic version of Silent Running by BA Robertson will be released today as a charity single.
Lorri Hales (pictured) near her home at Gartloch. Lorri heard the song and came up with the idea.'Song for Ukraine' currently in the works, a re-recording of the Mike and Mechanics song Still Running sung by BA Robertson, who wrote the original version
Picture of packers on the line making humanitarian food box at Oakland International in Leicester. Humanitarian food boxes are being prepared bound for the Ukraine with the Mail Force charity
It will be available on all major digital platforms including iTunes, Amazon and Spotify. All proceeds will go to Mail Force's Ukraine Appeal, which, thanks to the incredible generosity of Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday readers, has so far raised more than £13million for Ukraine.
No one is more surprised than BA himself (his full name is Brian Alexander but he always goes by BA), a titan of the song writing world whose credits vary from Cliff Richard's Wired for Sound to Mike and The Mechanics' huge number one hit The Living Years.
'I don't listen much to my own tracks - don't have myself on shuffle,' the usually reclusive songwriter told the Mail. 'I had forgotten about this performance so it was easy to say, "Let's do it".'
That Lorri's partner Steve even had the track to play in the car that day was sheer coincidence. An old friend of BA and former manager of the band Runrig who, as he describes it, 'helps BA out with bits and pieces', Steve had recently got a new phone with a bigger memory, and had downloaded a few new playlists he had made up from his vast music library.
'I have a real love of live music and BA had performed this particular track in Edinburgh back in 2004, so I just dropped it into the playlist without really thinking about it. But then when it came on and I saw Lorri's reaction, I thought, "Wow".'
The pair parked outside a supermarket and through her tears, 63-year old-Lorri told her partner of 12 years in no uncertain terms that he had to phone BA and persuade him to release it for charity.
'He said, "OK, I'll phone him, but you need to get out the car first, I don't want you heckling him",' she says. 'By the time I'd got back from the shops BA had agreed. And I'm so glad. Because when you hear it, it's absolutely straight from the heart.'
A Mail Force Ukraine Appeal truck loaded with food boxes arrives at the depot in Poland accompanied all the way from Leicester
Part of the song's beauty lies in its simplicity. It was recorded at the Gilded Balloon in Edinburgh during the 2004 festival at one of BA's rare live gigs, and unlike the original version of Silent Running, which is a heavy track with a strong beat, laden with synths, this one features just BA and a piano. The result is both melancholy and moving, particularly when he reaches the chorus, and the plaintive lines 'can you hear me calling you?'
'That made me think of President Zelenskyy asking the world to help,' says Lorri.
'Then there is a line that runs, "There's a gun and ammunition just inside the doorway, use it only in emergency".
'Just a few days before I'd seen a Ukrainian woman with her two children on the news being interviewed in her kitchen and she was saying, "These are the children's grab bags, if they have to run and hide in the cellar", and then she said, "This is my gun".
'It was sitting on the kitchen table quite casually. This was a woman, a mother, willing to fight and die for her country and protect her children. It really resonated with me. And it seemed like the song was telling her story.' But while Lorri sees the Ukrainian struggle against Russia in the lyrics, BA is less clear about their meaning, preferring to leave it up to the individual listener.
'I don't really like to analyse my work,' he says.
'Often it can just be an immaculate stumble, written in haste, on a deadline. There was a lyric I wrote before this one, with a different title, on a different subject. I wrote this lyric on a single sheet of paper, with an extra verse that we didn't use. It's one of my favourite Mechanics songs.'
BA Robertson is one of Scotland's greatest songwriters, yet for most of the past two decades he has chosen to stay out of the limelight, so much so that he hardly ever gives interviews (his comments to the Mail about the song are a rare exception) and has not performed publicly since 2010.
'He shies away from the public eye,' says Steve. 'BA consciously made a decision many years ago not to perform but to write instead. He has deliberately avoided the limelight, and that's his choice. It was a bit of a sea-change to get him to agree to do this but when I conveyed to him the impact it had on Lorri he said, "Well if it's that important, let's do it".'
Some may remember BA as the writer of the 1982 Scotland World Cup song, We Have a Dream, or from his hits Kool in the Kaftan and Bang Bang.
In the early 1980s he was a regular face on television, once guesting as a presenter on Top of the Pops, appearing on shows such as Saturday Swap Shop and Cheggers Plays Pop, and even making an appearance as Bob Cratchit in a Kenny Everett Christmas Carol special. What is less known is his more serious work, including the time he spent in the Nineties living in Los Angeles and working as a music producer in the Walt Disney Studio, before moving to Ireland and finally back to Scotland.
Indeed, so well connected is he that it was BA's Hollywood connections that gave Tim Rice and Elton John the chance to work on the Lion King soundtrack.
'To understand BA, you need to know that his desire was to be a writer,' says Steve.
'And when you dig into what he's written, it is a far more interesting and valued contribution to music than, as he calls them, his cartoon pop songs.'
As well as Wired for Sound, BA also wrote Carrie for Cliff Richard and songs for artists including Chaka Khan, Peter Frampton, Michael Crawford and Patti LaBelle.
Then there is the brace of Mike and The Mechanics songs, the most famous of them all the achingly beautiful The Living Years, which was co-written by BA about the death of his own father. It was a huge hit, soaring to number one in the US in 1989 and winning an Ivor Novello award in Britain for best song.
The song opened doors for BA in America, and before long he found himself working alongside legends such as Burt Bacharach and John Barry.
'If you don't have a hit then you don't get to go on and do the other stuff. I would never have got in the same room as these people if I hadn't had The Living Years - it becomes your calling card,' he said once.
But the Hollywood life ultimately did not suit him, and now the 71-year-old lives in quiet and happy seclusion back home in Scotland. The war in Ukraine, however, has forced him out of retirement, and he says that he is incensed by what is happening there. 'It's a war propagated by a pensioner,' he says.
'Putin, Lavrov, Lukashenko don't care what the world looks like in 20 years.'
Releasing Silent Running then, with all its profits going to aid the Mail Force Appeal, is a way to give back.
Says Lorri: 'I really wanted to do something and there's a real feeling of being impotent in a situation where you want to help. This felt like a tangible way to do that.
'I would love for people everywhere to hear the song and stop and think about it.
'It's so obviously topical, it really is a song for Ukraine. So if people can spread the word, download it and listen, just do as much as they can and make as much money for the charity as possible, that would be wonderful.'
BA says that he hopes people take the message from the song that family is, perhaps, the most important thing in life.
'When I wrote it, my wife was pregnant with our first child, my father close to dying,' he says.
'He died before that child was born - one leaves, one arrives. My family experience in a civilised world is what tens of thousands are suffering under the most horrific circumstances every day.
'Like the guy in the song, they want to protect the things they love. If no one is listening there is little they can do, but there is a longing to try.'
Silent Running will be available to download on all major digital platforms including iTunes, Amazon and Spotify from today.
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Officers describe horror in hallways following Parkland shooting
Law enforcement officers who charged into Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School minutes after Nikolas Cruz fatally shot 17 in one of its buildings described for jurors Friday the horrific scene they encountered.
Two Coral Springs police officers and a Broward County sheriff's deputy told of finding dead, dying and wounded students and staff members at the three-story classroom building where Cruz massacred 14 students and three staff members and wounded 17 more with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle on Feb. 14, 2018.
“I observed a child dead on the ground on the left and there was smoke and dust in the air,” said Broward Sgt. Richard Van Der Eems in the flat, professional tone the officers all used. Worried that the shooter might still be in the building, he said he pointed his gun to provide cover as other officers led students and teachers out of the building and carried out the wounded. They didn't know that Cruz had fled the building about three minutes earlier.
Van Der Eems and other officers entered the building immediately after arriving, about 10 minutes after the shooting began. Then-Broward Deputy Scot Peterson, the school's security officer, is charged with child neglect for staying outside while Cruz continued shooting. He has pleaded not guilty and is scheduled for trial early next year. Other deputies were disciplined for failing to go into the building when they arrived.
The police in Uvalde, Texas, are being criticized for waiting more than an hour before confronting a gunman who killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in May.
Coral Springs Capt. Nicholas Mazzei said that as he ran to the building, he found the body of assistant football coach Aaron Feis, who was shot trying to stop Cruz.
“I checked him for vitals, realized he was deceased," Mazzei said. He said he then went inside and found athletic director Christopher Hixon, who later died of wounds he received while confronting Cruz. He said they talked, but prosecutors did not ask what was said.
Coral Springs Detective David Alfin said he climbed the stairs to the third-floor landing, where he found Cruz's rifle and vest next to the body of 14-year-old Jaime Guttenberg.
“I checked her vital signs for breath and pulse and I found none,” he said, adding that he checked two or three times. “We held there for a moment and ... heard a voice from the hallway.”
He, Van Der Eems and others went to the third floor, where they found other bodies and a severely wounded Anthony Borges, who was lying in the middle of the hallway, raising his hand and trying to yell to get their attention.
The officers were shown photos of the victims they saw, but those weren't immediately shared with the jury.
Friday's session concludes a week of often emotional testimony covering the attack and Cruz's attempted escape.
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://www.wmur.com/article/officers-testifiy-in-parkland-shooting-sentencing-trial/40693024 | 2022-07-22T22:36:07Z | https://www.wmur.com/article/officers-testifiy-in-parkland-shooting-sentencing-trial/40693024 | true |
Two children in U.S. diagnosed with monkeypox, officials say
NEW YORK (AP) — Two children have been diagnosed with monkeypox in the U.S., health officials said Friday.
One is a toddler in California and the other an infant who is not a U.S. resident but was tested while in Washington, D.C., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The children were described as being in good health and receiving treatment. How they caught the disease is being investigated, but officials think it was through household transmission.
Other details weren’t immediately disclosed.
Monkeypox is endemic in parts of Africa, but this year more than 15,000 cases have been reported in countries that historically don’t see the disease. In the U.S. and Europe, the vast majority of infections have happened in men who have sex with men, though health officials have stressed that anyone can catch the virus.
In addition to the two pediatric cases, health officials said they were aware of at least eight women among the more than 2,500 U.S. cases reported so far.
While the virus has mostly been spreading among men who have sex with men, “I don’t think its surprising that we are occasionally going to see cases” outside that social network, the CDC’s Jennifer McQuiston told reporters Friday.
Officials have said the virus can spread through close personal contact, and via towels and bedding. That means it can happen in homes, likely through prolonged or intensive contact, said Dr. James Lawler, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
“People don’t crawl on each other’s beds unless they are living in the same house or family,” he said.
In Europe, there have been at least six monkeypox cases among kids 17 years old and younger.
This week, doctors in the Netherlands published a report of a boy who was seen at an Amsterdam hospital with about 20 red-brown bumps scattered across his body. It was monkeypox, and doctors said they could not determine how he got it.
In Africa, monkeypox infections in children have been more common, and doctors have noted higher proportions of severe cases and deaths in young children.
One reason may be that many older adults were vaccinated against smallpox as kids, likely giving them some protection against the related monkeypox virus, Lawler said. Smallpox vaccinations were discontinued when the disease was eradicated about 40 years ago.
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Kyler Murray is a short quarterback by football standards who now has stacks of cash about as tall as anyone's in the NFL.
A low-key personality by nature, Murray is happy that a high-stress offseason contract squabble with the Arizona Cardinals is over.
“There were a lot of ups and downs, a lot of good days, a lot of bad days, a lot of hate and a lot of negativity,” Murray said. “But that's part of the deal.”
Now the deal is done. The two-time Pro Bowl selection has a contract that keeps him with the Cardinals through 2028 and could be worth up to $230.5 million, which puts him in an elite group of the highest-paid NFL quarterbacks.
On Friday afternoon, the quarterback was all smiles in a dapper blue suit at the team's practice facility. His parents were in attendance, along with his bulldog Swoosh, who could be heard panting throughout the press conference as Murray thanked all the family, friends, teammates and coaches who helped him along the way.
He also made it a point to thank the Cardinals, who took him with the No. 1 overall pick in 2019 out of Oklahoma.
“I’m so grateful and honored for the confidence they’ve shown in me,” Murray said. “The faith they showed to take a 5-foot-10 quarterback, that’s never been done before, and I understood the heat they would take for doing that.”
It's safe to say the partnership has worked out well. Paired with offensive-minded coach Kliff Kingsbury, Murray has helped the Cardinals improve in each of his three seasons. Arizona was 5-10-1 during his rookie year, 8-8 in 2020 and then 11-6 last season, when the franchise advanced to the playoffs for the first time since 2015.
Now Murray looks like he'll be with the Cardinals for the forseeable future.
That wasn't always the case this offseason during a weird contract dispute that featured social media shenanigans. It included Murray wiping his accounts of all Cardinals references and a lengthy statement from agent Erik Burkhardt spelling out Murray's accomplishments and pushing the franchise to act.
For all the bluster, Cardinals GM Steve Keim said he was never overly concerned. He said he met with Murray's parents in the offseason, which helped raise his confidence a deal would happen.
“We had great communication with them, felt great about the dialogue, and understood what the expectations were for both sides," Keim said. “Then I just had to get through the draft and free agency, which takes a lot of my time, so once I was able to do that, I was able to focus on the contract. I feel both sides are pretty happy.”
It was clear Murray wasn't completely comfortable with the acrimonious back and forth between his agent and the team. He even seemed to hint that some of the social media antics were Burkhardt's idea — grinning at the agent while responding to a question about offseason drama.
“I’m a quiet dude when it comes to social media,” Murray said. “Just to sit there and take all the shots, it is what it is. But I understood it’s part of the business.”
Now Murray can focus on making the Cardinals better. Arizona looked like one of the best teams in the NFL for much of 2021, starting with a 10-2 record before losing four of the last five games and getting thumped by the Rams 34-11 in the NFC wild-card round.
Murray said the sting of that loss could be good motivation moving forward. He envisions much more success in the future, including winning the Super Bowl for a franchise that hasn't won an NFL championship since 1947.
“I'm a firm believer in bringing that here,” Murray said. “I know we're capable. I know it can be done.”
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The house where I was raised had an open shelf rule. This meant my brother and I were allowed to read anything, no matter how inappropriate or beyond our years. We never had to ask.
I spent hours of my childhood perusing the volumes on my father’s bookcases at will, trial and error. Histories, thrillers, science fiction, books on politics and culture — all of it was available to me.
I keep thinking about this as more and more school districts participate in what is shaping up to look like an open war against reading. According to “Banned in the USA,” a report issued by the writers’ organization PEN America in April, nearly 1,600 individual books were banned in 26 states between July 1, 2021 and March 31, 2022.
Among the titles challenged or removed are Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me,” Elizabeth Acevedo’s “The Poet X,” Roxane Gay’s “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body” and Robin Benway’s “Far From the Tree.” All are works of abiding literary merit that address issues of identity and race and family — in other words, exactly the kinds of books students should be reading now.
Although the challenging of books and curriculum is hardly new in the United States, what we’re facing now is somewhat different. Of the current bans, PEN notes, “41% (644 individual bans) are tied to directives from state officials or elected lawmakers to investigate or remove books in schools.” It is not parents or even school boards driving many of these challenges. It is the power of the state.
That represents, says PEN, “an unprecedented shift.”
I take it for granted that books are good for us. Countless studies have reinforced what many recognize from experience: Literature encourages compassion.
At the same time, there’s more to reading than learning to be a better person. Books are not vegetables, after all. We don’t read them for the same reasons we take vitamins, or eat healthy meals. Part of the joy of reading — its essential fiber, if you will — is the way it can disturb us, disrupting our preconceptions and easy pieties. Part of what books do is to show us who we are or might become.
I know this from my open-shelf experiences. Often, the more inappropriate or beyond me a book was, the more intensely I was drawn to it. I count myself lucky that I was surrounded by adults willing to let me find my own level — not just at home but also at school.
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It was not only the reading, in other words, that was important but also the permission to do it widely, indiscriminately. That freedom left me feeling respected, affirmed. And it led me, by my early teens, to “inappropriate” writers that in the end couldn’t have been more appropriate: among them, Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, Sam Greenlee and Philip Roth.
Writers like these represented a gateway to other authors and narratives. Vonnegut led me to Samuel Beckett, Greenlee to James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka. From Heller, I moved on to Terry Southern and William Burroughs. And “Portnoy” prepared me for the magnificent “Fear of Flying” by Erica Jong.
Reading such books as I found them helped me to reckon with the complexities and contradictions of the adult world. More important, by thinking alongside their authors, I began to think for myself.
This, of course, is what the book banners object to, that readers might be influenced by ideas that legislators, parents, the neighbors down the block don’t like.
PEN sees the issue through the lens of the 1st Amendment, which is valid, especially given the actions of so many lawmakers and the effects on so many constituencies. But I don’t want to overlook that other lens — of curiosity, self-knowledge, possibility, inquiry. Literature gives us language by which to know ourselves.
But in order to do that, it has to be available. It has to remain on the shelves. Where would we be without inappropriate reading? Ask any reader and they’ll tell you: We would be lost.
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The family of Jayland Walker want the Department of Justice to take over the investigation into his killing. Taking a moment out of a day that was otherwise spent celebrating Jayland’s birthday, the family held a press conference on Wednesday explaining the new call for action.
Bobby DiCello, attorney for the Walker family, told reporters Wednesday that the DOJ needed to take over the investigation insinuating that the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation could not be trusted to reach a just conclusion. He pointed to recent interviews with local media by the police union president and suggested the integrity of the investigation was in jeopardy.
“All of these questions raise enormous concerns for the integrity of an investigation that the entire world is watching,” DiCello said. “For the integrity of an investigation that a city and state depend on. Make no doubt about this. The bureau of criminal investigation in the Attorney General’s office was brought in to maintain some form of trust, some form of integrity in this investigation.
According to local news, the state bureau denied that any information had been provided to the police union while asserting the rights of officers to have a right to counsel. DiCello said folks trying to defend the 90 bullets discharged at Jayland would make this entire process more difficult.
“Our hearts are heavy today because we had to begin Jayland’s birthday with this strange need that law enforcement seems to have always get the last word in when someone dies,” he said. “Let me give everybody on that side of this conversation a tip. The more you focus on Jayland, the better things are going to be. The more you focus on the change that we need in this community, the better things are going to be.”
The family now joins the NAACP’s request for the problem. The national civil rights organization first issued the call for DOJ intervention a week ago.
Judy Hill, president of the Akron Chapter of the NAACP, called for the city to enact reforms, including prohibiting high-speed chases for simple equipment violations.
“There’s no justification for 90 bullets,” she said. “There’s no justification for killing someone for a traffic stop. There are things that we can do in our city to protect our residents in a way that hasn’t been done before.”
DiCello said the family has been patient with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, and now is the time for the DOJ to step in.
“We’ve given it that opportunity, and now we are calling on the Department of Justice to replace the bureau of criminal investigation,” DiCello said. “This is no empty call. I’ve spoken with Sen. Sherrod Brown. He is facilitating our dialogue with the Department of Justice.”
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(WGN) – The BA.4 and BA.5 variants make up more than 90% of COVID-19 cases in the U.S., according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As the highly contagious subvariants of omicron run rampant through the country, many people are turning to home tests to see if they’re infected.
Can you trust at-home COVID-19 tests to catch sneaky BA.4 and BA.5?
While the two new subvariants are better at evading prior immunity, they’re not any better at evading testing. At-home tests and lab tests are just as good at detecting BA.4 and BA.5 as past variants.
There’s another issue, however, that might be complicating things, explained Dr. Kevin Most, chief medical officer at Northwestern Medicine’s Central DuPage Hospital, in an interview with WGN.
“A lot of people aren’t getting tested,” Dr. Most said. “Individuals who are testing, you have to make sure you’re testing at the appropriate time. If you run out and test that first day, you might not test positive.”
If you think you have COVID-19, but are still testing negative, try another test 24 to 48 hours later. The CDC recommends testing five days after a close exposure.
If you continue to test negative despite having prolonged symptoms, it’s possible you could be sick with something else.
“We also have to understand — regular infections are back. So the regular, generic, good old sinus infections, and bronchitis and upper respiratory infections, are certainly back,” Dr. Most said. “If you have full-blown symptoms for three or four days, and you’re still testing negative, there’s not going to be a doctor that says, ‘Here, take Paxlovid.’ We’re going to be watching you for a bacterial sinus infection or something else.'”
Listen to the full interview with Dr. Most below:
When it comes to any variant of COVID-19, the accuracy of an at-home test depends on your ability to follow instructions, said Dr. Jaquelin Dudley at the University of Texas. Most of the tests come with very specific step-by-step instructions — and they should be followed closely. Self-testers should make sure to swab both nostrils for the appropriate amount of time and wait patiently to see results. | https://www.ksn.com/news/health/coronavirus/can-at-home-covid-tests-detect-ba-4-and-ba-5-subvariants/ | 2022-07-22T22:44:34Z | https://www.ksn.com/news/health/coronavirus/can-at-home-covid-tests-detect-ba-4-and-ba-5-subvariants/ | true |
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.
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WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. - Wouldn't a rain storm feel great right about now?
The "rainfall" wasn't quite real Friday in Whitehall Township, but the relief was.
Credit goes to the township's fire department for giving some kids a break from the extreme heat. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/whitehall-fire-dept-cools-off-residents/article_864b4fd2-0a04-11ed-b760-3f5f3f43d647.html | 2022-07-22T22:49:21Z | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/whitehall-fire-dept-cools-off-residents/article_864b4fd2-0a04-11ed-b760-3f5f3f43d647.html | true |
Connie Hawkins Love, 73, passed away on July 21, 2022 at her home after an extended illness. Connie was born in Amory on February 9, 1949, to Ellie and Sallie Hawkins. She graduated from Amory High School in 1967 and attended the Mississippi University for Women where she was a member of the Lancer social club. On March 17, 1973, Connie married Andy Love. They started a family shortly after and were blessed with two children, Drew and Nancy. They were members of First Presbyterian Church of Amory where Connie was a Sunday school teacher, member of The Session, and a true servant who used her gifts of creativity and hospitality to enrich the lives of her church family. Through the years, Connie worked a variety of jobs doing whatever necessary to help meet the needs of her family. Always putting others first, she and Andy enjoyed going out of their way to help neighbors and friends. Their house was always a fun place to gather and a central hub for Drew and Nancy's friends through the years. From the very first grandchild, Connie became affectionately known as "Nana" and took spoiling to a whole new level. Bedtimes were always negotiable, you could eat what you wanted/when you wanted it, no craft project was too messy, and trips to Dollar Tree were unlimited. Connie fiercely loved her grandchildren and they always knew it. Though Connie was physically limited later in life, she had a quiet strength of grace and dignity that was inspiring to her family and friends. Never complaining or wanting to be a burden to others, she was content to be the quiet support in the background. She was an example to us all. Survivors include her children, Drew Love (Jennifer), of Tupelo, MS, Nancy Love Hoang (Hoat), of Amory, MS; grandchildren, Olivia Love, Emerson Love, Mallory Love, Hannah Hoang, and Luke Hoang; niece Nicki Luzack (Tony) of Starkville, MS. She was preceded in death by her husband, Andy; her parents, Ellie and Sallie Hawkins; and her brother, Tommy Hawkins. The family would like to express our gratitude to her caregivers Margaret Dobbs, Denna Abbott, Sharon Pickle, and Crystal Bowden for the special kindness and love they showed Connie and family. A service honoring Connie's life will be on Sunday, July 24, at 3pm at St. Helen Catholic Church in Amory with Dr. Tom Cheatham officiating. Visitation will precede the service at 2pm. Graveside services will follow at Amory Historical Society Cemetery in Amory, MS. Pallbearers will be Bill Jurney, Danny Jones, John Hathcote, Michael Abbott, Bert Mize and Jeff Pearson. In lieu of flowers or gifts, donations may be made to the Amory Food Pantry at 123 South Main Street, Amory, MS 38821, or a charity of your choice.
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Polio 101: Signs, symptoms and dangers of an ancient virus
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN
An ancient virus, polio has crippled and killed humans for centuries. Etchings on Egyptian vessels show people with withered legs on crutches.
Striking children younger than 5 the hardest, the worst form of the virus causes nerve injury that can lead to paralysis, difficulty breathing and death. During 20th century epidemics, the virus often struck in warm summer months, sweeping through towns and cities every year or so.
Polio was one of the world’s most feared diseases until Dr. Jonas Salk invented the polio vaccine and tested its safety in 1954.
“In the early 1950s, before polio vaccines were available, polio outbreaks caused more than 15,000 cases of paralysis each year” in the United States, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted. “Parents were frightened to let their children go outside, especially in the summer when the virus seemed to peak.”
By 1988, reported cases of polio worldwide reached a peak of 350,000, according to the World Health Organization.
What causes polio?
An enterovirus called the poliovirus causes polio. There are three strains, two of which have been eliminated in the world, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, a WHO program.
One type of wild polio virus still circulates in Pakistan and Afghanistan, however, and can be picked up by travelers and carried worldwide. “It takes only one traveler with polio to bring the disease into the United States,” the CDC said.
Transmission can also occur when not enough children are vaccinated in an area. That typically occurs with the oral polio vaccine, created by Dr. Albert Sabin and first used in 1961. This vaccine’s formulation has a mixture of each of the three types of live attenuated poliovirus strains, according to GPEI.
“The weakened strains are shed by vaccinated children into the environment via their digestive systems and can pass from one unvaccinated individual to another, a process exacerbated by poor sanitation systems and the absence of clean drinking water,” the GPEI said.
Once the strain has infected an unvaccinated person, it begins to circulate and can be carried via travel around the world.
That may be a factor in the recent diagnosis of polio in a Rockland County, New York, man, the first case of polio in the United States since 2013, according to the New York State Department of Health.
Tests confirmed by the CDC found a type of virus that would have come from someone who had received “the oral polio vaccine (OPV), which is no longer authorized or administered in the U.S.,” the health department said in a statement.
“This suggests that the virus may have originated in a location outside of the U.S. where OPV is administered, since (reverted) strains cannot emerge from inactivated vaccines,” the statement said.
Health professionals around the world commonly use different types of oral vaccines to fight polio, because they are inexpensive, easy to administer, safe, effective and offer long-lasting protection. However, Salk’s original, inactivated polio vaccine, administered via a series of shots in childhood, has been the only version in use in the US since 2000, the CDC said.
Polio is highly contagious
The polio virus lives in an infected person’s throat and intestines. People carrying the poliovirus, including those without symptoms, can spread the highly contagious virus for weeks in their feces. In rare cases, viral transmission can occur via droplets from a sneeze or cough, the CDC said.
Most people come into contact with polio by picking up a tiny piece of infected poop and then touching the mouth. Exposure to the virus also occurs when children mouth toys or other objects contaminated with feces.
In unsanitary conditions, the virus can also spread via contaminated food and water.
Symptoms of polio start like the flu
Like Covid-19, many cases of polio are asymptomatic. In fact, people have no symptoms in about 95% of all polio cases, the CDC said.
When symptoms appear, they can take three forms. Flu-like symptoms such as headache, sore throat, nausea, diarrhea, fever and fatigue are characteristics of abortive polio.
If those symptoms include additional neurological symptoms, such as light sensitivity or a stiff neck, the person may have nonparalytic polio.
The most dangerous version of polio can cause paralysis within “a matter of hours,” the WHO said. The illness begins with flu-like symptoms, then transitions into muscle pain or spasms, and loss of reflexes. Paralysis of one side or the other can follow.
The disease can also affect lungs — between 5% and 10% of people die when their breathing muscles become immobilized, according to the WHO. During the epidemics of the 1940s and ’50s, patients were often put into an iron lung to help them breathe.
However, statistics have shown that in most cases of paralytic polio, the person recovers — fewer than 1% of people who contract polio become paralyzed, according to GPEI. Unfortunately, muscle or joint weakness and pain, breathing and swallowing problems, sleep issues and cold intolerance can remain for life in some cases. The virus can even hide, lying dormant, and then appear years later in what is called post-polio syndrome, the CDC said.
Treatment for polio
There is no cure for polio, only treatment to alleviate the symptoms.
“Heat and physical therapy (are) used to stimulate the muscles and antispasmodic drugs are given to relax the muscles,” the GPEI said. “While this can improve mobility, it cannot reverse permanent polio paralysis.”
Vaccination is the only prevention.
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Health officials in New York have discovered a case of polio in an adult — the first case in the country since 2013.
The good news is most people have nothing to worry about. "Unless you're unvaccinated," according to retired family physician and polio survivor Marny Eulberg.
The New York State Department of Health said the unvaccinated individual from Rockland County likely contracted the virus from someone outside of the country who had taken an oral polio vaccine, which hasn't been authorized for use in the U.S. since 2000.
Additional details about the patient have yet to be released, but Eulberg said this instance will likely be attributed to the oral vaccine, which contains weakened live strains of the virus.
Over time, this weaker strain of polio can mutate and behave more like a natural version of the virus and spread to unvaccinated people. This is defined as a vaccine-derived polio virus case. Had the individual in New York been vaccinated, Eulberg said, this wouldn't have happened.
The majority of people in the United States have been vaccinated against polio — nearly 93% of children have by the age of two, the CDC says — because many states children require a polio vaccine to attend school. However, some people are granted religious exemptions and a handful of states leave that decision to the parents, Eulberg notes.
"Polio is a viral infectious disease that a small percentage of cases attack the nerves in the spinal cord that tell the body what to do and then causes paralysis," she said.
Given the seriousness of the virus, New York's Rockland County is urging unvaccinated residents to get the vaccine and announced clinics to make it easy for local residents to do so.
Eulberg was infected with polio in 1950 when she was just 4 years old — five years before a vaccine was available in the United States. She was hospitalized for six months. She said her left leg was paralyzed and she required a leg brace and crutches to get around for a portion of her childhood.
By the time she was in high school she no longer needed the brace or crutches because the surviving nerves made up for the ones damaged by the virus. But 35 years later, her condition began to deteriorate.
About half of all polio survivors experience some level of paralysis later in life, she explained. Though there's no definitive answer as to why that happens, the leading theory is that the surviving nerves wear down over time.
"It's not polio coming back; we're not contagious," Eulberg said. "It's just something that happens to up to 50% of the people who had polio in the past and it happens 20 to 50 years later."
Polio has more or less been eradicated across the globe, but remains in impoverished countries that struggle with vaccination rates and clean water. Most cases remain in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Rotary International and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation renewed their partnership in January by pledging up to $450 million to help eradicate the polio virus globally.
Editor's note: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is among NPR's financial supporters.
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NEWTON, Iowa — IndyCar champion Alex Palou insisted Friday he wasn’t lying last month when he told The Associated Press he was happy driving for Chip Ganassi Racing, wasn’t talking to any other teams, and was set to return to the No. 10 next season.
Now both Ganassi and McLaren Racing believe they have the 25-year-old Spaniard under contract for next season in a fight likely to be decided by lawyers. Chip Ganassi last week said he picked up the exclusive option he held on Palou, while McLaren head Zak Brown said he’s signed Palou to drive for him.
Palou told AP on Friday at Iowa Speedway that his c omments made June 3 in Detroit “is not a lie” and he remains content at Ganassi.
“I’m super happy in the 10 car,” Palou said.
So then why does he want to drive for McLaren?
“Opportunities. The future,” Palou said. “I agree with you that I would never have said being a champion and being part of Chip Ganassi Racing, I would ever consider something (else).”
And now Palou, who is in just his third season of IndyCar and second season driving for Ganassi, is doing his best to focus on finishing this season. He heads into the Saturday and Sunday doubleheader at Iowa ranked third in the standings and only 37 points out of the lead in his pursuit of a second consecutive title.
But he’s embroiled in a bizarre situation not seen very often in IndyCar with all his competitors waiting and watching in anticipation to see how Palou’s contract predicament gets settled. McLaren has given no indication it will pay to buy Palou out of his contract with Ganassi because McLaren signed him under the assumption he was a clear free agent.
If Ganassi requires payment to release Palou, the cash would have to come from Palou’s side.
But the situation is so much more complicated than that: Scott Dixon, his teammate and the six-time IndyCar champion, has been openly critical of Palou’s handling of his situation and told AP he didn’t speak to Palou all weekend in Toronto.
Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson said he sent Palou a text ahead of Toronto, but has otherwise been avoiding his IndyCar teammate to stay removed from the drama and tension. Only Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus Ericsson said things have been status quo between him and Palou, and both Palou and Ganassi have acknowledged they’ve yet to speak to each other despite sitting in engineering meetings together last weekend.
And, Palou said Friday that while his communication with the No. 10 crew remains steady, he’s been denied access to team data while at his home.
“I don’t have the access I had before to the data and all that stuff from home,” he said. “When I’m here, I have it. Not from home like the same I had before. Which I understand. It’s normal. I think I’d do the same if it was my team. It changed. But I understand it. It’s not that I’m out of meetings and stuff like that.”
The resolution of Palou’s contract will trigger a domino effect that is currently holding other drivers in limbo. Felix Rosenqvist, for example, doesn’t know if he’ll return to McLaren next year in IndyCar or be shifted to Formula E to make room for Palou.
Rinus VeeKay, in a contract year at Ed Carpenter Racing, doesn’t know if the No. 10 might be open next year. He said Friday he’s in discussions on an extension with Carpenter, but has no idea what other seats might open for next year.
VeeKay was in North Carolina last Tuesday on the Chevrolet simulator when he saw on social media that Palou’s option had been extended. By the time he checked his phone again when he returned home to Florida, Palou had issued a series of tweets refuting his return to Ganassi and McLaren had announced it had signed the driver.
“My whole Uber ride home, my mouth was just hanging open reading my phone,” VeeKay said. “Every driver is reading every article trying to learn more because it’s definitely not your usual situation. I would secretly have to say this is an amusing time.”
So what happens next?
“To be honest, like no lying, I have no idea,” Palou told AP. “I’m going to focus on racing because it’s a lot of noise, and too much. I don’t like noise, I don’t like this kind of stuff. So instead of of trying to understand what’s going on, I’m going to try to do everything perfectly on track and the rest, my (management) is going to sort it out.”
But as everyone waits to see where Palou drives next year — and the McLaren Formula One team is not out of the question — Palou said “yeah” he knows where he will be in 2022.
And where is that? “I’m not going to say what I think. OK? No comment,” he said.
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Joro spiders are spreading in Georgia, S.C., reports say
(Gray News) - There’s a good chance residents in parts of Georgia and South Carolina are seeing large, yellow spiders in their neighborhoods these days.
Joro spiders are seemingly migrating outside of Georgia and here to stay in the U.S., according to recent university reports.
One of those reports comes from a professor at Clemson University who shared that the spiders are a non-native species first found in northern Georgia in 2014. However, they are now showing up in more places that include regions in South Carolina and counties in Georgia, especially during the summer months.
According to the report, Joro spider eggs hatch in late spring and juvenile spiders can be seen beginning in early May, making webs on practically anything from homes, decks, porches and plants.
The webs and spiders reportedly will get progressively larger until about September, when large adult females are very noticeable due to their bright coloration. Males are much smaller, drab brown in color, and can often be seen in the webs along with the females.
According to the Clemson University report, the spiders can be nearly 3 inches across with their legs spread.
A 2021 report from the University of Georgia says Joro spiders have been found in 23 Georgia counties and South Carolina. They’re venomous, with a bite comparable to a bee sting but are considered more of a nuisance than anything else.
According to the Georgia report, the spiders, originally from East Asia, are vulnerable to insecticides. However, if one is killed, more are likely to move into the area without a known preventative measure to keep them away.
Biologists say they are concerned that the Joro spider could displace native spiders, but they don’t know yet what impact they will have on animal life.
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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 22, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Lubbock Texas has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northwestern Lubbock County in northwestern Texas...
Northeastern Hockley County in northwestern Texas...
Southwestern Hale County in northwestern Texas...
Southeastern Lamb County in northwestern Texas...
* Until 515 PM CDT.
* At 444 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Anton, or 9
miles southeast of Littlefield, moving southeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Littlefield, Anton, Spade, Whitharral and Smyer.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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WASHINGTON, (NEXSTAR) — Inflation remains high, but so is the Biden administration’s hopes that things will turn around.
Top White House economists say strong unemployment rates show the economy can bounce back.
Jared Bernstein, Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser to Vice President of the United States said despite surging inflation, Americans should remain confident the U.S. economy is strong.
“Families across the country are facing … unacceptably high levels of inflation. But they also have a strong labor market behind them,” Bernstein said.
He says the national unemployment rate is at pre-pandemic levels and in June, more than a dozen states reported their lowest unemployment rates ever.
“That trend is your friend right now if you’re a working American household,” Bernstein said.
But according to a recent survey by Bankrate.com, a consumer financial services company, economists are not as confident as the White House.
“There is a great confusion over what the state of the economy is because we have this pandemic-influenced dynamic,” said Mark Hamrick, a senior economic analyst at Bankrate.
He says while job numbers are “quite remarkable,” he fears one wrong move from the Federal Reserve, as it tries to control inflation, could send the economy over the edge.
“Broadly speaking, economists are concerned about the risk of a recession,” Hamrick said.
The White House said the strong state jobs report shows its economic policies are working. But the Republican National committee suggests the White House adopt Republican Economic Policies.
U.S. labor data shows 16 of the 20 states with the lowest unemployment rates have Republican governors. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/washington-dc/inflation-white-house-hopeful-economists-worry/ | 2022-07-22T22:59:06Z | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/washington-dc/inflation-white-house-hopeful-economists-worry/ | true |
Ken Daneyko is one step closer to finding his next broadcasting partner.
Over the past few weeks, the former Devils defenseman and MSG color analyst has been working through trials with Steve Cagialosi’s replacement candidates in the play-by-play announcer search. He wasn’t able to reveal names, but Daneyko gave a timetable update on the search. | https://www.nj.com/sports/2022/07/devils-ken-daneyko-on-play-by-play-search-tom-fitzgeralds-offseason-moves-matthew-tkachuk-rumors.html | 2022-07-22T23:00:06Z | https://www.nj.com/sports/2022/07/devils-ken-daneyko-on-play-by-play-search-tom-fitzgeralds-offseason-moves-matthew-tkachuk-rumors.html | true |
A new report from the state examining Humboldt County’s financial issues provides a clearer picture of what led to the county’s failure to submit financial reports on time.
The State Controller’s Office released its report on Humboldt County’s internal controls over financial reporting Friday, finding “a backlog of journal entries and lack of bank reconciliations contributed to the county’s inability to complete timely financial reports — compounded by insufficient staffing, inadequate training, and a lack of updated policies and procedures.”
“We appreciate the work of the State Controller’s Office to complete a fair and impartial report,” County Administrative Officer Elishia Hayes said in a statement. “I would like to recognize county staff and the board for their efforts to address the fiscal challenges we have experienced as their work is appreciated and has not gone unnoticed. We are committed to continue making necessary improvements and will support the new interim Auditor-Controller in developing a comprehensive action plan to address the recommendations described in this report.”
Humboldt County has been delinquent in submitting its financial reports for the past two years and the County Administrative Office, several department heads and supervisors laid the blame squarely on the shoulders of former Auditor-Controller Karen Paz Dominguez.
However, the report found the situation was more complicated and the responsibility more widespread.
The backlog of journal entries, for instance, was the result of the Auditor-Controller’s Office initially relying on county departments to submit the entries. The policies and procedures required the departments to submit no more than two pages of documentation, which was insufficient detail and limited the office’s ability to look for errors, of which there were many “including incorrect object codes for classifying transactions into specific accounting categories; unbalanced debits and credits; insufficient or missing descriptions; and insufficient or missing supporting documentation.”
A combination of erroneous journal entries, additional review of the journal entries by (Auditor-Controller’s Office), and unrealistic expectation of the time needed to implement the new procedures contributed to the backlog of journal entries,” the report states.
The county previously relied too heavily on external auditors to identify errors so the county hadn’t placed much emphasis on ensuring journal entries were as free from error as possible, the report states.
Similarly, bank reconciliations were difficult to do for outside consultants because of a “lack of documentation and the abundance of transactions.” The process for cash deposits is completed manually and individual deposits are grouped into lump sums before being deposited at the bank.
“This process makes it difficult for accountants to trace deposit amounts from the bank statements to the county’s records,” the report states.
In terms of staffing, the report found the Auditor-Controller’s Office “had ongoing vacancies caused by separations, promotions, and difficulty recruiting qualified staff to fill vacancies.” It’s had three staff positions open on average for two fiscal years and also lost two of its most senior staff.
The shift of payroll to the office also increased the workload, but two of the five payroll staff positions are vacant, forcing the Auditor-Controller’s staff to work on payroll instead of their other duties.
“It also appears that many county staff members lack sufficient knowledge about using the county’s financial accounting software,” the report states. ” … It is difficult to determine whether the continued need for additional training was due to staff turnover, loss of institutional knowledge, or inadequate training.”
Paz Dominguez responded to the report with additional context, stating her office was given a list of essential operations it was limited to engaging in at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and that didn’t include journal entries. She added a new full-time accountant was taken from her office and used to staff the Emergency Operations Center full time.
“Additionally, the Board of Supervisors and its CAO chose to push for the completion of two different projects despite being faced with an unprecedented pandemic and low staffing levels,” Paz Dominguez’s response states. “These two projects were the now-failed project to outsource payroll to ADP and the forced upgrade of the county’s financial software. Both projects required a heavy time investment from the A-C Office that pulled it away from its state-mandated duties and its essential functions.”
In terms of bank reconciliations, Paz Dominguez also said no evidence of bank reconciliations had been provided and that the county “has not had a true bank reconciliation for at least a decade.”
“At the start of fiscal year 2019-2020, the Auditor-Controller implemented a change to the process of recording deposits, aka cash receipts,” the report states. “That change required that deposits be recorded on the day that they were actually deposited at the bank rather than the day the Treasury staff prepared their batch for posting to the general ledger.”
The county response included in the report was different than the one offered Friday, reiterating what has been stated in the past: Paz Dominguez was allocated the resources she needed, but she failed to utilize them effectively to get her duties done and created a hostile workplace in the process.
“I believe this report falls short in describing the efforts of the organization to address the challenges experienced, which have caused financial strain well beyond the untimely filing of the Financial Transactions Reports,” Hayes wrote. “I understand it is the priority of the State Controller to remain neutral in evaluating the county’s practices and my intention is not to discredit those efforts, rather it is to stand firm in the defense of staff and the Board who have vigilantly served this organization and their community in an unprecedented time that has been trying to have their own value systems.”
Paz Dominguez was unavailable for comment by publication time.
Sonia Waraich can be reached at 707-441-0504. | https://www.times-standard.com/2022/07/22/state-controllers-office-says-understaffing-lack-of-training-delayed-completion-of-financial-reports/ | 2022-07-22T23:02:15Z | https://www.times-standard.com/2022/07/22/state-controllers-office-says-understaffing-lack-of-training-delayed-completion-of-financial-reports/ | true |
WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 22, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
616 PM EDT Fri Jul 22 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southeastern Cayuga,
central Cortland, south central Onondaga and northeastern Tompkins
Counties through 645 PM EDT...
At 616 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from Genoa to South Cortland. Movement was northeast
at 35 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...
Cortland, Homer, Virgil, Groton, Locke, Genoa, Preble, Moravia, Scott
and Truxton.
This includes the following highway exits...
New York Interstate 81 between 10 and 13.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 4267 7588 4263 7589 4250 7622 4263 7660
4282 7625
TIME...MOT...LOC 2216Z 244DEG 30KT 4265 7651 4255 7622
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- With sweat dripping down his nose in Raleigh on Friday, Artis Montague didn't hesitate to answer how he was feeling.
"It is hot," Montague said. "I think I had at least 8-10 bottles of water."
Montague, who was working outside the Crank Arm Brewing Company, explained how working in the dog days of summer requires strategy.
"The end of July, beginning of August, it gets real hot during the day and it gets cool at night," Montague said. "I try to eat lots of fruits and vegetables, drink lots of water, get plenty of rest at night. Take plenty of breaks and just pace myself."
Montague also wrapped up his work before the hottest part of the day, which he says is typically in the afternoon.
"It usually gets really hot about 1 to 2 p.m.," Montague said.
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Montague's life is one of the millions in the U.S. and North Carolina that OSHA is working to protect.
Data shows more than one-third of occupational heat-related deaths in the U.S. were construction workers, from 1992 to 2016.
"Cement masons were 10 times more likely to die from heat than the average construction worker," the study found. "Roofers and helpers were seven times more likely."
OSHA currently doesn't have a specific standard for hazardous heat conditions, but as the agency works to develop it, the N.C. department of labor said it is focusing a significant amount of time on outreach, education and training.
"Here at NCDOL, we are in the process of gathering information which will help our staff determine what solutions make sense for North Carolina," NCDOL said.
OSHA included rulemaking on Heat Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings in the pre-rule stage and said they're reviewing the Public Citizen report.
"We have received thousands of comments from stakeholders and employers that will help guide our work in developing an all-encompassing final rule based on the most recently available science and data," OSHA's Doug Parker said. "Rulemaking takes time, and it's critical that we get it right."
NCDOT shared a video on working in hot weather, and if hydration can be easier for Montague, he said he would like to see more water fountains around the city.
OSHA Assistant Secretary Doug Parker:
"Heat illness prevention is one of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's top priorities, and we're taking several measures to protect workers better in hot environments and reduce the dangers of heat exposure. OSHA is reviewing the Public Citizen report and continues to engage worker advocates and employers on best practices for keeping workers safe in extreme heat while helping workers understand and identify the risks of heat illness. As part of the regulatory agenda, OSHA included rulemaking on Heat Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings in the pre-rule stage. We have received thousands of comments from stakeholders and employers that will help guide our work in developing an all-encompassing final rule based on the most recently available science and data. Rulemaking takes time, and it's critical that we get it right. We will continue to improve our efforts and explore opportunities to help employers and workers decrease the risk of heat exposure."
Full statement from NCDOL:
We are certainly aware that North Carolina's summers are hot and humid, which can present safety-related concerns for folks working outdoors in the heat. That's why the OSH Division focuses a significant amount of time on outreach, education and training for workers and employers. We have a section of our website specifically dedicated to heat hazards and heat illness prevention.
As you'll see, our website offers recommendations for staying safe in the heat, industry guides that detail requirements for various sectors, technical assistance, webinars and sample programs for employers to put in place at their worksite. Our OSH Division is also available by phone at 919-707-7876 if employers need assistance.
We are aware that federal OSHA is working on new heat stress standards and we are closely monitoring that progress. Here at NCDOL, we are in the process of gathering information (that) will help our staff determine what solutions make sense for North Carolina. | https://abc11.com/osha-heat-work-rules-ncdol-wave/12067712/ | 2022-07-22T23:04:14Z | https://abc11.com/osha-heat-work-rules-ncdol-wave/12067712/ | false |
WFO NORMAN Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 22, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Norman OK
427 PM CDT Fri Jul 22 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 8 PM CDT
SATURDAY...
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 8 PM CDT SUNDAY...
* WHAT...For the first Heat Advisory, heat index values up to
104. For the second Heat Advisory, heat index values up to 106
expected. For the third Heat Advisory, heat index values up to
107 expected.
* WHERE...Portions of central, east central, northern,
northwest, southeast, southern and southwest Oklahoma and
northern Texas.
* WHEN...For the first Heat Advisory, until 8 PM CDT this
evening. For the second Heat Advisory, from noon to 8 PM CDT
Saturday. For the third Heat Advisory, from noon to 8 PM CDT
Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
104 expected. For the second Heat Advisory, heat index values
up to 105 expected.
* WHERE...In Oklahoma, Blaine, Caddo, Woods and Comanche
Counties. In Texas, Archer and Wichita Counties.
* WHEN...For the first Heat Advisory, from noon to 8 PM CDT
Saturday. For the second Heat Advisory, from noon to 8 PM CDT
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Hockley
and southeastern Lamb Counties through 445 PM CDT...
At 427 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Littlefield, moving southwest at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Littlefield, Whitharral and Spade.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3401 10231 3390 10213 3360 10234 3373 10258
TIME...MOT...LOC 2127Z 037DEG 5KT 3390 10228
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL HOUSTON COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 430 PM CDT...
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Borden,
northern Martin, northwestern Howard and southern Dawson Counties
through 515 PM CDT...
At 431 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Ackerly, moving southwest at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and penny size hail.
Big Spring, Lamesa, Ackerly, Lenorah, Lamesa Municipal Airport,
Luther, Los Ybanez, Sparenberg, Patricia, Arvana, Tenmile, Knott,
Vealmoor, Key, Klondike and Hancock.
LAT...LON 3268 10129 3227 10140 3228 10189 3252 10220
3272 10220 3283 10191
TIME...MOT...LOC 2131Z 029DEG 16KT 3257 10163
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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New shoe store steps into Jackson
JACKSON, Tenn. — A new shoe store is stepping into the Hub City.
Remix Shoe Store will be opening its doors this weekend in Old Hickory Mall.
This is the shoe store’s ninth location, and is now located in north Jackson near the main entrance of the mall.
The buy, sale, trade retailer also specializes in shoe repairs, restoration, and deep cleaning.
On Friday, Co-Owner Charles Reid held a soft opening at 11 a.m. He says he will provide affordable fashion options for all ages of sneakerheads
“Everybody can’t afford to pay $300, $400, $500, which are what these shoes are worth now. And after we restore them, we sell them for about $150, $100, it just depends on what it is,” Reid said.
In addition to shoe retail, Remix Shoe Store also partners with local clothing brands to sale in-house.
Check out their website to learn more.
Find more local news here. | https://www.wbbjtv.com/2022/07/22/new-shoe-store-steps-into-jackson/ | 2022-07-22T23:12:08Z | https://www.wbbjtv.com/2022/07/22/new-shoe-store-steps-into-jackson/ | true |
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – The CDC currently recommends a second booster jab for adults 50 and older and people who are immunocompromised. Expanding the recommendation to all groups is expected to come this fall.
However, according to a report people may want to think twice before getting your second booster shot. Frequent COVID boosters could adversely affect the immune response.
In a letter to the editor published in Virology Journal, a scientist writes that too much of the vaccine administered in healthy populations may alter the vaccine’s genetic code. This would result in decreased immunity to COVID-19. Organ inflammation, shingles and organ damage may also result.
The letter to the editor also raises the possibility of becoming antibody dependent, which means the more vaccine injected the less neutralizing response it will elicit. Antibody dependency also raises the risk of enhancing virus entry and replication in the cells. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/medical/report-suggests-second-covid-booster-may-backfire-by-enhancing-virus-entry-and-replication-in-cells/ | 2022-07-22T23:16:39Z | https://www.wishtv.com/news/medical/report-suggests-second-covid-booster-may-backfire-by-enhancing-virus-entry-and-replication-in-cells/ | true |
The Washington Nationals are resuming play after the All-Star break but the focus around the franchise will remain on star outfielder Juan Soto.
The Nationals open a three-game slate against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday in Phoenix but Soto’s contract situation looms over the downtrodden club like a skyscraper.
Soto’s recent rejection of a 15-year, $440 million extension offer has led the Nationals to entertain trade proposals with the Aug. 2 deadline less than two weeks away.
The drama has included the 23-year-old being miffed that he had to find his own way from Atlanta (where Washington played on Sunday) to Los Angeles for the All-Star Game and its assorted festivities. Soto won the Home Run Derby on Monday night.
He also is upset that word got out about him turning down the largest contract offer dollar-wise in baseball history.
“I try to keep my stuff private and not try to throw stuff out there,” Soto told reporters. “It feels really bad. But at the end of the day, we just have to keep playing. It doesn’t matter what’s happening.
“A couple weeks ago, they were saying they will never trade me. And now all these things come out. You don’t know what to trust.”
Nationals manager Dave Martinez told reporters that trade speculation comes with the territory.
“He’s got to understand that this is part of the game, right?” Martinez said. “We’ve all been through it at some point in time. But he’s got to go out there and remember why he’s here, and that’s to help us win games and I know he’ll do that.”
Washington owns a major league-worst 31-63 record as play resumes and Soto is batting a career-low .250. That’s 63 points lower than last season and a whopping 101 below 2020 when he won the National League batting title.
Soto has a team-leading 20 homers and ranks third on the club with 43 RBIs.
Arizona resides in last place in the National League West, 21 games behind the first-place Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Diamondbacks dropped eight of their last 11 games and look destined to miss the playoffs for the fifth straight season.
Veteran outfielder David Peralta (12 home runs) or first baseman Christian Walker (team-high 22 homers) could be on the move before the deadline as Arizona focuses on getting younger behind players such as third baseman Josh Rojas (.271) and rookie center fielder Alek Thomas (.250).
“We’re going to see what we can do to make our organization stronger,” Diamondbacks general manager Mike Hazen told Arizona Sports. “I don’t really know what that’s going to mean. We’re going to have some decisions to make I’m sure.
“I want to see our major league team playing a little bit better coming out of the break. I know it was kind of a rough two-week stretch there where we were competitive almost every single night, we were in almost every single game and we lost six by one run. I’d like to see us try to flip the script on that a little bit coming out of the break here.”
Arizona activated right-handed reliever Ian Kennedy from the 15-day injured list on Thursday and designated left-hander Dallas Keuchel for assignment. Kennedy was sidelined with a small blood clot in his right calf.
The D-backs finally announced right-hander Zac Gallen (4-2, 3.56 ERA) as their starting pitcher for Friday. Gallen has gone without a victory since May, with two losses and six straight no-decisions in his past eight starts after starting 4-0 with a 2.32 ERA in the first two months of the season.
This will be Gallen’s third career start (0-1, 6.43) against Washington, having allowed five runs and seven hits in seven innings with 10 strikeouts.
Among the candidates for Washington is former Diamondbacks left-hander Patrick Corbin (4-12, 5.87). Corbin lost his previous outing to the Atlanta Braves on July 15, allowing six runs (five earned) and nine hits over five innings while striking out eight.
Corbin is 0-1 in two rough starts against Arizona. He has given up 14 runs and 13 hits (including four homers) in 7 1/3 innings against his former club.
The two teams split a four-game series at Washington in April.
–Field Level Media | https://www.fox16.com/mlb/juan-soto-intrigue-hovers-over-nats-ahead-of-d-backs-series/ | 2022-07-22T23:16:44Z | https://www.fox16.com/mlb/juan-soto-intrigue-hovers-over-nats-ahead-of-d-backs-series/ | true |
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.
The Marines use the amphibious vehicles to transport troops and their equipment from Navy ships to land. The armored vehicles that have machine guns and grenade launchers look like tanks as they roll ashore for beach attacks, with Marines pouring out of them to take up positions. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national/marines-halt-amphibious-vehicle-use-at-sea-after-mishaps/ | 2022-07-22T23:17:42Z | https://www.fox16.com/news/national/marines-halt-amphibious-vehicle-use-at-sea-after-mishaps/ | true |
Lifetime payments: Man wins lottery for 2nd time, gets annual check for life
FRANKLIN, COUNTY, Mass. (WGGB/Gray News) - A Massachusetts man has found lottery luck for a second time.
WGGB reports Kevin Miller will be paid $25,000 a year for the rest of his life after cashing a winning ticket while playing the Lucky for Life multi-state lottery game.
According to the Massachusetts Lottery, Miller’s ticket matched the first five numbers that were drawn on Feb. 18.
Mass. Lottery spokesperson Christian Teja said Miller claimed his prize this week at lottery headquarters.
Teja said Miller is no stranger to lottery winnings as he previously won a $1 million prize in 2016 on a Cadillac Riches scratch ticket.
Lottery officials said the store, Food City, that sold Miller his Lucky for Life winning ticket would receive a $5,000 bonus, and it was also the same location where he purchased his 2016 winning ticket.
Copyright 2022 WGGB via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/07/22/lifetime-payments-man-wins-lottery-2nd-time-gets-annual-check-life/ | 2022-07-22T23:22:18Z | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/07/22/lifetime-payments-man-wins-lottery-2nd-time-gets-annual-check-life/ | true |
A jacket worn in space by one of the world's most famous astronauts is expected to fetch bids starting at $1 million as Sotheby's facilitates the sale at action of one of the only garments used in space flight that is still in private possession. The jacket and other items could nab around $2 million as estimates have it.
The jacket was worn by Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin during the Apollo 11 mission, which was "humanity's first lunar-landed mission," as Sotheby's put it.
The 92-year-old Aldrin is auctioning off a plethora of other items from his career, which date back to his time as a student at the United States Military Academy. The items include the Eagle lunar module's circuit breaker switch, which broke during the mission and could have caused Aldrin and Neil Armstrong to become stuck on the Moon.
Aldrin said, "I hope that this collection offers some insight into what it has been like to be Buzz Aldrin."
Sotheby's called the list of items "among the most significant and valuable space exploration artifacts ever offered at auction." Other items in the collection are also expected to garner bids of over $1 million as well.
Aldrin said in a press statement, "After deep consideration, the time felt right to share these items with the world, which for many are symbols of a historical moment, but for me have always remained personal mementos of a life dedicated to science and exploration."
One of the most interesting items going up for auction is an old brushed aluminum black felt-tipped ink pen. It was flown to the Moon and used in that mission. It is credited with saving Aldrin and his fellow astronaut after that circuit breaker switch was broken.
When the accident happened, Aldrin is recorded as calling back to NASA to say, "Houston, Tranquility. Do you have a way of showing the configuration of the engine arm circuit breaker? Over. The reason I'm asking is because the end of it appears to be broken off. I think we can push it back in again. I'm not sure we could pull it out if we pushed it in, though. Over.”
Aldrin said after considering selling the items for a long time, he hopes that the "various artifacts" can be shared to "offer some insight into what it has been like to be Buzz Aldrin." | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/buzz-aldrins-historic-moon-landing-jacket-up-for-auction-expected-to-grab-around-2-million | 2022-07-22T23:24:14Z | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/buzz-aldrins-historic-moon-landing-jacket-up-for-auction-expected-to-grab-around-2-million | false |
How the NCAA says Tennessee Vols football violated rules using McDonald's food
McDonald's food was popular with the former Tennessee football coaching staff.
Twice in the NCAA notice of allegations, McDonald's is mentioned.
The first instance occurred March 30 to April 1, 2019. The second instance occurred on July 26, 2019.
The first instance involved assistant coach Brian Niedermeyer and director of recruiting Bethany Gunn. The second instance only involved Gunn.
Tennessee's NCAA violations involving McDonald's food
Here is what the NCAA notice of allegations said occurred March 30 to April 1, 2019:
During an unofficial visit to the institution, Gunn and/or Niedermeyer arranged and/or provided approximately $225 in impermissible meals from McDonald's for [redacted name] and University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Tennessee)-branded clothing, including two beanie hats and two hooded sweatshirts.
Here is what the NCAA notice of allegations said occurred July 26, 2019:
Gunn and a student recruiting assistant provided to [redacted name] approximately $35 in meals from McDonald's and loaned him a Sony PlayStation video console.
The University of Tennessee received a 51-page notice of allegations from the NCAA on Friday. The NCAA lists 18 football recruiting violations under former Tennessee football head coach Jeremy Pruitt.
Tennessee football, McDonald's bags backstory
McDonald's bags were synonymous with the Tennessee football violations since Dan Patrick reported on Jan. 19, 2021, that money changed hands in McDonald's bags.
"I asked my source, 'How did they get these assistant coaches on recruiting violations?'" Patrick said. "He said, 'Well, they put money into McDonald's bags and gave them to the recruits when they came on campus.' Some of the campus visits were not organized or they were not above board, but they were handing out cash. I don't know if it was through the drive-through. So you literally had bag men, and they put the cash in McDonald's bags and handed it to the recruits. My source said they were so in-your-face with this, they weren't even trying to hide it. ... Tennessee, they got sloppy, and they were handing out cash in McDonald's bags."
On Jan. 18, 2021, Pruitt was fired for cause after an internal investigation by Tennessee.
Here's more Tennessee football news:
- Tennessee football notice of allegations:Tennessee football receives notice of allegations in recruiting scandal under Jeremy Pruitt
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Pruitt was the Tennessee football head coach for three seasons from 2018-20. The Vols went 16-19 during those three seasons.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
4-7-0-8, FIREBALL: 2
(four, seven, zero, eight; FIREBALL: two)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
4-7-0-8, FIREBALL: 2
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By Gord Mackenize March is the cruelest of months, lest there be too pleasant. “You mean because I had another baby girl I thought I have... MOURIN ROMAC\n“When people hear or learn new cult practices we think this creates a problem; but from that learning perspective I ask who will I offend if someone new decides they are not... MOUREN MACOCARE\nBulky Womblis in Tranby Street How Can Art-Inflective Experienties Shape Citize? (Work with Winn Schwetz)\nThis project works directly toward engagement across institutionally organized divisions: from university campus/administration through out into city culture. Project development: Work on 2 art commisions and the coartivatory art+practicum: [“How Could it Not (Stinka)!” (with Troy Dexter) a sound sculptural park, part II GREENSBORO — Police say they arrested a 22-year-old man Thursday in connection with kidnapping and assaulting a man a day earlier and leaving him in a rural area of Rockingham County with life-threatening injuries.
Dawonyea Tyquan Malone was jailed on the following charges: first-degree kidnapping, robbery with a dangerous weapon, larceny of a motor vehicle, receiving or transferring a stolen vehicle, and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury, police said.
About 6 p.m. Wednesday, Greensboro police received information from the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office about finding someone who was assaulted and kidnapped from Greensboro. The victim, who was taken to a local hospital, told authorities his vehicle was also stolen, Greensboro police said in a news release.
Police found a vehicle in the area of Spring Garden Street that matched the description provided by the victim. Detectives determined Malone was involved with the abduction and the assault, police said in the news release.
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Many fans have been calling out for Everton to play a three-man midfield for some time and their wish was granted as the team took to the Allianz Field on Wednesday evening (early the following morning in the UK). It’s fair to say things do not go exactly to plan, as their MLS opponents ripped them through the centre of the park on a fairly regular basis, particularly during the first 45 minutes. The problem wasn’t with the formation, a 4-3-3, but with the personnel entrusted with carrying out Lampard’s game plan. After withstanding a little early pressure from their enthusiastic hosts, the Blues took control and imposed themselves in a manner that would have met approval from their boss, enjoying much possession and creating a few decent chances. This continued for a while after Everton fell behind to a penalty conceded for a handball by Tom Davies, until their momentum was disrupted by a brace of Minnesota goals on 32 and 36 minutes. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2673511947807/the-hoddle-of-coffee-tottenham-news-and-links-for-wednesday-july-20 | 2022-07-22T23:33:35Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2673511947807/the-hoddle-of-coffee-tottenham-news-and-links-for-wednesday-july-20 | true |
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Three Kenyan policemen and an informant were found guilty Friday for the killing in 2016 of a human rights lawyer and two others.
The court in the capital, Nairobi, will deliver their sentence at a later date. The court acquitted a fourth officer of the charges, citing a lack of evidence.
The killing of attorney Willie Kimani, taxi driver Joseph Muiruri and motorcycle taxi driver Josephat Mwenda sparked days of peaceful demonstrations and a strike by Kenyan lawyers demanding an end to the extra-judicial killings by police that some say are pervasive.
The protests later turned violent when motorcycle taxi drivers set fire to the police station where the three victims are believed to have been held before they were killed.
Their bodies later were pulled out of a river.
Mwenda’s testicles had been crushed and his skull was fractured, and the other two bodies had injuries from a blunt object, a pathologist said in a report presented to the court.
Kenyan police have sometimes been accused of summarily killing suspects against whom they have no evidence. They also are often accused of running death squads, among other abuses.
Kimani worked in Kenya as a lawyer for the International Justice Mission, a U.S.-based rights group. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/kenya-court-finds-3-policemen-1-informant-guilty-of-murder/ | 2022-07-22T23:35:28Z | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/kenya-court-finds-3-policemen-1-informant-guilty-of-murder/ | true |
In October of 2020, Bay Area-based stock trading app Robinhood published a Medium post entitled "We’re Coming Out — Introducing Rainbowhood!"
"Across Robinhood, we strive to provide a warm and welcoming workplace where our employees can be themselves without judgment," the post noted. "Rainbowhood" stuck around, becoming the name of the company's LGBTQ employee resources group. It was repeatedly invoked in a blog post Robinhood put out at the start of Pride last month.
"Equality for all can only be realized if those in majority positions within society unite with the marginalized and oppressed," Jason Warnick, chief financial officer and executive sponsor of Rainbowhood, was quoted as saying in the Pride post. "Never has it been more important for LGTBQ+ allies to unite with our friends and colleagues on a common mission for equality."
But a review of FEC filings by Robinhood's political action committee (PAC) calls into question how dedicated Robinhood is to that mission: In the second quarter of this year, the company's PAC donated to a Republican congressman with a history of anti-LGBTQ votes and rhetoric. Robinhood's CEO, Vladimir Tenev, also maxed out a donation to the same congressman, who has pushed back against stronger regulation of online brokerage firms.
On April 12, 2022, the Robinhood Markets, Inc. PAC gave $2,900 (the maximum allowed for a new PAC) to Rep. Patrick McHenry, a congressman from North Carolina who's been in office since 2005. Six days prior, on April 6, Tenev gave the individual maximum amount of $5,800 to McHenry. It was the Robinhood PAC's, and Tenev's, only direct donation to a congressman or senator this quarter. (Robinhood's PAC also donated $5,000 to at least one PAC dedicated to LGBTQ rights this quarter.)
Two months later, on June 24, McHenry — the top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee — released a statement about the committee's investigation into the "meme stock event of 2021," in which Robinhood was a central player. The committee's top-line findings included the critique that "Robinhood exhibited troubling business practices, inadequate risk management, and a culture that prioritized growth above stability during the Meme Stock Market Event."
But McHenry dismissed those findings, writing that "Committee Democrats saw a chance to use partisan conspiracy theories to push an agenda that makes the stock market less accessible. Now, nearly 17 months later, there is still no evidence of collusion between market makers and broker-dealers, and the Democrats continue to ignore the fact that the underlying infrastructure of the market performed well during the meme stock event."
McHenry has served on the House Financial Services Committee for as long as he's been in office. He's opposed equality for the LGBTQ community for as long as he's been in office, too. In 2006, when the New Jersey Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, McHenry's office decried "creating a new right to homosexual marriage." McHenry said at the time, "This is another attempt to destroy the institution that is the cornerstone of civilization and family life — marriage.”
This week, the congressman voted against a House bill that would provide federal protections for both gay marriage and interracial marriage. Forty-seven Republicans joined all congressional Democrats in passing the bill, which has taken on a renewed importance after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas called for the court to reconsider its 2015 opinion that legalized gay marriage nationwide.
Gay marriage and interracial marriage were both mentioned in a 2021 Pride post by a Robinhood employee, who wrote that they were grateful for the company's equality-driven efforts. "Robinhood’s dedication and support of intersectional work demonstrates that we really are democratizing finance for all. As a queer person in an interracial relationship, these issues are especially important and personal to me," they said.
In a statement to SFGATE on Thursday evening, Rochelle Nadhiri, vice president of communications for Robinhood, wrote the following about the company's donation to McHenry:
“The contribution philosophy of our newly-established PAC reflects the varied perspectives of our customers in line with our mission – to democratize finance for all. That means economic empowerment, equity, and access. Over time, you'll see that approach reflected in our public filings.”
SFGATE followed up to ask what, specifically, McHenry has said or done that aligns with Robinhood’s “contribution philosophy.” We also asked for a statement from Tenev. Robinhood declined further comment. | https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/robinhood-donates-anti-lgbtq-lawmaker-17320391.php | 2022-07-22T23:39:00Z | https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/robinhood-donates-anti-lgbtq-lawmaker-17320391.php | false |
Legislators target TikTok, social media dangers with bipartisan CHATS Act: 'The Wild West'
The bill would modify the FBI's crime reporting program to include information about social media apps that lead to crimes
Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn., have introduced new legislation targeting TikTok and other social media apps the legislators say present dangers to young users.
The legislators explained the Combating Harmful Acts on Social Media Act (CHATS) Act would modify the FBI's uniform crime reporting program to include information about which offenses were tied to which social media platforms.
The bill, which is backed by the National Fraternal Order of Police support, has three goals, Gottheimer said: to protect children from the data-sharing dangers of TikTok; to put pressure on TikTok — owned by Chinese parent company ByteDance — for tracking user data, including childrens' personal information; and to hold other social media platforms such as Snapchat and Instagram accountable for their ties to criminal activity, such as drug deals.
CHINA ACCESSED DATA OF US TIKTOK USERS REPEATEDLY, REPORT SAYS
"It really is the Wild West, and our children are the natives of the social media landscape," said Dr. Laura Berman, who lost her son, Sammy, to fentanyl poisoning in 2021 after he unknowingly purchased drugs laced with fentanyl on Snapchat.
Fitzgerald described the bill as an "all-hands-on-deck" approach to combating privacy and security issues that social media platforms present to both child and adult users. The Pennsylvania and New Jersey representatives also set a letter to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew detailing their privacy concerns for Americans who use the short-form video app.
GOP LAWMAKERS LAUNCH PROBE OF TIKTOK'S SHARING OF USER DATA WITH CHINESE PARENT COMPANY
Data collected by TikTok "can not only be used to detect the travel and financial habits of Americans, but it could also yield sensitive information about their relationships, behaviors, preferences, and vulnerabilities," the letter states. "If this data was shared with any foreign nations, it would represent a vital national security risk, which I would urge Congress and the Administration to address."
Berman, host of "The Dr. Laura Berman Show," and Samuel Chapman know first-hand about the dangers that social media apps present to children.
A drug dealer approached their son, Sammy, on Snapchat — which can be set to delete messages after 24 hours or immediately after they are sent so that there is no traceable history of a conversation — and offered to sell him pills, which Chapman and Berman later discovered were illicitly manufactured. The Los Angeles dealer had shared a colorful advertisement on Snapchat with Sammy, showing the types of drugs he was selling.
When Berman and Chapman found their son dead on the floor of their home due to fentanyl poisoning, they were shocked when police told them that Snapchat could not help law enforcement locate the dealer who sold Sammy drugs. Since then, they have been advocating for more parental control on social media apps and more collaboration between social platforms and law enforcement.
"I believe that the CHATS bill, if passed into law, will hold lawmakers and police accountable and make it important for the CEOs of these platforms … [who] treat it like a PR issue," Chapman said, adding later that "social media has taken away parental control."
Berman emphasized that while parents like herself thought their kids would be safe staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced students to learn from home and spend time away from their other day-to-day activities, the increased time spent on social media apps presented a lesser-known but immediate danger.
U.S. MOVING—SOME SAY TOO SLOWLY—TO ADDRESS TIKTOK SECURITY RISK
"When they’re home under your roof, you know they’re safe. Well, thanks to social media, that’s no longer true," she explained. "The drug dealers find our kids on social media. They don’t have to lure them."
She added that drug dealers' "primary marketing tool" is social media. Apps such as Snapchat and TikTok, therefore, play a role in drug poisoning and other crimes like human trafficking.
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China not only has control over ByteDance, which owns TikTok, but Chinese drug manufacturers are "shuttling fentanyl into Mexico, and then the drug cartels are reformatting it into counterfeit drugs that look like real drugs," Berman said.
Both parents hope that the CHATS Act, if passed, will hold social media executives accountable for crimes that occur or begin on their platforms. | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bipartisan-legislators-target-tiktok-social-media-dangers-chats-act | 2022-07-22T23:39:38Z | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bipartisan-legislators-target-tiktok-social-media-dangers-chats-act | false |
Sweet job: Candy company hiring official taste tester with $100,000 salary
(Gray News) - Do you have a sweet tooth? There is a job that could have your name on it.
Candy Funhouse is looking to hire a “Chief Candy Officer” with a salary of up to $100,000 to go with it.
The candy company says the role would be the world’s first and only “Chief Candy Officer” who would lead the “FUNhouse” candy strategy. The job would include approving all candy in inventory and deciding whether to award each treat with the official CCO stamp of approval.
The company calls itself the largest online candy store, and the head taste taster would help with its strategy and products.
Candy Funhouse says applications will be accepted until Aug. 31 for the position and open to anyone at least 5 years old.
More information on the company’s open positions can be found here.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa hired Lorenda Holston as assistant athletic director for diversity, equity and inclusion and Anthony Embry for the newly created position of athletics academic and diversity coordinator, the university announced Friday.
The moves come as the university faces a lawsuit by former football players who allege they faced discrimination and harassment from coaches and staff because they are Black.
“These additions to our staff enhance our overall campus and athletics department commitment to DEI, while working with our student-athletes and staff as we continue to move forward with increased staffing and resources in this critical area,” said Liz Tovar, senior associate athletic director and the university’s executive officer and associate vice president of the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Holston previously worked in athletic department support positions at Purdue and Georgia Tech. Embry had worked in academic support in athletic departments at Coastal Carolina and the University of Portland.
The former players’ lawsuit was filed in November 2020, naming head coach Kirk Ferentz and offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz, his son. They allege they were demeaned with racial slurs, forced to abandon Black hairstyles, fashion and culture to fit the “Iowa Way” promoted by Kirk Ferentz, held to different standards than white players and retaliated against for speaking out. Iowa linebackers coach Seth Wallace was added as a defendant in the lawsuit in April.
A trial is set for March 2023, with the former players seeking monetary damages and cultural changes inside the athletic department. Aaron Mends, Brandon Simon, Javon Foy, Akrum Wadley, Marcel Joly, Jonathan Parker and Darian Cooper are plaintiffs.
The university agreed to pay strength coach Chris Doyle $1.1 million as part of a resignation agreement in June 2020, after dozens of former players said on social media he had bullied and discriminated against them. Doyle has denied the allegations.
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NEW YORK — World Wrestling Entertainment impresario Vince McMahon announced Friday that he is retiring amid an investigation into alleged misconduct involving the flamboyant showman who turned a small wrestling company into a worldwide entertainment business.
In a brief WWE statement, McMahon said he is retiring as the company’s chairman and CEO. He noted that he remains its majority shareholder.
McMahon stepped down temporarily as CEO and chairman of WWE in mid-June during an investigation into the alleged misconduct. Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported McMahon agreed to pay more than $12 million over the last 16 years to suppress allegations of sexual misconduct and infidelity.
“At 77, time for me to retire. Thank you, WWE Universe. Then. Now. Forever. Together. #WWE #thankful,” he wrote Friday on Twitter.
There was no mention of the investigation in the statement from the company based in Stamford, Conn. McMahon said his daughter, Stephanie, who was named interim CEO and chairperson last month, will serve as chairperson and share CEO duties with Nick Khan, who joined the company in 2020.
“Our global audience can take comfort in knowing WWE will continue to entertain you with the same fervor, dedication, and passion as always,” he wrote in the statement, thanking WWE’s generations of fans all over the world.
McMahon first stepped aside from the top positions last month after the Journal reported at the time that he had agreed to pay $3 million to a former paralegal who said he sexually harassed her on the job. He was supposed to continue overseeing WWE’s creative content during the companies investigation. But then the newspaper reported that McMahon had agreed to pay the significantly larger sum of $12 million.
Four women — all formerly affiliated with WWE — signed agreements with McMahon that bar them from discussing their relationships with him, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the deals and documents it reviewed. McMahon has said he is cooperating with the company’s investigation.
McMahon has been the leader and most recognizable face at WWE for decades. When he purchased what was then the World Wrestling Federation from his father in 1982, wrestling matches took place at small venues and appeared on local cable channels.
The organization underwent a seismic transformation under McMahon with events such as WrestleMania, a premium live production that draws millions of fervent viewers.
Revenue last year exceeded $1 billion for the first time, and the company has television deals with Fox and NBCUniversal. Last month it announced a multiyear expansion of its original programming partnership with A&E.
WWE stars have become crossover sensations, including Hulk Hogan, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and John Cena. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/ct-vince-mcmahon-wwe-stepping-down-20220722-6bls3mhzevfrzhsve7tyzpug24-story.html | 2022-07-23T00:02:04Z | https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/ct-vince-mcmahon-wwe-stepping-down-20220722-6bls3mhzevfrzhsve7tyzpug24-story.html | true |
Colorado calling: The gateway to the Rocky Mountains, Denver’s attracting arty types from across the States to the mile-high marvel
- James March finds that Denver has a 'vibrant arts scene' and 'quality restaurants'
- From his 11th-floor room at the Hotel Clio, he can see the outline of the Rockies
- With 140 breweries in the metro area, the city is a 'craft beer fan’s dream', he says
Occasionally, delays can be beneficial. The additional 90 minutes added to my flight into Denver means the city has slipped into a golden evening glow as the sun sinks behind the distant peaks of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.
Rolling by train into the fabulously restored Union Station will wow the weariest of travellers. Beaux-Arts onion dome chandeliers hang from a grand arched ceiling above an array of sofas and tables, flanked by bookshops and the opulent Crawford Hotel.
Outside, the glowing ‘Travel by train’ entrance sign radiates a turn-of-the-20th-century kitsch, harking back to a golden age of locomotives. Denver knows how to make a good first impression.
Vibrant: James March explores Denver, pictured, a city 'with a vibrant arts scene, quality restaurants, 250 days a year of sunshine and America’s most famous mountain range (the Rocky Mountains) within a two-hour drive'
James's visit to Denver begins at the 'fabulously restored' Union Station, above, where 'the glowing "Travel by train" entrance sign radiates a turn-of-the-20th-century kitsch'
Nicknamed the Mile High City because its official elevation is exactly one mile above sea level, Denver is one of the fastest growing cities in the U.S., with a vibrant arts scene, quality restaurants, 250 days a year of sunshine and America’s most famous mountain range within a two-hour drive.
And with United Airlines adding two more daily flights from Heathrow next year to go alongside British Airways’ existing afternoon route, gettting here is painless.
On my first day, I check out local artist Vance Kirkland’s captivating ‘dot’ paintings at the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, before heading into a gleaming downtown packed with colourful food halls and jaunty street art. Live blues music thumps from a street corner as I turn onto buzzy Larimer Street, memorably described in Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel On The Road as a place of ‘old bums and beat cowboys’.
Above are Vance Kirkland’s ‘dot’ paintings at the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, which James describes as 'captivating'
Denver is known as the Gateway to the Rockies, which makes it a perfect bookend to a skiing or hiking holiday. Rocky Mountain National Park has some of America’s most spectacular trails, while Snowmass Village in Aspen offers a wealth of downhill skiing and even has its own airport nearby. There are also luxurious dude ranches in the nearby foothills for those who want to play out their John Wayne fantasies.
Colorado is now — after decades of voting Republican — a solidly Democratic state and the number of young people moving here helps explains why there are more than 140 breweries in the metro area alone, with modern taprooms fanning out in all directions from Union Station. Denver is a craft beer fan’s dream.
There’s no shortage of places to stay. I’m billeted at Hotel Clio, a ten-minute taxi ride south of the city centre. From my 11th-floor room, I can see the jagged outline of the Rockies in the distance. A cinematic hike or a fresh IPA? In Denver, both are possible in a day. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/escape/article-11040159/Colorado-calling-Denver-attracting-arty-types-States.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-23T00:04:27Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/escape/article-11040159/Colorado-calling-Denver-attracting-arty-types-States.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 22, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Binghamton has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southeastern Cayuga County in central New York...
Northwestern Cortland County in central New York...
Southern Onondaga County in central New York...
Northeastern Tompkins County in central New York...
* Until 815 PM EDT.
* At 735 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over King Ferry,
or 14 miles north of Ithaca, moving east at 35 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Homer, Locke, Genoa, Moravia, Scott, Sempronius, King Ferry,
Montville, Kelloggsville and Lake Ridge.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHERN SENECA AND SOUTHERN CAYUGA COUNTIES...
At 736 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over King Ferry, or
14 miles north of Ithaca, moving east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
King Ferry.
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Some economists say allowing more immigrants in the country will help ease U.S. labor shortages, a problem that has plagued many businesses who complain they can’t find enough workers.
Others will counter that argument and say labor shortages persist because current wages don’t provide a livable income, especially as prices for housing and other necessities soar.
Other economists say more immigrant workers will help reduce inflation, an issue likely to remain a major concern for voters this November. Reducing inflation will allow the economy to recover from a global pandemic that’s heading into its third year.
Except some economists disagree.
They, in turn, say lower wages won’t reduce inflation by nearly as much as some economists hope.
Ordinary people will read about the increased numbers of immigrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border this year and be outraged.
They’ll say allowing more of them into the country will depress U.S. wages.
It’s important to note that their voices may be the most generous when talking about immigration, both legal and illegal, and immigrants as a whole.
Too many others don’t even want to participate in a reasonable conversation about the advantages and disadvantages of immigration.
Some may be more apt to think of immigrants, including asylum seekers, in inhumane terms. They’re “illegals,” rather than people who fear persecution in their homelands or are escaping violent gangs and cartels.
It’s not coincidental that these immigrants are by and large Brown and Black, and seen as criminals.
That’s one reason Donald Trump was such an appealing candidate for conservative voters. Trump called them criminals, too.
Yet other economists say immigration, in the long run, is better for the U.S. economy. It replaces workers that the United States isn’t producing given declining birth rates.
This is where we are — where we’ve been for a long time — and it has overshadowed efforts to reform archaic, complex and outdated laws governing immigration.
Others say new immigrants should follow the rules that their ancestors did and immigrate “the right way” and “get in line.”
That’s a fallacy.
Immigration laws of today weren’t in place when early waves of European migration were recorded.
There is no line in which to get into. If one were to follow the rules, it would take decades for families to be reunited.
Inflation won’t stop the waves of migrants who’ll arrive, sometimes on foot and en masse from as far away as Central America and South America.
Some migrants began their journeys across seas, arriving in South America to make land treks to the U.S. border. That included Ukrainians who left their country in the aftermath of the Russian invasion.
In spite of the increased numbers of migrants caught at the border, there are those who’ll say the Biden administration has “open” borders.
In May and June, in fact, border arrests set records, according to statistics kept by Customs and Border Protection. May had the highest number of arrests in the agency’s history. In June, with three months left in the fiscal year, 2022 surpassed the 2021 record, when 1.7 million arrests were made.
Of the more than 207,000 border encounters in June — the most of any June on record — about 90,000 were expelled under Title 42, a 1944 public health rule the Trump administration revived to stop migrants at the border, citing pandemic health concerns.
The Biden administration is in the process of winding down its use.
The border was more open to European immigrants, who primarily arrived on the East Coast, than it is today.
In fact, because of rigid U.S. policies, more migrants are apt to take greater risks like paying human smugglers.
That became clearer in late June, when 53 immigrants from Mexico and Central America died after being trapped in an oven-like tractor trailer that passed undetected at a border checkpoint.
They were coming for jobs that have gone unfilled.
They’re jobs U.S. workers won’t do because they’re either too physically demanding or don’t pay enough.
Discussing inflation at the crossroads of immigration continues to confound us, even though migrants will trek north as sure as the monarch butterfly, which is now on the endangered list.
Immigrants have been good for the nation’s economy. They’ve always been good for the nation.
They’ve helped build it, always putting national ideals about freedom and democracy to the test.
But let’s be real.
As in other issues, the economy works best for those at the top, not the bottom.
While we all grapple with inflation and immigration, the rich grow richer, perhaps especially during a pandemic, when they can blame inflation.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 22, 2022
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DUST STORM ADVISORY
Dust Advisory
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
600 PM CDT Fri Jul 22 2022
The National Weather Service in Midland has issued a
* Dust Advisory for...
Northern Glasscock County in western Texas...
Northern Ector County in western Texas...
Andrews County in western Texas...
Midland County in western Texas...
Southern Martin County in western Texas...
Southwestern Howard County in western Texas...
* Until 630 PM CDT.
* At 600 PM CDT, a wall of dust was along a line extending from 12
miles southwest of Gaines County Airport to 9 miles southeast of
Andrews to near Midland to near Stanton to near Forsan, moving
southwest at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Less than two miles visibility with strong wind in excess
of 40 to 50 mph.
SOURCE...Doppler radar.
IMPACT...Hazardous travel.
* This includes Interstate 20 between mile markers 115 and 180.
Locations impacted include...
Midland, Odessa, Big Spring, Andrews, Greenwood, Garden City,
Stanton, Goldsmith, Lomax, Midland International Air and Space Port,
West Odessa, Cotton Flat, Warfield, Midland Airpark, Skywest Airport,
Big Spring Country Club, Courtney, Odessa Schlemeyer Field, Frankel
City and Big Spring McMahon-Wrinkle Airpark.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Blowing dust brings reduced visibility, leading to dangerous driving
conditions. If driving, avoid blowing dust if possible. If caught in
dense blowing dust, pull off the road, turn off your lights and keep
your foot off the brake.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
02-04-06-23-35
(two, four, six, twenty-three, thirty-five)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5" game were:
02-04-06-23-35
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TORONTO (AP) — Alleged group sexual assaults by members of the 2003 and 2018 Canadian world junior hockey teams are being investigated by police in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and London, Ontario.
Halifax Regional Police confirmed Friday that it is investigating an assault at the 2003 junior championships. Shortly afterward, police officials in London said they are reopening their investigation into a 2018 incident.
The investigations are the latest developments in an ongoing crisis that has rocked Hockey Canada and led to its funding being suspended by the federal government and several major corporate sponsors.
“Today we learn of yet another horror story that allegedly occurred in 2003. Once again, like all Canadians, I am appalled and angry,” Canadian Sport Minister Pascal St-Onge said. “It is clear that the culture of silence and the trivialization of sexual violence is well entrenched in the culture of this sport.
“Hockey Canada has a lot of work to do on this issue before they regain the trust of Canadians. Anyone with information about the events of 2003, or any other such event, should report it to the police.”
Hockey Canada said it became aware of the 2003 incident after it was contacted by TSN on Thursday seeking comment. The national sport organization said it immediately contacted Sport Canada and Halifax police.
“Hockey Canada is committed to bringing an end to the culture of silence in hockey,” Hockey Canada said a statement Friday. “That is why we are publicly calling for anyone with knowledge of this incident to come forward to police, and we are being transparent in how we learned of this alleged assault and the steps we are taking to address it.”
Hockey Canada said that two weeks earlier members of its staff heard a rumor about “something bad at the 2003 world juniors” but was not able to get any details until it was contacted by TSN on Thursday.
MP John Nater said he was contacted by a person earlier this week with information regarding an alleged sexual assault involving members of the 2003 national junior team. He said he forwarded the information to Halifax police and encouraged the person to contact police directly.
TSN reports that a source contacted Nater and described a video of the alleged sexual assault to the MP. TSN spoke to the source and two others who have watched the video and all three corroborate that it shows approximately six players from Canada’s junior team having sex with a woman who was non-responsive and laying face up on the pool table.
One of the three sources told TSN that one of the players from the 2003 team had borrowed a video camera during the tournament in Halifax and the graphic recording was still on the camera when it was returned. That person said they were pressured by the players to delete the video and that they never reported it to police.
Carlo Colaiacovo, who played defense for Canada’s junior team in 2003, issued a statement Friday.
“As a member of that team, it is important that everyone is aware that I had no involvement or knowledge of any incidents whatsoever,” Colaiacovo said. “I will co-operate fully with any investigations.”
P-A Parenteau, a forward on the team, told The Canadian Press that he only learned about the alleged sexual assault on Friday. He said that he was “definitely not involved” and that the allegations are “a shock.”
Colaiacovo and Parenteau are two of 21 players from the silver-medal 2003 team that went on to play in the NHL.
Hockey Canada has already had funding from the federal government and corporate sponsors paused following allegations of a sexual assault involving eight members of the 2018 men’s junior hockey team.
Those allegations came to light after it was reported by media that Hockey Canada paid out an undisclosed settlement to the complainant after she sued the organization, the Canadian Hockey League, and the eight unnamed players. The woman was seeking $3.55 million. | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Police-open-investigations-into-Canadian-junior-17323629.php | 2022-07-23T00:15:10Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Police-open-investigations-into-Canadian-junior-17323629.php | true |
17 Florida homeowner's insurance companies may face downgrades
More chaos may be coming for Florida’s homeowners insurance market with the news that 17 insurance companies in the state may be facing possible downgrades.
Ratings firm Demotech says it has notified the 17 companies, although the list is not yet public.
“It is a huge disrupter for agents and consumers,” said Robert Norberg of Arden Insurance in Lantana. “Demotech rates these carriers based on their financial stability to pay claims, so if you get a downgraded company, it means that company is struggling."
Some state officials have questioned the ratings service and the timing considering it is now two months into hurricane season.
Norberg says the list of companies, when it's expected to be released next week, should give policyholders some concern, and they should consider shopping around for new coverage.
“I would say yes contact your agents, discuss the possibility of moving you to another company," Norberg said, "or find out what is needed to qualify to get to a new company, because if they don’t have enough to pay claims, you want a new carrier.”
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CALDWELL, Idaho — Flüf Candy in Caldwell, Idaho sells the softest sugar.
Located beneath Indian Creek this so-called sugar speak-easy is a hidden gem under the plaza. Even the name makes you smile.
Co-owners Matt and Kristen Fowler are the king and queen of this candy kingdom. The married couple first considered the idea after their daughter Cora's 8th birthday party.
"She wanted a rainbow-cloud-unicorn party," said Matt.
A rainbow party — and a cotton candy cake to match.
"And I was like, 'I don’t know how to do that but we’ll figure it out," he said.
The cake was so cute, family and friends wanted to know where they could find one.
"People were like, 'It’s a really cute cake how much? And I'm like, 'I have no idea, we can make you a cake,'" said Matt Fowler.
Making cotton candy cakes for a living is a far-cry from the Matt's previous career path.
"[I was] working warehouse jobs, a lot of delivery jobs, swimming in negativity," he said.
But the former Army Specialist, who had deployed to Afghanistan in 2008 to 2009, knew he wanted to spend time with his family and focus on the sweet things in life.
Kristen was in full support. She says building a business around happiness and mental health is their priority.
So if you are feeling nostalgic for your childhood or the county fair — head to Flüf Candy — where hand-spun sugar is their specialty. | https://www.kivitv.com/news/fluf-candy-in-caldwell-sells-the-softest-sugar | 2022-07-23T00:15:34Z | https://www.kivitv.com/news/fluf-candy-in-caldwell-sells-the-softest-sugar | false |
FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas’ baseball program received a jolt Friday when slugger Brady Slavens announced he would return to play the 2023 season for the Razorbacks.
“There’s no place I’d rather be…see y’all at Baum!!!” Slavens wrote in a post to his Twitter page, accompanied by the hashtag #runitback.
A team spokesman confirmed Slavens' intent to return to the team.
Slavens, who has one year of eligibility remaining, was not selected in this week’s MLB Draft. He opted to return to school when he likely could have signed a contract as a professional undrafted free agent.
Baseball America rated Slavens the No. 216 prospect in this year’s draft, but noted a high strikeout rate and lack of a defined defensive position as areas in his game that need improvement. Slavens has played first base and right field at Arkansas, and spent most of the 2022 season as a designated hitter.
Slavens has been the Razorbacks’ best power hitter the past two seasons with a combined 30 home runs, including 16 this year, which tied third baseman Cayden Wallace for most on the team. He also has hit 22 doubles and six triples since transferring to Arkansas from Johnson County (Kan.) Community College prior to the 2021 season.
Slavens played his freshman season at Wichita State in 2019. He has five seasons of eligibility because he played during the covid-19 shortened 2020 season.
In 2022, Slavens overcame a prolonged slump in the middle of the season to bat .255 with an OPS of .855. His 58 RBI were second most on the team behind Wallace’s 60.
Slavens had the team’s biggest highlight of the season when he drove in the winning run during the ninth inning of a 4-3 victory over North Carolina in the second game of the NCAA Chapel Hill Super Regional on June 12. The victory sent the Razorbacks to the College World Series.
During a game against Ole Miss at the College World Series on June 22, Slavens hit a 436-foot home run to straightaway center field — a typical dead area for hitters at the pitcher-friendly Schwab Field in Omaha, Neb. It was the longest home run recorded in a College World Series game at the stadium.
Slavens had the team’s top batting average for most of his first year at Arkansas, but it dropped in the postseason after he suffered an ankle sprain during the SEC Tournament that caused him to miss several games. He finished the 2021 season with a .284 batting average, .907 OPS, 14 home runs and team-high 63 RBI.
Slavens has struggled with strikeouts during his two years at Arkansas with 130 in 457 at-bats, but he often does damage when he makes contact. Of his 123 hits as a Razorback, 58 have been for extra bases and he has a slugging percentage of .540 during that time.
Slavens will provide a welcome veteran bat to a lineup that must replace much of its offensive production next season. Arkansas is expected to lose seven of its primary starters from this year's team to the draft, eligibility or transfer. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jul/22/slavens-will-return-to-diamond-hogs-in-23/ | 2022-07-23T00:16:31Z | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/jul/22/slavens-will-return-to-diamond-hogs-in-23/ | true |
Esquire music critic Andy Langer discusses the week's new album releases, including albums from The Breeders, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Hayes Carll, Ike Reilly, and Man Man.
The Breeders' Mountain Battles was written while twin sisters Kim and Kelley Deal were touring with The Pixies; the disc was eventually produced by Steve Albini. While there's no obvious radio-friendly single like the band's hit "Cannonball," the songs here are scrappy, experimental, and eclectic. According to Langer, "That's kind of what you expect from The Breeders. This is a solid Breeders album for Breeders fans."
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds also return with Dig Lazarus Dig!!! The album, which is loosely based on the biblical story of Lazarus, is loud, dark, and eerie. "He's the king of the murder ballad; of the dark humor, the dark setups for dark punchlines," Langer says. "He's in a lot of ways the original goth."
Philadelphia's Man Man uses fake names like Honus Honus, Chang Wang, and Pow Wow and wears warpaint on stage. Langer expects the band's latest record, Rabbit Habits — which includes an array of tubas, bicycle horns, and spoons — to be the album that gets people excited to see Man Man's carnival-esque live show on all the summer festivals.
Hailing from Chicago, Ike Reilly is a smart and witty singer-songwriter who draws comparisons to The Hold Steady and Bruce Springsteen . His latest, Poison the Hit Parade, collects demos from his previous three records.
Songs like "She Left Me For Jesus," on Hayes Carrl's major-label debut Trouble In Mind, might not get played by country radio. But, Langer says, "It's a solid yet irreverent yet deeply self-deprecating record."
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Peoria father charged with obstructing justice after his daughter was shot
PEORIA − A Peoria man, arrested in the wake of an accidental shooting of his 3-year-old girl, was ordered on Friday to be held at the Peoria County Jail on $10,000 bond.
Randyn Duncan, 33, of 1015 N. Frink St., faces charges of obstructing justice that could send him to prison for up to six years and a misdemeanor count of endangering the life and health of a child.
The felony obstructing charge alleges he gave false information to a Peoria police detective who was investigating the case. The misdemeanor count alleges he had "cannabis and a firearm in the open" while his daughter was present at their home. During the hearing, Duncan confirmed to the judge that the child was his and lived with him at the home.
Semone Roth, a police spokeswoman, said the shooting occurred at about 1:42 p.m. Wednesday in a house near the intersection of Main Street and North Frink Street. Duncan was arrested not long after police were called to the area, Assistant State's Attorney David Kenny said during a hearing Friday.
The prosecutor told Judge Albert Purham, Jr., that Duncan told police someone had knocked on his door, looking to buy marijuana. That person flashed a gun, which caused a struggle on the front porch and the gun went off, striking the young girl, Duncan told police.
But Kenny noted that video footage taken from a nearby business and witness accounts didn't corroborate that. Rather, he said, no one was seen fleeing the house or coming up onto the porch during the time of the shooting.
When officers arrived, they found Duncan and the child in a parking lot in the 1000 block of Frink. The child was taken to an area hospital and listed in stable condition, Roth said Wednesday.
More:Why Peoria police want more license plate cameras. And how much they will cost
During a search of the area, officers and a police dog found a firearm in a vacant side lot near the house. When questioned by police, Duncan admitted there was marijuana and a scale to weigh the drug at the home, Kenny said. He also told police he had had a weapon at some point, though he maintained the girl was shot by another person who came to the house, Kenny said in court.
Duncan is currently on probation after being sentenced last August to two years of probation on the charge of possession of a controlled substance. That prior conviction increased his possible prison range from three years up to six years behind bars. | https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/crime/2022/07/22/peoria-man-charged-after-his-daughter-was-shot-in-leg/65380319007/ | 2022-07-23T00:18:28Z | https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/crime/2022/07/22/peoria-man-charged-after-his-daughter-was-shot-in-leg/65380319007/ | false |
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Singer-songwriter Patty Larkin is a proficient multi-instrumentalist who shows off her abilities in a session on World Cafe. Here, Larkin tells host Michaela Majoun a great story about her experience at a haunted bed-and-breakfast in Western Massachusetts that inspired her to write "Walking in My Sleep," which she then sings live.
From her beginnings on the Northeast folk scene to her present career as a nationally renowned performer, Larkin has spent two decades mixing thoughtful lyrics with an instrumental artistry rooted in a variety of formal training.
Between her roots in classical piano and her jazz-guitar education at the Berklee College of Music, it would be easy for Larkin to fall back on technical prowess and ability to experiment with instruments such as the "baribow" (a baritone guitar played with a violin bow). But she's equally renowned for her witty lyrics, which have helped her carve out a career that now spans 10 solo albums. The latest — which she wrote, produced, engineered, and edited — is titled Watch the Sky.
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When Rustic Overtones reunited last summer after four years apart, 6,000 fans gathered in one place to see the beloved band. In this session, the horn-driven rock group talks about coming back to such a grand welcome.
Formed in the late '90s, Rustic Overtones had no trouble finding shows and fans, attracting guest recording spots from Imogen Heap and David Bowie. The band's first CD since reuniting, Light at the End, mixes the familiar funk-rock and soul elements of past recordings with accessible pop-rock in the vein of Dave Matthews Band or Counting Crows.
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Headlights' "Get Your Head Around It" begins life in dead air before throwing in an electric-guitar motif reminiscent of The Velvet Underground's mellower days. Along the way, it picks up deftly tapped cymbals and glassy glockenspiel. Soft, raspy vocals quickly confront the challenge of self-improvement: How many times must we make the same mistake over and over again before we put an end to our lapses?
"I read a book about a man who made mistakes all of the time / He didn't give up, though, he'd make things right," Headlights' Tristan Wraight sings, before mourning the connection lost between friends and lovers who've outgrown each other in the name of self-improvement: "In silence, we both walk away." Under his words, the instruments fix together into a massive wall of sound that's anthemic, daunting, and haunting. Silvery vocals echo as though from distant rooms against organs, glockenspiels, and Wraight's cathartic wails of "Bah bah bah." It ends before it really starts, disintegrating until all that remains is the steady pulse of the guitar — a fitting end for a song that began as silence on the radio.
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Lyfe Jennings' transformation from prisoner to singing star has touched millions of his fans — including the ones he knew behind bars, who see him as an inspiration. Farai Chideya speaks with the R&B soul singer about his new CD, Lyfe Change.
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PHILADELPHIA — Kyle Larson tried to explain the feeling of his role as the public face of the Urban Youth Racing School when a fan — one of many — wanted a second of the 2021 NASCAR’s champion’s time.
“Yo, Kyle, can I steal a selfie,” he asked.
Larson obliged the request and flashed a smile, just a few seconds out of his day, but a moment years in the making as part of his role with the Philly-based program that creates opportunities in racing for minorities.
Larson might seem an unlikely ambassador in the wake of his 2020 suspension for using a slur during an iRacing event that cost him his ride driving for Chip Ganassi. He instead built on his existing relationship with the program and grew it into something deeper: Zoom calls with students, buying race simulators, making personal appearances — all while mending fences with the Black community and spreading the word of UYRS’ mission statement.
“The journey that he was on was extraordinary,” NASCAR President Steve Phelps said. “We asked him to do a series of things, and he did so much more than that. To have the school embrace him like they did, that true love affair that exists between the school and Kyle, I think is amazing.”
Sure enough, take a look at Larson now: Reigning Cup Series champion, wildly popular with grassroots racing fans, a dedicated mentor at UYRS and hey, he even won an ESPY this week for best driver. Of course, Larson wasn’t on hand to accept the award in Los Angeles — he was out racing Wednesday night on the half-mile dirt track at Port Royal Speedway in Pennsylvania.
The entire Hendrick Motorsports fleet of Larson, Chase Elliott, William Byron and Alex Bowman were among a handful of NASCAR drivers that raced Friday at the UYRS Grand Prix in Philadelphia. The race team with Richard Childress Racing driver Austin Dillon won the fundraising event.
The NASCAR stars teamed with UYRS students and local personalities on a makeshift track on the property of a Philadelphia children’s museum. The race was held on a small slice of city property, but the couple of hundred fans, school buses filled with kids, food trucks and DJ’s cranking out tunes gave the course the party vibe that has made street racing so appealing to NASCAR.
NASCAR announced this week its first street course to the Cup schedule with a planned 2023 race through downtown Chicago. The Cup Series will race July 2 against the backdrop of Lake Michigan and Grant Park as part of a three-year deal with Chicago.
“I think it’s going to be an off-the-charts success,” Phelps said at the Grand Prix. “Could we have other street courses in the future? I certainly wouldn’t rule it out.”
The Grand Prix — as small as it was — provided a window into the kind of young, diverse environment NASCAR has strived for under Phelps and the rest of the current leadership group. Though, don’t expect so many fans in Chicago wearing Allen Iverson jerseys.
“Just look at the crowd. We’re a sport every day that gets younger and more diverse,” Phelps said. “That’s exactly what this is. Some of these people are younger. Some are more diverse. But I think it’s just this melting pot of people with everyone feeling welcome.”
Larson hoped the scene was a taste of what NASCAR could become on race weekends.
“I think NASCAR works really hard to try and get to that point,” Larson said. “There’s no reason why not. I think events like this is where it starts. This is probably a lot of people’s first times ever behind the wheel of a go-kart. Should be a good introduction.”
The Urban Youth Racing School was hatched by Philly native Anthony Martin, who left a sports marketing career to pursue his love of racing and mix it with a dream of introducing inner-city kids to NASCAR. The school has served more than 7,500 students from ages 8 to 18 over almost 25 years and teaches all aspects of auto racing, including driving and Black racing history.
Before he made the short trip to Pocono, Larson had to pay back the program that stood by him in 2020 and offered him a very public second chance.
“I’ve been able to give back and support them, as well,” Larson said.
Larson’s redemptive path put the school in the spotlight, fueling UYSR with more determination to graduate students to NASCAR.
“Look around, you’ve got a lot of folks of color here, and that’s what the goal was,” Martin said. “We wanted people to come here and see, here’s the drivers, here what they do, and see it for themselves.”
One thing Larson doesn’t have on his plate is time to dwell on his near miss last year at Pocono Raceway. Larson was about a mile away from winning the race when a blown tire denied him a fourth straight Cup victory.
Bowman won the race last June.
Larson has only one win last season, well off his smashing 2021 season when he won 10 times. Larson does have crew chief Cliff Daniels back from a four-race suspension after the No. 5 Chevrolet lost a wheel at Sonoma Raceway.
“Our car has been fast,” Larson said. “We’ve got to get better on pit road, and get better behind the wheel, too, and hopefully we’ll be in contention more often.”
POCO-NO-GO
This year is the first time Pocono will not host two Cup events in the same season since 1982. Once a summer stalwart with a pair of 500-mile races on the schedule, Pocono will run a lone 400-miler on Sunday. Pocono had a race moved to World Wide Technology Raceway, nestled just across the Mississippi River from the Gateway Arch and downtown St. Louis.
Phelps said moving one of the races “was not a shot on Pocono” but the series has simply embraced ambitious schedule changes — like its preseason race on a track inside the Los Angeles Coliseum. But Pocono wasn’t necessarily going away.
“I’m not suggesting they would come off the schedule, I’m not suggesting that all,” Phelps said. “But I think the opportunity to expose our racing to a different market is important. I think we’ll continue to look to do that moving forward with our schedule. It’s an important thing for us and, by the way, it’s successful.”
TRUCK CHAMPION
The Truck Series holds its regular season finale on Saturday. Zane Smith, John Hunter Nemechek, Chandler Smith, Stewart Friesen, Ben Rhodes, Ty Majeski, Christian Eckes and Carson Hocevar have clinched spots in the 10-driver field. Zane Smith needs only two points to clinch the regular-season crown.
The Xfinity Series also races Saturday at Pocono. Sage Karam races at Pocono for the first time since his involvement in a fatal 2015 IndyCar wreck at the track. Justin Wilson died from injuries suffered in the race.
ODDS AND ENDS
Kyle Busch, still racing without a contract for next season, is a 7-1 favorite to win for a fifth time Sunday at Pocono, per FandDuel Sportsbook. Busch cruised to an 8.654-second victory over Larson in the second race of last season’s Pocono twinbill. He has led a total of 522 laps in 34 career Cup Series starts at Pocono and his average finish at the track 15.1. | https://www.timesleader.com/sports/1566682/nascar-pocono-weekend-preview-larson-reflects-on-2nd-chance-offered-by-philly-race-school | 2022-07-23T00:28:58Z | https://www.timesleader.com/sports/1566682/nascar-pocono-weekend-preview-larson-reflects-on-2nd-chance-offered-by-philly-race-school | false |
Karma presented the GS-6 Edition 54 at the 2022 Automotive Hall of Fame Induction & Awards Ceremony, in celebration of Chairman Lu Guanqiu becoming the first Chinese national to be inducted.
DETROIT, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Automotive Hall of Fame Induction & Awards Ceremony was held on July 21, 2022, in Detroit. Among this year's class of inductees was Wanxiang Group founder Lu Guanqiu, who became the first Chinese national to receive this special accolade. Induction into the Automotive Hall of Fame is considered the single greatest honor in the automotive industry. Those inducted are noteworthy individuals who helped create, shape, and change the automotive space.
Chairman Lu Guanqiu was a passionate entrepreneur, known as a humble and honest man who was dedicated to his dream of making cars. In 2014 he acquired Karma Automotive, manufacturer of luxury electric vehicles with headquarters in Southern California. During the Automotive Hall of Fame ceremony, Chairman Lu Guanqiu was represented by his son President Lu Weiding, who accepted the award on behalf his late father.
"My father, Chairman Lu Guanqiu had the dream to make Wanxiang's own clean energy car," said Lu Weiding, President and Chief Executive Officer, Wanxiang Group Corporation. "He believed that if he could not make that happen, his son would do it and if his son couldn't do it, then his grandson would." He continued, "this is all about the next generations, this is all about our future. So as second generation of the inductee, I feel responsible to make sure that at least our next generation fully understands their responsibility for the automotive industry."
The special GS-6 edition is a dedication to Karma's main investor, the Wanxiang Group and its 54 years in business. This edition features embroidered headrests with Karma's uniquely created logo and exterior fender panels, that are each individually jeweled with an Edition 54 logo created from milled aluminum and anodized in a beautiful one-off gold color. The logo and the 3D badge have been carefully created in-house by the Karma Design team. The exterior colors of Surf White and Benito Blue were inspired by the Wanxiang corporate blue and white colors.
"Today we honor Chairman Lu Guanqiu and Wanxiang Group, for their strong commitment to Karma's vision since 2014," said Jeff Wawrzyniak, Chief Administrative Officer at Karma Automotive. "The Edition 54 represents a tribute to our present, while honoring our past. Karma's capabilities and achievements have us very well placed for continued success. Through technology and unique design, we are moving forward with passion and innovation towards an electric mobility future."
Additionally, a Karma Revero will have a year-long display at the Automotive Hall of Fame Museum in Dearborn, MI.
The inductees of this year's class include Alma and Victor Green, writers of The Green Book, a travel guide for African Americans in the United States; Ferruccio Lamborghini, founder of Lamborghini luxury cars; Taiichi Ohno, creator of Toyota Production System; and Lyn St. James, American race car driver.
The Automotive Hall of Fame is a non-profit organization that celebrates the mobility industry's pioneers and their impact on society by capturing individuals' stories, passion, and innovative spirit to engage and inspire the mobility industry's future workforce. Founded in 1939, the Automotive Hall of Fame has honored nearly 800 individuals from around the world, who have impacted and influenced the automotive and mobility industries. The Automotive Hall of Fame is located at 21400 Oakwood Blvd in Dearborn, Michigan and is open to the public Thursdays – Sundays, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. You can also visit the Automotive Hall of Fame online at automotivehalloffame.org or on our Facebook and Instagram pages.
Karma Automotive, founded in 2014, is a southern California based producer of luxury electric vehicles. Headquartered in Irvine, California with a production facility located in Moreno Valley, Karma sells vehicles via its dealer network in North America, Europe, South America, and the Middle East. Karma's Innovation and Customization Center, which opened in 2017, offers world-class engineering, design, customization, and manufacturing services along with electrification platforms. Karma's flagship vehicle, the Revero® GT, Green Car Journal's 2020 Luxury Green Car of the Year™, is an electric vehicle powered by dual electric motors that embodies Karma's goal of offering leading technology with a luxury experience. In 2021 Karma announced the GS-6 Series which includes both an extended-range series hybrid EV and their first-ever all-electric vehicle in 2023. Every Karma vehicle is created with unparalleled individual care and craftsmanship. Additionally, Karma provides world class commercial vehicle electrification and Customized Flexible Manufacturing services for customers in the mobility space via 'Powered by Karma.' Powered By Karma is the evolution of Karma's business development group that provides business to business (B2B) modular vehicle electrification solutions and services to outside customers.
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Prince Harry has been granted a bid to legally challenge the U.K. Home Office's denial of police protection of himself and his family in his native country.
A High Court judge wrote in an approved judgement, filed July 22 and obtained by E! News, that Harry's "application for permission to apply for judicial review is granted," based on several of the claims by the Duke of Sussex.
In September 2021, Harry filed for a judicial review of a February 2020 government decision to deny him the taxpayer-funded security he lost access to after he and wife Meghan Markle announced they were stepping down as senior members of the Royal family. In his filing, he offered to pay for U.K. police protection for himself and their family.
E! News has reached out for comment from the Sussexes and has not heard back. Buckingham Palace has declined comment on issues involving Harry. The Home Office has said it will not comment on ongoing legal proceedings, Sky News reported.
Despite the ongoing legal battle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have continued to visit the U.K. In June, they traveled there with their children, Archie Harrison, 3, and Lilibet "Lili" Diana, 13 months, for Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee celebration. Their daughter celebrated her first birthday during the trip, her first in the country. Harry and Meghan, who are often seen with bodyguards in public, and the Royal family have not disclosed what security arrangements were granted to the family.
There will be a high court hearing to review the duke's plea for police protection, the July 22 filing states. In the approved judgement, the judge ruled that some parts of four out of five grounds that Harry had claimed for judicial review were "arguable," including Harry's allegations that the decisions by Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (RAVEC), a Home Office wing, were "unreasonable" and that "as a matter of fairness, he should have been told the contents of RAVEC's 'policy' before the February 2020 decision was made."
Another "arguable matter that arises" is whether Harry "should have had the opportunity to make representations direct to RAVEC, including the opportunity to comment on other matters RAVEC considered," the judge wrote.
However, the judge denied permission for Harry's claims that he "should have been told who the members of RAVEC were" and that he allegedly did not have the opportunity to comment on "the appropriateness of RAVEC's process/the involvement of certain individuals in the RAVEC process."
"In the course of submissions, it became apparent that while [Harry] may have had disagreements with persons who were RAYEC committee members, there was no evidence at all to support a claim that any committee member had approached decisions with a closed mind, or that either decision was affected by bias," the judge wrote in the filing.
A couple of hearings have already been held over Harry's legal challenge, including earlier this month and in February, when Harry's lawyer said in a statement, "Duke does not feel safe when he is in the U.K. given the security arrangements applied to him in June 2021 and will continue to be applied if he decides to come back. It goes without saying that he does want to come back to see family and friends and to continue to support the charities that are so close to his heart. This is and always will be his home."
Days earlier, a court filing stated that that the U.K. Home Office planned to oppose Harry's challenge, maintaining that Harry "failed to afford the necessary measures of respect to the Home Office and RAVEC as the expert, and democratically accountable, decision-maker on matters of protective security and associated risk assessment."
According to the filing, the Home Office maintained that Harry's offer to privately pay for police security was "irrelevant," adding that "personal protective security by the police is not available on a privately financed basis."
In statement issued this past January, Harry's legal representative said that the duke "inherited a security risk at birth, for life" and that in recent years, "his family has been subjected to well-documented neo-Nazi and extremist threats."
His lawyer also noted that during a solo trip to the U.K. in June 2021, Harry's "security was compromised due to absence of police protection." It marked his second visit to his native country since he and Meghan moved abroad after their royal exit announcement.
The attorney said in the statement that the private security team that the Sussexes pay for in the United States "cannot replicate the necessary police protection needed" in the U.K. The lawyer added, "In the absence of such protection, Prince Harry and his family are unable to return to his home." | https://www.eonline.com/news/1339094/prince-harry-s-case-against-u-k-home-office-over-police-protection-moving-forward?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | 2022-07-23T00:40:01Z | https://www.eonline.com/news/1339094/prince-harry-s-case-against-u-k-home-office-over-police-protection-moving-forward?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | true |
(The Hill) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill into law on Friday to allow private citizens to sue those who make, sell, transport or distribute certain illegal firearms, modeled after Texas’s recent anti-abortion law.
A release from Newsom’s office states that the law will award at least $10,000 per each illegal assault weapon and ghost gun — those made at one’s home to avoid tracing — identified in a lawsuit. Private citizens could also receive at least that amount through lawsuits against dealers who illegally sell to individuals under 21 years old.
The law is based on after a Texas one that allows private citizens to file lawsuits against those who perform, aid or abet an abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which could be as early as six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant.
Newsom had originally called on the California legislature to pass a similarly framed law on guns after the court allowed the Texas abortion law to take effect.
“Our message to the criminals spreading illegal weapons in California is simple: You have no safe harbor here in the Golden State,” he said in a news release. “While the Supreme Court rolls back reasonable gun safety measures, California continues adding new ways to protect the lives of our kids. California will use every tool at its disposal to save lives, especially in the face of an increasingly extreme Supreme Court.”
The bill follows the Supreme Court’s decision last month to expand gun rights, with the justices ruling 6-3 that the Second Amendment grants an individual the right to carry a handgun outside the home.
Newsom signed the bill at Santa Monica College, where a gunman killed five in 2013 using an unserialized AR-15 rifle. The shooter built the firearm using legally purchased parts, and the weapon would have been subject to the new law.
State Attorney General Rob Bonta said California has the strongest gun laws and one of the lowest firearm mortality rates in the country,
“This is not a coincidence. More guns do not make us safer — laws like these do. Period,” Bonta said in the release. “I am committed to enforcing our commonsense gun safety laws, and keeping weapons of war off our streets and out of the hands of dangerous individuals.”
Newsom signed a handful of other bills on Thursday in efforts to address gun violence, imposing a range of limits including a 10-year prohibition on individuals convicted of child or elder abuse possessing a weapon and requiring the state justice department to conduct inspections of gun dealers at least every three years starting in 2024.
Newsom has also taken out an ad in three Texas newspapers slamming Gov. Greg Abbott (R) for his record on guns and abortion. The ad uses Abbott’s words in reference to the Texas abortion law to note how gun violence takes children’s lives every year. | https://www.koin.com/news/newsom-signs-gun-law-inspired-by-texas-abortion-ban/ | 2022-07-23T00:44:35Z | https://www.koin.com/news/newsom-signs-gun-law-inspired-by-texas-abortion-ban/ | true |
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